It will soon be the Spring Festival, and I believe that every household is preparing New Year goods.
For the old Suzhou, the preparation for the New Year has always been exquisite, and what to buy must reveal a strong Sense of Soviet feelings. Let's take a look, what are the Su-style New Year goods?
01.
Su-style candy
New Year is naturally indispensable to buy candy, Suzhou people are most familiar with the candy store should be a century-old shop CaiZhizhai.
Cai Zhi Zhai was founded by Jin Yinzhi in the 9th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty in Guanqian Street, and has a history of 150 years.
During the Guangxu period, Empress Dowager Cixi fell ill, and the famous Suzhou doctor Cao Cangzhou entered Beijing to diagnose the empress dowager's pulse, and offered the Caizhizhai candy she carried with her to Cixi to help the medicine, Cixi was very happy, and the Caizhizhai candy was therefore listed as "tribute sugar". To this day, Suzhou people's love for Caizhizhai candy has increased unabated.
Of course, now CaiZhizhai not only sells candy, but also sells snacks and preserves, such as zongzi candy, money cake, peach crisp, almond crisp, sock bottom crisp, shortbread, Su-style plum and so on. Go for a walk a few years ago, and tun some of them are not wrong
02.
rice cake
Rice cake is an indispensable festival for Suzhou people to celebrate the New Year, worship the gods, worship the ancestors in the new year, and give gifts to relatives and friends in the new year.
Usually, the most common square is "sugar rice cake".
Sugar rice cake is the representative of Suzhou pastry, the taste is sticky, when eating to slice, you can use egg liquid and flour to make a paste, wrapped in a medium heat slightly fried, crispy on the outside, soft and sticky on the inside, sweet and delicious.
In the past, most of the large families invited cake masters to grind flour steamed rice cakes at home, even today, there are many small partners in Suzhou who will steam all kinds of flower-colored rice cakes at home before the New Year, what pumpkin cakes, brown sugar rice cakes...
However, people who want to save trouble generally go to the cake shop in Suzhou to buy some rice cakes! Like Suzhou Huang Tianyuan, Wan Fuxing and other long-established cake shops years ago, the business was very hot
03.
Dried
Suzhou people Chinese New Year's Eve rice table is indispensable to a dried bamboo shoot, so Suzhou people will always buy some dried bamboo shoots when buying New Year goods, and because the dried bamboo shoots take a long time to soak their hair, they are generally the earliest to buy.
The dried bamboo shoots that are raised one by one and have a good mouth color indicate the high level of life in the coming year.
Dried bamboo shoots are well cut, the aroma of roasted meat is overflowing, the more it is burned, the more flavorful it is, the pork belly absorbs enough of the fresh aroma of dried bamboo shoots, and the dried bamboo shoots are soaked with the meat fat of the ribs, which is really sweet and salty and fragrant, fat and delicious, symbolizing the small days of more and more abundance.
04.
Ci mushroom slices
After eating Chinese New Year's Eve meal, the choice of many Suzhou people is to watch the Spring Festival Gala as a family and with beauty. At this time, even the most self-disciplined people will take advantage of the happiness and eat a little snack.
Now everyone is very acceptable to potato chips and the like, and in the past, Suzhou people's snacks were a kind of "Su-style" potato chips.
"Su-style" potato chips are called ci mushroom slices, the taste is crisp and fragrant, and you can't stop eating them.
In the past, during the Spring Festival, you could only go to the fried goods store and buy packaged mushroom slices. With the improvement of preservation technology, now in the various vegetable farms in Suzhou, you may be able to encounter the stalls of freshly made mushroom slices, and it will certainly feel better to eat.
05.
All kinds of fried goods, preserves
During the New Year, everyone usually has to entertain relatives and friends, and all kinds of melon seeds and preserves are very popular!
The creamy watermelon seeds and rose watermelon seeds from huangdai are a must-have for every family during the New Year. Bumping melon seeds, talking about parents in the short, really enjoy.
There are now more than 160 varieties of Su-style candied fruit, the most famous of which are golden dates, cream plums, golden kumquats, sugar bayberry, and nine-made tangerine peel.
Plum is usually the most popular, containing one, sweet with sour, refreshing, and long aftertaste. But where the suzhou production of the plum, the name "Su-style plum", with its soft shape, sweet and sour taste, fine work and meticulous work and different from the Cantonese-style plum.
Finally, I hope that everyone will put on the New Year goods early and have a happy and happy New Year
"Don't eat too full, drink tea too strong."