Bud wheat cake

Bud and wheat cake is a snack in Huzhou. There is also a kind of home-made sprouted wheat cake in Hanshan, Huzhou, which is quite distinctive. During the Qingming period, almost every family near Hanshan Village made cakes with sprouted wheat. Bud wheat cake is made by kneading glutinous rice flour, bud wheat flour and cotton grass (or white grass). People germinate wheat, dry it in the sun, and grind it into wheat flour in Qingming, which is bud wheat flour. Cotton-headed grass (or white grass) is found on the roadside in Tiantou, and some people plant some in front of and behind the house to facilitate picking. To make a cake with sprouted wheat, you should first blanch and mash the cotton thread, and then mix it with rice flour and knead it evenly. Kneading and glutinous rice flour pay attention to scalding with boiling water. If boiling water is not needed, the powder will not be pinched properly. The addition of cotton thread grass can increase the viscosity and color, and the kneaded dough is light green and smells a faint fragrance. After the rice noodles are mixed, one key thing should be added, that is, malt flour. It is a technical job to sprout wheat flour. If there is too much, the rice flour will become soft and cannot be formed. Without it, the cake will not have that special sweetness and fragrance. When the dough is soft and hard, the dough is pulled into a dumpling embryo, and then the bean paste is added to make flat cakes. Then put a little vegetable oil in a large iron pot and stick the flat cakes in the pot one by one. When the cake is brown, it is poured around the collapsed cake with pre-soaked sugar water. Sprinkle a little sesame seeds on the cake. When frying the broken bread of sprouted wheat, it is necessary to use slow fire until the cake is shoveled and brushed, and the broken cake can be cooked. The flat, round cake is sweet, soft and waxy, with a layer of yellow vegetable oil on the blue skin. It is an excellent seasonal food in the Qingming period.
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