Traditional gourmet memory Wei

As soon as everyone heard of "off-year", they knew that the Spring Festival was not far away. People began to prepare for the "busy year", buying new year's goods, sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. People who spend off-year are very busy and happy. Off-year, that is, the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, is a festival to worship the kitchen god. Off-year has different concepts and dates in different places. Most areas in the north are on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and most areas in the south are on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

China people can't live without eating for the New Year, and as a traditional custom in China, special food is indispensable. So, what should we eat in the new year? Remember to eat these seven traditional foods, most of which mean auspicious reunion and prosperity in the New Year.

Melon maltose

There is an old saying: "Twenty-three, cantaloupes are sticky, and the master of the kitchen goes to heaven." Legend has it that the Kitchen God will report the behavior of every household in the sky for one year, and it has the responsibility of communicating with people, connecting the feelings between heaven and earth, and transmitting the information between fairyland and the world. In heaven, people provide it with stove candy, hoping that it will eat sweets, and let him say something nice to the world in heaven, so that the life in the coming year will be happier. The other is that people want to stick sticky honeydew melons on the kitchen god's mouth to stop him from speaking ill of the world in heaven.

Compared with all kinds of candies sold in the market, honeydew melon has a unique crisp, sweet and crisp flavor and taste, which is difficult to imitate by other candies. On the other hand, the main component of candied melon is maltose, which is made from natural food raw materials through simple processing. Nowadays, few people cook this traditional snack at home, and they prefer to go out and buy a few pieces, which should be a sight.

Kwantung sugar [maltose from northeast China]

Guandong Sugar is also called Chef King Sugar and Big Sugar. After one year, it will only be sold around the next year. It is a sticky sugar product made of malt, millet or yellow rice. The candy that is drawn into a long strip is called "Guandong Sugar", and the candy that is drawn into a flat circle is called "honeydew melon". In winter, it is placed outside the house. Because of the cold weather, the honeydew melon is solidified firmly, and there are some tiny bubbles in it, which are milky white in color. Kwantung sugar is generally three inches long, three fingers wide and flat and silky. A large piece of newly made candy is crisp and sweet in your mouth. It is a kind of off-year food that is very popular among men, women and children in Kanto.

baked wheaten cake

In Henan, people should cook on fire in the off-year because they want to be prosperous and all the best in the new year. The fire is almost equal to the off-year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and the business of biscuit stalls in the city is very prosperous.

New Year cake; rice cake

In the south of China, many families will steam rice cakes to celebrate this festival. The rice cake is also called "rice cake", which is homophonic with "Niangao", meaning that people's work and life are progressing year by year. At the same time, there is a saying that eating rice cakes in the coming year is the same as eating honeydew melons in the north, which means sticking the mouth of the kitchen god and letting him say the good things in the sky, not the bad things on earth. There are many ways to make rice cakes. You can eat sweet food, dip it in sugar, put it on a plate, or eat hot pot. Everything is delicious.

tangyuan

Many places will choose to eat some delicious jiaozi during the Spring Festival, and there are many kinds and patterns. But why do you want to eat jiaozi during the Spring Festival? This is because my life has become more complete and I can be more round with my family.

Chinese dumpling

Jiaozi is used to eating it in the northern New Year's Eve, which means to bid farewell to Kitchen God and "send away the windward side of jiaozi". When offering sacrifices, jiaozi should be placed on the platform. As the saying goes, delicious but jiaozi, northerners have a special liking for jiaozi, and jiaozi is indispensable for holidays. Because jiaozi is wrapped as a symbol of reunion, family members or friends eat jiaozi when they go out, expressing their hope to reunite with family members and friends as soon as possible.

Jujube bobo

On this day of off-year, the North will make jujube cakes, reunion cakes, birthday peaches and other pasta, which means that the whole family is reunited and the days are more than enough. This kind of pasta is more troublesome to cook. Wake up after making dough, knead dough and then wake up, then make various pasta shapes and then wake up. Wake up and put it in a steamer. This kind of steamed noodles, also called "noodle flowers", is very delicious, but it takes a lot of time.