How to cook Qingming fruit with glutinous rice flour?
1. First, prepare the materials needed to make Qingming fruit, including 400g glutinous rice flour, 300g rice flour, 5g baking soda, 500g wormwood and appropriate amount of sugar.
2. Wash the wormwood with clear water, boil a pot of water, add a spoonful of salt to the water, put the wormwood into the boiled pot, blanch it, take it out immediately after blanching, rinse the wormwood with cold water until it is showered, and mash it with a pestle and mortar or a blender to become a paste.
3. Mix a proper amount of glutinous rice flour and rice flour with mushy grass mud, knead it evenly into dough, then steam the dough in a pot. After steaming, divide it into small pieces, round and flatten it to make a crust.
4. Prepare the stuffing you want to eat. After the skin is cooled, wrap it in the stuffing. The shape can be made according to your own preferences. Steam the wrapped Qingming fruit in the pot for about a quarter of an hour.
The meaning of Qingming Fruit means peace and health. According to legend, in Tomb-Sweeping Day at the end of Qing Dynasty and Taiping Chen during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the local people, in order to protect him, mixed green grass juice into glutinous rice flour to make food for the pursuers. After eating it, the pursuers felt very sweet and relaxed their vigilance, so that the Taiping Army could escape. Later, Li Xiucheng ordered the Taiping Army to learn to make Qingming Fruit, so there was the custom of eating Qingming Fruit in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
From the above, we know how to make Qingming fruit with glutinous rice flour. Qingming fruit is closely related to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Eating Qingming fruit is rich in diet, ceremonial and family participation. Modern Qingming fruit should be tasted early, and its function of ancestor worship is gradually weakening. Qingming fruit is more used as a seasonal snack in spring, and it can also be given to friends and relatives.