Fried dough cake, round, ring-shaped, golden like copper coinsafter fried, is a symbol of wealth and good luck in Yan'an folklore. Groundcoarse riceinto powder,screen it, pour boiled soft rice soup on it, and then place it on a heated floor for fermentation. After fermentation, knead it and make it into small round cakes with a big hole in the middle of each cake, then fry them till reddish brown.
1. It’s a kind of specialsnack in northern Shaanxi, cake-shaped, with a small hole in the centre, small. It is made with potato, flour, buckwheat, sugar and other grains,and the mixture is fried, sweet and delicious.
2. It is round, ring-shaped,goldenlike coppercoins after fried, is a symbol of wealth and good luck in Yan'an folklore. Groundcoarse riceinto powder,screen it, pour boiled soft rice soup on it, and then place it on a heated floor for fermentation. After fermentation, knead it and make it into small round cakes with a big hole in the middle of each cake, then fry them till reddish brown.Fried dough cakes are commonly cooked in festivals or for entertaining friends and relatives, especially in wedding banquets. When eaten with bean vermicellisoup, ittastesexcellent. This delicacy is golden in colour, delicate and soft, without discoloration anddeteriorationafter a long time.