Steaming rice cakes is a common practice.

Ingredients: 500 grams of fermented rice.

Accessories: jujube (dry) 125g.

working methods

1. Wash the fermented rice, soak it in cold water for 30 minutes, and drain the water;

2. Put the steamed rice in a cage and steam it with a stove fire for 60 minutes, then take it down and put it in a pot, immediately pour in 500 grams of boiling water and stir it in one direction with a wooden stick;

3. When the rice is combined with water, put it in a cage and steam for 30 minutes;

4. Still put it in a basin and stir for 4 ~ 5 minutes until it becomes sticky glutinous rice;

5. Then steam for 10 minute, take it out and cover it with a wet rag for 12 hour;

6. Wash and cook the jujube, steam it in a cage for 30 minutes, and take it out to cool when the color is dark red;

7. Divide the glutinous rice into three equal parts and put them on the chopping block;

8. Immerse your hands in cold boiled water and knead them one by one into a grid with a thickness of 5 cm;

9. Spread 1/5 dates evenly on a piece of glutinous rice and cover it on the second piece of glutinous rice;

10. Then spread as many dates as possible under the second piece of glutinous rice, and then cover the third piece of glutinous rice to form a cake with three layers of glutinous rice and two layers of dates;

1 1. Finally, all the remaining dates are coded on the surface of the cake, covered with a wet rag and stuffed around the cake;

12. Press both hands along the edge of the cake, with one hand flat and the other hand standing to select the edge until the cake is extruded to a thickness of about10 cm;

13. Tear off the cover cloth and cut it into small prismatic pieces, which can be sprinkled with white sugar or poured with sweet-scented osmanthus sugar.