Haifeng tastes like a green ball and remembers the native land —— Talking about the hometown snack "mouse shell noodle pot"

Around Tomb-Sweeping Day, southerners began to eat Qing Tuan, a traditional snack with wormwood flavor, which is also called "Qingming Fruit" in some places. Some people in Haifeng also eat Qingming fruit, which is made of rat shell cotton, also called rat shell turtle.

Haifeng's mouse shell turtle contains peanuts, sesame seeds and sugar, which are sweet and salty. After wrapping, you don't need fruit stamps to print patterns. The tortoise looks like a steamed stuffed bun, which is the origin of its name.

Rat shell marshmallows are generally eaten in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the rat shell marshmallows I want to introduce are full of annual flavor. Mouse shell quilt is also called fair printed quilt (printed peach) and sweet printed quilt (printed peach). In Haicheng, there are salty seals with shrimps, red beans, fried peanuts and peppers.

As a gift for the Spring Festival, the mouse-shell quilt is a custom in the market. Daughters married to other places, or relatives and friends from other places, generally don't make mouse-shell quilts. During the Chinese New Year, the residents in the town will send more than a dozen mouse-shell quilts as gifts. If you have more at home, you can naturally send more. A few days before the Spring Festival, every household began to devote themselves to the production of mouse shell cotton wool.

I didn't know how to prepare a mouse shell quilt before, only that two or three people stuttered for less than a minute. In addition to being a gift, the family should also eat some. When I was at home during the winter vacation at school, I found it very troublesome to prepare skin and stuffing (large quantity & pure manual), but it was more difficult to prepare mouse shell cotton.

Usually, the elders at home will pick off the rat shell cotton, remove the thick branches, wash away the soil, cook it, put it in a net bag, rub off the bitter water, and freeze the remaining "cotton wool" for use before the Chinese New Year ~

I was still at home after last year, so I went to pick mouse shell cotton with my mother. Last year, there was little rain, and the grass of mouse shell didn't grow too luxuriantly, so it was difficult to pick it. Personally, the first time I picked it, I picked more than a catty in two or three hours. My mother said I could make seven or eight seals with these.

I can eat the mouse shell cotton shrine every New Year, which is not so rare. I only know that I like sweets, but after picking rat shell grass, eating Indian shrines feels particularly delicious ~

Delicious mouse shell quilts, covers and fillings are very particular. The wrong proportion of rat skin cotton, glutinous rice flour and water, and insufficient dough strength will affect the taste of skin. In the past, only black sesame seeds and sugar were used as fillings. The person who grasps the ratio of the two and the steaming time can make the sweet seal look like Explosicum.

The stuffing of mouse shell quilt is mainly made of black sesame and white sugar. Some people will add diced melon, or taro (also mashed taro) and chopped green onion with lard (the onion here is not green onion, but garlic-like red onion), or coconut, or invent some stuffing that has not been made before, but these are all later stories. Last month, my aunt's family tried to add salty stuffing to the skin of the mouse shell quilt. Needless to say, eating it is really great.

Black sesame seeds are also washed in advance, dried and stored for later use. When in use, black sesame seeds and white sugar are fried together. Don't stir too much, so it doesn't taste chewy, and it can't stir too granular, so the fragrance doesn't evaporate enough. Black sesame is crushed separately, and its fragrance can only be smelled, but not tasted. At the same time, mashing it with sugar is a perfect match. It not only smells good, but also tastes great.

Lard chopped green onion, mainly using its fragrance, adults often say that the smell of rat shell cotton is fragrant or not, depending on chopped green onion. A lot of red onions covered with mud, washed and chopped (the blender frees your hands! Also prevent spicy eyes! ) chopped green onion is chopped green onion! Add chopped green onion and a little lard to stir fry, and stir fry chopped green onion to get oil. Now many people use peanut oil instead of lard. Pay attention to the heat at this time. You must fry it slowly with a small fire. You can't stop when your hands are sore. If you are not careful, you should be burned. A little burnt taste affects a whole pot of chopped green onion.

Some of the oil fried with lard and chopped green onion will be used to make taro paste. Taro should be steamed and glutinous, cut into small pieces, steamed and crushed, put into a pot and fried with chopped green onion oil. The existence of chopped green onion can better set off the low-key fragrance of taro mud.

All the materials are ready, and then it's time to test the family's combat effectiveness. When the family got together, while the elders were talking about the past, one shrine of rat shell cotton flashed before our eyes. The printed cocoon is round and peach-shaped, and the cut banana leaves are put on the mat and steamed in a steamer. Banana leaves can prevent cotton cocoons from sticking to the pot and hands, and can also prevent burns, and the leaves are still very fragrant when they are out of the pot. Slowly, in many people's homes, almost the size of pearl paper (mini barbecue paper) replaced banana leaves.

Boil the rat skin in boiling water and steam for about 15 minutes. Do not steam for too long. Too long will blur the pattern, the color of steamed cocoon will be much darker, and the pattern will still be clearly visible. Let it cool after cooking, and it tastes very q-bomb. Give the steamed bread with cigarettes to the neighbors and ask, how is this year's steamed bread, as good as last year?

The mouse-shell quilt received a heart and ate the same affection and friendship. Nowadays, mouse-shell quilts are not only eaten in the New Year, but also produced and sold in batches in many snack bars in my hometown to alleviate the homesickness of young people who are working hard outside. When writing this article, I happened to chat with a few friends and mentioned mouse shell cotton wool. They said they wanted to eat cotton wool and go home.

Are you homesick at this time?