Putian special snack - Jin Kueh

Jin Kueh (Xinghua Pinghua dialect: ging-gôi) is a famous spot of the folk of Puxian in Fujian, and the main offering of food during the Midyear Festival. The golden cake is sticky and soft, elastic, not cut with a knife but with a thread, and has an alkaline fragrance. Folk song cloud: "Eleven and twelve, Jin Kueh tastes; Thirteen and fourteen, pick and choose. From the ninth day of the first month, every family is busy making "mint cake" and "golden cake", as the saying goes, "on the ninth and tenth days of the first month, the golden turtle (golden cake pulp) is dripping". On the thirteenth, the ancestors are sacrificed, commonly known as "picking up the mother", which lasts until the sixteenth, and is commonly known as "sending the mother". The seventh and half months of the lunar calendar are the traditional mid-year festival in China, every "half of the seventh month", that is, the glutinous rice is soaked in water and ground into thick rice milk, made by adding an appropriate amount of edible alkali, and the shape is like a disc after steaming, and the color is golden, so it is called "golden cake". Recipe carried from: good-looking "Fat Mountain Food"

Ingredients

Glutinousrice five pounds

Rice three pounds

GrassAsh a bag

sugar three pounds

Cooking Instructions

Make gold water from plant ash (the plant ash from the wheat straw is clean)
Soak the rice to make rice milk
White sugar can be added or not, anyway, it can be dipped in sugar to eat, and the alkaline flavor of Jinkueh itself is very special
Add the rice milk with gold water to the pot and steam a stick of incense. You can eat a large family's portions.
There are many ways to eat Jinkueh, which can be steamed and dried until it is warm and dipped in sugar (too hot to taste), or it can be used for secondary processing by frying, frying, frying, boiling and other cooking methods after it is cold. Personally, I like to eat it with sugar or boiled with vegetables, and the Q bomb is soft and delicious.