Mashed boiled water mashed eggs, like smacking, is a food custom in my hometown.
To this day, every time I go back to my hometown, I can still taste its delicious food from my mother's cooking skills and enjoy it.
Guests come, especially rare guests come, and the host is "over noon" (we have a custom here, guests come from home, before lunch, the host has to get a table of hearty good dishes to entertain the guests, and then make lunch to eat. This way of entertaining guests is commonly known as "noon". ) before,
Boil the mash in boiling water, beat one or two eggs, cook them in a pot of boiling water, then pour the mash, cook them with the eggs, and serve them on the table to entertain the guests.
This is mashed boiled water mashed eggs.
Mash
Mashing boiling water mashed eggs has been a long-standing folk custom. According to my eighty-year-old father, when he was young, this custom was very popular, and he was entertained countless times, because my ancestors were lords.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the years of famine and famine, the years of life were tense, and the mashed boiled water mashed eggs were a very luxurious dream in the folk.
My father said that he could only recall the incense in his memory, but he also remembered the steaming and fermentation methods of the mash.
In the 1980s, reform and opening up. Rural crops go down to the household. The peasants had a bumper harvest of grain and were slowly more abundant in their hands. Many farmers are fashionable again.
Mash, like smack, has become homemade by rural farmers. Drinking mashed boiled water is as casual as drinking boiled water when you are thirsty.
My father was nearly fifty years old at that time, had four children, divided the fields, was busy with farm work all day, and his already thin body, coupled with the tiredness of farm work, was even more skinny.
Every morning, my mother would boil a bowl of mashed boiling water for my father (of course, there were many of them, all four of us sisters had a share) and serve a bowl of fried shell peanuts or other cooked food. Later, chickens and ducks were raised more, and every time an egg was beaten in the bowl (when there was no egg, the duck egg was used), and the mash was cooked, and the father was given to drink, so that the father drank and ate to work.
Villagers call this pre-breakfast diet "early", also known as "eating early". Mash boiled water mashed eggs are for the father to supplement the body to restore the strength, the younger sister is often able to eat, because they are smaller, my sister and I are slightly older, it is difficult to eat mashed eggs.
With the development and changes of the year, so far, drinking mashed boiled water and eating mashed eggs has become a common thing.
Mash boiling water mashed eggs are a custom for entertaining guests.
The farmer came to the guests, and the host often first boiled a bowl of mashed eggs and boiled water to entertain.
There are no eggs in the host's home, and the host thinks that he can't stand the guests, and will quietly go to the neighborhood to borrow eggs to burn the mashed boiling water.
That time, my second aunt in the same hall came. Because he had not been blindsided by his mother for many years, he had a very good relationship with his mother as a sister-in-law when he was young.
When we met, the intimacy, the happy look, indescribable.
The mother immediately went to burn the mashed egg and boiled water, saying that she had not returned to the mother's house for so many years, and she would play for a few more days.
But there are no eggs at home, how to treat guests with light mashed boiling water.
The mother took a break and slipped through the back door of the stove house into the neighbor's cousin's house to borrow two eggs. Later, Luo Luo generously and unapologetically invited the second sister to the mashed water mashed egg table.
Children prefer to go to the house (i.e. visit relatives' homes).
When I was a child (about the beginning of the eighties), I went to my aunt's house to visit the New Year, probably because of the lack of mash steaming, the mashed boiled water mashed eggs that my aunt brought on the table, more boiling water, less mash, just steamed, fragrant and sweet, plus when drinking mashed boiled water to eat mashed eggs, I also served my aunt herself fried sugar beans fried sugar pumpkin seeds.
To this day, I still taste the mashed boiled water mashed eggs, as if there is still a lingering fragrance on the side of the mouth.
The children of the peasant family are engaged to each other, and in the folk customs of our hometown, it is even more inseparable from the mash of boiling water and mashed eggs.
Moreover, the eggs in the bowl of each visitor (including the man's guest) must be even (usually two boiled eggs, after boiling and peeling off the eggshell, washed and put into a bowl of mashed boiling water. This is different from opening a water egg. ）
The whole boiled egg, in pairs, symbolizes love and harmony, and the circle is complete and full, and the double joy is at the door. That time the cousin of the cousin's family next door was engaged, and the sister (pronounced in the pronunciation) and the baby (the boyfriend's girlfriend in our hometown) entered the house to "watch the house" and "betrothed" together, but it was lively.
The seven aunts and eight aunts of the sister-in-law, plus the sister-in-law's cousin-in-law, as well as the sister-in-law's sister-in-
Because it was a happy event, no matter how busy and tired, the cousin was also smiling on her face, and prepared enough eggs in advance.
Two bowls of boiled mashed water with boiled eggs are brought to the table, showing the man's grandeur (of course, the red envelope for each visitor is not to be mentioned), and the marriage becomes.
The distinguished guests came, and the peasant family could not do without the mash boiled water mashed eggs.
I was a classmate in elementary school, and now Chengdu is developing very well. Because of our friendship since childhood, my mother became his "mother".
Years ago, I returned to my hometown to worship my ancestors and came to visit my mother. Haven't seen each other in decades. The nearly eighty-year-old toddler mother insisted on her own will, personally went to the chicken coop to touch two eggs, and in any case, as she did then, personally burned a bowl of fragrant and intoxicating mashed eggs boiling water.
However, the classmates said a lot of kind words of apology and trouble, so they had to drink mashed boiling water and eat two eggs. Then, the mother's heart was satisfied.
Last year, city cadres came to the localities to guide the work. Near noon, with his cousin (the cousin is a clerk in the village), he went to his cousin's house for a nap, and the competent and enthusiastic cousin burned a bowl of freshly steamed sweet, fragrant and fierce (referring to strong alcohol) and intoxicating mash boiling water, and beat two eggs. It's hard to be gracious. The cadres drank and ate it, and praised it, and they couldn't imagine that the people of Quxian County still had such a good home-made homebrew, and the villagers of Quxian County were so hospitable. He also said that he did not waste this trip to Quxian County.
The mother and son of the moon drink mashed boiled water and eat mashed eggs, which not only nourishes the body, but also produces milk.
Therefore, the peasant woman gave birth to a child, and in the month (including after the full moon) it was inseparable from the mash boiled water mashed eggs.
Especially the mother-in-law of a peasant woman, before her daughter sits on the moon, has long steamed the mash in advance.
When her daughter has a baby, the mother's family has to pick a few big picks to go to the daughter's house (of course, there are red rooster picks).
If you see a half-sized (referring to a belly about a foot high) wine tank covered with red cloth on the street, and there are several baskets of burdens along the way, then this must be a certain family to add a detail, that is, a certain family has a child, and the mother's family has asked someone to pick up mash for her daughter to sit on the moon.
Accompanied by the burden of the mash jar, there is also the burden of the red rooster. The descendants had never seen such a battle.
Once walking on the street, the eldest son of twelve years old saw a team of red cloth covering the mouth of the jar, followed by several loads of roosters, and asked in amazement, what was picked, what was in the jar, and why the rooster was still picked behind.
I have to explain it in detail. Finally, my son said that it was a legend.
Although, the times have changed, the society has developed, and more and more fashionable wine drinks have penetrated into the daily life of the villagers.
But mash boiling water mashed eggs, this long-standing folk custom, is still rooted in folk life.
One bowl for each person, each drinking each other, each eating each other, unlike the folk custom of smacking wine, everyone drinks a barrel, which is unhygienic.
In addition, each time the steamed mash is not much, there are more than ten pounds of glutinous rice, because of eating diligently, wait for the mash to be bad and eat it (after eating and steaming), so it is also delicious, and it is not tired of eating.
Whenever I think of mashed boiled water mashed eggs, I am addicted to hunger.
Every time I go back to my hometown, I drink and eat the mashed water mashed eggs burned by my mother, taste the aftertaste, and sigh, this life is lucky, this life is happy. If you are lucky, also come to taste a taste, mash boiled water mashed eggs! (Native Wenyuan, Contributed by Green Man)