The origin of the Youth League should start from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. At that time, there was a general named Li Xiucheng, who was besieged by Qing soldiers. At that time, a farmer helped him and dressed him as a farmer. But because no one was caught, the Qing soldiers were very angry, so they strengthened their sentries in the village. Anyone who leaves the village has to be inspected, and can't bring anything to eat, just because he is worried that he will secretly deliver food to Li Xiucheng.
When the farmer came home, he didn't find anything to eat. He just saw the leaves of wormwood on the ground and thought of mixing wormwood with glutinous rice to make rice cakes. The green ball was hidden in the grass, and the soldiers didn't find it at all, so they brought food to Li Xiucheng smoothly. Later, when Li Xiucheng returned to the army, he began to teach soldiers to do Yong ying, which was handed down for self-protection.
Production process of Youth League: 1. First, clean the fresh Folium Artemisiae Argyi, boil a pot of boiling water, put the cleaned Folium Artemisiae Argyi in boiling water for about 2 minutes, and then take it out to dry. When the leaves of wormwood are completely cooled, you can cut them off and put them in the cooking machine. Add the right amount of water and beat them into green juice. You don't have to filter it if you eat it yourself after filtering.
2. Prepare a proper amount of glutinous rice. If possible, the glutinous rice cooked at home will be more fragrant. Mix glutinous rice and indica rice in half, and then grind them into fine powder with a cooking machine. Then use the green juice prepared before to make dough. The ratio of water to glutinous rice flour can be controlled by yourself, not too dry or too wet. It is easy to stick your hands when wet, and it is easy to crack when dry.
3. Divide the kneaded dough into several parts, and then knead it into small balls for later use.
4, prepare stuffing, like sweet mouth can choose bean paste or sesame stuffing, like salty mouth can prepare salted egg yolk, floss, pickles or bacon. You can decide according to your own taste.
5. The stuffing is the same as usual in jiaozi, as long as the stuffing can be firmly wrapped in the dough.
6. Put the wrapped dough neatly into the steamer, and each green ball needs to be separated by a certain distance, because the green ball may expand after being heated, and it is easy to stick if it is too close, and it is easy to break when it is separated, which affects the aesthetic feeling.
7. There will be some moisture on the surface of the green ball. If you want to make the color of the green ball look better, you can brush a little oil on the surface of the green ball, so that the green ball will be shiny, look particularly good, and taste more moist and soft.