Spring back to the earth, spring is full of joy, spring eating flowers and plants, is a symbol of fashion and health, Chaoshan people eat flowers, grass, leaves in a different way, not with them to make tea but into the food to make the time. Such as the Spring Festival, lantern eat rat shell kway, Qingming Festival eat pu seed kway, Dragon Boat Festival eat gardenia and so on...
Sage shell grass is the first grass of the new spring, just picked from the field. Fresh sage! Raw material for the new version of the rat shell koeh.
The meticulousness starts from the raw material, which is a millet species of sagegrass, which has a stronger aroma, higher quality and brighter color than ordinary sage. Eat spring in the spring, eat a mouth full of spring fragrance, full of spring green.
The Chaoshan people call all food products made from rice flour, flour, potato flour and other processings "kueh". In the Chaoshan season, when eating shijiu, various kinds of kueh have different effects.
Rat shell kueh. It is not only a sacrificial offering, but also a Chaoshan specialty snack, and a delicacy shared by people and gods. It has the effect of removing stasis and harmonizing gastric qi. In the old days, it was only done at home before the Spring Festival, but now it can be seen in all four festivals, but the taste is far less than that of the season.
The Chaoshan people call all food products made from rice flour, flour, potato flour and other processings "kueh". In the Chaoshan season, when eating shijiu, various kinds of kueh have different effects. The special feature of rat shell koen is that on its kon skin, it must use a wild sage shell herb, which is a Chinese medicinal herb, also known as sage ear herb, called white head in Chinese medicine. Growing in winter farmland and barren hills, it has small white flowers at the end of the core, and the buds and branches have cotton-like white fibers, which are named because of its leaves like rat ears and have a special fragrance.
The processing process of rat shell kway is complex, after being collected from the field, the core leaves are selected and boiled in a pot, drained and the astringent water is drained, and then put into the stone mortar to rot. Add water, oil and oil sugar to cook into a pulp, and mix well with glutinous rice flour and knead into a ball. Also prepare the filling, as shown above, and then wrap the skin into the filling, press out the kon embryo with a kon mold, and steam it in a steamer.
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——Chaoshan people are indispensable delicacies on the table of the eight festivals of the year. It is not only a sacrificial offering, but also a Chaoshan specialty snack, and it is a delicacy shared by people and gods.
Rat shell koeh
We all know that the diet of Chaoshan people is exquisite, and Chaoshan people have always followed the diet concept of not eating from time to time. Spring Festival is the best time to eat rat shell kun, which has the effect of removing stasis and reconciling stomach qi. With it, there is no longer a worry about the mental burden of eating and drinking.