Rice cake, which means "rice cake", is a food that many regions of the country have to prepare years ago. In the north, there are two main types of rice cakes, one is made of glutinous rice noodles and red dates, and the other is made of yellow rice milling powder unique to the north.
Since glutinous rice is a specialty of Jiangnan, the first rice cake in the north should be a yellow rice noodle rice cake. Yellow rice is "sticky", is a kind of black, it is dehulled and ground powder steamed, both yellow and sticky, and a faint sweetness, since ancient times, it has been a delicacy used by people in the Yellow River Basin to celebrate the harvest.
In the article "Imperial Scenery and Materials" engraved during the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, it is recorded that the Beijingers at that time always had "New Year's Day of the First Month, eating cakes, and saying that rice cakes are "rice cakes".
It can be seen from this that the yellow rice noodle rice cake is a delicacy that has been handed down from ancient times in the north to the present day and has been alive for thousands of years. Leaving aside the meaning of rice cakes and the meaning of the elephant trunk, people who like sticky mouths have no resistance to soft sticky sweet rice cakes, young and old.
Today, people want to eat rice cakes are no longer limited to the Spring Festival, they can buy ready-made rice cakes all year round, glutinous rice noodles with yellow rice noodles, and a few dollars can buy a small piece to relieve hunger. Cake sellers are often pushing bicycles, the back seat carries fixed rice cakes, stop and go, while walking and selling, to go around two streets, rice cakes are also sold almost.
Although the rice cake is eaten on weekdays, the matter of steaming rice cakes in every household a few years ago is also indispensable. Buy pasta noodles (glutinous rice noodles or yellow rice noodles) and red dates in advance, and wait for the new year. Hungry will steam a pot to eat, eat almost, the root of the year will arrive, continue to steam a pot for the New Year to eat. Rice cakes are easy to store in the winter in the north, steamed to cool, put into food bags, stuffed into the refrigerator or hung in the backyard, as you eat, and then steamed back to the pot when you eat until it is soft.
My mother always steamed glutinous rice noodle rice cakes, and yellow rice noodles were used to make fried cakes. Her old man's steamed rice cake is a common meal, and in the blink of an eye, she will steam a pot from time to time, because everyone in the family is a glutinous rice control, including my children. Northern characteristics of glutinous rice noodles red date rice cake, share with you.
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【Ingredients】: 3 kg of glutinous rice noodles (jiang rice noodles), 2 kg of red dates, and an appropriate amount of water.
【Steps】:
1, the red date needs to remove its hard peduncle, otherwise it will be eaten into the stomach of the panic. Carefully remove them one by one, and the red dates with insect eyes must be selected. Then cook the dates in boiling water until soft, drain and set aside.
2: Pour all the glutinous rice noodles into a large basin and stir them by hand while slowly pouring in clean water. Let the glutinous rice noodles be wet with water but not wet to the point of clumps.
3, the process should be patient, the water should be added slowly, and the hands should be stirred quickly.
4, until all the glutinous rice noodles are shallow wet with water, grab a handful of glutinous rice noodles, or loose state. This degree should be mastered, if there is dry powder, the viscosity of the steamed sticky cake will be reduced, and it is not easy to steam.
5, then take the steamer, lay a layer of cabbage leaves on the grate, put the red dates on the cabbage leaves one by one, hold up the glutinous rice noodles in both hands, evenly lay a layer on the dates, to have some thick bottom, about seven or eight centimeters. Then steam on high heat for about 20 minutes, steaming the first layer of rice cakes.
6: Then continue to lay a layer of red dates, continue to lay glutinous rice noodles on top of the red dates, cover the pot and continue to steam, about 25 minutes can be removed from the heat. The top layer can be used to prick some small holes with chopsticks to facilitate the upflow of water vapor, and the rice cake is better cooked.
7, the steamed rice cake on a large porcelain plate, peel off the cabbage leaves, dry it for a while, you can cut the knife into pieces. Mom usually cuts it into cubes for easy eating next time.
8, can not eat the frozen preservation, when eating out and then steamed soft on the pot, as delicious as fresh. This is my snack to the big food, with it, life is better, the taste of the year is more sufficient.
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1, some people like to use the water to boil the dates to splash glutinous rice noodles, because the water to cook dates has a sweet taste, so the glutinous rice noodles wet with it will also become sweet, but at the same time will be stained with the color of red dates, resulting in glutinous rice cakes steamed out will produce mixed color, not white nor red. However, if you completely consider the taste and do not consider the appearance, it is still recommended to use water that has cooked the dates and can be used after drying.
2, glutinous rice noodles and red dates is a traditional practice, in recent years, some people like to add some red beans, is also a good practice. The red beans should be soaked and cooked in advance, which can be made into honey red beans, just like red dates, and then sprinkled with glutinous rice noodles.
3, glutinous rice food is delicious, but not easy to digest, so everyone should eat appropriately.
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