Long summer, Ben
Eating long summer candied fruit in the northeast is to send spring to welcome summer and celebrate the spring harvest. Newly listed vegetables and fruits should try to join "Long Summer". The more varieties, the more festive. "I have been idle for a winter and busy for a spring." In this green and yellow season, eating a "long summer" full meal is the greatest satisfaction of farmers who have not enough to eat and wear warm clothes in the old society. Therefore, no matter how poor the family is, even if it is to borrow rice, it is necessary to eat this "long summer meal" in order to achieve a "full spring harvest." Nowadays, the level of eating "long summer" in rural areas is high. It is necessary to add a little glutinous rice to the top-grade white rice to make it sweet but not greasy. If it is "soup", you must add lean meat, mushrooms, fungus, cuttlefish, bamboo shoots, shrimp skin and so on.
The practice of long summer
1. Cook the rice until it is half cooked, mash it, knead it into dough, press it into pieces, cut it into pieces, and fry it in oil, which is called "dry";
2. Knead it into a ball like jiaozi, add mushrooms, garlic moss, green peppers, peas, broad beans, pumpkins, potatoes and other spring vegetable soups and boil it, which is called "soup".
3, "dry" to eat, fragrant and delicious; "Soup" is eaten in a big bowl, no matter adults or children, to show its richness and taste is extremely beautiful.
"Long summer" is also divided into breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is said that eating brains early, strengthening the waist in the middle and strengthening the legs in the evening. This is of course just a folk saying. I ate' Long Xia Ben' and locked the door of the farmhouse with a padlock. In the long summer, wheat should be threshed, rape harvested, seedlings managed and summer tea picked. Not to mention how busy farmers are.
Dietary considerations of Xia Hou in Northeast China.
1, eat fruit often. In the northeast, all kinds of fruits are abundant. In the long summer, the weather will get hotter and hotter in the future. Eating all kinds of fruits is the best health care method at this time.
2. After a long summer in the northeast of China, the weather will get hot. You can eat some tomatoes at this time, sago porridge. Tomato sago porridge, you can add some rock sugar. These ingredients are all foods that can reduce qi and reduce fire, and it is better to eat them in summer.
3. Vegetables stay healthy. Northeast China is rich in various vegetables, and it is easy for people to get angry in summer. Eating more vegetables can make you healthier. Vegetables are rich in nutritional value. Eating vegetables regularly can supplement vitamins and mineral elements.
4. Replenish water in time. After a long summer in Northeast China, we must pay attention to timely hydration. If a person stays in a hot place for a long time and lacks water, it will affect his health. Replenish water in time and drink less unhealthy drinks is the way to keep fit.
5. Bitter vegetables are rich in nutrition. After a long summer in Northeast China, the moisture in the air will decrease and people will feel sultry. At this time, eating more bitter vegetables can increase appetite and balance diet.
What are the traditional foods eaten in the north in the long summer?
Summer cake
Summer cakes, also known as hemp cakes, have different shapes, such as riding a horse by the champion, sending a child by Guanyin and holding a peach by a monkey. In modern times, oyster cakes are mostly used instead. Summer cakes are often used by mothers to give to their married daughters. Eating summer cakes in the long summer is said to be neither sick nor thin.
There are two kinds of cakes in summer: sweet and salty. The sweet ones are mainly sesame and sugar. More salty, with salt, leek, minced meat, shrimp skin, mushrooms, carrots, eggs and so on. Making summer cakes is not complicated. Summer cake is made by pressing mixed flour into pancakes, and the above-mentioned salty and sweet fillings are fried in a pot. The family sat together and tasted cakes, which was fruitful and enjoyable.
spring roll
Spring rolls are divided into two parts: cakes and vegetables. The pancake for rolling vegetables must be a freshly made pancake with hot noodles, round, thin and smooth. The rolled cake must be lightly coated with oil, in order to prevent the cake from sticking to the cake, and at the same time it tastes smoother. There are crispy vegetables in it, which are both soft and hard and taste first-class.
Vegetables for spring rolls are generally selected according to personal preferences, and most families will choose simple bean sprouts and leeks. Some also put shredded pork, shredded bamboo shoots, chopped green onion and so on. The more advanced spring rolls are made of shredded chicken or oysters, shrimps, mushrooms and leeks.
noodles
In the long summer, old Beijing pays attention to eating noodles to celebrate the wheat harvest. It is said that the custom of eating noodles in the long summer originated in the Jin Dynasty. At that time, eating noodles was to commemorate the festive taste of the northern wheat harvest, and it also meant good weather and good harvest in the coming year. There is a saying that summer is a new day. Eating noodles in the long summer can strengthen the body and bring good luck to people.