It was really hard to swallow rice bran and bark during the natural disasters in the 1960s, but if you don't eat it, you will starve to death.
My hometown, Guizhou, I have two memories, both in middle school. The first time, I couldn't buy food (at that time, the staple food was corn), so I could only buy dried sweet potatoes from the north to "raise lazy people in Guizhou", which had been seriously moldy and steamed for food, and there was nothing to eat. Although I am very hungry, I really find it more difficult to swallow than rice mainly made of corn flour. The second time, the school organized a "bitter rice", which was made by mixing chaff and bran. Nothing else, just barely ate one to finish the task.
Our stew here is mainly composed of pork belly, cabbage and vermicelli. First, cut the pork belly with a knife, put it in a pot, remove the blood foam, take it out, then put the pork belly in rock sugar, stir fry again, add water, soy sauce and salt, turn off the fire and cook it. Wait an hour and put the sliced cabbage vermicelli in for a while. The dishes stewed by my mother-in-law are so greasy and salty.
But now that I have adapted to my mother-in-law's life and can eat a little, the days have passed. Mother-in-law's stew is still not delicious, so I let my husband stew it, because I can't stew it, which is a bit stupid. In fact, if I put less oil and soy sauce, this dish is quite delicious. Have you eaten?
Greenhouse vegetables
Shaoxing's braised pork with plum vegetables is particularly unpalatable.
When I was a child, my family was poor, and neither white flour nor corn flour was enough to eat. Grandma will do her best.
The skin of wheat is actually bran. We call it bran.
Bran is reluctant to feed pigs, but people eat it. But the bran is too rough and sticky to be rolled into cakes or steamed stuffed bun noodles, so grandma rolled a small piece of white flour into skin, wrapped the bran in it and rolled it into cakes.
When the cake is ripe, break a piece and the white flour and the bran inside will be separated. Bran tastes terrible in your mouth, and you want to vomit. Because of its rough taste, it still sticks to your mouth and can't be swallowed.
My mother has eaten rice bran, which is rough and difficult to swallow.
The smell of durian makes me sick.
I really haven't eaten!