Wenzhou Dengzhan Cake
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Dengzhan cake is a famous specialty of Wenzhou with a long history. It is said that in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, Liu Bowen's rebel army attacked Wenzhou City and the secret code for the rebel army inside the city was "waiting to chop" cake (meaning to bind the Inner Mongolian people). The Wenzhou saying "waiting to chop" and "lantern" have the same pronunciation. It is also rumored that in the late Qing Dynasty's Guangxu reign, two brothers from Wenzhou, Chen Damu and Chen Duanmu, set up a stall at the steep entrance of Dongmen to fry Dengzhan cake. The stuffing is pork leg meat and shredded Huangyu radish. The skin is mixed with new soybeans and Rice noodles paste, and fried in fresh pig fat. It is named "Dengzhan Gao" because its appearance resembles an ancient flat circular vegetable oil lamp< br>
Details of ingredients
Technique
Steps to make Wenzhou Dengzhan Cake
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1. Prepare materials![]()
2. Pour water into the flour to a dilution of about 5 parts water and 5 parts flour, stir evenly with chopsticks, then add salt, MSG, soy sauce, chopped scallions, and a little cooking wine, stir evenly, and the flour slurry is ready.![]()
3. Generally, there is not much oil in the oil pot at home, so they are afraid of not frying well. Therefore, they season the pork shreds with salt and yellow wine before steaming them.![]()
4. Boil the salad oil over medium heat until it boils, then add a large spoon to the oil and heat it together. When the oil temperature rises, the spoon will also heat up. Take out the batter and use a small spoon to pour it into the spoon. Turn the spoon clockwise to evenly stick the batter to the spoon and pour the excess back into the batter![]()
Next, put the shredded carrots into a spoon, then put the shredded meat on top, and add a quail egg.![]()
6. Spread another layer of carrot shreds.![]()
7. Finally, pour another layer of powder slurry and put the whole into the oil.![]()
When it's almost ripe, gently swipe with a small car and the film will peel off and fall off.![]()
When the lantern cake turns a little golden, you can scoop it up and drain the oil.
