01/09/2020
In addition to specialties such as Thanh Ha litchi, or Ninh Giang h**p cake, Hai Duong is also famous for its sweet "green bean cake". Over the years, Hai Duong green bean cake in each person's heart still retains a certain love. It is still a gift to hand to each other on Tet holiday, still the choice of each visitor when visiting Kinh Mon land, still sipping with a cup of green tea, still the homesickness of the people away from home.
According to the "green bean cake" bakers in Hai Duong, in the past, King Bao Dai, who passed through Hai Duong town, was offered a kind of cake made from green beans with a frug taste. After enjoying, the king found it delicious, giving a commendation decree. On the color there is a golden dragon, symbolizing royalty. Since then, the golden dragon green bean cake was born.
Materials
To create delicious green bean cakes, the maker must choose quality green beans, grainy, even, inside the shell is yellow. Today, when producing in large quantities, bakers have to choose to buy green beans from Chi Linh, Hai Duong, or outside provinces such as Bac Ninh, sometimes as far as Gia Lai, Kon Tum.
Besides green beans, the baker needs to add sugar and oil to mix with the dough. After mixing, the cake dough is brought out and incubated for 8-24 hours so that the sugar, oil and bean flour blend together before bringing it to the rolling machine.
The taste of the cake ☺️☺️
Hai Duong "green bean cake" has a sweet taste, just disappearing into the mouth, but it is enough for people to enjoy the sweet, fatty and fragrant aroma of grapefruit flowers, green beans of the cake, motivating people to eat. to continue opening other pieces of cake.
Enjoy the cake 🤤🤤
Tasting this Northern specialty also needs an art. When enjoying Hai Duong "green bean cake", you must slowly put each piece into your mouth, so that each piece of cake melts into your mouth to feel all the deliciousness of the cake. Add a cup of hot tea and you will find the cake delicious and delicious.
To fully enjoy the flavor of the cake, you can use more Chinese tea or green tea, enjoy the feeling of each cake melt in your mouth, delicious, greasy and extremely cool.
Enjoy the best green bean cake with a cup of Thai Nguyen tea. The sweet and fatty taste of the cake with the acrid and bitter taste of the tea enhances the delicious taste of the green bean cake. Sipping a piece of cake and sipping tea, you will feel the sweet and gentle aroma of the cake.
This Northern specialty is not only used in everyday life but also used on occasions such as:
- Used as a gift for friends and relatives.🎁🎁
- It is used to worship ancestors on holidays.🙏🙏
Like many other dishes in Hai Duong cuisine, Hai Duong "green bean cake" is not only famous as a typical dish of Kinh Mon land but also because it is delicious. And because it is associated with the countryside, made from homegrown trees, under the hands of craftsmen who love the profession, are faithful to the profession. Because of its simplicity, its familiarity, and its closeness, the green bean cake is always a human gift to each visitor as a secret thanks, or to help alleviate the homesickness of those who live far away from home.😊😊
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