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What is a soft cake? Does it taste good?

Soft cakes are local snacks in Luotian, Yingshan and Hongan areas of Dabie Mountain in Hubei Province. It is made by mixing wild soft arrowheads (Chinese cabbage and sage) with glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour, adding warm water at 60℃ to knead into dough, mixing black sesame seeds with white sugar, filling, making into round cakes, and baking with low fire. It is delicious. It is delicious.

Soft rice, alias: cabbage, scientific name: Arnebia euchroma, is a kind of millet. Its adult plants are less than 1 foot long, with soft leaves and tears. After picking out the soft glutinous rice, wash it with clear water and paste it. Pour glutinous rice flour and soft glutinous rice into a basin, add some boiling water and stir vigorously. Unlike glutinous rice flour and wheat flour, you must use boiled water, not too much water. The evenly mixed soft dough is light green and soft in texture. Generally, fillings are fried first and then mixed. Cooking glutinous rice with stuffing is a meticulous technical work, which most people can't do. According to research, Luotian county is called soft straw, also known as snake grass. Because of its soft fluffy leaves, Luotian used to call it soft straw. When it is kneaded with glutinous rice, it is called soft straw. Herbs annual or biennial, 10-50 cm tall. Stems erect, clustered, unbranched or rarely branched, densely covered with white hairs. Leaves alternate, the lower and middle leaves are oblanceolate or spoon-shaped, the apex is pointed, the base is conical, the stalk extends downward, and the white hairs on both sides are long. There are many flower heads and the top is umbrella-shaped; Involucral bracts are spherical, bell-shaped, 3-layered, golden yellow; Tubular yellow flower; Female flowers are around and bisexual flowers are in the center. Achenes are rectangular. Flowering in April-June, fruit ripening in August-September.

The practice of softening cakes

Ingredients: wild vegetables 1 kg, glutinous rice flour 2 kg, sticky rice flour 1 kg, black sesame 0.6 kg, brown sugar 0.5 kg.

Production method:

(1) Crush the baking powder and glutinous rice flour, add warm water at 60℃ and knead into dough for later use.

(2) Black sesame and white sugar are mixed to make stuffing for later use.

(3) Divide the kneaded dough into small pieces, and then wrap the sesame stuffing with the dough to make round cakes.

(4) Put the prepared soft cakes into the pot and bake them with low fire.

Can pregnant women eat soft cakes?

Pregnant women can eat soft cakes. Boiled vegetables contain lipids, volatile oil, a large amount of carotene and a small amount of B vitamins, rhamnetin, potassium nitrate, potassium chloride and so on. It has no effect on the fetus.