In this issue, we will continue to talk about the delicious pickles in Shanxi, first of all, let's talk about the Taiyuan area, the more famous pickles in Taiyuan are: yellow cabbage, mustard shreds, tsubaki sprouts and so on. Speaking of pickles from Taiyuan. From the 1960s to the 1980s, there was a pickle factory in Taiyuan that served millions of people across the city. Taiyuan Pickle Factory was originally a milling factory, and after the public-private partnership in 1956, it was renamed the First Food Society, and its products were mainly noodles. At the end of 1965, after the noodles were decentralized to the countryside for processing, a small pickle factory with less than 20 people on Wucheng Road was merged and the Taiyuan Pickle Factory was established. After that, the number of personnel developed to more than 200 people, and the variety reached more than 100, including many excellent products, such as sauce blue silk, sauce assortment, sauce lettuce and so on. In 1984, Taiyuan Pickle Factory invested 40,000 yuan to build Baolin Sauce Garden on the basis of a small vegetable shop at the east entrance of Tianping Lane in the middle section of Jiefang Road, and opened its doors in December of the same year, specializing in the products of Taiyuan Pickle Factory. This "Baolin Sauce Garden" is a long-established brand, which was founded by Zhao Baolin, the master of the Huaimao Sauce Garden in Baoding, Hebei Province, in the fourth year of the Republic of China (1915 AD). Zhao Baolin not only has the exquisite technology of sauce pickles, but also understands management, will operate, and gradually opened the market in Taiyuan, and the business is very prosperous. In 1943, during the Japanese invasion of China, inflation forced Baolin Sauce Garden to close.
First of all, the yellow cabbage, yellow cabbage is actually the cabbage lump crushed, the leaves are cut off, placed in the tank compacted, fermented after eating, there is a way to eat is soup, called soup yellow cabbage, not add soup called dried yellow cabbage. The mustard shredded is the salty mustard head with a knife cut into shreds, sesame powder, soy sauce, sugar color, five-spice powder, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, paprika and mustard shredded together stir evenly can be eaten, mustard shredded color is red and yellow, salty with spicy, crisp and delicious, with a variety of characteristic pasta in Shanxi, very delicious! After saying that Taiyuan and then talk about Changzhi, there is a local beet vegetable is very famous, is a spring and winter season of pickles, its production method is to wash and cut the radish into strips and dried, add sugar, peppers mixed, storage time is long, eat as you go, very convenient.
Daixian pickles, with a long history, were very famous as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, and were known as "Caidai Prefecture". Lots of tricks. Exquisite production and fine knife work are a major feature of Daiju pickles. DaiXian Real Estate DaiXian is located in the border fortress, which has been a military town since ancient times and is heavily guarded. Grain and grass are collected from afar, and vegetables are adjusted on the spot, and gradually form the folk customs of daixian people who pay attention to eating vegetables. Nowadays, in Dai County, cutting pickles, rolling bean noodles, cutting window flowers, and making embroidered shoes are still some important conditions for people to judge a good wife. Anyone who has stayed in the countryside of Daizhou will always talk about Daizhou pickles, which are complete in style, exquisite in production, and beautiful in color and fragrance. Daixian pickled vegetables are large vegetables, small dishes, pickling methods are divided into single pickling, mixed pickling, pickling methods include pickling, mixing, hair, exposure and so on. Salt, sugar, garlic as accessories, more varieties to be issued. Holding a bowl of Daixian Kazuko rice with the aroma of green onions, accompanied by pickled side dishes such as beans, greens, white radish, carrots, eggplant, cabbage, and fennel white, it is called ironing. It is no wonder that wanderers who are far away from home always smell the smell of Wakako rice when they are homesick, and the taste in it is timeless.
Shanxi has a long history of making sauce. Taiyuan's Fu sauce (also known as rotten sauce), Quwo's noodle sauce, and Xiangyuan's black sauce are all famous. On the basis of the long history of sauce making and exquisite craftsmanship, various pickles have also come into being. Linyi sauce jade melon is one of the famous specialties, Linjin Town Dongguan pickle garden sauce jade melon, in 1914 to participate in the Panama Games, won the gold medal award, so also known as "gold medal sauce jade melon". Linyi sauce jade melon is brown on the outside, bright color, rich flavor, also known as king melon. The method is to select about a kilogram of jade melon and cut it, rinse it with seeds, add salt and marinate, and finally add noodle sauce and seasoning to dry on time, and then it can be made after half a year. Wash off a layer of dark brown noodle sauce with water, and you can see that the jade melon has a black and shiny luster. Cut into thin strips, the rich sauce is fragrant and tasted in the mouth, salty and sweet, crisp and refreshing. In addition to selling well at home and abroad, it is also exported to Japan and Southeast Asia.
This issue first talks about here, about the pickles in Shanxi region, we will talk about [Ya Ya] in the next issue.