In the culinary life of rural people, little cakes look so "normal life", but also simplicity and subtle harmony.
Do not know how life itself in my country which also tied habits and customs of the local culinary arts of the countryside with traditional cakes like banh chung banh tet, ash cakes, cookies Department, cake ú, little cake ...
Each time preparing and processing, the pastries are the rural women "cared" from flat strips for each fiber raw materials ... as it blows into the soul of the earth, the love of man and has become a cultural beauty characteristic simplicity.
Little cakes are cool
Little cakes also contain both spiritual values by its universality and necessity exists in people's lives for a long time. And there is a kind gifts to express affection country's farmers together.Because the people here but honest truth but who also permeated the countryside village relationships, subject to available commercial nature, hard work and diligence in labor and especially the glue bonding between family members and members in each family.
According to history, the culture of paddy rice civilization, the face in the rural areas is now more advanced than before. The people of the country to the city was also less "guilty" weighed down by the word "two rice", habits and needs of their living and make changes so many idyllic beauty always adapt to social modern and appropriate to the context of rural life.
The rural women today know how to make a variety of dishes and delicious cakes, weird, every special holidays, Mid-autumn full moon in August. But on the day mingling, death anniversary award ... Vietnam villagers remain indispensable and traditional cakes, especially the little cakes.All kinds of little cakes are handmade and wrapped in green banana leaves.
Less cake is not difficult, but requires meticulous. How to bake less simple at first look, but it takes a lot of time with the participation of many people and also pretty picky by both preparation and both meal preparation workers. Available bananas originating in the garden, everyone can prepare a "job" is the day before my mother and sisters assigned to the pulley stitch leaves, blanch boiling water or sun then clean towel. To make the cake less, one must go through many stages ingenuity.
First mother stroking fragrant glutinous rice used for clean water wells. Soak about 3.4 hours, remove the rice out to drain, and then use sticky rice mill stone grinder to a fine powder, then put into a cloth bag of flour weighs slightly smaller ballast water, to be a plastic dough, then pour into pan and a little bit of salt on the roads are stuffed. Personnel shall hobby that can use green beans, coconut meat, or shrimp ... Green beans cooked soft shell pounding down the street or mixed with salt (depending on taste) and then back into the park staff round evenly. Small coconut fiber and added sugar to make people less coconut cake. Meat or shrimp sauteed with chopped onion seasoned salt to taste cakes at the ceiling, so every little new thing called "little cake".
Coconut Cake with sugar less human
When finished part's mother began kneading dough, knead until dough sticky end ... tore off a piece of dough just right, hold both hands round, flattened out and put people into the middle then vo round in the palm hand. Use a banana leaf origin swept a thin layer of peanut oil for cakes, sticky dough cooked very flexible thanks to that layer of oil cake from sticking to the foil. Complete package cake cake put into little baskets for large saucepan steamed, steamed bread, while shelled out, the aroma of banana leaves, sticky rice flour mixed smell the smell of fragrant stuff ... very touching hot cake with soft "Nun hold" just want to eat instant removal.
In some places, it is steamed bread, when cooked then pack to keep the green of banana leaves.In addition to bread dough less sticky white, sometimes the mother baking little black spiny leaves of green bean. There are also made of tapioca flour, arrowroot flour ... little cake to more cold, more delicious food. Bite a piece of cake, softness, toughness of the cake with the cake permeability tower, tastes just standing tongue ... my whole family who also "addicted" to the rustic cakes, but unforgettable tasty tasty Perhaps this ... so that every mom and internal made this cake for the whole family to enjoy regularly.
Little cakes are delicious cakes indispensable in anniversary, sluggish day, offering the full moon day, so they used to do prior to my ancestors, parents. Cake was served up worshiping finished dessert trays and send gifts to loved ones as gifts for the elderly and young children in their family.This is also the distinctions in food culture and behavior culture the organisms' internal affairs, foreign affairs, "as gifts relatives, friends bring distant places, like to express aromatic heart seminars fond of the owner ... "... but the more little cake".
