National teacher, your man ran away

Yao Yixin was surprised when he learned that the national teacher who loves his job and work is going back to his hometown to visit his relatives. Yao Yixin couldn't help being happy.

He was originally thinking of sending someone to Mozhu Mountain Villa to give the gift. In the past, Uncle Niu would give it to him, but Uncle Niu accidentally injured his leg while driving in the past two days. The rest of the family were either too young or He has never been to Black Bamboo Villa, he can go by himself, but now he just divorced his son and came to give a boxing gift, he always feels a little embarrassed...

Fortunately, Master Guoshi decided to go back to his hometown to visit his relatives, so Jie Li could ask him to take him back along the way.

"Let me prepare the soil ceremony for the second elder. It happens to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I have something delicious to give to the second elder."

In this time and space, there is no custom of eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, when worshiping the moon, they will eat something called "wheat cakes". Yao Yixin watched Grandma Huang make them two days ago.

How should I put it, the wheat cakes gave him the feeling that when he was in a boarding junior high school, the coarse-grain steamed buns served for dinner in the cafeteria were about the leftovers from the day before yesterday. Doubt about life...

The trick is that Yao Yixin doesn't even know how to make mooncakes!

Children of his age have been taught by their parents to study hard since they were young. Moreover, at that time, no one would make mooncakes at home even in rural areas. It was too troublesome and unnecessary. Mooncakes were only available during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Relatives and friends send food to each other when festivals come. The packaging is pretty, but it’s only for entertaining each other. If the conditions are good, no one likes to eat greasy food.

Anyway, Yao Yixin had never seen mooncakes made at home, and she didn't know how to make them.

However, when he went for a walk on Zhuangzi two days ago, he saw a lot of Ruo leaves growing near the foot of the backer. Ruo leaves are also called Yiyelan here, because the fibers after splitting the leaves are very flexible, and they are often picked. It is used to bind things. When buying pork, it is also tied with split leaves and carried in the hand.

Yao Yixin's eyes brightened when he saw these green Ruo leaves. Although he couldn't make mooncakes (mainly because Yao Yixin didn't like mooncakes), he could still make zongzi!

Although eating zongzi on Mid-Autumn Festival feels a little weird, but who let there be no Qu Yuan and no Dragon Boat Festival here?Moreover, Yao Yixin also likes to eat zongzi.

The people there basically every household can make zongzi by themselves, especially when the farming season is busy. When they come back from the field in the evening, they pick up two handfuls of fresh reed leaves on the way. The wrapped rice dumplings are boiled and let cool, and there will be breakfast and lunch the next day.

Yao Yixin likes to eat this kind of cold zongzi very much. It is different from the freshly cooked zongzi. The cold zongzi tastes more chewy, whether it is eaten with sugar, dipped in oil and pepper, or wrapped directly with meat stuffing. Eat, all very delicious.

Just do what you say, that night, Yao Yixin took someone to pick a basket full of reed leaves.

Ruoye is a plant that likes humid places, and often grows in ditches in the field. When picking it, first use a hook to hook the Ruoye to the side, and then select moderately sized, green-colored leaves to pull out from the roots. The bamboo leaves have a unique fragrance and are most suitable for making rice dumplings. In some places, bamboo shoot shells are used to make rice dumplings, which turn brownish yellow when cooked, but they are not as good as rice dumplings wrapped in fresh bamboo leaves. They have a natural fragrance .

It is best to wash the picked Ruo leaves and put them in boiling hot water for two times, so that the eggs and bacteria on the leaves can be killed.Yao Yixin is a bit of a clean freak. In this time and space where there is no cleaning of fruits and vegetables, the ingredients picked in the wild must be boiled once to eliminate the fear of insect eggs and bacteria.

The processed Ruo leaves are put together, scoop a large spoonful of prepared fillings and soaked japonica rice, and wrap them into a small triangle in twos and threes, and tie them tightly with split Ruo leaves. The zongzi was made.

Uncle Muchai is indeed an amazingly talented professional cook. After watching it twice, he can make perfectly shaped zongzi independently. Others still have some pressure on making triangular zongzi. Yao Yixin taught them to make quadrangular zongzi, which is even better. Pack some.

There are three kinds of zongzi fillings prepared, one is pure white rice zongzi, which can be dipped in honey, the other is candied red bean filling, and the other is fat and thin meat zongzi wrapped in stewed meat. Soon a dustpan full of zongzi was wrapped. In order to distinguish the taste, the white rice zongzi was wrapped with a thread, and the candied red bean filling and the stewed meat filling were two and three respectively.

A few small zongzi couldn't make it, so they squatted on the ground eagerly looking at the wrapped zongzi. I heard the young master said that they can be eaten after they are cooked.

Recently, their young master is too busy to research and develop new dishes. Everyone is so hungry.

"Okay, let's cook these first, and then make some for breakfast tomorrow!" Looking at the wrapped zongzi, each person can get two, and the prepared fillings are almost used , Yao Yixin waved his hand, the firewood was set up in the firewood pot, half a pot of water was put in the big iron pot, and the rice dumplings started to cook.

As the water in the pot boiled slowly, a seductive fragrance floated out from the pot lid. It smelled like the fresh smell of wheatgrass harvest in the countryside, mixed with the sweetness of candied dates and red beans, and braised pork The alluring scent of...

"What smells so sweet?" Su Lichun accompanied Master Guoshi to the kitchen, and he didn't know whether he was walking by after dinner or came here smelling the smell.

"It seems to have the salty smell of stewed meat~" His Excellency the National Teacher saw that he was a salty party, and instantly distanced himself from Su Lichun, a sweet party.

"National Teacher, Master Su, it just so happens that we just made a lot of zongzi, some are sweet and some are salty, why don't we try them together?" Yao Yixin warmly invited.

There are sweet ones and salty ones?Master Guoshi and Su Lichun despise Yao Yixin, a sweet and salty merger party who has no position: Can sweet and salty be cooked in the same pot? !

However, the facts have proved that in Yaojia Village, the sweet party and the salty party can really reach the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence through a small leaf...

The cooked Ruoye Zongzi has a very beautiful green appearance. After peeling off, there are crystal clear white rice, bright red candied dates, red beans, and stewed pork that oozes oil when you poke it.

"Sweet and original ones can be dipped in honey, and salty rice dumplings stuffed with stewed meat can be eaten directly, or dipped in oil and spicy rice." Yao Yixin pointed to the dipping saucer on the table, eagerly eating from the peeled rice dumplings. In the rice dumpling plate, he picked up a stewed pork rice dumpling and a rice dumpling stuffed with red bean and candied dates. He planned to eat the original flavor after it cooled down.

Seeing Yao Yixin put salty rice dumplings and sweet rice dumplings in a bowl, the corners of the mouths of the sweet and salty people present could not help but twitch. They really couldn't figure out how there is such a cult in this world?

However, the taste of the zongzi was so delicious that Master Guoshi and Su Lichun immediately stretched out their chopsticks, picked up their favorite zongzi and ate them.

Master Guoshi probably has a cleanliness habit, so he specially asked for a small bowl, and took two spoonfuls from the dipping dish containing oily and hot peppers, and put it in his own bowl, probably because he didn't want to eat other people's saliva?

Seeing this scene, Yao Yixin rolled her eyes, and immediately asked someone to bring two small bowls over, and put a small bowl of honey and two spoonfuls of hot pepper oil respectively, dipping one side and the other side, it was not enough to eat It's fun.

Su Lichun reluctantly couldn't bear to look at these two masters with different standpoints, occupied a bowl by himself, scooped up half a bowl of honey, and ate delicious rice dumplings with candied dates and red bean stuffing, just like a faithful believer sweet party.

The first pot of rice dumplings is not much, but it will be enough for each person to share two. We have just had dinner, and everyone is not very hungry. After eating two rice dumplings, even if we are greedy, we will be too full to eat.

"Ahem, I forgot to ask just now, what is this new food?" After eating zongzi and drinking the Yao family's special hawthorn digestion tea, the national teacher couldn't help asking.

"This, I just came up with it haha, didn't I make rice balls at home before? There are also things wrapped in them, but I always feel that the taste is not enough, so I thought, why not wrap some fresh leaves and steam them for a try , It is much more delicious than rice balls." Yao Yixin explained with a laugh, anyway, it is well known that he likes to tinker with new food, and rice dumplings are not bad.

"The one you said was delicious today, but it's this rice dumpling?" Su Nianbai asked suddenly.

"Um, this...haha! I'll write down the recipe later, you go back and order someone to make it, and I'll order someone to pick more reed leaves for you to bring back." Yao Yixin explained embarrassingly, he didn't think about it until after eating the rice dumplings. Wake up, there is no vacuum packaging at this time, the rice dumplings are ready, and the long-distance transportation will deteriorate in less than a day. When they arrive at the Black Bamboo Villa, they will probably be fermented and turned into distiller's grains.

It seems that we still have to find another way to give the gift to the second elder of the Su family.

What a pig brain he is!

and many more!

Distiller's grains?

Sweet wine?

Ha ha!He thought of what he was going to give as a gift this year!

Yao Yixin jumped up suddenly, and asked Uncle Mu Chai to help prepare small wine jars, glutinous rice, koji and other things.

Sweet wine brewed in their hometown is also called sweet wine and fermented glutinous rice. It is the product of glutinous rice fermentation. After the glutinous rice is fermented, a large number of fungi that are beneficial to the human body will be formed. It is a good product for invigorating qi and nourishing blood for middle-aged and elderly people, pregnant women and those with weak health.

Yao Yixin remembered that in their family, if a woman gave birth to a child, they must prepare a lot of high-quality fermented rice in advance. In addition to nourishing the mother, it is said that it also has the effect of promoting lactation. Guests, some guests are coming, cook a few bowls of sweet rice wine, poach a few poached eggs in it, and it will be a hot winter seasonal snack.

As a sweet and salty party, Yao Yixin loves poached eggs with fermented rice very much!

The author has something to say: Question: Can the salty party and the sweet party live together?

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Start standing in line below!Sweet rice dumplings and salty rice dumplings, which side do you stand on?