The Special Snack of Pingyao Ancient City-Yellow Rice Oil Cake

Pingyao yellow rice cake is made at the end of the Spring Festival every year. It used to be fried on holidays. Oil cake, also called fried cake, is a local snack in Pingyao. This cake is made of millet and red dates. After being fried by plants, it has golden color, tender outside and sweet inside, and delicious taste, and has become a favorite snack. Generally, oil cakes are fried. There used to be only red beans and red dates. Now the tastes of peanut candy, yam, mung bean, sweet potato and vegetable stuffing have been improved for people to choose from. In Pingyao, local people use cakes to express homophonic meaning, and people climb higher and higher. At the wedding, every household should make fried cakes, and friends and relatives must be invited to the banquet. Everyone eats cake and everyone can be tall. Moreover, Pingyao locals also have the custom of eating cakes on the wedding day: the bride and groom's wedding and parting, and the bride and groom's mother S should sit in front of the screen, holding the cake in one hand and wrapping the new quilt with chopsticks in the other. Someone should ask: what to sit on? Answer: Zuo Fu asked: What are you holding? A: Why ask: What to eat? Women also have this talent, but sitting in their daughter's room and holding her arm are all old clothes. Old cakes, bread with brown sugar, kneaded into small round cakes and fried. Only a few years older than the newlyweds. 1. Put the yellow wheat into a pot, add hot water while stirring, mix well to form a wet block, steam in a cage for half an hour until cooked, take it out and pour it into the pot. Immerse your hands in cold water and rub evenly during hot rolling. Put a little oil on the dough for later use. 2. Wash adzuki beans and red dates, put them in a pot, pour water into them, bring them to a boil, simmer them with low fire until they are soft and rotten, remove the stones from the dates, add brown sugar, and roll them into paste with a spoon, that is, fill them. 3. Put a little oil on your hand, pull a piece of dough about 50g, knead it into a round shape, flatten it, wrap it with jujube bean stuffing, knead it into a crescent shape, and then knead it side by side into a cake blank. 4. Pour peanut oil into the pot, heat it to 70% heat, add the cake blank, fry until golden brown, and take it out.