Traditional food oil圪hema

? With its golden color and soft aroma, Oh-yeh has become a favorite food of many people in our area. Before the eighties of the last century, it was the most awaited food for our children and adults here. Childhood, we can eat the oil Ohma feeling is the most beautiful enjoyment under the sky, oil Ohma also became a luxury in our childhood, every day can eat oil Ohma feel is the world's most happy, the most happy life.

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? In childhood memories, the number of times a year to eat oil Oh Ma is so three or two times, are in the New Year's important days of the festival. "This is the wish of most of the people. Every New Year's Eve or the first day of the New Year, many villagers will sit on the frying pan at home to make a long-awaited meal of oil yeahma, so that people can enjoy the happiness and joy brought by the festival. Every family burned up the oil pot, the fragrance of oil flying, small hemp oil will be filled in the village of the streets and alleys, floating in the village of the sky. Walking in the streets and lanes, the aroma would enter people's nostrils, lingering in their noses, stirring their hearts and penetrating their temples. Pounding aroma to stimulate my taste buds, can not wait for noon to descend quickly.

? Although delicious, but really make the oil Ohma color, aroma, taste, can cause appetite of oil Ohma, there are still a lot of attention. Not only to master the fire, but also to put the noodle operation in place, mixing well, so that the oil Ohma not everyone can be made into people's favorite food. There are many ways to make Ohnyeom. In our local area, the most used is to boil the water to dry, when drying a finger in the water dipped in the water to estimate the temperature of the water, the feeling is not cold and not hot, that is, and human body temperature is close to the equivalent of 37 ℃ or so. Put 1 to 2 grams of lye into the water, then sprinkle the flour into the water and keep stirring. When I was a child, I loved to watch my mother cook, especially when she was making a dish like oily rice, so I would pay attention to every detail of what she was doing, and sometimes I would even help my mother by stirring the dough and taking part in the process of cooking and enjoying the joy of cooking. After stirring for a while, I would let the noodles wake up for a while, stir again, wake up again, and so on until I could pick the noodles with chopsticks to make them tall, long, and sinewy. In the process of mixing, there are constantly round bubbles bulging, bubble film as thin as cicada wings, delicate lubrication, the first process is complete, just waiting for the frying pan to cook. Ohma's shape has a long and small ball type two kinds, long most of them are given as gifts, because the long type in the bowl appears to be the atmosphere of the row, send relatives feel dignified. Most of the small ball type is eaten at home. Cooking oil Ohma to the oil red, with chopsticks to copy a small piece of dough into the oil pot, just listen to the Zira sound, molten oil froth in the pot, the rapid expansion of the dough, become round and smooth, white and fat, bulging up the round belly in the pot swings. Cooking oil Ohma action requires a crisp and clean, while copying the dough to the oil pot, while keeping an eye on the color of the oil Ohma, to reach a certain level of fire should be made to the appropriate flip, when the oil Ohma into a golden brown when you can get out of the pot.

For farmers who live in the countryside for a long time and make a living from the land, it is rare to eat such food as oil ohma a couple of times a year, and it is more important to them. When making this kind of food, every family is thinking about the deceased relatives, thinking about the virtual gods. When the oil ohma is cooked, the family cannot eat it first, and children are no exception. First, they have to respectfully offer it to the gods and goddesses, and to their deceased grandparents. Children should follow the adult's example and kneel and kowtow behind the adult, to the gods and ancestors after the expression of piety, we children were allowed by adults, open stomach to eat a long-lost food. Eating the delicious flavor of the oil Ohma, thirsty green onion and egg soup, face overflowing with cozy smile.

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? Childhood, we usually see other people eating oil yeah often with a sense of envy, thinking, can painfully eat a full meal of oil yeah is how happy to enjoy ah! However, I think, to really be able to eat this kind of food I do not know when to come, perhaps until the Chinese New Year. A few decades ago in the countryside, most of the people three meals a day converge on the rice field, a variety of food, but the level is low, are some corn, millet after modification of the crude rice. Usually can see the end of the oil Ohma eat is some craftsmen work by hand, some of them are to the farmers to repair the house, some are to the farmers to do furniture. According to our local people's custom, three days ago, the main household will give the craftsman to do a meal of oil, used to treat the master craftsman. At a young age, I felt that being a craftsman was a good trade, and that I could earn money and have a good meal at the same time. When the son of a family said yes to a daughter-in-law, he would make some good rice like oil-oh-oh-oh to entertain the matchmaker, so that he could work as much as possible and persuade the other party with his good words. In addition, important guests to the home will use the good rice for some hospitality, such as elderly fathers or mothers to the daughter's home for a period of time, there is no better meal to treat the elderly, often to cook a meal for the elderly on the oil yeah, to meet the old man on the enjoyment of food. This is especially true when an unmarried daughter-in-law goes to her in-laws' home for the first time, bringing along her sister-in-law or several accompanying persons, which is locally known as Sangjia. In order to show their sincerity to their daughter-in-law, they have to treat her with the highest standards of courtesy, and in addition to giving her money and goods, they have to cook the best meals, and oh-yeh-yeh-yeh is the best food they can bring out. The oil圪hema must look good and taste good. Some people are afraid that they can't do it right, that they will lose face, and that they will invite relatives or neighbors who are good cooks to do it for fear that their son's marriage will be ruined because of a poorly made meal. When the first door of the daughter-in-law to return to her mother's home, the in-laws will have to pick out the style of good-looking oil Ohma loaded with a big bag for the future daughter-in-law to take back to her mother's home, we call this back to the plate, can not let the guests go back empty.

? Before the production responsibility system in the countryside, material shortages, oil Oh Ma has become the first choice of many families to visit the sick, filial piety to the elders of the gift. I remember our childhood Spring Festival relatives, juniors visiting elders to send on the oil Oh Ma, the main elders to send two bowls, the general elders to send a bowl, as an expression of juniors to elders of the feelings of respect. If the elders have a disease, especially some of the patients who will pass away, as the younger generation also have to carry some oil Oh Ma went to visit comfort. Oil Oh Ma has become a universal gift to send elders, see the patient, oil Oh Ma is equivalent to today's market Mengniu, Yili, Terensu .......

Oil Oh Ma also used as a synonym for daughter. When we were young, we heard who's daughter-in-law gave birth to a small child, often heard people ask, your daughter-in-law gave birth to you a boy or a girl? If it is a girl, people will be happy to say, that's good! She's given you an "oil yeah"! You'll live well from now on, you'll have oil yeahh to eat. Because in those days the market was not like today's supermarkets with all kinds of dairy and soybean products and more gifts for people to choose from. Oh yea became the best gift for daughters to honor their parents after they got married.

This traditional food from the depths of history has become the memories of generations, generations of people's expectations, luxury. In today's extremely rich society, large and small supermarkets are full of a variety of food for people to visit friends and relatives to provide more space for choice, people's recipes in the constant renovation changes, a variety of food dazzling, dazzling. Oil Ohma this traditional food, has been in the mouth of the people often read up the term has been gradually faded by contemporary people. No longer seen carrying a small basket containing oil Ohma walking in the streets. Instead of driving a car, riding a motorcycle, wearing fashionable clothes, with a variety of high and mid-range dairy products, soybean products and a variety of nutritious health food traveling on the highway, the streets of the men and women visiting friends and relatives.

Written at Songmiao on July 9, 2021