163. Delicious Osmanthus Cake

In the orchard, the osmanthus trees are fragrant. It is this faint fragrance of osmanthus that reminds Sun Gang of the osmanthus cake.

Osmanthus cake is a delicious sweet food. It is a pastry made from glutinous rice flour, sugar and honey osmanthus as raw materials. The implication is that the fragrance of osmanthus is to turn the fragrance of osmanthus into a diet that can be smelled and swallowed.

Osmanthus cake has a long history, delicious and refreshing, simple methods, and a variety of varieties, which meet people's various needs for taste. It also has a beautiful historical legend, which adds to the historical value of Osmanthus cake.

"Mom, can you make osmanthus cake?" Sun Gang asked while having dinner.

"Yes, when I was a girl, I often did it. At that time, your grandmother's house had two osmanthus trees in the village." Sun's mother said proudly.

"Then I'll get some osmanthus flowers and make them for me."

"Okay, you greedy guy."

When the warm autumn sun shines on the osmanthus tree, Sun Gang stood on the chair, bent the osmanthus branches, pulled down the golden osmanthus flowers bit by bit, and put them into the rice basket.

The osmanthus picked must be removed from impurities, then rinsed with clean water, drained, and exposed to the sun. The yellow osmanthus flowers on the mat shine with golden light in the sun, and you can smell the faint fragrance from afar. After the osmanthus is collected, you can make osmanthus saute.

Osmanthus is an important raw material for making osmanthus cake. When boiling, put the washed osmanthus, rock sugar and water in a large iron pot, and control the ratio of rock sugar and water.

The firewood splitting is made of tree roots and miscellaneous trees on the stove. The firewood splitting is strong, burns evenly and lasts, and it is easy to control the heat and prevents the fire from being slurry.

At this time, Sun's mother was very busy. She went to the stove to add firewood, and then went to the stove to stir the osmanthus and rock sugar in the pot to prevent the osmanthus rock sugar from sticking to the bottom of the pot from burning.

Sun Gang wanted to help his mother burn fire, but Sun Gang didn't let him interfere, for fear that Sun Gang would not be able to master the heat well, and it would smell strange if it was slurry.

The water in the pot is getting less and less, and the rock sugar and osmanthus gradually merge into a viscous shape. The steam coming out exudes a rich fragrance, filling the house. Standing in the room full of fragrance, it seems to be a pleasant fragrance that penetrates the heart and lungs.

Sun's mother told Sun Gang that the sweet osmanthus syrup was ready.

Glutinous rice flour is needed to make osmanthus cakes, and osmanthus candy is just an ingredient, and glutinous rice flour is often prepared in advance.

Glutinous rice flour is used to make dumplings or fried glutinous rice cakes in rural areas, and many families are ready-made.

With osmanthus and glutinous rice flour, Sun's mother started making osmanthus cakes.

First pour the glutinous rice flour into the basin, then pour some osmanthus sashimi, and knead it repeatedly with cold boiled water to make it mix evenly. Needless to say, the kneading work was done by Sun Gang.

After the preparation, the osmanthus cake is white with a little yellow, and it feels sticky to the touch, as if it can stick the osmanthus cake to your hands.

Then roll the glutinous rice flour into long strips and cut it into pieces, place it in a steamer, and spread it with clean gauze on the cage. Then place the end of the steamer in a large iron pot containing water, cover the lid, and slowly steam it on the rack.

After a while, the yard was filled with the fragrance of osmanthus, as if I had entered a fairyland on earth.

After half an hour, you can smell the fragrance of osmanthus cake floating from the steamer.

As soon as Sun's mother took out the pot, Sun Gang couldn't wait to twist a piece and ate it in big mouthfuls, without having time to see what it looked like.

The osmanthus cake after the cage is fragrant, sweet but not greasy. After taking a bite, it tastes soft and glutinous, leaving a fragrance on your teeth and cheeks, and it is sweet all the time to the heart.

Sun's mother said anxiously: "Eat slowly and be careful to get hot."

Dad, who was watching TV in the main hall, was also attracted by the fragrance and shouted loudly: "You can eat it, why don't you call me?"

When he went to the kitchen, he saw the steaming osmanthus cake on the table. He picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, swallowing it up voraciously, making a vague sound from his mouth: "It's delicious."

Seeing his greedy appearance, Sun's mother couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "You two are the same kind of virtue, and you will eat like this when you see it."

Sun Gang and his father looked at each other and smiled.

At this time, Sun was in the mood to watch the newly released osmanthus cake.

The newly released osmanthus cake is slightly transparent in jade color, crystal clear, like white jade. The surroundings are covered with golden osmanthus flowers, and sometimes they are held in their hands, and they can't bear to eat it immediately.

Pick up a piece and stuff it into your mouth. Take a bite, it is glutinous and soft, and the mouth is filled with the fragrance of osmanthus. At this time, Sun Gang felt that this was the most delicious pastry in the world.

"Gangbaby, don't just eat it. I'll send some to your grandparents, grandparents, and grandparents to try it while it's hot." Sun's mother said to her voracious son.

"Okay," Sun Gang swallowed his last bite of osmanthus cake and put some in the porcelain bowl.

This time, Sun Gang picked up a lot of osmanthus flowers and dried them and stored them. You can make them directly if you want to eat them in the future.

After Sun Gang delivered it to the old man, even his grandfather who didn't eat much sweets ate several pieces, which praised Sun **'s good skills.

Seeing my grandmother savoring the osmanthus cake carefully, Sun Gang's thoughts returned to his childhood.

I remember that when I was a child, there were two osmanthus trees at my grandmother's doorstep. I heard from my grandmother that this was a olive osmanthus. The two trees were densely shaped like two huge green umbrellas.

From August, the osmanthus on the trees bloom quietly. They are slim and soft, and their gentle appearance is very attractive. From a distance, they are like stars in the sky, covering every branch of the osmanthus tree, and their fragrance drifts far and far away.

So, the clever grandmother started making osmanthus cake. She first picked the osmanthus, scalded it in boiling water, took it out and dried it, added sugar, sealed it in a glass bottle for use, and called it collecting osmanthus. Don't underestimate this process, this is an authentic osmanthus preservation technique. In this way, whether it is made into osmanthus root powder, osmanthus candied tea, or osmanthus candied tea, or osmanthus candied can be used just right.

As a child, Sun Gang also has some cousins ​​and cousins, and they also like to eat osmanthus cakes made by their grandmother.

Glutinous rice flour and japonica rice flour are ground in advance. After mixing these cake flours, sifting them into fine sieve, adding white sugar, stirring them evenly with clean water, and then adding the stirred cake flour to the cage for a quarter of an hour. Then take it out, wrap the cake flour in wet gauze, and kneading them continuously until the surface is smooth and the cake flour is delicate.

Next, pull the cake flour into long strips, apply vegetable oil, and gently sprinkle a layer of osmanthus flowers, embellishing them. The beauty of osmanthus flowers is very pleasing to the eye. The faint fragrance fills the room, and finally cut it into any shape, with aromatic aroma in the mouth.

I still clearly remember that when I was in my childhood, Sun Gang was often taken by his cousin and grandmother to watch her make osmanthus cakes. She watched her rough hands flexibly between the layers of osmanthus petals and dough, then used a spoon to dip ground sesame from the plate and put them into the dough, and finally used sugar shredded sugar to light beautiful butterfly patterns on the body of the golden osmanthus cake.

Whenever grandma put the golden osmanthus cakes into the big steamer, Sun Gang seemed to hear the noisy sound of them "gurgling" in the steamer, and wisps of flowers that emerged from the petals of the osmanthus rose from the nose.

Sun Gang and his brothers and sisters always blinked their big eyes, shook their small shoulders, and lay on the lid of the pot with both hands, carefully pressed against the stove, listening carefully to the movement inside, and quietly and patiently waiting for the moment when grandma opened the lid of the pot.

Whenever the "gurgling" sound in the iron pot sounds again, they always call the word "grandma" crisp and loud.

Of course, the happiest thing is when the pot is boiled. Sun Gang and other little ghosts have already surrounded the stove tightly, and their eyes have already smiled into a crack.

As my grandmother said, "Cook the pot...", the whole kitchen was filled with the rich fragrance of osmanthus cake, and everyone's smiles immediately floated into the steam.

The golden osmanthus cake seemed to float in the pot, beating with their hearts.

Accompanied by their "hurrying" whispers, grandma used her big hands to pick up the osmanthus cake and the tray from the hot water, and then gently placed it on the big round bamboo table in front of Sun Gang and the others.

The fragrance emitted from the osmanthus cake once again floated strongly. They squinted their small eyes, opened their mouths, and greedily breathed the layers of scent that could not be dissipated, trying not to let go of any of their slippery smells.

After taking a bite, the osmanthus and sugar juice inside quietly slipped out. After chewing it carefully, the strong fragrance and thoughts melted together.

The old house, the elderly, children, and the osmanthus cake invisibly formed a quiet rural ink painting. At that time, Sun Gang felt not only the warmth of family affection, but also a kind of imagination of simple and homesickness and a memory of innocent childhood.

The taste of osmanthus cake and rice cake is absolutely incomparable. Rice cake is also a sweet food, and it always tastes sticky. The biggest feature of osmanthus cake is that it is warm, soft and delicate.

It is simple, fragrant, delicate, and most importantly, there is a strong rural flavor in these osmanthus cakes. This rural flavor is integrated with the osmanthus flowers from my grandmother’s home, the rice fragrance in the fields, and the mellow well water in the village.

When eating osmanthus cake, you can always find the aged and soft feeling. The most important thing is that the fragrance of osmanthus comes straight towards your nose when you open your mouth. The osmanthus fragrance is refreshing. Sun Gang can only say that cakes made of osmanthus are really fascinating.

The osmanthus is too lonely under the moon, but all the delicacies related to osmanthus in our world, such as osmanthus cake, osmanthus wine, osmanthus lotus root soup, osmanthus millet fish are all lively and have endless aftertaste. After eating the delicacies related to osmanthus, there is a faint and quiet feeling like osmanthus.

Unfortunately, when my grandmother built a house, she was burned by lime and gradually died of death. My grandfather had to dig them out. Because of this, Sun Gang, who was **-year-old, cried several times.

Since then, until today, Sun just ate such delicious osmanthus cake again.
Chapter completed!