What is Yangjiang's special fried rice cake made of?

Yangjiang fried rice cake, commonly known as powder cake, is also known as the four famous cakes in Guangdong with Foshan blind cake, Zhongshan almond cake and Xiqiao cake, but it is not unique to Yangjiang. There is a very popular children's song in Guangdong: Dangdang Zhuan, Chrysanthemum Yuan, Fried Rice Cake, Tangyuan. Grandma calls me Dragon Boat, and I don't care. Sold for 365 cents. Explain that Guangdong has the custom of making fried rice cakes during the Spring Festival. Legend has it that at the end of the Song Dynasty, there was an old woman in the countryside near Yangjiang City. One day, she got a lot of crispy rice that people abandoned. She took it back and soaked it in the soup. After eating for two days, she put the crispy rice on the roof to dry, and then used it as dry food when she couldn't eat. She took out the rice crust she had saved a few days ago to satisfy her hunger and ate the sugar she had got from it. The old woman kneaded the leftovers into a ball and dried them for the next meal. Mrs. Wu's cakes have since spread in the society and become the embryonic form of fried rice cakes. -The legend is far-fetched, but it is well documented that fried rice cakes have become a relatively mature industry in Yangjiang in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At that time, there were more than 20 cake shops specializing in the production of powder cakes in Yangjiang. In the late 1940s, Su Mingxi, a native of Hengshan, Yangxi, opened a river cake shop in Yangjiang, specializing in the production of all kinds of gift cakes, which pushed the production of powder cakes in Yangjiang to a new stage. After liberation, three cake shops, namely Shui 'an, Tianxing and Zhangli, were jointly owned by the public and private sectors, and became the famous Tian Li cake industry in Guangdong at that time, which mainly produced fried rice cakes. Su Lianzhou, the descendant of Su Mingxi, became the predecessor of Yangjiang Food Factory. In the past, during the Spring Festival, almost every household would make fried rice cakes, but the work is actually very complicated, which is generally divided into several steps: fried rice-flour-making cakes-baking cakes. Fried rice is fried raw rice in a large iron pot. When frying, the fire should not be too big, otherwise the rice will be burnt before it is cooked, and it should not be too small, otherwise the rice will not be cooked evenly. Therefore, in order to make the rice heated evenly and not paste, the fried rice people can't leave for a moment. It's hard to stand next to a hot iron pot and fry it with a shovel. Often a long time. It is possible to powder by machine (we call it machine powder), but people used to prefer to powder by hand with a stone mill. Fried rice noodles usually take a day and a half to dry. It is said that it is not easy to get angry before it is used to make cakes. To make a cake, you should first cook the yellow sugar with water to make a mixture of sugar gum and powder, and then make it with a cake mold. The cake mold is made of wood, engraved with auspicious words such as birds and animals, flowers and trees, and happiness and peace. Now someone should collect it as a traditional folk woodcut art, and making cakes is a job that the whole family can participate in. Adults and children gather together and put the mixed cake powder into the cake mold. Generally, white sugar and peanuts are used as stuffing, plus a thin piece of fat pork. Press the powder into the cake mold and press it back and forth with a spoon. Beat the cake out of the cake mold with a small wooden hammer behind the cake mold and put it into the sieve. Scones should be baked with charcoal. At that time, the charcoal for baking fried rice cakes was also exquisite, and the control of temperature was also the key to the quality of fried rice cakes. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the fried rice cake made in this way has nourishing effect on the kidney and stomach, so many bakers now use ancient baking as a selling point. In recent years, Yangjiang fried rice cake has made great progress, and fried rice cake is no longer a special food for the Spring Festival.