×Osmanthus Cake

Why you must eat itRice flour and sugar are steamed and set with osmanthus blossoms mixed in, a white square cake. Cut, its face scatters tiny flower grains and lifts a sweet scent. It crumbles softly in the mouth, and after the faint sweetness of rice the osmanthus rises through the nose. Eaten cold or at room temperature, it suits closing out a spicy night. Quiet rather than showy, eaten beneath the Tang-style streets it recalls the sweets of an old capital. Cut small, one piece at a time.