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Everyone loves to eat rice cakes on New Year's Eve, what should I do to make my own rice cakes?

The family does not play rice cakes for seven or eight years. In the old days, the custom of the old town, rice cakes are hand-beaten, a foot a few pounds. The first time I saw this, I was able to get the money to pay for it, and I was able to get the money to pay for it, and I was able to get the money to pay for it.

But every year when my grandmother's family wanted to make rice cakes, I still thought of my father's skill in making rice cakes. The rice was cleaned, dried, pounded and steamed, and when the heat came up, the flavor of the year began.

Then my father came on board. I was a big man and I had big hands, so I put a little bit of vegetable oil on my hands and pressed the flour through the cloth that I was steaming it with. The steamed glutinous rice flour is not only hot, but also cold in winter, the rolling steam into a white mist.

Surrounded by people a noise, the fog, my father's face solemn, hands a moment, repeatedly whacking, kneading, wrestling, hitting, rice cakes, if the whacking is not uniform, and so cold will be hard lumps, eat naturally affects the texture. Father beat out of the rice cakes, but never see such white spots, eat only feel glutinous and soft porcelain. When a rice cake is fully formed, the palm of the hand is already a red.

But where the countryside, each family will have a vat, rice cakes pressed solid, immersed in the well water with alum, red prints lined with white cake body, it will be in the vat in the bottom of the sinking, so that to the next year, but also not rubbing not floating.

If you want to eat, each time you take out only one to cut a slice, still immersed in the water, as you use it. My favorite winter eating vegetable juice rice cake, fresh vegetables and rice cake braised into a pot, vegetable soup green, rice cake white, eat in the mouth, it is not far from spring.

Still want to save two rice cakes not into the water, in the New Year's Eve rituals with. In the past, when I was at home, I was always excited to follow my mother, to go to the neighbors who specialize in killing pigs and selling pork to pick up pork for pickling, as a rule, I have to choose a piece of ribs, a piece of buttocks, and use coarse salt to wipe all over carefully, and exist in a clean vat.

Brewing glutinous rice wine a year ago was a big deal for Grandpa. The first thing that you need to do is to get your hands on some of the best products in the world, and you'll be able to do that with the help of your own personal computer," he said. I always think that people are a little bit greedy for things and things, the more lovely.