The equipment in the rice cake store was simple. A grinder, a rice cake machine and a big stove. But the people who came to make rice cakes had a long queue, and the rice baskets were lined up from the house to the outside of the house. The rice cake on the stove is steaming hot, and from time to time, the smell of cake flowers.
Finally, it was our turn to do it. The master poured the rice into the grinder, and after two rolls, the rice became a very fine powder. Then pour the powder into the cake steam to steam, the powder steamed, into a cake flower, and then put the rice cake machine to squeeze. The extruded rice cakes are joined together, and then a pair of scissors on the machine cuts the rice cakes into pieces. Then a pair of scissors from the machine cuts the rice cake into pieces, and it becomes the rice cake that we usually eat.
I heard my father say that in the past, rice cakes were made by hand. It was very hard to put the steamed rice cakes into the pounding mortar and pound them. Therefore, often a dozen families put together to do it, very lively. To make rice cakes, it was time to celebrate the New Year. Children are especially happy, they have to go to see the fun, and sometimes you can eat a piece of rice cake dough, fragrant, very delicious. At that time, there was also a saying that whoever made more rice cakes had a good year. Making rice cakes has become a symbol of the "good year". It is no wonder that farmers nowadays have to make several big rice cakes.
Now, although the rice cake can be eaten all year round, rice cake is no longer a New Year's food. But from the rice cake store rice bucket row into a long line and come to do the rice cake people that happy look can be seen, the rural areas everywhere overflowing with "people happy years of abundance" of the peaceful atmosphere