It's the day of freezing hands and feet again, the winter in Jiangnan, the whole city is shrouded in cold, even if people are wrapped tightly, the cold can still penetrate the cracks of the bones.
The best way to warm up, of course, is to eat, to a bowl of sugar osmanthus wine, sweet with sticky, drive away the chill.
The home brew is also ripe, and the pots are boiling.
Sake brewing is also known as mash. "Sweet wine is also made of glutinous rice, and it is eaten with bad food, hence the name mash." The ancients called "lilǐ", which means sweet wine, the main raw material is steamed glutinous rice, wheat koji, mother wine saccharification fermentation, wine brewing degree is low.
Traditional sweet wine brewing generally goes through processes such as soaking rice, steaming rice, drying rice, mixing koji, fermentation and so on, which is more cumbersome.
It can be bought in general supermarkets and does not need to brew it yourself. In the rows of sealed plastic bowls in the refrigerated counter, there is a hole in the middle of the rice, and the hole is larger than that of the old wine that has been fermented for a long time, and the rice grains are also inflated larger than the new sake.
Sake brew can be made into sweet soup, after the water boils, pour into the sake to continue to boil, eggs are beaten and poured in, in some places called mashed eggs.
There are also mashed dumplings, boiled in water and then added to the dumplings, when the dumplings float up after pouring into the wine, in the morning full of a bowl of food, the cold wind outside do not have to be afraid.
Suzhou spring seasonal cake - wine cake, dough is the choice of wine stuffed noodles, stuffed with meat, the most popular is bean paste, rose filling, just out of the pot of wine cake oil crystalline, soft entrance.
If you want to eat fruit flavor, there is no problem, add mango and strawberry juice to the sake, drink a sip, the overlap of fruit and wine, the aftertaste is long, it is worth reminiscing. In summer, taro balls are added to make an ice drink, which is cool and pleasant, and is not worse than net red milk tea.
Friends who love to drink coffee, do not try to make a cup of wine brew latte, the sweetness of the wine brewed neutralizes the bitterness of the coffee, the perfect combination of Chinese and Western, and add a little yogurt, it becomes yogurt wine brewed coffee.
Although sake is out of the category of sake, it contains alcohol, and eating too much will be the same, so it should be eaten in moderation.
Remind friends who have just eaten wine not to drive.