Author: Li Zhenlin
In the 1960s and 1970s, the collective grain harvest was poor year after year, our city Xisha Rural Area, the soil was soft, the sweet potato production was not low, every household for most of the year to sweet potato food as the main food, sweet potato noodle cake, sweet potato noodle nest, simmered sweet potato, boiled sweet potato, boiled sweet potato dried, straight eat stomach acid, stomach distension, heartburn, spit acid water, see sweet potato food is worried!
In that era, adults had no good way to cook, and they could only use coarse grains to adjust the tastes of their families. In those years, everyone loved to press the sweet potato noodles to adjust the taste, sweet potato noodles with boiling water to boil the noodles, the noodles should be soft, the noodles were steamed into a thin nest after the noodles were reconciled, steamed and stuffed the nests into the pressure sockets of the carrot bed while they were hot, and then used the carrot bed pressure rod to press the log pressure plug down, the soft nest was squeezed into a round bird noodle strip poured into the basin under the bird bed, if there were green vegetables, dripped into a few drops of oil in the pot, beat some toppings brine, if there was no green vegetables, go to the pickle jar to catch a few pieces of red and white flooded radish, and chop it into pieces with a knife. Grab two heads of garlic puree soup, and then use a rice spoon to bake some black cotton oil on the flames, pour it into the pickle crushed garlic soup with a snort, fish a bowl of dumplings in warm water, pour on the green vegetable brine or roast cotton oil pickle crushed brine, mix a few mixes, grill into the mouth, hey ~, unique flavor, soft and smooth, tendons and teeth, completely subvert the taste of eating sweet potato food, a meal can be grilled two or three bowls.
At that time, there were only one or two dumpling beds on a street, every time there was a meal, sometimes four or five families used a dumpling bed, often there were a few people waiting in front of the bird bed, a sweltering noon, my sister and I went to the second big lady's house in the next alley to wait for the bird bed, in the hot panting stove room, the second big lady was bare and pressed on the pressure rod of the bird bed, the legs were stilted and pressed hard, the black and fat back was flowing with sweat, the second grandfather was sweating, half of his ass was sitting on the pressure rod, and his hands were holding the pressure plug. His mouth kept scolding the second eldest lady. The second uncle has a bad appetite, annoyed to eat this kind of tendon thing, helplessly the second big lady is willing to eat, the second big uncle is not happy to be easy to go, today the second big lady face and the shaft (hard), the nest head is stuffed into the press, the second big uncle two fires and a fire, the more vigorous the scolding, the higher the sound, the second big lady slightly defended, the second big lady snapped a palm on the fat back of the second big lady, and the sweat of the second big lady was on my eyes and face. The second eldest lady and the old two have no children and no daughters, although the second eldest uncle has been whirring all his life, the second eldest lady has spoiled him, the two have a lifetime of love, next to the fan, the second eldest lady is squealing and muttering hard, silly old man, don't fight, don't fight, and then make it out! Finally, with the addition of my sister and me, the nest was finally squeezed into a bird's nest...
A difficult childhood, ah, gave me endless memories!