Chapter 240: Fighting Glutinous Rice Cakes

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This glutinous rice cake is a kind of rice cake, mainly glutinous rice and sorghum two kinds, when you want to eat, you can use a special iron frame, roast on the charcoal fire, after the glutinous rice cake is heated, it becomes soft and swells, and then wraps it with white sugar, brown sugar or bean paste and other fillings, it tastes fragrant, soft, glutinous and crispy, and makes people have endless aftertaste; You can also add some water to the pot to boil it soft, and then add sugar on both sides to fry it; Or cut into small pieces, just like making rice balls, add some glutinous rice wine and sugar, it also tastes good.

Ye Xinlong's family bought a fully automatic glutinous rice machine, and they had to be busy at the end of each year, and when it was time to say goodbye, Ye Xinlong's mother carried the machine to the lobby of Ye Quan's house.

After the seven or eight housewives who had come to help arrived, Ye Quan and his father carried the wooden barrel to the lobby, and Cao Shuyun held a rice shovel in her hand and said, "Don't be busy, let's eat a ball of glutinous rice first." ”

Smelling the fragrance of glutinous rice, the maid, who had been drooling for a long time, hurriedly ran to the wooden barrel that was almost as high as her, and shouted, "I want to eat, I want to eat." ”

Ye Ting pulled her and said, "Wash your hands first, otherwise the glutinous rice will get on your hands." ”

Ye Quan uses space duck blood glutinous, after cooking, the rice grains are slender, the color is red, the grains are transparent, and they haven't tasted it yet, just this appearance makes everyone praise it.

Duck blood glutinous taste sweet but not greasy, full of toughness, sweet and delicious, Ye Quan's family has eaten nothing before, those who eat this glutinous rice for the first time are surprised.

Ye Xinlong's mother asked Cao Shuyun: "I have tasted glutinous rice in any house in the village, but I have never seen such a beautiful and delicious one, where did you buy this kind of red glutinous rice?" ”

Cao Shuyun talked about the origin and efficacy of duck blood glutinous. After everyone heard that this duck blood glutinous was an offering to the royal family in the past, as well as the effects of nourishing blood and nourishing yin, strengthening the body and replenishing blood, etc., they were really envious in their hearts, so they tasted two more bites.

Yaya grabbed a ball of glutinous rice in each hand, and she didn't care about burning her mouth, and after eating it in a hurry, she still said unsatisfied: "It's delicious, if only it could be like this every day." ”

Ye Quan also felt that steamed rice was more fragrant and chewy than cooked rice, and he himself was also a glutton. smiled and said: "After that, the family bought a small steamer and steamed rice every day." ”

After the motive qì, Ye Quan used a large rice shovel to shovel the cooked glutinous rice out of the wooden barrel and put it in the funnel-shaped inlet of the glutinous rice machine, Ye Xinlong's mother kneaded the glutinous rice into it with a wooden stick, and the glutinous rice machine would twist the glutinous rice into soft and warm glutinous rice.

After the glutinous rice dumplings came out as big as a football, Cao Shuyun wrapped them in sticky rice noodles to avoid sticking their hands, and then twisted off the fist-sized glutinous balls. The women stand at two high tables sprinkled with rice noodles, pressing and rubbing the balls. Finally, it is made into a full moon-shaped glutinous rice cake, with a diameter of about 123 centimeters and a thickness of about 2 centimeters.

If it is used for gifts, it is necessary to use red edible dye while the glutinous rice is still warm, cover it with exquisite pattern stamps or auspicious words, and some places use special wooden molds to do, the shape is more unified and beautiful.

Once upon a time. Often, two or three large glutinous rice cakes are made for gifts or eaten on specific days, and it takes four or five people to eat one.

Yaya followed the two sisters to join in the fun, she was not tall enough to reach the high table, so she was on the wooden board used to place the glutinous rice next to her, learning the movements of adults to make the glutinous rice dumplings, and the small appearance was very serious. I didn't even notice that there was some white powder on my face.

When a large bucket of glutinous rice was almost finished, Cao Shuyun added sugar to the glutinous rice and made some sweet glutinous rice cakes, which were tasted or taken away by the women who came to help.

Just use the machine qì to twist out of the glutinous ba. It also exudes warmth and fragrance, it tastes soft and sweet, can be pulled into a long filament, and glutinous rice are two flavors, but the duck blood glutinous itself is already very sweet, and Ye Quan is a little unaccustomed to eating the glutinous rice cake with white sugar.

Before the rice cake machine was clear, this rice cake could only be punched by hand, and there was still a stone groove in the corner of Ye Quan's yard.

Playing glutinous rice glutinous rice is a labor-intensive body lì work in the past, generally is the body lì and endurance are good middle-aged men play, two people stand, use two eyebrow-length sticks, the middle is thin, just hold with both hands, the two ends have a thick bowl mouth, two people you one, I one, the glutinous rice in the stone trough first knead and then beat, until the loose glutinous rice is beaten into a glutinous ball, after beating the glutinous rice, no matter how cold the weather is to sweat profusely.

It is laborious and time-consuming to make the glutinous rice cakes by hand, but the resulting glutinous rice cakes are softer and more delicate, and the taste is better.

Every household has to make hundreds of glutinous rice cakes, eat until there are fine seams on the glutinous rice cakes, soak them in the water tank with clean water, change the water every once in a while, so that they can be stored for a long time and will not be bad, and when they reach the third and fourth months of the lunar calendar, there are glutinous rice cakes to eat.

Ye Quan estimated that the sweet potatoes in the stove were already roasted, so he took them out.

Good sweet potatoes generally have two characteristics: "sweet" and "powdery", among which powdered sweet potatoes are mostly used to make starch and make zuò sweet potato flour.

Ye Quan asked Yaya to choose sweet sweet potatoes, after storing them for a period of time, they look a little wilted, which means that the sugar is more sufficient, and after roasting, you can see a layer of bright yellow caramel when you peel off the skin, and even drip on your hands, and it is fragrant and sweet when you bite into your mouth.

The girl who had just eaten the glutinous rice cake had a good appetite, and turned her target to roasted sweet potatoes, and Ye Quan didn't know how to fit her little belly.

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In the afternoon, the lion dance team sent out by the village to learn art came back, and Ye Quan took Yaya and others to the ancestral hall to see the excitement.

The village is divided into two batches, a total of ten people were sent to Bohai County to learn art, six of them learned lion dance, four learned musical instruments, when they came back, they brought a complete set of belongings, there were three lion heads, plus lion backs, lion pants, shirts, and embroidered shoes, etc., as well as three drums, as for gongs and cymbals, the village specially gave people red and white ceremonies musicians, it is complete.

The three lions are yellow, red and black, which are the three most traditional colors, representing the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang respectively, and also extend the face, character and temper of the three in terms of shape and dance style.

Liu Beishi is a literary lion, with yellow face, white beard, colored balls, calm and robust dancing style, majestic and powerful, generally used in welcoming and festive occasions; Guan Gong Lion is a civil and martial lion, with a red face, black beard, red phoenix eyes, red pompom, and a lion's back is a money robe, dancing bravely and majesticly, and the spirit is extraordinary, which is generally used in the opening ceremony; Zhang Feishi is a martial lion, with a black face, black beard, and black pointed lion horns, and his movements are rough and belligerent, and he used to be used by two lion dance teams to fight lions.

Of course, the times are in the exhibition, and the general commercial lion dance team is no longer so particular, the colorful lion is colorful, and the dance method is also festive and pleasing.

The lion's head of the southern lion is particularly large, compared to the northern lion, it is just like a god, the shape is very exaggerated, the forehead is high and narrow, the eyes and ears can be rotated, the blood basin is large, and the majesty is abnormal.

The three lions purchased in Taoyuan Village are a little exaggerated and romantic, the colors are bright, which not only gives people a majestic and majestic image, but also makes people feel beautiful, cute and lively, in the words of the Internet, it is a bit "cute", not only adults are happy to see it, but the children in the village are going around the straight circle, from time to time with their small hands to touch the fluff on it.