Tujia glutinous rice cake

Last updated 2026-11-13 — Wash the glutinous rice, soak it for a full day and night, then drain and steam it in a steamer. Next, place the steamed rice in a cake trough and pound it with a mallet until it becomes mushy. Then shape it into evenly sized lumps, press them thin into form — and this is the glutinous rice cake. Once the shaped cakes have dried in the shade, soak them in a jar, changing the water every ten days or so. This way, they can be kept until the Dragon Boat Festival without going bad. …