Cooking Steps

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   Step1:First, pick maple leaves. Then wash it. This needs to pay attention to two points. One is to choose the kind of maple leaves without plush. The other is not to choose the leaves that are too tender. Otherwise, it is not easy to color the back. If you want to be very black or afraid of failure, you can use a hammer to break the maple leaf pole and bubble together. Wo is lazy here, so he didn't ask for a maple leaf pole. But to be honest, it will be darker if we add maple leaf pole...

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   Step2:Cut the maple leaves into pieces. Then put them in the blender and break them into pieces. Then add water equivalent to 1.5 to 3 times. Soak for 24 to 48 hours. The amount of this water mainly depends on whether the maple leaf is very tender or not. And your soaking time. If the maple leaf is tender, the water added will be less. In short, the depth of the back color mainly depends on the amount of water added and the soaking time. I've doubled the amount of water. Soak it for 30 hours.

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   Step3:After soaking, filter three times. During the soaking process, you can rub the maple leaf dregs with your hands several times from time to time. Of course, it's OK not to rub.

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   Step4:Cook slowly with a small fire. It's a small fire. It's about half an hour. I can see some slag floating on it. Boil until the juice turns light ink. I don't boil water because it's Brown without patience.

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   Step5:After the juice changes color, scoop up the scum on it or filter it again. Then put it in the water to cool. It's probably the kind of temperature that won't feel hot when you stir it with water. Pour in the glutinous rice and soak it overnight. Remember to pour it in directly. You don't need to use another ladle to wash it. Otherwise, it won't be colored.

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   Step6:The rice soaked overnight is a little coffee grey. This hue evaporates out to be grayish black. Not pure black. If you want to steam the pure black one, put less water when you start to soak the maple leaf. Boil the maple leaf juice to make it darker. Or when soaking in maple leaf, hammer the maple leaf pole and soak together. In this way, the glutinous rice soaked by him is gray black. Then it is steamed out to be pure black.

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   Step7:After a night's soaking, scoop up the glutinous rice. Put it in the basket and drain it. It will take about an hour.

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   Step8:Drain the water and put it in the steamer. Boil the water in the steamer until there is steam. I put this in the electric cooker to steam. Boil a pot of boiling water and pour it into the rice cooke