Zhanjiang has a flavor snack called sweet wine, commonly known as "sweet lees". The history of this snack can be traced back to the Song Dynasty, and together with white rice dumplings and rice dumplings, it is collectively known as the three major sweets of Leizhou. The best ingredient for making liqueur is lychee sticky rice or June sticky rice. The preparation method is to cook glutinous rice into rice and add wine cakes, and then put it in a relatively sealed container and ferment it for 36 to 48 hours.
The sweet taste is mellow and sweet, with a slightly charming aroma. In the era of material poverty, a bowl of sweet and bad can supplement a lot of energy, if you add a small amount of brown sugar and eggs to cook, more fitness effect. Sweet wine syrup is a sweet wine with brown sugar boiled water to base, and when it is put into a bowl, it is added to the uncooked sweet wine. This is because the cooked sweet mess is slightly rotten, there is dregs, plus raw sweet wine is just right, fragrant and sweet and delicious.
Zhanjiang urban and rural women must be indispensable to sweet and bad when confinement, most of them make it a month in advance and soak it with a small amount of rice wine. Pregnant women eat several large bowls a day, which can nourish the body and strengthen the blood. In the past, when making full moon wine and doing the big birthday, as soon as the guests entered the door, the host would put on a bowl of sweet and bad, let the guests replenish their bodies, and then start cooking. This is because people at that time were poor, often hungry, and having a bowl of sweet and bad drinks was a great happiness.
In winter, Zhanjiang people also have a way to dip the fried cooked chicken into sweet wine, drink one or two bowls a day, can supplement the kidneys and blood, suitable for patients and postpartum women.
Zhanjiang counties and municipalities are popular sweet lees sweet wine, is every child's childhood memories. The family often does it themselves, and it is common for children to steal sweets and get drunk on the ground, so they must not be beaten. Now life is rich, but I can no longer eat the sweet and bad of my childhood, and only deep nostalgia is left. Nostalgic for the flavor of hometown, nostalgia for the lost affection.