text | Sun Jingpu
"Godzhe Rice" and "Roiling Pot Beans" are the dialect of Laizhou , referring to sorghum noodles porridge and soybeans cooked in porridge. This is a traditional diet that Laizhou people used to be very popular, and they drank this kind of meal almost morning and evening.
The method is to boil a small handful of soybeans in the pot, add diluted sorghum noodles, and then boil one. The sorghum noodles are purple-red and sticky. They will feel a bit granular and bitter when they drink them. They will taste like drinking Chinese medicine at first, which is not easy to taste, and it will be fine if you get used to it.
people in Laizhou say that sorghum noodles are cheap, hunger-resistant and clear fire. In the past, people loved to plant spring sorghum and used sorghum noodles to make pancakes, steamed buns or make porridge. Now some people say that sorghum noodles have low sugar content and are suitable for 3 people with diabetes.
The sorghum noodles are very sticky. When making porridge, there will be an illusion of thickness when putting them in the pot. After the pot is opened, it will be thin and appropriately thick.
soybeans are nutritious. Needless to say, adding a few soybeans to the porridge not only adds nutritional ingredients, but also increases appetite. When you drink a soybean, it tastes particularly fragrant when you chew it, and it will taste even more delicious when you eat a bite of pickles.
Laizhou people drink this way for generations, so it has become a fixed pattern. In the year of a bumper harvest, dry food is eaten, and in the year of a famine, bran and vegetables are drunk. Folk says: "Boat beans, my ancestors keep them, they are chewing fragrance, and they have a great success."
My grandmother is old, her teeth are lost, and she can't chew soybeans anymore. When she makes porridge, she shouldn't put the roll beans anymore, but she said: "The rice with beans is delicious, and the rice without beans has no taste." She still insists on putting soybeans. During the meal, I scooped the beans with no beans, and occasionally scooped them with beans, and then picked them out and put them in my bowl.
Children love to eat this kind of beans the most and are unhappy when they can't drink it. When adults scoop rice, they will specifically pick up a few more beans for their children. There is a folk saying: "If you can't drink beans in one gulp, you won't have enough money." Later, it was used to refer to some people and things that are not greedy.
I grew up drinking this porridge and went to middle school, but I still drank this porridge. Now that I am old, I go to the supermarket from time to time to buy two kilograms of sorghum noodles to make porridge. I am used to it, I prefer this.
People who can live a life say that it takes longer to cook porridge and boil beans to cook. This is easy to solve. Our family’s solution is to soak the soybeans first the night before, and then put them in the pot to cook the next morning. It will easily rot and save heat.
Source | Yantai Evening News
