The polder day in the town is the day with the ending numbers of 3, 6 and 9. People are bustling, pouring into the town from roads leading to all directions. Walking in the alley, you will be attracted by a strong oil smell, which is emitted from stalls scattered on different streets.
Under the eaves, extending to the roadside stalls, or in the middle or corner of the road, there is a big parasol. In the shade of the tree, there are several booths set up by wooden shelves, one or two or two or three big round dustpans sit around the vendors, or the vendors simply stand on the edge and hang small stools aside. On this dustpan, there are some round shiny oil pans piled up. The big one is as big as an adult's fist, the big one is put in one dustpan, and the small one is bigger than table tennis in another dustpan. There are some uneven sesame seeds, some black sesame seeds and some white sesame seeds on the golden surface of each oil cake.
This kind of oil cake is a specialty of this town.
You can find such delicious food in town since childhood. No one can tell when such a gourmet stunner appeared and whose "masterpiece" it was. Over the years, the money for buying oil cakes has not increased much. It used to be 50 points, but now the small one is 50 points, and the big one is 1 yuan. It's still so affordable and cheap, and it tastes as good as ever. If an adult comes back from the market with some oil, the children will be extremely happy. If children or people passing by the school are hungry, they will also buy some to eat to relieve their hunger. I will buy some from you when I visit my relatives.
The oil in the town is golden yellow, with crispy skin and waxy meat, crispy and fragrant, sweet in the middle and quite chewy. People who have eaten are also full of praise.
The oil cakes in the town can be famous in all directions and eight neighbors. Naturally, they still have their own uniqueness-materials. The ingredients of oil cake are sweet potato and glutinous rice produced and sold locally in Guilin. It is said that one side of water and soil and one side of people are naturally one side of water and soil.
To make ointment, on the one hand, we must first prepare sweet potatoes and glutinous rice flour. Peel the sweet potato first, clean it, and then add water to the pot to cook it. Cook slowly until the sweet potatoes are ripe enough to be mashed. Leave it for a while, and when the cooked sweet potatoes are cold, you can catch all the cooked sweet potatoes into mashed potatoes. In addition, prepare a proper amount of glutinous rice flour, melt the lump brown sugar into syrup, and then fully stir the glutinous rice flour, mashed sweet potatoes and yellow syrup into dough. Then you can knead a small piece from the kneaded dough, put it in your palm, knead it into the size of a ball with your hands and put it on the dustpan.
On the other hand, clean the pot, pour in half the oil, set fire to the stove, and slowly boil the oil in the pot. After the oil is boiled, you just need to slowly put the round dough in the dustpan into the boiling oil pan. After a while, the round dough in the pot sizzled under the action of oil, and the oil splashed and the smell was diffuse. Soon, the color of the cake slowly changed from the initial light yellow to light yellow, and finally became golden yellow. The original thick ball also gradually became bigger and became an oil cake.
After taking out the pot, put it in another pot filled with yellow syrup and soak it for a while. After picking it up, put it in a dustpan full of fried sesame seeds and roll it around, so that sesame seeds can be oiled. Then when I got here, the oil cake became a veritable oil cake.
Friend, if you have a chance to go to a small town, you must not miss such a delicious specialty-oil cake. If you have oil cakes in your hometown, what do you do? Do you know that?/You know what? Do you know that?/You know what?
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