What kind of homemade food do you have?

Every year, the first essential homemade food in my family is yellow rice sticky cake. The production process is very complicated.

My family steamed rice cakes on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month every year, and my mother soaked yellow rice one day in advance to drain it. Early the next morning, the cart went to the processing plant to queue up. After rice is ground into powder, it should be screened once with fine radish on the spot, and the coarse ones should be screened out before processing and screening. This is a spectacular scene. The yard of a processing factory is full of sieves.

When the noodles are processed, go home and start boiling water. Add half the water to a big black iron pot and put an oversized grate on it. When the fire boils, make the steam burn evenly upward.

Mom will mix the cooked red beans, peanuts and jujube in the noodles in advance. Sprinkle a layer of red beans on the bottom to prevent sticking. Then spread the noodles evenly one by one. At this time, the fire must be big and the steam must be sufficient, otherwise there will be some parts of the sticky cake that cannot be steamed.

Spread all the noodles. It's about twelve or thirteen centimeters thick. It has a semicircular lid made of straw rope (my hometown is Wo Wo). Although this kind of nest is airtight, the water vapor will be absorbed by the straw rope and will not drop on the rice cake to affect the taste.

The most exciting moment is the moment when the pot is boiled, which was my favorite when I was a child. When the pot boiled, all the steam was released at once and rushed from the bottom of the pot to the roof. The whole kitchen is shrouded in fog, and I can't see anything clearly, as if I were in heaven. I often suck steam through my nose, which is wet and hot, and the sticky cake smell is in it.

The next step is to buckle the whole sticky cake into a big pineapple and dissipate heat while it is hot. At this time, I like to eat the top layer of red beans best, and sometimes I secretly eat a bald head.

When the sticky cakes become cold and hard, my mother will divide them into several large pieces, cut them into thin slices, separate them and put them in a cold place.

During the Spring Festival, guests will take out some steamed vegetables as the staple food. I will also give the cut pieces to my friends and relatives.

This sticky cake is made by my mother every year, and it is an essential homemade food on my Chinese New Year table.