The taste of the festival is in the mooncakes and open-air movies!
When I was a child, when the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, almost every family in the village would make their own sweets. The tastes were different, and the neighbors next door would exchange them with each other.
Later, you could buy all kinds of candies on the street at any time, so there were fewer candies made. Now the young people in the village are studying and working in the city, the elderly and children are at home, and they will no longer make candies during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Make the biggest mooncake this year, share it with the whole village, and watch a movie together!
It’s the Mid-Autumn Festival again. When I look at the calendar, it seems like last year’s Mid-Autumn Festival was just yesterday. The time this year has passed extremely fast. Before I can fully feel the warm sunshine in winter, the cool breeze of summer is blowing. Before I can get enough of the popsicles, the fruits in the mountains and fields are ripe again, and there is a trace of them in the air. A touch of sweetness.
In the past when supplies were scarce, every household in the village would start boiling sugar at this time of year. maltose, sweet potato candy, peanut candy, chicken bone candy, cat poop candy...
Crops also mature in the fields as if they are afraid of being alone. When I was a child, I felt that autumn was really rich, and I could eat sweet things at home in the mountains and fields. Fruit confectionery. At that time, the most popular students in the class must have parents who could make a lot of sweets at home.
Now most of the young people in the village are in the city, studying and working...most of the families are children and the elderly, and the streets are full of candies. There are fewer people making their own candies...
When I say I want to do it When I was making sweets, it seemed that the memory of making sweets in every family in the past was suddenly aroused. Everyone was very happy and sent all the ingredients at home for me to help make mooncakes.
Old people like to wrap ingredients in layers of bags for fear of getting wet or being eaten by insects. Some of the flour and brown sugar were moldy when I got them...
For them, these are things that they are reluctant to eat. Things will break if left alone. This is basically the case for people of the grandma generation. They have had enough hard times, and they can't forget the hardships they suffered in the sweet days...
There are peanuts sesame , All kinds of flour, rice, white sugar, brown sugar... Let's make some candies that the villagers love to eat.
old white cake
This is a kind of sugar unique to our Shidian. I grew up eating old-fashioned white cakes. The outer shell is made of water oil crust and oil pastry , and the inner part is made of cooked flour sesame and white sugar lard mixed. Baked and crispy in layers, this is the taste of childhood.
Peanuts and Rice Candy
In our dialect, peanuts are called "falling pine", also called falling pine candy. My aunt gave me a lot of rice, which exploded little by little in the hot pot. They were extra-small popcorn.
Add white sugar and maltose to the water and bring to a large bubble. Then you can put in the peanuts. Raw peanuts will do. The temperature of the syrup is enough to fry the raw peanuts. (The ratio of water and sugar is not particular. If there is more water, boil it for a longer time. If there is less water, boil it for a shorter time.)
Boil until thick and pour it into the fried rice immediately. Eat as much rice as the syrup can coat. Use Roll it out flat with a knife and cut it into pieces, and it will be our unique peanut candy. Crispy and crispy, sweet but not greasy.
Tartary buckwheat flatbread
This is rarely available on the market. Everyone likes to eat sweet buckwheat . It has no obvious bitter taste and the color is nice.
The tartary buckwheat noodles given by Dad I added some flour to mix, and the filling was filled with white sugar and perilla to make a big pancake. It didn’t look good, but it was very soft...
Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, we will buy a big moon cake, as big as the moon, and ask for the moon. Afterwards, the family will share it. This big cake is the biggest cake I have ever made.There is enough for the whole village to share...
Cloud Leg Mooncakes
My family will make them every Mid-Autumn Festival, and I will save one of the hams at home to make mooncakes.
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Cloud Legs Mooncakes in this Year
I baked more than 100 cakes this year, and I took a video of a small part. My family loves to eat them, and people in the village also love to eat them...
Eating mooncakes and watching movies are my memories of Mid-Autumn Festival since I was very young. At that time, I still remember them. The movie will be shown in the village committee, and we will watch it before it gets dark. Parents are worried I was worried that we wouldn’t be able to eat mooncakes, so we simply took the candies to the village committee to eat. Everyone put them together, ate together, and ate mooncakes while watching movies...
In a daze, I seemed to have returned to the time when I was 5 years old. Mid-Autumn Festival is also the first Mid-Autumn Festival when I return to the village from the city.
As we grow up slowly, our parents get older day by day, and we lose a lot of the sense of ritual we had when we were children, but our inner desire for family reunion, our love for lively scenes, and our yearning for a better life have never changed.
It’s just that we need to pay a lot of effort and price in the process of pursuing happiness. Children have become left-behind children, and the elderly live alone at home... But all reunions and happiness will come as scheduled.
I wish every one of you can have a happy reunion and live a happy life!
