200g of wormwood, 500g of glutinous rice flour, 50g of cooked lard and 30g of edible oil.

Making method of Hakka fried mugwort cake;

First, wash the wormwood, boil the water and chop it up.

2. Put the broken mugwort leaves, glutinous rice flour and lard together, add a proper amount of water, stir well, knead them into cakes by hand, and steam them in a pot.

3. Heat the pan, pour the oil to heat it, add the steamed Ivy cake, and take it out with golden sides.

The custom of eating cakes.

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In Fengshun County, Meizhou, where Hakkas gather, many villages make this kind of green Ai cake every year on the 14th day of the seventh lunar month. According to local customs, eating it can drive away diseases and disasters and drive away ghosts.