What do you think is the most unforgettable food in the countryside? Can you still eat it now?

There are many delicious things in my childhood memories, such as sesame candy. One of them is made from glutinous rice without removing the husk, steamed and dried in a steamer, and then fried into flowers in an iron pot over high fire. , separate the chaff and add boiled brown sugar and roasted sesame seeds to make sesame candy slices. The taste is so beautiful that it is still unforgettable. Later, I went home many times. What I bought in the store were popcorn and fried peanut jelly rice candy. I couldn’t see the kind of peanut sesame candy, because the processing of this kind of sesame candy is more complicated, and people nowadays pursue quick orders. There are also dried vegetables processed with xuelihong. I remember when I lived in junior high school, a bowl of dried vegetables could be eaten for a week. At that time, the rural areas were backward and life was difficult. Only some chili peppers could be added to the dried vegetables. There was no oil and only the fragrance and spiciness of dried vegetables. , just this single taste will be unforgettable for a lifetime. This kind of dried plum vegetables is still preserved in rural areas, and I bring some back every time I go back. This has been the case for decades. Using dry raisins to process braised pork and braised pork has a taste that is not found in high-end dishes in big restaurants. There are many delicacies in my hometown. Brown sugar processed with ancient methods can be purchased for tens of yuan per pound, which is much more expensive than brown sugar produced in other places. Moreover, it is often priced but not marketed. It is difficult to buy Zhenzong sugar unless you have a good relationship. Another example is Jinhua ham, which is actually produced in his hometown of Yiwu and Dongyang and is very famous. I don't have any nostalgia for these, but I have a special liking for Guhua Sesame Candy and Umeboshi Vegetables. Although they are ordinary and low-end, in my mind they are better and more suitable for me than the Zhongshan Delicatessen at the Grand Hotel.

What do you think is the most unforgettable food in the countryside? Can I still eat it now? I grew up in a rural area, and I am also a rural child. I remember that when I was a child, my family was very poor, and there was little land at home. It was common for the five members of the family to not have enough to eat. When it comes to food that is unforgettable for me, there must be one, and that is roasted field mouse meat.

In our place, even now, there are still many people who like to eat voles, and they are not very small. Friends, don’t think about house mice, there is still a difference between the two. Generally, after the rice is harvested, which is winter, the fields are dry and there are many vole holes. After we found the hole, we blocked one hole with a net, and lit the straw and smoked the other holes to come out. Sometimes there are voles, sometimes not. It depends on whether the hole is smooth. If it is smooth, it means that voles often visit.

After you get the voles, you can clean them and fry them. I think they are delicious. In addition to frying it, we also grill it. I remember that there were no ingredients at that time, so I just added some oil and salt, and it still felt delicious. To be honest, I still miss it. But now that my life is better, I rarely hunt voles when I go home. I am too lazy to eat.

In my hometown, almost everyone of the older generation has eaten it, but now there are fewer of them. Just a few years ago, I went to my cousin's house to hunt voles with them. I harvested a few and came back and ate them again. There were many ingredients. I put enough ingredients in them. They were delicious after roasting. Now I think about it. It's so delicious to think about.

Pork stewed with cabbage. I was born in the 1970s, my family was very poor, and I rarely ate meat throughout the year. What I looked forward to most was pork stewed with cabbage.

Xiaohan and Dahan kill pigs to celebrate the New Year. As the Chinese New Year is approaching, I kill the black New Year pig that has been raised for a year. When it is killed alive, it only weighs one hundred and eighty-nine kilograms, and after it is killed, it weighs about one hundred and ten kilograms of pork. After school, I went to see the pigs being slaughtered at the entrance of the village. I was looking forward to when the pig butchers would be arranged to come to our Hudong to kill the pigs. After not eating pork for a year, you can imagine the desire to kill a pig. It was finally our family’s turn to kill a pig, and we were very excited.

After killing the pig, my father invited some relatives to have some drinks at home. My mother asked the neighbor's aunt to cut off the pork neck and cut it into large pieces. Then, cut a small piece from the fatter part and chop into small pieces. Put the oil in a big iron pot to boil first. I was responsible for holding firewood and sometimes helping to light the fire. Wait for some oil to boil out, then add the cut blood neck meat, add green onion slices, ginger slices, peppercorns and large seasoning bags, add some soy sauce, when the meat slices are about 70% cooked, add the chopped cabbage and cover the pot. Cover stew. Seeing the steaming, large swaths of meat, our children’s eyes widened.

After the stew is done, serve it to the drinkers first.

While drinking and eating meat, they talked about this year's grain harvest and commented on whose pigs killed more pigs this year. After the banquet broke up, rice was served and some pork stew was served, and I and the children went to deliver it to the neighbors. After the food was delivered, we children greedily ate the pork stewed with cabbage. It was one of the few meals we could eat in a year. I remember that there was a little brother from my neighbor. Their family was very poor. When eating pig meat, he ate five or six large bowls at one time, which made his belly full and round, and the veins on the outside were exposed. All I could say was a stomachache, which frightened the adults.

I think the most unforgettable food in the countryside is a kind of melon called swan egg. It often reminds me of my father, because I don’t go home from work very often. When the melon is available every year , my father would always buy a few kilograms and put them on the bus. When passing by the county town where I work, I would pick him up at the station. I would eat melon and think about my father’s love for me during his lifetime, and I would feel an indescribable feeling in my heart.

Three sisters, there are no boys in the family, and our father gave all his love to the three of us. When he was alive, his father often did hard work, and he was an expert at planting crops, and he often drove them. My beloved mule plows fields for others to earn money. He knows that I love to eat melons. Whenever the melons come out of the field and I don’t go home, he will always buy them for me. This is a kind of melon with a white skin and a slight green color. It's very sweet when ripe, and the seeds are red. I often eat them with the seeds and I don't want to waste them. Even though this kind of melon looks a little crooked and ugly, it's very sweet. I remember selling it for 5 yuan when it was the most expensive. Because it has been 17 years since my father passed away!

Today I was invited to answer this question, which reminded me of my father. Thinking of melons also reminds me of my father’s love for me. The small melons are a kind of happiness to me.

In recent years, I have been working hard outside and have been away from home during the ripe season. I haven’t eaten it for several years. I don’t know if it still tastes the same as before. I also hope to return to my hometown and eat it again. The melon that tastes like this is the taste of my father.

I was born in the 1980s. The countryside was very poor at that time, and farmers basically lived in tile-roofed houses. There were basically no snacks in life. A piece of candy is a luxury. For children in rural areas, eating meat is the happiest thing. But the most difficult food for me is not candy or meat.

Bayberry

You may be curious about what is so unforgettable about bayberry, because back then I earned all my pocket money by myself and picked up some clinker bags and clinker. I exchanged the bottles for a few cents, and then went to buy bayberries to eat. One dime per package, there were more than ten small bayberries, only half the size of jumping beads. The current bayberries are as big as lychees, and there are also It contains a lot of salt and is sour and salty with a little sweetness, but I loved eating it when I was a kid. Can I call this a snack? This is simply garbage thrown on the floor. This kind of junk food is definitely not available to eat now.

Corn stalks

There are relatively few corn stalks in our south. They generally grow sweet potatoes, peanuts, beans, etc. Some people will grow some corn. When I was a child, I grew corn stalks. There were no snacks to eat, such as sugar cane, apples, and oranges. These were things that could only be eaten during the Chinese New Year. So when I saw someone planting corn and grazing cattle outside, I went to look for corn stalks to eat. The big, thick corn stalks with yellowish bottoms have a certain sweetness, and if you eat too much, your mouth will easily blister. Although corn stalks can be eaten now, no one will eat them.

Sweet Potatoes

When I was a child, I was poor in rural areas, and my family rarely bought meat to eat. White rice was bland and tasteless. Children are picky about food and would eat less if it didn’t taste good. In rural areas, Sweet potatoes are different. Sweet potatoes have a special sweetness. The key is that sweet potatoes can fill the stomach. Therefore, when I was a child, I especially liked to eat sweet potatoes. I would go to the field to pry sweet potatoes with a sickle without waiting for my parents to dig them. Then put it in the earthen stove and roast it. The roasted sweet potato is particularly sweet and unforgettable.

However, earth stoves are no longer used in rural areas, and there is no place to roast sweet potatoes. Moreover, the current lifestyle has also changed, and there is no interest in sweet potatoes anymore.

The most unforgettable food in the countryside

I was born in the rural areas of Jiangnan in the 1980s. I still remember it clearly now. At that time the sky was blue and the water was crystal clear. River water and well water are drinkable directly. All fruits and vegetables are green and organic. Poultry is free-range. The air is not polluted. It is very hot in summer and very cold in winter. It is common for ice to form on the eaves.

The most unforgettable food for me at that time was that every summer, I used sewing needles to make fish hooks and hung earthworms on them. Fishing in the cracks---Crazy tiger fish (I really don’t know what its real scientific name is, but we all call it that in rural areas.)

This kind of fish is easy to catch, and you can catch a plate in a while. Crazy tiger fish in memory. They never grow big, and the largest ones are only as long as the palm of your hand. Those around 2 taels are considered giants. The meat of this fish is tender and juicy. The fish body has few spines, is delicious and has high nutritional value.

It is specially prepared for steaming and braised. The taste of steaming it with eggs is really unforgettable.

Such fish are basically extinct in our area now. The ones sold on the market now are all artificially bred, which require very high water quality and are very difficult to raise. Now we sell it here for 90 per catty, and it is very rare.

I think the most unforgettable thing is the rice crispy rice made by my mother in a clay pot. I break off a piece and put it in my mouth. It is crispy and crispy. It is really delicious. When I was young, my family had a large population, and I felt very happy to have enough to eat. Every time my mother took the rice out of the pot, she would continue to add more firewood to the stove. The hotter the cooking, the remaining layer of rice in the iron pot gradually turns golden, crispy and exudes an alluring aroma. Every time my mother made crispy rice, I would always be there to help, because in this way I could be the first to eat the crispy and delicious crispy rice.

At that age, crispy rice was both a staple food and a snack for me. When I was young, my parents were very hard-working and capable. There was a greenhouse at home to grow eggplants. The eggplants started with seedlings, planting, pollination, raking, topping, and top dressing. , watering, until harvest, it feels like there is never enough work in the fields. Sometimes my parents go to work in the fields at dawn and don’t come home until dark, so every time my mother finishes cooking, she will order the rice cookers and leave some. Get up and let us brothers and sisters eat it for lunch. In addition to eating it dry, the crispy rice can also be placed in a bowl, soaked in some hot water and added with some sugar to make a snack. It is sweet and delicious, and the taste is wonderful.

Now that I have left home and am working outside, I have eaten a lot of rice crackers, but they don’t have the same taste as those made in a big iron pot. I can only eat rice crackers made by my mother when I go home occasionally. Maybe this is the taste of home!

Seeing this question really brought back a lot of childhood memories. When I was young, I had the opportunity once or twice a year to follow my mother and grandmother back to the countryside to visit my great-grandmother. For children, the countryside is really a big natural playground. You can catch loaches and eels with local children, pick strawberries, climb up trees to pick peaches, secretly take home sausages and bacon and barbecue them in the wild... and have fun. I didn't go home until dinner time. As soon as I entered the yard, there was a kitchen next to it. It had a big earthen stove and a very big pot. The small figure of my great-grandmother was sitting on the edge of the stove, adding firewood to the stove. Grandma was waving the spatula and giving us delicious food.

I can’t remember what dishes I ate at that time, but what left a deep impression was the way the rice was made. It’s called “Kong rice” in Sichuan, and usually includes beans, rice, and potatoes. Peas and rice. Take beans and kong rice as an example. The method is to soak the rice in water for half a day in advance. Pour oil into a firewood pot. After the oil is hot, sauté the ginger and garlic slices until fragrant. Pour in the beans and stir-fry. Then pour some water into the pot. , the water should not be too much, almost the same as the beans, then spread the soaked rice on the beans, cover the pot and simmer slowly. When the firewood is almost burned out and the rice is almost cooked, when you open the lid of the pot, the aroma comes out, including the aroma of rice, oil, and beans. Some of the beans at the bottom will be burnt, so there is a unique burnt aroma. Sprinkle with salt, stir-fry evenly, and serve bowls of it to everyone...

Many years later, the countryside in my memory has disappeared, but the taste in my memory will always stay with me.

I have also tried to make kong rice by myself, many times, but it never tastes the same as I remember. It is said that the natural gas in the city is not as fragrant as the firewood in the countryside for cooking. It must be because it lacks the "human smoke" of the smoke!

It turns out that almost every household has a Yuqian tree. In the 1958 years of drought, Yuqianer was a life-saving food for the poor. Although we born in 1985 did not feel deeply about it, it still left a deep impression on us as a delicacy when we were young. When I was a kid, during the season when I was eating Yuqian, my family would steam a pot and make Yuqian steamed buns, or eat them with garlic juice. I think about it now. I haven’t eaten it in more than ten years. Every time I’m really envious when I see the photos posted by my old family members on WeChat Moments.

The Sophora japonica flower has a light and elegant fragrance. It can not only be viewed, but also eaten. When I was a child, I liked to tie a sickle to a bamboo pole with my friends and eat the Sophora japonica flower. It is sweet when eaten raw or steamed. It's as delicious as Yuqian rice. The locust flowers are in bunches and sparkling, and they look beautiful. There seem to be many ways to make it now, but it’s a pity that it’s not the season for eating sophora flowers, so I can’t go home and still can’t eat them.

Jin Chan, whose hometown is called "Dura Turtle" or "Climbing Cha", is known as Tang Hao Meat. It has high nutritional value and its skin is also a traditional Chinese medicinal material. When I was a child, I would touch the climbing fork in the summer. After touching it, I would buy it, and I would get the pocket money from selling the climbing fork. It is getting more and more expensive now, costing 1 yuan each, and there are many artificially bred ones. They are also sold in restaurants if you want to eat, and you can buy them online. The specialty that I bring home every time is golden cicada, but many outsiders dare not eat it.

Horse melons, grass thorns, roasted sweet potatoes, roasted corns, roasted wheat, roasted edamame, roasted grasshoppers...and other wild fruits and weeds that I have forgotten what they are called, they are all. The source of happiness from time to time is buried deeply in memory, unable to be shaken off and nowhere to be found.

This is related to factors such as age, region, and family conditions. I am born in the 50s. When I was a child, let alone fruit snacks, it was good to avoid starvation and cold. It's sad to say that the most unforgettable taste is the fruit candies, the pancakes and scrambled eggs I want to eat the most, and the taste of bananas is the most memorable. When I was in elementary school, there was a classmate named Stinky Boy. He bought a piece of fruit candy to eat. I watched him eat it so greedily that he generously bit it and gave me a little bit. It was so delicious that I will never forget it. I never ate fruit when I was a child. One time, my uncle’s colleague came to visit my great-grandfather (my uncle was a government official) and brought a handful of bananas. My great-grandfather was reluctant to eat them all and gave a small piece to each of our brothers and sisters. I held it in my mouth and was reluctant to swallow it. The taste is still there in my mind. No matter what kind of banana you eat now, it no longer tastes like that. When I was a kid, I had very little white flour and I didn’t eat it. When guests come occasionally, the family will bake a few pancakes, scramble some eggs, and fry shredded cabbage to entertain them, with only my father accompanying them. We kids stood outside the door waiting, and the guests gave us a few points after they finished eating the rest. That cake was so delicious, and now the delicacies from the mountains and seas are not as delicious as that cake. Decades later, it still sounds like a story. The story is about reminiscing, savoring the past, and recalling childhood!