Put the prepared rice into a wooden steamer and steam it until it is mature, then take it out, and then put it into the pestle nest for pounding. After the cooked rice is pounded into a flour shape, it can be taken out and kneaded on the chopping board, and then made into a brick shape. It can also be pressed into a cake shape with a wooden mold, and the bait is ready.
Method of making bait block
The raw material for making bait pieces is rice, but rice with good quality, aroma and viscosity needs to be selected. In the old days, pounding bait pieces was a scene. Before the Spring Festival, the soaked rice was steamed in a wooden steamer. When it was ripe in June or July, it could be put into the pestle nest for pounding.
After the cooked rice is pounded into a flour shape, you can take it out and rub it on the chopping board, and then make it into a brick shape. This is the bait block. It can also be pressed into a cake shape with wooden molds. There are patterns such as happiness, longevity, blessing, fish, magpie and swallow on the wooden molds. The pressed bait cakes also have various patterns.
Another name for bait
In Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi in Southwest China, bait has many other names. Such as bait cake, cake, etc. In addition, the various appellations of bait blocks in the above places are used alternately at will, and there is no single strict specific tendency. This also extends to the origin of bait blocks. There are many opinions in the market. Its sources mainly include Guizhou, Guangxi and Yunnan, which is inevitably related to the diversity of the names of bait blocks.
How to eat bait
Bait is unique to Yunnan and Guizhou. It is one of the most famous and special snacks in Tengchong. It is also one of the common traditional foods in Yunnan and some parts of Sichuan in Guizhou. The bait is made of high-quality rice. The production process is to wash, soak, steam, pound and knead the rice into various shapes. It is generally divided into three types: block, silk and sheet. The production methods include burning, boiling, frying, stewing, steaming and frying. They have different flavors and can be eaten for a long time. There is one of the eighteen monsters in Yunnan: burning bait with rice cakes. （ErKuaiDeZuoFa）