Xiaoxi Wine Cake [Jiangxi Yudu Specialty]

What is Xiaoxi Wine Cake? Authentic Jiangxi Yudu specialty: Xiaoxi wine cake

Content summary:Do you want to know what Xiaoxi wine cake is? This article is a detailed introduction to the local specialty of Yudu, Jiangxi Province - Xiaoxi Liquor Cake. It was compiled and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Network after reviewing and collecting relevant information about Xiaoxi Liquor Cake. The full text takes about 4 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Xiaoxi Liquor Cake and its nutritional value? How did the history of Xiaoxi Wine Cake come about? The method of making small stream wine cakes, etc

Basic Introduction to Xiaoxi Liquor Cake

Liquor cake is a traditional liquor yeast used for brewing in the past, also known as liquor medicine. Although it is called "cake", it is actually a small spherical or square milky white solid in the shape of small rice dumpling. According to an elderly man surnamed Zhong from Xiaoxi Township, Yudu County, perhaps because it was originally in the shape of a cake, but because it was easy to break and not conducive to brewing, it was restructured into the shape we see now

Xiaoxi wine cake has the effect of treating wind cold

Method of making Xiaoxi wine cake

The best time to make "Xiaoxi wine cake" is in the seventh, eighth, and ninth months of the lunar calendar every year, when the climate is dry, neither cold nor hot, and the humidity is appropriate. After the Dragon Boat Festival every year, the wine cake grass and peach leaves will be cut, dried and crushed, and the powder will be soaked for two hours before making the wine cake according to the ratio of one jin of rice cake grass and one jin of peach leaves per hundred jin of rice

The selected raw materials are early grain, late grain, and glutinous grain, which are more resilient and cannot be used. When making, first put the early grains into a stone mill and grind them into powder. For every 100 pounds of rice, add about 70 pounds of water, and then add the prepared wine cake grass and peach leaves. Mix well to ensure that they are not dry or wet, and can be shaped by hand. Place them in a frame and press them into cakes. Then cut them into strips with a knife, cut them into small pieces, and put them into the fermentation room. Two days later, wait until all the fine hairs have disappeared before drying. At this point, the wine cake will be ready