The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and some vendors can be seen selling jelly in the streets and alleys in many areas in the south. Speaking of a bowl of jelly costing a few dollars on the street, this is definitely the most delicious snack in the childhood summers of countless southern friends.
In the summer, what I wanted to eat most was jelly. I can buy a bowl for a few cents and eat it all afternoon long. Because the conditions at that time were not good, many people were unwilling to buy even if it cost a few cents for a bowl of jelly.
Therefore, some families will grow their own materials for making jelly. One of the mint-like plants is often used to make jelly and is grown in many places in the south. It is commonly known as jelly grass.
Later, although the number of people cultivating it gradually decreased, in recent years it has had the opportunity to turn red again and become the main raw material for burning grass jelly. If you see it in the mountains, you can transplant it.
When an ornamental plant looks good, it looks good too! What is jelly grass? Now Xiaomao doesn't know what the scientific name of jelly grass is, he only knows that it is called jelly grass in many places.
This is a relatively short plant. At first glance, it looks like the mint that many people grow in their yards and balconies. The jelly grass is generally 1550cm tall. In some areas, if the soil is fertile, it can grow to nearly one meter high.
Its leaves are oval or oblong, with small serrations on the edges and sparse hairs on both sides. If you didn't know better, it would be easy to mistake it for mint. However, peppermint is known to have a smell, and a very strong one.
However, jellygrass has no smell. If you take it off, put it in the palm of your hand and rub it constantly, there will be some adhesive. This plant has great vitality. It grows readily along many roadsides, ditches, and grassy areas in the South.
This is also because farmers later discovered that it could be used to make jelly. At that time, many farmers would leave a corner in the crop field to plant it.
In this way, the family can eat jelly in the summer without spending money to buy it. Why can jelly grass be used to make jelly? Fenugreek is a common plant that could easily be considered a weed.
But it is rich in soluble polysaccharide substances, which is why its leaves feel sticky and smooth when rubbed in the palm of your hand. ? These soluble polysaccharide substances easily solidify into a gel-like substance after being dissolved in water, commonly known as jelly grass.
In fact, the ancients have long discovered that jelly grass can be used to make jelly grass, which is why its leaves are sticky when rubbed in the palm of your hand.
These soluble polysaccharide substances easily solidify into a gel-like substance after being dissolved in water. This is what the folks call jelly grass.
In fact, it is rich in soluble polysaccharide substances, which is the jelly grass, which is also the jelly grass, which is the jelly grass. In fact, it can be used to make jelly grass prairie. At that time, the mountain people had already discovered the method of making jelly grass.