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Legend of Mu Lian's Saving Mother's Ghost Treasure

It is said that in ancient times there was a man named Mu Lian, whose mother was fierce before her death, causing others to die, and was put in a prison cell in the underworld. When he visited the prison, he often gave her food, but all of them were eaten by the guards' kids. Later, he thought of a way to mix water chestnut, peanuts, red dates, longan, brown sugar and other raw materials with glutinous rice, cook it into sweet porridge, put it in a bowl, and then sprinkle a handful of black sesame seeds to his mother. When the jailer saw that the porridge was dark, he asked, "What is this?" Mu Lian casually replied: "This is a dirty".

(Fuzhou dialect is homophonic for "nine" and "dirty") The guards believe it, thinking that this porridge is dirty and dare not eat it. Therefore, "Ou Jiu Zhou" was sent to Mu Lian's mother. It happened to be the 29th day of the first month, and Mulian's mother was just 29 years old this year. According to the folk custom, the first month is divided into "Sanjiu", the ninth day of the first month is called "Shangjiu", the 19th day is called "Zhongjiu" and the 29th day is called "Houjiu porridge".

Later, it was blackened with the color of porridge, and it was called "Oujiu porridge" to show filial piety to mother, and it was also called "filial piety porridge". No matter whether it's the 29th or the 29th of the first month, it's the year when Mulian's mother was in trouble. Therefore, Fuzhou people are taboo on the 9th, thinking that "9th" is the year of adversity. Therefore, anyone who meets the age of "9th" should eat too flat, and his married daughter should also give her parents a "9th" in order to ensure their safety and health.

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Making method

Water chestnuts, peanuts, red dates and longan are the main ingredients, and lotus seeds and ginkgo can be added, which can be cooked with white rice and glutinous rice and brown sugar until cooked or rotten into porridge. (Peanuts and lotus seeds can be soaked or cooked until half cooked before being cooked with rice. )

Generally speaking, cooking "Oujiu porridge" is exquisite, and it needs to go through four processes, and eight kinds of materials such as glutinous rice, red dates, raisins, dried longan, lotus seeds, peanuts, water chestnuts and brown sugar plates need to be prepared. The porridge cooked in this way is full of color, fragrance and nutrition.

the first step: soaking

the glutinous rice is soaked for 3 minutes, and the lotus seeds and peanuts are soaked in clear water for 1 hour each. The soaked glutinous rice is not only cooked with Toya flavor; However, lotus seeds and peanuts are hard and must be soaked for 1 hour before they are easy to rot when cooked. If there is no "heart" in the middle of lotus seeds, the cooked porridge will not have bitterness; After soaking peanuts, the upper skin should be removed, so that porridge will not taste astringent.

Step 2: Cooking

Pick up the soaked glutinous rice by hand, re-wash it, put it in a small steamer, steam it on high fire for 1 minutes (if you use a pressure cooker, the high pressure time is the same), take out the pot, add a proper amount of water, and put the prepared red dates, raisins, dried longan, lotus seeds, peanuts and water chestnuts together.

the third step: adding sugar

when the sticky rice begins to appear, put a certain amount of brown sugar plates (the amount of brown sugar plates varies from person to person). At this time, use slow fire to cook for 3 minutes (if the fire is too strong, the sticky rice will be easily burnt).

Step 4: Stir

After the brown sugar board is completely dissolved in the glutinous rice, gently stir with a rice spoon until the glutinous rice turns red, and then turn off the heat. This process only takes another minute. In this way, a bowl of filial piety porridge is cooked.

resources _ Baidu encyclopedia