During the Chinese New Year, many places have the tradition of eating rice cakes, and there is a snack in Chaozhou that is very similar to rice cakes, which is "sweet cake".
"Sweet kueh" is a kueh product that will only be made on major festivals. The Spring Festival is the most important in the "eight festivals of the year" of the Chaoshan people, and the Chinese pay attention to reunion during the Spring Festival, and "sweet kueh" is round, and it is also sweet just to mean reunion, sweet and sweet.
Before and after the Spring Festival, every household will make a variety of kueh products at home, sweet kueh is one of them, people will take the sweet kueh to worship ancestors or worship gods, sweet kueh has become an indispensable item in local folklore, Chaoshan people's enthusiasm is famous, after worshipping, the sweet kueh will generally be divided into several pieces to give to relatives and friends to share.
Among the many kueh products, sweet kueh is also a special existence. It is simple to use, just grind glutinous rice into powder, add brown sugar, stir evenly, put the rot film at the bottom, and put it in a steamer for a long time to steam. However, it is very time-consuming to make it delicious, and after kneading and blending, it needs to be steamed for more than two or three hours in water to produce a sweet kueh with a good taste.
The cutting tools of sweet kueh are different, because sweet kueh is more sticky, so it is easy to stick to the knife when cut with a knife, so people generally use a small rope, cut it slowly according to the symmetrical line, eat it directly or wrap it in egg liquid and then fry it.
Sweet cake, from the point of view of materials, it belongs to Chaoshan "rice cake"; In terms of function, it was still a "dry food" at sea. In the old days, Chaoshan people would bring fresh water and sweet kueh, which was because sweet kueh could quickly replenish the energy needed by the body and was easy to preserve.
In Chaoshan, there is such a proverb: "Sweet kueh has no choice but to lick sweet kueh", according to legend, there were many people in the Chaoshan area before, and there were frequent disasters all year round, and the Chaoshan people were forced to make a living outside their hometowns because they could be put for a long time and endure hunger, so the family would prepare some to bring on their bodies to satisfy their hunger. At that time, "Guofan" was helpless, and in order to survive, he could only solve his hunger in this way, and then the sweet cake was passed on.
Preparation of sweet kueh
no.1
Melt the brown sugar in the water, cook over high heat until it melts through, turn off the heat and open the lid to cool. Pour in the glutinous rice flour and mix. Knead for a longer time, and be a little harder, try to knead in as much powder as possible, this step is very important, because it is steamed for a long time, and it is too soft, and it is not easy to cut.
no.2
The basin is oiled, the bean curd skin is padded, and the kneaded batter is poured on, and it can be eight points full, and the pat is smooth.
no.3
Steaming for 1-2 hours can be out of the pot, at the beginning of half an hour of high heat, two or three times in the middle of the water to wipe off the lid of the pot, the back of the low heat, in the middle to remember to add water many times, so as not to burn the pot dry Note: the lid of the steamer must be wiped dry with a cloth without water vapor, and the water droplets will cause the surface to be uneven.
no.4
Remove from the pan and wait until it is cold before demolding.
no.5
Eat it directly, or cut it into thin slices with a thread, dip it in egg liquid and fry it, the fried sweet cake is golden in color and not easy to stick together, sweet and crispy.
Chaoshan has gone through hundreds of thousands of years, and there are countless traditional customs and traditional delicacies that have been preserved, and the food used by people to satisfy hunger in the old times has been improved by people and turned into a delicious food.