Zhangjiajie Tujia Duck Blood Cake
 2016-12-20 16:46:16  

Before and after the Spring Festival, as long as there is a distinguished guest came to visit, ZJJ tujia people will be gracious to cook up a duck blood cake to taste for them.

Duck blood cake maintains the sweetness of tofu, with the hemp incense of chinese prickly ash and the smoke of the incensing after wax. Eating a cake of it, spicy fresh feeling comes to mouth, aftertaste is boundless.

Before killing the pig, the housewife can uses fresh beans to do a piece of bean curd. When killing pig, with a small basin to take blood. Then making chinese prickly ash, chili into powders. To find a big bowl, putting in the fresh beancurd and fully crumb. Successively putting into fat meat, salt, Chinese prickly ash, chili powder, and fully kneaded. Adding pig blood with the aim of palette. To be fully kneaded and mixed, kneading duck blood cake into a round shape. In the end, putting them on the fire to fumigate. Half a month or so, Duck blood cake will turn to a tighten and black type in the firewood. At this time, Duck blood cake is showing.

Translated by Sophia