Jimu news reporter Chen Yong
Correspondent Cheng Rongdong Yang Pengcheng
At present, many places in Anlu are rushing to harvest white cauliflower. This plant with small white flowers is more used as an ornament in other places. In Anlu, it is a unique vegetable variety, which has become the nostalgic taste of Anlu people's dreams.
On September 13, Jimu News reporters found a random restaurant in Anlu District, asked the waiter to recommend local specialties, and a dish of white cauliflower stir-fried meat appeared on the table as desired. White cauliflower is mostly pickled and matured for stir-frying, and white cauliflower kang steamed meat, fried minced meat, fried egg cake, and added as a seasoning dish to other dishes. Pickled and stir-fried white cauliflower is yellow and bright in color, fragrant, a little sour to taste, but not as strong as the traditional sauerkraut, stimulating endless appetite.
Seeing the reporter take a picture, the waiter on the side was full of pride: "This is something that we only have in Anlu." After eating the greasy meat of the big fish, eat a few bites of this white cauliflower, refreshing, degreasing, and endless aftertaste! ”
Anlu has a long history of cultivating white cauliflower. As early as the Kangxi Dynasty, the "Annals of Anlu County" has a record: "White cauliflower, small white flowers bloom in the summer moon, can be used as a dragon, the fragrance is extremely victorious, there are two kinds of red stems and white stems, the red stems are especially beautiful, and they are not as good as the earthy nature of the others." "White cauliflower is produced in all parts of Anlu, and the taste is the purest on both sides of the Fuhe river and Zhangshui.
On closer inspection, the leaves of the white cauliflower have fine serrations on the edges and the thin stems are hairy. "Don't look at it as small, but it grows very fast and can bloom in about two months." In Wenliu Village, Patrol Town, Anlu City, villager Liu Zhongchuan is busy harvesting and drying white cauliflower in the field.
"This is the second stubble, some time ago it was hot and the white broccoli grew well. The town's Tang and Song Food Company was purchased at a guaranteed reserve price of 1 yuan / kg. "The first greenhouse white broccoli he planted sold for tens of thousands of yuan.
In the town of Anlu City, almost every household grows white cauliflower. Here, white broccoli does not choose the terrain, does not choose the environment, only need a seed, apply a little farm manure, plough the land, do not need to be deep, white cauliflower can thrive.
Autumn is the harvest season for white cauliflower. At this time, the farmers in the town of Patrol Shop, every household pickled white cauliflower, washed the pot and prepared the urn with salt sharpening knife, picked, washed, dried; chopped, salted, sealed, generally three days can be eaten.
For more than 20 years, every year in May and July, Liu Zhong's family's several acres of land will be planted with two stubbles of white cauliflower. "Originally, I rode my tricycle to the market to sell it, but I couldn't sell it or keep the price. Although the people of Anlu love to eat, there are many people who plant it. ”
In 2001, Tang Song Food Co., Ltd. purchased the white cauliflower grown by farmers in a targeted manner, and also gave the guaranteed base price of 1 yuan / jin, which gave the farmers who planted white cauliflower a "reassurance pill".
The early purchase price of fresh white cauliflower was 2-2.5 yuan / catty, and in the medium term, it fell to 1-1.2 yuan / catty. Against this price difference, this year, Liu Zhongchuan took a big step - carrying his wife to take out the 40,000 yuan old book at the bottom of the pressure box, and tried to build 4 greenhouses to grow white cauliflower. Grab the fresh market, sell a good price.
Due to the unique aroma of pickled white cauliflower, the taste is obviously limited by the region, and it is favored only in hubei, and the market in the coastal areas of Guangdong and other central regions has yet to be tapped.
In 2012, Yuanfa Food settled in Anlu Patrol Town, breaking the deadlock in this industry as a rising star in the Anlu white cauliflower processing industry. In 2019, Yuanfa Food developed a new product- white cauliflower plum dried vegetables, which suddenly successfully opened up the market of white cauliflower food outside Hubei and sold well in Guangdong and Hunan.
From fresh to pickled, from pickled to dry. At present, there are 4 enterprises specializing in the production and processing of white cauliflower in Anlu City, with an output value of about 300 million yuan.
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