How to cook long summer eggs hard?
Ingredients: eggs, green tea, cinnamon, star anise, soy sauce.
Practice: 1, put all the ingredients into the pot and fill the eggs with water.
2. After ten minutes, the egg condenses, and the eggshell is broken with a spoon, which is more tasty (meaning outside the egg).
3, almost half an hour, you can pick it up and eat it.
Of course, if conditions permit, it will be more delicious to simmer for an hour on a small fire.
The significance of boiling eggs in long summer
The ancients thought that eggs were round and round, symbolizing the perfection of life. Eating eggs in summer can pray for peace in summer and stand the test of "summer". Summer begins in April of the lunar calendar. "Eggs in April are as cheap as vegetables." People put eggs in the remaining "Qijia tea" and boil them to become "tea eggs". Later, people improved their cooking methods by adding fennel, gravy, cinnamon and Jiang Mo to Qijia tea. Since then, tea eggs have become one of the traditional snacks in China, replacing seasonal and climatic foods in the long summer.
There is a custom in changxia called fighting eggs. Is to take boiled eggs to collide, whoever breaks the eggs will fail, and whoever doesn't break will win. Fighting eggs is a technical activity. How to hold it and how to hold it, there are many factors that affect the outcome. Some people use goose eggs against eggs, which can be said to be impossible to prevent-as the saying goes: "If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools."
The benefits of long summer eggs
First, eat eggs in summer, which is called "summer tonic", so that people will not lose weight in summer, and they will be energetic and work hard. The old Chinese doctor said that salted duck eggs are strong in summer, which coincides with the nutritionist's statement. Nutritionists say that duck eggs are rich in inorganic salts such as calcium and iron, which are higher than eggs and fresh duck eggs, making them the first choice for calcium and iron supplementation in summer.
Secondly, according to legend, the weather has been sunny and warm since the day of long summer, and it is getting hotter gradually. Many people, especially children, will feel tired and weak, lose appetite and lose weight gradually. This is the so-called "summer". Nu Wa Niangniang told people that every year during the Long Summer Festival, children would hang cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs on their chests to avoid summer. Therefore, the custom of eating eggs in the long summer festival has continued to this day.