油糕是与河套人有生死之缘的美食,吃油糕曾经是一件惊天动地的大事。老农民说:“人这一生,要吃三顿糕:过满月一顿,娶老婆一顿,进棺材一顿。”猛一听觉得怕人,细细想来,不无道理。因为吃油糕必定和人生许多大事有关联。再穷的人家,每逢大事,也要吃顿油糕,哪怕借上黄米借上油。再穷的村子,也有一副两副捣糕用的碓臼碓杵。小时候,每逢看到有人肩扛碓杵趾高气扬招摇过村,大家就知道,这家人有喜事了。 Oil cake is a life and death with Hetao people’s food, eating cake was once a earth-shattering event. The old peasant said: “People in this life, to eat three cakes: a full moon meal, marry his wife meal, into the coffin meal.” "Fear of hearing a person fierce, think carefully, not without reason. Because eating cakes must be related to many major events in life. Still poor people, every major event, but also eat cake, even if borrowed on the yellow rice to borrow oil. In the poorer village, there are also two mortar and mortar pestles used for crushing pudding. When I was young, whenever I saw someone carrying a peeler over their shoulders, everyone knew that there was a happy event for this family.