Longyou hair cake has many colors, including white cake, silk cake, green cake, Osmanthus Jelly, walnut cake, jujube cake, chestnut cake and so on. According to the main raw materials, it can be divided into pure glutinous rice cake and mixed rice cake. Longyou hair cake has excellent ingredients, fine processing, glittering and translucent jade color, fine pores like needles, good color and fragrance, waxy but not sticky, sweet but not greasy.
Mix the mixed rice cake with white glutinous rice and japonica rice, soak it for dozens of days, rinse it with water, grind it into fine powder, mix it with lard, white sugar and distiller's yeast in proportion, and ferment and steam it (and add osmanthus fragrans, jujube, red beans and sesame seeds to taste as needed). In order to show the festive atmosphere of the festival, people also dip hexagonal fennel in red or green food pigments and print patterns on steamed hair cakes. This kind of hair cake is more common than pure glutinous rice cake, and most of them can be bought in the market.
Pure glutinous rice cake (also known as "sugar cake board") is similar to mixed rice cake, but the raw materials are not japonica rice and indica rice. This kind of rice cake is common in rural areas in southern Longyou. Not as popular as mixed rice cakes, they are more sticky. Among them, the "sugar cake board" is mostly a sandwich cake with red bean paste and sesame seeds.
Longyou county has a long humanistic history and profound food culture. Longyou Hair Cake is the most famous traditional specialty in Longyou County.
According to the Records of Longyou County, the production of Longyou Fagao began in the Ming Dynasty, with a history of more than 600 years. The production process is unique and the ingredients are exquisite. The finished product is white as jade, with fine pores like needles, fresh and fragrant smell, sweet but not greasy, waxy but not sticky, which is a must in Jiangnan. Its biggest feature is that it is fermented by adding a proper amount of glutinous rice wine in the production process, which is rich in nutrition and especially suitable for the elderly and children. Because "making a cake" is the homonym of "Gao Fu", it contains the auspicious meaning of "making a cake every year, step by step", which is not only a necessary point for festivals, but also a good gift for relatives and friends.
Longyou Hair Cake —— A famous cake made by natural fermentation and steaming with the above-mentioned japonica rice as the main material and sugar, lard and candied dates as the ingredients. It is a pure natural food without any chemicals. Ancestors pay tribute to the emperor. The cake is shaped like a bright moon, indicating family reunion and symbolizing good luck. The local accent means "Gao Fu", which means "Year after year, rising step by step", so it is a good gift for relatives and friends. The characteristics of hair cake-waxy but not greasy, fresh and delicious.