Yellow rice soft cake and noodle soup, soba noodle dumplings, long bean noodles are traditional foods in the neighboring areas of Jin, Shaanxi and Mongolia. Because of its delicious taste, it is deeply loved by people in this area. In the past years, there was a shortage of food, a single food variety structure, and a limited selection of goodies. At that time, people were generally poor, and expensive things could not afford or were reluctant to eat. And these foods are inexpensive. For the majority of farmers, the grain that makes these foods is grown in their own fields, and they can love to eat more.
Because it is not difficult to find it, such as cake flour soup, cake bean noodles, etc. have become people's delicious food to improve their lives, celebrate holidays, celebrate birthdays, and entertain guests. Become a delicacy that people will never forget.
The yellow rice soft cake is delicious to eat, and it is laborious and time-consuming to make, especially the mashed cake noodles are still very laborious. At that time, there was no machinery and equipment for processing cake noodles. The amount of red and white feasts is large, and the cake noodles are pressed on the stone mill. Usually, I eat cakes at home, and the cake noodles are pounded in stone mortars by hand.
Most of the homes in my hometown have stone mortars and a wooden stick and a pestle wearing a stone hat. Most of these furniture is used to mash cake noodles.
Pour the soaked yellow rice into the basket again and again to make the noodles. After each mashing, use a thin basket to put the noodles down. It's a hard-working, sweaty and breathless person. This work had to be done by the young descendants of the family and the daughters-in-law.
Steamed cakes are carried out by experienced housewives. Before steaming the cake, mix the dry cake noodles with an appropriate amount of cold water. The cake noodles should not be poured into the steamer at one time, but should be sprinkled layer by layer on the cage cloth in the pot to prevent steaming into a sandwich cake. The fried cake should be controlled in a good way. Most of the women in my hometown have mastered the essentials of making cakes, rarely make mistakes, and the cakes they make are soft and firm, and the taste is very good.
There are many ways to eat yellow rice cake. You can eat fried cakes, or you can dip the freshly made vegetarian cake in lamb soup and eat the fragrant meat dipping cake. Fried oil cakes are generally stuffed into vegetarian cakes first, and there are also bean paste fillings. I still have the habit of making "roll cakes" in my hometown. It is to roll out a large piece of vegetarian cake on the board, and spread the jujube puree evenly after the jujube is boiled and pitted, and then rolled up from one end or from both ends to the center. Roll into a cylinder and cut it piece by piece with a knife. The cut section has a spiral pattern of circles, red and yellow. After being fried in a frying pan, the lines on it become clearer and clearer, which is not only delicious, but also aesthetically pleasing. It's a beautiful work of art!
Freshly fried oil cake, golden color, golden brilliance, overflowing aroma, looking hungry and mouth-watering. Bite the skin is crispy and soft. Sprinkled with sugar, it tastes soft and delicate, sweet and delicious. True color scent is good!
Yellow rice soft cake is not only delicious, but also endowed with a beautiful and auspicious meaning. "Cake" and "high" are harmonious, and giving the elderly a birthday cake is to wish the elderly a high life. Eating rice cakes in the New Year contains the meaning of wishing the people on the way to the people of the people who are prosperous and prosperous every year. At the same time, I also hope that the days will be as good as the sesame blossom festival and the high year will be better than the year! I also wish my children and grandchildren high scores in the annual exams and so on.
In my memory, during the New Year's Festival, the family was busy brewing yellow rice to make soft cakes, and at the same time, they were busy pressing pea noodles on the mill and making long bean noodles in order to eat the two together.
It is difficult to make long bean noodles, such as rolling noodles and other links must be done in place to meet the requirements. The bean noodles are not done well, either cooked and eaten stiff and hard, or they will "eliminate the soup" when they go down to the pot, and the noodles will become a rotten brain in the soup, sorry, then you can only drink the bean batter.
I love to eat the long bean noodles made by my mother. The bean noodles rolled by the mother are thin, thin and long, and cooked into the pot to clean the noodles, which are delicious and refreshing.
I still remember my mother rolling beans. Place a large noodle case about one meter and a half square on the earthen kang and spread a plastic sheet underneath. The rolling battle is also more than a meter long. Take a piece of reconciled bean noodles and put them on the board, sprinkle corn flour noodles, roll out some and wrap it on the rolling pot, then press your palms on the ends of the rolling pin, push forward twice, and then hold the rolling pin and move it backwards to the front of your arms, repeating this rolling. The rolling pin and the board collide to produce a uniform "tom, tom, tom" sound. The sound of my mother rolling bean noodles added a lot of life to my family's courtyard, the sound was not high or low, it was very rhythmic, and I listened to it pleasantly and well.
Fishing a bowl of long bean noodles made by my mother, scooping two spoonfuls of delicious lamb soup, mixing with green onion soy sauce and vinegar, etc., it tastes delicious, and I often eat one bowl after another.
The oil cake bean noodles are eaten together, and the two can complement each other. Soft cakes are sticky and have a feeling of fullness when you eat too much. Bean noodles are the opposite. There is a local saying that "thirty miles of soba noodles and twenty miles of cake and ten miles of bean noodles are hungry and broken", which means that bean noodles are intolerant of hunger, and they are hungry for a long time after eating. Eat some soft cakes and eat some long bean noodles in moderation, which not only tastes delicious but does not hurt the stomach, but also can be described as a golden match!
Long bean noodle soft oil cake is a food that people like to eat. Some people also weave these two delicacies into mountain songs, figuratively comparing the beautiful feelings between friends. The song sings: "Long bean noodles soft cake, this life will always remember your good!" "Expressing the intention of never forgetting the deep friendship with friends and always cherishing each other's friendship can be described as sincere!"
Now people are richer, food is abundant, and there are many delicious things that are dazzling. But I still can't forget the long bean noodle soft oil cake that I liked to eat since I was a child. I bought it from the supermarket every once in a while and ate it. Tasting these delicacies from my hometown often makes me miss my father and mother who worked hard all my life to grow grain in an zhuang household. I will also think of my teenage years when I was bitter and sweet and happy. I think of the small mountain village in my hometown that has been separated for a long time!
About the author: Han Wenqi, Inner Mongolia Jungar Bannerman, college education. Worked as a secondary school Chinese teacher. He loves literature and has published more than ten literary works in newspapers and periodicals. In the 1980s, he was transferred to the Party History Office of the Party Committee of the Islamic League and engaged in the collection and research of the Party history of the Islamic League. He is the chief editor of the fourth series of "Memoirs of the Islamic League Revolution".
Source: Jungar Post