Chapter 70 Xinhua wine garlic flower

There is a delicacy in Xinhua, which is rarely seen in normal seasons, and it is only served on the table during the Chinese New Year-wine garlic flower. Xinhua glutinous rice is of high quality, and the steamed water wine is also very famous, and the wine garlic flower is its by-product. Xinhua has steep peaks and steep streams, inconvenient transportation, and the food retains the original and simple style.Among them, there are many drinking customs. On festivals or happy days, people like to persuade and toast.Xinhua belongs to the ancient Meishan Mountain, where Miao, Yao and Han people live together. They like spicy food, sour food and strong flavors. They have ten meat, ten vegetables and ten drinks, and water wine is one of their main drinks.

Garlic wine is a condiment and a famous dish, but now it is gradually disappearing in rural areas, and its function is replaced by cola or Sprite. I like to eat wine garlic flowers, and I prefer its sweet and greasy aftertaste.Every year when I go home for the Spring Festival, my parents know that I like to eat wine and garlic flowers, so they will make me a bowl for preparation.During the Spring Festival, every family is full of fish and meat. When I visit my relatives for New Year greetings, the elders like to pick up vegetables for me. According to the rules, they cannot be returned to the vegetable bowl, so I have to bite the bullet and eat.Also, my brother or cousin, who is a little older than me, knows that I used to like to eat fatty meat, so she will offer me fatty meat, or share the fat meat in the bowl with several sisters, and each eat a few pieces.After eating a meal, I was already greasy, my stomach was overwhelmed, my heart was extremely greasy, and my body was extremely uncomfortable.As long as there is wine and garlic flowers, I take two bites, and the taste will immediately come back in my mouth, and the greasiness will fade away.

Xinhua water wine is mostly brewed with wine medicine seeds, and the wine is transformed from sweet wine, that is, fermented wine, into water wine.Xinhua produces high-quality glutinous rice. First, the glutinous rice is milled, the buds are removed, the broken rice is sifted out, soaked overnight to drain the water, and the glutinous rice is steamed thoroughly in a wooden steamer, then spread and cooled.Grind the wine medicine seeds into powder, add warm water, mix thoroughly, and scatter on the glutinous rice.Put the glutinous rice into a clay pot and cover it with a towel or earthen cloth.

The time for steaming wine is generally autumn and spring, when the temperature is suitable.If the temperature is too high in summer, the wine tends to turn sour; if the temperature is too low in winter, it is difficult to ferment the wine medicine. It needs to be wrapped with straw or cotton wool to keep the temperature, and the distiller's grains tend to turn red.The wine is divided into Chongyang wine, Chinese New Year wine, peach blossom wine, etc. according to the season, and three dynasty wine, wedding wine, birthday wine, etc. according to demand.Water and wine do not get angry, and brown sugar can be given to women in confinement to drink, which can dispel cold and activate blood.

Glutinous rice and wine are put into earthen pots for ten days, and the wine is ready.At the beginning, it is sweet, thick, and sticky, sticking to the lips when it enters the mouth.This is just fermented rice. The rice grains are hard and the alcohol content is very low. Gradually, the fermented glutinous rice becomes bitter and the alcohol content increases. After it becomes completely bitter, the original wine is complete.Add unboiled water, cut open the distiller's grains, crush the distiller's grains, soak for three days, the wine and water merge, the distiller's grains become soft, disperse, and float up, and the water wine begins to form.

The only vegetables in rural areas in winter are radishes and cabbage. Although the oil is reduced, rural people feel that radishes and cabbage can’t be sold during Chinese New Year. When a bowl of cabbage is placed on the table, it will be snatched up, leaving me with only meat. Xinhua produces water and wine, mainly in Zhenshang Town. Celebrities such as Fang Dingying, Chen Zhengxiang, and Luo Shengjiao grew up drinking water and wine.Now, every household in Zhenshang Town drinks water wine and brews it at home.Forty-eight jars of New Year’s wine are the most brewed, and ceramic wine jars fill the room; eight and ten jars are common in ordinary families, and eighteen jars are considered wealthy families.

Water and wine are good, so are the raw materials for making wine and garlic flowers.Shuijiu pays attention to the transparency of the wine, the more transparent the better, the grains of distiller's grains are obvious. To make wine garlic flowers, remove the distiller's grains from the wine jar, squeeze out the wine, and only leave the distiller's grains.Mix well chopped ginger rice, garlic leaves and chili powder, pour over hot vegetable oil, add sugar, coriander, salt, monosodium glutamate, etc., add broth, mix well, and the production of wine garlic flowers is completed.Store the wine garlic flower in a warm place for three days, the wine garlic flower will start to change its taste, it will have a slightly sour and sweet taste, and it can be eaten.Slowly it becomes more sour and sweeter, and after forming a pure sweet and sour taste, it will no longer change the taste, and a bowl can be eaten for the New Year.

Liquor Suanhua has a combination of sweet, sour, spicy, and salty flavors, each of which is not obvious and prominent. When eaten in the mouth, the distiller's grains melt in the mouth, with a lot of juice, which is very greasy and goes well with rice. There is a habit in Xinhua during the Spring Festival. You don’t eat eight bowls of dishes for the New Year’s dinner. Count, make ten bowls, twelve bowls. During the Spring Festival, every time I eat, I have to serve wine and garlic flowers on the table. I eat a few bites of big fish and meat and eat some wine and garlic flowers. Even three or five meals a day are not greasy.