Spring Festival hot guide Hometown specialty handmade rice crackers, homemade food for the New Year.
The older generation, such as my mother, has a natural resistance to household appliances and electronic products, and the most accepting is the rice cooker, and others such as electric pressure cookers, microwave ovens, ovens, electric baking pans, meat grinders, egg beaters, etc., do not use, mainly because they do not learn.
Today, when everyone has a smart phone, my mother still uses the old man's machine, not that I didn't buy it for her, but she said that the smart phone has no mechanical buttons, easy to make mistakes, and there is no feel, my mother hits, and the keys are very hard, as if there is a grudge against the machine.
After the new year, my mother still abides by the tradition and insists on manual operation; The main raw materials are sticky rice and glutinous rice, my mother washed it, drained the water, sat on the side of the pot and fried it with a small handful of small handfuls, 1 kg of sticky rice and 3 kg of glutinous rice were fried, and most of the day passed.
At the same time, the old friends invited by my mother used a small stone mill to grind the rice into powder, and it was seamless, my mother fried a small handful of rice, they finished grinding, and the next handful of rice was just fried until fragrant.
3 women are in one place, and several people get together, and it must be indispensable to Zhang's family, Li Jiaxiao, for example: Aunt Qin's son is almost 40 years old, and he still doesn't want to find a girlfriend, is there a problem with which orientation, otherwise, why not get close to women?
Sister Zhang's daughter is 35 years old, and she heard that she has opened a nail salon in the provincial capital, and her income is good, but she doesn't have a boyfriend yet; What's wrong with the next life now, I am not in a hurry about marriage.
Do you know why Aunt Li sold her house, Aunt Li said that she went to live with her daughter in other places, and someone took care of her when she was old; Actually, no, her baby son is a loser, plays ball on the Internet, and owes a lot of debt, and it is the real ...... to sell the house to pay off the debt
The 10,000 words are omitted here, and these gossips are really long to write.
After the fried rice is grinded, the sugar water is boiled, the mold (cake print) is ready, and there is one most important step - rubbing the flour; Pour the sugar water into the ground rice noodles, add cooked sesame seeds, fried peanuts and keep rubbing until "cooked", the judging standard is that the powder is thick and easy to knead into a ball.
I usually do this heavy work, aunts and aunts are very strong, but the strength of the hands is not good, and the hands are powerless.
The old friends were divided into two groups, one group to beat the pure rice cakes, and the other group to beat the heart cakes. Pure rice cakes are put into the mold and compacted with a stick, and then the bottom of a small spoon is rubbed in a circle against the cake, which is equivalent to a road roller, and the cake in the mold is reinforced, and the edges and corners will not be scattered when the mold is removed.
There is one more step for the sandwich cake: put half of the flour into the mold, put in the filling (cut into thin slices, marinate the fat meat with sugar), then put the powder to compact and reinforce, tap the corner of the mold, shake the cake loose, and pour it out to be the green blank.
The last step was to bake the cakes, I bought charcoal and a large iron pot, and built a large stove with bricks in the backyard; Burn the charcoal until it does not smoke, then you can bake the rice crackers, put a layer of kraft paper cake paste in the pot, drain it into the green billet in turn, cover and bake for 20-30 minutes.
The reason why the baking time is not fixed, this depends on the temperature and charcoal fire control, the charcoal is easy to paste, the charcoal is less difficult to cook, all by experience, the safer way is to try it, the mother ate a cake, think it is okay, you can get out of the pot, continue to bake a wok.
The rice crackers that are beaten now are soft and glutinous, which have been improved by my mother and partners, that is, there is more glutinous rice and less sticky rice; In the past, due to poverty, the cake belonged to people and me, which seemed luxurious, so the ratio of sticky rice and glutinous rice was the opposite of the current one, that is, 3:1, and the cake was extremely hard and could be used as a "hidden weapon".
Because you can't bite it, put the rice cracker in the palm of your hand when eating, knock it down the corner of the bench, depending on the strength of each person, the cake will be split into two halves, three or four pieces, and irregular, there are any shapes, and you should be careful when eating sharp loose cakes, you will cut your tongue.
In the past, when handmade rice cakes were prosperous, there was an industry called "cake print", which specialized in making molds; Using hard miscellaneous wood, first sawn into pieces of 3 cm thick boards, then sawn into a manuscript paper-like length, about four fingers wide blank, and then dig round holes, special-shaped holes carved patterns (dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, zodiac signs, etc.) and words, such as Wishing you prosperity, gold and jade full hall, Fu Lu Shouquan, and so on.
This work is as fine as carving a seal, with a carving knife of different sizes and lengths, a knife to carve out the pattern, and it is reversed, so that the front of the cake is vivid, and the seal is a reason.
With the development of technology, there are machines to replace everything, and now the cake printing industry is declining, and there is an 80-year-old man in our village who will do it, and because he does not make money, he is unwilling to learn art in later generations, and I am afraid that there will be no successor to this industry.