What is the name of the tool to play patty cake
The tool to play patty cake is: stone mortar [jiù] and pounding [chōng] .
1, stone mortar: is a variety of human-made stone, used to smash, pounding, grinding herbs, food and other production tools. Before the electrification of production, human grain food is mainly processed into food with this production tool. It can be said that the stone mortar is a necessity of ancient human life, the stone mortar and well is the symbol of human settlements. After mankind entered the era of electrification, the stone mortar was gradually eliminated, only in some remote areas without electrification equipment are still used. In many villages in China, the obsolete stone mortar is still well preserved, and has become an object of nostalgia for many people.
2, pounding: It means to put something in a stone mortar or milk bowl and pound it, so as to make it broken or remove the skin and shell.
How to eat patties
There are many ways to eat it. The most enjoyable way to eat, is to bake mochi mochi is placed in one of the fire pot charcoal grilled, the fire pot usually have an iron frame, no we use a fire poker as a support. It's not easy to soften the mochi, which seems to be stubborn. Roasted patties process, the most test of human temperament, anxious people can not eat.
The patties have to be put on a slightly bright charcoal fire and slowly baked, the fire can not be too big, otherwise the outer skin is scorched, the inner is hard. And you have to keep turning the sides to make it evenly heated on both sides. After the heat of the mochi is not a good deal, the blazing heat sticking to your fingers hot, hot people almost cut off the idea of eating. But when you think about how soft and sweet it is, you have to give in. Patties in the fire gas urged gradually bulging, the skin slightly bulging, like a big bun on the completion of the work. At this time the skin broken, there will be a white gas rising, visible inside the snow white, soft in the hand, the heart rises a sense of conquest. At this point you can not be too anxious, so as not to burn the mouth and tongue.
Baked patties can be sticky sugar, or sugar into the patties, and so the heat of which will dissolve the sugar into sugar water, the patties at this time in the mouth sweet and fragrant. Sugar is common white granulated sugar, if there is a clay brown sugar flakes, it would be better. If you don't like sweets, you can also wrap the mochi in bean curd milk (called moldy tofu in western Hunan) and spread it in a thin layer, which tastes great! If you have the kitchen equipment, you can also fry the patties in oil and eat them, or cut them into pieces and boil them in sweet wine, each with its own flavor.
How to heat mochi when it's cold
Usually it's steamed, but of course it can be heated in the microwave. Microwave heat, pay special attention, if the time is long, it will be like gummy candy, chewing.