(Provincial Award-winning Teaching Plan) Thousand People Cake

Answer 1

The Thousand Person Cake was a traditional Chinese pastry made from glutinous rice flour, sugar, bean paste, and other ingredients. It was shaped like a flat cake, with a golden luster on the surface. It was soft, sweet, and not greasy.

The steps to make the Thousand Person Cake mainly included the following aspects:

1. Making glutinous rice flour dough: Mix glutinous rice flour with water and knead it evenly into dough.

2. Making stuffing: Cut the bean paste or other fillings into small pieces and add them into the glutinous rice flour and stir evenly to make the stuffing ball.

3. Making the cake skin: knead the glutinous rice flour dough into a cake skin, put it into the stuffing ball, and knead it into a shape by hand.

4. Steaming: Put the crust into a steamer and steam it over medium heat for about 15 minutes until it's cooked.

5. Baking: Place the steamed Thousand People Cake in the oven and bake it for about 10-15 minutes until the surface shows a golden luster.

The Thousand Person Cake was a traditional pastry that was soft, sweet, but not greasy. It had a high nutritional value and was rich in protein, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. In traditional Chinese culture, the Thousand People Cake was also regarded as an important cultural heritage, representing the superb and exquisite craftsmanship of Chinese pastry making.