At that time, because my son had just turned half a year old, he was still breastfeeding. I rented a house near the school and took my sister who just graduated from junior high school to take care of the children.
Our landlord is a middle-aged couple in their fifties. They have five daughters and a son. The first three daughters are married and have families. Three younger children are still at school, and their families have a heavy burden. They mainly make a living by selling sugar and oil cakes on the street.
Before going to bed every night, the landlord and his wife should make two pots of fermented noodles and put them on the kang to wake them up naturally. At three o'clock the next morning, the landlord's family began to get busy. Their division of labor is very clear. The wife is responsible for kneading dough, the husband is strong and responsible for kneading dough, and the two older children help with housework. The youngest child is only eight or nine years old and can't help.
They should make sure that sugar and oil cakes are ready before eight o'clock every morning and take them to a fixed booth for sale.
When there was no class at the weekend, I helped them fry candy cakes several times and learned how to make them.
To make sugar cakes, you must first make the fermented dough in advance, and then mix the dough. Dough is very particular. One third of the fermented dough, raw flour and cooked flour should be mixed with proper amount of honey, red pond, eggs, cooked oil and alkaline flour and kneaded well. Half an hour after waking up, rub it repeatedly. Then, pull the awakened noodles into fist-sized pieces, knead them round and roll them into small cakes, and make one or two slits in the middle with a kitchen knife. Finally, fry it in a hot oil pan. At this time, the heat is also very particular. After the oil pan is boiled, the cake rolls down, floats up, turns over, and then slowly fries it with low fire.
To reward me, after work, they always send some candy cakes to my sister and me. Just out of the pot, the sugar cake is golden yellow and the color is very attractive. Take a bite, it's crisp and sweet, and it's very delicious. That smell still drools when I think about it now.
During the two years of studying in Zhenyuan, when I go home every semester, I will buy polysaccharide oil cakes as gifts for my family and relatives in my husband's family to taste. So far, as long as sugar cakes are mentioned, relatives are still full of praise.
Friends, do you want to eat? If you want to eat, come to Zhenyuan County, Qingyang and have a taste!