In the alleyways of Guilin, there is a special snacks, locally known as Baba, also known as the ship cake, cake on board the Lijiang River. The first cake to eat on board, when a decade ago that trip to Guilin, Mr. Tang together with friends to eat in the snack. On that occasion, immersed in three Huajiu's drunk, and did not taste the delicious cake to ship. Fortunately, I never meant to Guilin, I had the honor to eat cake on board again, and this unique snacks have a strong interest.

Guilin cake on board, as the name suggests, this cake with the boat about, who dubbed it a name so nicely it? Smelling delicious cake on board, I look for the ship to sell dozens of cakes snack bar, I wanted to put the ship the origin of the cake explore what happens.

Board cake from what month, almost all businesses are difficult to trace, but only one answer, the boat really is one of the main food cake ancient boatman on the Lijiang River.

According to legend, since ancient times, there is the Lijiang River merchant ships, fishing boats and boat navigation. Due to the distant sea, the boatman before each voyage on board some of the processing to be ahead of cake taken on board as the main food. There is also the raw material loaded on board, all the way from the Chuanniang walking to do.

With the changing times, the ship cake, also gradually come ashore from the ship, Guilin has become the local and Zhou Bian counties, towns, rural people a snack. When every New Year, every household to do some as rice cakes, from generation to generation has spread.

Cake on board to talk about the production process of it. Board cake is generally used short Guilin Longji mountains produced hours of sunshine, a long time to grow rice, known locally as "Yin waxy." First rice soaked swollen, spread into a stone trough, and artificial stone hit hammer, grind it into a semi-finished product.

Then using garlic leaves on mountains, lemongrass leaf juiced mixed with some of the farmers bacon grain, grain heads taro, shrimp and other added glutinous rice stir. Smoothing the chopping board, the pressure on the stone, to be flattened, steamed put into cages, to be cool, sliced ​​into disks, can be eaten directly, the oil may be edible brown fry.

Boat cake, green color, taste delicious, can be used for refreshments, but also as a snack between meals, it is a full Cuisines Lijiang River history and culture.

Friends, when you sit on the Li River cruise, enjoy the beautiful landscape of Guilin to bring you a dream-like feeling, it might point on a ship cake, taste its unique flavor.

Board cake approach

Material: rice 1 kg, rice flour 3 two halves 2 bacon, two fungus 1, taro head half kilogram, 1 kg fresh garlic leaves, salt amount.

step:

1, one day in advance to the evening with good rice blisters and set aside;

3, taro head, bacon, mushrooms diced (taro point may be larger pieces, bacon cut a little). Garlic leaves and broken rice respectively stand with an agitator;

4, the broken good ground, chopped garlic leaves, rice flour, bacon butoxy, taro butoxy, but-fungus, a salt with an enlarged stir tray;

5, the market put the pot and steam for about 40 minutes (to rub chopsticks down on non-stick something on it);

6. To open the lid and other natural cooling fake dumplings, fried to eat, taste super good, fake fried dumplings, crispy outside soft texture, taste fragrant.