Legend has it that in ancient Putian there was a rich boy named Panshe who fell in love with a prostitute named Meisi. Later, because of the decline of the family's family, Meisi felt deeply guilty after knowing it, and tried to teach him to make a novel cake to atone. Food attracts visitors from outside, and fragrance attracts immortals from inside. Business is booming, small profits but quick turnover, and word of mouth is rising. The villagers call this kind of cake "vegetable turtle".
In order to thank Meisi for her kindness, and unwilling to expose Meisi's status as a prostitute, Pan Snake stamped a small red seal on each turtle rice ball, sprinkled a few grains of white rice (rice is homophonic with beauty in Putian dialect), and changed the name of this face penalty to "Misi Pan Snake Tortoise", and later called "Red Ball".
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Structural characteristics of red star clusters;
"Red ball" is a steamed food, which consists of skin and stuffing. The glutinous rice flour used for red dough was soaked in clear water for one night, picked up in the mill the next day and ground into glutinous rice flour. The ground glutinous rice flour is wetted and drained.
Nowadays, for convenience, many villagers usually buy ready-made bagged glutinous rice flour (now also using baking powder) and mix it with red food, then add a proper amount of warm water and mix it evenly, knead it into a round strip, and then pinch out small pieces the size of ping-pong balls from it in turn, and knead them into pancakes by hand, which becomes a "red dough". When rolling red dough, you should master the strength, so that the thickness can be moderate. Red skin is too thick to affect the taste, and too thin is easy to break.
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Baidu encyclopedia-hongtuan