Speaking of the first seven days of July, everyone subconsciously defaults to "Valentine's Day" because of the story of the cowherd weaver girl Queqiao meeting, in fact, in traditional customs, this day is called "Daughter's Day" and "Girls' Day", and every time at this time, unmarried girls will travel in groups and pray to the Vega star to become skillful, so it is also called "Beggars Festival".
So what are the traditional customs on this day? Since it is a "beggar festival", it must be related to "qiao", so every year on this day, various competitions for female workers will be carried out everywhere, and girls have shown their embroidery, needlework, pastry and other handicrafts to reflect the wisdom of women. Although the needlework is now becoming less popular, the tradition of traditional pastries continues to this day. Below, I will show you the traditional food customs of various places.
First, the fruit
The most well-known Qiaoguo is actually spread in Zhejiang and Wenzhou, using pasta mixed with sesame seeds or sugar to make various shapes of small cakes, fried into Qiaoguo, for relatives and friends to eat.
Key recommendation: 【Tomato crispy】
1. Blanch the tomatoes in boiling water, remove the skin and cut into cubes, put them in the juicer and beat them into tomato juice.
2. Put an appropriate amount of flour in the pot, add 10 grams of sugar, a handful of cooked white sesame seeds, beat in an egg, use tomato juice and noodles, stir into dough, knead into dough, put aside and serve for 10 minutes.
After 3.10 minutes, take out the dough and knead it smoothly, roll out into half a centimeter thick slices, and then press the cap into one small pie after another.
4. Burn the oil in the pot, 50% of the oil temperature into the small dough, medium-low heat slowly fry the shape, have been the cake fried golden fish out of the control oil, let it cool and then eat sweet and crispy.
Second, it is crispy
Most of the Jiaodong area makes plums, orchids, lotuses, chrysanthemums and other flowers with flowers to worship the weaver girl, and can also be used to give people, called "sending qiao people".
Key recommendation: 【Chrysanthemum crisp】
1. 200 grams of flour, add 5 grams of sugar, 3 grams of condensed milk, 5 grams of vegetable oil, use water and form a soft dough; In addition, prepare 30 grams of flour and 10 grams of vegetable oil to form a doughy dough. Knead the dough smoothly, roll into long strips, roll it into a uniformly sized dough, wrap it in a small piece of oil, and tighten the opening.
2. After all wrapped, the dough is flattened, rolled into a beef tongue shape, then folded up and rolled into a beef tongue shape, folded into small squares for later use, repeated rolling is mainly to roll out the oil noodles evenly and facilitate puff pastry.
3. Prepare 20 grams of bean paste filling, add a little flour and mix well, pull down a small piece of bean paste, wrap it with rolled out noodles, tighten the opening, pull off the excess noodles, and then use the back of a knife to press into a round dough sheet and cut it into the shape of a chrysanthemum.
4. Brush the baking sheet evenly with oil, put the cake blank in, brush with egg yolks, sprinkle a little black sesame seeds, heat the upper and lower layers at the same time, bake at 160 degrees for 25 minutes, crisp pine sweet, very delicious.
3. Sticky rice
People in southern Fujian call the weaver girl "Seven Niangma", which means the god who protects the children, so they will give the children pomegranates, boiled eggs or brown sugar sticky rice for peace.
Method: [Brown sugar sticky rice]
1. Prepare two steaming bowls and place dates, peanuts, raisins, corn and green beans at the bottom of the bowl.
2. Soak the appropriate amount of glutinous rice for half an hour in advance, then wash and lay flat in a bowl, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, add water, and slightly less glutinous rice.
3. Bring the water to a boil in the steamer and put the glutinous rice in it and steam for 40 minutes. After steaming, fold upside down on the plate and pour a little brown sugar juice to serve.
Four or five sons
With cinnamon balls, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds, these five kinds of worship weaver girls, commonly known as "five sons", made into five kernels after the prayer to eat to pray for good luck.
Specific method: [Wuren Bao]
1. Put 300 grams of flour in the basin, add 3 grams of yeast, and ferment with water and dough for 2 hours.
2. Peanut crushed, raisins, melon seeds, black sesame seeds, white sesame seeds put together, add the right amount of sugar, flour and mix well to make the filling, the five specific points to the above five, you can also adjust slightly according to your own taste.
3. After the dough is done, knead and exhaust, roll out the dough into dough slices, wrap in an appropriate amount of five kernel filling, knead into the shape of steamed dumplings, and ferment again for 10 minutes.
4. After the water in the steamer is boiled, put in the five-kernel bun, steam for 12 minutes on medium heat and cook, soft and sweet, delicious and nutritious.
Since this day is not the traditional Valentine's Day, when is it Valentine's Day? In fact, the ancients hid the beautiful love between men and women in the Lantern Festival of "the willow tip on the moon, people about after dusk", the woman who cannot leave the house on weekdays, the Lantern Festival can go out to admire the lights and admire the moon on this day, in fact, it is to provide opportunities for young girls to meet beautiful people, which is also in line with the implication of the Chinese people expressing love, just as the sentence "The crowd looks for him for thousands of degrees, suddenly looking back, the person is in the light."
First Food Editor: Xiao Ya