Linzi steamed rice cake 林梓潮糕
Linzi steamed rice cake is featured among the local specialties of Jiangsu.
This Nantong-area rice cake has a soft steamed crumb. Buy a small piece as a snack with tea.
How it is made
Rice flour is mixed with sweetening and optional additions, placed in a mold and steamed into a cake. The flour is handled to create a fine crumb rather than a stretchy, pounded texture.
Flavour & texture
Linzi chaogao is soft and gently sweet, with a moist steamed interior. Nuts, fruit or other inclusions can give individual versions a different bite.
Local roots & traditions
It is associated with Linzi in the Nantong area.
How to order Linzi steamed rice cake
Buy a freshly made piece and ask about additions before choosing a whole cake as a gift.
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Rice and glutinous-rice flours are worked into a range of steamed cakes, dumplings and filled sweets. Bean paste, sesame and seasonal ingredients create different products rather than one standard recipe. Textures range from soft and crumbly to elastic and sticky, so appearance alone does not predict the bite. Most are gently sweet and suited to tea.
Nanjing pebble-pattern rice balls 南京雨花石汤圆 →
Colored glutinous-rice dough is combined and shaped to imitate the streaks of polished Yuhua stones. The balls are filled and gently cooked in hot water until soft. The wrapper is smooth and sticky, while a sweet filling adds concentrated flavor beneath the decorative exterior.
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Show 林梓潮糕 for Linzi steamed rice cake. Buy a freshly made piece and ask about additions before choosing a whole cake as a gift.
Sources & reading
Recipes and servings vary between kitchens.