When it rains and mango seeds, all four fields are planted with seedlings.
The family wheat rice is beautiful, and the song is long everywhere.
- Lu You, "Time Rain" (excerpt)
At 18:39 on June 5th, this year's Mango Festival, which literally means "wheat with mango is fast harvesting, and rice with mango can be planted", is a typical solar term that reflects agricultural farming. At this time, farmers are busy here and there every day in the rice and cotton fields, winter wheat and other summer crops have matured, waiting to be harvested; cotton and other crops sown in the spring have also entered the peak of growth, and are in need of a lot of water and fertilizer nourishment; summer corn, summer soybeans and other crops also need to be sown in time. Therefore, the mango seed is also figuratively called "busy seed".
The Mango Seed Festival is in the "three summers" during the busy period, "wheat yellow farmers are busy, embroidered women out of the house", "apricot yellow, wheat on the field, planting seedlings and cutting wheat at both ends are busy". At this time, people are busy, and the land is not idle. In many parts of the country, it is a scene of wheat ears being harvested and rice seedlings appearing. Dryland has been cultivated and paddy fields have been irrigated. People have no time to celebrate the wheat harvest, and they are about to start planting seedlings again. "Yellow in the morning, black at noon, and green at night" vividly portrays the busy scene of the "double robbery" season: in the morning, the ripe wheat has not yet been harvested, and the ground is golden; after the harvest is completed at noon, the original black of the land is revealed; at the end of the night, the new seedlings are blue.
Just like the college entrance examination that the graduating high school students have to go through, the peasants have to go through the big test of mangsang every year. As the saying goes: "Small full of heaven, mango seed rush to the moment." "The busyness of mango seeds makes us truly feel the hard-won of a porridge and a meal."
When the mango festival arrives, it means that midsummer has begun. In May and June every year, the weather is getting hotter and the ripe plums are dotted with branches, which is the season when plums in southern China mature. Therefore, the folk have always been the custom of eating green plums. People eat green plums not only to celebrate the arrival of the mango festival, but also to strengthen their bodies. Green plum, containing a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, after consumption is beneficial to the human body, has the effect of quenching appetizers, quenching thirst, eliminating fatigue and so on. However, fresh plums are mostly sour and difficult to eat directly. People process it and then eat it, the processing process is since the Xia Dynasty has "boiled plum", the common processing methods are: winemaking, sun drying, salting, making preserves, making jam and so on.
Xiaobian teaches you several common plum making methods, take advantage of the mango festival, and do it together!
Ome sake
Preparation materials: 5 kg of green plum, 2500ml of white wine, 2.5 kg of sugar, glass container for soaking wine.
Production process:
The first step is to remove the root of the green plum, then soak the treated green plum in light salt water for about an hour (to help remove the bitter taste), remove the rotten fruit, rinse and drain the water, and put it in a cool place to dry;
In the second step, the glass container for brewing wine is cleaned and fully disinfected and sterilized. Then drain the internal water to ensure that the inner wall is water-free and oil-free, and then put in the treated plum;
The third step, pour half of the amount of white sugar in the glass bottle, pour in the white wine until the glass bottle is six points full, wait for the sugar to be completely dissolved, and then pour the remaining half of the sugar in, close the bottle cap, and defend the cool and dark place at home;
The fourth step, put on for 2-3 months can drink, but soaked for more than a year taste better.
Omebo
Preparation materials: plums, salt, sugar, glass container.
In the first step, wash and remove the root of the appropriate amount of green plums, gently rub the green plums with salt, wrap them in salt, put them in a glass container, and let them stand for a few hours;
In the second step, when the epidermis of the green plum is slightly wrinkled, and the water oozing out has dissolved the table salt, add cool white to the container, let the light salt water continue to soak the green plum, and soak it in a cool and dark place for 2 days;
The third step, wait until the sun is shining, take out the green plum, lay it flat and dry it for about 3 days;
In the fourth step, the glass container is disinfected and sterilized, and the proportion of a layer of plum and a layer of white sugar is put into it, and an appropriate amount of white sugar is put into the salt according to your taste preferences, and you can take it out and eat it after a few days.
Plum sauce
Ingredients: plum, rock sugar, sugar, salt, pot, glass container.
Production process: The early treatment of ome is the same as the first two practices;
The first step, pour the green plum into the pot, the water is not over the green plum, add two small spoons of salt, boil on high heat and turn to low heat for about 5 minutes, turn off the heat;
In the second step, the boiled plums are cooled in super-cold water, and then peeled (can be easily clipped down with chopsticks), pitted (also can not be pitted);
The third step, add water and rock sugar to the pot, slowly cook the rock sugar over low heat, drain the water, then add the processed green plum and stir until it is viscous enough;
The fourth step is to taste it, judge whether it is necessary to add white sugar again to taste according to personal preference, and finally bottle it into the refrigerator for storage. Spread on bread or drizzle on yogurt or smoothies, it's delicious.
From sour plums to delicious dried plums, plum sauce or sweet and sour plum wine, Ome has taken a wonderful journey, and the people who "cooked plums" have also completed the ritual of the mango planting season.
With so many kinds of traditional ways of eating green plums, which one do you like the most?
Welcome to share your ome wine, ome sauce in the comments...
Edit: Wen Jie