1, prepare materials.
2, glutinous rice soaked in water for more than 4 hours, waiting for standby.
3. Dry-clean grapes, cut dates and wait for spare.
4. Take a bowl and cover it with plastic wrap. Put dates, raisins and medlar at the bottom.
5. Steam the soaked glutinous rice in a steamer.
6. Steamed glutinous rice, add sugar while it is hot, and mix well.
7. Put a layer of glutinous rice at the bottom of the paved bowl.
8. Add red bean sauce.
9. Put the glutinous rice on it and flatten it. The eight-treasure rice with all the colors and flavors is ready. You can make more at a time, freeze it in the refrigerator and reheat it when you eat it.
Babao rice is a traditional place of Han nationality. This is the eating custom of Laba Festival. It is very popular all over the country, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. The recipes are basically the same everywhere.
Steamed with glutinous rice, added with sugar, oil, osmanthus, etc. , pour into a container filled with red dates, coix seed, lotus seeds, longan and other fruits. Steamed and marinated with sugar. Sweetness is a festive and hospitable delicacy.
Folk believe that Babao rice originated from the ancient Babao map and was also used in encyclopedias. Jujube eight-treasure rice is made by mixing steamed glutinous rice with sugar and lard, adding fruit materials such as lotus seeds, red dates, candied fruits, longan meat, candied fruits, honeydew melons, coix seed and melon seeds, and sprinkling red, green and shredded plums.
Color, fragrance and meaning are all good: the lotus seeds in the babao picture are transformed from harmony and harmony, symbolizing the harmony and beauty of marriage; Longyuan symbolizes reunion; Kumquat symbolizes auspiciousness; Jujube symbolizes your son's premature birth; Peaches and honeydew melons symbolize sweetness; Coix seed changed from crane to longevity, elegance and purity.
Guazi kernel is a variant of drum plate, symbolizing a regular, safe and disaster-free life. Hongmei and Longmen are the same color, which means encouraging progress and wishing success. Plums symbolize longevity.
Later, the ingredients of the eight-treasure rice became simpler and simpler, and candied fruits of various colors were used instead of kumquat, peach, honeydew melon, red plum and shredded green plum. Later, sweet-scented osmanthus and other spices were added, meaning "happiness from now on".