Stayed in every city for a long time
We will all slowly get used to the rhythm of life in this city
There will always be memories of food that are deep in the heart or in love
And in our Yunnan
One of the eighteen monsters is called: "Rice dumplings are called bait blocks."
As a native of Kunming, the thick and profound food plot of Kunming is innate, and the "bait block" is one of the rare flavors, especially the New Year, whenever I think of it, it attracts people to salivate and have a long aftertaste.
Bait in Kunming folklore is a must-eat for the New Year, usually fried or boiled or burned are also delicious, the border people are keen on "bait food", adhere to the tradition and not fall, has been thousands of years. Old Kunming people have a soft spot for bait blocks, and they are often snapped up during the New Year's Festival. No, in the Guandu Bait Block Transmission Hall a few years ago, the masters were working overtime to catch up with the bait block.
Yang Yong, the inheritor of the bait block: "We first make the bait block, soak the rice for more than two hours to let it soak thoroughly, after soaking through, we will first put the rice out, control the moisture, and then steam the first way inside the dumplings. The first dish steamed it, about eight ripe, not fully cooked, it does not contain enough water, very hard, we have one more step to divide the meal. ”
Putting the first steamed rice in the koshiki and putting it in cold water continues to absorb the water naturally so that the rice is "moderately soft and hard", which is a very critical step, usually controlled by the teacher. After the rice has been reabsorbed and dried, it can be steamed over high heat.
Bait block inheritor Yang Yong: "After the rice is steamed, we make different bait blocks according to ourselves, the shape is different, the use is different, we will do it separately, like this side is to make the bait block, after the rice is squeezed out by the bait block machine, just here after the tablet is pressed, after pressing into pieces, we make our own mold, in order to unify the size, the weight is unified, directly pressed with the mold, a direct pressure, pressed out, after the cold we come back to package." ”
It is crucial to select high-quality, fragrant and sticky rice as raw materials, and it is also important to design "humanized" shapes of different specifications.
Yang Yong, the inheritor of the bait block: "The earliest bait block was not this shape, this is also when we do it, slowly practiced, why do we have to make it into this shape?" The first is easy to package, it is packaged well packaged, the second is convenient for customers, buy back into two direct slices can be, unlike the past, bulging, cut to where is a round surface, not good-looking. ”
Yang Yong, the inheritor of the bait block, said that the taste made by the machine is "slightly better" than the traditional manual scooping, because the tradition is "manpower" doing, it is "technical work", if it is not done in place, the taste will not come out.
Yang Yong, the inheritor of the bait block: "What are these ropes above used for?" It is the person standing on it, to maintain the balance of the body, the back of the eight people, with their feet one foot at a time in the pedaling, stepping, with the wooden to scoop, there are not more than twenty people can not move, can not be, very laborious, we have a traditional old saying in Kunming, that is, it is better to suffer in the underworld, not in the yang, it is said that the bait block, the bait block is very bitter, very tired work. ”
The hard-brewed bait has naturally become a favorite delicacy after being served. The bait is cut into small slices of one inch square, and stir-fried with cloud leg shreds, meat slices, eggs, vegetables, etc., it becomes a fried bait block that can be used as both a staple food and a meal, and the most famous of these is not the "big rescue".
Bait, a delicacy that Kunming people have eaten almost every day as a child, can always evoke the memories in their hearts, and the "taste buds in memory" bloom in their hearts.
Yang Yong, the inheritor of the bait block: "In the local area, over forty years old, the memory of this generation, is to the Spring Festival, follow the father and mother, while picking firewood, while picking rice, there is a queue, at that time in the production team, to have this set of equipment in the production team, in order to go to the queue, to do." At that time, when the Spring Festival came, I was very happy, and I followed my father and mother to the queue, and I watched and kept it for one night, that is, to make one or twenty bait blocks. I also hope that everyone's day will be as white and tender as a bait block, and when it comes to the Spring Festival, it will be very happy and happy, and the whole family will gather together to celebrate the Spring Festival in harmony and reunion. ”