In the twelfth lunar month, on both sides of the street's special purchases for the Spring Festival unusually hot. There is a steamed steamed shop, the shop before the people to People are hurrying to and fro., buy new streams of people busily coming and going, steamed bun. The smell of steamed buns with round wheat, remember when the young mother's bun, especially the mother of the red dates steamed bun. As a child, the new year to eat mother's steamed red dates is a much coveted blessing, a kind of delicious food, a kind of enjoyment, a kind of affection. Mother do eat red dates steamed sweet, chewy, moist mouth. Home area, friends and relatives will use a bamboo basket with red dates, bun, let family leave some, to retaliate. To go is the guest, always can not empty hand, empty hand back. Laws are There is an exchange of calls. Though a distant relative is not as good as a neighbor, it can be three li, five li, ten li, eight Li's relatives who have been free for the new year. Every year the twelfth lunar month after 20th, the mother began to make steamed steamed things. As the saying goes, "the daily expenses, daily necessities daily necessaries of tea". This "wood" is ready in winter. In the winter, the father split up a few dry branches and roots early and sawed a section of sun drying for the year. Often is "modaobuwukanchaigong father" in the mouth of a word, it is probably a father as early as intended.The only reliable criterion of truth is always to be consistent. "One can't make bricks without straw", this season, roughly what has been ready, waiting for Seiko secret agents. My mother is a careful person, as long as a hand, put the "yeast" in the face with warm water soak on the helmet, and some flour. This noodle is a technology live, with the process of surface requires continuous rubbing, inversion, and sometimes with a sniff smell, there are more alkaline taste, delicious, and less with a sour, entrance to swallow. Because the flour scarcity, mother up very seriously, and the surface is very suitable. The surface of helmet, dough, hand processing clean, light, known as the "three", and this is the successful symbol. Finally, cover the lid and enter the fermentation process. The weather is cold, the mother will be in the meal while the pot are still warm, the face helmet cover double grate into the pot, cover the last big pot in the kitchen, burn some firewood, with a straw block range opening to help improve the temperature of the cooker, baking. Shujiu, mother will put on the helmet surface of Kang Kang, an old quilt cover, let the dough sleep a night. My mother sometimes will take time out of some big fat red dates, soak in warm water in the bowl, let it absorb enough water reserve. On the second day, when the mother got up early, her mother saw a helmet full of faces. She was excited to come up and buckle on the panel, rubbing, squeezing, reversing, and finally squeezing it into a long face stick, like the arm size of the adult. Mother put the hand cut into the dough, the size of a fist with great press, a line of soldiers, like the battle. The mother roll up its sleeves, the size of a fist in the face panel is a block of kneading, extrusion, finally with the palm of the hand pressed into wider than two inches, half inch long out of bread, two large red dates in the long bread central, big red dates are consistent with the length of the long bread, side by side, middle have a certain gap, with no edge long bread is appropriate, then find a dry bowl, with the edge of the bowl rolled past on both sides of the long bread, two times on each side, leaving two parallel and beautiful footprints, will finally end the long bread ring, rotating the ends long bread coincided, squeeze, as bread base, two large red dates edge just exposed, there are two parallel pattern outside, Shashi good-looking. A week is the week big red dates steamed Chuzhan victory, more than 30 pot of steamed bun rub down, mother's head will sweat thin exudation crystal, mother, it is self-evident to pay. After the mother finished kneading steamed buns, and boil half pot of boiling water. This time is just waiting for the dough steamed bun "". The mother said, "wake up" after eating steamed texture. The water is boiled, steamed into the cage cloth mother began to comb from the middle, in a circle, very regular, some space is left between each bun, so down very good-looking. Each bun upright, listen to the words of her mother, standing motionless cloth in the cage. The mother covered the lid of the pot and burned it in a hurry, so that I could record the time with the only digital electronic watch in my family, and let my little sister burn slowly, so that she could get busy with other things, because her mother could never finish the work.
