Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming, and it's time to eat wormwood again. At this time, there is plenty of rain, and wormwood grows best and is the most fragrant and tender. Made of wormwood, which is called green ball, is delicious and healthy. wormwood is warm and warms the stomach, which is good for women. In fact, when we are practicing in Huzhou, during the Qingming period, everyone prefers to eat malt cakes, which are glutinous rice cakes. In spring, Foxifraga began to grow, and the old people began to prepare to make malt cakes step by step. Grinding glutinous rice malt into powder, washing and drying Herba Foeniculi, and kneading with powder into dough. There are bean paste or soybean paste in the stuffing
In Tomb-Sweeping Day, besides the custom of offering sacrifices and walking, there is also the custom of eating wormwood green balls. Artemisia argyi is a wild vegetable in the field before and after Qingming Festival, and it is delicious and sometimes distinctive. Every year, April 5th in the solar calendar is our traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China, and Tomb-Sweeping Day not only pays homage to the martyrs, but also worships his ancestors. Its food customs and delicacies are also colorful.
In the sixth step, it begins to make stuffing, soaking 1 grams of red beans in water for several hours, then putting it into the rice cooker and adding 4 times of water to cook slowly, and simmering for a while. Wait until the red beans are cooked, add brown sugar into the pot and fry until the water is almost evaporated, and then let it cool. Hello, I'm Yao Ma who loves baking. Regarding the Youth League, I think every place has its own characteristics. We don't use wormwood to make it here, but use another kind of grass, which is called bitter grass by our elders. I checked the scientific name and it should be found in the wild in Jiangnan area!
and wash the wormwood, put water in the pot, add wormwood after the water is boiled (add some alkaline water, wormwood will be greener and look better), then boil the wormwood over high fire, then scoop it up and soak it in clean water, and then drain the water (wormwood is cooked to remove bitterness). Then put it in a cooking machine and break it. The green balls made in this way will be very smooth. If there is no cooking machine, they can only be chopped. I am from Hubei, and ours is made of sticky rice flour. The moxa is chopped into powder, mixed with sticky rice flour, and mixed with hot water. Dried tofu, minced pork noodles and lotus root diced are packed inside. I like spicy food. Add some, wrap it up and steam it, and I can eat it when cooked.