Funing cake, also known as jade belt cake, is a good cake for Han people in Funing area. Produced in Funing County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, the hometown of China prose, the cakes are as white as snow, as soft as clouds, as sweet as honey, and can be rolled and put. Sweet and soft, nutritious, suitable for all ages. Mainly refined from glutinous rice flour. Funing cake is delicious.
Funing cake has a history of more than 400 years. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River and stayed in Huai 'an Prefecture. Funing county ordered the emperor to pay tribute to cakes. After eating it, Qianlong was full of praise and named it "Jade Belt Cake".
Funing Sheyang and its surrounding areas will use Funing cake to pray for blessings in the New Year and wedding festivals, which means a step-by-step way. Moreover, there is a custom in Chinese New Year that you can't talk without eating big cakes.
Funing pie, the slices are as white as snow, as thin as paper (a single piece can be ignited), as sweet as honey, as soft as clouds, and the entrance is sweet and moist. Funing cake is mainly refined from glutinous rice flour, white as snow, soft as cotton, thin as paper and sweet as honey. It contains good luck and good luck, and it is deeply loved by people.
Folk gourmet chefs sum up the local experience in making big cakes, and select high-quality glutinous rice, pure sugar, refined oil and high-grade candied fruit, which are processed in proportion. First, soak the first-class clean glutinous rice in warm water for one day and one night, then pick it up, stir-fry it in a hot pot, sieve it to make it crisp and white, and then grind it into fine powder; Then put it with washed vegetables or saturated broad beans, and stir it evenly all day and night, so that the rice noodles are soaked evenly and wet and clear.
Sieving twice, and then mixing with white sugar solution, sesame oil, peanut oil, etc. Put the stone made of candied green plum, red and green silk, sweet-scented osmanthus and green fruit in the middle. , making into rectangular cake blank, stewing in warm water, steaming in a cage, stewing all day and night, and then slicing and packaging. Its strip shape is complete, angular, uniform in thickness and uniform in size.
Funing cake, as a specialty, sells well all over the country. Moreover, it is still preserved in Funing, and it is essential for every family to celebrate the New Year-for relatives and friends to enjoy (it has become a custom in the local area).