essay hometown snack black glutinous rice

When I was young, there was a custom in my hometown that every time the lunar month of October half of the time, every family in the village would cook glutinous rice, and then every family sent out a man with strength to get together, laughing and joking, and take turns to play mochi. The cooked glutinous rice is first poured into a stone mortar, and then a special dingzi-shaped wooden stick is used to hammer and beat the glutinous rice until it turns into a soft, sticky cake, without any rice grains. In the process of hammering, in order to avoid the sticky rice sticking to the tool, there is also a person beside the stone mortar, occasionally dipping his hand into the water, turning the glutinous rice in the mortar, and must cooperate well with the person hammering, so as not to be knocked into the hand. After the sticky rice cake is knocked down, it is put into a basin, squeezed into small balls by hand, and then dipped into crushed sesame candies and eaten. (Sesame candy is made by putting fried black sesame seeds and sugar into a small, bowl-sized stone mortar and then crushing them with a stone stick. During the process of grinding the sesame candies, the smell can be wafted out for ten miles. (The person who grinds the sesame seeds is even more intoxicated.) This is the earliest and the real handmade mochi.

But in normal times, when we want to eat, because of the operation of the hard and troublesome, so parents will choose to use the glutinous rice flour to make simple, although not as hand-knocked mochi that kind of super soft and sticky, but the taste is also very good.