Shishi Sweet Cake (Fujian Shishi Specialty)

Introduction to Shishi Sweet Cake

Shishi Sweet Cake, also known as Shishi Sweet Cake. Shishi Sweet Cake looks like a full moon, with a pure white color, soft and tender texture, fragrant aroma, and a sweet and delicious taste. It is made from high-quality winter glutinous rice, white sugar, honey winter strips, kumquats, spices, and other ingredients

How did the history of Shishi Sweet Cake come aboutThere is a beautiful legend about Yixing Sweet Cake. It is said that during a year of severe drought, Jinjiang River turned into a small stream, and other rivers ran out of water. The fields cracked and the crops were on the verge of withering. People raise funds to worship gods and pray for wind and rain. But after begging for forty-nine days, there hasn't been a drop of rain. At this point, someone reminded that the sweet cake used for worshiping the gods was incorrect, and that Yixing sweet cake should be used instead. After the ceremony, it rained heavily that day. Afterwards, local deities were worshipped using Yixing sweet cakes

There is another legend. After failing multiple attempts, a poor scholar from Jinjiang became disheartened and took a cargo ship to Southeast Asia to make a living. Before leaving, the scholar only brought a bag of Yixing sweet cakes on board. Soon after the ship was sailing, it encountered a storm at sea and lost its way. After drifting for seven days and nights, there was very little food left on the ship. Because eating sweet cakes could withstand hunger, the whole ship finally survived and arrived at their destination with the bag of Yixing sweet cakes brought by the scholar. Afterwards, Yixing Sweet Cake became increasingly famous in Southeast Asia. Legend has it that people who went to Southeast Asia later had to bring Yixing sweet cakes to ensure smooth sailing

How to make Shishi sweet rice cake

Prepare the same amount of glutinous rice flour and white granulated sugar (basically 10 jin each), boil the boiled water to make the white granulated sugar syrup water, cool the syrup water and mix it with the glutinous rice to form a paste (usually for one night), put a rotten film on the steamer, pour the glutinous rice paste into the steamer, seal the steamer cover as far as possible, steam it for 10 to 15 hours with high heat (the longer the time goes, the brighter the color of the sweet rice cake becomes), and pay attention to adding water under the steamer for one or two hours. Sweet rice cakes are durable and can be eaten both cold and hot (hot food tastes better than cold food). Due to its easy preservation, sweet rice cakes not only serve as fruits for worshiping gods and ancestors, but also have a wonderful use as dry food for crossing the sea