Eating ruler cakes during the Spring Festival means family reunion and prosperous career. Because of its good color, the scroll cakes are also favored by Pinghu people, and are mostly used for weddings, couplets, Chinese New Year and other happy events. For Pinghu people, making ruler cakes in the New Year is not only a nostalgic feast, but also a memory of the New Year. In the busy figure of adults and the aftertaste of children sucking their fingers, the familiar taste of Pinghu people's New Year has also been passed down from generation to generation.
Method for make ruler cake
Generally, glutinous rice flour and japonica rice flour need to be mixed to make ruler cakes. After stirring evenly, put it into a carved square mold, fill it with different fillings such as bean paste, jujube paste, candied dates and sesame seeds, cover it with a layer of rice flour, and wipe off the excess rice flour on the square mold with a wooden ruler. Conversely, a square ruler cake is formed.
The mold for making ruler cake is one foot square and divided into 25 small squares, hence the name "ruler cake"; In addition to the traditional white fish scale cake, you can also use pumpkin and purple potato to dye the rice flour used to make fish scale cake yellow and purple. After demoulding, the fish scale cake was baked on the stove for about 10 minutes, and the color became particularly bright.