Elm is the most common tree in northwest China, and its vitality is extremely tenacious. You can see it everywhere in the furrows in front of and behind the house. Its tree shape is not beautiful, people don't have to plant it deliberately, but it is favored by people because it blooms in the shape of ancient money. Perhaps this is the origin of the phrase "before the elm tree, after the willow tree, every year".
Spring rain is the messenger who awakens the northwest earth. Although the drizzle is mixed with the chilly spring cold, plants and trees have accumulated strength for a winter in generate. Apricot flowers are white, money is green, and gradually, the world becomes colorful. This change brings people not only visual enjoyment, but also a feast on taste buds. With the development of modernization, people's footsteps become busy. In rural fields, people began to pinch alfalfa and collect money from day lilies, and began to enjoy the fun brought by spring.
Yuqian rice is the best food for ingenious hometown people to enjoy natural gifts, with the freshest ingredients, the most authentic technology and the most pleasant natural taste. It is best to pick elm money about a week after the elm blossoms. At this time, elm money is wrapped around elm branches and looks like a cash cow. The careful peasant woman carefully selected the clean money. After several elutriations, the water is discharged and mixed with flour. My grandmother was born in the old society, and poverty and hunger made her a master of games. Grandma will beat one or two earth eggs in Yuqian when she is cooking, so that the rice cooked by Yuqian is fresher in color and more delicious. Noodles are also very delicate. White flour mixed with corn flour makes the steamed noodles softer and more waxy. Firewood is used to steam elm money, and a steamed cake is spread on the steaming bar in the pot to prevent elm money from leaking out. Steam on the fire for an hour, and the kitchen is filled with the steam of elm and wheat. Delicious Yu Qian rice is out of the pot! Have a bowl while it's hot.
It's called rice. There are probably two possibilities. One is a steaming fence made of bamboo sticks, which is used to steam elm money, so it is named after different tools. The other is to use elm money to make wheat flour. My hometown people read wheat as coriander, which is named after its different components.
Yu Qian's meal began a wonderful game tour for a year. Artemisia argyi, Sophora japonica and alfalfa can all be made into delicious rice, with different ingredients and similar practices. In today's highly developed material life, hometown dishes similar to Qianmi rice are no longer wild vegetables to satisfy hunger, but the most common and applicable way to keep the taste of hometown, remember homesickness and recall homesickness.
Hometown flavor, a touch of nostalgia that will never fade.