Niandao piaoxiang

Years of cooking rain, looking back. My hometown grinds the road, but my heart cooks and smells good.

Childhood memory, grinding the road, is a workshop used to process rice noodles in the village.

Mill Road is located in the middle of the village, with three thatched cottages with adobe walls, a wooden door facing it, and an old wooden glass window near the corner in the east for lighting and avoiding strong winds. The ceiling and walls of the house are covered with gray dust, and the window glass has turned into ground glass. The cobwebs covered with flour are floating heavily with the wind shadow of labor. Wind and rain blowing, years erosion, thatched cottage ran across the road, standing in the grass, like a tired old man, hunched his back, held his breath and stood proudly.

In fact, raceway refers to a roller composed of rollers and rollers. The millstone is a round platform polished by a hard and flat slate, with a diameter of more than two meters and a height of more than one meter, which is built around it. On the grinding plate, a long rod pulls or pushes the cylindrical stone roller, that is, the roller, to rotate on the grinding plate around the central axis in the rectangular frame. There are stone teeth carved by masons on the drum, that is, grooves that are basically evenly distributed to improve the speed of rolling rice noodles. Around the drum, the ground is padded into an arc-shaped flat road for people or donkeys, horses and cows to walk when pushing and pulling the drum.

In the hard years, the roller is an essential tool for villagers to eat.

Spread the dried grain evenly on the grinding plate and let the roller roll up. If there is more food, let the horses in the village. If there is less food, people will push it.

In the grinding process, after peeling for the first time, use a dustpan to winnow it, and then spread the peeled grains on the grinding disk to roll; The second time, peel and dustpan again ... Of course, the year is not good, and the crops that have failed are a little wilted, so it is difficult to peel and roll more often. After peeling, sieve it with a rice sieve again. At this time, rice screens and noodles are very particular. Choose large, second and third rice sieves and large, second and third noodles as needed. For example, if you want to eat the big crumbs, second crumbs and small crumbs of corn, you should reasonably choose three sizes of rice sieves to sieve the rice in turn, and then spread the rest on the grinding plate until it meets your personal requirements. As for flour, it is rolled over and over again, passing through three sizes of flour over and over again, until the last particle passes through the third side.

In this way, the hulls of millet, corn, wheat, rice, sorghum and other coarse grains were removed bit by bit, passed through the rice sieve and flour again and again, and the rice residue was rolled on the plate several times, which was laborious and hard, and the coarse grains were carefully cultivated, and finally became rice noodles in the bag and rice in the plate. At that time, a grain of rice fell to the ground, and people who saw it would pick it up in unison. If you accidentally spill a handful of flour on the ground, you will blush, deeply blame yourself and feel guilty. I don't know if it's because of hunger or hard-won or food shortage. In short, it was the instinct of people at that time to cherish food a hundred times.

Seeing the mill road will implicitly swallow saliva and roar. Only when the rice rolled by the rice mill is steamed into rice can it have a real rice flavor. The glutinous rice is fragrant, tough and crystal clear. Steamed bread, sticky cakes, pancakes and pot stickers made of various kinds of flour rolled out by a rice mill are all fragrant. After eating for a long time, I still feel fragrant between my teeth. Especially the simple boiled handmade noodles, pale yellow soup noodles and noodles, the most primitive noodles are fragrant, heavy and natural, and the tongue licks the lips with a long aftertaste. When I grew up, I never tasted the dying fragrance in my heart. Now, it is known that the low-temperature and low-speed processing of rice flour without any additives keeps the molecular structure of rice flour, does not destroy the nutritional components in the grain, and retains many nutritional components such as protein, gluten, carotene, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins in the grain to the greatest extent.

Unconsciously, the road has become a bond of friendship between villagers. Everyone in the village should use this unique grinding road. You don't need to organize, you don't need to queue, you take the initiative. People who use the roller track only need to go to the roller track to see if anyone is using it. If not, see if there is a broom on the wheel disk. If there is a broom, it means that someone will use the roller soon. When someone is using the rice mill or just about to use it, the two families will give way to each other and exchange rice noodles, because some of them are either out of rice or are about to stop. In addition, there has been a small improvement in food. Pot paste noodles, pancake noodles and white flour are rolled into noodles, and those rolled into noodles are given to those who haven't rolled them yet. I have a meal, and you have a meal. Everyone in a small family is a family. As for rolling rice noodles, it is more common for two or more companies to cooperate. Those who push the mill, carry the rice, collect the noodles and sift through the sieve … save time and have strong feelings. Rolling the road represents harmony, mutual assistance and love. See, see each other's treasure. Think about it. Think about being in the same boat. I only feel that there is an elegant and pure fragrance of life flowing in my blood, which makes me drool and arouses ripples in my heart.

My hometown runs over the road, and my heart is full of melody. Dreams lead the soul and are warm.