"The Story of Qingcheng" New Year's Flavor

Whoops, whoops, whoops, the taste of the countryside is "fried".

Fried fried cake plays a pivotal role in the New Year for villagers. To make the cake, you need to peel the yellow and grind it into flour, and then mix it with warm water into a lump and steam it, and then knead it into a ball with your hands by heat, knead it into a round cake, which can be wrapped in date paste or bean paste, put it in a frying pan and fry it, wait until the skin is orange and yellow, and then fish it out, Oh, this fried oil cake is yellow, slippery, fragrant, and the crispy skin is soft, really hungry.

"Twenty-six, roast pork" is a fixed item for northerners to welcome the New Year. If anyone's family does not kill pigs and does not burn meat, relatives and friends will feel uneasy about him: after a busy year, they can't eat roast pork! What's too much this year? Roasting pork has become a symbol of a well-off family and a rich and apologetic year.

I usually don't move a finger on the kitchen, but I am also busy this day, and I have a tacit understanding with my wife. The two are like assembly line operations, and they are in a hurry. I will cook the meat cube, in the boiling brown sugar water, trembling over, dipped in a faint layer of sauce red; fishing in the iron fence, controlling the water. The wife looked at the timing and slid the controlled meat square steadily against the wall of the pot, and in a flash, there was a sudden noise in the pot. The lid of the pot quickly lidded, the rattle and slow singing, the room exploded with a grand New Year's flavor.

When the sound in the pot is quiet, the wife opens the lid of the pot, and at this time, the noisy pork has become scorched, red, tight and plump; fished out to control the oil and let it cool, which is the fat subsidy for the family's weak belly in the New Year.

Fried chicken head, we are even more heartbroken. Fried chicken head is made with fine rice pushed out of The New Valley, scooped out in water, put on a powder sprayer and processed into a fine noodle, half boiled water thickened into a paste, add the yeast and stir well with a spoon. The basin is placed on the side of the fire to ferment slowly, and when it smells sour, add water to put the alkali noodles, stir well, and fry. Scoop a spoonful of noodles, pour into the oil pot and use chopsticks to clip, a small ball of noodles, and throw it into the pot. Two or three rolls were fried, and they swelled and swelled up, like a chicken head. One bite down, the outside is crisp and tender, the teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and the taste is indeed beyond the words "delicious"!

Croquettes are the culmination of a busy year. The family gathered together, there was a large basin of mixed meat paste on the table, a boiling oil pot sat on the stove, a pair of flexible hands, squeezing and squeezing, and one by one exquisite and cute meatballs "fluttered" and jumped into the oil pot. The boiling oil was slightly emitting green smoke, and after a burst of jubilation, the shell of the meatball turned golden. When it was fished up, the aroma was overflowing, and the hungry children grabbed it with their hands and ate it, only to be burned and stomped on their feet, and we adults were all laughed at.

There was more fire in the hearth, smoke was also rising, the face of the fire was smoked red, sometimes it was choked straight cough, fried fish, fried tofu, fried yam tablets... A kind of frying sound, ushering in the new year's bells, implying that the fire in the stove of the previous year continues into the new year, indicating that the new year will be more prosperous.

When the children greeted the neighbors, the "fried goods" still carried the residual heat. The children's new clothes pockets are stuffed with "New Year's flavor" by grandmas, aunts and sisters-in-law, and everyone's faces are full of happy smiles. (Qiao Junling)

【Source: Hohhot News Network_Society】

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