Every day at this time, will miss the old home of the big rice dumplings, some places called pillow rice dumplings, because it's big enough, and its shape is not like the common four-cornered rice dumplings, but is shaped like a pillow, which is full of pork and red beans and peanuts, and other fillings, the average girl a also eaten on the brace.

The old family's dumplings are not only unique in appearance and flavor, but also the practice is not quite the same, wrapped in such a large dumpling without certain skills easily exposed, and the modulation of the filling of course, is also different.

We all know that before wrapping the dumplings, we must soften the leaves and ties, so that on the one hand, disinfecting, and on the other hand, to avoid rupture of the leaves.

Every family in the countryside will be planted a small piece of glutinous rice land, is to wrap the rice dumplings and grinding rice flour, glutinous rice should be soaked a few hours in advance, usually the night before the soaking, the next morning can be wrapped.

In addition to glutinous rice must also have the size of red beans and peanuts, so that the dumplings made not only taste better, but also more festive color.

For the sweet and salty rice dumplings, has been going on for many years, the north and south parties do not give way to each other, in fact, each has a unique flavor, of course, for the southerners, the most can not be cut off of course, is still meat dumplings.

A good meat dumplings, meat filling is of course the most important, dumplings inside the meat filling must be a large piece of meat, or else steamed, the meat strips with salt, five spice powder marinated in good, plus white sesame seeds and shrimp mix, the real material properly.

Wrap a dumpling with at least three leaves, folded into a boat shape, a layer of glutinous rice underneath, then a layer of meat and red beans and peanuts. Finally, cover the glutinous rice on top, wrap the filling in the middle of the glutinous rice, leaving a certain gap when wrapping, fold the two sides of the dumpling leaves to the center.

And then cover a rice dumpling leaves, and then use the rice dumpling leaf belt to wrap up and tie up on it, a hometown large rice dumplings on the package, is not a little like the feeling of the pillow.

Packed dumplings into the pot inside, and then cooked on a wood fire for 4, 5 hours, out of the pot to open a meat flavor overflowing, after the entrance full of happiness.