Sauerkraut and Chinese people are more pro, mountains, seas and oceans can see its figure. Sichuan delicacy pickled fish, the use of sauerkraut is one of them. This is a yellow-green sauerkraut, its raw materials for the leaf mustard, the scientific name of the bamboo shoots shells green cabbage, cruciferous, biennial, in the eyes of Northeastern people seem far away, strange, mysterious, things are rare for the expensive, on the hotel to eat for the honor. I dare to name: South pickles.
Northeastern sauerkraut, as opposed to its southern brother, naturally became a kind of northern sauerkraut. Its raw materials, the local people are used to cabbage, late fall and early winter, add water and salt, pickled in the tank. The top of the dish should also be pressed a large stone, in the cold environment so that the dish slowly tighten, fermentation, twenty or thirty days later will be completed. Catch the cooling, through the ice ballast, from the tank to take the vegetables, frozen red hands, hissing haha into the house, a smell of the yellow-white vegetables, cool a strange aroma, authentic, refreshing, this is the taste!
The Northeast hometown is too cold, once upon a time there is no anti-season greenhouse crops, I do not know who invented (or introduced from the Guannei) sauerkraut, to help people cats in the winter. It is estimated that the people themselves figured it out. If it is a celebrity like Su Shi did, we do not forget its grace, do not plunder its beauty, has long been called Dongpo sauerkraut, Zuo Zongtang sauerkraut. Most of the good things on earth are made by ordinary nobodies, or original, or the former and the latter, you add a ladle of water, I add a handful of firewood. The light is in the people, and the people are forgotten.
Northeastern sauerkraut, although ordinary, but very personalized, more stubborn, not much like with other vegetables. You've seen spinach, chives, cucumbers, these dainty tender goods, and sauerkraut in a pot stirring horse spoon?
Sauerkraut's stubbornness has its own reasons, the snow and ice, a large group of you are hiding where to go? I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good look at the whole thing!
Of course, in the cellar during the cold season in Guanwai, there are a few other things to look at, such as potatoes, such as cabbage. The potatoes are said to be docile and cooperative, so what? There is a saying in Northeast China: potato stewed sauerkraut - hard, said the potato in the sauerkraut this stubborn goods under the influence of the traditional virtues of hard to keep, want to face can not face up.
Even for their own family - cabbage, stubborn goods are not willing to joint performance. I've never heard of sauerkraut and cabbage together, what is the dish, new and old cadres fighting? Kids don't like to play with their parents? If I had known, I would not have done it in the first place.
Who is more compatible with sauerkraut? Is not very elegant, hard to chant meat. Northeast aunt cooking sauerkraut, often lamented, this guy ah, the most like oil. It is no wonder that the Secretary is poor, should increase some fat, increase some calories. Meat is also strange, once acquainted with sauerkraut, immediately reduced fat, greasy, increased fragrance, as if the fancy woman washed but lead, back to simplicity.
Sauerkraut is not only picking partners, but also picking the way of cooking. You can't fry it, you can't fry it, you can't slip it, you can't bake it, you can't beat it, you can't scold it. Usually, Northeasterners have four ways to eat: one is stewed; two is fried; three is wrapped in dumplings; four is eaten raw.
Raw food, is the most simple form of sauerkraut for the people of Northeast China. Mother washed sauerkraut in a tile pot, see the child's eyes looking, it will be the vegetable gangs split bar split bar, revealing the most essential heart of the vegetable - to! The child took it in his small hands, ran out into the cold wind, and while "slipping and sliding" on the ice, he chewed it gratingly and with great pleasure. Children do not know what ice cream is, pickled cabbage is the child's ice cream. When the father looked at the coveted, kang table also got a cut, dipping sauce, under the wine.
Sauerkraut highest, the most classic form of expression, is stewed, and meat stewed together, with hot pot casserole, or ordinary pot, commonly known as sauerkraut and white meat, sauerkraut hot pot, elegantly known as blanch pot, blanch white meat. "Blanch", look at the meaning of the word - into the water, so there must be soup, often wide soup, to "Tonga Kingdom" to learn. A few mouths on the bottom of the drink, what is considered bold. "blanch", restaurant printed recipes, cafeteria writing blackboard, often mistakenly planted as "Chuan". Chuan on Chuan, and not graduate school. Moreover, Chuan is water, in line with the principle of soup. The shape of the word, like three pieces of white meat side, but also realistic.