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Ai Baba, also known as Qingming Baba, is usually made by picking wormwood when it just germinates around Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is one of the foods used to worship ancestors when Tomb-Sweeping Day melts water, and it is also a unique folk snack when it melts water. It is green, round and full, emitting the unique fragrance of wormwood and natural waxy fragrance, sweet.

Ingredients: Tian Ai (Qing cuisine), red bean paste, glutinous rice flour.

Production method:

Step 1: Boil wormwood.

Boil boiling water in a large pot, add a little alkali, add the washed wormwood, do not add the lid, keep the water slightly boiling on medium-low fire, gently turn the wormwood with chopsticks to heat it evenly, and cook until the leaves turn green. Pinch the stem of wormwood by hand until it is soft enough to pinch, then turn off the heat. Covering the pot when cooking will cause the boiled wormwood to turn yellow and the color is not bright. Alkali is added to remove the bitter taste in absinthe.

Step 2: soak the cooked wormwood.

Take out the boiled wormwood and soak it in cold water to remove the bitterness. Soak for almost 12 hour, and it is best to change the water two or three times during this period to let the bitterness fully ooze.

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After soaking, take out the wormwood and squeeze out the water until there are no stems, so that the taste will be very delicate when you eat it at last, and you won't eat any grass when you eat it.

Step 4: Stir fry

Stir-fry the chopped wormwood in a clean pot over medium heat for a while and smell the fragrance. You can also add some salad oil. This step is to enhance the fragrance.

Step 5: Mix the dough.

Stir-fry wormwood, add glutinous rice flour and sugar, pour in freshly boiled water, stir with chopsticks first, and knead it into wormwood balls by hand when the temperature drops. Be sure to use very hot water to make glutinous rice flour sticky when heated, so that it can agglomerate when it is harmonious, and it is easier to operate when filling, and the shape and taste of the finished product are better. Don't add too much sugar before the dough is slightly sweet, because the filling is also sweet and the sugar is too greasy.

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Take a small piece of good Folium Artemisiae Argyi, knead it into a small bowl, put it in the palm envelope, seal it, make it into a ball, flatten it slightly, put some oil on the bottom, or put it on the grapefruit leaf, or put some oil on the palm before wrapping it. The extensibility of wormwood rice balls is not as good as that of dough, so they should be made by pressing, pressing and kneading, and cannot be kneaded in the palm of your hand, otherwise it will spread out and leak stuffing.

Step 7: steaming

After cooking, serve it on the table, put it in a pot and steam it with cold water. The water can be eaten for half an hour.