We call it "jiaojizi" there, and also say chicken claw pear, chicken claw lotus, the scientific name of the jujube. This season is the best time to eat dates. Do you love to eat?
At this time, the dates are not very cooked, and they are still a bit astringent to eat. But when it was ripe, the taste was ripe and sweet, as sweet as dates, as sweet as honey. Mellow, luscious.
The real contact with dates is very young. By the stream in our village, there is a tall date tree, and when I was a child who lacked fruit nourishment, I took bamboo poles in pairs to secretly knock.
The dates are ripe every year, and the years are getting farther and farther away. On the weekend, walking on the road with my friends, I saw that the next-door neighbor's jujube tree was growing just right, and before I got close, I smelled a smell of dates. So the two picked up the branch next to them, tapped the date, saw the branch hanging outside the wall, and simply jumped up and pulled a branch down.... After tasting it, it was still a bit astringent, and it should take a while to ripen thoroughly. Looking back at my childhood, the children who stole dates were like a permanent picture, frozen in memory. Don't forget, never forget.
In the countryside this season, not only are the dates ripe, but there is also a kind of mountain goods that are also ripe! Yesterday, I saw the circle of friends, and I knew that the tang pears on the tree were also ripe!
Emergency notice: "Tang pears" can be eaten ~ grasp the tree to pick "tang pears"!
Tang pear, also known as du pear, wild pear, ancient called gantang, rose family pear genus deciduous tree. The fruit of the pear is slightly smaller than the pear, and the shape is quite similar, 5-10 mm in diameter, the calyx falls off, the apex is not concave, brown when ripe, and there are light brown spots on it. Its ovary becomes two or three chambers, so the fruit of the pear is cut off, two or three seeds are visible on the cross-section, and the arrangement of the seeds is different from that of the pear, and the interface of the seeds is not round, but nearly spindle-shaped.
Tang pears are generally eaten after cooking, which can remove the astringency; bubble sugar water or soaked fruit wine is a different flavor! After cooking, the color of the tang pear turns yellow, and the bite is sweet and sour
The game of climbing the pear tree and picking the pear has long become the memory of the past, and the sweet and sour taste of eating the pear has gradually gone, the snow-white pear blossoms, the branches of the tree, the green leaves, the tang pears full of trees, the white trees in spring, the green verdant in summer, the fragrance of a tree in autumn, and the joy of childhood with childhood friends cutting grass, with the hard work and tiredness of parents, drifting to the depths of memory.
In addition to dates and tang pears, the cow eggs on the mountain are also ripe. Friends of Yongding, do you know this delicious thing? It is a favorite of many people when they were young, and it is everywhere in the mountains of their hometown in the countryside. Because of its appearance like the testicles of a buffalo, it has the title of this image, and the Hakka slang is called "cow egg".
Now when the "cow egg" is ripe, the "cow egg" is mostly yellow when it is ripe, its appearance is like a mango, the inside is full of golden yellow flesh, the yellow flesh is like a pomegranate, the yellow meat is clothed like a spider, and the seed is black. Peeling off the "cow egg", the silky sweetness accompanied by the fragrance, instantly touching the memories of childhood.
There are too many gifts from nature, and there are too many treasures in the mountains: plantains, oranges, oil bis, persimmons... The fruits are ripe! In fact, no matter how far away you are from your hometown, you will not forget the delicious taste of wild fruits in your hometown, this is nostalgia, this is the taste of missing.
Source: Global Hakka