My mother was an expert in the production of water and water noodles. My mother grew up in the grandmother's missionary culture, learned a lot of peasant women's handiwork. For example: spinning flowers, weaving, kneading flower buns, shoe knitting, knitting sweater, etc., among them, the production of pulp water has her unique characteristics.
Mother's production of slurry, the choice of celery, white radish, radish tassels, soybean sprouts, bitter rectangular vegetables as raw materials, the above vegetables washed, dried and chopped in boiling water into a clean ceramic pot, and then mixed into a small amount of flour in warm water or bushmeat, and then into the appropriate amount of leavening cake subfermentation, to be fermented, will be poured into the pot after fermentation, and then add a few bowls of hot noodle soup, fermentation of three or five days, the production of slurry is ready! After three to five days of fermentation, the water will be ready! In order to increase the fresh flavor of the water, sometimes put some clean celery in the basin, the effect is better.
When I was a kid, my mother used to make the noodles in the soup when the Dragon Boat Festival was over and the new wheat came down. She and the noodles, put a little lye in the flour, repeated kneading, rolling the noodles as thin as a cicada, cut into diamonds, and then boil the slurry boil chili with chopped scallions, put pepper and other condiments; half a basin of boiling water in advance of the boiler, poured into the basin; and then under the good flag flower noodles fished into the basin, poured on the slurry and bashfulness, a pot of fragrant slurry water on the dinner table.
In those days, the rural staple food was extremely scarce, eating snow-white flag flower noodles is not very often, less than one or two times a week to eat. The mother has done the soup slurry water surface of the masterpiece meal is also in the practice of life continue to explore summarized. Summer weather is hot, the family often sweating when working in the field, back home dry mouth, fatigue of sleep, eat ordinary noodles easy to sweat, if you have eaten soup soup water soup is delicious, it is not easy to sweat.
? According to information: the water has a variety of beneficial enzymes, nutrient-rich, anti-depressants thirst, can enhance appetite, for the summer delicacies. Eating on the day of the three volts, not only can lift the waste of labor, restore physical strength, and hypertension, gastrointestinal diseases and diabetes have certain therapeutic effects. At the same time, the slurry also pay attention to clean, mother scooping slurry with a special tool, before using boiling water once, sterilization, otherwise the slurry but "white flowers", that is, infected by bacteria, will be abandoned, can no longer eat.
Summer is the peak of the pulp water consumption. Whenever the midday meal, the neighbors of the aunt, sister-in-law or young daughters-in-law, are coincidentally on the bowl to the home scooping water, the mother is always happy, to have a share, so that the group is happy to come, satisfied and return; some townspeople also door to teach to do the craft of the water, the mother is unreservedly, tirelessly, patiently taught, and devoted to the guidance of the production of water, a moment in the lane of our village and even into a The weather ......
Some years ago I worked in the South, the staple food to rice-based, but as a descendant from the Northwest grew up, life is more or less unaccustomed to, and always want to eat some steamed buns, noodles and so on to solve the problem. So I often miss my mother's water.
Whenever I return to my hometown after a long time, back to the home of the night thought of dreaming, a foot has just crossed into the door, will not wait to shout out: "Mom Oh!" Being busy mother heard her son's shouts, while wiping her hands with her apron, while her eyes glistened with tears of joy, while agreeing cordially: "Hey! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said.
? When I just put down the luggage, the butt is not yet sit still, my mother will say: "Have not eaten it? I'm going to make you some noodles." The mother would say, "It's a rule passed down from our ancestors to make dumplings and noodles, and it's also for good luck." Whenever this happens, I always habitually sit in front of the stove, mother rolled out the noodles, I burned the fire, the mother and the two cooking while talking to each other about the feelings of longing ......
? The mother rolled out the noodles, picked some fresh pepper leaves in the backyard, and then cut some tomatoes, tofu, fried a few eggs, made into a green, red, white, yellow and other color collocation of the bashfulness, with a pale white water, mouth-watering water on the table. Eating the color and flavor of the water, suddenly forget the journey, forget the worries of life, forget the work of the tired, enjoy the affection, enjoy the taste of the warmth of home, because this is a bowl of water pouring deep mother's love of the water ......
? After returning to the county work, my mother knows that I love to eat pulp water, often make a good pulp water to drink bottles to trust people to bring, and on the phone to urge: "summer eat more pulp water." My wife always smiled and replied, "Mom, I know! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this.
? A few years ago, my mother suddenly became seriously ill and said goodbye to her loved ones forever. After dealing with the mother's aftermath, I stood solemnly in front of the mother's water basin, eyes blurred, see things think of relatives ...... quietly stood next to my sister said: "Brother, I took the mother's water cited, inherited her craft, and later to give you the water!" Since then also often eat pulp water, but always feel that you can not eat the mother's flavor, can not taste the flavor of home.
Mother left, but the mother's water basin will always be placed in the courtyard of the old place, every time I go home, not busy cleaning up the other, always the first mother's water basin wiped clean, and covered with a fly cover. Seeing the water basin to see the mother, smelling the water basin to smell the mother's flavor, save the water basin to stay a thought for life!
? June 26th of the lunar calendar is the mother's birthday. This day, I resigned all the entertainment, carefully prepared fruits, pastries, incense and paper, but also did not forget to scoop up a bottle of syrup from my sister's home, in the hot sun, kneeling in front of his mother's grave in the overgrown grass, sweat and tears, tears, wet shirt, said to his mother: Mom, son missed you, today to see you come, you left too suddenly, did not leave a word to the children, this life can no longer eat your hand-made syrup noodles, and the mother said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Today specially brought a bottle of syrup, you and I big mouth craving to do a bowl of syrup surface it ......
? Author: Bai Gaoqi, male, Anjiaobao village people, Chinese *** party members, the university at the section, military cadres, representative of the book engraved in the monument of the missile position, amateur hobby reading and writing.