"Knock, knock", the sound of the big wooden pestle knocking on the stone mortar is deafening, like thunder. I looked around curiously and saw two "tiger stoves" built side by side on the threshing floor, with two large steamer on the pot. The steamer is steaming. What's steamed in it? Uncle Zhang saw my doubts, came over, opened the steamer and said with a smile, "Little scholar, people in the city have never seen anyone making rice cakes." Let's see what's inside. "
As soon as the steamer was lifted, a white steam poured out like a flood. The original steamed glutinous rice flour is white and laid flat on the gauze of the steamer. Plumes of hot air and white fog, mixed with fragrant rice, quickly wrapped around people. The fire under the stove is burning brightly, and my face is red.
"Well, the pot is up!" Uncle Li opened another steamer over there, so I hurried to see it. Uncle Li and Uncle Zhang hold the four corners of gauze tightly together, just like a fisherman lifting a big net. "Come on, make way!" The two of them ran steadily to the stone mortar in the house, and my grandmother poured cold water on the glutinous rice flour. Bang, the big zongzi turned over and rolled into a stone mortar.
Later, Uncle Li lifted a big wooden pestle weighing more than 10 Jin, blushing, and threw it at the big zongzi in the stone mortar. "Pa-pa-"Zongzi jumped up like a naughty child. Then, grandma dipped her hand in cold water and suddenly turned the zongzi over. Between a smash and a turn, jiaozi becomes more and more resilient. "poof!" In a blink of an eye, Zongzi was held in a round plaque. The aunts on the side cut a small piece with thread and covered it with osmanthus and sugar. A sweet smell makes the saliva gurgle like a sluice. At my uncle Zhang's house, he covered it with a piece of white cloth soaked in water. He pressed it hard, and suddenly, a super-large rice cake came out. That is a big rice cake like a big round plaque!
As a "special guest", I was lucky enough to be invited to "point flowers" on the rice cake. You probably don't know what some flowers mean, do you Let me tell you, "point flowers" is to use a small straw bundle the size of an adult's finger, pour carmine on it and gently point it on the rice cake. Red marks like plum blossoms will be left on the rice cakes. I carefully took the manuscript bundle and checked the position on the rice cake. Ah, red berries are blooming on rice cakes! After I enjoyed my "work", I touched carmine with a brush and wrote some names of the heads of households on some rice cakes. In two days, after these big rice cakes are divided into small pieces, they will go to these people's homes to add joy to the New Year.
It is said that playing rice cakes in the village was a great event in the past. Just looking at the rice cake merchants, there are many people coming in and out. Now there are only a few old people or children except the master who plays rice cakes, and many of them are just busy watching. I wonder if there are too many teenagers, will there be such excitement?