Choosing leaves to make cakes

To get a delicious cake is not an easy process to make. In Giay language, banh chit is also known as   "hau ut", this cake is made from very simple ingredients available in nature such as chit leaves, glutinous rice and varieties that grow in forests, streams or gardens. grower. To complete a batch of fragrant, delicious cakes, the maker must go through a lot of stages and efforts. Besides choosing the type of glutinous rice, going to get the leaves must also be very skillful not to tear the leaves, not to take the leaves that are too old, or too young. After cutting the right leaves and rolling them into each file right away, the leaves will be withered and difficult to pack. Another very important baking stage that determines the deliciousness and sweetness of this cake is ash juice. This type of ash is made from plants with folk medicinal herbs such as cows, wormwood, bean pods, silver leaf transplants... and many precious medicinal plants in the forest, after drying, are burned to collect the ashes and then incubated with water and distilled, filtered to get the juice soaked with glutinous rice in this stage, the Giay also call it "dip fart".



Make ash water for cakes

After the rice is soaked, take it out and pack it with boiled leaves so that the leaves are fragrant and have a softness that is easy to pack. To create the golden color of the cake, the softness like jelly and not the concentration, the stage of mixing the ash water must be harmonious and reasonable according to the ratio of this addition, it must have the teaching experience of the seniors to meet the standards. delicious. The Giay people's cake is usually wrapped in the shape of a triangle, and families with young children order more chicken thighs to comfort young children or eat quickly. When tying the cake, it should not be too tight so that when boiled the rice grains can expand and cook evenly. The cake broth also adds a little ash water, pours more water than the cake and cooks for 4 to 5 hours and then takes it out to cool, the cake has a taste of ash water, so it has a cool, fragrant, easy to digest and not easy to burn .

Delicious gio cakes when finished

The Giay people only make this cake once a year on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month (Doan Ngo festival) to make offerings to their ancestors. Another very meaningful job in the Day of the Horse of the Giay is to go to the garden or go to the hill to pick up many kinds of leaves to boil water for bathing, and remove dirt and lice from pillows. They believe that on this day all plants are valuable medicine.

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