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- Chapter 270: Beating Rice Cake [Please vote for recommendation]
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Twenty-eight, make glutinous rice cakes. Speaking of the origin of making glutinous rice cakes, it can be traced back to the Warring States Period. Wu Zixu, a minister of Chu State, defected to Wu State to avenge his father and wanted to borrow troops from Wu State to attack Chu State. He came to the State of Wu to help King Helu of Wu stabilize his position and became a meritorious minister of the State of Wu. Soon, he realized his ambition and led the Wu soldiers to conquer Yingdu, the capital of the Chu state, and exhumed the tomb of the King of Chu and whipped his corpse to avenge him. After that, Wu Zixu was granted the title of Shendi.
Once, King Wu ordered Wu Zixu to build the famous "Helu City" to prevent invasion. After the city was built, King Wu was very happy, but Wu Zixu was unhappy.
Wu Zixu knew that he had many grudges and was afraid that some people would not be able to tolerate him in the future. After returning to the camp, he said to his cronies, "Your Majesty, if you are happy and forget your worries, you will not end well. After my death, if the country is in trouble and the people are hungry, you can dig three feet under the Xiangmen City to find food to satisfy your hunger." food too.¡±
After Helu's son Fucha succeeded to the throne, he refused Wu Zixu's advice many times and actually believed the slander, causing Wu Zixu to commit suicide. As Wu Zixu expected, shortly after his death, Gou Jian of the State of Yue took the opportunity to raise his troops to attack Wu and surrounded the capital of the State of Wu.
At that time, it was the end of the year, the weather was freezing, the people in the city were starving, and people died of hunger all over the country. The country of Wu was indeed in danger. At this time of crisis, people remembered Wu Zixu's instructions during his lifetime and secretly demolished the city wall and dug the ground. People were surprised to find that the city foundation was made of bricks made of cooked glutinous rice.
It turns out that when Wu Zixu was building the city, he steamed a large amount of glutinous rice, pressed it into bricks and let it cool, then used it as the cornerstone of the city wall to prepare for shortages.
People can¡¯t help but sigh, Wu Zixu is really prescient! Everyone picked up the glutinous rice bricks, smashed them, steamed them again, divided them and ate them.
Later, in the Chutian area, at the end of every good year, people would use glutinous rice to make glutinous rice cakes like the "city bricks" to commemorate Wu Zixu. To this day, glutinous rice cake is still a must-have delicacy for people all over the south before the Spring Festival every year.
There is a saying here in Shanmen Town, "Wish you New Year's greetings, New Year's greetings, and dada comes forward." The implication is that glutinous rice cakes are a must-have for visiting relatives and friends during New Year's greetings. When others come to pay New Year greetings, the host usually gives the guests some glutinous rice cakes before they leave. It is also very particular to give glutinous rice cakes as gifts. It can only be an even number, not an odd number, to show good luck. If you send 4, it means you will get rich all year round, if you send 6, it means you will have good luck in six or six years, if you send 8, it means you will have a big fortune in a row, and if you send 12, it means you will get rich every month.
Making glutinous rice cake is not difficult, but preparing it is a bit troublesome. Jiangbian didn't plan to make glutinous rice cake at first, and planned to share some with the villagers after they made it.
Unexpectedly, early in the morning of the 28th, Jiang Fengshi's family came over and asked Jiang Bian to help make glutinous rice cakes, and asked Jiang Bian to bring a few guests from the city with him.
In fact, although Jiang Fengshi¡¯s family didn¡¯t have many people, they didn¡¯t have to ask for help from Jiangbian to make glutinous rice cakes. Making glutinous rice cake is not a difficult task. All men and women in the family, old and young, can participate. Maybe any child can do better than Jiangbian.
Asking someone to help make glutinous rice cakes is actually a good opportunity for neighbors to communicate. Jiang Fengshi was able to ask Jiangbian to help. In fact, the most important thing was to show that his family valued Jiangbian.
For Yan Yuan and others who grew up in the city, glutinous rice cake is not a rare thing, but the process of making glutinous rice cake is really rare for them.
When Yan Yuan heard about making glutinous rice cakes, he immediately became excited and said, "Of course I want to go. Growing up, I have eaten a lot of glutinous rice cakes, but I have never seen how glutinous rice cakes are made."
Liu Ruxuan also smiled and said, "It's fun to make glutinous rice cakes! I've beaten glutinous rice cakes before when I played in the folk village. It's very fun. The freshly beaten glutinous rice cakes taste much better than the ones baked later."
Jiangbian smiled. Liu Ruxuan was right. Jiangbian also liked eating freshly beaten glutinous rice cakes. It¡¯s very strange. The beaten glutinous rice cake should taste similar to eating glutinous rice, but every time you eat it, you will always find that the freshly beaten glutinous rice cake always tastes different from glutinous rice. It is very unique.
Xiao Yalin was also very happy, "I have never seen making glutinous rice cakes with my own eyes. It should be very interesting."
Jiang Fengshi¡¯s family steamed a large tube of glutinous rice.
When we walked by the river, the steamer had already been untied.
"Jiangbian, you and your friends are here. Come on, come and eat the glutinous rice. Eat it while it's hot. The glutinous rice at this time is the most fragrant." Jiang Fengshi said.
The glutinous rice used to make glutinous rice cakes is first soaked in water and then steamed in a steamer. The taste of this steamed glutinous rice is completely different from that of cooked glutinous rice.
The taste and aroma of cooked glutinous rice are much different from steamed glutinous rice.
"Jiangbian pinched a ball of glutinous rice and handed it to Xiao Yalin, "Sister,??Taste it, this steamed glutinous rice is delicious and sweet. "
"Hey, Jiangbian, where are we?" Yan Yuan said.
"There are so many there, and you don't know how to get them yourself?" Jiang Bian grabbed a handful, kneaded them into a ball, and ate them with big mouthfuls.
Yan Yuan really didn¡¯t quite understand the meaning of the word ¡°sorry¡±, so he walked forward and grabbed a large handful, kneaded it into a ball, and then divided it into two parts.
"Hey, you're a man who eats so much. If there are a few more like you, we won't even need to fight these glutinous rice cakes." Jiang Bian said with a smile.
"Eat it, don't worry. I steamed more than a bucket of rice this time, and it's okay to eat a little. If it's less, I'll just steam another pot in the afternoon. Anyway, I still have a few loads of glutinous rice at home." Jiang Fengshi said with a smile.
Everyone ate some and then started preparing to make glutinous rice cakes.
When making glutinous rice cakes, you have to beat them while they are hot. If they are cold, they will not be cooked properly. In the future, there will be grains of glutinous rice in the glutinous rice cakes.
Jiang Fengshi pulled the glutinous rice into a rice basket, then carried it to the stone mortar and put the glutinous rice into the stone mortar.
Jiang Bian and Jiang Fengshi each took a wooden mallet and began to beat it. Making glutinous rice cake is not only a physical activity, but also a technical activity.
If two people cooperate well, it will be very easy to fight glutinous rice cake. But if two people don't cooperate, it becomes a chore.
The glutinous rice is very sticky. When it is not mashed at first, nothing can be seen. Once the glutinous rice is mashed, it immediately sticks into a ball. If I chase it down, the glutinous rice will immediately stick to the wooden mallet. If there is no other person, With help, it was difficult to lift the gavel again.
The two people hammer it down first, and they will immediately get into the glutinous rice paste. The other person will hammer it down, which will knock out the hammer of the one in front. After going back and forth like this for many times, all the glutinous rice in the stone mortar was smashed.
Although there was little farm work by the river, no one would ask him to hunt glutinous rice cakes in the past. But when I was a kid, I saw quite a lot of people making glutinous rice cakes at other people¡¯s houses. So after getting used to it for a while, I was able to cooperate well with Jiang Fengshi.
The two of them work well together, and it¡¯s like a beautiful melody when playing glutinous rice cakes.
"Jiangbian, looking at your posture, you are really good." Mrs. Jiang Fengshi said.
"The main thing is that Fifth Brother is a good guide! After playing two or three times, you will know how to use skill." Jiang Bian said with a smile.
Jiang Fengshi also invited Jiang Laoliu and his family to come over and help.
Jiang Laoliu looked at Jiang Bian's posture and praised, "Hey, I really didn't notice that Jiang Bian's hand is still a bit strong. I haven't seen Jiang Bian beat glutinous rice cakes before, but this posture is just like an old man's. The style is the same."
"Who is like you, a stupid donkey! As soon as Jiangbian entered the city, he was able to work as a chef in a big hotel and even appeared on TV!" Mrs. Jiang Lao Liu scolded with a smile.
Jiang Laoliu looked embarrassed, while everyone laughed. Jiang Laoliu was famously henpecked in Banshan Village. When everyone saw the couple, they thought of Lao Liu kneeling on the washboard.
Yan Yuan watched for a while and then became more energetic, "Brother, let me give it a try?"
¡°I want to try it too,¡± Liu Ruxuan said.
"Okay, I'll take a break." Jiang Fengshi immediately made room.
Jiangbian had no choice but to step aside and let Yan Yuan and Liu Ruxuan come on stage.
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The first time it happened, something went wrong.
Yan Yuan made the first move and slammed the mallet into the stone mortar. One end of the mallet sank deeply into the glutinous rice paste. Liu Ruxuan's hand was very strong, but she did not move it in the right place. The mallet hit Yan Yuan's head. On the mallet, although Yan Yuan's mallet bounced up and almost didn't fall off, the end stuck to the glutinous rice paste sank deeper, let alone separated from the glutinous rice paste ball.
The two people panicked and pulled up hard at the same time, and even pulled out the glutinous rice ball. If it weren't for Jiang Bian's sharp eyesight and quick hands, the glutinous rice ball would have fallen to the ground.
The two perpetrators then put down the gavel angrily.
Everyone laughed for a while, then Jiang Laoliu and Jiang Bian came on the stage and continued the hammering. Jiang Fengshi, his mother-in-law and several women who came to help were preparing on the other side.
There is a wooden board that has been washed and dried on the table, and it is coated with a layer of oil.
"Fifth brother, are you ready? It's almost done. It's not good if it's too bad." Jiang Laoliu said.
"Okay, okay." Jiang Feng responded.
"By the river, do you know how to do it, or why don't you come here instead?" Jiang Laoliu said.
¡°No need, you¡¯ve never eaten pork, or seen pigs running?¡± Jiang Bian said with a smile.
Two people used wooden mallets to stick the glutinous rice balls out, but there was no rice left in the stone mortar.The next little bit.
Two people carried the glutinous rice balls and quickly delivered them to the table over there. In fact, this process still requires a little skill. If you are not careful, you may drop the glutinous rice ball somewhere. This thing really happened.
Making glutinous rice cake is a very interesting thing. Put the glutinous rice paste ball on the table, dip it in oil, and knead it into a big ball. The surface becomes smooth and not too sticky.
Experienced people can squeeze the glutinous rice dough with their hands and squeeze out a ball of glutinous rice paste. Roll it on a board. After rolling it into a round shape, put it aside and press it with a template. A pattern will be printed on it. . A little bit of red on top to embellish it.
This process seems simple, but it actually requires a little skill. The glutinous rice balls made by those who are good at it are all the same size, but those who have no experience, like Yan Yuan, will make one that is as big as the others, and then half the size of the others. The shape is also weird.
Yan Yuan just pinched a few, and his hands were full of oil and glutinous rice milk. How embarrassing it is, how embarrassing it is.
Although Liu Ruxuan has experience, her results are not much better than Yan Yuan.
Although Xiao Yalin has no experience in making rice cakes, as a chef, her rice cakes are no different from those of masters such as Mrs. Jiang Fengshi. Even after making a few, the kneaded glutinous rice cakes look like those made from the same mold.
"This girl's hands are really skillful. She looks like someone who often makes glutinous rice cakes. You see, the glutinous rice cakes she makes are all poured out of the same mold. I have been making glutinous rice cakes for decades, but I can't make them so good-looking. Here comes the glutinous rice cake." Mrs. Jiang Fengshi praised.
¡°My sister is a chef, and making this dish is much more delicate than making glutinous rice cake.¡± Jiang Bian also boasted.
"Don't listen to Jiangbian's nonsense. I'm not as good at cooking as he is." Xiao Yalin said with a smile.
After making glutinous rice cakes, Jiang Fengshi wanted to keep a few people at home for dinner. This time, Jiang Bian refused without hesitation.
Because Jiang Fengshi made glutinous rice cakes in the morning, his house was in a mess, and he hadn¡¯t even started preparing breakfast yet.
Such glutinous rice cakes need a lot of space to be spread out and dried. Jiang Fengshi¡¯s family has placed glutinous rice cakes wherever they can.
"Jiangbian, I've kept you busy all morning and you haven't even eaten. Why are you so embarrassed?" Jiang Fengshi said apologetically.
"Fifth brother, what are you talking about? We didn't have breakfast anywhere. We were so full from eating glutinous rice and glutinous rice cakes." Jiang Bian said.
"Uncle Man, take some glutinous rice cakes back first. Those glutinous rice cakes haven't been dried yet, so it will be troublesome for you to take them back. When they are dry, I will ask your fifth brother to bring you some more. We have prepared them for you this time. One portion. It's rare for you to make glutinous rice cakes by yourself." Mrs. Jiang Fengshi took a red plastic bag with about ten glutinous rice cakes in it, ran over and handed it to Jiangbian.
"Then why are you so embarrassed? It's enough to eat so much here, why do you have the nerve to move it home?" Jiang Bian said.
"If you think highly of your fifth brother, you will come. If you don't, you will go back empty-handed." Jiangbian really couldn't refuse.
"Okay, I'll take it." Jiangbian quickly took it.
"That's right." Mrs. Jiang Fengshi smiled.
"Jiangbian, I like staying in the countryside more and more. People in the countryside are much more honest than people in the city. People in the city have lived in the same building for a lifetime, and may not know the names of their neighbors across the wall. But in the countryside, you see everyone is like a family." Xiao Yalin said.
"Actually, we are all one big family. Those who live in the same courtyard in the countryside must be one big family if we go back further. Besides, even if they are not relatives, they have lived together for generations, so they will naturally have contact with each other. It is different in the city , everyone lives together temporarily, maybe after a few years, things will be divided, but it is not indifferent." Jiangbian said.
"That's true. But I still think Banshan Village is quite nice." Xiao Yalin smiled.
Jiang Bian thought to himself, "That's because you haven't met anyone like Jiang Huahua."
The Spring Festival is getting closer and closer, and the atmosphere of the New Year is getting stronger and stronger.
People in the village who were working in the city slowly returned home, and the village gradually became lively.
Li Qiulai finally arrived home before the Chinese New Year, and Liu Huijun¡¯s wine shop finally had a holiday. But Liu Huijun couldn't come back. Although the wine shop is on holiday, it is still inseparable from people. Jiangbian himself stayed there, taking care of everything.
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