Doumen Ai Bing [Guangdong Zhuhai Specialty]

What is Doumen Ai Bing? Authentic Guangdong Zhuhai specialty: Doumen Ai Bing

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Basic Introduction to Doumen Ai Bing

Making Ai Bing during Qingming Festival is a traditional custom of Doumen people, which has a history of hundreds of years. Ai Bing (also known as "Ai Ci") is a food of the local Hakka people, named after the main ingredient taken from "Ai Cao". Ai Cao has a special fragrance and leaves with Ai Rong on the back, which has medicinal value. Every spring, clumps of verdant wormwood grow up in the fields and at the water's edge. Ke Niang takes her children to collect the tender wormwood leaves at the right time. After treatment, she adds water and mixes them with glutinous rice flour. After mixing, they are divided into small balls, wrapped with peanuts, sesame and other fillings, kneaded into green small glutinous rice cakes, or put them into a wooden "pie grid" (cake shaped mold), pressed into shape, and steamed in a pot after water. This is Hakka food with folk style characteristics - wormwood cakes

How did the history of Doumen Ai Bing come about

The production method of Doumen mugwort cake

The main steps of making mugwort cake include preparing materials, sorting mugwort leaves, kneading flour, making sinkers, wrapping the cake, and steaming, all of which are traditional handmade and the process is quite complicated. The tenderest mugwort leaves can only be harvested in March every year, a few days before Qingming Festival. After the wormwood is picked up, it should be washed, boiled and bleached for two days. Then it should be chopped with a knife, added with sugar, and put into a pot for boiling. Then it should be mixed with glutinous rice flour and flour and kneaded into dough. Then it should be wrapped with minced pork, peanuts, white sesame, and white granulated sugar, and made into a cake. Then it should be steamed on the banana leaves for 40 minutes. The freshly baked wormwood cake is green, crystal, soft, waxy, and smooth in the mouth