"Oil tea" is not a kind of ordinary tea. In fact, it is a combination of a variety of delicious fried snacks, commonly known as "Camellia oleifera", poured with "tea" with strong hometown characteristics, collectively known as "oil tea".
? There are many kinds of raw materials for Camellia oleifera, mainly peanuts, peas, black beans, old corn kernels, shaking rice, frozen rice, flour, winter flour and so on. Use cold oil for peanuts, stir-fry them up and down with a shovel to prevent them from blackening, and the fried peanuts are fragrant and crisp. Peas and black beans should be moved quickly, and the oil is red in the pot, rising to the oil surface, and quickly picked up, fragrant and crispy with chewing heads. There are three steps to fry old corn kernels. The first step is to cook old corn kernels with water. Step two, taking out, draining and drying in the sun; The third step is frying. The fried old corn kernels are crispy and fragrant, which is loved by the elderly and children.
Ciba is steamed with glutinous rice and poured into a stone mortar. Several lean men shake it with a special wooden hammer until a cage of glutinous rice is shaken into a huge rice ball, which gives off a unique fragrance of glutinous rice. Several women knead the big rice ball into small rice balls and press them into a round cake shape, which is called "Qiba". By baking and drying, the shaking rice cake will dry and harden, which is convenient for storage. Deep-fried zanba is crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. It is delicious, but you can't eat too much because it is difficult to digest. However, it is because it is difficult to digest that it can satisfy hunger, so it is the most popular in the era of material shortage. "Frozen rice oil tea", the name is a bit difficult to understand, but it is actually the most vivid. It is to steam the glutinous rice, directly divide it into small lumps by hand, (without kneading), put it on a clean board, and after drying, it is like a grain of rice frozen together, so it is called frozen rice. After frying, the frozen rice expands and spreads like a blooming white lotus. When you bite it, it is crisp, especially refreshing, and it will quickly soften, especially suitable for the elderly and children. It is a fine product in Camellia oleifera.
Flour Ciba is similar to winter flour Ciba, except that flour is wheat flour, while winter flour is made of rice and water mill pulp, which is divided into lumps after draining, dried and packaged for later use. Winter flour Baba is sticky and slippery, which is the superior material for making sugar and oil Baba, while flour Baba is soft, fragrant and sweet, and it is also a very popular variety in camellia oleifera. Of course, the category of camellia oleifera is not limited to these kinds, but these kinds are more representative, and ordinary people will prepare them.
People in China pay great attention to the compatibility and nutrition of food. As a kind of folk food, "oil tea" is particularly particular. Camellia oleifera, as a fried food, will inevitably be a little greasy. Although eating Camellia oleifera alone can satisfy hunger, it is difficult to digest and absorb, and it is easy to get angry. Therefore, the ancestors invented "oil tea". Tea is Alpine Camellia. Pick the local Alpine Camellia, wash it, steam it, knead it and agglomerate it, sun it until it is half dry, smoke it with rice husk until it is completely dry, and put it in a small-mouth, wide-bellied basket made of fine bamboo strips for later use. When making oily tea, first prepare a pot of boiled water, then put the special tea-making iron pot (thicker) on fire and put oil in the pot. Be sure to use lard or chicken oil to avoid bubbles. Smash the old ginger, add the alpine tea and salt at the same time (or add some garlic), stir fry for a while, pour the boiling water into the pot, and pour it into boiling water for a few minutes, and the unique fragrance of oil tea will spread everywhere. The tea bowl for oily tea is also specially made, with a wide mouth, a coarse pottery, a handle (many of which are made of aluminum now) and a tea filter net made of fine bamboo strips on it. The boiled oil tea is poured into the oil tea bowl through the tea filter, and a bowl is built, which smells fragrant all over the house, refreshes the mind, tastes fragrant and slightly spicy, is oily but not greasy, and has the effects of dispelling cold and heat, quenching hunger and thirst, eliminating greasy and promoting digestion. With rich camellia snacks, it is a great beauty in the world to eat with or without soaking.
Twenty-eight years ago, Ms. Xiao Min, who was developing her career in Shunde, Guangdong Province, returned to her hometown and invited me to her home to eat "oil tea" made by her mother. Although she didn't make it, her mouth watered after seeing the pictures of oil tea she sent. Ms. Xiao said that her mother is from Jiahe, and she makes good oil tea. Every year when I come back from Shunde with my sisters, my mother always prepares a sumptuous oil tea to entertain the children. While the children are struggling outside, whenever they think of their mother, they will unconsciously think of the oil tea made by their mother. Alas, my mother, who is from Tangcun village, is also a good cook of oily tea. Unfortunately, she is no longer here. Mother's taste, only in dreams will occasionally meet. A bowl of oily tea reminds me of my mother again.
Some time ago, my friend, Mr. Lei, went to the door to chat specially, saying that he intended to market the folk food of hometown oil tea. He told me about nutrition, delicacy, feelings, dreams, etc., which made me feel the deep affection of General Lei for hometown culture and hometown food. I am honored to have such a friend with dreams and feelings, so I am very happy to agree to give him advice and create * * * *. Coincidentally, Mr. Huang, who is also homesick, always wants to introduce the best and most distinctive things in his hometown to his friends. In the area of "Chetou Wenchuang Garden" planned by him, a "street of special food" has been specially set up in order to let those villagers who travel around the world have a good place to experience the local accent, local conditions, local customs and local rhyme comprehensively. Oil tea will surely make their hometown people more homesick with its unique cultural flavor and unique taste, and make foreigners who come here prefer oil tea! Yes, only the national is the world's, and only the hometown is the best! Ms. Xiao, Mr. Lei and Mr. Huang are all successful people who came out of the countryside. Their deep attachment to oil tea, besides the delicious oil tea itself, isn't it the restless love of wanderers who are wandering outside for this land in their hometown?
Hometown oil tea makes people homesick!