When Chen Fan walked to Fourth Brother Zhang's house, a group of people were busy cleaning the stone mortar on the field.

To be precise, this thing is called "碓 (dui) 臼 (jiu)", which is a round stone nest, of course, there are also boxy, and the stone inside is hollowed out as a container, which can be used to make rice and make glutinous rice.

When cleaning the mortar, use cold water first, and then hot water to ensure that it is clean. Then wipe off the water with a clean, dry rag and wait for the glutinous rice to be in place.

In the entire area south of the Yangtze River, including Liangguang and Hainan, there is a custom of making glutinous rice cakes during the New Year.

The glutinous rice is cleaned and soaked in cold water overnight, and then steamed on the retort (zeng).

(Retort rice)

The steamed glutinous rice is lifted into the mortar and the glutinous rice can be beaten.

There are a lot of people who came to help today, but they are all members of the Zhang family, and five or six men are eager to try with a fist-thick, one-meter-long wooden stick.

Chen Fan decisively kept a distance of more than 5 meters from them, waved his hand from a distance to say hello, and quickly slipped into the house.

In the kitchen in the backyard, the retorts in the two large pots are steaming, and it is obvious that the glutinous rice is about to come out of the pot.

Seven or eight able-bodied women, all of whom were the daughters-in-law of the Zhang family, stood aside, and their task today was to make rice on the fire and assist in making glutinous rice cakes.

After a while, the hostess of Fourth Brother Zhang's house lifted the lid, picked a little glutinous rice with chopsticks and tasted it, and then shouted loudly, "Okay, you can start the pot." ”

Even four or five people rushed up.

The two of them took the big basket, and spread a large piece of white cloth in the basket, and put it firmly on the table to support it.

The other two used a thick rag to clasp the clasp on the outside of the retort, and with a "hey", they lifted the large bucket of glutinous rice and quickly put it on the table.

When the heat dissipated a little, the retort was tilted, and two more people took a spatula to pull all the glutinous rice in the retort into the basket and fell on the white cloth.

When there was no grain of rice left in the retort, the two people carrying the retort retreated and left.

And the two people who were holding the shakki just now worked together, pulled the white cloth tightly and lifted the glutinous rice, and walked out quickly.

Chen Fan swished ahead, and Zhang Wenliang was already shouting, "Glutinous rice is here, smear oil." ”

He saw an old lady holding a small bowl with a small cloth in her hand, dipping some oil in the bowl and spreading it evenly on the inner wall of the mortar.

With Chen Fan's experience as a level 5 chef, he naturally understands that it is to prevent glutinous rice from sticking to the stone wall.

After a few brushes to coat the stone wall, the two people who had been guarding the side put the glutinous rice on the edge of the mortar and carefully poured it inside.

The damp cloth does not stick to the rice, and every grain of glutinous rice goes into the mortar.

At this moment, five strong men came with wooden sticks.

The old lady smeared a layer of oil on the head of the stick, as usual.

Then one of the men looked up and shouted, "Hit the cake!" ”

The others around the mortar raised their sticks and shouted, "Roar, roar, roar!" ”

Then the five wooden sticks were raised and touched together, and the person who immediately shouted "Hit the glutinous rice cake" was the first to hammer down and go to the glutinous rice pestle.

(Hit the glutinous ba)

Pestle and shout, "Hizole, hizole, hizole......"

The sound fell on the stick, and then the person in the clockwise direction shouted, and the stick fell.

Sometimes they will be fixed there to fight, and sometimes they will walk around the mortar in circles and fight as they go.

In this way, the cycle repeats, one stick after another, pounding the grainy glutinous rice into a paste.

If there is glutinous rice in the middle, the leading person will shout "get up".

The four sticks were pestled down together, and then they were lifted up with great force, and the glutinous rice cakes were lifted into the air, while the old lady continued to grease the stone wall.

As the glutinous rice becomes more and more sticky, the sticks are covered with glutinous rice paste, and at this time, rub the sticks with the sticks to scrape the glutinous rice off.

Those who are tired can also take the opportunity to retire and rest, and replace it with someone else.

It was beaten until a single intact glutinous rice could not be seen, and then the glutinous rice balls were lifted and placed on the oiled board next to them.

Next, it is time to make the last step of making glutinous rice cakes.

There are two ways to make glutinous cakes, one is a large glutinous cake and the other is a small glutinous cake.

The big one is a large cake with a diameter of about 40 to 50 centimeters and a thickness of about 7 or 8 centimeters, while the small one is a palm-sized cake with a thickness of only two centimeters or even thinner.

After spreading, grease the surface layer to prevent the glutinous rice cake from cracking.

Then it can be placed on a white cloth board to cool and solidify.

After solidification, the glutinous rice can be soaked in clean water, so that it can retain moisture and be eaten until the next summer.

Chen Fan stood by and watched, watching it very enjoyable.

Thirty or forty years later, almost all the glutinous rice has become an industrial product, glutinous rice is steamed and poured into a blender to stir into a paste, and at the same time a variety of additives to extend the shelf life are added to it, and then cut by the machine, mold pressed into shape, and then enter the cold storage to freeze and solidify, and then cut, package, and out of the warehouse.

The front end is to sell more than a dozen mobile phones, wearing national costumes or old-fashioned clothes "new agricultural anchors" in the live broadcast room.

"Our glutinous rice cakes are all made by hand, which is very time-consuming and labor-intensive, and there are no additives ......"

Just like the "master tea", you can make several tons a day by hand.

After beating one pot and another pot, after beating the two pots of glutinous rice cakes, there was still a ball of glutinous rice paste that was useless, but was kneaded into a small ball the size of a fist and distributed to everyone to eat.

The particular ones are served in a small bowl and tasted slowly with chopsticks.

But more of them are eaten directly in the hand, and there are also side dishes such as grandmother's dishes, fried diced pork with pepper, pickled radish, and sauerkraut.

Chen Fan's way of eating is different, he spreads out the glutinous rice balls, piles these small vegetables in the middle, then wraps them up, and then takes a bite, the satisfaction is another taste like eating a big meal.

When Zhang Wenliang saw his appearance, he couldn't help laughing, "Are you eating steamed buns?" ”

Chen Fan laughed, "But the taste is really good, why don't you try it?" ”

Zhang Wenliang also followed his example, glutinous rice dumplings and cabbage, and when he took a bite, he immediately smiled.

Seeing their way of eating, everyone couldn't help laughing, but they couldn't help but learn.

At this time, a person walked into the house and said loudly, "Lao Jiu, the pig killer is here, come over and entertain." ”

The brothers of the Zhang family immediately went out, and at the same time did not forget to eat the glutinous rice cake in three or two bites.

Chen Fan also waved hello to the old man and woman of the Zhang family, and walked behind them.

They were not far away, and they arrived at Zhang Laojiu's house after a while.

There are so many people in the Zhang family, and there is not much difference in age, naturally they are not brothers, but cousins, and there may be three or four people of the same age, so Zhang Laojiu looks a few years younger than Zhang Wenliang.

Today's pig killing master is not Master Zhu, but his two apprentices, without the master present, these two disciples who have already graduated from the master also got up, sitting on the chair calmly, drinking tea and smoking, and greeting the Zhang brothers.

When they saw Chen Fan, their eyes lit up, and one of them smiled and said, "Master Chen, my master is still waiting for you to come over." ”

Chen Fan then remembered.

That's right, Master Zhu asked him to drink together at noon today, but he promised Zhang Wenliang to help cook a few dishes, so what?

Zhang Wenliang also reacted, leaned over to Chen Fan and whispered, "If you have made an appointment with Master Zhu, then go over first." ”

Chen Fan smiled bitterly embarrassedly, "There have been too many things in the past two days, and I forgot about them all at once." ”

After a pause, he said again, "It's okay, it's only more than 8 o'clock now, anyway, it's very fast to kill the pigs, wait for the pigs to be killed, I'll get them ready and then it's not too late." ”

(End of chapter)