Hometown Three Salty-Salted Meat, Salted Vegetables, Salted Radish

As the saying goes, "Light Snow Pickles, Heavy Snow Pickled Meat". As soon as the weather was cold, every household in the countryside was busy pickling vegetables and meat.

bacon

bacon is also called bacon, because it is usually pickled in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, hence its name. The purpose of

farm bacon is to facilitate long-term preservation of meat to eat, but also to live frugally. In the past, the villages were all self-sufficient small-scale peasant economies, eating meat and raising their own families. As soon as the heavy snow and winter solstice passed, they slaughtered their own fat pigs. On the day of killing the pig, leave some fresh meat, add pig heart and lung, pork loin, pork liver, pork belly, etc. to the water, invite relatives and friends to have a pig-killing meal, and the rest of the pork will be marinated and divided into pig head, front legs (also called wind legs after marinating), middle help and hind legs. The pickled hind leg is the famous Jinhua ham, but the processing technology of Jinhua ham sold on the market is more complicated, with more fermentation processes than bacon, while the ham eaten by farmers themselves is not fermented, tastes the same as bacon, and tastes lighter. Pickled pig heads are used to worship ancestors and gods on New Year's Eve, and then enjoyed by the family together. The pickled pork head has a special flavor and is very popular.

Salted bacon only need salt, do not add any material. The marinated pork goes through the process of salting, cleaning, drying and air drying. In winter, as long as there is sun, every family will hang the pickled pig head, pig leg and middle gang under the eaves of the south wall or on the drying ground to dry and air dry, just like a rural scenery with strong life flavor. Under the sunlight, the pieces of cured meat glowed red, like a flame, the fat meat was chicken oil yellow, the oil was bright, and the air was filled with a salty meat fragrance. My friends and I couldn't help but secretly cut off a small piece of lean meat with a knife and eat it raw. The sun-flavored ham is salty and sweet, vivid and fragrant. Nowadays, some Jinhua ham manufacturers do publicity, claiming to be able to eat raw ham, as a selling point. What's so strange about this? Ham could have been eaten raw! We 've already eaten.

cured meat is hung under the eaves or floors of rural households. over time, cured meat will drip oil and pollute the ground. Therefore, the farmer will use a thin bamboo stick to insert one end into the oil dripping part of the bacon, and cut the lower end into a fork to clamp half of the egg shell into a small bucket to catch the oil dripping. Bacon, dripping oil, bamboo sticks and egg shells have become a rural custom painting, which is still deeply remembered.

There are many ways to eat bacon and can make many dishes. The simplest thing is to slice and steam, add a little yellow wine, shredded ginger, and sprinkle a handful of onions (wild onions are used when wild onions grow in the wilderness in spring). The aroma is tangy and the most delicious meal. It is also useful for stewing bacon with distiller's grains, with unique flavor and unforgettable food.

CCTV documentary "China on the tip of the tongue" once made many people drool. Jinhua ham was also shown in this program, but it only briefly described the production process of ham, far from sublimating the visual effect of ham into the taste effect on the tip of the tongue.

pickles

pickled pickles are made of nine mustard (also called potherb mustard), Isatis indigotica, mustard, green vegetables (oil winter vegetables), radish vegetables, etc. Among them, nine mustard tastes the most delicious after pickling.

pickled vegetables can not be washed, washed with high water content, and then pickled easily rot. My mother used to say, "I can cook them (referring to other women), but I can't pickle them". It shows that pickled pickles have certain technical content. Another thing is that my mother is more hygienic. She always washes the vegetables, dries them, and marinades them. On the contrary, there is no delicious taste like pickled vegetables without washing. When pickling vegetables, rotten leaves should be removed, mud and sand should be slapped off, and the juice should be dried naturally. Then, the juice should be kneaded and put into a large ceramic jar and trampled with your feet. Step on a layer of vegetables and sprinkle a layer of salt, so that vegetables and salt blend together. Stepping on pickles is done by children, who say their feet are clean. Every time my family asked me to step on pickles barefoot, I was in high spirits. I stepped and jumped in the vat, dancing like acting. After the pickles have been trampled out of the marinade, they should be pressed against large pebbles and then sealed.

After half a month to 20 days, pickles can be eaten for all the year round. Pickled vegetables are all-match dishes in the rural kitchen. Both meat and vegetables are suitable. Home-cooked dishes such as pickled vegetables stir-fried shredded winter bamboo shoots, pickled vegetables and bacon stewed bamboo shoots, pickled vegetables stewed tofu, pickled vegetables roasted tofu, pickled vegetables fried green beans, etc. are all delicious country dishes that can never be tired of eating for a long time. Dried in the sun with chopped pickles is dried vegetables, which can be stored for a long time and is a necessary dry vegetable for every family all the year round.

In my hometown Dongyang, dried moldy vegetables have been supported by generations of villagers. It can be said that Dongyang people grew up eating dried moldy vegetables. When my father went to study abroad when he was young, he brought his own dried vegetables for dinner. He had to eat them for a month or two, because fresh vegetables could not be kept for a few days. In order to take an examination of the university, I went to a school 20 kilometers away from home to study in the school. I also took my mother's fried dried mildew vegetables to the school. I had to eat them for a week and brought a can of dried mildew vegetables when I went home at the weekend. The dried moldy vegetables brought by students from poor families are only fried with a little lard. My parents love me very much. Every time they bring dried moldy vegetables, they are fried with meat and steamed in the steamer in the school kitchen. The dried vegetables become soft, fat oil permeates into the dried vegetables, and the flavor of meat and vegetables is mixed into one and fragrant. This dried dish with meat is already very luxurious. The students in Dongyang all rely on eating dried moldy vegetables to study hard. Due to the large number of people admitted to universities in Dongyang over the years, many people have become masters and doctors, known as the "hometown of doctors", so dried moldy vegetables are also jokingly called "doctor dishes". This kind of home-cooked food of ordinary people has nourished generations of hard-working students, and has been inadvertently endowed with a humanistic spirit. This is also another effect of pickles, which has no meaning.

salted radish

salted radish is actually a kind of pickle, but it is different from pickle.

Wash the radish and put it into a pottery jar, marinate it with salt, compact it, let the brine fill the jar mouth, and eat it in a few days. Salted radish can be eaten raw or sliced, shredded and fried. It is crispy and very delicious. Cut the salted radish into strips and dry it in the sun to become dried radish. Put it into a jar and ferment it naturally, which can be stored for a long time. Some of the salted dried radish and lees pickled together, unique flavor, rice, porridge are very delicious.

Bacon, pickles and salted radish are all a mixture of food and salt, which are transformed into human delicacies through microbial fermentation. This is the taste of ordinary life and the taste of hometown on the tip of the tongue. The three salty and three flavors of the hometown can never be diluted, and the hometown and hometown that stays between the tongue and the heart can not be erased and cannot be separated. Therefore, the taste formed when I was a child cannot be changed for a lifetime. I still like to eat pickles.

Nowadays, many people are very particular about eating, afraid of eating pickled food, worried about the "three highs", which will affect their health, so there are fewer or no pickles and bacon on the daily table. A person who only talks about nutrition and so-called science to food but does not care about taste cannot realize the taste, interest, affection and local taste in his taste buds. It is a psychological feeling beyond the concept of food. If you just talk about "science", it would be a bit of a bull's-eye.

The human world is also the human life. You still need to taste it. (Self-improvement)