Chapter 43: "Sweet Potato Fried Cake"
When I was a kid, I was looking forward to sickness, because the sweet potato fried cake at the door of the hospital was delicious. I have never told anyone before this secret.
To this day, I clearly remember that it was a middle -aged aunt who sold sweet potato fried cakes that year. She stayed next to a dilapidated and clean tricycle all year round. There was a small honeycomb coal stove in the car pocket of the tricycle. There were about four or five honeycomb coal. About a height of honeycomb coal. I vaguely remembered that the bracket seemed to miss the legs, and my aunt replaced it with a few broken bricks. On the stove is a black paint with hot air. Pressing one -third of the ip of the mouth of the oil pan is a wire leakage grid made of iron wire. There are always a few pieces of brilliant semi -finished sweet potato fried cakes on the grid. The reason why it is semi -finished is because if someone comes to buy, the aunt will put these fried cakes into the oil pan and fry it again according to the number of purchases, which is similar to what the prefabricated dishes now say. After the frying to a certain amount of heat, the aunt will put the hot finished sweet potato fried cake in a triangular thick paper bag to the guests. And there is only one piece in each paper bag. If I remember correctly, the thick paper bag should be made of cowhide paper, but was there a cowhide paper at that time? Even if there are, it should be uncommon. That bag of sweet potato fried cake paper bag may be a slightly harder thick book? At this time, the seductive aroma of sweet potato fried cakes has replaced these trivial.
On the other side of the tricycle, there is a wooden board. Two -thirds of the wooden boards are occupied by a red plastic basin. In the large pot, a sweet potato diced was wrapped in batter, with white and yellow. In order to keep it clean, a large white towel is always covered on the large pot. Several times, I saw that my aunt took out a few clean sweet potatoes from a covered blue plastic bucket under the wooden board, cut the skin with a peeled knife, and cut it into a small wooden chopping board. Put the sweet potato diced into a large red basin. Pour some water and flour again, stir hard to the sticky paste, dig a spoonful, and the sweet potato diced will not be scattered.
If the fried cakes on the oil leakage grid are sold out, the aunt will make a new one. She first soaked a long -handle and large spoon like a spoon, soaked it in the oil pan, and then dug the mixed sweet potato diced into the big spoon with another spoon. The aunt will use the bottom of the small spoon to try to press the sweet potato as much as possible, and add it to it. After that, she would put a large spoon in the oil pan and fry. After the sweet potato -diced fixed cake shape, she gently shaken the spoon, moved the fried cake into the pot, and then repeated the last action to make the next sweet potato fried cake.
After the white sweet potato diced, the taste was frying, and the yellow fried taste was crispy. Every time I go to buy, I deliberately choose the more yellow sweet potato fried cakes, because this is not only the best, but also better. It seems that sweet potato fried cakes were originally sold for three dollars, and then a piece of five cents. It is said that it has risen to two dollars each later.
It may be because of the reason for the hospital's door. Parents always say that these foods are not clean. Especially the food made by this kind of mobile vendor cannot be eaten. Later, even if I didn't get sick, I would occasionally go around to buy it, and I always eat the destruction of the corpse that I ate before arriving home.
I have tried to make sweet potato cakes at home, and try to cut the sweet potato as much as possible, and it will be cooked faster. The batter is not thin or thick, and it can just stick the sweet potato together. After the fragrant sweet potato fried cake comes out of the pan, I will always give my parents for a taste. But at this time, the words of the mother will always be unpredictable. She sometimes says that this time -consuming thing is to eat it. It is better to buy two and try it. Sometimes I say that this kind of fried food is not healthy, don't do it anymore. Sometimes I also say that I use my mind all day on pondering the "black hole". I do n’t know if she was starved to death in her last life. As if I did something wrong anyway. So, occasionally passing by a stall selling sweet potato fried cakes, I will quickly go straight. After entering the door, it was naturally tense. As if the breath of sweet potato fried cakes was on the body, it was a big deal.
Later, getting farther and farther, it seems that I really haven't encountered sweet potato fried cakes elsewhere.
A few years ago, I found a job at the back kitchen at the Western Restaurant. When I was fried, I asked the chef, and could the sweet potato be so fried? He asked me if I wanted to eat fried potato? I hurriedly shook my head subconsciously. But the next day, I saw a bag of imported sweet potatoes in the delivery of the dishes. At that moment, there was an inexplicable feeling of crying. If some missing in life will be compensated in other ways, this seems too heavy. However, the sweet potato fried cake that day was really delicious, and I really cried when I was delicious. The chef thought that I was in a hurry to get my tongue, and I made a large box of packages for me after playing, and I told me that it was as delicious as it was cold. During that time, I regret that the food that I wanted to eat but could not eat, most of them appeared inadvertently. There are more foods I have never seen before.
In those months, I got a lot of fat, and gradually became a happy fat man ...
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