Time slipped away quietly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

According to traditional customs, after the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is truly over.

After this day, people will embark on the journey again and officially start the new year.

Therefore.

People end the day in the most lively way: watching lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, setting off firecrackers, dragon dance, lion dance.

As the first full moon night of the year, on the day of the Lantern Festival, it is an indispensable ritual for the family to sit together and eat a bowl of rice balls symbolizing reunion.

For this sense of ritual.

Huang Yide and Song Cailian, after getting off work, hurriedly drove over to reunite with Huang Tao and Xuanxuan.

However, due to the long distance and some traffic jams on the road, it was already evening when the two arrived at Chengxi Old Street

Huang Tao

"Grandpa! Grandmother! ”

As soon as the old couple arrived at the store, Xuanxuan's eyes suddenly lit up, and she hurriedly ran towards them.

"Oh, my good granddaughter!"

Song Cailian smiled instantly, hurriedly greeted her, stretched out her hands and picked her up, and hugged her into her arms.

She touched Xuanxuan's little head and couldn't help asking, "Xuanxuan, have you missed your grandmother these days?" ”

Xuanxuan nodded vigorously: "Yes!" ”

"I think about it every day!"

Oops~

This little mouth is sweet, and it is so sweet that Song Cailian's heart is sweet.

Song Cailian smiled lovingly: "Grandma misses you too!" ”

Huang Yide bent down and asked lovingly, "What about Grandpa?" Do you miss grandpa? ”

Xuanxuan said loudly without thinking: "Yes! ”

"Oops~My eldest granddaughter~"

The corners of Huang Yide's mouth reached the root of his ears: "Come, grandpa will reward you with a bag of delicious food." ”

As he spoke, he lifted the plastic bag he was holding and shook it in front of her.

"Wow......"

Xuanxuan was pleasantly surprised, reached out and hugged the plastic bag, and couldn't wait to look through it: "I'll take a look, I'll see what's there, ah, it's chocolate, I like to eat it, and Oreo, ah!" ”

Her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and her dimples were shallow: "Grandpa, you are so good, thank you grandpa." ”

Huang Yide touched her little face, and said with a smile: "Of course, grandpa hurts you the most, Xuanxuan, of course, you have to buy Xuanxuan's favorite food!" ”

Xuanxuan hehehe.

"Dad, Mom, you're here."

After Huang Tao finished his work, he greeted him and asked with concern, "Are you hungry?" I've left you some food, so let's go eat first. ”

Huang Yide replied: "Fortunately, there are some snacks on the road, and I am not very hungry." ”

Xuanxuan blinked her eyes, thought for a while, and asked, "Baba, are you going to make a Lantern Festival?" ”

Speaking of this Lantern Festival!

There will be a little friend to argue about the difference between Lantern Festival and Tangyuan.

It's all white spheres, wrapped in glutinous rice, is it just that the names of the north and the south are different?

For example, the taste, filling, production process, appearance, texture, etc. are all different.

Lantern Festival is much more cumbersome than glutinous rice balls in the production, you have to first reconcile the filling, cut the solidified filling into small pieces, pass through the water, and then throw it into the basket full of glutinous rice noodles and roll inside, and then pass the water, continue to put back the basket and roll, repeat several times, until the filling is stained with glutinous rice noodles and roll into a ball.

Due to the different production processes, the taste of the Lantern Festival is coarser than that of the rice balls.

After the Lantern Festival is cooked, the soup will be thicker, like glutinous rice noodle porridge, the skin is soft, the filling is hard and bitten, and the fruity and rice aroma is rich.

The method of glutinous rice balls is a bit like making dumplings, first add water to the glutinous rice flour and form a ball, knead a small ball of wet noodles with your hands, squeeze it into a slice shape, pick a ball of filling and put it on the glutinous rice slices, and then use both hands to turn it around and close the mouth to make it into a dumpling.

As a southerner, Huang Tao naturally does not do the "rolling" Lantern Festival in the north, but wants to make the "wrapping" of rice balls in the south.

But this time, it was not sesame rice balls, but colorful rice balls.

Huang Tao smiled and nodded: "To be correct, it should be made into rice balls, and it is also colorful rice balls." ”

"Wow~"

Xuanxuan smiled sweetly in surprise and volunteered: "Xuanxuan will help you make colorful rice balls together!" ”

"Good!"

Huang Tao hugged her over and kissed her on the face: "Let's do it together~"

When the father and daughter came to the back kitchen, Lao Qian and Xiaohu had just cut the steamed pumpkin pieces and purple potato pieces in advance, pressed them into puree with a spoon, kneaded the glutinous rice flour while it was hot, and made purple potato dough and pumpkin dough.

Lin Zifeng poured the black sesame seeds he had fried in advance, spread them evenly on the cutting board, and began to grind the sesame seeds with a rolling pin.

Seeing Huang Tao coming over with Xuanxuan in his arms, Lao Qian couldn't help laughing and said: "Don't worry, wait for Uncle Qian to knead the noodles first, and then let's make colorful rice balls together!" ”

"Oh~"

Xuanxuan looked into the basin and looked curious.

Looking at the white glutinous rice flour and pumpkin pieces, the purple potato pieces merged into one and changed color, and when she showed a little expression of amazement, she was even more eager to try.

"Come on, let's wash our hands first."

Huang Tao carried her to the sink, washed her hands with her, and returned to Lao Qian's side again.

Huang Tao took out the heated carrot juice and spinach juice from the steaming drawer.

Pour the snow-white glutinous rice flour into the three stainless steel basins for kneading the dough in an appropriate amount, pour in the carrot juice first, stir it for a while, and then reach out and point on Xuanxuan's little nose, and suddenly leave a white and red dot on the nose of Xuanxuan powder.

Xuanxuan's eyes widened, and she instinctively reached out and wiped the wing of her nose.

And the result!

The flour was rubbed from the tip of the nose to the palm of the hand.

Huang Tao couldn't help but chuckle.

Xuanxuan pouted and said coquettishly: "Baba, you are so bad, you are making fun of me again......"

She wants to "get revenge" back.

But what can I do......

People are small and short, they can't do it!

It's so depressing!

"Ahh

Huang Tao smiled and stretched out his hand again, touched her face and said, "Okay, Dad knows it's wrong, so I won't get you." ”

However, in his wave of operations, Xuanxuan's cutie directly turned into a flower-faced kitten.

Xuanxuan's pretty brows frowned slightly, and she shouted coquettishly: "Ah...... Baba ......"

Huang Tao laughed.

The kitchen is filled with a cheerful atmosphere.

After laughing for a while, Huang Tao also began to meet seriously.

His craftsmanship is naturally speechless.

Soon.

All the noodles were mixed into a dough with moderate hardness and softness.

Looking at the red, green, yellow, purple and white dough, Xuanxuan suddenly left behind the matter of her father smearing her father into a big cat, and asked eagerly: "Baba, is it possible to make colorful rice balls now?" ”

"Wait a minute......"

Huang Tao explained: "Let it wake up." ”

As he spoke, Huang Tao wrapped the five-color dough with a damp cloth to prevent the glutinous rice dough from drying out.

Taking advantage of this free time, Huang Tao brought over the red bean paste filling, jujube paste filling, salted meat filling, and peanut and walnut filling prepared in advance.

Then take the lard fat that has been diced in advance, pour it into the black sesame seeds that Lin Zifeng has just crushed, add a little white sugar, and osmanthus together, and constantly stir and grasp it with your hands, so that several fillings are fully kneaded together, so that it forms a whole piece of lard until you can't see the white.

So far.

All the fillings you need, you're ready.

"Xuanxuan, you can start making it now, this dough of different colors needs to be wrapped with different fillings, you will make it with Baba, don't get confused......"

Huang Tao helped her put on sanitary gloves together, and first prepared to pinch out a small piece of filling and rub it into a small ball in the palm of her hand.

Xuanxuan, who already has practical experience in making glutinous rice balls, without saying a word, also started to knead the filling, kneaded the filling round, and then took out the pink dough from the dough, kneaded it into a "small wine cup", wrapped the filling in and finally closed it and rubbed it again.

Not to mention.

It's done in a good way, and the technique is also very skillful and standard, like a little pastry chef!

Moreover, the rice balls are also decent, and they look very good!

At such a young age, it is really rare to be able to do this!

While the old Qian and others on the side were shocked, they didn't forget to applaud it.

Syllable! Syllable! Syllable!

Lao Qian gave Xuanxuan a thumbs up and said loudly: "Xuanxuan is doing so well!" ”

"Tiger father has no dog girl!"

He is not slapping Huang Tao's ass around the bush, but sincerely thinks that he is doing a good job.

"Hee-hee~"

In the back kitchen, her joyful laughter echoed.

(End of chapter)