The fried cake is sprinkled with sugar
In late autumn, the millet has long been harvested, and the people in the hometown have eaten fresh yellow rice cakes, sweet and fragrant.
In fact, millet is a large category of crops, which has existed for a long time. She is also known as glutinous millet, glutinous millet, etc., is the oldest crop in China and is listed as one of the five grains.
The land of the devil
Generally speaking, there are two types of millet, with hairy, partial spikes, and sticky seeds on the stalks; those who have no hairs on the stalks, scattered ears, and non-stick seeds are millet, and millet, some say millet, and some say sorghum. But grain and millet are definitely two crops, and they cannot be mixed together without distinction. In contrast, the drought tolerance of the millet is the strongest, the water demand is very small, the growth period is short, and it takes more than two months to harvest, which is very suitable for the drier northwest and north China. From the pre-Qin period's "giant rats and rats, no food for me", to the Tang Dynasty's "the old man has chickens, invite me to the Tian family", and then to the Qing Dynasty's "sick willow hidden fishing house, lonely smoke to know the cooking". For thousands of years, it has been one of the staple foods of the people in northern China, even after the large-scale planting of rice, wheat and corn, although it has retreated to the second line, but because of its own toughness and easy to live, the grain is also resistant to storage, often used as a disaster year to save the famine food. Combined with its own unique flavor, it can be brewed and can be made into delicious snacks and snacks.
Yellow rice grains
"Shuowen Jiezi" said that the sticky is sticky for the genus, so the left side of the sticky is a stick, which shows that the stick is really a kind of sticky grain, similar to glutinous rice, which was generally used to cook porridge in ancient times, or grind noodles to make a kind of food such as rice dumplings, nest heads, and cut cakes.
Yellow rice cake
In many places in North China and Northwest China, the local people will make rice into flour, and then make fried cakes, whether it is a New Year's festival, or a man and a woman marrying, they must use "fried cake" to entertain relatives, friends and guests.
Fried cake
In my hometown of Wei County, Hebei Province, almost every day at lunchtime, 70 to 80% of the people's staple food is to eat cakes steamed with millet as raw materials, jokingly known as cake people. In the past, when there was a shortage of grain and many children in the family, most people did not remove the skin of the bread outside the millet grains when they milled the noodles, and ate more millet noodle cakes, also called hair cakes. Only when there are distinguished guests at home, they use the peeled millet grains, which have been gorgeously turned into yellow rice grains at this time, and are milled into noodles, called yellow rice noodles, steamed cakes, and eaten with vegetables and mixed with yellow cakes. Dishes are generally divided into meat dishes and vegetarian dishes, but also divided into hot dishes and cold dishes, hot dishes generally have meat stewed smoked dried tofu, stewed cabbage, stewed Yellow cabbage, stewed noodle tofu, etc., cold dishes have tofu mixed with vegetables, cucumber mixed with dried tofu, shallots mixed with tofu and so on. Only for festivals, weddings and funerals, or very important guests, the freshly steamed yellow cake, wrapped in brown sugar or bean paste, fried in locally produced flax rapeseed oil, is a fried cake. I want to eat fried cakes, Celebrate the New Year, attend weddings and funerals, and come to the guests to relieve their hunger.
Steamed yellow rice cake
People in the hometown joke that in this life, three meals of fried cakes specially made for themselves can only eat one meal, which is the meal when an individual gets married and does a happy event. Two meals can not be eaten, one is just born, the family celebrates, relatives and friends eat, they will only cry. Then he died, his family and relatives and friends ate, but he couldn't cry, let alone eat any fried cakes.
The traditional snack "Donkey Roll" is made from yellow rice from rice. Rice is also the best raw material for making rice wine. Rice is rich in protein, 1 times more abundant than japonica rice. It contains slightly less starch than japonica rice. The fat content is higher than that of rice and wheat, similar to corn, mainly palmitic acid, linoleic acid, isolinoleic acid and so on. Nutrition is still abundant.
Festive Ulsan paper cuts
Now, fried cakes are not only still the main food on the banquets of people's banquets, but also enter the hall and become the table guests of the northern star-rated hotels, mostly for an auspicious, meaning high and tall, looking forward to high and high, becoming a mascot. The main thing is that it's really delicious.
Steamed cake diagram