How to make traditional Qingming wheat fruit

The countdown to the National Day holiday has begun. You, who have been away for a long time, must have already planned to go out for fun. When you travel, you are bound to taste the local food. But if you can't adapt to the local climate, it will definitely be very uncomfortable. So, you'd better make delicious food at home and take it out. Now, let me introduce to you the method of making the old traditional Qingming wheat fruit.

1. Mugwort. I specially took a photo of the mugwort still growing in the field. My husband didn't recognize it, so I made fun of him.

2.12 When picking mugwort leaves, pick them in a finer way, leaving behind the stems, just the leaves. Wash.

3.21 In order to make the mugwort leaves softer and more tender, we need to add edible alkali. It’s hard to tell the real ingredients, this is just a little bit taken out from the old jar. Let me verify it.

4.1 fans are here. Pour the chopped mugwort leaves into a basin and pour in hot water. You need hot water, so that the dough will be softer and much easier to knead. The next step is the hard work, kneading and kneading, until all the powder on the edge of the basin is cleaned off. Don’t add too much hot water at one time. Add a little bit after kneading for a while. This is to make it easier to control the moisture of the dough and adjust it to the most suitable level.

5.2 Put the mugwort leaf and alkali powder into the water and cook. After it is cooked, squeeze out the water and chop it into pieces. The more broken the better, so that it can be fully mixed with the powder.

6. Don’t pour out all the powder. Leave some in a small bowl as it will be needed later.

7. The state of the dough after kneading. Then, according to the size of the mold, pinch it into small balls.

8.1 Shape the dough into a bowl and add filling. We wrapped it in two kinds: red bean paste and black sesame and white sugar. The red bean paste filling can be bought ready-made in the market. Roast the black sesame seeds yourself, grind them, mix them with sugar, and sauté them until fragrant! Or you can add some lard. There are also ones stuffed with pickled vegetables and bamboo shoots, but I don’t like them, so I didn’t make them.

The 9.2 model is here, it feels very traditional. Hand carved more than half a century ago. Of course, you can also go to Taobao to buy some plastic molds.

10. After filling the pot with stuffing, close the opening.

11. Apply some extra powder to your face. This is to make demoulding easier. Otherwise the skin will stick to the mold and break, revealing the filling.

12. Put it into the mold and flatten it. Demoulding.

13. Place a layer of clean gauze in the steamer and steam it. In order to distinguish the taste, I deliberately stuck a few sesame seeds on the outside of the sesame filling.

14. It comes out of the pot steaming hot...it looks a little black when photographed. It's actually a bit of a dark green color.

In real life, there are not many men who can cook. But with the guide to completing the old traditional Qingming wheat fruit, male friends can definitely do it on their own. And if you can cook this dish for your beloved, your relationship will be sublimated to an unprecedented level.