【zhejiang】red Japonica Rice Sponge Cake

Name: 【zhejiang】red Japonica Rice Sponge Cake
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 100g Red japonica rice; 100g Glutinous rice flour; 50g Sugar; 70g Pure milk; Some Cooking oil

by Dark blue millet porridge

4.7 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

15m

Serving

2

Song cake is a traditional famous spot of Han nationality in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. It is soft, sweet and delicious, and is well-known in China. It uses japonica rice as the main raw material to make green cakes and steamed cake products. It can also be made with glutinous rice flour. Mix the powdered sugar into the glutinous powder and inhabit the sponge cake grid. Halfway through, put in crushed peanuts and powdered sugar. Then it is filled with glutinous flour and steamed. Song cake is a souvenir for relatives in Wenzhou area for engagement and marriage. Cook muffins on the twenty-fifth year of the New Year, praying for prosperity in the coming year. Wenzhou Song Cake is also most famous for Dwarf Song Cake. This dwarf sponge cake is actually lard glutinous rice and white sugar pudding. It uses pure glutinous rice from this year. It is ground into a fine powder with water, mixed with pork buttocks, osmanthus and white sugar, and then cooked and cut into pieces. . The dwarf sponge cake, which is made and sold now, tastes soft and waxy, sweet and salty, and the sweet-scented osmanthus garnished on it makes it extremely fragrant. It is said that this "dwarf sponge cake" was invented in the latter part of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. At that time, a Wenzhou native named Gu Jinfang set up a stall at the entrance of Wuma Street in the urban area to make sponge cake. He was famous for its exquisite materials and exquisite production. Because Gu Jinfang was short, he called the cake he made "Dwarf Trifle". This sponge cake is sweet and waxy when eaten while it is hot, and it is more tenacious and more fragrant when eaten when it is slightly cooler. In addition to this kind of dwarf sponge cake made of white glutinous rice, there is also a kind of sponge cake made of blood glutinous rice, which is also very sweet. "

Ingredients

【zhejiang】red Japonica Rice Sponge Cake

1. Use a food processor to grind the red japonica rice into a powder, and sieve for use

【zhejiang】red Japonica Rice Sponge Cake recipe

2. Prepare 100 grams of red japonica rice, 100 grams of glutinous rice flour, 50 grams of white sugar, and 70 grams of pure milk;

3. Pour the milk into the sugar and heat it in the microwave for 1 minute to melt the sugar;

4. Sift the red japonica rice flour and glutinous rice flour and mix well;

5. Pour the melted white sugar and milk solution into the mixed powder;

6. Stir it with your hands to form a lump, then crush it with your hands;

7. Sift the kneaded cake flour. This process is a test of patience. You must take your time. The sifted cake flour will be very fine;

8. Brush the inside of the stainless steel container with a layer of cooking oil to prevent sticking, put a mousse ring into the container, sprinkle with cake powder, don't press it, the steamed sponge cake will be softer!

9. Put 200 grams of water in the bear electric lunch box, put the stainless steel container into the lunch box, close the lid, and steam for 40 minutes. After 40 minutes, don't open the lid in a hurry. After simmering for 10 minutes, the lid can be opened and demoulded.

Tips:
Red japonica rice has the effects of nourishing yin and promoting body fluids, eliminating irritability and quenching thirst, strengthening the spleen and stomach, invigorating the qi, strengthening the intestines and stopping diarrhea. In addition, when red japonica rice is used to cook porridge, the thick rice soup floating on the surface of the pot has a tonic effect, which has a good effect on people who are sick and weak after giving birth.

If you don’t have any red japonica rice at home, you can just use japonica rice noodles!