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A small knife cut cake is a kind of traditional food made from coarse grains of the pot. This knife cut cake is made by steaming glutinous rice and red dates. Its texture is delicate, sweet and pleasant, and it is a famous special snack of Huguan. .


Speaking of "small car knife cutting cake", there is a legend. It is said that the southeast side of the county is 40 kilometers away from Huguan County. There is a purple peak mountain with strange peaks and mountains and rivers. There is a hole in the middle of the mountain with a purple cloud hole. The milk stone in the hole is strange and strange. There is a white dragon pool in front of the cave. The waterfall in the pool is rushing, like a dragon descending from the sky. There is a Baiyun Temple on the top of the cave. There are more than 10 monks living in the temple. Every day, in addition to burning incense and worshiping Buddha, they are also engaged in jujube, hazelnut, millet, corn and vegetables around Bailongtan. The monks used the yellow rice (the rice after the shelling of the scorpion) and the jujube to make sweet and porridge to improve their life. One year of the Spring Festival, the old abbot let the little monk who came to the kitchen to cook the porridge. In the process of cooking, the little monk used the spoon to stir the porridge, and the force was too strong, and the pot was pulled out. The young monk did not dare to say that the result was that the soup was flowing away and the soup became porridge. The old abbot asked the situation and had to let everyone eat it in a bowl. Who knows that the sticky rice is not sticky, so I have to put it on the chopping board and cut it into pieces for everyone to eat. The old monk said while eating: "This thing is sticky and yellow, and it is called yellow rice jujube cake." After the monk grew up, the technique of making yellow rice jujube cake was passed to the Huguan folk. On the occasion of the festival, the people of Guanguan always steamed the yellow rice jujube cake and gave each other gifts. The big family also pushed the car to give gifts to relatives and friends, and cut one piece at a time. This is the origin of the small knife cutting cake.