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The ingredients of the dessert include fresh gorgon fruit, sweet rice flour, and sugar. The gorgon fruit is boiled, dried in the sun and levigated. The resulting product is mixed with sweet rice flour, sugar and water. This dough is kneaded, compressed into rectangular shapes, and steamed. The gorgon cake is said to tonify spleen and kidney.
A sweetheart cake or wife cake or marriage pie is a traditional Chinese cake with a thin crust of flaky pastry, made with a filling of winter melon, almond paste, and sesame, and spiced with five spice powder. [1] "Wife cake" is the translation of 老婆饼 from Chinese, and although the meaning is "wife", the literal translation is "old lady ...
Fruitcake or fruit cake is a cake made with candied or dried fruit, nuts, and spices, and optionally soaked in spirits. In the United Kingdom , certain rich versions may be iced and decorated . Fruitcakes are usually served in celebration of weddings and Christmas .
Since 2005, the Taipei City Government has run an annual Taipei Pineapple Cake Cultural Festival to foster the growth the local tourism industry and promote sales of the pineapple cake. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2013, the revenue from Taiwan's pineapple cake bakeries totaled NT$40 billion (US$1.2 billion), and sales of pineapple cakes have also bolstered ...
Chinese dessert soups (汤; 湯; tāng or 糊; 糊; hú) typically consists of sweet and usually hot soups [1] and custards. They are collectively known as tong sui in Cantonese. Some of these soups are made with restorative properties in mind, in concordance with traditional Chinese medicine. A commonly eaten dessert soup is douhua.
Here, it’s made from scratch with buttermilk, white vinegar and a flurry of fresh herbs, then it’s used to coat tender baby Yukon gold potatoes. It’s a natural fit for barbecues, block ...
Sweetheart cake / "wife cake" sold in a Cantonese bakery in Hong Kong. Sachima 萨其马/沙琪玛 -- Manchurian dough fritter heavily infused with syrup. Sago pudding 西米布甸; Sai mai lou 西米捞 -- a cold tongsui with sago as the main ingredient, typically with a coconut-milk-based sweet soup and various sweet toppings.
White sugar sponge cake – Steamed cake made with sweetened rice flour; Wife cake – Round flaky pastry with a translucent white winter melon paste centre; Youtiao or "Chinese cruller" – Deep-fried dough strips; Zongzi – Sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo or lotus leaves, often filled with savory meat, red bean paste, peanuts, or ...