When I was a child, there was no refrigerator, no air conditioner, no ice cream and no iced coke. In addition to the ancient popsicles, watermelons and mung beans are also foods to cool off in hot days.
I cooked mung beans, mung bean porridge, mung bean soup, mung bean soup, mung bean water and mung bean cake in different ways. After eating all summer, people turned green. I still haven't given up. She dried the peeled mung beans and put them in a cloth bag to make our summer pillows.
Now that I think about it, how many peeled mung beans do you have to cook to collect and dry this mung bean pillow?
But only in this way, I think we can spend the whole summer without illness or disaster.
Mung beans can really cool off the heat, not because I have no idea. Records of traditional Chinese medicine: mung bean, the name of traditional Chinese medicine, is the dried seed of leguminous plant kidney bean, which has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving summer heat and promoting diuresis. Indications: carbuncle, swelling, sore, fever, polydipsia, drug and food poisoning, edema and dysuria.
I miss the summer when I was a child. In that old red brick house, there are a group of barefoot and shirtless children chasing back and forth in the corridor.
Wooden partitions, wooden pillars and an old-fashioned fan squeaked in the room. It's too hot in the room, and it's a little cool on the patio in the corridor. Grandma shook the cattail leaf fan and sat on the rattan chair in the patio. She smiled and watched us play.
There is an old well in the patio, which is our natural refrigerator. Put the watermelon in the basket, tie it with a rope and put it in the well. You can eat the chilled watermelon in half a day.
I put a four-corner wooden table on the edge of the corridor. There is a small bowl of cool mung bean soup on the wooden table with a dish of peeled mung bean cake in the middle. I don't know what prescription to use. She made the mung bean cake, which is very delicious.
Now my mother is eighty years old. After so many years, some handicrafts have stopped. She's retired, and I won't bother her. She made a decent mung bean cake by herself, which has the impression in memory and the elements of today.
Share the recipe here. It's simple. This is a lazy recipe. Everyone can try.
Ingredients: 250g peeled mung beans, 0/50g rock sugar100g butter100g.
I was lazy and bought peeled mung beans, which saved me a lot of trouble.
As for this grease, I remember my mother used lard. The smell of lard is the unattainable essence of Chinese food, but I didn't have lard today, so I used butter instead. Butter has the smell of milk, which children like, but no product can match it.
Operation process:
1. Wash peeled mung beans and soak them for half a day.
2. Pour into the electric pressure cooker, add rock sugar, and the water has not passed the mung bean. Press the bean cooking button in the electric pressure cooker, press it.
3. Take the pot and press it into fine mud with a rice shovel.
4, medium fire, butter melts into a non-stick pan.
5, change the fire, pour in the mung bean paste, and shovel with a silicone shovel. This process is very patient, you must keep shoveling, otherwise it will easily burn your ass.
6. After nearly 45 minutes of shoveling, the mung bean paste is spherical and the water is almost collected. Boil the pot
7. put it in a bowl and compact it. After cooling, put it in the refrigerator for half a day.
Butter and lard solidify in the refrigerator, so the frozen mung bean paste is more compact.
8. Take out the frozen mung bean paste and divide it into more than 20 small portions, 30g each.
9. Press it into a favorite pattern, and the mung bean sorbet will be ready. If you can't finish it, you must put it in the refrigerator. Take it out of the refrigerator and eat it. It's cold and refreshing and full of milk. Compared with the dishes cooked by the old lady, it has a different flavor.
I made a cup of tea and took a piece of mung bean sorbet, and the ancient style seemed to be in front of me.
I have been away from antiques for decades. It is an antique of childhood, a childhood that cannot be returned, and an indelible memory.
The deepest memory of diet is in childhood. The so-called "mother's taste", "home's taste" and "hometown's taste" all come from childhood diet.
Childhood diet can determine a person's life taste, and childhood experience can also affect a person's life behavior.
I was lucky to be born in a loving family. At that time, no matter how scarce the material was, grandma and parents were able to make delicious food with simple ingredients, thus letting us know all our lives that material poverty could not stop our spiritual enrichment, and loving life could create our own beauty even in hardship.