At this time, people's spleen is in a vigorous period, and the diet should be "sour and sweet to nourish the temper."
It is to eat less sour food and more sweet food to benefit the spleen and stomach.
When I get up in the morning these days and look in the mirror, I always feel that my face is yellow, not so rosy and sick. I really should make up for it.
Feel free to visit the vegetable market, and a stall selling yam attracted me.
His yam is shaped like a tree root, curved and twisted, much shorter than the common yam on the market, and the thickness is similar to that of the thumb. The epidermis is dark, the root hair is long and uneven, and there are dark red rust spots.
This kind of yam is rare at ordinary times.
Only after asking the vendor (a young man in his early twenties) did he know that it was authentic wen county iron stick yam.
Lou soil is hard and sticky. In order to adapt to this relatively difficult growth environment, Loutushan medicine is not as long and straight, thick and strong as Shayam, and its face value is completely hanged.
Seeing that I didn't want to buy it, the stall owner patted his chest and said to me, "Elder sister, this is an authentic iron stick yam, which will keep your mouth fragrant, lower blood pressure and blood lipid, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen." If you are not satisfied, come to me again. I won't accept a penny. "
All right! It is sincere to look after the child, even if it supports his work, it is not easy. I asked him to weigh a few catties and take them home to put in the kitchen.
How to deal with so many yams?
I remembered the jujube paste yam cake in a dream of red mansions.
This health cake comes from the first 1 1 set of A Dream of Red Mansions. Qin Keqing, the great-grandson daughter-in-law of Grandmother Jia, was ill, so Grandmother Jia specially sent someone to deliver "jujube paste yam cake".
When Wang Xifeng visited, Qin Keqing said, "Yesterday, the old lady gave me two pieces of jujube paste yam cakes, which seemed to melt."
Qin Keqing, on the other hand, is the best beauty in the official version of the Twelve Hairpins in Jinling. She has both Baochai's bright charm and Daiyu's graceful demeanor, but she is jealous of her beauty.
When she was too ill to eat, the jujube paste yam cake rewarded by her grandmother was just to her liking.
It is conceivable that this jujube paste yam cake should be delicious.
Every day, we are running around for a living day and night. Who doesn't yearn for the luxurious life of the Grand View Garden?
Always want to drink slowly and feel the delicate taste of life?
Although there is no shortage of this kind of craft, it often lacks that kind of leisure.
Today is the weekend, so slow down, relax your tired body and mind, and welcome this long-lost afternoon tea in the Red Chamber.
To make jujube paste and yam cakes, you have to have dates, so you don't have to worry about it. There is a good Xinjiang Junzao at home for a rainy stock, which is just in use at present.
Jujube can enrich blood, which is best for women. Compendium of Materia Medica praised it as "replenishing middle energizer, benefiting qi and pleasing color".
Sieving into fine and smooth jujube paste will be more conducive to absorption, soft enough to penetrate every corner of the body and ruddy every inch of skin.
Yam is sweet in taste and flat in nature, which can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi. It is a good product for invigorating qi and increasing human immunity.
When jujube paste and yam are combined into one, people will be full of blood, delay aging and retain health and beauty.
Let's enter the practical stage.
Although this jujube paste yam cake looks simple, it takes time and patience to make it.
Wash the iron stick yam, cut it into sections, steam it in a pot, and then peel it.
Use a rolling pin to make yam paste, which will increase the viscosity after repeated pestle.
Steamed Junzao dates are pressed into jujube paste with a spoon. How to peel jujube is the most troublesome thing.
If you don't clean it, it will be difficult to stick it in your mouth and affect the taste.
It's best to take a sieve, connect a bowl below, put dates on it, and grind dates back and forth with a small spoon. Boiled jujube paste will easily fall into the bowl, and jujube peel will remain on the filter screen.
This is a trick that I tried several times before I found out.
Spread the cake powder (steamed dry glutinous rice flour) on the palm of your hand, and press the yam balls into the cake skin with your palm.
Dig a spoonful of jujube paste and put it on the crust. Fold the crust to cover the jujube paste.
Gently knead the stuffed yam paste into a ball and stuff it into the moon cake mold.
Buckle the mold into the plate, press it to shape, gently lift the mold and press it deeply, and a beautiful jujube paste yam cake will be finished.
Well-made jujube paste yam cake has a faint yam flavor outside, soft and tender, and a strong jujube flavor inside.
Simple ingredients are matched with each other, just like clear water hibiscus, unique and elegant.
When Zhen Xuan was still in Empresses in the Palace, he fell ill once.
Shen Meizhuang personally made a jujube paste yam cake and sent it to Zhen Xuan. As soon as he ate it, he was captured by this soft waxy cake.
After that, this kind of jujube paste yam cake became her favorite, and when she ate it, she ordered people to match it with "Biluochun" in early spring.
Zhen Xuan is a man of great knowledge. She knows that different cakes must be matched with different teas.
Green tea (Longjing, Biluochun, etc. ) fresh and elegant, it has its own breath of spring, so it should be accompanied by cakes with the same light taste.
In this way, the sweetness of tea will not overwhelm the aroma of tea.
"Sweet with green, sour with red, melon seeds with oolong".
The so-called sweet with green: sweet with green tea to drink, so it seems that jujube paste yam cake and green tea should be a perfect match.
China on the tip of the tongue said:
"The purpose of people cooking food is not simply seasoning, but nourishing the body and mind and making people realize the beauty of life."
That's right.
A delicious jujube paste yam cake, a cup of green tea and reading casual books is a simple and beautiful afternoon.