Several families are playing patties together, you must be worried about getting it wrong, right? Don't worry, they have their own way. They put their own glutinous rice in their own steamer, and when they finished with one family, they made the next one.
On this day, the courtyard of men, women and children are very happy, we first divided up the work: women are responsible for steaming rice, strong men are responsible for the steamed rice pounded, the elderly is responsible for the shape, as for the children, mainly to help pass things, or in the side of the "mess".
The division of labor is complete, and everyone has their own duties. Women will be soaked the first night of glutinous rice with a large steamer, and then with a ladle or basin to the steamed glutinous rice to the pestle and mortar, poured into the pestle and mortar, two Hercules each holding a pestle and mortar, you pestle and mortar, a pestle and mortar, pounding hard. After the rice is pounded into mud, the two men will finish the subsequent work - shaping and printing. It is worth noting that the glutinous rice is very sticky and will easily stick to your hands or the shelf, so you must prepare some gravy powder to prevent it from sticking. Seeing the glutinous rice pounded, a few old people hastily grabbed some gravy powder in their hands and rubbed it together, ready to make mochi. One old man kneaded the rice paste into strips like flour and divided it into small balls, and several old men hurriedly grabbed a ball each to make it. They kneaded and patted the rice paste on the shelf, and as if by magic, they turned the glutinous rice ball into a big, round mochi in a few seconds. The mochi is then handed over to the "beautician" for printing. The box in which the mochi is printed is called a print box, and the bottom of the box is carved with various designs, including flowers and birds, double happiness and the word "Fu", as well as "dragon and phoenix", which is both beautiful and auspicious. As long as the patties are placed in the print box, press the hand plate for a while, the beautiful design will be printed on the patties.
New Year's Day in the first month, other can not bring, but the patties are indispensable, the folk have circulated such a catchphrase - "New Year's Day, New Year's Day, poi on the front," meaning that New Year's Day to bring with the patties to become a tribute.
The patties are similar to rice cakes, fried and grilled. The Tujia people especially like to cut the mochi into matchbox size and put it into the sweet wine to cook and eat.
The storage method of mochi is also very simple, directly soak the mochi in water, change the water once every few days, and it will not deteriorate for many months. If you are really worried about the time too long patties will be bad, it is cut into thin slices of sun-dried, and then put in a food bag, put in the freezer, later fried to eat.
When you come to Enshi in the first month of the year, walk into the kitchen of the Tujia people, you will definitely be able to see the water tanks of every household, lying in the white patties, greedy people drool.