New Year's Eve "Rice Cake"
Eating rice cakes for the New Year is a major New Year custom in the Gangnam region. Kotatsumi always felt that the rice cake was on the market, and the New Year was coming. It is said that the origin of rice cake folklore comes from the Spring and Autumn Warring States, Wu Guo's grand master Wu Zixu was ordered to build a city, after the completion of the people to celebrate, but Wu Zixu is still worried, because he feels that King Wu is addicted to wine all day long and neglects government affairs, and sooner or later the State of Wu will be attacked. He said privately to his subordinates that if he were to suffer in the wu kingdom one day, the people would only need to dig three feet under the city gate, and the people's hunger would be alleviated. After Wu Zixu's death, the State of Wu was also defeated by the State of Yue, the people did not have a good life, people remembered Wu Zixu's instructions, so they dug three feet under the city gate, and found that the base bricks were made of rice cakes. Hunger was alleviated. In order to commemorate Wu Zixu, the people make rice cakes to commemorate the New Year's Festival. Not to mention whether this legend can stand the test, but the rice cake is resistant and the older it is, the harder it is, it is proved.
Shanghainese people say rice cakes, usually have
White Rice Cake (Ningbo Rice Cake)
Osmanthus sugar rice cake and lard rice cake. Before the 1970s, white rice cakes were generally served according to the plan, and even during the most difficult three years of natural disasters, there were still rice cakes for the New Year. Osmanthus sugar rice cakes and lard rice cakes are not within the scope of the planned supply, and residents can purchase them at various food stores with food stamps.
Whenever the rice cakes are on the market, the alley begins to stir. I saw that there was always a stack of white rice cakes in and out of the basket in the alley, and the topic of the neighborhood was also a little old age: "The rice cake has returned?" This trip to the rice cake is good, it is delicious, it is pinched, it is soft, and it is hot! ”。“ Uh, stir-fry some tower vegetables in the evening
, add some winter shoots just fine! "The words are full of endless regrets. At that time, winter shoots were very expensive! Shanghainese people are like this, and they always want to try their best to make their lives the most exquisite. Even if it's a symbol on the lips.
In addition to stir-fried rice cakes, you can also cook soup rice cakes, the most common of which are green vegetable soup rice cakes or pickle soup rice cakes. Those old Ningbo ate pickle soup rice cakes and boasted that the taste was "fresh". In addition to the stir-fried rice cake with shredded yellow sprouts,
Rib rice cake
Fried rice cakes with hairy crab and so on.
And the lard rice cake is steamed to eat, sticky and oily, there are also a piece of lard embedded in it, and then sprinkled with sugar osmanthus flowers, a steamed like crystal, crystal clear, in the past in the era of little grain and oil shortage, that is the best product! Osmanthus sugar rice cakes are generally cut into slices and fried in oil, and they are fragrant and delicious.
Rice cakes have been eaten from the midwinter before the New Year to the spring of the next year, and it does not matter if they cannot be eaten for a while. It can be cut into thin slices like a cloud cake and spread out
Bamboo grate (commonly known as daitou) is dried in the sun, and when necessary, it is taken out and soaked in water, which can also be fried with fragrant sticky teeth. Fried rice cakes can also be eaten sweetly, that is, fried with brown sugar, but during the New Year, it is still delicious to stir-fry rice cakes. Because the mouth is tired of eating. In the past, the government called for "good sons and daughters to aspire to the four sides", at least Shanghainese rushed to the motherland to support national construction. But in any case, I must return to Shanghai for the New Year. Loving Shanghai mothers will always rush to carry a bag of rice cakes to them before they leave Shanghai, so that they can also fry a hometown rice cake in a foreign country, and relieve their homesickness. Sun-dried rice cake slices can also be eaten as snacks, take to the vendors to fry the rice, the volume is suddenly magnified by dozens of times, fragrant and hot baking on the spot to eat, and today's snow rice cake is very similar, is the Shanghai citizens of the children are most familiar snacks.
In the middle of winter in the past, the hungry children would take the adults not to pay attention to the rice cake baked on the briquette stove, baked until the rice cake was hot and soft and charred, and the hot hair was held in the hand and stuffed into the mouth, and the mother saw the pity and scolded the "hungry ghost reincarnated." This kind of coarse food that young people will not look at now is an unforgettable memory of mine!
These are all stories about rice cakes in the past, gradually moving away from me. In the past, although there was a shortage of materials, the supply of rice cakes was still guaranteed, which shows the position of rice cakes in people's minds. It is not that the rice cake is looking forward to the high festival of the new year.