There are many places where rice cakes are made, and this method is used in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangxi.

The rice cakes made of pure glutinous rice are soft and sticky, if they are rice cakes to be eaten as pastries, it is good to use pure glutinous rice, but the rice cakes to be made here are to be boiled in a hot pot, so it is not suitable to be too soft and rotten, so japonica rice flour is added to this glutinous rice flour to increase the hardness.

Mix the japonica rice flour and glutinous rice flour according to the proportion, about 5 to 8 portions, add water and mix evenly, and pour it into the cage drawer with a cage cloth to steam after it becomes granular.

The steaming process is a science, not simply steamed, but very particular about the rice flour evenly heated, ripe and rotten, if it is too steamed, it is too bad, if it is too raw and will be hard, about a quarter of an hour of medium heat, with this production experience to control whether it is just right.

After the rice flour is steamed, the rice flour is put into the stone mortar, and the thick mallet is repeatedly beaten, and after hitting until the softness and hardness are suitable, then taken out from the stone mortar, kneaded smoothly and strongly, and made into a wide strip of the thickness and length of the little finger, and the hand-beaten rice cake is ready.

Ordinary rice cakes are beaten directly with a stone mortar, directly flattened into large pieces, cut into strips, or kneaded into small pieces by hand, without having to be beaten, but the rice cakes here are made through two processes, beating and kneading, in order to make the rice cake more strong and delicious.

Such a strong rice cake is put into the hot pot, especially the bottom of the fresh and spicy red oil pot, boiled for a while, and fished out, the surface of the strong rice cake is wrapped in a layer of red oil and spicy, plus the rice fragrance and slight sweetness of the original rice cake, it tastes very delicious.

In addition, this place originally did not produce such rice cakes, and making some such rice cakes can be regarded as making Shuxiang Pavilion have different ingredients, which is rare and makes people say.

Therefore, Shen Xiangmiao proposed to make this rice cake, and handed it to the back kitchen to make this method of making rice cakes, Yan Shixian urged the back kitchen to hurry up and make it in the past two days, and it looked effective in the past two days, so he also took it to Shen Xiangmiao to see.

Shen Xiangmiao took the rice cake out and looked at it again and again.

Snow white, with a little transparency, the most important thing is that the epidermis is very smooth, the appearance is excellent, a bite is incomparable, very elastic.

This kind of rice cake is put in the hot pot, and after being cooked, it tastes even more delicious.

"Yes, it's time to serve." Shen Xiangmiao praised repeatedly.

In terms of Shen Xiangmiao's cooking skills and knowledge, there is naturally no problem with what she nodded, but it is not in vain that she has been urging again and again in the past few days, following the practice of pondering this rice cake together.

While Yan Shixian breathed a sigh of relief, he was also extremely happy: "Since Miss Shen approves it, this must be not bad." ”

"This tea fruit is newly sent, and the shopkeeper Meng said that this tea fruit was also learned by him from Miss Shen, but Miss Shen has been busy these days, and she has never had time to go to him to taste it, and she also specially told me that if you have the opportunity, you must let Miss Shen taste it."

Yan Shixian said, brought another plate over, and beckoned Fang Huairen and Shen Fuhai: "Shopkeeper Fang, Brother Shen, you all taste it together?" ”

Of the three tea fruits on the plate, Shen Xiangmiao and the other three picked up one by one.

"This thing is called tea fruit?" Fang Huairen took the tea fruit, looked at it for a long time, and said with a smile: "The name is very interesting, this round look is like a fruit, but where does this tea word come from?" Didn't you put tea in it? ”

"You'll know when you eat it, so you don't have to guess." Shen Fuhai smiled, holding what looked like a banana leaf in his hand, and sent the round, white and translucent round ball into his mouth.

Fang Huairen felt that this statement was reasonable, so he also took a bite.

This bite was suddenly shocked.

This skin looks white and translucent, and it is soft and glutinous, looking at it and estimating that it is made of glutinous rice flour, and this is a bite and tasted it, it is true, what surprised him was the filling here.

Originally, I thought that since it was glutinous rice flour on the outside, it must be like the inside of the glutinous rice balls that could be eaten directly, and it was just a sweet filling of peanuts or sesame seeds, but it was not sweet, but a salty filling.

And, this eats......

There are shiitake mushrooms, river shrimp, and crushed peanuts, which originally felt that the eight poles could not be beaten and should not appear on the same plate, but at this time, they were completely integrated in such a small ball.

A perfect blend, to be exact.

The fresh fragrance of shiitake mushrooms, the freshness of river shrimp, plus the strong fragrance of crushed peanuts, and the seasoning on the side is added, which is completely blended together, making people feel delicious and delicious.

This Fang Huairen ate deliciously, so he naturally ate it one bite after another, and every time he ate it, he felt that the taste of this tea fruit became more and more delicious, until the tea fruit was in his stomach, and he licked his lips with satisfaction.

The food is delicious, but the taste is still delicious, which makes people have an endless aftertaste.

Fang Huairen is like this, and Shen Fuhai is even more so, and he keeps smacking his lips: "This thing is really delicious." ”

Then he was surprised: "But I haven't eaten any tea here, why is it called tea fruit?" ”

"yes." Fang Huairen also nodded, expressing his doubts at this time, and while lowering his head and thinking: "Didn't you use tea water here to flavor it, and you haven't eaten it?" ”

Shen Xiangmiao couldn't help but laugh softly when she heard the questions of the two people, and only smiled after a while: "The so-called tea fruit is not made of tea leaves, but a kind of tea snack after drinking tea. ”

I see.

It's not a confectionery made of tea leaves, but a snack that you eat when you drink tea, so it's called a tea fruit.

Fang Huairen and Shen Fuhai suddenly realized.

also understands the key to this, as well as this Yan Shixian.

After the three of them understood the key, they became more and more confused.

Knowing the origin of this tea fruit, and eating this delicious tea fruit, the key is how to make such a delicious thing?

The three of them thought about it, and they all looked at Shen Xiangmiao.

Shen Xiangmiao explained with a smile: "The skin is glutinous rice flour, take boiling water and blanch it and knead it into a dough shape, this is very ordinary and simple, and the key to the taste is this filling." ”

"Stir-fry the shiitake mushrooms and the soaked dried river shrimp in hot oil, add salt and light soy sauce to taste, and finally mix the chopped peanuts, and add a little white sugar to make the flavor and fresh."

"Like a sweet potato bun, wrap the filling in with the skin made of glutinous rice, put it on the cut square plantain leaves, and steam it on the steamer for about a cup of tea, and the tea fruit is ready."