Because my hometown is located in a picturesque mountain village with four distinct seasons at the southernmost tip of Henan. There are both blooming spring and snowy winter.
In order to ensure that in the cold winter, the family does not eat or serve. At the beginning of each year 10, every household will start to store enough vegetables to survive the long winter, as well as green and yellow vegetables in front of the vegetable market next spring.
Pickled pickles are undoubtedly the first choice for every household, and it is also the best choice for every household to invest the lowest cost once and for all.
Compared with pickled cowpeas, pickled vegetables is not only a meticulous and tedious project, but also a time-consuming and labor-intensive heavy physical labor.
If you want to pickle an altar with moderate salinity, sour and delicious pickles, you should not only be meticulous, but also carefully handle it from seedling raising to transplanting to harvesting and pickling.
What kind of vegetables are suitable for pickling pickles, when to cut mature vegetables and how to pickle them is the most refreshing.
When I was a child, I didn't sell seeds. My mother always chooses spicy pickles with wide leaves and gratifying growth.
This dish was particularly popular in the countryside at that time, because it was drought-resistant and insect-resistant, and because it was big enough to fry a large pot with one plant.
Later, with the development of society, all kinds of pickles flooded the market. In repeated comparison and screening, my mother especially likes the white arrow shaft.
First, because the white axis of the arrow shaft is longer, the fiber is thinner and softer than the traditional spicy food, so it tastes more crisp and fragrant.
Second, there are not as many leaves as spicy vegetables, and we prefer pickled pickles.
Third, the output of white arrow shaft is high, and there are few discarded branches and leaves.
Every year after beginning of autumn, my mother began to sow the white seeds of the arrow shaft into the intensive vegetable garden in advance. When the seedlings grow to be suitable for transplanting, they will be quickly transferred to the soil fertilized in advance.
Then fertilize and irrigate at regular intervals to catch insects as early as possible.
Because she ate it herself, my mother would never use pesticides, so catching bugs is the key. If the worm eats cabbage, the vegetables are basically wasted.
Because there are pigs and chickens at home, there is no need to apply chemical fertilizer to grow vegetables, and they are all farmyard manure.
Because of sufficient fertilizer, the transplanted shaft will grow lush, with large leaves and fat after one month.
At this time, you can consider harvesting.
Because first, the life of pickled vegetables should not be too long, preferably not more than 40 days, otherwise it will taste like chewing straw and lose the sour and crisp taste of pickles.
Second, the weather turned cold, and the crisp arrow shaft could not stand the frost. If you are frostbitten, the pickled pickles will become soft and even have a rotten taste, which is not easy to preserve.
When the harvest shaft is white, it is best to be sunny. Hang the cut shaft on the falling wire or rope for a day or two.
Then remove the yellow or stale leaves, clean the vegetable roots with a knife, put them in a basket, and then pick them in a pond or river for washing.
Washing white arrow shaft is a manual skill. If you want to rub them, you need to wash the soil, and you need to take care of them. You can't knead the stems and leaves of vegetables into pieces, otherwise the pickled products will have neither shape nor taste.
After washing the shaft whites one by one, they should be twisted into a handful according to the size of each tree or in groups of three or five, and then tied together with the longest shaft whites, so that it is convenient to put them neatly during pickling and take them out one by one after pickling.
Pickling pickles is similar to pickling cowpeas. It is also to fold a layer of washed vegetables, put a layer of cut ginger slices and sprinkle a layer of salt, put washed Schizonepeta tenuifolia and pepper on it, and finally press the stones washed in advance.
The difference is that pickled vegetables don't need cold boiled water, because the water content of washed vegetables is high, so just put stones on them.
In order to prevent the stone from being too light, my mother often puts an empty bucket or board on the stone, and then carries a big bag of wheat or rice on it with my father to ensure that the salted arrow white comes out quickly and completely submerges the stone.
Mom said, if not, there will be no submerged pickles within 24 hours, which will not only taste bad, but also affect the taste of the whole jar of pickles.
After a month's pickling, the original green arrow shaft white turned into golden yellow and became sour and delicious pickles.
At this time, take it out, chop it up, stir it back and forth in the hot oil that has already fried shredded ginger, and add one or two chopped morning peppers, which is simply the most wonderful taste in the world. No matter noodles or porridge, it can be said that it is a perfect match between people.
You can also separate the stems from the leaves, wash the stems and cut them into sections, and sprinkle them with sesame oil cold salad, which is even more delicious to scream.
Fish and bean stew with limping leaves or steamed meat are all mouth-watering delicacies.
Because among all our relatives, my mother's pickled cabbage and pickled cowpea taste the best, and there is no more delicious food in the world than my mother's pickled cabbage and pickled cowpea, so my mother's pickled cowpea and pickled cowpea have become our favorite foods in life, whether before or after marriage.
Because of our love, even if my mother is over 80 years old now and can't do heavy manual work, it is essential to pickle a big jar of pickles every winter.
Because she saw her joy and happiness in our satisfied smile, which is the patent of being a mother and no one can replace it.
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