I don't like porridge. When I was a child, I was forced to drink porridge when I was sick. Therefore, I am very afraid of getting sick. Usually breakfast is always biscuits, fried dough sticks, steamed buns and steamed buns, and it is not enough to choke on non-dry things. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, I was a guest outside and occasionally lived with my friends. Breakfast is a pot of porridge and four-color dishes. Let's share it. A small piece of tofu pudding was isolated in the center of the plate, a handful of peanuts were scattered on the plate, a fried dough stick was chopped into many pieces and piled up in a hill on the plate, and a complete preserved egg was dangling in the soy sauce plate. It can't be said that it is not rich, but people who are used to choking will feel wronged, if it is not abuse.
There are exceptions. If my mother cooks a small cup of thin porridge and gives me half a bowl, I will be very happy. A thin spoon is a small casserole with a handle and a lid. It can cook two small bowls of porridge by the fire of a small white stove at most. Don't cook the leftovers, rinse them with raw rice and stew them slowly. Add enough water at a time, don't add it halfway. Don't stir, let it roll. The porridge cooked in this way is sticky and rotten, but the rice grains are complete and fragrant. It tastes good with bamboo shoots, ham and tofu.
Speaking of porridge, I can't help but think of porridge factories in the north, which are places where charities or good people give alms. Every winter, many people line up to get porridge. "Discontinuous sticky porridge" refers to people who don't even drink porridge. "Sticky" refers to thick porridge, and porridge refers to thin porridge. Drink porridge to fill your stomach temporarily, and it won't last long. Drinking porridge and chatting is not as good as drinking northwest wind.
However, we must also admit that some porridge is quite delicious. When people in the north cook porridge, they sometimes put a lot of cabbage in it. After the vegetables are rotten, sprinkle some salt and sesame oil, which has a unique taste and is called "vegetable porridge". If the porridge is cooked, wash the tender lotus leaves and spread them on the porridge, and the porridge will turn pale green, and the fragrance of lotus leaves will penetrate into the porridge, which is "lotus leaf porridge". In the past, there was a so-called porridge shop in Beiping that sold "sweet porridge" in the morning. It is a kind of thin rice soup made of broken rice, which has a special taste and is fried with special screws. This is a very chic and popular breakfast, but somehow it was eliminated. There is also the so-called barley porridge, which is a civilian food sold along the street. It had a special smell and disappeared.
The so-called "clear porridge side dish" in Taiwan Province Province's midnight snack often contains sweet potatoes, which tastes good. Small dishes are really small dishes, with meat and vegetables. Eating big fish and meat during the day is very suitable for porridge at night.
Laba porridge is a variety show of porridge. According to the "old Beijing custom", the Lama Temple in Beiping was sponsored by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to cook Laba porridge, which shocked the public. This porridge cost 100 thousand taels of silver! When it is cooked, it will be presented to the royal family first, and then to the prince and the minister respectively. It's not porridge, it's ostentation. However, the custom of cooking Laba porridge has been deeply rooted in people's hearts and has never stopped. When I was a child, drinking Laba porridge was a big deal. Just after midnight, my second uncle (my father's second uncle) began to do his homework and moved out two polished copper pots, one foot high and one foot in diameter. Then, soak whole grains in advance, such as millet, red beans, old chicken heads, coix seed, and porridge fruits, such as ginkgo, chestnuts, red dates, longan meat, etc. After boiling, stir with a large spoon with a long handle to prevent sticking to the bottom of the pot. The contents of the two pots are different, the big one is rough and the small one is detailed, depending on the number of porridge fruits. In addition, there are extra exquisite porridge fruits on another plate, such as melon seeds, almonds, raisins, red moss, pine nuts, preserves and so on. , ready to temporarily put on porridge noodles. In the morning of Laba, everyone has a big bowl, try to add brown sugar and have a good drink. Every household cooks porridge, and every household sends porridge to relatives and friends. It's really unnecessary to have a bowl of East and a bowl of West. The rest of the porridge, poured into a big green glazed earthen basin, naturally freezes and will not be bad until the end of the year. Since the funeral, Laba has been celebrated every year, and there is porridge to drink every year. Interest continues, and materials are hard to find. This is just a story.