Chapter 782: Steamed Flower Cake
Seeing that there was still one last one left in the basket, Zhigao looked at him expectantly: "Dad, you can eat again." ”
The patriotic uncle stretched out his hand and picked it up: "Okay, give it to my old son." ”
Di Di patted Zhigao on the shoulder: "Third brother, the corpse has finally been destroyed." ”
Zhibin smiled: "I've recorded it all, and the evidence is ironclad." ”
This ironclad evidence was retained decades later, became the heirloom of the Zhigao family, was recorded in the feature film of the rural memory of Hantun Village, and became a joke in the mouths of several generations.
Yesterday's sticky bean buns were finished at noon, and today's vegetable buns are large, and at noon, there are more than half left, and they are dry until four o'clock in the afternoon.
After the last vegetable bun was wrapped, the children washed their hands, and one of them grabbed a vegetable bun and ran out, and they went to see the fishermen.
Yoyo didn't plan to go out, it was like this every year before the Spring Festival, and he added a piece to his forties in his two lives, and he was not a real child, so his interest in seeing it faded.
Uncle and grandmother pushed her out: "Yoyo, you can go with you, looking at Dian Zhixin and Zhiping, they may not be able to take care of them when they play." ”
Yoyo, who received the task, had to follow the children. In the pond pit in front of the village, there were more people, and the transport trucks pulling lotus roots and fish were parked in rows beside the road.
This year, not only the fish are raised in the pond pit of Hantun Village, but also the entire beach village of Zhangji Town, and the fish are raised in the pond pit. In the past few days, they have begun to concentrate on fishing, and those who come to Zhangji Town to pull fish are not only the city's food companies, but also self-employed households.
In the winter of '83, all kinds of non-staple food tickets were gradually abolished, and the supply structure of the city also changed, and the vegetable basket of urban residents mainly relied on open farmers' markets and the stores of non-staple food companies.
Approaching spring, they seized this peak sales season, actively organized the supply of goods, and prepared to make a comeback. After all, state-owned units have advantages in transportation and funding.
Self-employed households, not far behind, the power of the individual is small, several join forces, rent a car to stock up.
In recent years, the Yellow River carp in Hantun Village has become famous, and the nearby areas have come here to buy goods every year.
With the improvement of people's living standards, the Chinese New Year's Eve of Chinese New Year's Eve food, everyone wants to make a carp, and the carp jumps the dragon gate, which not only has the implication of more than one year in a row, but also indicates that it is rising step by step.
In the past, the supply of materials was tight, and it would be good to grab a frozen sea fish during the Chinese New Year, but now that the conditions are good, people would rather spend a little more money, and people are also willing to buy an authentic Yellow River carp.
More than a dozen Tangzikengs in Hantun Village started construction, and the diesel engines roared suddenly, pumping water out in turn. The lotus diggers, fishers, over-weighers, and basket-bearers, employed more than 200 people at the same time.
None of the people in Han Tun's own village went into the water, and they were all busy working on the shore.
The most lively is still the pond pit in Shimiao Village, they are the first time to concentrate on fishing this year, the original used to be individual casual fishing, fishing with traditional fishing nets, never completely cleaned, there must be fish that slipped through the net.
This year, the use of pumping water to clear the bottom of fishing, the big fish in it are exposed, in each pond pit, there are more than a dozen big fish of more than seven or eight catties, some even more than ten catties.
It's a pity that Yoyo came late, and so many big fish were bought. Looking at such a big wild carp, I regret that I was late.
Fortunately, I listened to my aunt's words, followed to see the excitement, it's too late today, and tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, in addition to eating at home, this year's Kyoto to bring things, also increased.
When he came back, Yoyo went directly to the consignment point and talked to his grandmother about buying fish. It happened that his uncle and grandfather were also there, and he took the initiative to take care of the matter: "I'll go to the stone temple to say hello later, and ask them to keep all the big fish tomorrow, and when they send things to Kyoto the day after tomorrow, they will bring them over." ”
The day after tomorrow will be the 27th day of the lunar month, and it is indeed time to send something to Kyoto. There were still two days to go before Chinese New Year's Eve, and they also had to send things to each family.
On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, my aunt and uncle took the child to steam flower cakes. On the first night, I soaked a pot of red dates. When I got up early in the morning, my aunt and uncle cleaned the soaked red dates and dried them.
Steaming flower cakes is more labor-intensive, and the patriotic uncle got up at four o'clock in the morning to reconcile the noodles, and the noodles just happened to be made after breakfast, and the boy scouts started to work.
My aunt and uncle are addicted to working with their children, and they have to steam big flower cakes this year. Aunt Hongying persuaded her: "I don't marry a daughter-in-law at home, what are you doing with steaming big flower cakes, it's too laborious, just steam some small flower cakes." ”
My aunt said: "Now the children are free, I will lead them to celebrate the New Year, you see the wisdom of them, they have no time to go home during the holidays, and when the children are grown up, there is no one who wants to be lively." ”
My aunt and uncle planned to steam two big flower cakes in their own big pot, and there were many people in the family, and she was afraid that one big flower cake would not be enough to eat.
Steamed flower cake has to use a cage drawer, first roll out a thick dough cake and spread it in the cage drawer, and then pinch the nose of the flower cake and put it up.
The nose of the flower cake has to be made one by one, the agent has to be the same size, and the red date has to be picked of the same size, and the nose of the flower cake is the same as the size of the flower cake, and it looks good when it is put on it.
Several children followed their aunt and learned to do it step by step, first kneading the agent into long strips, pressing out the layers with chopsticks, putting red dates in the middle, and pinching them together. The round side is facing outward, and the pinched tip is pointing inward, and it is arranged in a circle around the dough.
It's easy for my aunt and uncle to make, but it's hard for a few children to learn, but you can rework your nose to make a flower cake, and you can't make the dough once and come again.
The children have the experience of the first two days, and they are not in a hurry, they are careful to do it, Zhixin sighed: "When Zhili grows up, she must learn to make flower cakes, this is too reckless." ”
Uncle and grandmother looked at Zhixin: "It's good for you to exchange with Zhili, she is like a splash boy, and she is not as stable as you as an elder brother." ”
Zhibin said to his grandmother: "Zhixin complains about my mother like this, she wants to be crazy about her daughter, she raised Zhixin as a girl since she was a child, and she has Zhili, otherwise Zhixin will have to be raised by her as Miss Jiao." ”
Zhixin quit, he retorted: "Grandpa said that I am a little man, meticulous and responsible. ”
Zhixin's work is really meticulous, and he does it better than Zhiru, who is a sister. Finally, a circle of flower cake nose was finally done, and the uneven size of the jujube was picked out in the middle, chopped and sprinkled with a layer, spread a layer of cooked steamed bun noodles on top, and then sprinkled with a layer of broken dates, and then covered with a small circle of thick dough cakes. The top layer of cake just pressed the tip of the nose of the flower cake.
Then put the flower cake nose, this layer of the flower cake nose is different from the flower shape below, and make a small opening on the outside, like a butterfly with wings.