In the early morning of New Year's Eve, I saw my grandmother busy buying candied dates, sweet-scented osmanthus and glutinous rice flour to steam rice cakes! I am old and can eat delicious rice cakes sent by my grandmother from the countryside every year, but I have never seen how my grandmother steamed them. I just returned to my hometown this year, so I "practice" myself.
Finally, after lunch, grandma took out the steamer from the cupboard. So I said to my grandmother, "Let me be your assistant. I will feel sweeter if I eat my own steamed cake! " Grandma smiled and agreed. I rolled up my sleeves, not to mention how happy I was. I seem to smell the smell of rice cakes.
I saw grandma pour glutinous rice flour into the bamboo plaque first, and then added sugar, candied dates and sweet-scented osmanthus into it. Then she stirred it back and forth with a spoon. Grandma told me, "steamed cakes have both the sweetness of candied dates and the fragrance of osmanthus, which makes people memorable." I thought to myself: no wonder grandma sends a lot of rice cakes every year, but I always feel underfed. I think I will keep stirring with chopsticks like grandma.
Then, grandma put a pot of water and some chopsticks in the cauldron, covered the lid and let grandpa light it. After a while, the room was filled with steam and the water boiled. At this time, grandma gently wiped the oil on the inner wall of the steamer with gauze, put in the evenly stirred rice flour, slapped it around a few times with her hands, and quickly put the steamer on the pot for steaming after the rice flour became firm. After a while, rice noodles came out. Steam comes out of the rice flour. Grandma looked down at the source of steam carefully and kept spreading rice noodles at the exit. Grandma was busy adding rice noodles and gave me a "face-to-face lecture": "This rice noodle is very particular, otherwise some steamed cakes are raw and some are cooked, and the taste is very bad." Grandma has been taking care of grandpa to make the fire in the stove stronger. Soon, not long after.