Chapter 56 Eating rice balls on the winter solstice

Grandma stopped making fun of Yang Yun, went to the kitchen to get a radish to peel it, and prepared to eat radish stew at night, and today grandpa went to the town to buy some pork belly and came back. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info I don't have to do farm work these days, and the family has resumed eating two meals a day, and the weather is too cold Yang Yun is reluctant to go out, and she doesn't feel very hungry after eating two meals a day.

Yang Yun stopped her when she saw her grandmother peeling turnips.

"Grandma doesn't eat turnips at night, let's cook something else." These days, I always have turnips and cabbage, and my mouth has faded out of the bird.

"If you don't eat radish at night, then it's better to eat cabbage."

"Grandma doesn't cook cabbage either, let's take out some of the dried radishes that we dried some time ago, let's take some out of the stew." The dried radishes that dried some time ago were all packed in the jar, and it is also a good choice to take some out of the stew tonight.

"Okay, then go get some."

"Okay, Xiao Yun go get it." Yang Yun went to the large vat in the utility room and took out a few dried radish, carefully washed and cut them into radish strips, and then soaked them in water to give them a salty taste. Yang Yun saw her mother pickling dried radish in her previous life, and this was the first time she pickled dried radish by herself, but she didn't grasp the amount of salt, and she pickled it too salty all of a sudden. Now before you want to boil the dried radish, you can only soak it in water and rinse off some salt, so that it will not be too salty when cooking.

In the evening, the family expressed their love for a pot of dried radish stew, which can be used to make many delicious dishes. Yang Yong and Yang Xuan said that they would cook more dried radish dishes in the future, and Yang Yun agreed very much.

On the morning of the winter solstice, Yang Yun and Yang Yong carried the soaked glutinous rice early to grind it into fine powder. There are three stone mills in the village, Yang Yun went to one of them, and when she arrived, there were already some villagers standing next to the stone mills, and some villagers had already begun to grind glutinous rice flour. Yang Yun greeted the villagers and lined up.

When it was Yang Yun's turn to grind glutinous rice noodles, half an hour had passed. The brother and sister took turns pushing the stone mill, and they had to grind the glutinous rice into a fine powder, and they had to push and grind it repeatedly. After grinding glutinous rice flour, Yang Yun's hands are almost unable to lift up, this era is backward, the tools are also backward, and the places with resources are ground with water flow, or donkeys are OK, but unfortunately there are few livestock in Zhoujia Village, and the people in the village can be called car households.

When the brother and sister returned home, Yang Yun spread out the ground glutinous rice flour to dry, the soaked glutinous rice was wet, and the ground powder was naturally very wet, and the dried glutinous rice flour could be stored for a long time. Yang Yun counted the days, there were still some subsections after the winter solstice, so this time I prepared more glutinous rice, Yang Yun tried the weight of the stone mill, and I didn't want to grind it a second time.

After drying the glutinous rice flour, Yang Yun scooped up the shelled mung beans and drained the water, then found a steamer, put a layer of clean white cloth on the steamer, and put the drained mung beans into the steamer for steaming. After the mung beans are steamed, while they are still hot, sprinkle an appropriate amount of sugar on them, and then use a rolling pin with a thicker root to roll the mung beans into mung bean paste.

Yang Yun saw that the amount of mung bean paste was too much, so she left some waiting to finish the business at hand, and made the extra mung bean paste into mung bean cake. Speaking of mung bean cake, Yang Yun thought that the first time she went to Aunt Wednesday's grocery store to buy snacks, she saw the green mung bean cake made with the skin.

The rice balls are eaten at night, Yang Yun prepared all the ingredients for making the rice balls first, and seeing that the time was still early, she made the extra mung bean paste into mung bean cake. Zhou Limin's house has a few simple pastry molds, which were carved by Zhou Limin with wood after being an apprentice, only round and square, I have heard Chun'er talk about it, and Yang Yun borrowed the wood molds to make mung bean cakes this time.

Yang Yun stirred the prepared mung bean paste, added a little glutinous rice flour and cooking oil, scooped the mung bean paste into the mold, carefully pressed it firmly, and then put the printed mung bean cake on the plate, and then took it to the steamer to steam it in water.

After the mung bean cake was steamed out of the pot, Yang Yun sent some to Uncle Li and Dr. Xu's family, and when she returned the mold to Chun'er's family, she also gave them some mung bean cake. Chun'er's mother saw that Yang Yun could make pastries, so she gave the mold to Yang Yun. Yang Yun thought of the various pastry moldings in her previous life, and those styles were really exquisite and beautiful. Thinking that I had time to draw a few patterns and let Zhou Limin help carve them out.

Yang Yun came home and watched Yang Xuan and Yang Yong eating mung bean cake with relish, and grandpa and grandma said that it was even more delicious than the dim sum shop. The speed at which the two brothers ate mung bean cake was so fast that Yang Yun was worried that they would swallow it. Yang Xuan even ate mung bean cake crumbs all over his face, like a little flower cat who had eaten fish and looked satisfied.

Today's winter solstice, it stands to reason that there should be sacrifices to the heavens and ancestors, but Yang Yun only saw that her grandmother was preparing to sacrifice to the sky, and she didn't mean to worship her ancestors, so Yang Yun didn't want to ask too much. In the evening, Yang Yun and her grandmother prepared a very hearty dinner. Yang Yun took out the dried fish that was dried some time ago, made a fragrant dried fish and peanuts, made a sauce fragrant pork ribs, and made an egg fried dried radish, the eggs were born by her own chickens, but unfortunately it is too cold now, and several hens at home do not lay eggs.

The green vegetables are Yang Yun's own bean sprouts, this time is too cold Yang Yun rarely goes to other places except to see Grandma Xu, she hides in the kitchen alone and tosses the bean sprouts, and finally tosses the ten catties of mung beans stored at home. Grandpa went to the town with Uncle Li two days ago and bought more than a dozen catties of mung beans and came back. Yang Yun didn't dare to take it again, the newly bought mung beans went to sprout, and if she dared to take it again, her grandfather would definitely smoke her. Who made Yang Yun sprout bean sprouts, failed a few times and wasted a lot of mung beans.

Yang Yun made two pots of bean sprouts in the end, maybe the weather was too cold, even if Yang Yun had heated the mung bean charcoal fire, the mung bean sprouts still did not grow well, but they were not too particular about stir-frying and eating at home. Yang Yun picked all the bean sprouts, looked at the amount, and gave some to Dr. Xu and Aunt Li's family. Grandma Xu's illness was still not cured, and Yang Yun went to see it a few times. Dr. Xu said that as long as the weather is warm in spring, Grandma Xu's illness will naturally be cured.

Yang Yong's children often go to Dr. Xu's house to help Dr. Xu do some things, and Yang Yun also sent a few times the meat she cooked, so Dr. Xu naturally welcomes a few children to come over, so it is more lively.

After the family finished eating, Yang Yun and her grandmother took out the sesame powder and mixed it with sugar and lard, and Yang Yun extracted all the tendons on the lard in advance. Stir the sesame flour with sugar and lard, then knead it into small balls, and then wrap it into the glutinous rice flour skin.

Yang Yong and Yang Xuan helped rub the glutinous rice flour balls on the side, Yang Yun and grandma put the glutinous rice flour balls kneaded by their brothers, put them in the palm of their hands and pressed them into a flat shape, put the prepared filling in the middle, then wrap it, and then knead it into a round rice ball.

After the glutinous rice balls were cooked, Yang Yun asked Yang Yong to send a big bowl to Dr. Xu's family, and also sent some to Aunt Li's family to try it. Her family ate a meal of cooked rice balls, Yang Yun didn't like sweets very much, she only tasted a few and put down the bowl, plus she was very full for dinner, she couldn't eat too much.

Only Yang Xuan and Yang Yong ate two bowls of food, and after eating the rice balls, the two brothers had one expression, half lying on the chair and asking grandma to help them rub their stomachs and eliminate food, and the two brothers were all overwhelmed. Yang Yun looked at the expressions of the two brothers who were uncomfortable and wanted to eat, angry and funny. Grandma and Grandpa both laughed beside them, and the family spent a warm winter solstice night full of laughter.