"My dad used to like to eat stewed pork knuckles with Dan, but in those years, he couldn't eat a piece of meat all year round. ”

Huang Haiyan saw that the old man was hovering beside the two pig killers with his hands behind his back, obviously he was about to laugh, but he pretended not to care, and couldn't help but laugh secretly.

When Chen Jiayang came over, he caught a few reservoir fish, Liu Ye and Chen Jiayang were dismembering wild boar, and she and Huang Haijing started to kill the fish.

There are four pools outside the gate, and a table of eight immortals is placed, and the four people are not crowded there, Lin Shufang and Huang Yixi are naturally embarrassed to watch them work, one goes to the vegetable field next to the pool to pick Chinese cabbage and green onions, and the other takes it over to rinse, there is fish, and there is water tofu brought by Liu Ye and his wife, which can cook a big pot of fish head tofu and cabbage soup.

"No wonder my father also liked to eat Jiuchong Kueh at that time, saying that adding some soy sauce is like eating fatty meat, and he said that if he has money in the future, he will eat Danda pig's knuckle juice every day and pour Jiuchong Kueh. ”

Huang Haijing recalled the past, and there was a smile on her face.

There is a special snack in Baishui, Kueh Kueh, which was originally used for home sacrifices and later became popular in the community, but in recent years it has been rarely made.

Huang Yixi really didn't have much impression of Jiuchong Kueh, but Huang Yishan helped her remember it.

Unlike the bouquet in other places, the bouquet in other places is made from nine layers of rice milk of different colors. It is made from rice and glutinous rice, ground into rice milk, and divided into nine equal amounts. Add an appropriate amount of white sugar and its food coloring to each equal amount, the first layer is red, the second layer is light yellow, the third layer is original white, and it repeats to nine layers. Therefore, there are nine layers of kueh, hence the name of the nine-fold kueh.

Chongren in the nine rice cake does not add coloring, does not add sugar, only made of rice milk, it is very simple to say, first wash the rice and put it in the stone mill, grind the rice with water into rice milk, add soda ash, a small amount of salt and stir evenly, thick, dilute and neutralize.

The steamer is lined with a layer of straw, the middle is convex, the top is padded with wet wipes, and the rice milk is poured in, the first layer of rice milk should be a little thicker, and each layer should be steamed for 5 minutes before pouring into the second layer, so that the simple nine layers are done.

The kueh is made into nine weights, each weight can be uncovered, so it is called "nine times the cake" to be cooled thoroughly, press the elasticity with your hand, cut the nine times the cake into small squares and put it in the dish, you can eat.

There are two ways to eat kueh, one is dipped in sugar, and the other is dipped in soy sauce or gravy.

Huang Yixi looked at Huang Zhixin funny, "Go west, lend your bib to your grandfather, your grandfather is drooling." ”

These two aunts are also wilted, you and I have hooked up all the gluttonous worms in Huang Zhixin's stomach.

Huang Zhixin hurriedly wiped his mouth with his hand, only to find that there was no drooling at all, and he couldn't help but reach out to cover the back of Huang Yixi's head.

yelled at his two daughters, "Don't hurry up and soak rice." ”

The old man is like a child, he has to eat whatever he wants, otherwise he thinks about it, no one said in previous years, but this year, the two daughters are back, Huang Zhixin is really hungry.

Huang Haiyan was a little hesitant, Jiuchong Kueh is simple to say, but it is very time-consuming, the rice has to be soaked for 2 hours, ground into rice milk and then steamed, the first kueh syrup is slightly more, steamed for about 7 minutes, and then, the amount of pulp each time is slightly thinner than the first time, about 15 minutes each time. That's about four hours.

However, she looked at her interested father, and she didn't dare to brush off his interest, so she had to ask tactfully, "Is there still late rice at home?"

Baishui Prefecture is located in the temperate tropics, two crops of rice a year, the growth period of early rice is short, only 80 to 120 days, so the production of early rice, the rice quality is loose, the belly whiteness is larger, the transparency is smaller, the lack of luster, the rice cooked with early rice, the taste is poor, the quality is dry and hard, and it is easy to appear full.

The growth period of late rice is longer, about 150 to 180 days, and its crystalline characteristics are good, such as the rice structure is compact, the abdominal whiteness is small or none, the transparency is large, the luster is rich, and the cooked rice tastes delicate, the viscosity is moderate, and it is soft and delicious.

Therefore, there is late rice in rural households, but the late rice asked by Huang Haiyan is not ordinary late rice, the general late rice matures in the crisp autumn season, and the late rice used to make Jiuchong Kueh must be the rice that matures after the frost festival.

"I washed some extra rice at noon, and those rice happened to be the late rice that can be used to make Jiuchong Kueh. Yu Meiqing took out a stainless steel bucket from the kitchen, and the soaked rice in it seemed that it had been soaked for a long time, and the surface was scattered.

After Yu Meiqing saw Huang Haijing coming in the morning, she heard that Chen Jiayang would bring the killed ducks and fish over, and she didn't know if she would bring two nephews and a new nephew and daughter-in-law over for lunch.

When I wanted to cook, I realized that they Chen Jiayang didn't come for lunch, and the two nephews wouldn't come, so they fished out the extra rice and put it in a small bucket, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now.

Yu Meiqing thought that the three working men should be very good at eating, so they soaked almost three catties of rice, and everyone naturally understood, but Yu Meiqing's face was tight, and no one dared to joke.

"I have to soak some more rice, make more nine-layer kueh, and everyone will come back for dinner in the evening." ”

Huang Zhixin felt that he didn't have enough to eat, so he waved his hand and ordered Yu Meiqing. He has already calculated, waiting for more than three catties of late rice still has to be paddled, and it will take a while, the first pot is steamed, and now the soaked rice is just grinding, and the second pot can be steamed.

He didn't ask his second daughter-in-law Lin Shufang to do this, although Lin Shufang knew how to distinguish early rice and late rice, but she didn't know which rice was made from Jiuchong Kueh, as for Huang Yixi, she probably couldn't tell if she gave her a hundred years, she only knew how to eat.

And he knew in his heart that the person who loved to eat Jiuchong Kueh the most in the family was actually not him, but his wife Yu Meiqing.

There are kitchens on the first, second and third floors of this home, and each kitchen has a large stove to steam cake kueh, and two of them are divided into two parts of the same door, one is made of nine-fold kueh, and the other is made of edible Dan pig's feet.

To grind rice milk, you have to clean the stone grinder, but this is a simple matter for Huang Haiyan and his wife, Liu Ye and Huang Haiyan go to grind rice milk, and Chen Jiayang finishes the rest.

When cutting the wild boar just now, the three people in the village took a pig's foot, and the rest had been washed and cut into pieces, considering that the wild boar was fishier than the domestic pork, when he asked Huang Xiangdong to buy the Diet Pill, he instructed Huang Xiangdong to buy more cinnamon branches.

These two things are Chinese herbal medicines, they can be bought in pharmacies, and there is no need to work hard, just after a while, Huang Xiangdong and Shang Luoyu have come back, Huang Xiangdong specially mentioned the name of the fourth uncle Huang Yishan when he bought it, the owner of the pharmacy is really a real buddy, and the diet pill and cinnamon branch that he brought over are all first-class products.

Cinnamon sticks and pig's feet have always been the perfect pair, and cinnamon sticks can suppress the fishy smell of pig's feet and make it fragrant.

The secret recipe for cooking this dish is that you don't have to wait until you get out of the pot, but before you get out of the pot, you have to rub the appropriate amount of Dan and cinnamon sticks and pork.