Pastry is the main food of Manchu people in peacetime and festivals. It is made of glutinous rice, which is homophonic with "Bo" and has the meaning of vigor and vitality. In local folklore, people look forward to a prosperous life by steaming cakes. At the same time, cake is also an essential staple food on the dining table on festive days such as weddings and children's centennial banquets.
Types of waves
There are bean flour cakes and bean leaf cakes. The raw materials of bean flour cake are rhubarb rice and Huang Xiao rice, which are ground into fine powder and then steamed with bean flour. Golden color, sticky, fragrant and delicious. The raw materials of perilla leaf are sticky sorghum flour and bean paste of adzuki bean. After mixing, they are wrapped in perilla leaves and steamed, which has the special fragrance of perilla leaves.
There are many kinds of Manchu cakes, each with its own characteristics. Golden steamed buns, crispy fried dumplings, soft glutinous rice noodles cakes, exquisite big basin cakes, in addition to gold silk cakes, sun cakes, cold cakes, wine cakes, spring cakes, etc., are all traditional Manchu flavors.