Yuexi vermicelli with rice as raw material, generally with winter rice yellow grain, carefully processed into white rice, with the appropriate proportion of water, soaked for an hour before grinding, it must be milled twice: the first coarse grinding, the second fine grinding, with the appropriate addition of three thousandths of the edible alum water. In this way, the vermicelli becomes soft, tender and smooth, white with translucent.
The steamer is made of bamboo, bamboo steamer with square and round two kinds. The square steamer is used to make the vermicelli, and the steamer should be airtight and heated evenly.
Steaming noodles, first of all, the water in the steamer to boil, and then in the steamer spread a good soaked white steam cloth, steam cloth should be laid flat close to the steamer, brush on cooking oil to prevent sticking to the cloth, drop the pulp uniformly and to be thin, the fire should be fierce fire, and especially to master the fire, the fire is too little not cooked through the raw pulp is not delicious, the fire too much steaming out of the noodle skin rough and not smooth enough.
Powder skin steamed, immediately take out the peeling, so that it dissipates heat, which is what the Cantonese call powder skin, river noodles, pork intestinal noodles. Mixed with seasoning can be eaten.
The production of dry rice noodles is: after the heat is dissipated, the noodles are spread on bamboo curtains to dry, flipped once to make both sides dry evenly, and then folded and cut into strips when they are half-dry, and then taken to the sun for drying in the bale.
Two: sweet potato starch, mung bean starch, potato starch, fava bean starch and other handmade methods
1. Mixing: take the moisture content of about 45 ~ 50% of the tide of starch, about the amount of powder for about 2.5 times the amount of cold water Xu Xu added, and with a wooden stick and constantly stirring, and at the same time in the tide of starch to add three-thousandths of the alum. Alum can increase the toughness and elasticity of the skin, and there are antiseptic and hydrophobic effect, so that the product is not easy to absorb moisture and damp.
2. Molding. Powder spoon to take a little powder paste, into the spinning disk, spinning disk made of copper or white iron, about 20 centimeters in diameter, the bottom of a slightly convex shallow disk. Powder paste to join, that is, the plate floating into the pot of boiling water above, and with the hand toggle rotation, so that the powder paste by the role of centrifugal force followed by the center of the bottom of the plate to the surroundings evenly spread out, while being heated by the bottom of the plate according to the shape and size of the paste of the bottom of the plate molding. To be the center of no white spots, that is, the side of the plate that is out, placed in the water, cooling for a few moments and then take off the molding of the powdered skin in the water to cool. In the molding operation, the powder paste in the powder cylinder needs to be stirred from time to time, so that the thinning is uniform.
3. Drying. Water vermicelli skin with the acidic paste when making starch immersed in 3 to 5 minutes, you can remove some of the pigmentation and surface adhesion, and can increase the luster. If conditions can also be smoked with sulfur, so that the effect of mildew, bleaching and moth-proof will be better. After dipping or smoked sulfur water vermicelli skin, spread on the bamboo curtain with clean straw to dry, and turned once, so that both sides dry evenly. To be dried to the moisture content of 16 ~ 17%, you can collect or packaged for sale.