Sweet Tengba, also called Qingmingba, is a characteristic traditional snack in Guizhou, and is a festive food custom on Qingming Festival. Sweet rattan cakes are called different places, because they are made during the Qingming period in March in the lunar calendar, so they are generally called March cakes. This bha is also a kind of sacrifice during the "hanging up" period, and it is also a kind of precious gift to the deceased relatives to convey grief, so it is also called the Qingming bha. When a person is away from home, because of the completely different customs, customs, and local conditions, he can only go back to the taste of his hometown while he adapts slowly. Especially when you are alone, what you miss most is your hometown and relatives, and what you fear most is the seduction of hometown food. To rely on mountains to eat mountains, to rely on the sea to eat the sea. From ancient times to the present, people have used extraordinary wisdom to obtain food. From generation to generation, the food that used to be just for the stomach has now become a unique delicacy. "Sweet Vine Ba" is one of them. In March of Yangchun, there is a kind of homesickness called "Sweet Vine Ba". Have you ever eaten it?
Sweet rattan ba—sweet glutinous glutinous rice cake, sweet, mixed with grass-specific aroma, it has a special taste. No artificial additives, natural green and healthy. The main raw material of sweet vine cake is two kinds of plants and one kind of rice, one is sage grass (called "Gougeng" in Dong language), and the other is sweet vine (called "gehua" in Dong language). In spring, everything sprouts. The gifts of nature make the hillsides and ridges, there are wildly growing sage grass and sweet vines, and they are extremely vigorous. Using this gift from the field to make sweet vines is not only delicious, but also natural. Sage is a natural plant that grows naturally in rice fields. It is purely natural and wild, and grows sparsely and sporadically. It does not require manual management, artificial planting, or spraying of pesticides and fertilizers. Sweet vines are planted wildly and artificially. The wild vines are thinner, and the planted vines will be thicker and contain almost the same amount of sugar. They all grow naturally. Picking only once a year is enough to make glutinous rice cakes. The sweet vine cake is made of glutinous rice flour mixed with grass masses, topped with sweet vine juice, wrapped in freshly picked palm leaves, steamed, and then tied with straw or bamboo shoots. It is ecological and delicious.
In my memory, during the Qingming Festival every year, in Guizhou, whether in rural or county towns, people like to make sweet rattan cakes. The process of making sweet rattan cakes is extremely cumbersome, time-consuming and laborious. First, pound the sweet vine collected from the mountain into dregs, soak it in water, wait for it to soak the juice, and then soak the filtered sweet water with glutinous rice for more than 5 hours, then take out the drained glutinous rice and grind it into powder. Then, the sage grass was pounded with pounding, rinsed and filtered with well water, the purpose was to wash away the astringency and bitterness in the sage grass, leaving a sweet and sweet taste, which is considered to penetrate the mystery of "bitterness and sweetness". After filtering, the glutinous rice flour is mixed into a round tuft that is neither thin nor hard. It is pounded and pounded again. Gravity encourages the molecules to recombine. The sweet vine, sage grass, and glutinous rice are completely integrated, and the taste is only Will improve. The next step is to make buns, which is a skill. Put the bun in the palm of your hand and make a circle, then wrap it with two layers of soaked palm leaves, and then tie it with straw. After everything is wrapped, put the baba in the steamer and cook for about an hour, the aroma is immediately overflowing, and the steaming sweet rattan baba comes out of the basket.
There are usually two ways to eat sweet vine cake, one is to fry with fresh rapeseed oil over charcoal, the other is to wrap it with palm leaves It is steamed in the middle and upper pot, and the two ways of eating have their own flavors. Both fully exude the fragrance and sweetness of plants, which is mouth-watering. If you don’t believe me, you will know that the sweet vine cake is delicious when you look at the smiling faces the children in the village are expecting today. Sweet cane cake is also flexible, resistant to release, and not easily deteriorated. It is a good gift for guests, relatives and friends. Sweet cane cake is the taste of spring, and it is also the taste of homesickness. The stories of generations of elders have been circulated in the process of making sweet cane cake. This is also the hometown taste that many people in Guizhou miss most. Friends, Guizhou Qingming’s traditional snack "Sweet Tengba" is sweet and delicious. Have you ever tried it?
