自古以来,我的故乡浦城有“闽北粮仓”之称。民谚云:“浦城收一收,有米下福州。”说的是浦城的先人们虽然只种单季稻,每年却有足够的余粮放舟闽江直下福州出粜了。浦城山清水秀,乃膏腴之地,就养育出一种优质粳米,做成碱糕,特别可口。当然,做碱糕必须有碱。不是如今人工合成的食用碱,是当地山上一种小灌木枝叶烧成的天然碱。粳米再好,不经碱水浸泡,只能做米馃,砸米粉,做不成碱糕。 Since ancient times, my hometown Pucheng has “northern Fujian granary ” said. Civil proverb goes: “Pucheng receive a income, there is rice under Fuzhou.” Said the pioneers of Pucheng, although only a single crop of rice, but there are enough surplus grain every year to put the boat down the Minjiang River in Fuzhou out. Pucheng beautiful, is the emperor’s land, it raised a good quality rice, made of cakes, especially delicious. Of course, make alkali cake must have alkali. It is not an anthropogenic alkaloid synthesized today, it is a trona produced by a small shrub leaf in the mountain. No matter how good rice, not soaked in alkaline water, can only be rice noodles, smashed rice noodles, can not be alkaline cake.