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Describe Shiping tofu 500 words essay

"It's almost New Year, it's almost New Year!" A burst of laughter echoed in our ears.

New Year's Eve is a very happy and joyful thing for children, while it is an annoying thing for adults

. Because every year, my grandmother has to make tofu for New Year's Eve.

One day during last year's winter vacation, my grandma got up early and fished the pre-soaked soybeans into

a plastic bucket. Grandma picked the soybeans to her uncle's house next door and asked him to help her grind the soybeans in a

machine. I heard the next-door uncle say, "Originally, we used a stone mill to grind the soybeans, unlike now

there are machines, how convenient!" After a few minutes, the soybeans turned into a paste-like liquid flowing

into a plastic bucket. I walked over and gave it a gentle sniff, and a scent of beans went straight into my nose

, making the hoi polloi grow. I couldn't help but dip my finger in a little bit and suck on it with my mouth, although it didn't have

any flavor, but it had a great taste. Grandma first poured the paste-like liquid from the plastic bucket into a large pot

, boiled a pot of boiling water and poured it into the large pot and stirred it well. Then she put a wooden

stand on the pot, put a big plastic bag with holes in it on the wooden stand, scooped up the liquid in the pot with a water spoon

and poured it into the big plastic bag, and squeezed the bag so hard that some of the white, unadulterated liquid flowed into the pot, which was boiled over the fire. And guess what? That's the soy milk we

usually drink. Grandma then poured gypsum powder into the soymilk, which mainly acts as a coagulant

. After a few minutes, the soymilk turns into tofu flower. She poured the tofu into a wooden frame

and pressed it against a wooden board for a few hours, then lifted the board and the tofu was ready.

I didn't realize that the tofu we usually eat required so much effort to make, do