Menstruation family celebrate the New Year in Lushun Mountain area. The solemn and mysterious genealogy hangs high, and there are five big bowls in front of various tributes. Only the bowl of vermicelli dyed red is covered with a faint layer of green parsley, and then a fairy with a strange shape is inserted, made of cards called "Fu, Lu, Shou, Cai". More than once, I secretly stepped on the bench to see the color and the truth. I tried many times, but I was still scared by the threat of "bad mouth and bad hands"
Withdraw tribute platform. I cried for food. Menstruation can't fade back to its original clarity, but I am very excited to eat. In the era of eating less meat, fans have become a delicious food that people yearn for. Generally, guests from home can eat it, and it is the Chinese New Year holiday.
Actually, strictly speaking, we ate vermicelli. Made of sweet potato powder. This delicious food between fish, meat and vegetables impressed me for the second time:1969 65438+February 6. It was my first lunch when I went to the countryside with the parents of the May 7th Warrior to receive re-education.
Fortress in Fuxian County (now wafangdian city), Suntun in Ma Lu, and West House of Ma Wanxin's teacher. White rice, four dishes. That braised pork and cabbage vermicelli made me eat delicious food that this city has never found. I ate bowl after bowl, and my parents kept telling me to eat slowly. The heat wave of the kang and the heat of food will soon activate our frozen limbs, and sweat will flow down our three underage siblings' faces. ...
After that meal, I felt that going to the countryside was really nothing. The sweetness of new rice and cauldron dishes has puzzled our generation. After staying in the countryside for four years, my mother learned to cook a "famous dish" in our hearts. Since then, she can't wait to see the New Year. I always wanted to know how vermicelli was made until I graduated in the second year and returned to the production team to farm in the ninth year.
The dialect there is called "Lou (Bao? ) powder. " Seven or eight elites were found in the team, like beginning of winter. The so-called grinding means that the production team temporarily vacated more than 60 flat tube houses. Put your head in the cauldron and bring the boiling water to a boil. Liang Tuo followed a thick hemp rope closely and fixed the colander. In fact, it is a big spoon with many thumb holes. He (Huo) is probably a little literate, but he is also a hard job. Sister Zhuang Chunhong, the captain of the women's team, is the only woman. Her tall and generous figure is no different from the body movements of three men. They walked around the huge basin, gently pressed it, and the pink powder blew the balloon out like soft plasticine, and the bulging basin surface was more than a foot high.
I think people who "pat the gourd ladle" are very powerful. Thick palms, even and powerful rhythm. The right distance makes the placement of acaroid mites become standard coarse vermicelli. In boiling water, it turns from white to green, and finally it is crystal clear. The long beard spit out by Longkou was driven into the cold water tank with a pair of chopsticks by a powder knife. After a roll, it was cut off and a vermicelli was hung. It is about 2 feet long and weighs 6 Jin, with uniform thickness. Then pass it to the powder dryer and send it to the already set bracket for hanging.
"Powder leakage" must catch up with sunny days with small north wind. Hang it up and freeze it, so as not to "hang" the fans. "pulverization" is a defective product, and the vermicelli is white and scum, uncooked and not delicious.
A row of vermicelli on the shelf is spectacular, as if it were a signal from far away to celebrate the New Year. At night, fans are like frozen ice, swaying in the moonlight, like a witch's long hair. Every time I go there, I see the laughter of Ma, Qu Jianjun, four boys, Laomen and Chunhong sisters working happily in the powder room. The famous dish in my heart-stewed vermicelli with Chinese cabbage and pork appeared.
Smashing powder is very tiring work, I have done it. The thick stick of the wooden stick is in hand, and the strength should be balanced. Knock off the ice, the vermicelli is half dry and won't break. After half a day, my wrist will ache faintly, and my arm will ache the next day. Fortunately, vermicelli was limited at that time, and there were more than 0/00 households in the village/kloc, each household was divided into 10 kg and 8 kg. There are only a few left, so we can get some collective income from the supply and marketing cooperatives. A large amount of sweet potato residue was left in the milling process. It is said that it is for pigs, but in fact, many people also make cakes.
No matter how closely my mother watches it, my brothers and I will secretly take out a few and bake them in the brazier. They expand in vain, like magic sticks, and they smell good! When my mother brought it to cook again, she loosened the bag and made it lighter. She could only sigh while cursing.
After returning to the city, I ate an old Dalian restaurant. A song "Ants in the Tree" (Meat Foam Fans) let me know the new use of vermicelli, which is a dish that can be eaten on a big table. The minced meat foam is tightly attached to the vermicelli and stirred with chopsticks. The aroma is fragrant, soft and interesting ... Since then, whenever I go to that restaurant, I must order this home-cooked dish to "show off".
In the team, we have a 5-year-old brother who loves vermicelli. His family's experience is similar to mine, but there are twice as many children as mine. He said that the best way to eat vermicelli is to boil it in water and mix it with soy sauce. Eat two bowls, and you can fight hunger for a day. Later, I got a promotion and invited a meal. "Ant on the Tree" specially ordered two dishes. Seeing his greed, I ate with relish and immediately laughed at each other. The whole table was stunned. We really like this bite, unlike joking that "tofu is my life" and then a large piece of meat comes up, "life is gone". Sometimes, in order to eat more fans, even shochu is willing. I smiled and said, "Brother, do you know why you are rising so fast?" He froze. I said, "Are you lucky to eat? ! This ant is climbing a tree. What is that? Climb high, good luck to the top ... "Everyone laughed. Look at the dishes on the table again, and the two plates will be clean immediately.
Now there are many varieties of vermicelli: mung bean, pea, broad bean, konjac and so on. Eat a bowl of mung bean jelly in summer; Konjac powder is tied one by one, and the shabu-shabu is very pocket-sized; Peas and broad bean powder are sold very little, and they are not used to their tastes. The most common is sweet potato vermicelli. Stewing and boiling resistant, everything smells good. In the 1970s, every household in the northern rural areas made a large pot of stewed pork vermicelli with sauerkraut. When it returned to the pot, the vermicelli was as fragrant, smooth and delicious as new. The most interesting thing is that the children show off together, not how delicious the pork is, but how long the vermicelli in our house is ... Two little boys argued, straightened their arms, and finally blushed and said, "Our vermicelli is not that long!" Now, it's called: Cool! There is no comparability!
Since the rise of women's slimming, I know that this vermicelli is a starch food and will gain weight. Since then, the feeling of wanting to eat and being afraid of eating has been somewhat entangled. Finally, choose it to replace the staple food, and never eat it at the same time. I just went to the store and saw all kinds of fan products, but I still couldn't help but buy them. Especially before the Chinese New Year, I prepared boxes after boxes at home. If it's your treat, let's try some varieties. My wife says I don't want to give everyone meat. I said, "You are really a foreigner. Let's decompress the sweet potato powder." This is a healthy and' hungry' meal-sincere and affordable! "
When everyone is picking up the vermicelli shabu-shabu, let me talk about the history of vermicelli in 1400 years; Chen Da's famous sentence in Song Dynasty brought into Ben Xin Zhai Shu Fang: "Grinding green beads into silver strands"; Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty described the production process of mung bean powder: "Mung beans are planted everywhere ... ground into flour, filtered and extracted into powder, which can be used as cake bait and play an important role in food." Everyone said happily, "Sister-in-law, what you eat at home is not the taste of fans, but the culture of fans ..."
It turns out! This crystal clear fan: long and short; Single and double go hand in hand, smooth and delicious; Four seasons are not taboo, suitable for all ages. ...
The day before yesterday, a friend attended a high-end training meeting and went to Dalian Xinghai Convention and Exhibition Center. There are a lot of new year's goods there. After the meeting, I plunged into the lobby on the first floor. All kinds of goods are dazzling, and the days of abundance add joy to my heart. Suddenly I walked to the fan product booth. A black and slippery "bracken vermicelli" came into my eyes. I quickly tasted several cooked samples, and a cool mountain vegetable smell came to my face ... interesting! So bracken can also be made into vermicelli? The mountains of menstruation are everywhere! I read the propaganda carefully: Pterisdaceae is an edible perennial herb. Also known as bibcock, ruyi and fist claw, it has considerable nutritional value ... rich in trace elements such as carbohydrates, iron, manganese and zinc and essential amino acids for human body ... The rhizome contains 465,438+0% starch. Oh! 18 yuan a kilo? But money is hard to buy a kind heart. How can you know its mystery without tasting it-2 kg; I also saw a new type of mung bean powder and flat strips, which are the same as those in professional hot pot restaurants. A side dish over there costs 6 yuan, and this catty pulls out at least 6 dishes-2 jins; Beef jerky-2 kg; honeydew melon ...
In the morning, I have made an appointment with my niece. She is the editor of Daipao, and I will go to her house at noon. The other side of the phone shouted: "Her aunt, my meal is all ready. What are you buying blindly? " I weighed the big bag and small roll in my hand and told her cheerfully: "I will buy you some happiness, love and good luck, which will make you follow suit, at least (eat) drops, and you can guess slowly!" Don't worry, I'm here ... "