What do you eat on the winter solstice? What are the traditions in your hometown?

As for the vote on food restriction in winter, Hotpot won by an absolute advantage and won the first place with a high vote. Many people think that winter is the best match for hot pot, and hot pot rivers and lakes are also full of flavor. In the north, there are old Beijing copper pot hotpot, northeast sauerkraut white meat hotpot ... In the south, there are Sichuan-Chongqing hotpot, Chaoshan beef hotpot, Hainan coconut chicken hotpot ... No matter what kind of hotpot, you can find warmth and comfort in boiling hotpot in winter. Sugar-coated haws and baked sweet potatoes ranked second and third respectively, which is also the memory of many people in winter. Winter is the best season to eat candied haws. The hawthorn picked in autumn is bitter after a long period of precipitation and wrapped in syrup, which is sweet and sour. When you take a bite of candied haws, you feel that winter is no longer so cold and cheerless, but a little more sweet. In the middle of winter, hot sweet potatoes are held in your hands as if holding a hand warmer. Peel it off while it is hot, revealing the brown and shiny flesh, mixed with rising heat, biting it down, sweet and soft, full of happiness.

Sugar fried chestnuts and hot milk tea also entered the top five in winter. Sweet chestnuts and hot milk tea are also healing foods in winter. A friend said that when you smell the aroma of sugar-fried chestnuts in the street and order hot milk tea, you will know that winter is coming.

"At this point in the world, winter is exhausted, and spring is warm in bloom." No matter how cold the weather is, we can cure ourselves in various ways. As the last solar term in the twenty-four solar terms, although it is cold in the severe cold season, it is not far away for spring to bloom warmly after freezing. Many places in northern jiaozi have the custom of eating jiaozi in winter solstice. It is said that eating jiaozi in winter does not freeze ears. Jiaozi in different regions has different fillings, such as beef and onion stuffing, pork and cabbage stuffing, leek and egg stuffing, vegetarian and three fresh fillings and so on. Besides traditional cooking, jiaozi also has steamed dumplings, fried dumplings and fried jiaozi. Tangyuan is different from jiaozi in the north. In many places in the south, there is a custom of eating glutinous rice balls on the solstice in winter, which means reunion. Brown sugar fermented wine dumplings, nourishing and warming. In addition, jiaozi can also be paired with red beans or other ingredients, depending on everyone's tastes and preferences. Share the ratio of glutinous rice balls to noodles here. Bought glutinous rice flour, 1 kg glutinous rice flour in 9 glasses of water. If it is a farmer's glutinous rice flour, put about 3 liang of water in 1 kg glutinous rice flour. Eating rice cakes from winter solstice is a good sign, which means that life and work are getting higher every year. There are many rice cakes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, especially in Ningbo. The rice cake is steamed with glutinous rice and water. Q-bombs don't stick to teeth, so it is very popular with people. When eating rice cakes, you can fry them soft, sprinkle with brown sugar and some bean flour, or make fried rice cakes. Pumpkin cake is a delicious food made of glutinous rice flour in many places on holidays, and pumpkin cake is one of them. In Hefei, Anhui, the solstice of winter has come. Besides egg noodles, we should also eat pumpkin pie. Golden, sweet and soft pumpkin pie, delicious and beautiful. Share the practice of pumpkin pie. Peel pumpkin, remove seeds and pulp, cut into small pieces, steam, add appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour and knead into smooth dough. Take a proper amount of pumpkin dough, wrap it in a layer of coconut, flatten it, and fry it in an oil pan. You can add some red beans if you like stuffing.