It seems that I am still too full [travel]

On the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Xie Shi rarely woke up early to wash his hands and make soup.The small kitchen that Han Ji asked to prepare finally came in handy.After the winter solstice, the days are getting longer and longer, but about today’s Xie Shi is really early, the sky is not yet bright, and candles are lit for lighting in the small kitchen, brightly lit, and a warm stove There is nothing more cosy than being warm and toasty.

Although Han’s family’s Laba porridge has been cooked since last night, Xie Shi didn’t touch the stove for many days to cook, and his hands were itchy for a while, and Han Ji arranged a small kitchen. It’s rare to have a reason to cook Laba on this day. Naturally, he was very interested, and he had been planning and buying grains since the day before yesterday.

Laba, also known as Buddha's Laba, is said to be the Buddha's Day when Sakyamuni, the Buddha, attained enlightenment. On this day, Buddhists in major Buddhist monasteries cook porridge with beans, fruit, and millet to worship Buddha for blessing.However, the custom of drinking porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to celebrate the harvest has been around for a long time. The description of La Festival in "Book of Rites" has "In the twelve months of the year, all things are gathered together and offered for food."Therefore, regardless of whether you believe in Buddhism or not, except for the quiet Guangdong, the Laba Festival is generally celebrated in the north and south of the Yangtze River and on both sides of the Yellow River. Everyone has to sip a bowl of hot Laba porridge on this day.

Xie Shi was a Cantonese in his previous life, so logically he should have no feeling for the Laba festival. Xie’s family is not just a Laba festival, but the old man who adopted him later lived in the north for most of his life when he was young, and his husband is also a northerner. Laba is extremely important, and it takes two days every year to carefully prepare and cook this pot of Laba porridge.

Under the influence of his ears and eyes, Xie Shi would cook a cup of Laba porridge for himself every year and eat it slowly. Many times, there was too much porridge, and Xie Shi couldn't finish a meal, and no relatives and friends wanted to increase it, so he ate it until the next day. This morning, it can be regarded as answering the sentence that there is more than one year.

The porridge ingredients and porridge fruits on the stove were boiled in turn, and they were bubbling softly.The servant who was sent to serve Xie Shi was clever and careful. After getting along with him these few days, he realized that Xie Shi's master was easy-going and good-natured. When he saw him stop moving, he couldn't hold back his pent-up emotions from the day before yesterday until now. Out of curiosity, he asked, "Master, I see that the Laba porridge you cook is quite different from ours here in Fuzhou? Is this a habit in Le County?" If so, the people in Le County are too rich!

Due to the different products and customs of different places, the traditional Laba porridge contains different things, but most of them are seven kinds, called Qibao, and because it has five flavors, the correct name of Laba porridge should be "seven treasures and five flavors". Porridge".Sweet porridge is eaten in the south, but not necessarily in the north. In some places, meat floss and tofu are added to the porridge to make a unique salty Laba porridge.

During Xie Shi’s Laba porridge, there are eight kinds of porridge ingredients such as glutinous rice, barley rice, millet, sorghum rice, barley kernels, mung beans, red beans, and red beans. In addition, there are lily, lotus seeds, red dates, and ginkgo fruits. Pine nuts, almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, green silk strips, longan meat, longan meat and sweet-scented osmanthus, etc., are full and dazzling. It is simply a big gathering of whole grains and dried fruits!According to this method, if ordinary Li people boil a pot of Laba, enjoy it at home after worshiping their ancestors, and also give gifts to relatives and friends, I am afraid that the expenses will be high.

Xie Shi was in a happy mood, and at this time he joked: "This is not the custom of Laba in Le County, but Xie's Xieshi himself. Not born."

Xie Shi's method is his own, it is completely a personal recipe that he has summed up over the years and adjusted according to his own taste.The ingredients needed seem to be a lot, but Xie Shi is not short of money or sent by people, so even if there were no supermarkets in ancient times, he made a list for the people below, and quickly gathered all the ingredients.

The Laba porridge made by Xie Shi not only has a lot of ingredients, but even the process is quite labor-intensive.Red beans, red beans, and mung beans were soaked the night before. After washing the next day, I rolled up my sleeves and went into the kitchen. The first thing I did was remove the core and coat of the lotus seeds, add water and put them Steam in a steamer on high heat for half an hour.

In addition, choose red dates with small cores, small flesh, thick skin and tight skin. Pour cold water and cook until half-cooked, then turn off the heat, remove and drain, and peel off the skin and core of the dates while it is hot. This time is not finished, for porridge The taste of the jujube is smoother. Xie Shi, who is particular about it, steams the jujube meat in a steamer until soft, and finally grinds it into jujube paste.Ginkgo fruit is a little simpler, you only need to shell it, steam it and cool it.

At this time, cook several kinds of beans that have been soaked plump and full of water until they bloom into bean paste, repeat several times, and completely filter out the bean husk dregs; At this time, you can really start cooking porridge.Not to mention the little servant, even the cook of the Han family who was chosen to help the cook was amazed. Although the Han family is a family of Zhongming Ding Shi, they really don't pay more attention to making Laba porridge than Mr. Xie.

Xie Shi's meticulous approach was actually influenced by the old man who adopted him. It is said that her husband's ancestors were the family of high officials in the Qing Dynasty who could wear red tops. No, how dare you be sloppy with the face saint's stuff, it's a matter of losing your head, so it can be said that it is meticulous to the extreme.

The water for cooking porridge must be added at one time, and cannot be added in the middle.After the water boils, according to the characteristics of various grains and dried fruits, put the ingredients into the purple casserole in the same way. Each time a new ingredient is added, it will be boiled for about 5 minutes, and then simmered with a slow fire. During this process, thank you Always hold the handle of the spoon and stir clockwise in the pot to prevent sticking.

At this time, there is no need to throw away the jujube peels left over from the peeling. Xie Shi has its own magical effect. I saw him add water to boil, clear the soup and pour it into the pot to cook porridge together. In this way, not only the jujube fragrance in the porridge is stronger , the most important thing is that the color of porridge can be dyed into a beautiful deep lotus root pink, which can be said to be very good in appearance, with a combination of color and fragrance.

The cooking time of this porridge is about an hour. When it is the last quarter of an hour, add snow-white icing sugar, sprinkle some sweet-scented osmanthus after it is out of the pot, and sprinkle pine nuts, Porridge fruits such as almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, green silk strips, longan meat and longan meat can be used.

Xie Shi got up early in the morning and worked for a long time. After adding the icing sugar, he looked up at the outside of the house. At this time, the sky was already bright and it was almost time for the morning meal.After the Laba porridge is cooked, ordinary people have to offer sacrifices to their ancestors first, and the monks in the temple serve it to the Buddha. Drink porridge together.

When Xie Shi was a guest at the Han family's home, there was no need to offer sacrifices to ancestors, so he simply offered sacrifices to the Kitchen God.After the Kitchen God used it, Xie Shi not only gave some to Han Ji, but also sent some to the courtyards of the other masters of the Han family, so that he could drink a bowl of it to comfort his empty stomach.The boy was lucky enough to eat this bowl of "imperial made" luxurious Laba porridge together, and he was completely conquered by his master's cooking skills. According to him, it's a pity that the son didn't enshrine it to the Buddha, or else it would be for the gods Delicious Laba porridge, the Buddha will definitely bless you!

Xie Shi was amused by his miraculous praise, and thought, is this the Laba porridge version of "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall"?

The porridge jars full of fragrance were delivered to each family. Some people felt like a treasure when they heard that Xie Shi made it by himself. Mrs. Han, some people dismissed her, put her aside, and even rewarded her servants casually, and some of them were represented by some high-ranking clan elders.

It would be fine if the matter stopped here, but there happened to be one of the elders of the clan who, in the face of the patriarch Han Ji, drank a bowl of Laba porridge brought by Xie Shi, and then "condescended" to send a steward to the door to thank him attentively. Afterwards, I quietly inquired about the response of the various courtyards to the Laba porridge presented by Xie Shi.

Now when the servant inquired about it, he reported that most of the masters hadn't eaten it, and the youngest Han, who was possessed by something, sent someone to ask for porridge!

Some of them were stupid, so they gave it directly, and secretly laughed in their hearts that the youngest Han was so poor that he couldn't even afford Laba porridge.But at this age, he has become an old member of the Han family. There are few people who are as arrogant and brainless as above, and more suspicious.

The person who rewarded the porridge casually to the servants has no way to get to the bottom of it. After all, the porridge is in the stomach, and the clan elder who left it aside asked the servants to fill a bowl, intending to taste the craftsmanship of Mr. Xie to the end. What is so weird that Han Laosan behaved in such a disrespectful and abnormal manner.

The porridge was sent from the kitchen to the hall, and the fragrance wafted all the way, and it was full of this taste. The name "Xie Yiyin" was not an exaggeration. The porridge was tasted just after it was delivered to the mouth, it was smooth and fragrant, soft and sweet, without any trace Grainy, it is most suitable for the elderly with bad teeth to drink, and it is called the magic product in Laba porridge!

Before he knew it, the elder of the Han family had already eaten his homemade Laba porridge and was not hungry. He just wanted to taste something weird and finished the bowl of Laba porridge sent by Xie Shi.

However, after finishing the porridge, the elder of the Xie family couldn't come up with any reason why he was old. After all, no matter how much the porridge made by Xie Shi can be called a delicacy of gods, it is nothing more than a bowl of porridge, not a life-saving product. Elixir, at their age, food is no longer what they pursue, longevity and power are...

Elder Xie Family shook his head, intending to call Han Lao San over to ask about the situation in the afternoon, when he suddenly realized something...

His hands and feet, which were originally cold and weak in winter due to aging, seemed to gradually warm up. He was startled, and then he felt it carefully, and it seemed that even his dull heart relaxed a little...