Swallow flower daddy prose

When I went to the outskirts of the city to see rapeseed flowers last weekend, I found that the open space next to the rapeseed fields was covered with swallow flowers.

Swallow flower is a plant with leaves as big as chrysanthemums, stems and leaves covered with white wool, and flocculent small yellow flowers. It usually grows in open spaces or on hillsides in the wild. In my hometown of Hunan Xinning, this is the raw material used to make swallow flower cake.

Swallow flower cake is a special snack in my hometown. It is made by smashing freshly picked swallow flowers and mixing them with glutinous rice flour, and then steaming or frying them. The finished swallow flower cake is green in color and is delicious to eat. It tastes soft and moderate, and leaves a fragrant mouthfeel.

When I was a child, if my mother planted glutinous rice, she would usually use a stone mill to grind the glutinous rice into glutinous rice flour during the season when the swallow flowers bloomed. Then, she would chop the swallow flowers into pieces with a knife, and then chop the glutinous rice flour into fine pieces. Knead the swallow flowers vigorously to make small dumplings, and then steam them in a pot. The aroma will fill the entire kitchen.

I have been away from home since going to college and working, but I haven’t eaten the swallow flower cake made by my mother for a long time. After discovering the swallow flower, I couldn't fight off the greed in my stomach, so I went to the open space on the outskirts of the city with my mother, who had come thousands of miles away from home to help take care of her children, and picked the swallow flower. While picking swallow flowers, I heard my mother say that in my hometown in Hunan, when the swallow flowers were still in bud, the villagers couldn't wait to pick them and make swallow flower cakes. In fact, when making swallow flower cakes, flowers are the best. I heard from the elderly that eating swallow flower cake has the effects of resolving phlegm, relieving cough, lowering blood pressure and removing wind.

Back at the residence, my mother was busy cleaning the swallow flowers that she had picked. I was responsible for putting the swallow flowers that my mother had processed into the soymilk machine and smashing them. While working, I asked my mother why the swallow flower is called swallow flower. The swallow flower found on the Internet is not the one we picked today. The mother smiled and replied: "I don't know, maybe it's because the season when it blooms is the season when swallows return."

After searching on the Internet, I finally found a product that can identify the name of a plant by uploading a photo. mobile software. So, I compared the photos I took with my mobile phone when I was picking swallow flowers and compared them through mobile phone software. I finally learned that the scientific name of the swallow flower we grew up in novels is called sageweed. The famous medical book "Compendium of Materia Medica" has recorded about the rat grass: "Purison, it is said that its flowers are as yellow as the color of the ear, and it can be eaten with rice flour. Rat's ear, its leaves are said to be like the body of a rat, and it has white hairs and velvet like jade. ..."

It turns out that our ancestors have always picked the young shoots for consumption or added rice flour to make cakes.

When my mother was making swallow flower cakes, I used my mobile phone to take videos and photos of my mother making swallow flower cakes, and sent them to a group of friends and relatives. All of them drooled three feet long and left messages. He said that he asked his mother to cook more and save them for them to eat.

Although they were joking, it can be seen that swallow flower cake is also an unforgettable delicacy in their hearts.

Yes, swallow flower cake, that is the taste of hometown, the taste of mother.