The customs of cold dew in old Nanjing include eating crabs and packing summer clothes. There is also a saying that "cold dew makes feet, first frost catches them, the west wind rings, and the feet of crabs itch", and the taste of crabs will be "positive" as soon as it is cold. "Umbilical ball in September, sharp in October", at present, female crabs are full of eggs and rich in yellow paste, which is the best season to eat female crabs. After October of the lunar calendar, it is the male crab's turn to eat the best.

Steamed crabs are the most nutritious! Hold the two sides of the big cover at the root of two rows of crab legs with your hands, and then brush all the places you can with your toothbrush. Brush as clean as possible before putting it in the container; Then put Jiang Mo in a small wine bowl, add cooked soy sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate, yellow wine and sesame oil to stir. Take another small bowl and put vinegar for later use; Finally, cage the crab, steam it with fire for 0/5 to 20 minutes, and take it out when the crab shell is bright red.

2: Flower cake

Because the weather is getting colder and the trees and flowers are dying soon, people call this "resignation". If you climb the mountain in 1999, you still have to eat flower cakes. Because of the homonym of "cake" and "height", you should eat cake instead of "climbing the mountain". I hope that you or your relatives and friends can be safe, auspicious and high.

The raw materials for making flower cakes are divided into leather (refined flour, big oil and water), crisp material (refined milk and big oil) and stuffing (jujube paste, peanut kernel, raisin, green pepper, black sesame, cooked rice flour, ground sesame oil, honey, osmanthus fragrans, etc.). After dough mixing, crisp making and stuffing, the green cake is made into two pieces with various nuts between them.

3: Persimmon

There is a folk proverb, "beginning of autumn walnut white dew pear, cold dew persimmon red skin." Soft and waxy persimmons do not mature until autumn. They are sweet and astringent, cold in nature, and enter the lungs, spleen and stomach, clearing away heat and moistening the lungs. It contains one to two times more vitamins and sugar than ordinary fruits. It can nourish the lungs and protect the stomach, clear away dry fire, and can replenish deficiency, relieve cough, benefit the intestines and remove heat if eaten frequently.

Eating persimmon on an empty stomach is prone to stomach persimmon stone disease, so it is best to eat it after meals and try to eat less persimmon skin. At the same time, we should also control the amount of food we eat. It is not suitable to eat vegetables and other foods with more cellulose. People with chronic gastritis, indigestion and other low gastric function, subtotal gastrectomy and diabetes are not suitable for eating.

4: Sesame

When the cold dew arrives, the weather turns from cool to cold. According to the four-season health preservation theory of "nourishing yang in spring and summer and nourishing yin in autumn and winter" in traditional Chinese medicine. At this time, people should nourish yin and prevent dryness, moisten the lungs and benefit the stomach. As a result, people have the custom of "eating sesame seeds in cold dew". In Beijing, sesame-related foods have become hot items before and after cold dew, such as sesame crisp, sesame mung bean cake, sesame seed cake and so on.

Sesame paste boiled from black sesame seeds, plus some rock sugar, can be drunk once a day in the morning and evening, which can effectively reduce the irritation of the lungs, at the same time, it can moisturize the respiratory tract and eliminate the sputum attached to the respiratory tract wall, so that it can quickly moisten the lungs and relieve cough, even breathing feels very smooth. People who cough in autumn may wish to try this recipe.

5. Chrysanthemum wine

Cold dew is close to the Double Ninth Festival. At this time, chrysanthemums are in full bloom. In order to get rid of autumn dryness, there is a custom of drinking "chrysanthemum wine" in some areas. This custom, together with climbing, gradually moved to the Double Ninth Festival. Chrysanthemum wine is made from chrysanthemum with glutinous rice and distiller's yeast, which was called "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its taste is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing liver, improving eyesight, strengthening brain and delaying aging.