What's the grey water dumpling
Grey water dumpling is a famous local snacks in Guangxi, Guangdong and Fujian. The Dragon Boat Festival is the most popular every year, because the grey water dumplings are golden in color, crystal clear and transparent, suitable for cold eating, and can be used as cool and thirst-quenching food in summer. Grey water dumplings are also divided into sweet and salty. Salted rice dumplings are filled with sesame seeds, peanuts and pork. However, sweet zongzi has no stuffing and is softer than salty zongzi. It is eaten with honey and yellow sugar.
What plants are used for grey water dumplings
Mosquito scare is the name of a plant called by local people. Zhong Jianmei pointed to a plant with small white flowers and serrated leaves outside the yard and told reporters that it was a plant commonly known as "mosquito scare" by the villagers. According to Zhong Jianmei's memory, this kind of plant used to be everywhere, and it has many uses, but now it is becoming less and less, and it can only be picked in remote places. Some villagers have started picking mosquitoes and burning ashes since Tomb-Sweeping Day in order to ensure that there are mosquitoes and ashes.
How to make grey water of grey water dumplings
There is a local saying that one liter of ash is one liter of rice. In other words, with one liter of mosquito-shocked ash, one liter of glutinous rice can be soaked to make ash dumplings. It takes about 3 kilograms of mosquito alarm to burn one liter of mosquito alarm ash. This year, Zhong Jianmei used about 3 kilograms of fresh mosquitoes to make grey water dumplings. The specific method is to take off the mosquito scare, put it in a big iron pot, mix the dried banana leaves and straw and burn them together. After burning, you have to wait for one day for the ash to settle down. This is the so-called mosquito scare ash.
After "Mosquito Surprise" is burned to ashes, all the ashes should be collected and put into cloth bags, boiled in water for several times, filtered off the ashes, and then left to stand. After the impurities in the ashes settle down, the remaining ashes can be used to soak glutinous rice.