OBS Chapter 359 Making glutinous rice cake 2
Chapter 359 Making glutinous rice cake 2
The group of people started working as soon as they opened their eyes, and did not work until it was almost dark, when all the glutinous rice was beaten. After everyone's glutinous rice cakes were counted and packed, they happily went back with their own things.
There are so many of them, if we save them we can eat them until the end of next year. It’s good to have a good life.
After the Zhou family gathered all their things, they found that the two wooden barrels could not hold the freshly made glutinous rice cakes, so they could only use basins. There was no other choice, so the large vat was requisitioned by Zhou Guo.
Zhou Gu looked at them happily, "That's good, there are so many, we can eat for a long time."
Zhou Mi glanced over and said, "How long did it take to eat? Did you forget that you ate five at noon? There are so many people in our family. If we eat as much as we can, one bucket will only be enough for us to eat for ten days or half a month. We will finish all of this in one or two months."
Everyone thought so too. Everyone in their family has a big appetite. This amount may seem like a lot, but it won't take long to finish. It's not like they used to only eat half full at every meal.
Zhou Guo had glutinous rice in the morning and glutinous rice cakes cooked on the kang at noon. He ate ten in one go and didn't want to eat anymore. He touched his stomach and said, "Third brother, don't worry. This stuff is just for emergency use and to deal with when you don't want to cook. How can you really eat it every day? You ate so much at noon, do you still want to eat now?"
Zhou Mi nodded and said honestly: "I want to eat more. I want to eat it every meal!"
Everyone nodded. Something so delicious would never get boring even if they ate it every day.
She looked at them and said, "So, you guys are going to eat this tonight?"
Everyone nodded again.
Zhou Guo was helpless. No matter how delicious the food was, he couldn't stand eating it like this. He got tired of it after a few bites and shook his head, saying, "You guys can eat it if you want. I don't want to eat it. I want to have a meal. At worst, steamed buns will do."
The old man walked in from outside with his hands behind his back and said, "When you cook, remember to cook for me as well."
I'm old, and I ate so much glutinous rice food that I had to walk outside for an entire afternoon before I got rid of the discomfort in my stomach.
So, that night, for the first time ever, the Zhou family cooked separately. They added a barbecue rack to the fire pit, filled it with freshly made glutinous rice cakes, and placed a bowl of sour beans, a little salt, and a bowl of honey on the side. After they were cooked, everyone ate them with the vegetables wrapped around them or dipped them in salt or honey. Everyone was extremely satisfied with the meal.
Only Zhou Guo and the old man couldn't eat anymore and had to cook for themselves.
Cut a piece of cured fish and steam it, and stew the cured rabbit with pine mushrooms. Speaking of which, we haven't eaten pine mushrooms at home for a long time. We either have pine mushrooms, or stew white radish and the few remaining carrots in turn, and the pickled cabbage in the jar.
Some of it was used at the last banquet, and some was given to the soldiers at the entrance of the village. In total, one sack was used up, and there are still seven sacks left. If they eat them themselves, who knows how long they will take to finish them. However, as they say, wild mushrooms grow one year and disappear the next. There are so many of them this year, but maybe they won’t grow in the forest next year. It’s better to keep them. In case there are none next year, they can still be eaten as vegetables.
A basket of hot steamed buns was taken out, and an old man and a child sat on the kang, eating the meat and biting the steamed buns happily.
Zhou Guo felt that compared to glutinous rice cakes, steamed buns were also good. The consequence of eating too much at once was that one would not want to eat them for the next few days.
The old man nodded as he ate and said, "I feel a little greasy after eating too much glutinous rice cakes. I still need rice and steamed buns."
Zhou Su finished eating a cake and got on the kang with another one in his hand.
Zhou Guo handed him a pair of chopsticks and said, "This cured fish is delicious. It is steamed soft and has a salty and fragrant taste. Next autumn, we will catch more and smoke them. We will make more flavors. You can have whatever flavor you want."
The old man laughed at her, "What flavor do you want to make? It tastes the same no matter how many times you make it."
Zhou Guo shook his head and said, "How can they be the same? There is the original flavor of salt, the numbing flavor of peppercorns, and the flavor of many other spices sprinkled together. Master, there are so many flavors."
The old man laughed, "That makes sense. Then you can prepare more when the time comes. However, the spices are a bit expensive. I'm afraid it's not worth it just for a few cured fish."
Zhou Guo also laughed, "It's all for a few bites of food. Fresh barbecue is for eating, and so is cured fish. They are all food ingredients, so there's no need to distinguish between high and low."
That makes sense, the old man nodded and stopped talking. The cured fish tasted good, and the pine mushrooms were also good. As for the cured rabbit... the rabbit tasted firm, but I don't know if I ate too much, I always felt a fishy smell.
The flattened glutinous rice cake becomes hard when it gets cold. When placed on the grill, it gradually becomes soft and becomes golden on both sides with crusts forming. Sometimes, it slowly expands visibly while grilling, until the outer skin is broken. With a snap, hot steam comes out from inside, and the air is deflated, allowing the white and glutinous meat inside to come out.
Take a bite while it’s hot, it’s fragrant and sticky, dipped in honey, it’s sweet and soft, you can’t stop eating it.
Zhou Mai and the others gathered around the fire pit, eating one thing after another, and even finished up half a bowl of honey. This honey was harvested on the road before, and they had never eaten much of it, so there was still a lot left, which was just right to go with this.
In previous years, two people shared one, and Chengdu didn't make it for many years. Even if it was made, each person would make a few and take them to the fields to fill their stomachs during the busy farming season. Now that they can finally eat their fill, they eat it three times a day and never get tired of it.
Mrs. Li sighed and said, "If I had known earlier, I would have bought more glutinous rice. If you guys eat like this, you will finish a bucket in ten days."
Zhou Guo heard it on the kang and said with a smile: "Mom, it's okay. It will be cold for a while after the New Year. Just make more next time. In addition to baking, glutinous rice cakes can also be fried and cooked with fermented rice wine. It tastes good too."
Li smiled at her and said, "You don't like it, but you eat a lot of it. You even know to cook it with fermented glutinous rice. I've saved some glutinous rice for making fermented glutinous rice tomorrow. I'm afraid the fire on the stove won't be extinguished these days."
Zhou Xing said: "That's not bad, it means our family is living a better life now. It's much better than the previous years when we couldn't even light the stove at the end of the year."
Everyone is busy, the stove is always burning, the fragrance is endless, there is more to eat, and the New Year is lively. The more lively it is, the more prosperous life will be.
In a blink of an eye, it was the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the village began to slaughter the New Year pigs because there was no food. After all, there were not many families in the village who could afford to raise pigs, only five or six.
Several of them invited Zhou Guo and others to have a pig-killing dinner.
It seemed inappropriate for Li, a woman, to go to someone else's house for dinner alone, as there was no married man in her family. But it was not good not to go either, as others had invited her repeatedly, and if she didn't go, people would say she was being pretentious.
In the end, Zhou Gu and Zhou Mai went. He could go to help out, and it was reasonable for him to help and eat at the same time.
The Zhou family did not slaughter the New Year pig, and the meat from the previously slaughtered pig that was not eaten was put on the kang, with seven or eight pieces left. But they had to eat some fresh meat during the New Year, so there was no point in eating bacon, and they couldn't make it in so many different ways.