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[making New Year cakes] - the most important new year custom in Zhejiang rural areas

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Steamed rice cake. Rice cake because of the homonym Nian Gao , coupled with a variety of tastes. In Zhejiang rural areas, almost become a family's necessary food. In my memory, making rice cakes is a big thing. When I was a child, my grandmother's family made rice cakes. Adults had to prepare them for several days in advance. After rice washing, it seemed that they would soak for the night. Then they went to the queue. Many people were queuing up. Sometimes we had to wait from the morning until the afternoon when we were excited. Maybe there were many people making rice cakes at that time, and the number of people making rice cakes was also large. Then there was the traditional manual way. It was done slowly. So It's a long process. But, on the whole, it's a special expectation. Children run. Adults are busy. The air is slightly tipsy. The hot rice cakes are full. If you are hungry or greedy, the rice cakes of any family are OK. Everyone can eat them at will. After that, the adults will pick up the New Year cakes and go home. Then many days later, they will eat fresh new year cakes at home, such as fried New Year cakes with cabbage, etc

Cooking ingredients

japonica rice:8

glutinous rice:8

water:8

Cooking Steps

Step1:In fact, it's very simple to make rice cakes with machines now. Rice only needs to be mixed according to a certain proportion. The old people say that it is generally appropriate that the proportion of late rice and glutinous rice is 9-1 or 10-1. The former is called inside plus one. The other is called outside plus one. Naturally, the former is more glutinous. After that, we just need a little washing. Then we can wait in line. We didn't even guess the function of chopsticks inserted in rice. Previously, we all thought that they were used to make marks, so as not to make mistakes. Later, we consulted. It turned out that they had other ideas. It was a bit superstitious. They said that they were afraid of ghosts and other things to steal food. Of course, now most of them are just some old people continuing their habits.

Step2:The washed rice is poured into the machine and pressed into powder.

Step3:These powders will be weighed after weighing to determine the processing cost. It's not expensive. A jin of powder is only 0.3 yuan. 150 Jin of powder is 45 yuan of processing cost. About 400 pieces of rice cakes. Add water to the weighed powder in a certain proportion and mix evenly.

Step4:But manual mixing is still very extensive. There must be particles. So it needs to be pressed again with a machine to reduce the number of particles. Only in this way can the rice cake be made finer and smoother.

Step5:Then, the powder will be put into these wooden barrels to steam. The feeling of smoke will make the space look different and warm.

Step6:Because it's heated in a boiler, it only takes a few minutes for the powder to ripen.

Step7:The steamed powder is still granular. We used to call it snowflake ball . It's slightly salty, but it's a little sweet. In the past, people used to wrap bean curd or pickled mustard. In memory, the taste is really incurable. It's very beautiful. Of course. Now you can't eat it again.

Step8:Kwai rice noodles will be poured on this machine. Then there will be a master who will put it in the mouth. The rice cake from below is fine and slippery. The cold water is poured over. Another fast master. Just cut them in a knife. Don't look at the action list. But cutting it to length is like a one. It also requires effort.