How To Make Wormwood Cake - A Famous Delicious Cake Of The Tay

Wormwood cake has a soft aroma of glutinous rice flour, especially wormwood is no longer bitter, easy to eat, cool and not sick.

Wormwood cake is a kind of cake used in Tay holidays. The bread is wild but strange and more than that, the cake is a medicine to regulate blood, fight headaches, flu ...

Instead of pounding with wormwood leaves took a lot of effort to produce wormwood cake, now still with this method we replace sticky rice with sticky rice flour and wormwood cake is still delicious as usual.

Raw Material

- 400gr Tai Ky sticky rice flour

- 350gr wormwood leaves (take the tops and leaves, remove the hard ribs)

- Yellow sesame

- Cooking oil

- Sugar candy

- Slaked lime or lime (if not using green pea pods, bamboo, burn clean ash)

Making:

Step 1: Wash wormwood leaves.

Step 2: Bring a little lime mixed with water, let the lime settle down to extract the clear lime water (alternatively mix the ash of green bean or clean bamboo into water and squeeze the clear water to boil wormwood leaves) because this way Will still retain the green of wormwood and wormwood will be very fast.

Step 3: Put the lime water and wormwood leaves in the cooking pot, when the wormwood leaves are picked, wash off all the lime water, squeeze the water and then chop, drain.

Step 4: Put a saucepan on the stove and pour wormwood leaves into the stars (this method will reduce the bitterness of wormwood leaves and make the cake after finishing will smell good), when the stars are up, let the heat moderate and chopsticks evenly.

Step 5: Pour some water into wormwood leaves into a blender.

Take the whole country and the mixer with glutinous rice flour and knead the dough to make it soft and smooth

Step 6: An indispensable stage is making the bread: black sesame or roasted yellow sesame, crushed. Put sugar in hot pan to melt sugar and pour crushed sesame seeds together to cook and thicken.

Step 7: Go to the stage of molding the cake: Use your hands to squeeze into balls, fill the center, roll and press flat.

Each wormwood cake is done to apply a layer of cooking oil or lard on both sides of the cake so that the cake will not stick to each other and create a smooth, glossy cake.

After molding, it will be steamed in water for 10 minutes then take out and let it cool down.

After being finished, the cake will smell of botanical of sticky rice and wormwood, the smell of sesame and the sweetness of sugar.

I wish you success and delicious worm cake!

According to To Hung Giang (Discover)