Patty cake, a Chinese holiday custom. Popular in southern China. Guizhou, Chongqing, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Hubei, Guangxi, Shaanxi and other provinces and cities have, and to Jiangxi Ji'an, Fujian Wuyishan area is the most prevalent. It is also found in the south of Anhui Province, mainly during the Chung Yeung Festival, as a festival food for guests to savor. Patty cake is based on glutinous rice, potatoes as the main ingredients, soaked in water and then set aside in a steamer to steam, and then quickly pounded in a stone ladle until soft and pliable, while hot, the rice mud into a large or small dough, set aside sesame seeds stir-fried and ground powder mixed with sugar (or soybeans stir-fried and ground powder mixed with sugar) in the plate rolling, you can eat. The taste is sweet. Now the street vendors more pedaled tricycles to sell, rice mud with good thermal insulation performance of the special iron bucket put, shake the handle, rice mud from the round hole drilling. Whenever there is a happy event, the local people have to do brown sugar mixed with mochi to entertain the guests, in order to show good luck.
Basic introduction Chinese name :打糍粑 Geographic indications : Southern China Main time :春节过年 Type :食品制作 简介,糍粑的制作,糍粑的吃法,糍粑的流传,土家人,客家人,简介 Mochi, also known as rice cake, is made and eaten on New Year's Day, and it's a custom that has been passed down from thousands of years in rural areas before New Year's. It has a strong countryside flavor and is a popular dish among local people. It has a strong rural flavor, and making mochi has become an important preparation activity before the New Year. The patties are made by steaming glutinous rice and then punching it through special stone grooves. The patties are very laborious to make by hand, but the resulting patties are soft and delicate, and have an excellent flavor. Mochi is made from pure glutinous rice, millet, glutinous rice mixed with millet, and corn mixed with glutinous rice. In addition, sticky rice and glutinous rice are ground into powder and poured into a wooden mold with a pattern engraved on the inside, commonly known as "deppa". The making of mochi is very labor-intensive, and several people must work together to complete it. The way to eat mochi is usually grilled over charcoal, called "roasted mochi"; sliced mochi in vegetable soup, called "boiled mochi"; and stir-fried with bacon, called "fried mochi". If you make a lot of poop and can't eat it all at once, you can soak it in water in a water tank, so that it can be stored for 2 to 3 months without going bad, and then you can have poop to eat when planting rice seedlings. Some love to pay attention to the Tujia people, but also with polygonum bamboo leaves wrapped into a pair of pairs, put sesame seeds and sugar in the poop, eat sweet and fragrant, commonly known as "polygonum leaves poop". It's especially delicious, and you can even throw two pieces of it in at the bottom. The Tujia People The Tujia people have a popular custom of "making mochi" on New Year's Day. The Tujia people have a saying, "On the 28th day of the Lunar New Year, we make mochi". Whenever the Spring Festival comes, the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year, every family has to play sticky rice patties, the so-called playing sticky rice patties, according to the local local chronicles: "the system of glutinous rice on the stone groove pestle and mortar as mud, pressed into a ball shape, shaped like a full moon. The big one is about 5 feet in diameter, the unusual one is about 4 inches, ranging from 3 to 8 minutes thick." Playing sticky rice patties is a labor-intensive physical work, usually after the men to play, two people stand against each other, first kneading and then playing, even if the snow and ice days also have to sweat. Do poop is also very careful, hand sticky bee wax or tea oil, first out of the steelyard weight, after the hand or board pressure, to do a round and smooth, beautiful. Tujia people playing sticky rice patties Hakka people Hakka people generally have the habit of eating patties, whether it is usual or annual festival. Generally, they use glutinous rice flour and water to boil into a paste, then roll it into long strips with their hands, then cut it with a knife or pick it with their hands into a large grain of paste, then add white sugar (brown sugar) and peanut grains to mix and dip it in, and the mochi cake will be ready. But in Jiexi, Wuhua, Luhe, Lufeng Hakka mountainous area has another patty cake production method, called "playing patty cake". Its production process is: first steamed glutinous rice in a stone mortar, and then a large wooden stick repeatedly rammed into the mortar with force, has to be the glutinous rice pounded into a paste until. This process is often operated by several strong people in turn. Thereafter, the method is the same as that of the previous type of mochi. This type of mochi is so labor-intensive that it is called "mochi". However, it is much more delicious than the previous type of mochi, so people like to "play mochi".