Last Thursday, I bought a small handful of spinach, originally planning to make spinach puree supplements for Xiao Man, but at night when my mother cooked rice, she steamed a piece of pumpkin, and I could only give Xiao Man pumpkin puree. I came back from work on Friday and saw a handful of spinach still lying there, almost out of bed. I had a stroke of genius and said to my mother, Mom, I'll make you cake tonight!
Uttering such a disgusting word as cake stunned myself. Unexpectedly, my mother asked curiously, "Huh?" What is cake? Then you do it and see. “
I remember when I was a child, my mother took me to Grandma Lu's house behind my house to play. Grandma Lu's daughter-in-law, Su Mei, is playing with her children. The little child was holding a piece of black and green cake in his hand, eating it, and it smelled very good, a very strange aroma. If I smell that fragrance again now, I will be like Proust, according to this smell, in the brain think of the memory of the whole childhood, Grandma Lu's earthen house, under the hillside, behind a bamboo forest, behind the bamboo forest is a high mountain, Grandma Lu's second son cement bungalow is in front of Grandma Lu's earthen house, and there is a long mountain tail (short ridge) in the middle... These are all nonsense, don't mention them.
Let's go back to the food. I was hungry, my eyes were fixed on the food in the child's hand, and I hoped that Su Mei would tear off a little cake for me. However, she did not mean it at all. So I deliberately asked out loud, "What is she eating?" Su Mei's tone was not good, not bad, and said: "Shit! (粑粑, the Southerners' name for round, pie-shaped things.) I remember not ending up eating that, and to this day, I don't know what it was made of. I only remember that later, my mother still whispered to her family: Su Mei was a bit of that, she didn't want to give it, she didn't want to give it, what kind of cane, isn't this just choking people's words? Is it okay to choke a child?
When I was a child, I was greedy, and naturally I didn't understand the meaning of Su Mei. I imagined the smell of that. It should be said that has been engraved in the depths of my soul. Otherwise, years later, when I saw the spinach cake, how could I blurt out, Ah, this is cake?
Spinach cake is simple:
1. Wash the spinach, blanch the water for a minute, quickly fish it up and rinse it. Then cut into small pieces, put them in a blender and break them, I use a small child's food supplement. My food supplement machine is very ordinary, and I can't beat it into a paste.
2. Add the beaten spinach puree to the flour, two eggs, add the right amount of salt, and stir well with an egg beater. I want to spread it into pancakes, so the batter is very thin. If you want to eat a little thicker, you can make the batter thicker.
3. Then, dip a little oil in an oil brush and brush it on the electric cake bell, pour the batter in and make it even. Follow the operation on the electric cake pan. Halfway through, you need to turn it over and fry it.
4. No electric cake pan can be fried in a pan. However, I never pancake a full pan with pancakes, so it's better to use an electric pancake pan.
The spinach cake was spread out, and my mother ate two in one go. Always said delicious. But she didn't know what it was made of.
Until the next morning my mother was still yelling, you make bread, make cake for breakfast. Make a cake with green onions, just like the one made last night, how nice.
What the? The cake I made yesterday was a green onion cake? You didn't eat it?
Isn't it a green onion cake? Oh, what kind of bread is that? It turned out to be spinach cake. Delicious, delicious, you make the cake again.
The spinach cake is ready
Spinach cake, I have always called it cake, the reason is what I talked about earlier, not because of the bad taste in the heart. The first time I ate spinach cake was in the cafeteria of my undergraduate year. Well. I studied in a very ordinary second college in Shandong, the school has no characteristics, teaching buildings, libraries, campus scenery, architecture, no characteristics, how about other schools, our school is basically like that. But the canteen is still quite distinctive. Buy rice in the cafeteria and bring it back, without disposable lunch boxes or the like, the rice chef will let you open a convenient bag and then pour the rice and vegetables into it. Well, then you'll see on campus, men and women, carrying a convenient bag of meals towards the dormitory. The school has three canteens, two canteens close to the girls' dormitory, the meals are not good, but the canteen meals near the boys' dormitory building are very tasty. Therefore, girls who are in love usually come to the boys' dormitory downstairs to wait for their boyfriends, and then go into the cafeteria together. I was one of those girls.
The spinach cake I am talking about is the characteristic breakfast of this canteen near the boys' dormitory building. Well, the other two canteens don't have this spinach cake. Spinach cake is a hot food in the canteen, and if you go a little late, the canteen spinach cake will be gone. The window where the cake was sold was the responsibility of a middle-aged uncle, with spinach cakes and scallion oil cakes. A very large piece of bread, whoever wants it, cut some with a knife and cut it into small pieces. Spinach cake taste is very good, soft and smooth, salty and moderate, eat more is not greasy, the key is that you can not eat its spinach flavor. I never knew what that was made of, so I took it for granted that I called it pie. My roommate didn't know what this was made of, and she bought it every morning, and she called it a "green pie." It wasn't until I left college that I was chatting with a classmate about a college cafeteria meal that I learned that the cake was made with spinach.
I remember the classmate asking me in surprise: "You actually ate it for four years, don't know that it was made of spinach?" ”
I asked her, "You knew that from the beginning?" ”
She said, "I asked someone else. ”
"Haha."
There is also a very funny thing about spinach cake, which is worth mentioning.
In the last semester of college, I am probably only a few months away from graduation. One morning, I asked the sheep to go to the canteen downstairs from their dormitory for breakfast. That morning the sheep wore a blue tracksuit.
The two of us took plates and went to the various windows selling food in the canteen to look at them, and unconsciously walked to the place where the cakes were sold. A look at several spinach cakes spread out on the platform. I stared at the spinach cake, holding the plate in one hand and pulling on the sheep's clothes with the other: "Big sheep, look, there is a 'shit cake' today!" ”
Hey? How the big sheep did not react. I looked over my face, and the boy in the blue tracksuit next to me stepped back one after another, looking at me in shock, trying to say something without saying anything. It turned out I was pulling the wrong man, not the big sheep. I had to apologize and say I'm sorry. In the blink of an eye, the big sheep was behind me, heard my voice, and rushed over.
The uncle who sold cakes saw this scene and looked at the two boys in blue tracksuits, and he smiled forward and backward.
It was the last time I ate spinach cake in college. Later, I always got up late and couldn't buy cakes in time.
My mom was addicted to bread and always let me make bread, and she also said that making cakes can save money and save money for breakfast. In fact, making cakes is more troublesome.
No way, I made her carrot and shallot cake at noon on Saturday. The method is as above and will not be repeated.
Carrot shallot cake