Hometown oil tea water makes me miss home even more

From the first to the fifteenth day of the lunar month, touch your belly every day. In Linwu, Lanshan and Jiahe in the first month, when visiting relatives and friends, in addition to eating, there is still food. As a place where delicious food is concentrated, Linwu has Shunhua Linwu duck, Lanshan has Xinwei "cow shit wine", Jiahe Youtangcun rice tofu and so on. However, Lin, Lan, and Jia counties have a unique specialty "tea oil", which has a special status in the hearts of tourists who go out, because it is the delicacy that mothers love to prepare for their children to satisfy their cravings.

"Camellia oleifera" is not just tea in the ordinary sense. It is actually a combination of a variety of delicious fried snacks, commonly known as "oil tea", poured with "tea" with strong hometown characteristics. ”, collectively referred to as “oil tea water”.

? There are many types of raw materials for Camellia oleifera, mainly including peanuts, peas, black beans, old corn kernels, glutinous rice cakes, frozen rice, flour, winter flour glutinous rice cakes, etc. Use cold oil to fry the peanuts and stir them up and down with a shovel to prevent them from turning black. The fried peanuts will be fragrant and crispy. The peas and black beans should be cooked quickly. When the oil is red, put it in the pan and rise to the surface. Take it out quickly and make it crispy and chewy. There are three steps to frying old corn kernels. The first step is to boil the old corn kernels in water; the second step is to remove them, drain them and dry them in the sun; the third step is to fry them. The fried old corn kernels are crunchy and fragrant, and the elderly and children love to eat them.

Shaking glutinous rice cake is made by steaming glutinous rice and pouring it into a stone mortar. A few strong men use special wooden hammers to shake and pound until a cage of glutinous rice is shaken into a huge rice ball, exuding the unique smell of glutinous rice. Fragrant, several women knead the big rice balls into small rice balls and press them into round cake shapes, called "Douziba"; through baking and sun-drying, the Douciba will dry and harden, making it easier to store. Deep-fried glutinous rice cakes are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, with a glutinous aroma. They are particularly delicious, but don’t eat too much because they are difficult to digest. However, it is precisely because it is difficult to digest that it can ward off hunger, so it is most popular in times of scarcity. "Frozen rice and oil tea", the name is a bit difficult to understand, but it is actually the most vivid. It is made by steaming the glutinous rice, directly dividing it into small lumps with your hands (without kneading or kneading), placing it on a clean wooden board, and after drying, it will be like a grain of rice frozen together, so It's called frozen rice. After frying, the frozen rice swells up and spreads out like white lotuses in full bloom. When you bite into it, it becomes crunchy and very refreshing. When you soak it in oil tea water, it will become soft and soft quickly. It is especially suitable for the elderly and children. It is a high-quality oil tea. .

Wheat flour glutinous rice cake is similar to winter noodle glutinous rice cake, except that the flour is wheat flour, while winter noodle is ground with rice and water, drained and divided into lumps, dried and packaged for later use. Winter flour glutinous rice cake is relatively sticky and slippery, and is the best material for making sugar-oil glutinous rice cake, while flour glutinous rice cake is relatively soft, fragrant and sweet, and is also a very popular variety among camellia oleifera. Of course, the types of Camellia oleifera are not limited to these types, but these types are relatively representative, and most people will prepare them.

Chinese people’s diet pays great attention to the mutual complementation and nutritional combination of food. “Camellia oleifera”, as a kind of folk delicacy, is particularly particular. Camellia oleifera, as a fried food, will inevitably be a little greasy. Although eating camellia oleifera alone can relieve hunger and satisfy cravings, it is difficult to digest and absorb, and it is easy to get angry. Therefore, our ancestors invented "oil tea water". Tea is high mountain tea. The local high mountain tea is picked, washed, steamed, kneaded and lumped, sun-dried until semi-dry, smoked with rice husks until completely dry, and placed in a small-mouthed and wide-belly basket made of thin bamboo strips for later use. When making oil tea water, first prepare a pot of boiling water, then put a special iron pot (relatively thick) for making tea on the fire. Put oil in the pot. Be sure to use lard or chicken fat to avoid bubbles. Crush the old ginger, add high mountain tea, and salt at the same time (you can also add some garlic), stir-fry for a while, pour the boiling water into the pot, and let it simmer for a few minutes. The unique fragrance of the camellia water will spread in all directions. It's open. The tea bowl for holding camellia water is also specially made, with a wide mouth and a mouth, made of rough pottery, (many of them are now made of aluminum), a handle, and a tea strainer made of thin bamboo strips on it. Pour the boiled oil tea water into the oil tea bowl through the tea strainer, put it into a bowl, and the fragrance will fill the room. Smell it, it will refresh your mind. The taste is strong and slightly spicy, oily but not greasy. It has the effect of quenching hunger and thirst, eliminating greasiness and promoting digestion. Paired with the abundant camellia snacks, you can eat them with or without soaking, as you please, it is really a beautiful thing in the world.

On the 28th day of the lunar calendar two years ago, Ms. Xiao Min, who was developing her career in Shunde, Guangdong, returned to her hometown and invited me to her home to eat the "oil tea water" made by her mother. Although we didn't make the trip, I saw her. The picture of the oil tea water that I posted made my mouth water. Ms. Xiao said that her mother was from Jiahe and was good at making tea oil. Every year when I return from Shunde with my sisters, my mother always prepares a sumptuous meal of tea and tea to entertain the children. While the children are working hard outside, whenever they think of their mother, they will unconsciously think of the oil tea made by her mother. Alas, my mother, she was from Tangcun, and she was also good at making oil tea water. Unfortunately, she is no longer here. The smell of mother can only be encountered occasionally in dreams. A bowl of camellia water reminds me of my mother again.

Some time ago, my friend Mr. Lei came to chat specially and said that he intended to bring the folk delicacy of his hometown oil tea water to the market. He talked to me about nutrition, delicious food, feelings, dreams, etc., which made me feel Mr. Lei’s deep affection for the culture and food of his hometown. I am honored to have a friend like Mr. Lei who has dreams and sentiments, so I happily agreed to provide him with advice and create a happy future. Coincidentally, Mr. Huang of Zhonghe Casting Industry, who also misses his hometown, always wants to introduce the best and most distinctive things from his hometown to his friends. In the "Chetou Cultural and Creative Park" area that he led the planning, in order to provide a good place for fellow villagers who have traveled all over the world to comprehensively experience the local accent, nostalgia, customs and charm, a "special food street" was specially set up. Camellia oleifera water will surely make people in hometown feel more homesick with its unique cultural flavor and unique taste, and will make foreigners traveling here prefer camellia oleifera water! Yes, only the nation is the best in the world, and only the hometown is the best! Ms. Xiao, Mr. Lei, and Mr. Huang are all successful people who came out of the countryside. Their deep nostalgia for the Camellia oleifera water, in addition to the deliciousness of the Camellia oleifera itself, is not just the restless love for the land of their hometown among the wanderers outside. ?

Hometown oil tea water makes people miss home even more!