There are two indispensable things in the homes of Northeastern people, one is the sauerkraut jar, and the other is the big stone for pickling sauerkraut. This is true for poor people, and it is true for wealthy families as well. At that time, Zhang Zuolin's mansion was equipped with seven or eight sauerkraut jars, but it was often not enough. Zhang Dashuai's son, Zhang Xueliang's younger brother, Major General Zhang Xuesi, served as the Chief of Staff of the PLA Navy. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. When he was dying, what he wanted to eat most was pickled vegetables.
Sauerkraut is relatively close to Chinese people, and it can be seen in mountains and rivers. Sauerkraut is one of the Sichuan delicacies called pickled fish. This is a kind of yellow-green sauerkraut. Its raw material is mustard greens. Its scientific name is bamboo shoot greens. It is a biennial plant in the Brassicaceae family. In the eyes of Northeastern people, it seems distant, strange, and mysterious. Rare things are valued, and eating in restaurants is valued. . I boldly named it: Southern Sauerkraut.
Northeastern sauerkraut, corresponding to its southern brother, has naturally become one of northern sauerkraut. The raw material is Chinese cabbage, which the locals are accustomed to. In late autumn and early winter, they add water and salt and pickle it in a vat. A large stone is pressed on top of the dish, and the dish is allowed to slowly shrink and ferment in a cold environment. After twenty or thirty days, it is done. When the temperature dropped, I picked vegetables from the jar through the ice. My hands turned red from the cold. I walked into the house and smelled the yellow-white vegetables. There was a strange fragrance of coolness. It was authentic and refreshing. This is it!
It’s too cold in my hometown in the Northeast. There used to be no off-season greenhouse crops. I don’t know who invented (or introduced) sauerkraut to help people survive the winter. I guess it was figured out by the common people themselves. If it were done by a celebrity like Su Shi, and everyone would not forget his kindness and plunder his beauty, they would have long been called Dongpo Sauerkraut and Zuo Zongtang Sauerkraut. Most of the good things in the world are made by ordinary anonymous people, either original creations or successive ones. You add a ladle of water and I add a handful of firewood. The light is greater than the people, and the people forget each other.
Although Northeastern sauerkraut is common, it has its own personality. It is rather stubborn and does not like to be with other vegetables. Have you ever seen spinach, leeks, cucumbers and other delicate vegetables mixed with sauerkraut in the same pot?
Sauerkraut's stubbornness has its own reasons. In the freezing weather, where are you hiding? My brother is the only one left to carry it!
Of course, there are a few other housekeeping dishes in the cellar in the cold season outside Guan, such as potatoes and cabbage. It is said that potatoes are docile and cooperative, but so what? There is a saying in the Northeast: Potatoes stewed with sauerkraut - tough. It means that under the influence of the stubborn sauerkraut, potatoes cannot maintain their traditional virtues, and they can't even be cooked.
Even for his own family, Baicai, he is unwilling to perform together. I've never heard of sauerkraut and cabbage being paired together. What kind of dish is this? A battle between old and new cadres? Children don’t like to play with their parents? If I had known this, why bother?
Who is more compatible with sauerkraut? It is a meat that is not very elegant and rarely chanted. When aunties from the Northeast cook sauerkraut, they often sigh, "This guy likes oil the most." No wonder, since you are poor, you should gain some fat and calories. Meat is also strange. Once I got acquainted with sauerkraut, I immediately lost weight, got rid of the greasiness, and gained fragrance, just like a fancy woman who washes away her beauty and returns to her simplicity.
Sauerkraut not only chooses its partners, but also the cooking method. You cannot fry it, fry it, slide it, roast it, beat it, or scold it. Generally, Northeastern people have four ways of eating: one is stewing; the other is stir-frying; the third is making dumplings; and the fourth is eating them raw.
Eating it raw is the simplest way for sauerkraut to serve the people of Northeast China. The mother was washing pickled vegetables in the earthen basin. When she saw the child looking at him eagerly, she chopped the vegetables into pieces to reveal the best of the vegetables - here! The child held it in his little hands and ran out into the cold wind, "skating" on the ice while chewing it with great pleasure. Children don’t know what ice cream is, so sauerkraut heart is their ice cream. The father looked at it with greed, so he also got a piece of it on the kang table, dipping it in sauce and drinking it.
The highest and most classic form of sauerkraut is stew, which is stewed with meat in a hot pot, casserole or ordinary pot. It is commonly known as sauerkraut white meat, sauerkraut hot pot, and commonly known as jiu pot and jiu white meat. "氽" means to enter the water, so there must be a soup, often a wide soup. Learn from the "Kingdom of Tonga". It's so generous to drink it all in just a few sips. "氽" is often mistakenly used as "氽" when restaurants print recipes and canteens write on blackboards. Sichuan is Sichuan, it's not like taking the postgraduate entrance examination. Moreover, Sichuan is a large water, which conforms to the principle of multiple soups. The shape of the glyph is like three pieces of white meat standing sideways, which is quite realistic.