Childhood memories of traditional food eaten in summer

As far as I can remember, there was always a stall selling grass rot in the streets of my childhood, a small wooden box containing a bowl of sesame powder, a bowl of sugar and a small bottle of mint. Sweet taste accompanied my childhood, lingering in my heart, lingering.

Grass rot, also known as fairy grass, is a kind of drink for clearing away heat and relieving summer heat in summer, and beauty beauty mentioned on the Internet is only an auxiliary function.

Manglietia tofu

Jinhua people like Manglietia tofu, and it's hot to go home. They can't wait to open the refrigerator and take out a bowl of Manglietia tofu, which is smooth and tender if frozen. That freshness is really cool.

Zezi tofu

Selected tofu is a cold drink to eat in hot weather. When eating, take a piece and cut it into small pieces. Add vinegar and a little brown sugar or white sugar to the bowl, which is sweet and delicious, and then drop a few drops of mint. It tastes cool and can cool down and prevent heatstroke.

Suanzaoren bean curd is made of a wild fruit called Suanzaoren (scientific name "stone oak"). In autumn, the seeds are picked when they are ripe, ground into powder with water, dried and stored for production all year round. Selecting seeds can not only make tofu, but also make dough and noodles. This kind of bean curd is chestnut shell color, tough and smooth, cool at the entrance, and winter bamboo shoots are best cooked.

Orange cake

However, few people know that Jinhua people still eat a cool mint snack in midsummer. This snack has a long history, but the inheritance of its production technology is getting less and less. It can only be bought in several cake shops in Jinhua city. Now its name is only known by authentic old Jinhua-orange cake.

Orange cakes, also known as sanitary tablets, are small disks the size of a dollar coin and small columns the size of a dime. Most of them are waxy and transparent with a red dot in the middle. Soft waxy q-bomb, cool entrance.

Lengtao

Cold scouring is a kind of food whose appearance is similar to that of crossing the bridge in Yunnan, and it is also a kind of rice that is ground into pulp, boiled and pressed into vermicelli. Different from the specialty store of Yunnan Crossing the Bridge Rice Noodles, Jinhua Lengtao has always been a snack and only appeared in street stalls. And the way to eat is cold salad, although the seasoning is simple, but the flavor is unique.

This is in Lanxi, also called water rope powder. Cool the cooked dry coarse rice flour with cold boiled water, add rich soy sauce, add chopped pepper, add shredded cucumber and some peanuts. Stir it evenly a little, then listen to "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" and smooth it to the end. It tastes great.

Leaf tofu

Tofu again. There are indeed many delicious tofu dishes in summer. This kind of leaves used to make tofu is called "night indigo". Add bean straw ash to the leaf juice of "Yedianqing" and let it stand for about two hours to solidify into tofu. Cut into small pieces and put them on a plate. Sprinkle with sugar and serve.

Golden silk amber candied dates

Golden silk amber jujube is a traditional specialty of Lanxi, which has a history of more than 400 years. To make golden silk amber candied dates, we should use local high-quality Nanjing dates as raw materials, draw 80 to 100 strands on the dates with tools, and then put them in a large iron pot and add sugar or honey for decoction. Boiled dates can be made into candied dates, which are poured into bamboo boards, baked with charcoal, and then kneaded and shaped.

Red bean sugar cake

The raw materials of red bean sugar cake are flour, brown sugar and red beans, which are sweet and glutinous. It's q-bomb when bitten, and it tastes great.

Black cake

Black cowpea cake is prepared by mixing black cowpea, rice flour and sugar into paste, and then pouring it into a steamer covered with lotus leaves for steaming. It tastes not only sweet and soft, but also fragrant with beans and lotus leaves.

Tangyanggao

Tangyang cake is a traditional summer snack in central Zhejiang. According to classic records, in July and a half, sugar cakes and noodles were served together.

Tangnang

"In July and a half, sugar is served", which means that on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, people don't make a fire to cook, but take sugar as their staple food. Xiíng: Dongyang and Yiwu dialects are called Tangyang and Tangyang. It is a traditional snack of Han nationality in central Zhejiang, belonging to summer dessert. The taste is smooth, but it is more tender than tofu.

More summer food

Diverse soups

Variety soup is a traditional dessert in Huzhou, which has occupied an important position in the summer life of Huzhou people for many years, also known as "Babao soup". There are many kinds of condiments such as wax gourd strips, red dates, candied dates, red silk, green silk, kumquat, mung beans and black rice 10. Fill a bowl of glutinous rice with mung beans, add various seasonings and pour sugar water. That sweet and cold taste is always unforgettable for a while.

Crystal cake

Before the entrance, the crystal cake was full of fragrance, and a hint of coolness came instantly. After careful tasting, the entrance is smooth, sweet but not greasy, and full of toughness.

Baiguo cake

Baiguo cake is one of the seasonal cakes in Ningshi early summer. It is made of glutinous rice flour, white sugar powder and various nuts. The production process is complicated, but the taste is sweet and soft, emitting the fragrance of various nuts and the fragrance of glutinous rice, which makes people unforgettable. This kind of cake made by the most traditional technology is sweet and moist. If you like this kind of waxy feeling, soft and sweet 100-fruit cake is the most suitable for your taste this summer.