Among the Spring Festival customs in our hometown, in addition to posting Spring Festival couplets and buying new year's goods, making dumplings together is the one that impressed me most. The following is the "Hometown Customs Essay on Making Dumplings in 600 Words" compiled by me for your reference only. You are welcome to read it. A 600-word essay on hometown customs: making dumplings (1)

It’s Chinese New Year! It’s Chinese New Year! Every year on New Year's Eve, my family and I watch the Spring Festival Gala and make our masterpiece - dumplings.

Every afternoon on this day, my mother will prepare dumpling fillings in advance, and there are many kinds of dumpling fillings: meat fillings, leek and egg fillings, and tofu fillings. There are so many. So rich! I can't help but drool every time. It was so fragrant that the whole room was filled with fragrance.

We will start to show off our skills soon, because this is my first time making dumplings, and I don’t know how to make them. I studied with my mother and watched it for a long time, but I was confused and couldn't figure it out. I said disappointedly: "It's too difficult to make dumplings. I can't learn it at all"! This time, my mother started to teach me step by step, and I followed her step by step. However, the shape of the dumplings made in the end was so ugly that even I couldn't bear to look at it. I felt that I really didn’t have the talent to make dumplings, so I gave up studying.

But it’s not okay to just sit here and do nothing. I had an idea: Since I don’t know how to make stuffing, I can help them fill the stuffing. I started my work in a hurry. Time passed by minute by second, and our progress was a little slow. I thought for a while and said: "How about we have a dumpling-making competition. The person who makes the fewest dumplings can only eat half of others. Of course, this does not include I'm included, because I don't know how to make dumplings at all." As soon as I gave the order, my mother, aunt, and father immediately started making dumplings, for fear that they would be the last.

Time is coming soon, start counting down, five, four, three, two, one time is up. I started counting dumplings. The final results were: twenty-four for mom, twenty for aunt, and fifteen for dad, so dad lost in the end because he ate the least dumplings.

After the competition just now, we happened to have finished making dumplings. My mother put the dumplings in the pot, and they were playing around in the pot, but no matter what, their final destination was my belly. Although I am not good at making dumplings, I am very good at eating dumplings. Dad was really miserable this time. I felt sad for him. Who made him lose the game? Why! After eating the dumplings, our family sat in front of the TV and watched the Spring Festival Gala. Have a wonderful new year.

My task of making dumplings failed this year, but I must learn to make dumplings next year. Making dumplings is also a Chinese New Year custom! A 600-word essay on the customs of my hometown: Making Dumplings (2)

Every Spring Festival, I go back to my grandma’s house.

When you open the door, you can see a thick pile of white and tender dough, a large bowl of fragrant meat fillings, and a grandma sitting at the table making dumplings with a kind face. This is my deepest memory of spending the Spring Festival in Chongming.

When I was a child, I learned to make dumplings from my grandmother. But as soon as the dumplings were cooked, the dumplings I made "disappeared": the dough fell apart and the fillings escaped. I don’t know how many times everyone laughed about this.

But I still like to make dumplings, not for anything else, just to enjoy the warmth of home.

Making dumplings is neither difficult nor easy. Preparing the dough and fillings is an extremely important process. Prepare the stuffing first, chop the vegetable stuffing and meat stuffing, then stir them, finally add an appropriate amount of seasoning and let it sit for use.

The next step is to prepare the dough. First add an appropriate amount of warm water to the flour, then stir and knead repeatedly until it reaches the desired consistency. This step is a test of one's experience because it is very time-consuming and labor-intensive. Then knead the dough into small dough balls the size of glutinous rice balls, and then use a rolling pin to roll them into pieces of dumpling wrappers.

Since this process is very complex and extremely energy-consuming and time-consuming, in order to save time, we usually choose to buy ready-made dumpling wrappers from the market. Despite this, I still yearn for the whole family to work happily and make dumplings together, because that way I can feel the warmth and warmth of home.

Making dumplings is relatively simple. Just lift a piece of dumpling wrapper, put the stuffing on the wrapper, close it, press it, pinch it, and a small and exquisite dumpling is completed.

“Let’s make the dumplings!” As grandma shouted, dozens of dumplings jumped out of the pot one after another. Look! They are jumping around in the pot! I was about to stretch my neck further to see what was going on, but the water droplets splashed out playfully. Grandma quickly blocked me back and said, "Be careful, good boy, don't get burned!"

"Here comes the dumplings!" With another shout from grandma, bowls of steaming dumplings were brought to the table one after another, each bowl filled with warmth.

Outside the window, firecrackers sounded one after another. At this moment of family reunion, I truly understood the connotation of dumplings - reunion.

I always think: In fact, what we pack in is not only dumpling fillings, but also our desire for reunion and yearning for a better life.