Ningbo Rice Cake

Ningbo New Year cake has hundreds of years of production history, to choose materials, seiko production is well-known, it is washed with high-quality late rice, soaked with water 3-4 days or a week, using water to grind into powder, pressure water to not dry or not wet just right, crushed after the steamer burst into a fire, or squash or rolled into a uniform size of striped cake.

The way to eat the cake: with cooking, frying, fried, fried, boiled soup, etc. , and salty and sweet are appropriate. For example: sugar fried rice cake. Folk proverb: "Sugar fried, oil explosion, eat the corners of the mouth to grow a big bubble." Another example: leek cake. The folk proverb has a cloud: "The leek meat fried rice cake, the stove JunYuSa reach out to fish." There are: juice and water cake soup is incomparable, is the family New Year's Eve must-have food. Cooking methods as many, the total forest is not less than dozens, the previous storage conditions are not good, so many residents will be sliced after the annual cake dry storage, when eating water soaked for two days can be. There are also people who have been flooded in batches, which can keep them fresh for months.

Ningbo area of the folk have "year-on-year cake year after year high, this year is better than last year" folk proverb. People also use the cake plate pressed into the "five fu", "six treasures", "money", "as intended" and other shapes and appearances, symbolizing "good luck", "daji Dali", while others are made into "jade rabbit", "white goose" and other small animals, forming the true meaning of the perfect combination of content and form.