Wine-stuffed cakes

Suzhou people love to eat, pay more attention to eating, one of them is "not eating from time to time", with the change of street food, you can clearly feel the change of the four seasons. When the roadside starts selling sweet and sour and fragrant sake cakes, it is a sign that spring is coming. From the beginning of spring to the Qingming Festival is the best time to eat cakes, at this time, the temperature and humidity in Suzhou are just right, you can send out a quality mellow wine to make pie crusts, Qingming until early summer, some time-honored brands are also sold. Usually, people rarely have professional equipment to make wine cakes, and they usually buy more on the street.

There are all kinds of small cakes in Suzhou, such as rose cakes and pretzels, which are similar and impressive. The appearance of the sake cake is mediocre, and only after tasting the crust with a strong wine flavor can you know that it is difficult to replace the wonderful memory left on the taste buds. In addition, the wine cake can also eat the flavor of Suzhou - lard sugar, Suzhou people's pastries on the use of lard can be described as superb, just add a small piece of lard sugar, the wine cake will be more fresh and sweet, melted lard sugar also make the filling more shiny.

The filling of the wine cake is divided into meat and vegetables, mainly including rose, bean paste, mint and other flavors, the rose flavor is the most popular, the sugar content is much lower than the bean paste flavor, and it is also more acceptable to the public than the mint flavor.

Since the baking powder is generally not put in the sake cake, and the flour is slowly fermented purely by the sake brewing, and the production time is longer, even in summer, it takes more than 3 hours, so the general store is limited to supply on the same day, and the time-honored brands in popular areas such as Caizhizhai and Huang Tianyuan are sold out early. The supermarket sells it with a very aromatic aroma, probably because of the use of baking powder, so it is not worth trying.

Recommended stores

Huang Tianyuan (Guanqian Street store)

Business district: Guanqian Street area

Per capita: 26 yuan

Address: No. 88-90 Guanqian Street (next to Xuanmiaoguan) 

Phone: 0512-67706106

Business hours: 10:00-22:00

Caizhizhai (Guanqian Street store)

Business district: Guanqian Street area

Per capita: 38 yuan 

Address: No. 91, Guanqian Street 

Phone: 0512-65228079 

Business hours: 09:00-23:00