Sunji rice jiaozi

Sun Ji Mi Jiao Zi is a special snack in Sunji Town, Lixin County, Bozhou City, Anhui Province. In Lixin, people will say that Sun Ji is good when it comes to the local specialty snack, rice yeast. Sunji rice yeast has a history of nearly 200 years. It is sweet and slightly sour, with strong wine flavor, pure and soft, and enjoys a good reputation. According to Ji Yongqing, an old man from Jiyaozhuang, Jixiaomiao Village, the town, during the Qing Dynasty, his ancestors went out to make a living and learned to make yeast. When they came back, they made rice yeast and sold it locally. Year after year, they went from village to village to peddle it, tasted the ups and downs of the world and earned some money to support their families. At that time, the raw material glutinous rice (also known as glutinous rice) was not available locally, so it was necessary to personally go to Huoqiu and other places in the south to push it with a unicycle. Later, the technology of making yeast spread in the local area. First, the people in this village followed suit and gradually more than a dozen people in the surrounding villages also started this business. To make rice yeast, glutinous rice (or japonica rice) is first soaked in water, then steamed in a pot, then put into a pot to cool, mixed with yeast (commonly known as "small medicine"), tightly sealed, and covered with cotton wool for heat preservation in low temperature season. Generally, after a day or two nights, the yellowish liquid from the basin is called rice wine. Never touch oil flowers in the production process, otherwise the rice will be green and black, and it will not be successful. Rice yeast is rich in vitamins, amino acids, sugar, minerals and other nutrients needed by the human body, and it is delicious and everyone loves it. However, eating too much can be intoxicating, so you must pay attention.
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