Suzhou hemp cake

Also known as Hu Bing, Hu Ma and Bo Lu. Produced in Suzhou, Jiangsu. Honey-made roses, sugar-coated diced oil, maltose, sesame seeds, black dates, pine nuts, soft sugar, vegetable oils and eggs are selected as raw materials, and then strictly semi-processed. Rose petals are purified, pickled with plum bittern (the by-product of green plum pickling), filtered to remove plum bittern, added with sugar, and candied to become honey-made roses; Sugar-stained plate oil diced is made of local fine variety of black pig plate oil with thin skin, thin feet and tender meat, which is peeled off the oil skin and oil film, cut into three-dimensional square pieces and added with molasses. To make caramel, it is necessary to grow late rice and japonica rice in southern Jiangsu, with barley malt pulp. The saccharifying enzyme and amylase in the malt syrup hydrolyze the rice lake at a proper temperature, saccharify it into syrup, and concentrate it into paste. Select thin and pure white sesame seeds, soak them, remove their clothes and bake them into sesame kernels and black dates, which need to be made in Shandong with a big core, tender skin and fine meat, and black and shiny oil. Pine nuts should be produced in the northeast, with big fat and tender grains. Its production is made up of 32 processes, including preparing raw materials, weighing, making semi-finished products, adjusting pulp and dough, preparing stuffing, forming stuffing, applying hemp and baking. Hemp seeds are full, jujube paste is delicate and mellow, pine nuts are tender and fragrant, and roses are fragrant. Give consideration to color and fragrance, and pay equal attention to shape and taste. It contains protein, carbohydrate, fat and other components, trace elements such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, zinc and magnesium, and various vitamins. It is rich in nutrition, helpful for health, and can play a role in nourishing the five internal organs, benefiting the lung and qi, relieving and nourishing, tonifying deficiency and cold, and strengthening the spleen and stomach. Chemical synthetic pigments and spices have never been used, so it is safe to eat. Golden color, full and shiny hemp seed. Rich in sesame, black dates, pine nuts and sugar-stained suet. The shape of the cake is round, the surface of the cake is flat, the waist band around it is cracked, the taste is right, the fat is sweet and palatable, and the stuffing is to the edge, and the layers are distinct.
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