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How to roll the Lantern Festival

Rolling Lantern Practice:

Eating Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is a custom that has been handed down from ancient times in China. "The north to eat Lantern, the south package dumplings", the production method is different, but the atmosphere of celebrating Lantern is the same. Today we will introduce the practice of the northern Lantern Festival, if you are accustomed to eating dumplings of the South, you may wish to try the northern roll Lantern Festival, roll out the reunion and beauty. Lanterns and dumplings from the appearance or practice, are not quite the same. Dumplings in the "package", Lanterns in the "roll". The more patience you have, the more complete the roll will be. Let's take the simplest black sesame-filled dumplings as an example. Prepare cooked black sesame seeds, cooking oil, sugar and glutinous rice flour. 1. Grind cooked black sesame seeds into powder, add sugar, and then add cooking oil and mix well; 2. When the filling is shaped, roll the stuffing into a small ball, and freeze for a few moments to make it a little bit hard; 3. Prepare a large container, pour in the glutinous rice flour and a bowl of water; 4. Dip the stuffing in the water, and then put it into the glutinous rice flour, and then roll back and forth; when the outer layer of the glutinous rice flour, then put it into the bowl again, and then put it into the bowl again. The Lanterns again into the bowl dipped in water, and then into the glutinous rice flour rolling; according to personal preference to determine the number of rolls and the thickness of the Lanterns; 5. pot of boiling water, water boiled into the Lanterns, cooked can be fished out.