The story of the seven immortals of rice

Legend has it that the Queen Mother celebrated her birthday in the sky that day, and all the immortals came to worship. When all the immortals were celebrating, the seven fairies were very bored in heaven, so they discussed with each other and secretly went down to play on earth. However, after a while, it was discovered by a minister of North Korea, so he used evil magic to make the seven fairies never return to heaven.

Seven fairies swim and play in the world with happiness and curiosity. When it was dark and no one was around, they thought it was time to go back to the sky. However, no matter how they change, they can't fly to the sky. They knew in their hearts that some fairy in the sky was punishing them. Impatient, they sneaked into a house and went to the kitchen to find food. It happened that the family was going to hold a banquet for the wedding the next day, so they prepared cakes in the kitchen. One kind of cake has seven layers, and each layer is different in color. In order to enhance the atmosphere of the banquet, it is particularly beautiful. Just as they were enjoying themselves, suddenly someone came in and seven fairies got into each of the seven layers of cake. In order to protect them closely, they changed the magic into two layers of cake noodles from the beginning, adding up to nine layers.

At the banquet the next day, a guest saw this kind of cake was lovely and asked the owner's name. The host didn't know how to answer at the moment. Considering the wedding day, he casually said "nine-layer rose cake". Since then, the rose nine-layer cake has spread all over the world. However, some people think that desserts are easy to get bored, so they change the raw materials into rice, refined salt, shrimp, etc., and make nine-layer salty cakes.

The rose in the rose nine-layer cake contains rose oil, eugenol, citronellol and other ingredients, and the smell is fragrant. The stuffing spice made of sugar stains is slightly bitter in taste and warm in nature, and can regulate qi and relieve depression, replenish blood and disperse blood stasis. Nine-layer cake is a kind of sweet rice cake, which is made by soaking white rice, grinding it into gouache with a stone mill, stirring it into slurry, adding sugar water, putting a thin layer of gouache on a copper plate, heating and steaming, and then adding flour layer by layer to nine layers. Residents in Foshan and Nanhai like to make "nine-layer cakes" at festivals, which means "as time goes by, they will be promoted step by step".