how to make cooking wine in wenzhou

(1) selection: yellow wine selection of glutinous rice as raw materials, late-season rice is better;

(2) soaking: soak glutinous rice for about a day, half a day in the summer can be;

(3) steaming rice: into the cauldron into the pot steaming, yellow wine, also known as steaming wine, steaming rice link is very important, the first heat with a large fire, boil and then with the fire, will be steaming rice steam, but not paste and not burnt (if the rice particles are scorched, the yellow wine will be residual taste

(4) Cooling: the steamed rice will be spread out to cool;

(5) Add the wine: in the glutinous rice mixed into the wine, it is said that the evolution of this kind of wine from the She ethnic group, from one to two dozen kinds of medicinal herbs formulated by the equivalent of natural fungi; (Huangjiu qu)

(6) Fermentation: the mixing of the wine of the rice into a pottery altar in the fermentation, after about 24 hours, the temperature inside the altar naturally rise, the altar temperature will rise, the wine is not a natural, but a natural, natural, and natural, and the wine is not a natural. After about 24 hours, the temperature inside the altar rises naturally and the starch begins to be converted into sugar. In winter, the altar is wrapped in cotton or straw to keep warm. After seven days of natural fermentation, it is transferred to a vat and sealed for two to three months. (In fact, about two weeks of fermentation can take wine, but in order to let the sugar better into alcohol, keep a little longer wine quality will be better.)

(7) Take the wine: press the lees, separate the juice and lees, put the juice into the altar, cover it with a bowl, and then use another bowl to reverse the buckle to prevent debris from falling into it.

(8) Roasting: Surround the altar with grain chaff or straw, and roast it for a day on a shaded fire to boil the wine, which sterilizes it and gives it a more mellow taste.

Huangjiu has the therapeutic effect of clearing the veins, thickening the stomach and intestines, moisturizing the skin, nourishing the spleen, supporting the liver, and removing the wind and lowering the qi

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