After the autumn is over, paste the autumn fat!
Doesn't that give you another reason to eat?
In the summer of August, eat something "cool"!
We have always been very particular about eating!
There are three thousand nanxiu waters, and there is a wonderful food gifted by heaven in the vast smoke waves, crisp and fresh, and the water spirit. Suzhou has eight immortals of water, and Hangzhou has a perch. Ningbo, where the water network is dense, the vast waters also produce delicious aquatic plants.
If you lose your appetite in the inescapable heat, then these water and country customs in the mountains and rivers may be able to send you a fresh and nourishing wind.
Gangnam can pick lotus
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There is a famous folk song in the poem of Han Le Fu called "Jiangnan": "Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaf He Tiantian." Fish play lotus leaf, fish play lotus leaf east, fish play lotus leaf west, fish play lotus leaf south, fish play lotus leaf north. "Picking lotuses and eating lotuses is a common labor and game in Jiangnan summer, or in other words, a fixed Jiangnan impression and aesthetic symbol.
Wading for hibiscus
At four o'clock in the morning, the heat has faded, birds sing and splash like water splashes on the half-light and half-dark summer dawn, everything is sleeping, and the awake people seem to monopolize the tranquility of this breaking dawn.
When Yu Xuanping got up, there was already a faint dawn outside the window. After a simple breakfast, I packed up and came to my own lotus field. The flower field was very close to home, ten minutes on foot, he put on the special jumpsuit and boots for the water, Ma Li went down the field, stepped on the mud, and waded towards the lotus flowers in the field.
At this time, the east was white, and the hour hand had just pointed to the five characters. At the age of 16, Yu Xuanping followed in the footsteps of his family, came to Ningbo from his hometown on the shores of Poyang Lake in Jiangxi, and after several turns, he was finally stationed in Chaoyang Village in Jiangshan, Yinzhou, for seventeen years.
What was originally thought to be another place, but it fell to the ground and took root. Speaking of which, it seems that there is providence in the underworld. His hometown of Poyang, known as the "Lake City of China", has a wide expanse of water, and Poyang Lake gives him the first nourishment of life.
In the countryside where he grew up, every household had several acres of paddy fields and would plant some lotus flowers, which was a famous lotus production area. When he grew up, he came to another water town, Zeguo, made his home in a city with the largest freshwater lake in Zhejiang, and followed the path of his ancestors, planting lotus, picking lotus, and selling lotus.
It is only in his hometown that most of the seed lotus, but at the beginning, it was the lotus that was popular in Ningbo, so it was not until these two years that he began to increase the seed lotus, which was also very popular.
Before and after the lotus picking, the family needs to be busy for three or four months, sowing seeds in February and March every year, fertilizing, snails, weeding after one month, and then fertilizing for the second time in a month, during which to ensure that there is enough water above the silt, which can be deep and not shallow. In this way, only in early July can you see the blooming lotus flowers, and only then can you have fresh lotuses and lotus roots to pick.
Lotus picking must be done before sunrise or after sunset, especially the lotus canopy, which is picked before sunrise and has been exposed to dew overnight.
Lotus seeds are as clear as promised
In my old memory, summer was always filled with steaming heat. Yu Xuanping still remembers the afternoon of the summer vacation at that time, lying quietly on the bamboo bed, listening to the three large leaves of the ceiling fan creaking and turning. The cool breeze blew on his body, and he fell asleep in the confusion.
When you wake up, you will be energetic and have endless hours of time, and you can enjoy the delicious taste of lotus seeds while playing. In the evening, he shouted at the field, and all obediently went home to eat. Xin wrote in a poem: "The most favorite child is rogue, and the village head lies on the lotus canopy", which is a true portrayal of the childhood life of children in the summer water village.
In addition to eating lotus seeds raw, they are more cooked: fried meat slices with tender lotus seeds, rock sugar lotus seed soup, etc. Whether eaten raw or cooked, most people have to remove the "heart" in the middle of the lotus seeds, because the lotus core is extremely bitter and affects the taste. The removed lotus core does not have to be thrown away, and the summer sun-dried tea can be dried and wet, and the effect of diuresis and kidney regulation can be improved.
Yu Xuanping has a stall in the Lianxin Vegetable Farm in Yinzhou, and he will pull a part of the daily lotus harvest to sell there. In addition to fresh lotus ponchos, he also sells dried lotus seeds that have been dried at home. Unlike the common white lotus seeds on the market, his family is reddish-brown red lotus seeds. Red lotus seeds are enough mature old lotus after autumn to dry, more powdery and sticky than white lotus seeds, and the soup is full of flavor, and old customers who have eaten will come back to find it.
The juice is crisp and tender
Knowledgeable foodies say, "Floral lotus is a great summer delicacy." The newly watered flower lotus, the most tender, the most crisp, but also the sweetest, a bite down, a crunch, a mouth full of juice, not half a bit of dregs.
Every year after the summer, when a lotus flower or two flowers of red or white appear among the green lotus leaves in the field, the hungry child knows that there are flowers and lotus roots to eat, so he quietly sticks to the edge of the field and goes into the water, looking at a blooming white lotus flower (only the lotus that grows under the white lotus is crisp and delicious), and the white lotus root that is as thick as a child's arm is slightly washed with water on the spot, and can't wait to bite it down.
Therefore, the first to taste the taste of floral lotus is often not the adults who are sitting on the edge of the table.
Probably because of the childhood joys in these memories, Yu Xuanping still likes to "Amway" a way of eating lotus roots to people: take the essence of the new lotus root in summer, that is, "lotus head" and eat it raw. The long whiskers are at the root, and the other end is the head. Cut off the section that is connected to the stem and leaf of the lotus flower, peel it and eat it raw. The best is that it was freshly picked in the early morning of the day, and the shorter the time away from the water, the sweeter it is.
In summer, the cold mix lotus slice is a delicacy, snow white lotus flakes, sprinkled with a little sugar, in the hot hot day, it looks very cool, a chopstick down, it is full of freshness. When the moon comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lotus root has dregs, and it is not appropriate to eat it raw, wrapped in meat to make a lotus clip, fried in a frying pan and eaten.
The lotus root really matures after the cold dew, when the lotus leaves have long since withered and yellowed, and the water is already too cold for people to get off. At this time, the lotus root, powder glutinous, a bite, pull out the old long silk, is the top of the soup of pork ribs.
Lotus villagers will also use the lotus at this time to make some lotus powder. Eat at home, willing to use a good quality of large lotus as a material, rich starch is sifted out layer by layer, the resulting lotus powder is completely different from the commercially available. Dry powder is permeated with a faint pink, and it is also a light pink color when you take the water, so that you finally understand what is "lotus pink".
Lotus flour can be eaten for a year, summer morning, mix a bowl of lotus flour, cherry blossom-like color and the faint aroma of lotus between the lips and teeth make this breakfast full of small and fresh. If you sprinkle a handful of osmanthus candy, it will be a wonderful morning.
Flowers and leaves appear to be edible
As the saying goes, "lotus is a treasure", in fact, the edible value of lotus leaves is not less than that of lotus and lotus roots. The way to eat lotus leaves is first of all reminiscent of the number of ways such as "lotus leaf wrapped chicken".
However, the way to eat lotus leaves is more wonderful to eat fresh leaves. Fresh lotus leaves with a moist watery meaning, slightly green but wild, the fragrance of the tip of the tongue. The skillful housewives cut the fresh lotus leaves into thin wires, put some rock sugar, and cooked them together with japonica rice, making the porridge green and white, tasting the fragrant and clear taste.
Mother also has a trick, the fresh lotus leaves and winter melon skin, winter melon core boiled together, fished out and discarded, the soup base and then add winter melon and shredded meat, in a moment can cook a green and refreshing pot of soup. Really lazy, the leaves directly boil tea, but also has the effect of clearing heat and relieving heat.
Lotus leaves can be eaten, and so can lotus flowers. Shen Fu's "Six Notes of Floating Life" idle notes interesting volume writes that Yunniang makes lotus tea, the literati wife is elegant, and the working people's eating rules are much more grounded: the fresh lotus petals are hung with egg whites and flour, fried in the pot, the outer layer of oil is crisp, and the inside is fragrant and refreshing, which is a small snack that is appreciated by elegant customs.
Taste water lettuce
· Lettuce
Ningbo people are familiar with the abundant seafood in Fenghua Lake, but few people know the origin between Jinghu Lake and lettuce. In fact, "Lettuce Lake" is named after lettuce. But for hundreds of years, the lake has had a name for itself. It was not until March this year, when the town of Lenhu introduced lettuce seedlings from Hangzhou Jiande for trial planting, that the long-lost lettuce returned.
Lettuce is an aquatic plant that enjoys the reputation of "green snail spring in the water". It generally only eats its young buds that have not yet shown the surface of the water and is only suitable for making soups.
· Russet white
Located in the east of Yuyao, the town is famous for its ancient Hemudu culture and is also famous as the "Hometown of China's Zibai". In the summer and autumn, there are whites on the market.
Eating more white in summer can cool off the heat and increase appetite. Moreover, zibai is a highly malleable ingredient, its own taste is light and tender, silky and sweet, suitable for processing with various raw materials.
· Red Diamond
The taste of Jiangnan after the autumn is lingjiao, crisp, raw, sticky, and sweet. In Cixi, the area around Shengshan is famous as the "hometown of red ling", and the villagers still retain the habit of picking red ling.
Eat red diamond must take advantage of the freshness, just up the water of the red diamond is the most tender and sweet, so the red diamond just picked up is particularly pretty. Peel one tenderly and sip it gently, and the sweet taste of the fragrance flows between the lips and teeth.
· water chestnut
Water chestnut, born in the paddy fields of the south, is a perennial grass and tree plant. Beilun Xiaogang Qiaotou Yan Village has a history of 40 or 50 years of water chestnut cultivation, during the winter solstice to xiao cold period, water chestnut is the sweetest, these days can often see villagers with nail rakes skillfully digging water chestnut in the ground.
In addition to eating raw, in the middle of summer, farmers in the countryside would also make chestnut cakes to freeze and eat after they were cold. When the chestnut cake is cooled, it is crystal clear, which is both eye-catching and delicious.
Excerpted from the August 2017 issue of Ala Tourism Magazine, "Na Liang Er San Incident Food Run Xia Gangmu"
Text | Huang Xiaoyu
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