1. First burn the straw to ashes, 2. Boil it in boiling water, put the ashes in a sieve that can dew, then pour the boiled water over the ashes of the straw, 3. Wait until the gray water is deposited. take it out and soak it with the rice. 4. Remove the soaked rice so you can make gray water rice balls and eat them after cooking.
Main ingredient: 7,500g glutinous rice
Accessory ingredients: 10kg wood ash, appropriate amount of boiling water, appropriate amount of dumpling leaves rice, appropriate amount of cotton thread.
How to make gray water rice balls:
1 When cooking with firewood, put the wood ash in bamboo baskets. Bring a pot of boiling water to a boil and pour it in from the top. Brown water will slowly drain from the bottom, which is gray water.
2. Once the gray water has settled, wash the riceand soak it in gray water for about 7 hours, that is, until the rice changes color.
3. Take out the soaked rice and drain it.
4. Pick the rice ball leaves, boil them and soak them in water.
5. Take a large sheet of rice ball.
6. Overlap a layer of small zongzi leaves.
7. Put an appropriate amount of glutinous rice.
8. Bend one end of the rice ball to the left and right.
9. Fold the zongzi leaves again.
10. The other end is wrapped in the same way.
11. Wrap the cotton thread at one end.
12. The other end is also rolled up from the outside, and the two joints are tied in the middle of the rice ball.
13. Place the rice balls in a pot of boiling water and cook for over 8 hours. Because the rice balls are big, the time depends onthe size of the rice balls.
14. Cooked rice balls.