In the New Year, there are different customs and habits in various places, and this way of eating alone is various and distinctive. Fried cake is a must-eat food for the New Year in northern Jinbei, with a lot of color, aroma and taste. The oil cake is fried, and the new year flavor is full of fragrance on the street...
The northern Jinbei region is the main production area of small grains in China. Millet, a kind of small grain, has a long history of cultivation and a variety of ways to eat. The most typical is called fried cake.
Eating oil cakes in the New Year, the harmonic pitch of the cakes is high, which means that in the coming year, the children and grandchildren will rise high and grow, and the family road will be far away!
The raw material for the oil cake is millet. To be more precise, it is called the big yellow. After peeling, the color is golden, ground into a noodle, fine and fresh. Mix with cool water, rub until, steam on the pot. The cake is mixed with heat, and the cake that is mixed is called vegetarian cake.
There are many kinds of oil cake fillings, the most common, including bean filling, leek filling, cooked shandan silk filling, bitter vegetable filling, brown sugar filling. I love to eat my mother's tofu pomace stuffed cake. Fresh tofu residue is mixed with brown sugar, wrapped in oil cake to eat, into the mouth of sweet sand sweet sand, the taste is unique.
The kneaded cake, called vegetarian cake dumplings, is laid out one by one and stacked on the articles made of sorghum straw. The round one is the bean cake, the long one is the vegetable cake, and the triangle is the sugar cake.
The oil cake should be fried well, fragrant and flavorful. The first choice of good materials, yellow rice to choose rhubarb rice, oil to use pure sesame oil; the second to master the heat, oil temperature 150 degrees under the pot is the best. In the hands of the fire, my mother had a local method. She told us: The oil pot is hot, throw a matchstick into it, and if you can hold it, it proves that the oil is ripe and the cake can be cooked. Good noodles and good oil to catch the fire, fried oil cake foam, red and yellow color, eat crispy outside and strong inside, that is called really fragrant! Paired with wide noodles, fresh tofu, kelp shreds, and roast pork slices and braised vegetables at noon on the first night, it is enough to eat a meal for a lifetime!
When I was a child, every morning on the eve of the first day, as soon as I ate breakfast, I busied myself with the new clothes made by my mother in the first month, carried a pocket of scattered small firecrackers, and ran out quickly. In the morning, groups of young boys and girls, holding a long burning incense, set off firecrackers everywhere in the streets and alleys. The crackling sound of firecrackers blew up the new taste of a village.
At noon, the aroma of fried oil cakes in the back streets of the front street wafted through the village, and when the mothers and the two dogs, cows and cows, and Lan Lan came home to eat, we flew back to each house like an arrow...
Golden fried cakes, hometown New Year's food, fragrant memories, never forget!
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