When the rural areas of Northeast China reach the beginning of the new year, every household is busy preparing rations for the winter - sticky bean buns.

In the Northeast, this very special product, although later generations did not officially enter the tip of the tongue of China shooting, but it is also a good local thing.

It is not clear when the custom of steaming sticky bean buns arose in the Northeast, but he guessed why it was so popular in the Northeast.

There are two benefits of sticky bean buns in the Northeast, one advantage is because sticky bean buns are made of sticky rice, which is very difficult to digest, commonly known as anti-hunger.

Eating a sticky bean bun is much more anti-hunger than eating other staple foods, and people often don't have enough to eat, so they naturally have a soft spot for such a food.

The second benefit is that sticky bean buns are easy to make. The main dish in the Northeast is stewed in a large pot, and when stewing, the sticky bean buns are placed on the cauldron with a curtain and slightly heated with steam before eating.

The main grain for making sticky bean buns is called rhubarb rice, which is a sticky grain produced after millet grinding.

This kind of grain looks very similar to millet, but it is not a food, it is processed from glutinous millet (called millet in ancient times).

After grinding the rhubarb rice into flour, add some corn flour, then add water to the two kinds of rice flour in a certain proportion and stir them together, put them in a large basin, put them on the hot kang head, cover them with a curtain, and then cover the big quilt up, and quietly wait for the two kinds of wood flour to ferment.

The fermented viscous paste does not have any aroma, but has a strong sour taste, as if the food has been spoiled.

The next step is to make the bean paste of sticky bean buns, soak the red beans in water for half a day, and then put them in a large iron pot and add a certain proportion of water to boil.

After the adzuki beans are cooked, they are scooped and mashed with a rice spoon and finally added with sugar.

When the preparations are done, it is not a matter of making this kind of sticky bean bun alone, but looking for some women with better relationships to come and help make this sticky bean bun together.

Basically, I am not idle at the end of the day, and I can steam from the first day to the evening, and I have to steam at least seven or eight pots to make hundreds of sticky bean buns.

The steamed sticky bean buns are put outside, and they will freeze through overnight, becoming as hard as a stone, and can be stored directly in the noodle bag.

When you want to eat them, put these sticky bean buns on an iron pot and steam them to simply skewer the gas and you can eat them.

The level of sticky bean buns, at this time, definitely represents whether the housewife of the family is a person who can work, the woman who can work steamed out of the sticky bean bun can feel yellow and glutinous at a glance, and it can eat sweet and delicious feeling, and it is not sticky to the teeth, and it can reach such a level, and it will be called a good woman who can work in the village.

People? The most important thing is communication, the communication aspect, everything is left to the people who like to do things to communicate.

When making sticky bean buns, these women sit together to exchange the short things between them, and communicate with each other, which is also a reason why when the Northeast people steam sticky bean buns, every woman is the same, and they will find their familiar friends to do it together, which can be regarded as a further exchange of feelings.

Aunt Feng Yan is a good hand at bread sticky bean buns in Xinglin Village, and she is a model among the women in the neighborhood, but because of the elderly in the family, she is not so rich, and many times, she is looked down upon by other women.

This time, after she invited several women from the same village to her home, she suddenly noticed that the big apricot, which had been lukewarm to her before, began to show a warmth to her, as if they were very close.

She was particularly unaccustomed to her coldness, although the other women were similar to usual, but Feng Yan felt the kind of enthusiasm that she couldn't feel in previous years.

Is it because the third brother led the eldest nephew back to the village?

Feng Yan knew very well in his heart that the third brother Wang Bo had brought back a lot of good things in Jiangcheng, not to mention most of the items of the tractor that had been consigned before, and he also got a fourteen-inch TV set back home.

For those clothes and fabrics and the like, Feng Yan doesn't have much of a concept, but what! But she knew that her third brother had made a fortune, otherwise, she would never have gotten so many good things home.

In fact, Feng Yan also knew in her heart, not to mention the few female friends she greeted, which family in the entire Xinglin Village didn't know, the third Wang Bo of the old Wang family had made a fortune and went home for the New Year.

Feng Yan remembered very well that when the third brother Wang Bo returned to Xinglin Village, the cigarettes he smoked were filtered, what was called the cigarette from Hongta Mountain, and after he came back, he scattered cigarettes when he saw familiar ones, and before he got home, he had already scattered two or three packs of cigarettes.

Feng Yan didn't have any impression of Hongta Mountain cigarettes, because she didn't smoke, but she had heard of the white rabbit candy that Wang Bo sent along the way.

Feng Yan remembers very well that when she took her son to the county department store, her son wanted to eat toffee, and as soon as she saw the price of three yuan per catty in the department store, she immediately gave up the idea of buying candy for her son, but on the way back Wang Bo, as long as she saw that it was a child, she would give a piece of white rabbit toffee, and if the neighbors nearby, or Wang Bo could name it, she would give a lot of it directly.

The number of a pound of White Rabbit Milk Candy is about thirty, and the price of a pound is three yuan, that is to say, a piece of White Rabbit Milk Candy costs almost a dime, and this price makes them how to buy it with a total annual income of about 200 yuan.

In many cases, it is already very good to be able to eat a full meal, and those things are impossible to buy for Feng Yan.

After arriving home, Wang Bo made a lot of toys and candy for his son, according to Feng Yan's estimate, these things have to be more than two big unity, and the child is so happy that he is about to fly.

"Sister Yanzi, I heard that the third child of your family has made a fortune? Is this true?" After chatting a few words about sticky bean buns, Da Xingzi immediately went straight to the point.

"That's right! You see that the third child of your family came back from outside this time and got a big tractor thing! It's the envy of the people in the village. ”

"Yes! There are only five TVs in our entire village now, and if you count the one that your third child bought, there are six TVs in our village. And I heard that the TV that your third child got back is new, this is true! ”

Feng Yan looked at a few friends around her, she said with a smile: "The TV is a panda brand, it is brand new, this is true, as for whether our third child made a fortune in Jiangcheng, I don't know, I just heard the third child say that, he now has a grocery store in Jiangcheng." ”

Many times, Feng Yan has a number in her heart, what things can be said outside, what things must be kept in her heart, Wang Bo has made a fortune in Jiangcheng, but the wealth is not exposed, how can she tell these things to the few old ladies in front of her!

These old ladies, all of them have the same mouth as the crotch of cotton pants, and there is no door guard in the crotch, if a few of them know, then I don't know what it will become!

Feng Yan complained more about his third brother in his heart, if he is rich, he will be rich, what are you shaking when you go home?

"Opening a grocery store? Wow, your third brother is so powerful! Swallows! Don't you know, the grocery store has always made money, you see that we are such a big tunzi, didn't Li Huaisheng's family just get a grocery store and become the richest man in our tunzi? ”

"The grocery store is good! You don't have to spend money to buy anything, you can eat whatever you want, so it seems! Yanzi, the third brother of your man's family has made a lot of money this time. ”

"Yanzi, you see how old your third brother is now, he hasn't even made a family, my family's Sanxing is now eighteen, when the Chinese New Year comes, do you want to let them come into contact?"

Feng Yan showed a shallow smile on her face, and she said with a smile: "The third brother of my family is now considered to be from the city, and what kind of free love is becoming popular over there, and my third brother seems to have a partner!" ”

Feng Yan's words were very ingenious, and he did not directly refuse Da Xingzi's kindness, but found an excuse that the third brother had a partner.

She remembers very well that at this time last year, she and Da Xingzi talked about Wang Bo and wanted Wang Bo and Sanxing to deal with each other, but Da Xingzi directly refused, this is now seeing that the third brother is rich, and wants her sister to find a partner, such a good thing, don't even think about it.

"Yanzi, look at what you said, what are you afraid of if you have a partner, aren't you still married? Our family's three apricots must be tall and have a head, look good, and be able to work in the field, such a daughter-in-law cannot be found in the city. Da Xingzi said without words at this time, she seemed to be fascinated at this time, and wanted to let her third sister and Wang Bo get along.

Da Xingzi has been determined, that Wang Bo is a rich man, if her third sister follows Wang Bo, she and her man will also borrow her sister's light.