? "The first month of the poor, pounding moxa." This is a saying that my grandmother said when I was very young. As soon as these words came out, sisters and brothers with small baskets on their arms went to the field in front of the door ......
? Zhanjiang, the noon of the first month is not often see brilliant sunshine, but also not cold. Under the not-so-bright sky, the endless paddy fields are only short of rice roots, those tiny field ayahuasca grows next to the roots, they grow too small, about 10 centimeters high, thin and tiny stems, pinkish-green oval leaves, covered with downy hairs, and a bunch of tiny flowers bloom on the top of each stem.
We're going to pick that bunch of tiny flowers and bring them home to our grandma to make Tian Ai Zhen. There's nothing happier for a girl than picking flowers, and it's not so much fun to do it for half a day with no visible harvest. These flowers are not easy to pick. Grandma told me to pick only the top yellow flower, not the stems and leaves, and some of them were mixed in with the rice stalks, so I had to be careful to distinguish them. The smallest of the flowers will leak out of the hollow of the basket, and the careless child will not find it for a long time.
I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it, and I'm going to be able to do it. By the time everyone had finished picking them and was going home, mine were still so small and unseemly that they had to help me pick them with their hands and feet. It doesn't take long for the task to be completed, and I secretly laughed in my heart, "It's really the power of many, oh!"
Bring home the field of flowers, Grandma to wash it carefully, and then put into a large pot to burn firewood to cook up, cook the next day and cook again, the third day also boiled once, in the end to cook a few times I do not quite remember. I don't remember exactly how many times I had to cook it. When I was boiling Tianmaihua, my grandmother asked me to watch the fire in the stove, but I ran away to play. When I came back and saw that the fire in the stove had gone out, I was afraid of being scolded, so I hurriedly started the fire myself, but my skills were not good enough, so I was so angry that I picked up a burning stick and hit the stove hard. My mother saw, give me a good scolding: "bear like, grow up unless you jump out of the farm door, do not have to make fire cooking, or starve to death no one pity ......"
? After a few days, Grandma took the boiled Tian Ai to the rice pounding mill, pounded and rotted into a sheer fleece. Mom has also long prepared peanuts or shredded coconut, sesame seeds, sugar, leaves of pineapple honey and other ingredients. Grandpa ground the soaked glutinous rice into flour.
In the evening, a pot of warm charcoal fire was built in the kitchen, some dry firewood was spread on the ground, and a large dustpan cover was placed on top of the firewood. The first thing you need to do is to put the rice flour into the dustbin cover, the grandmother puts in the rice flour, the mother mixes the rice flour with the rice flour, makes a hole in the middle of the rice flour, and puts the boiled sugar syrup into it, mixes it up and rubs it together. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good look at this, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good look at this.
Mom got tired of rubbing it, and then my grandfather rubbed it, and the powder slowly turned into a big ball. I coldly use my index finger to poke a hole in the top of the powder, adults only focus on talking to prepare the process, let me fool around. The oldest two and the oldest three also came to poke when they looked interesting, and when they poked, the father who stood aside rolled his eyes and scolded them. They will both report that it is the sister who has led the bad head, my father will be my one down, and they both sneer in the dark.
After a while, they both stole the filling aside, sesame coconut filling or peanut sesame filling. "Little greedy cat stealing food!" I don't have a sweet tooth and report it when I get the chance, and Grandma gently slaps their hands.
? After rolling the flour skin, the family will sit around the dustpan cover of the side of the package 籺. Grandma and grandpa and my mom are good at it, they first take a small ball of powder rolled round, pressed flat, along the edge of the pinch it thin, and then add one or two spoons of filling wrapped up, and then put it in a semi-circular mold flattening, and then finally knocked, quail came out, very beautiful. The red charcoal fire reflected everyone's face, and everyone's face was filled with unspeakable happiness.
Finally, we have to put pineapple honey leaves on the buns, and then we wash our hands and roast the fire for food. The grandfather could not rest, he was responsible for steaming all the rice cakes. One or two hours later, the first pot of Tian Ai Mushi was ready. The crystalline, dark-green Tian Ai's are full of tantalizing aroma, and when you take a bite, it's very chewy, and the aroma of Tian Ai invades your heart ...... I don't like sweets, so when I eat sweet Tian Ai's, I mostly finish the surrounding skin, and then secretly throw away the filling in the middle.
? In fact, what I miss is not only eating Tian Ai quail, but also the happy scene of wrapping quail. It is the happiest time of the year to make tian ai bao, which was used to commemorate a good harvest in the old days, but later became a symbol of the Lantern Festival. That was the only time in my life that I ever participated in the making of Tian Ai Quince. When I was eight years old, my grandmother passed away, and my mother stopped making tian ai bao for us. When my grandfather was alive, he made rice cakes or fried rice piles on New Year's Day, so I could experience the happy times of my childhood. Later on, when you can buy whatever you want to eat on New Year's Day, people stopped making any traditional snacks, either because they were afraid of the trouble or because they hadn't inherited the craftsmanship of their predecessors, I don't know.
Nowadays, if you want to eat authentic Tian Ai Zhen, just go to a teahouse.
Yes, this food is a special snack in our hometown, which we call "beef mince", also known as "bok chai", a kind of "beef mince" that has nothing to do with cows. "
This is a special snack for Cenxi people from the age of 3 to 80 years old.
The "beef mince" stall can be seen everywhere in Cenxi's streets and alleys, a mobile stall that used to use coal, with an aluminum pot, or more accurately, an aluminum basin, and a shelf next to it with all kinds of vegetables, including bean sprouts, all kinds of greens, and some pre-cooked carrots, potatoes, pig lungs, and oiled tofu and ham sausages. The most delicious thing is the fried bamboo skin, put into the pot a hot can be fished up, this time the taste is the best, if you pack it, the boss will be put directly into the packing bag, with the heat of the other ingredients to the bamboo hot and soft on the good.
In fact, the pot is a pot of water, some even no salt, of course, there are some more generous bosses will use the soup to do the bottom of the pot, you want to eat what the boss will help you put the dishes scalded into the bowl, the focus to come, the snack is the most delicious, the most nostalgic, the most people think of drooling, that is, it's the chili pepper, that is, this is the essence of the snack.
The chili is made from chopped red bell peppers with garlic, soy sauce, soy sauce, cornstarch, vinegar and other seasonings, and has a normal spicy and hot and sour, of course, these are only roughly the ingredients, a lot of details that we don't know, and each owner of the chili pepper taste is different, but roughly the same.
Speaking of this cuisine, really want to drool, this is the food I ate from childhood, is a taste of my growth, now far from home, want to eat can not eat at any time, every time you go home to eat, every day to eat will not get tired, when the clip up that crispy fragrant bamboo skin, wrapped in that sour and spicy special chili sauce, a mouthful of sent to the mouth, that full of happiness, has not been able to use words to express!
Great White Rabbit milk candy, wow!
Stir-fried pork with celery and shredded squash with a bowl of rice. Whenever you eat such a meal, the memory instantly returns to a small restaurant at the foot of Mount Tai decades ago.
At that time, I was in fifth grade, there is a summer homework, is to write a composition, the title is "sunrise". I remember a few days in a row I got up early, climbed to the roof to see the sunrise, all ended in failure, frustrated breakfast, mom said, I heard to see the sunrise on the top of Mount Tai is the best, I did not expect, dad immediately agreed to take us sisters to climb Mount Tai, with mom to do the pancakes and pickled vegetables, the three of us set off the next day, take the bus to the train to arrive at the foot of Mount Tai, the red door is already late in the evening, and even we climbed to the top of the mountain, thanks to the mom to do pancakes and pickled vegetables, the three of us left the next day. Thanks to my mother's pancakes and pickles, so that we siblings in eleven or twelve years of age, we can reach the top of this five mountain peaks overnight.
The next day's sunrise was absolutely stunning, the fog was thick at the beginning, and when the fog slowly subsided, a round of red sun jumped out of the mist in front of me, and I'm afraid it was the most beautiful red sun I've ever seen in my life.
Down the mountain, dry food has been eaten, that era is not willing to buy food in the mountains, we are hungry, insisted on the bottom of the mountain, smelled the fragrance of the hotel straight drooling, Dad asked for three bowls of rice and a plate of celery fried meat, the fragrance ah, feel that I have not eaten so fragrant celery, so fragrant rice, vegetables quickly eaten up, rice is not enough, Dad for us to add another rice, vegetables can not be re-buy, the food is not enough to buy, but to buy a bag of squash. I asked for a bag of squash, and I didn't realize that squash with rice is also so fragrant. After growing up, I did countless times of celery fried meat, no longer eat out that flavorful taste.
That round of red sun, that sweet meal, that father-daughter bonding, all become unrepeatable memory.
Sansho Iman, the first time I ate Sansho Iman as a child, I can not remember how to get it, but that kind of joy is still remembered. At that time do not know how to eat with boiling water, open the bag directly to eat, eat a little at a time, even the material package is also eaten as a snack
sorghum caramel, when I was a child every time my father came home will bring a packet, and my sister and brother to share the food, a layer of glutinous rice paper on top of the soft sugar, and now my father is no longer in the world, but often think of sorghum caramel in the early childhood
As a post-85 foodie, recalling the childhood
As a 85-year-old foodie, recalling the childhood food that brings happiness, the first thing that comes to mind is the following:
1. Tigers Dry Noodles
Tigers Dry Noodles is the Tigers endorsement, there are three flavors, and so far I remember that I like to eat the chicken sauce flavor, and the other two do not remember. Eat dry noodles set Tigers card, on the wrestling card play with your buddies, but also can be made into a variety of models.
2. Jianlibao
At that time, I remembered that it was more than two dollars a bottle, quite expensive, are invited to dinner in order to rub to the Jianlibao at the table, and feel like New Year's Eve, especially good to drink, and at that time there is no Coca-Cola whatsoever. Unfortunately, I can't find any pictures of Jianlibao at that time, and Jianlibao has been bought out nowadays.
3. Wahaha fruit milk
Now there is Wahaha, but it is AD calcium milk, childhood is Wahaha fruit milk, and now remember the little girl in the ads that "Wahaha fruit milk" crisp voice and melody, is in the ads before the start of animation city, so I remember it very clearly.
4. Jumping candy
A granular in the mouth will jump the magic weapon candy, tongue itchy and fun, sometimes elementary school on the way home from school a person is bored with jumping candy, walked for half an hour did not feel the road is far.
5. Big bubble gum
When I was a kid, I liked to eat big bubble gum with my buddies to blow bubbles to play, to see who blew big, there are naughty boys will go to catch the girls blowing bubbles or intentionally poked. Bubble gum blowing bubbles is a very interesting thing in childhood.
6. Rice Cake
Downstairs for a while there will be a uncle pushing a cart to process the production of rice cake, the family to provide rice, sugar, oil, peanuts and other ingredients, the uncle is responsible for processing. This is a snack that I still enjoy eating. It just doesn't have the same atmosphere as when I was a kid with neighbors waiting in line downstairs.
7. Cola Cao
When I saw the TV commercial, a foreign boy drinking a chocolate-colored drink, licking his mouth and saying, "Cola Cao, great," I pestered my dad to buy it for me, and at that time I drank a bucket of it one after the other, which was a kind of chocolate-flavored powder that you need to drink with a rinse. It was a chocolate-flavored powder that needed to be washed down. Now that I think about it, it wasn't very nutritious, and it was probably pretty high in calories.
8. pulling sugar
The cheapest snacks of my childhood, when I only have 10 cents in my hand to buy it, 10 cents ten, sweet is a taste, colorful and very nice.
Remembering the classic snacks of childhood is quite a lot, all with childhood memories, will evoke a scene and childhood partners. These snacks I now rarely eat, occasionally go to buy a now can still buy childhood snacks to taste, full of childhood flavor, happiness!
These snacks I said you have a sense?
Yes!
Yes. When I was a child, my mother gave my grandmother two eggs to fry, I sat on the pot and watched, waiting for my mother to fry a good egg to take away, I put the egg shell on the fire to roast, and used my little hand to pick the inside of the point of the gabba to eat, the old fragrant!
And then my father gave me a lottery to win the leek-filled buns to eat! A few decades ago, the bun seller hand holding a bamboo tube, which contains some bamboo stick, he shook a shake, my father reached out to draw, and then look back at the top of the point, such as hit, will win the buns, my father tube draw, I manage to eat. At that time, the leek-filled buns inside a few small pieces of white meat, eat up especially fragrant, and now can think of the flavor of childhood, and now always eat meat back to tasteless, but also may be hours in rural areas from one year to the other can only eat a little bit of meat on New Year's Eve, right!
Dumplings at home, mom's pots of meat, dad's choking pot of noodles
In today's extremely rich material life, people generally no longer lack of clothing and food. However, in the era of material scarcity, the food that accompanied my wonderful childhood must be popcorn!
I remember when I was a child in my hometown in the countryside, whenever there is a fried popcorn master to our village, the news will always be like the wind as the first time in the village spread. At this time, the children as if the New Year's Day as excited, everyone rushed to prepare dry firewood, while busy pestering the adults at home to corn to fry popping. Then it is a group of small children across the 5-meter distance, lined up in a circle, watching the master operating the popcorn machine, with the "boom" sound, white popcorn out of the machine, filled with a large sack, the children grabbed a handful of clothes, pockets, pants pockets full of all loaded, open belly joyful eating, happy laughter. Happy smile. More popcorn is to wait for the temperature to drop with a film bag to save, stay as usual happy "snacks", the longest memory of a "snack" save time up to 19 days long.
Now in the city, whenever you pass by the place where there is popcorn, always can not help but buy a little, I think it is not only to want to eat, but more on the childhood life of a memory of it!
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