Although I am not an old person since I was born in the 1970s, I have entered middle age amid the tide of reform, and sometimes I miss every bit of my past life.

In my memory, although I could barely fill my stomach at that time, the staple food we ate was sweet potato flour (red summer flour) pancakes and yudou flour (corn flour) pancakes.

I almost never cook, and only eat my own pickled Mengbu Touzi (pickled radish) and Spicy Cabbage Touzi (a bulbous vegetable similar to radish).

Sometimes when there are weddings and weddings, or when the family is building a house, the most common meals they eat are fried dough sticks, leek and egg soup, and wheat flour pancakes.

The fried dough sticks were prepared for breakfast by neighbors and friends who helped, and the leftovers were used to make soup at noon (our family did not usually buy fried dough sticks at that time, because the economic conditions allowed it), and the eggs were from a few chickens raised by ourselves.

I saved it by laying eggs (my mother also boiled two eggs for me as a birthday present for my birthday, and I really couldn’t bear to eat them!). Wheat flour pancakes are also specially made. We usually eat sweet potato noodles.

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Today I will introduce to you this delicacy that I remember from my childhood, so that I can regain the taste of my childhood!

(The amount of the meal is for twenty people, the data is given by my mother) Ingredients: fifteen eggs, one kilogram of leeks, one kilogram of fried dough sticks Ingredients: three hundred grams of fat, one hundred grams of salt, one hundred grams of soy sauce

Grams, 30 pounds of water, two pounds of water-fried vermicelli, 100 grams of chopped green onion, and 30 grams of shredded ginger. Preparation: 1. Crack the eggs into a small basin and mix well. Set aside.

Pick and wash the leeks and cut into sections and set aside.

Tear the dough sticks into small pieces and set aside.

Cut the fat into cubes and set aside.

2. Rinse the large pot and let it dry. Add the pork fat and fry it out. Add the green onion and ginger to the pot. Add water to boil. Add vermicelli, soy sauce and salt. Add the fried dough sticks. With one hand, slowly pour the egg liquid into the basin from a high position.

Put it into the pot and use a spoon in one hand to turn the soup in the pot.

Add the leeks to the pot and serve.

Third, each person has a big bowl of fried dough sticks, egg and leek soup, paired with the fragrant wheat pancakes, it’s delicious!

My parents' workplace pays wages on the 8th of every month. My family usually eats mostly vegetables, and it's rare to see large amounts of meat.

On Sundays, my father would use his rationed meat tickets to queue up at the market to buy some meat, and he would buy meat with a lot of fat, because the fat meat can be boiled in oil, and the crispy oil residue can be used for stir-frying or cooking delicious dishes.

Tofu Soup.

As for the pitiful shredded pork, my mother had to save it and eat it among vegetables for several days.

When it was time to eat, my parents put those precious shreds of meat into my brother's and my bowls. They said they didn't like eating meat. Only when I grew older did I realize that they were saving it for their children.

But even so, on the 3rd and 4th of every month, our family is often out of business, and we don’t have much money to buy vegetables. The only things we have at home are dried radish and home-made bean paste.

At that time, my mother would pick a few green onions from a small open space in front of my house, wash them and chop them into pieces, then put them in a bowl, then dig out a small piece of snow-white lard, pour soy sauce and sprinkle a little

Powder white pepper with boiling water, and a large bowl of soy sauce soup for rice is ready.

We soaked the fragrant soy sauce soup in the rice and finished the meal in one bowl. We were very happy and did not feel that our life was hard at all, because almost all my classmates and friends around me were like this.

In order to prevent us from feeling poor and having an inferiority complex, my mother made up a beautiful story for this bowl of soy sauce soup.

The story tells that a rich man went to Guangzhou on a business trip, went to a famous restaurant, looked at the menu and ordered a famous dish called Qinglong White Jade Soup. The price of this dish was not cheap, but when the dish was served, the rich man was shocked because

He thought the green dragon in this dish was the Cantonese's favorite snake soup, but the waiter explained that the two green onions floating on the soy sauce soup were the green dragon, and the white jade was the lard.

The story of this expensive bowl of soy sauce soup has been deeply rooted in the hearts of my brother and me since then, because we feel that rich people spend a lot of money to go out to restaurants and eat the same as us, but we can eat delicious soy sauce soup without paying any money, which is better than that.

Rich people are much smarter, so we feel happy when we drink soy sauce soup!

This scallion soy sauce soup was a standard dish that many people had to make when they had no money to buy food in that era of extreme material scarcity. It has a distinct mark of the times and remains deeply in our minds, so much so that we now recall the 40s.

The past events from years ago are still fresh in my memory!

Now that we are getting older, sometimes when we are tired of eating meat dishes, we will make a bowl of green onion and soy sauce soup to change the taste. We just replace the meat oil with sesame oil. It feels really warm!

During the three years of natural disasters from 1961 to 1963, we used tofu residue and green onions stir-fried with some salt as vegetables, carrots and potatoes as rice, and rice porridge and dried radish as side dishes in the morning. This was considered good at the time.

Many people can't even afford this.

I remember it vividly.

Do you think I am old?

Not to mention my childhood, I went to the countryside to work in a collective household in 1974. I was only 19 years old at that time. I had no food to eat in the spring. I dipped 2 green onions in soybean paste and ate 3 large pancakes. I still earned 10 work points, and I was charged 8 cents for each work point. What do you mean?

Old or not?

The food is neither beautiful nor exquisite.

It depends on whether you need it or not.