Friends who grew up in the countryside, when they were children, they have played with many special toys, these toys are not available in the market, only in the rural wilderness, such special toys are weeds, such as dog tail grass, ear ears, etc., which are often played by rural dolls. And in the countryside by the river, there is a kind of wild grass is often used as a toy by rural dolls to play, its fruit grows very special, looks like a "sausage", so many people also call it "sausage grass".
Every year in the summer, rural dolls will go to the river, fold down its fruit, and use it as a stick to play with each other, and the "sausage" that grows on the rural river is "cattail".
For cattails, I believe that many friends living in the countryside are no strangers, it is very widely distributed in our country, almost all over the country, to the south of the water villages the most, most of them grow in the river, ponds, streams and ditches, especially in the countryside wild rivers and streams are particularly much, since the spring will grow out of the water, to the summer will bear the fruit like "sausage".
The fruit of the cattail is called "pu stick" or "pu huang" in the author's hometown, in addition to being used as a toy for rural dolls, its use is also very much, such as in the summer, the stick is lit, can be used as a mosquito coil to smoke mosquitoes, the effect is very good. In addition, it can also be used to stop bleeding, and the villi on its stick are applied to the wound, and the effect is also quite good, and there are no side effects.
The author also believes that many friends living in the countryside have played with the sticks of cattails, or used the sticks to smoke mosquitoes or stop bleeding, but the author guesses that many friends must not know that the young stems of cattails are a kind of edible wild vegetables, but they are still the best wild vegetables.
Speaking of the young stem of this cattail in the folk called "pu cai", also known as deep pu, pu li jiu, pu shoots, pu buds, pu bai, pu er root, pu er vegetables, etc., and pu cai as a wild vegetable to eat, in fact, not modern only, as early as the ancient time of our country, the stem of cattail has been eaten by people, and there are more than 2,000 years of edible history.
It is recorded in the "Zhou Li", and the pu cai is also greatly appreciated by historical scholars because of its delicious taste, and the Ming Dynasty Gu Guo specially wrote a poem praising the pu cai: "A crisp si pu cai is tender, full of fresh memory carp fragrance." And "Pu cuisine is the only one in the world, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign." ”
In addition to being delicious, its nutritional value is not low, according to relevant information, pudding is rich in protein, dietary fiber, a variety of vitamins, a variety of trace elements and up to 18 kinds of amino acids and other nutrients.
Because of the high nutrition and delicious taste of pucai, it has also developed into a unique wild vegetable in many areas of China, and the more famous ones are Pulai of Daming Lake and Huai'an Spoon Lake in Jinan, Shandong, Chenzhou Pucai in Huaiyang, Henan and The fragrant sprouts in Kunming and Jianshui in Yunnan, and the mat grass punna in Yunnan Yuanmou, and the price is not low, the price of one pound is generally around 20 yuan, and it is not too much to say that it is a precious wild vegetable.
Speaking of which, I believe many friends must want to know when puddish can be picked? How to eat?
Pu cabbage can be picked in all seasons, but the spring picking is the best, because this time the cattails have not grown long, its stem is also the most tender time, used to make vegetables is also the most delicious time, and after the summer, its stem is old, although it can be eaten, but it is not as delicious as the spring stem.
There are many ways to eat pu cabbage, grilled, roasted, braised, fried, boiled, boiled, such as milk soup pu cai, clear soup pu cai, chicken porridge pu cai, Sheng Ze pu cai and so on.
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