Millet, a monocotyledonous gramineous plant, grows in the north and is drought-tolerant. It is an annual cultivated crop, which is called "millet" and "millet valley" by the people. Because it is used for brewing, it is also called "glutinous rice" in some places. The seeds are light yellow.
The leaves are slender and sharp with parallel veins. Seeds, also called millet, are light yellow, commonly known as yellow rice after peeling, and then ground into flour, commonly known as yellow wheat, which is sticky and often used to make yellow cakes and make wine.
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Yangyuan and Yuxian in Zhangjiakou, Guangling in Datong, Shanxi, Yingxian in Shuozhou, etc. They are all very important foods. They are eaten locally at noon every day and are also used as rice cake noodles in other parts of North China. Some cities and counties along the Great Wall in Inner Mongolia, especially Erdos, Wuhai, Jining and other places, are also used to make yellow cakes and fried cakes. Millet in northern Shaanxi, Erdos, Wuhai and other places is also often used to brew rice wine, which is one of the important food crops in the north.
Dahuangmi can be cooked into eight-treasure porridge by adding jujube, chestnuts and various beans. Yellow wheat can be made into rice cakes, bean buns, baked into sticky cakes and eaten with sugar, which is sweet and delicious.
The content of carbohydrates in millet is very high, and a large amount of reducing sugar can be produced after hydrolysis, which can be used to make syrup and maltose. The husk of millet seeds has many colors, such as brown (black) red, white, yellow, gray and so on.
Various pigments can be extracted by chemical treatment, which is a natural pigment additive in food industry. Millet is also a good raw material for brewing wine. Using millet to make wine is rich and mellow. Yanglang wine produced in Yanglang Township, Guyuan County, Ningxia is brewed with millet.
Millet can be used to make drinks. Yellow rice wine commonly used in traditional medicine in China is made of millet. It contains a variety of amino acids and vitamins, and has high nutritional and medicinal value.
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