Cleaning by the stream, "lan Qing" in the cauldron, drying pine flowers, and boiling the soybean and sesame stuffing with golden balls … all the processes are especially happy in the warm spring breeze and sunshine.
In order to leave this beautiful tradition, during the Qingming holiday this year, I used "Little Black" to record the process of making a mashing youth group at my mother-in-law's house. Folks, I don't care about the right to portrait!
I haven't photographed the process of treating "Ai", but I know a little about it. Boil it in a large pot, add about half a piece of edible alkali, take it out and dry it in about 10 minutes. Other processes are roughly as follows:
Basic practice 1. Pretreatment
Glutinous rice needs to be soaked for a day; Green wormwood is repeatedly cleaned and boiled in water. Generally, half a piece of edible alkali is added to a large pot. After a few minutes, the green wormwood turns dark and is taken out. It usually takes several hours to dry it to 70%.
Second, steamed glutinous rice
The way of steaming is the same as making rice cakes, which are packed in wooden barrels and steamed over high fire for about 20 minutes.
Third, strike
Up to now, the locals still use hand-made methods, such as stone mortar and big wooden hammer, several strong men beating them in turn, and at the same time, another person keeps turning over the glutinous rice balls added to Qingai. The whole process is steaming, and it takes 20 minutes.
Fourth, cut pieces of pine flowers
The pine flowers here play a role similar to the flour sprinkled during the interview.
Put the beaten green balls on a table covered with pine flowers, slowly roll them flat, and quickly cut them into squares or diamonds. This has become the "numbness" of Ningbo's population. Generally, the finished product is 10 cm square, with a thickness of one centimeter, and the taste is slightly salty or sweet, which varies from place to place.
Fifth, from the hemp to the golden ball, the golden ball is actually a hemp with stuffing. The stuffing is mainly made of flour ground from fried soybeans, sesame powder and brown sugar, and some stuffing with bean paste is also used. The last step of the Youth League is similar to moon cakes, with special carved molds of different sizes and colors. Six, production skills
Summarized in six words: a pack of two presses and three knocks.