When I was in Tomb-Sweeping Day, many people ate Youth League. How did the Communist Youth League do it?

Speaking of Tomb-Sweeping Day eating Youth League, everyone is familiar with it. Youth League is a special snack in the south of the Yangtze River. The basic method is to mix the juice of wormwood with glutinous rice flour, and then wrap the dough into stuffing, thus making a snack with grass flavor.

We know that wormwood, as one of the main raw materials, has medicinal value. Li Shizhen recorded in "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Moxibustion can open all kinds of veins and cure all kinds of diseases and evils, and the one who indulges in it is Kangtai, and its merits are also great." There is also a record of "seeking love for three years after seven years" in Mencius, which shows the medical value of wormwood. Then, the green group of snacks made of mugwort juice must have health value.

It is easy to be a youth league. The specific method is as follows:

Step 1: Prepare ingredients, including wormwood, glutinous rice flour 300g, sugar 40g, wheat starch 80g, lard 30g and bean paste.

Step 2: Prepare mugwort.

When picking fresh and green mugwort leaves, people generally like to use mugwort leaves before Qingming because they are fresh and green at this time. Then the cleaned wormwood is juiced and filtered. Fresh and delicate mugwort is ready.

Second: prepare the dough.

Use the prepared ingredients (glutinous rice flour, sugar, starch, squeezed wormwood juice) to make dough, add lard when the dough becomes flocculent, then knead it into smooth dough and relax it for 10 minute.

Third: prepare stuffing.

The stuffing of the youth league can be matched according to your own taste, such as common bean paste, egg yolk, jujube paste, sugar, black sesame and so on.

Fourth: Be a youth league.

Green balls are made into small seasoning, wrapped with appropriate stuffing and kneaded into a ball.

Fifth: steaming

Boil water in the pot, steam the hot water of green ball in the pot for 8- 10 minutes. Delicious green balls are ready.

During the Qingming Festival, steaming youth league has become a traditional custom in Jiangnan. In ancient times, people organized youth leagues mainly for offering sacrifices, but now their functions have gradually weakened. Friends, have you learned? Be a youth league with its own characteristics!