What to Eat on Winter Solstice in Yongkang

Yongkang winter solstice to eat gold dumplings, Yangmei fruit cake and rotten skin.

1, gold dumplings

Every winter solstice, Yongkang people will make some gold dumplings with glutinous rice flour, which are not only eaten by themselves, but also used to worship ancestors. It looks simple, but it takes a lot of work to make it. Traditionally, they are made by pounding Qingming grass and kneading it into the glutinous rice flour. When steaming, it is best to use March laurel (the scientific name of mountain alum) to make the padding, and at the winter solstice, they are mostly made with asparagus as the stuffing. In addition, the leaves of the March osmanthus should be fried in oil, so that the steamed golden dough is not sticky each other and especially fragrant.

2, Yangmei fruit cake

Yangmei fruit cake is actually composed of glutinous rice cake and Yangmei fruit. Yangmei fruit is made of glutinous rice flour wrapped in bean paste, and then pinched on the outside with a little bit of food coloring red dried powder, far from the look, quite a bit of the appearance of Yangmei, so the name. In Yongkang's custom, Yangmei fruit cake is used in red and white celebrations, and it is purchased during the winter solstice to be used in worshiping the gods and ancestors.

3, skin

Village people usually start making tofu skin around the winter solstice, because that's when some of Yongkang's traditional food business gets more and more prosperous. Tofu skin selection of high-quality soybeans, high-quality spring water refined and made without any additives and "hanging white block", golden color, thin skin, oily and shiny, very tough, tender and tasty, fragrant and beautiful, can be directly boiled and eaten, but also can be made ringing bells, veggie geese, veggie intestines, veggie cakes, etc., many Yongkang people use it to entertain guests, gifts to friends and relatives.