I wish you all a happy new year Li Jiaxin shipped a batch of New Year's goods, including glutinous rice from Jiangnan.
"Let's make some rice cakes."
Li Chao looked at the plump and crystalline glutinous rice, and couldn't help but have some memories of the past Chinese New Year in his mind.
In later generations, Li Chao's sister married in Jiangxi, where there was a custom of beating rice cakes during the New Year.
Just after the winter solstice, almost every household in the countryside over there began to make rice cakes.
The rice cakes made in the countryside are different from the rice cakes bought, they are coarser and have a more authentic taste.
Cui Yingying is quite interested in this, and when she is pregnant with her second child, she seems to have become a foodie, and she is becoming more and more interested in food.
"There are rice cakes to buy outside, why do you have to fight yourself so troublesomely."
Du Caiwei hugged the lamb and said on the side.
"How can you buy it as if you beat it yourself, beating rice cakes is a taste of the New Year."
Li Chao said.
Rice cakes, also called rice cakes, are a good color head.
During the Spring Festival, it is indispensable as a gift when visiting relatives and friends.
I remember that after my sister got married, every year when she went home for the New Year, she would bring a lot of rice cakes made by her own family, and the rice cakes became an unforgettable New Year's gift in Li Chao's memory.
As long as you remember to change the water frequently, then this piece of rice cake can even be stored for a few months, and if you put it directly in the well, it can be stored for more than half a year.
Put it in the refrigerator and it won't go bad for a year.
When you want to eat, cut it into pieces, cut it into thin slices, fry it in oil, add some eggs to fry it is the most delicious, and eat the fried soft rice cake with white sugar, which is glutinous and soft and has the fragrance of rice.
To beat the rice cake, you naturally have to use a stone mortar, a large wooden mallet and a stone mortar, and hitting the rice cake is a scenery at the end of the year in many places in the south of the Yangtze River.
However, although the rice cake is delicious, it is not easy to fight, and this thing is even more difficult than sake brewing.
The sake brewing family can make it at home, but sometimes it takes the whole village to work together to make rice cakes.
Li Chao went to his sister's house for the New Year, and at the end of the year, the village had to make rice cakes for a week.
Every year, when the rice cakes are made, the men of the village gather together and draw lots to make the rice cakes, while the women are responsible for lighting the fire, and the children are responsible for watching and eating.
Basically, the rice cakes are grouped and come in turns, this year's batch, next year's another batch.
Beating rice cakes is the same as squeezing oil, and it is such a group activity.
I heard that Xiangye was going to make rice cakes, and several servants from his hometown Jiangnan automatically asked for it.
"It's not easy to beat rice cakes, you have to grasp the heat.
Taobao, grinding, boiling water, steaming, steaming, beating, red, every process is not simple. ” It was an old cook in the kitchen at home, who was responsible for steaming rice for the domestic servants.
Li Chao heard him explain the cake making process so clearly, and immediately chose this old man as the master of the Li family's cake making this year.
"How many cakes do we make" The old cook surnamed Jiang got this appointment, and his face was full of joy.
Li Chao thought about it, there are so many people in the family, there must be more dots, and the rice cake has a good name, which is a good thing for New Year's gifts.
The Li family has so many relatives and friends, and the family has to give a lot.
Besides, Li Chao also plans to send some to the following dealers, as well as those who cooperate with the Li family's industry.
It's the New Year, send some home-made rice cakes, which is very sincere.
"Let's make a million pounds," Li Chao said after calculating. "10,000 catties" Lao Jiang was taken aback, his family used to beat rice cakes, and he only beat ten catties, but Li Xiangye actually beat 10,000 catties.
"Well, play more, it will be a New Year's gift, and I will give it away."
Lao Jiang counted with his fingers, "It's almost thirty catties to make a cage of rice cakes, and at least more than three hundred cages to make ten thousand catties."
A young and strong family can play about three cages a day at most, and it takes several days to beat 10,000 catties. ” "It's good to arrange more family cakes, and after three or four days, 10,000 catties of cakes can still be beaten."
Lao Jiang Tou calculated that there were not so many people in his kitchen, and if six or seven people were drawn out to fight, and twenty cages a day, it would take half a month.
But Li Chao's calculation is different, there are many Li families, and he can just draw dozens of people to fight for a few days, and it will be done.
"There are several flavors of rice cakes."
Cui Yingying asked, "What are the flavors of rice cakes?"
Lao Jiang is like a few treasures, "There are osmanthus sugar rice cakes, water mill rice cakes, eight-treasure rice cakes and lard rice cakes, and of course, there are also rice cakes that do not add anything." ” "Get some of everything."
Li Chaodao.
Lao Jiang took Li Chao's order and immediately went to select the cake team with his head held high.
Li Chao gave him a message, and people picked it at will.
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"Those who are selected for the cake team, the men will be given five catties of rice cakes, and the women will be given four catties."
Lao Jiang proudly announced to everyone.
It takes three or four days to beat the cake, although it is said that the cake is a very technical and tiring job, but everyone is originally from the Li family, and now they can get a few extra catties of rice cakes in three days, how can they be unhappy.
The male and female maids in the family are enthusiastic to sign up.
Five catties of rice cakes can be exchanged for several buckets of relief food.
Lao Jiang finally chose fifty people, and made ten groups with five people as a group.
Anyway, the Li family has no shortage of mortars, steamers and pots.
Those who were selected by Lao Jiang were elated, and they were very grateful to Lao Jiang, and those who were not selected couldn't help but sigh again and again, feeling deeply regretful, and there were a few powerful ones, and they had to discuss theories with Lao Jiang, and finally Lao Jiang moved out of Li Chao's name, and these losers didn't dare to make trouble anymore, and they were honest.
To beat the cake, you first need glutinous rice from Jiangnan, and the glutinous rice is ground into powder.
There is a mill and a donkey at home, which is not difficult.
Over there, the glutinous rice began to grind, and here Lao Jiang had already taken some freshly ground glutinous rice flour and began to add water.
After adding water, you can put it in the pot to steam, glutinous rice flour is very particular about adding water, and the water added can not be more or less, otherwise it will seriously affect the taste of the rice cake.
Lao Jiang has a good experience, and he measures the rice noodles with a bucket, and then measures the water in proportion.
"Uncle Jiang, isn't it ready to be steamed?"
Lao Jiang rolled up his sleeves, and his hands were full of rice noodles.
He shook his head, "It's not good to steam now, after the glutinous rice flour is mixed with water, it has to go through a sieve." ” Li Chao stood aside and looked at Lao Jiang with interest, and then found the bamboo sieve and began to sift it.
After the sifting was done, the rice noodles could finally be steamed in the wooden basket, and the servant woman began to add fire as instructed.
Grinding glutinous rice flour, adding water and mixing powder, sifting, screening, and steaming, Li Chao arranged this process on the side and turned it into an assembly line.
The first cage was quickly steamed and became a large ball.
"You guys look at it, it's a good idea to beat rice cakes."
Lao Jiang Tou took a big wooden mallet and beat it on the glutinous rice balls that were put into the mortar.
The freshly steamed glutinous rice dough is very sticky, soft and fluffy, and when the mallet is lifted, it will stick to it.
Hitting rice cakes is powerful, but you have to pay more attention to skill, otherwise you can't use the strength, so you are like stuck in the mire.
Old Jiang Tou fought quite easily, and the young family members next to him were eager to try.
Old Jiang Tou smiled and handed the gavel to a guy next to him.
The boy was eighteen or nineteen years old, stout, tall and large, took the gavel, spat it in his hand, and then took it and smashed it with all his might.
Then he lifted the hammer with all his might, and with brute force, he hit hard and fast.
But after only a dozen or so strokes, this guy was already red-faced, and his hands were getting slower and slower.
It seems that the lump of rice cakes is not big, but it seems to weigh 100 catties, so that a young man with brute strength can't even pick up a mallet.
At this time, Lao Jiang took the mallet from the young man's hand with a smile and began to move it again.
As soon as the gavel was in Lao Jiang's hand, he became obedient again, and he would not hit the stone mortar at all, as if he was very obedient.
"Look at it, you have to be skillful."
Under the guidance of Lao Jiang, the guy no longer looked down on the cake, and learned seriously.
During this period, Li Chao and his father also picked up the mallet and played a cage together.
The cake is less than 30 catties, and the two of them hit it for almost half an hour, at least a thousand times with a mallet.
In Lao Jiang's words, the rice cake needs to be beaten, and the longer it is beaten, the better it will taste, and the easier it will be to preserve it in the future.
Of course, if you are normal and skilled, it will be about the same if you hit three or four hundred times.
Li Chao and the others did half the work, and they didn't master the method. insisted on finishing a cage, Li Chao was as tired as a dog, and Dad, a veteran of dancing iron guns on the battlefield, was also a little out of breath.
There is a lot of merit in the big sigh industry, and it is not easy to make cakes.
Looking at the rice cakes that are white with a little beige and translucent like jade, Li Chao also sighed, it is really not easy to make handmade cakes.
Tear off a small lump of rice cake directly from the mortar and stuff it into your mouth, chewing it with great toughness.
This cage is a pure rice cake with nothing added to it, and it tastes good.
Dad also pulled a little bit and chewed it a few times, "The rice cakes I made are fragrant to eat." ” The two of them were chewing rice cakes, and their bodies were still steaming, and they were both smiling.
At this time, the beaten rice cake is still a large ball, and there are still several processes before the final product.
Under the guidance of Lao Jiang, Li Chao took the rice cake ball out of the stone mortar and put it on the board.
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Take a bamboo tube, roll and flatten the rice cake for the new year, and then cut the cake.
A family member came over with a knife, but Lao Jiang said, "The knife is not good, bring a thick wire." ” Freshly beaten rice cakes are still soft and sticky, and if you cut them with a knife, they will stick to the knife, and the traditional way is to cut the cake with a thread.
Lao Jiang took the thread, pulled the two ends, was in a hurry, and cut the cake one by one, and cut it very smoothly.
"Bring me the red juice I just made."
Old Jiang Dao.
A bowl of red juice is served, which is prepared for the final process of the finished rice cake.
The beaten rice cake has to be dotted with a red color, and the white rice cake has a little red on it, which will be very beautiful.
During the Chinese New Year, it is also very auspicious to give gifts with such red rice cakes.
"Xiangye, please be red."
Lao Jiang asked Li Chao to complete this last process.
Li Chao took a wooden seal and gave it to his father.
"Daddy, Together" The two of them dipped the wooden seal in the bowl, and the wooden seal was dipped in bright red suwood water, white cake, and red seal, which was very beautiful.
After the cake is beaten, a family member takes a bamboo basket and smears some water on the basket first, in case the cake sticks to it in the future and cannot be removed.
The rectangular cake strips are stacked into the basket piece by piece, and then placed directly against the wall to stand up one by one, and the outside is covered with straw to keep warm and anti-freezing, and after a few days, the rice cake will dry and hard.
At this point, it can be removed and then immersed in water for months without spoiling.
"Soak in water, remember to use the water before the beginning of spring, so that it will not break."
Lao Jiang passed on another secret.
Li Chao smiled and asked Lao Jiang Tou to mark this basket of cakes, "This is the cake that our two masters made by themselves, and it is not easy to beat it thousands of times, so keep this cake for yourself to eat." ” At this time, another basket of cakes has been steamed and can be beaten.
Lao Jiang hurriedly greeted the family again and began to hammer it.
Li Chao picked up a few pieces of rice cakes that were still warm and soft and went to the backyard to compensate Cui Yingying and them. t1706231537: