Respect the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival and climb high to avoid disasters. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, and they also mean "step by step" and "long life", so "Chongyang Flower Cake" has become a popular holiday food.
Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five-color cake, can be made at will, including "coarse flower cake", "fine flower cake" and "money flower cake". Stick some coriander leaves as a sign, and put some rough dried fruits such as olives, dates and walnuts in the middle; There are three or two layers of fine flower cakes, each with fine candied dried fruits, such as preserved apples, peaches, apricots and dates. Money flower cake is basically the same as fine flower cake, but smaller, like "money", which is mostly the food of the upper nobility.
It is said that in early years, people didn't put dates and chestnuts on flour cakes, or sticky cakes made of steamed glutinous rice and yellow wheat looked like "gold-plated" and "silver-plated" flower cakes.
Double Ninth Festival Food 2: Crab
In some parts of our country, there is a custom of eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival. Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, crabs in the north became fat. It has two meanings to say that Chongyang crab is the most beautiful. First, before and after the Double Ninth Festival, the crab meat is delicious and the crab yellow is full. Second, the Double Ninth Festival is a festival of filial piety, and it is getting cold. Prepare a set of warm clothes for elderly parents, send a few delicious Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, and make a cup of warm ginger tea to keep the elderly warm in autumn and winter.
Double Ninth Festival Food III: Chestnut Cake
There are two kinds of snacks in Beijing, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made of chestnut paste as the main raw material.
Its practice is to peel raw chestnuts, steam them, mash them into mud, and prepare large pieces of Beijing cakes and sand stuffing. Divide 200 grams of chestnut paste into three parts, one is spread out as the bottom layer, and then spread a layer of Beijing cake, the other is smoothed on the Beijing cake, and then spread a layer of sand stuffing, and the last part of chestnut paste is spread on the top layer. The pattern is made of Beijing cake cut into small water chestnut and thin green plum shreds. When eating, pour the sugar juice made of white sugar and osmanthus on it.
The fourth food of Double Ninth Festival: chrysanthemum wine
Jiujiu is homophonic with "Jiujiu" and also homophonic with "wine", so it is deduced that Jiujiu should drink chrysanthemum wine. Miscellanies of Xijing records that during the reign of Emperor Gaozu, the palace "wore dogwood, ate lotus bait and drank chrysanthemum wine on September 9 to make people live longer". Southern Liang also recorded in "Harmony Continuation" that "the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ...
In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was specially brewed for the Double Ninth Festival in the first year. On September 9th, people picked chrysanthemums and a little green branches and leaves, mixed them with grain for brewing, and then used them together to make wine, which will be drunk on September 9th next year. It is said that drinking this wine can prolong life. The Chronicle of Jingchu said: "On September 9th, Pei Yun ate lotus ears and drank chrysanthemum wine, and lived a long life." During the Ming and Qing dynasties, people added a variety of herbs to chrysanthemum wine, and the effect was better. The preparation method comprises decocting Flos Chrysanthemi with juice, brewing with yeast and rice, or adding Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Fructus Lycii.
Double Ninth Festival Gourmet Five: Mutton Noodles
"Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic, which should be the code name of Chongyang. If you want to eat white flour, "white" means "100" minus the top "1", which means that 100 minus 1 is 99, in line with the code name of "99". The birthday of a 99-year-old man in Beijing is called "Bai Shou". Wealthy families can hold mutton-based banquets on the same day, such as fried, roasted, rinsed and even whole sheep seats. Autumn is the fattest season for sheep, and mutton is warm and can keep out the cold.
Compared with pork and beef, mutton is tender, high in protein and low in fat and cholesterol, so it is very suitable for the elderly. To make mutton noodles delicious, it is very important to cook mutton soup. Be sure to cook the soup as white as milk and the meat thoroughly, which is more conducive to the digestion of the elderly. The ancients who paid attention to health paid attention to autumn tonic, and mutton was the best tonic, so Chongyang wanted to eat sheep. Hope to adopt