Haifeng's mouse shell turtle is filled with peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar, both sweet and salty. After it is wrapped, it doesn't need fruit printing to print the pattern. It looks like a turtle like a steamed stuffed bun, which is the origin of its name.
Rat shell marshmallows are generally eaten in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the rat shell marshmallows I want to introduce are full of annual flavor. Mouse shell quilt is also called fair printed quilt (printed peach) and sweet printed quilt (printed peach). In Haicheng, there are salted seals filled with shrimp, red beans, fried peanuts and pepper.
As a gift for the Spring Festival, the mouse-shell quilt is a custom in Wei Town. Daughters married to other towns, or relatives and friends in other towns, usually don't make mouse-shell quilts. During the Chinese New Year, the residents in the town will send more than a dozen mouse-shell quilts as gifts. If you have more at home, you can naturally send more. A few days before the Spring Festival, every household began to devote themselves to the production of mouse shell cotton wool.
I didn't know how to prepare a mouse's shell quilt before, except that two or three people stuttered for less than a minute. Besides being a gift, the family should also eat some. When I was at home during the winter vacation at school, I felt that it was very troublesome to prepare skin and stuffing (large quantity & pure manual), but it was more difficult to prepare mouse shell cotton.
Usually, the elders at home will pick the cotton from the mouse shell, remove the thick branches, wash away the soil, put it in a net bag after cooking, rub off the bitter water, and freeze the remaining "cotton wool" for use before the Chinese New Year ~
I was still at home after last year, so I went to pick mouse shell cotton with my mother. Last year, there was little rain, and the grass of the mouse shell didn't grow too luxuriantly, so it was very difficult to pick it up. As far as I am concerned, the first time I picked it, I picked more than a catty in two or three hours. My mother said I could make seven or eight seals with these.
It's not uncommon that I can eat the mouse shell cotton shrine every New Year. I only know that I like sweets, but after picking shrews, eating Indian shrines feels particularly delicious ~
Delicious mouse shell quilts, covers and fillings are very particular. The ratio of rat skin cotton, glutinous rice flour and water is wrong, and the insufficient strength of dough will affect the taste of skin. In the past, only black sesame seeds and sugar were used as fillings. People who have a good grasp of the ratio and steaming time can make sweet seals look like Explosicum.
The stuffing of mouse shell quilt is mainly made of black sesame and white sugar. Some people will add diced melon, or taro (also mashed taro) and lard chopped green onion (the onion here is not onion, but garlic-like red onion), or coconut, or invent some stuffing that has not been made before, but these are later stories. Last month, my aunt's family tried to add salty stuffing to the skin of the mouse shell quilt. Needless to say, eating it is really great.
Black sesame seeds are also washed in advance, dried and stored for later use. When in use, black sesame seeds and white sugar are fried together. You can't stir it too badly, so it doesn't taste chewy, and you can't stir it too grainy, so the fragrance won't evaporate fully. After black sesame is crushed separately, its fragrance can only be smelled, but not tasted. When it is crushed together with white sugar, it is a perfect match, which not only smells delicious, but also tastes great.
Lard chopped green onion, mainly using its fragrance, adults often say that the smell of rat shell cotton depends on chopped green onion. A lot of red onions covered with mud, washed and chopped (the blender frees your hands! Also prevent spicy eyes! ) chopped green onion is chopped green onion! Stir-fry chopped green onion and a little lard, and stir-fry chopped green onion to get oil. Now many people use peanut oil instead of lard. At this time, you should pay attention to the heat. Stir-fry must be done slowly with low fire. You can't stop when your hands are sore. If you are not careful, you should be burned. A little burnt smell will affect a whole pot of chopped green onion.
Some oil fried with lard and chopped green onion will be used to make taro paste. Taro should be steamed and glued, cut into small pieces, steamed and crushed, put in a pot and fried with chopped green onion oil. The presence of chopped green onion can bring out the low-key fragrance of taro paste.
All the materials are ready, and then it's time to test the family's combat effectiveness. The family got together, and when the elders talked about the past, shrines of shell cotton of mice flashed before our eyes. The printed cocoon is round and peach-shaped, and the cut banana leaves are put on the mat and steamed in a steamer. Banana leaves can prevent cotton cocoons from sticking to the pot and hands, and can also prevent burns, and the leaves are fragrant when they are out of the pot. Slowly, in many people's homes, similar-sized pearl paper (mini barbecue paper) replaced banana leaves.
Boil the rat skin in boiling water and steam for about 15 minutes. Do not steam for too long. Too long will blur the pattern, the color of steamed cocoon will be much darker, and the pattern will still be clearly visible. Let it cool after cooking, it tastes very q-bomb. Show the steamed bun with cigarettes to the neighbors and ask, how about this year's steamed bun? Is it as delicious as last year?
The mouse-shell quilt received a heart and ate the same affection and friendship. Nowadays, in order to alleviate the homesickness of young people who work hard outside, mouse-shell quilts are not only eaten during the New Year, but also produced and sold in batches in many snack bars in their hometown. When writing this article, I happened to chat with some friends and mentioned mouse shell absorbent cotton. They said they wanted to eat cotton wool and go home.
Are you homesick at this time?