"What are you going to eat in the morning?" I'll go down and buy it", a middle-aged father asked his daughter who had just returned home from vacation.
"Black steamed rice wrapped in fritters, added sugar."
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"Now Ah has black steamed rice?" The mother in the living room interjected. "It feels like it's been a long time."
Dad said he wasn't clear.
"If you can't, you can go to Fang po and buy it." The old mother commanded, "Fang Po seems to have always had it." ”
After 20 minutes, the sweaty father on the bicycle said that Fang Po did not have it, and only bought white steamed rice and came back.
*Nanjing has a number
"What does it mean to be white, you can make your own steamed rice!" The daughter protested and went to brush her teeth sleepily.
The father glanced at the back of his daughter who flashed into the toilet, and his expression was full of You stinky, you don't know how to care about the father who makes you a cow and a horse to buy breakfast the next morning.
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Black steamed rice, as the name suggests, is a rice steamed from black rice, also known as black rice.
But this black is not the other black. This black rice is not "purple rice" rich in anthocyanins, nor is it the viscous and thick blood glutinous glutinous of Babao porridge. To put it bluntly, it is a large white rice covered with black skin, which is dyed in color. In the pursuit of authenticity today, black rice can be regarded as a standard "false advertising":
Refusal to dye rice? I am!
Wu Rice * Authentic Wind Objects Photography / Jia Yizhen
Of course, the dye is still all natural. This plant called the Southern Candle in this ancient book is a distant relative of the Eighteen Tribes of Blueberries. It is all over the rainy and warm mountain forests in the south, and it can be found in Liangguang, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, and basically the area south of the Yangtze River, and it has a public face.
At the turn of spring and summer, farmers who have practiced fire eyes will pluck the leaves from the mountains, mash them with stone mortars, and add water to filter out the juice. Until this point, this leaf has no characteristics. The green leaves are mashed and added water to oxidize into dark green, and any kind of leaf is replaced, and this color comes out.
Southern candle leaf mash juice * mild ridge
The change occurs at the moment when the rice is put in. The rice that was picked up did not enter the juice of the southern candle leaves, and within a night, it would be dyed black from the inside out. If it is other leaf juice, the rice grains will not change for 3 days.
Southern candle leaf juice soaked after *Road Bridge release
This is also the most amazing thing about the Southern Candle: it seems inconspicuous, but it has such a deep dyeing power.
Rice dyed dark green will be steamed by southerners on steamers, and what comes out is black rice. The texture of the rice is very familiar, it is the glutinous toughness of the rice itself, and it is a little bit of a slight elasticity.
If you eat it while it's hot and rinse your mouth with a mouthful of water before, you'll taste a faint aroma of green leaves, like the smell you smell in the forest, which is much more interesting than pure rice!
Black rice * authentic style
After biting, the front teeth will also have a dark black color. Take the rice to school, and the classmates will smile and have darker teeth than those who eat it, which is a pleasure that the non-Ukrainian rice area partners can't experience!
Jasper: Do you want to compare yourself to me? * Where did Daddy go
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As dyed rice, wu rice is arguably the most successful case in China's "false advertising" industry.
A thousand years ago, people in the south near the mountains and forests first began to eat the fruit of the black rice tree (southern candle). As a relative of blueberries, the fruit of the southern candle also carries a deep purple berry-like sour sweetness. The children climbed into the mountains and forests to eat fruit, and after eating, their hands and mouths were stained with ink, although they could not be washed off, but they were also full of fun.
The fruit of the Southern Candle * Savage Tribe
The southern Taoist priests who hoped to break the valley into immortals discovered the dyeing ability of the leaves, and decided that the rice soaked by the leaves could be like Popeye's spinach, which could provide more powerful energy support for their own valleys. So it was named "Qingjing Rice", which spread throughout the Taoist family.
Jingjing Rice * Sohu
This is also the first advertisement of black rice: after eating, it is energetic and can provide power support for feathered immortals.
Today, of course, we know that this advertisement exaggerates the nutritional value of the southern candle leaf. However, rice that has been soaked with leaf juice can indeed be steamed and dried for a long time without decay, and it is a good portable rice.
The account of Qingjing rice (wu rice) in the "Mountain Family Qing Offering" * Regain nature
Later, the Buddhists also saw the nutrient-rich and portable preservation ability of black rice. Because "Umi" sounds like "Ami", the Buddhist family gave the effect of "eliminating disasters and eliminating diseases" to wu rice, which is the second life of wu rice advertising.
Umi cake *feikitchen
After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the religious meaning of black rice gradually faded, and people began to habitually pick young leaves and make black rice after entering the spring.
This dark leaf juice also lived up to expectations, and in that era when there were no electrical appliances, it worked hard to use its own plant polyphenols to suppress bacteria in the environment. Even if the rice is stored for a long time, it will not spoil.
Uchiha *feikitchen
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Every third day of the third lunar month, the Shes in Liangguang and Fujian will cook black rice.
Fu'an She's family makes black rice * Fu'an today
They make a lot of ramie bags the size of fists, and then mix the umi with lard, put it in ramie bags, and add red dates and brown sugar to the oven to steam. The texture of the made black rice is more like lard eight treasure rice, and when you bite it, your lips are full of the sweet aroma of oil.
Black rice in a ramie bag * food talk
The people of Linhai Taizhou will put the steamed wumi into the stone mortar and beat it into rice cakes to make black rice mochi.
Black rice mochi *Charm Taizhou
The finished mochi is wrapped in pine pollen to prevent sticking to the hands, and then sprinkled with sesame slices, which is the most interesting snack sold along the street.
Today you go to Ziyang Ancient Street near the sea, and in the month of the spring and summer handover, you can still find the black rice mochi made by your grandmother. When eating, you must meditate to feel the low-key light fragrance of the southern candle leaves.
Black rice mochi * micro warm ridge
In Anhui, wu rice exists in daily life in the form of "wu rice balls". The steamed Umi is first made into a rice cake, wrapped in different fillings into dumplings, and then dipped in a layer of Umi steamed, and the result is like a rice ball.
Wu rice ball * Anhui culture cloud
But this practice is too cumbersome for almost no one to do, and instead of a simplified version: the steamed umi is spread flat, put on the filling, and either rolled into a ball, or wrapped in long strips, to make a similar appearance to the rice ball.
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At 5:30 a.m., the night gradually begins to turn blue.
The streets of Nanjing Are busy, except for the sanitation aunt, who just ripped open the plastic curtain of the breakfast stall. The wife poured the steamed rice into the wooden barrel, the husband opened the plastic bags containing various small dishes in turn, and the hot soybean milk cauldron whispered on the coal stove.
"Let's have a steamed rice bun fritters, black ones?" On the electric car, the middle-aged father sent his daughter to the train station after the holiday.
"Some of them, the leaves of black rice have just come out," the lady boss responded, "you guys are lucky."
"Come one to one! Fuel strips and sugar! "My daughter happily swung on the butt of the moped." It's too hard to see now! ”
The lady boss opened the barrel and shoveled out a large spoonful of blue-black black rice, and said: "Modd, there are fewer and fewer leaves here, and there is trouble in making black." I am the habit of my hometown, and I am annoyed. ”
Steamed rice * Nanjing has a number
"Which side of you?" The middle-aged dad asked.
"Our hometown of Wuhu, Anhui." The hostess replied.
The daughter smirked. "You are also from Anhui", she poked her father's back, "the Internet does not say the real identity of Nanjing, in fact, it is the provincial capital of Anhui."
The father glanced at his daughter, and his expression was full of "You are crazy and crazy, how will you mix in society in the future!" ”
The daughter couldn't bother so much, and she nibbled on the fritters with the black rice bun.
The sun came out, and the sun shone on her grinning front teeth, a circle of black.
Author: Mei Shanshan
Head image from: 24 seasons of private home
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