"Winter" means the beginning of winter, winter and spring, summer, autumn, known as the four Li, in ancient society is an important festival. Our country used to be a farming society, people who worked for a year, use the day of winter to take a rest, and reward the family for their hard work in the year. The most important activity at the beginning of winter was to "make up for the empty mouth", that is to say, on the day of the beginning of winter, people would eat a lot of nutritious and delicious food to enjoy the fruit of a year's labor. The old tradition, winter has "eat more 3 yellow 3 white, eat less 2 red", the following specific look at it.

A pumpkin round practice

1, fresh pumpkin clean, cut and remove the inside of the pumpkin seeds and the surface of the pumpkin skin, cut into thin slices.

2, cut pumpkin slices into the plate, and then add the appropriate amount of water in the steamer, put the plate with pumpkin on the steamer curtain, cover the lid, steam after the water open steam for about 20 minutes until the pumpkin is soft and rotten, you can use chopsticks to see if there is a hard core inside, there is no hard core on the steam.

3, steamed pumpkin into a large bowl, with the back of a long-handled spoon to press the pumpkin into the pumpkin puree, while pressing the side of the back and forth grinding, until the pumpkin is completely crushed into pumpkin puree, no particles on the good.

4, in the pumpkin puree add the appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour, glutinous rice flour amount according to the water content of the pumpkin, do not add too much glutinous rice flour at a time, while adding the side of the chopsticks to stir, until the pumpkin and glutinous rice flour is stirred into a ball.

5. Knead the dough with your hands, the dough is smooth and not sticky, if it is sticky, you can add the right amount of glutinous rice flour. If it is sticky, you can add some glutinous rice flour to the dough.

6. After the dough has risen, put it on the counter, take a piece of dough and organize it into a long strip.

7. Use a knife to divide the long strip of organized pumpkin dough into small, evenly sized sections.

8: Knead each small piece of dough into a smooth ball with the palms of both hands facing each other.

9, pumpkin rounds kneaded, add water to the pot to boil, then pour in the raw pumpkin rounds, cook until the pumpkin rounds are all floating when it is done.

10, the pumpkin rounds out, over a bit of cool water, and then drain the water.

11, put the right amount of brown sugar and water in a small pot, not too much water, cooked out of the brown sugar water thicker more delicious, sugar water sweetness according to personal taste.

12, put the pumpkin round into the brown sugar water, slightly cooked for a while on the color can be.

Second, the practice of baking sweet potatoes

1, choose red sweet potatoes, the shape of the best long and thin.

2, the oven 200 preheated, the sweet potato surface clean, and then placed on the top of the baking net, baking net in the middle of the oven.

3, bake for about 30 minutes, you can hear the sweet potato surface moist, gently inserted with chopsticks, can easily inserted on the cooked.

three, carrot balls practice

1, carrots cut into julienne, chopped green onion and ginger, and then mixed with carrots.

2, beat an egg, add the right amount of salt and mix well.

3. Scratch well with your hands and add a good amount of flour until the carrot filling becomes a sticky batter.

4, with the hands of the ball into a small round ball, in turn into the frying pan, medium heat frying until the color of golden brown.

A, silver ear pear soup

1, the preparation of white pear 1, silver ear half, 30 grams of lotus seeds, 10 grams of lily, 50 grams of rock sugar

2, with water to the lotus seeds and lily soaked, generally soaked for more than eight hours the best, the silver ear, I use the fresh, but you can also use the dry silver ear soaked.

3, the white pear peeled and cored, cut into pieces into the pressure cooker, and then add the soaked fungus, lily and lotus, lotus must remove the heart, otherwise it will be bitter, and finally into the 50 grams of rock sugar, add the right amount of water did not over the ingredients, the amount of rock sugar according to the amount of water and personal taste increase or decrease.

4, cook in a pressure cooker for about 40 minutes, cook until all the ingredients are soft and rotten, sheng out to cool, refrigerator chilled taste will be better.

Second, white radish soup

1, white radish washed, peeled and cut into fine threads, turnip threads try to cut a little fine, too thick will affect the taste of soup.

2, the fans into the hot water to soak soft. Do not soak too long, otherwise it will become too soft, a moment to put into the soup slightly boiled.

3, the pot into the appropriate amount of oil, put the chopped onion fried.

4, put the cut radish into the pot and stir fry until the radish is a little soft.

5, pour in water not over the radish, then add salt, soy sauce, white pepper, and then turn on the heat to boil.

6, after the water boiled into the oyster locusts and previously soaked fans, cook until the fans become soft, oyster locusts cooked can be out of the pot, the oyster locusts do not cook too long, otherwise the taste will become old.

Third, yam cake

1, with a paring knife to peel off the outer skin of the yam, yam skin mucus may lead to skin allergies, cleaning yam can wear a glove.

2, cleaned, placed on the board, cut into thin slices.

3, cut and spread into the plate, and then put into the steamer, cover the lid, open the fire steamed. After steaming, take the plate out, pour the yam slices into a large bowl, and use a spoon to press into the yam puree.

4. Pour in 50 grams of milk and stir with a spoon until there are no large particles.

5. Add 30 grams of sugar, 50 grams of flour, 3 grams of yeast, and stir into a floury consistency.

6, and then slowly add glutinous rice flour, hand kneaded into a smooth dough, glutinous rice flour dosage is only a reference, because the size of the yam and steamed water content is different, you can increase or decrease the glutinous rice flour, as long as the final can be kneaded into a smooth non-sticky dough on the line. The yam dough was put aside to rest for about 20 minutes, without waiting until fully risen.

7: Place the dough on a lightly floured board and divide it into two equal portions. Knead one portion of the dough into a long strip and cut it into even-sized pieces with a knife.

8: Pick up one of the pieces, use both hands to round it up, wrap it in cheese, pinch it tightly and round it up again.

9, with a tiger's mouth gently pressed flat, do not be too hard, or the filling will burst out.

10, pan brush a small amount of oil, in order to arrange the packaged yam cheese cake, low heat cooking until the bottom side of the color, gently turn over a side, and then use a small fire cooking until the other side also changed color.

After winter, the weather is getting colder and colder, this time to eat less 2 kinds of red food, the first is red beans, red beans have the role of heat diuretic, for the cold and dry weather, is not suitable. The second is watermelon, watermelon is used in summer to relieve the heat of the food, water content, although very high, but is not suitable for cold weather.