Vanilla is a collective term for a variety of aromatic plants. Aromatic plants refer to plants that have aroma and can provide fragrant aromatic oils, and generally have medicinal, edible value, and healing effects. The admiration of Europeans and Americans, the fascination of Japanese and Koreans, and the deep love of the people of Taiwan have made them a fashion, a model, and after a while, a fanatical "vanilla fever" will be set off in the horticultural circles. And little is known to the outside world. As a Native of Henan, do you know who they are?
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Henan vanilla, hidden in the wild
Once invited to a foreign friend's house for dinner, she cooked a pot of rice. After being placed in a bowl, a layer of dried leaf crumbs was mysteriously sprinkled on it. Ordinary rice, so the smell is fragrant. I asked what is this? She told me it was rosemary and thyme.
The first time I heard vanilla was curious, Baidu on the Internet. Rosemary is a small shrub of the family Lipaceae, native to the Mediterranean coast (it is said that it was introduced to China during the Cao Wei period).
It has certain medicinal value, such as enhancing memory, treating insomnia, calming and calming, treating indigestion... Foreigners like to use it for flavoring.
Thyme is produced in southern Europe and is widely cultivated as a gastronomic spice. It was also cultivated during the Northern Song Dynasty in China, and it was also included in various ancient Chinese medicine classics.
In addition, the respected vanilla from Europe and the United States, as well as lavender, lemongrass, mint, basil, oregano, chamomile, sage, parsley and so on.
During his work and life outside, he occasionally returned to his hometown in Henan. I glanced at the flowers and plants that the old ladies casually placed in the corner of the courtyard to fend for themselves. This glance surprised me.
Isn't the "little fragrant flower" that I picked and rubbed its leaves after being bitten by mosquitoes when I was a child the vanilla basil I planted in the city? One by one, in the small place, there are growing basil, shunxiang, fennel, herbs, perilla, green sophora, fish, mint, stone coriander, wattle, coriander and other vanilla.
It turns out that Henan is also a big vanilla household!
What makes me feel most funny is that the herbs planted in other places are cared for and look like seedlings, but in Henan, where the four seasons are clear and the light is abundant, every kind of vanilla can grow black, burst and spread everywhere.
Because vanilla is a bright-loving plant. Henan's sunlight is particularly suitable for their growth.
These herbs are hardly noticed in Henan, and they are almost self-extinct. Spring comes after a few spring rains and then spreads everywhere.
In autumn, a bunch of inconspicuous flowers bloom, there is no trace after the frost, and the underground stems are hidden in the soil to be tested by heavy snow.
In the summer, with its unique aromatic wetness of vanilla plants, the spleen of heat and detoxification gives Henan people a special assessment.
In ancient times, some medicinal books classified vanilla plants into the "Yerba Bu", that is, they each had their own skills, not only the aroma attacked people, but also healed and saved people. They all seem to have a combination of eighteen martial arts and are proficient in various martial arts.
Like the most common mint bar, its role is "to drive away thieves, sweat out, open the coke, Xuangu flavor, Su Shi elimination, swelling full solution, cholera, customs clearance, calendar joints, de-anger, throat, cowardly gas" and so on.
· Peppermint water
"Vanilla Beauty" is probably to praise vanilla's beneficial temperament. Especially in the summer of summer and insect infestation, it is the peak season for the growth of various herbs, and ordinary people like to plant several things.
Henan people's herbs are medicinal and food dual-use, food is into soup to make dishes, medicinal use in addition to fresh use, remember when I was a child adults collected flowers after the herma, Su leaves, mint, wattle, etc., a bunch of hanging under the eaves of the house to dry, with other herbs such as dandelion, snow grass, spiral flowers, half-branched lotus, thatch flowers and so on.
If you encounter cold and fever, you will use the mustard leaves to cook soup and drink, if the throat is sore and cough, you must use mint leaves to squeeze oil, and when the stomach is uncomfortable to digest, then boil the herbs and drink perfume, which are the healing effects of vanilla plants.
The vanilla that Europeans and Americans respect is fashionable, exquisite, and a kind of style, if you ask where is the vanilla in Henan? The simple Henan people may reply like this: Oh, the same thing as the grass, who is rare!
I think Henan vanilla is the most expensive and lowly thing. They are most precious because the heavens and the earth have created them, and the most lowly are because the heavens, the times, and the places are favorable to their growth. The most precious, and because it is spread all over the land, everyone can benefit. Like a big hidden in the wild.
Coriander is a wonder of the vanilla world
Stone coriander is also written as ten coriander, food coriander, musk, homesick cuisine, and some people say that its scientific name is "coriander". It is a close relative of the lamellar plant Peppermint.
· Ten coriander
Why are the names so different? It is because every Henan person has a stone coriander of his own in his heart.
Some people say that this kind of mint-like dish has the aroma of ten kinds of vegetables, so it is called "ten" coriander, some people say that food can be stained with fragrance with it, so it is called coriander, some people say that its fragrance is the kind of incense on the musk, some people say that it, the snow is not bad, the next spring is born, the fate is hard like a stone.
There are also several kinds of coriander: one with rat-eared small leaves, one with long round leaves, and some with pointed leaves, some with green leaves throughout, and one with purple stem green leaves.
Listening to netizens, the green stem long round leaves are not as fragrant as the purple stem rat leaves, so the former is called five coriander, and the latter is called ten coriander.
Stone coriander is a unique herb plant in Henan, if someone says about it outside, someone says that they know it, it is coriander (coriander), if you describe it looks like mint, it tastes cold and spicy and spicy and fragrant, others will be dazed.
· Crucian coriander soup
Stone coriander has the characteristics of transplanting to other places that are not easy to survive, and the flavor has changed greatly, so Henan is its homeland, and it is very interesting to call it homesick cuisine.
Wattle mustard, the panda of the vanilla world
In Henan, people are described as having never seen the world, and they have never eaten a large plate of mustard. In fact, this plant is said to be distributed in only a small part of Anhui and Henan in China, which is very niche and rare.
· Wattle cucumber
I have seen Jing mustard in other places, which is the nostalgia carried by the wandering hometown of Henan in Anhui Province, planted in small flower pots or opened vegetable gardens, but the taste is not so attractive.
It is also the reason for the water and soil, and the orange is born in the north for a reason, of course, in the field, more often than not, I want to eat it.
When you return to your hometown in Henan, catch up with a plate of fresh thorn mustard in early summer, the pores of the five intestines and six organs are refreshingly pried open, as if it is a breeze to make people feather into immortals, so to speak, the taste of authentic thorn mustard is the taste of the fresh breeze in the fields in early summer.
Nostalgia is such a thing: it is stuck in a place, you never have the ability to take it, such as you can't take away the "water and soil" there. Nostalgia has a personality, and so does thorn mustard.
Last year, some people said on the Internet that the jing mustard that Henan people love to eat is actually vanilla basil, a stone stirs up thousands of waves, and Henan people respond with righteous words: The jing mustard that Henan people eat is jing mustard. Some people also say that the wattle mustard eaten by Henan people is another vanilla plant catnip, which is actually farther away.
The large plate of wattle mustard is not easy to eat, and it carries nostalgia like stone coriander.
Henan has the best varieties of mint
Sesame seeds belong to the vanilla plant because it provides aromatic oils. Also a plain area, Chengdu, the country of Tianfu, can produce high-quality rapeseed, peanuts, and soybeans, but it cannot produce sesame seeds.
And the unique natural conditions make Henan's sesame seeds croak. Sesame sesame oil, colored like amber, orange yellow fragrant, rich in unsaturated fatty acids and amino acids, as well as rich in trace elements.
Heaven gave the best plants to Henan, and blessed people to live in a blessed land, blessed land to live in a blessed land. It can be seen how blessed the people of Henan are.
Anyone who knows vanilla knows that there are many varieties of peppermint. In Henan, I found a particularly good variety of mint, plant height, four-sided blue-purple square stem, oval long leaves, dark green leaves, cool smell, fragrant aroma.
In the past, it cost 20 yuan to buy a pot of ordinary green mint at the flower and bird market in other places. Passing by a door this spring, the old lady shared my big hug of mint, which was born too much in front of her door.
· Green mint
In the past, in the absence of sunlight, the mint potted plants I planted became curved permheads. This time I planted peppermint with fertile leaves. Besides, this is the best variety in the world!
Foreigners elevate their vanilla to a culture, a refined attitude to life and aesthetics of life. Henan people's vanilla varieties are so rich but so ordinary, low-key, I really should thank these hidden herbs silently guard us year after year.
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