Huaimao pickle is a side dish marinated with Baoding's unique sweet noodle sauce. Baoding has a folk proverb: "Baoding Province's three treasures, iron balls, noodle sauce, spring immortality." "Noodle sauce refers to the sweet noodle sauce produced by sauce manufacturers such as Baoding Huaimao Sauce Garden. Baoding Huaimao Sauce Garden was opened in the 10th year of the Qing Dynasty (1671). According to Professor Zhao Shouyi, a descendant of the Zhao family, the founder of Huaimao Sauce Garden, the Zhao family was born in Shaoxing, settled in Baoding during the Kangxi Dynasty, and built a Huaimao Sauce Garden shop under the ancient locust tree in the northeast corner of the erdaokou of West Avenue (now the intersection of Yonghua Avenue and West Avenue), and there was another venue for making sauce. The ancient locust tree is half exposed in the store, the trunk diameter is more than one meter, the branches are luxuriant, and the green shade shades the street, which has become a prominent symbol of the sauce garden.
Pickles from Acacia
At that time, the name of the acacia sauce garden was because of the luxuriant locust tree and prayed for a prosperous business. The owner of Huaimao Sauce Garden has learned a lot, and has gone to Beijing, Shandong and other places many times to learn the length of each sauce garden, using high-quality raw materials and Baoding's unique one-acre spring water, and developing a noodle sauce with full natural fermentation, long cycle and high sugar content. Because of its sweet taste, people call it sweet noodle sauce.
Sweet noodle sauce
Huaimao Sauce Garden selects Baoding to produce lettuce, radish, lettuce, cucumber, dew, water chestnut, garlic, spring age, pepper and walnut kernels, peanut rice and almonds, etc., and marinates them with sweet noodle sauce to make pickles, which is very popular with customers. In the twenty-ninth year of the Qing Dynasty (1903), Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor came to Baoding after the Gurudwara Xiling Tomb, and Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, offered Huaimao pickles when Cixi drank porridge, and Cixi was full of praise after tasting it, and she gave the name "Taiping Cuisine" to beautify herself and return to Beijing. Since then, Acacia pickles have become famous. In the early years of the Republic of China, the directly subordinate overseer Cao Kun was stationed in Baoding, Baoding industry and commerce became increasingly prosperous, Huaimao pickles also entered a heyday, Huaimao sauce garden and Beijing Liubiju sauce garden, Shandong Yutang sauce garden, Yangzhou Simei sauce garden and called the four sauce gardens, and has the reputation of "Baoding Huaimao in the north, Yangzhou simei in the south".
Huaimao pickles adopt traditional craftsmanship, natural fermentation of lactic acid, long production cycle, and exquisite materials. In 2005, Huaimao Pickle was awarded the honorary title of "China Time-honored Brand" by the Ministry of Commerce. Huaimao pickles are not only sold well throughout the country, but also sold abroad, and have won the praise of users at home and abroad.