When I was a child, I ate delicious pastries such as dates soaked in oil.

Oil-soaked dates originated in Wenzhou and are a type of Wenzhou delicacy, but now they have become a popular pastry delicacy across the country. People who don't know may think it's a kind of date soaked in oil when they hear the name. In fact, it's not. It's a pastry made of glutinous rice mixed with white or brown sugar, sesame, peanuts, etc.

In the past, dates soaked in oil were usually used to entertain guests at weddings or other happy events. For example, when I was a child, I usually ate dates soaked in oil during the Chinese New Year, because my parents would eat them before the Chinese New Year. I bought a big pack of dates soaked in oil and used it to entertain guests and eat with my family on New Year’s Eve or during the Spring Festival. In the 1990s, when the economy was not very developed, having such a plate of dates soaked in oil during the Chinese New Year was a blessing to us children. It’s a very happy thing! Of course, dates soaked in oil have now become a very common pastry, which cannot be compared with other brands of pastries, but for us born in the 1990s, it is still a unique taste of childhood!

The following is how to make dates soaked in oil: In the first step, mix glutinous rice flour and rice flour with water in a certain proportion, knead the glutinous rice flour into a ball, and knead the glutinous rice flour ball into a thin ball. Strips or round shapes like glutinous rice balls; in the second step, pour an appropriate amount of oil into the pot and heat the oil. In order to make the oil-soaked dates more fragrant, you can choose peanut oil or tea seed oil. ; The third step, then put the glutinous rice flour balls or glutinous rice noodles into the hot oil and fry until both sides are golden brown. If you find that the glutinous rice balls stick together, you can add a little water, so that they can be fried. Separate them; in the fourth step, add an appropriate amount of crushed peanuts or sesame seeds to the fried glutinous rice balls. If you like sweets, you can also sprinkle an appropriate amount of brown sugar powder or white sugar powder, and then lightly stir-fry a few times. Just take it out of the pot.

Did you eat dates soaked in oil when you were a child, or did you eat other delicious foods? Feel free to share your childhood delicacies in the comment area below!