China's food culture is rich and colorful. Take traditional Qingming cuisine as an example. Jiangnan eats green meatballs and northern Shaanxi eats "purple-legged swallows". In Chaoshan, we also have our own Qingming cuisine. Every time we go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, there will be more spring green on the shelves of shops, which is "Pu Guo Zi".
The season is eating, and there is a saying in Chaoshan: "Eat leaves on Qingming Day", which means it. This kind of green glutinous rice is steamed with fresh leaves of common seeds as the main raw material, so it is named common seed glutinous rice.
A joke, past lives.
Speaking of the origin of Puzi country, it is said that in the late Song Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Chaoshan people fled into the deep mountains to avoid the killing and looting of Yuan soldiers. Because of the lack of food, they had to pick cotyledons and fruit seeds to satisfy their hunger. In order to remember this history, future generations processed steamed Pu Guo Zi in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which has been passed down to this day.
Not only has a long history, but also has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. Chaoshan area belongs to subtropical monsoon climate. During the Qingming period, there is more rain, and the humid environment is easy to make food deteriorate and intestinal diseases occur frequently. The leaves of Cyperus rotundus just have the effect of resolving phlegm, regulating qi and resolving accumulated heat. This time of year is the best time to eat Pu Guo Zi.
Qingming is the freshest time for seeds every year. Many people will pick young leaves as seeds. For Chaoshan people, it is spring after eating melon seeds. In most Chaoshan families, Tomb-Sweeping Day would buy some common seeds as sacrifices as soon as he passed.
I remember watching it with my mother when I came home during the winter vacation. It's a pity that Park Zi-guo only appeared around Tomb-Sweeping Day. If you miss the chance to try this year, you will have to wait until next year.
For the production of Puguozi, different materials, different colors and tastes are similar.
If you ask a Chaoshan person which is the best, he will definitely tell you: My home.
But my mother can't cook pancakes, so every year before Tomb-Sweeping Day, I go to my old aunt's house to watch her chop pancake leaves into rice paste, put the rice paste in a small bowl and steam it in a pot, and then wait for the excited and high-pitched voice, "Lin, cook well and love to eat old."
It's not difficult to do, but it takes a lot of effort to make it delicious and laugh.
First, mash the leaves and fruits of Cyperus sedge into juice, mash them with rice into powder, then add the unmelted white sugar, baking powder and appropriate amount of cold water, and stir them into slurry.
During fermentation, if the slurry is slightly thick, add cold water. After about ten minutes, put the slurry into a ceramic peach seal or a round seal, and then steam it for fifteen minutes. Ding! Smiling grass green and lovely freshly baked!
Don't be soft-hearted in the face of little lovelies! Don't get angry until the pot is steaming! Take a bite, that delicate taste, fragrant and sweet taste ... it's so happy that the three souls can't see the seven souls!
Aren't you making park seeds at home? "If it has nothing to do with glue, buy it!" According to the first-hand news that distant mothers got from the market, the market price of a park seed cake is more than one yuan, which is really affordable.
I especially like eating Pu Guo Zi. Every time I cook, I am always the first person in my family to enjoy the delicious food. Not only because it tastes sweet, but also because it is delicate and lovely, with cracks in the middle, like a grin.
One day, if the shop fruit also appears on various online platforms for sale like the Youth League, those of us who study abroad can also eat delicious shop fruit.
(The brain made up for it, and the scene is probably like this? )
Meat floss, bean paste, taro paste. ...
Seriously, if it weren't for the distance from school, I would really go home with the ticket just to eat this cake!
This is the Qingming food in my hometown.
What are the Qingming specialties in your hometown?
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