Lye is a natural alkali whose main ingredients are sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate.

The proper alkali can make the powder absorb water and achieve good viscoelasticity when it is decomposed by heat. Alkaline water also has functions such as antiseptic effect and neutralizing acidity.

Supplement:

Lye water can make lye brown, the practice is as follows:

Practice:

1. Zongzhong leaves first day of immersion after boiling water blanched and cut off the 2 head spare.

2. Wash the glutinous rice and set aside a spoonful of cooking soda.

3. Mix the glutinous rice with the soda.

4. Overlap 2 rice dumpling leaves and fold them into a triangle at the bottom.

5. Put in half of the glutinous rice and poke the rice grains with chopsticks a few times to make them firm.

6. Fill the triangle with glutinous rice and press it down.

7. Cover the upper part of the rice dumpling with leaves.

8. Pinch 2 sides.

9. Fold the remaining leaves to one side.

10. Wrap the cotton yarn around a few times.

11. Tie off.

12. Put the wrapped dumplings into the rice cooker.

13. Add enough cool water at one time to cover the dumplings and cook for 60 minutes.

14. Cooked rice dumplings naturally cooled after the old out drained can be.