Mother cooked soy milk pot

Someone brought me some soybeans that I had just harvested, I immediately remembered, it took almost 20 years for soybeans to be planted again on my hometown fields. That day, every time I harvested soybeans, my mother would save a little bit to cook soy milk. Perhaps, it is an attractive, delicious and nutritious drink that our children enjoyed in those years and years.
Once upon a time, on the banks of the river Ve, the green of soybean trees was immense in the fields. During the harvest season, people bring their sickles to cut the bean plants, then bundle them into bundles. The stump is hard and sharp, so this job is usually only for adults, because you must wear gloves and leg covers carefully to avoid kicking on the stump just cut. After cutting, the soybean bundles are sun-dried in large courtyards.

The delicious, nutritious cups of soymilk are cooked, are attractive drinks associated with many childhoods. Photo: H. THAO Now it’s time to get the kids involved. The bean plant was dried until the pods were hardened, cracked, until about 14, 15 o’clock, while the sun was still bright, my father mobilized the whole family to use the sticks to smash the soybean tree, down. lined the canvas to let the beans fall out. Then, the soybean stalks are reserved for firewood, the seeds are sifted thoroughly. The gift we were most eagerly waiting for after the bean-beating season was that Mom left a few beans, making the whole family a soy milk dish. Although home-cooked soymilk is rustic, it has to go through many preliminary stages of preparation to make a delicious and nutritious beverage. Mom soaked a handful of beans in a tub of water for overnight. The next morning, Mom sat meticulously using her hands to peel the beans out clean. Then she treated the skin and the bean paste separately, and by doing that, the pot of milk would turn out to be a beautiful white color. Then, the mother put the peas in the mill with a little water, and blended it well. Mother used a cloth mosquito was prepared, folded it in half to filter carefully, only get bean juice, leaving the residue. The pure white filtered water is put into the pot, depending on the liquid density of the bean juice, the mother adds water and catches it on the stove to boil. Mom told us to go to the garden to pick a handful of pandan leaves and wash them, cut them in half, and tie them together carefully and put them in a pot of soybeans. During cooking, the soup should be on low heat, so that the pot of soy milk does not spill out and is not scorched under the bottom of the pot. Mom cooks the fire while using a spoon to cook the milk evenly. The aroma of soybeans, pineapple leaves spread gently throughout the kitchen. Mom put the sugar in and stirred it evenly so that the sugar melts, seasoning until the sweet taste matches the taste. So finished the pot of attractive soy milk. Mother soy milk cooked, drink hot or cold, are delicious. Wanting to drink cold, we wait for the milk to cool, then break the ice into a glass, pour in soybeans. The best thing is that in the hot weather, we come home from school, have a glass of soymilk ready, drink a gulp, it’s comfortable. In winter, a cup of hot soybeans helps us warm up in the cold weather. Remembering the soy milk my mother cooked when we were children, I also took the beans to soak. A few hours later, sitting and peeling the beans, I felt that this process needed patience because it took up a lot of time. After that, I realized that the glasses of soymilk sticking in my childhood were not only delicious, nutritious, but also filled with mother’s love for us.