Chung Cake Essay

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Making Chung Cakes When the brilliant yellow apricot flowers start blooming sporadically on the branches, rhythm of life suddenly becomes rush and jaunty in my country; everybody eagerly prepares for Lunar New Year. Making chung cakes’ custom represents a traditional cultural feature of Vietnamese families on this occasion. The process of making chung cakes takes skillfulness and time. In order to get quality products, you should follow the four steps: preparing the materials, wrapping, boiling, and finishing. Preparing the materials, the first and very important step, in which all family members can share the work together, requires careful selection. Choose dong leaves that have a dark green color and a small stem. One washes and wipes dry the selected leaves. Another splits giang strings from giang trees and soaked in salty water so that these strings become soft and yielding. Select white, aromatic, and even grain glutinous rice, thoroughly soak in water within eight hours, and then drain off water. Use kind of glossy, yellow and big mung beans, also permeate with water about two hours, and draw off water. Cut the pork into three inch pieces that are 0.5 inches thick, and then add salt, seasoning, and black pepper. Mix pork with spices and keep them within one hour so that spices absorb well to meat. Secondly, the wrapping stage needs skillful hands. You can use a square mold as the base for the wrapping. However, many experienced people don’t need to use this tool; they can still wrap beautiful cakes. Place four layers of dong leaves in the frame, spread two bowls of rice on the leaves, one bowl of mung beans, then put three slices of meat onto the mung beans layer. Next, add one bowl of mung beans again and two bowls of rice at last. After put all materials into the leaves, fold the leaves, and tie the cake in a tic-tac-toe pattern with

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