Author: Fan Shuncheng (silly sheep).
If you raise your fingers and count them, what kind of food does Anyang have?At the top of the list is definitely flat cabbage. This is followed by steamed skin residue, braised pork, rice with flour pulp, and so on. It's cold, and I don't want to get up in the morning when I lie in the warm bed. Holding up his fingers and thinking about good things, his mouth was drooling, and he was thinking about these delicacies in his heart. It's also a spiritual treat!
I didn't want to look out the window, It's snowing, it's snowing!Everywhere is snow-white. A few days ago, the weather forecast said that there would be two snowfalls in a row, and it was true. The weather forecast also says that the next few days will be the coldest in more than two decades. The minimum temperature will reach eighteen to twenty degrees. How can you go out in such a cold weather?It's better to stay in the bed and look at your phone, let your wife cook the food, and let's just wait and enjoy.
As soon as it was nine cold days in this winter, my wife bought mutton, ate mutton, and drank mutton soup. Mutton is a good thing to keep warm, prepare all kinds of ingredients, plug in the power to burn the pot, the family sits together, watches TV, eats meat and drinks mutton soup, it can be described as happy and warm. However, drinking this mutton soup, I always feel that something is missing. The smell of lamb fills the house, and the flavors of various ingredients are all available. What's missing?
After pondering for a while, I finally remembered that there was no taste of "fried rice soup"!
Speaking of this "fried rice soup", most young people may not know it. What kind of food is this?People from other places may not know that this is a special food made by Anyang people to keep warm from the cold: it is called "fried rice soup".
Before the 80s, in winter, Anyang people had to drink a "fried rice soup" almost every few days. Especially on the coldest day, drinking "fried rice soup" is a must.
If I want to say that the fried rice soup is the most delicious, it must be my mother. Because I drank "fried rice soup" at night, my body was still warm the next morning. Not only is it warm, but the air in the whole room and even in the courtyard is still filled with the smell of "fried rice soup". The smell of fried rice, ginger soup, chopped green onions, and sesame oil has been wafting for a long time.
In addition to drinking "fried rice soup" at night. My family also drank a lot in the middle of the night. Because my father was a handlebar type famous for the production team. On a cold winter night, he had to set up a carriage and go to the Wangjialing Coal Mine or the Gangziyao Coal Mine in Xishan to pull coal for the production team. Before the set-up, his mother always had to make him a few bowls of "fried rice soup". When my father was still asleep, my mother had quietly turned on the coal fire, put it in a wok, added a few handfuls of millet, and kept stir-frying it with a stirring board. When the moisture in the millet has dried and the millet is fried until it is crispy and yellow-brown, add boiling water and ginger slices. Taking advantage of the time when the ginger slices and millet were boiling in the pot, my mother quickly mixed and rolled the dough. When the noodles are rolled out, the ginger soup is almost ready. At this time, the mother woke up the father. While my father was dressing, the noodles were already cooked. At this time, the mother put some cabbage leaves or spinach leaves in the pot. Stop, remove the pot from the heat, take a spoon, put half a spoon of peanut oil in it, heat it on the coal fire, and when the peanut oil is about to boil, the mother grabs the green onion that has been prepared with her other hand, and puts the spoon and green onion on the noodle soup with both hands at the same time, one after the other, almost at the same time. At the moment when the bottom of the spoon was slightly next to the fried rice soup, the chopped green onion had already been put into the spoon. With the sound of "sneering", followed by the fragrance of scallion oil. Stop for a few more seconds and slowly pour the scallion oil over the surface of the "fried rice soup". Finally, add salt, small grinding sesame oil, and chopped coriander in turn. At this point, a pot of fragrant, fried rice and fragrant ginger soup noodles is complete.
The highlight of this pot of "fried rice soup" lies in the generation of scallion oil, in the oil temperature of the half spoon of peanut oil, and in the simultaneous explosion of the oil and green onions. Of course, the groundwork must also be done well, if you accidentally fry the millet, then, this pot of delicious food will not exist.
The hot, fragrant "fried rice soup" is ready, with the green onion pan and large oil cake that has been baked with a big iron pan, and the father ** enjoys it deliciously. He likes to add a little vinegar and a little chili oil to the bowl, and he is already sweating profusely when he eats. In the second half of the night, or perhaps the whole day after dawn, my father relied on these two bowls of "fried rice soup" and the dry food he brought with him to ward off the cold weather. Because there are so many coal pulls on the coal mine, sometimes you have to queue up all day before it can be loaded into the car after dark.
My father set off in a wagon. Mother deliberately made a few extra bowls, and she woke up the sisters one by one. Let's each drink a bowl of "fried rice soup" before going to sleep. Sometimes she doesn't have to drink it herself, but she always thinks about us. Let's drink it vigorously. In fact, there is no need to call it, the tangy fragrance just now has already stimulated our sense of smell and woke us up.
The next day, when I had an occasional hiccup at school, the rich aroma of "fried rice soup" came out of my mouth, and the students sitting next to me would say, "You drank "fried rice soup" again last night!
Seventy-four stories of the Rural Memories series.
Mother's Fried Rice Soup" ends.
on December 19, 2023.