The introduction of a second-grade elementary school student's writing about the Qingming Festival is as follows: "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die. May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village." This is the Qingming Festival in the eyes of Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.
It is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation to visit and sweep graves during the Qingming Festival to pay homage to deceased relatives.
The Qingming Festival is coming soon, and a delicacy known to every household in Wenzhou is Qingming cake.
Today my team members and I came to Wencheng Vegetable Store to learn how to make Qingming pancakes.
As soon as we arrived at the store, we saw our aunt preparing ingredients for us. We asked curiously: "Auntie, what are these?" The aunt said patiently: "These are the ingredients for making Qingming cakes. The main ingredient of Qingming cakes is glutinous rice."
Rice noodles, cotton sprouts, flour, water, salt and grapefruit leaves. The fillings are: bamboo shoots, dried tofu, pork, green onions and carrots. "Why do you need so many ingredients?" I was a little surprised.
The aunt smiled and said to us: "It tastes delicious when made this way! Children, hurry up and wash your hands. I will teach you how to make Qingming cakes later." We followed the aunt's example, first took a small piece of dough and rolled it into a round shape.
Then press down on the center of the dough with your thumb to shape the dough into a bowl.
Then use a spoon to scoop a little meat filling into a "small bowl", and then seal the dough to wrap the meat filling.
Finally, roll the dough into a ball and place it on the grapefruit leaves.
Sure enough, there is strength in numbers, and within a short time, we had made a steamer full of strange-shaped Qingming cakes.
Auntie picked up a basket of Qingming cakes and steamed them in the pot.
Through the glass pot lid, I noticed that the color of the Qingming cake changed from light to dark.
After 5 minutes, the Qingming cake will be cooked. When you open the lid of the pot, the aroma will come out.
I excitedly picked up the Qingming cake and took a bite: "It's so delicious. Is this really made by me?" At this time, I realized that my black clothes had turned into a "white coat". It turned out that I was doing Qingming just now.
When making the bread, the flour stuck to the clothes.