Chrysanthemum cabbage is also called yellow tooth cabbage, yellow heart black cabbage, the outside of the vegetable leaves will be green and black, the tender heart inside is relatively yellow, hence the name, is a kind of cold-resistant vegetables, generally planted in autumn, picked in winter, in the past when there was no facility greenhouse, chrysanthemum cabbage became a must-have vegetable on the people's winter table, and it was also a hoarding vegetable for the Spring Festival.
In the past, my mother would buy a bag of chrysanthemum cabbage seeds in autumn and sow them in the vegetable garden behind the house, and it didn't take long for the seeds to sprout and grow into seedlings. In the deep winter, the snow covered the vegetable garden, and the chrysanthemum heart was also covered with a thick layer of snow, and the mother pulled out the snow and pulled out the chrysanthemum heart, which showed the characteristics of the chrysanthemum heart, cold-resistant, and other vegetables were frozen and frozen in winter, but the chrysanthemum heart was basically intact, and silently became the main force of our family's winter vegetables.
When the Spring Festival is approaching, my mother will pull out a large number of chrysanthemum cabbage, wash it, fill baskets with wicker baskets, dry them in the sun, and dry the water on the vegetable leaves, my mother will let me pick out the yellow heart of the chrysanthemum cabbage, put it on the wooden table for cutting vegetables, use a kitchen knife, chop the cabbage heart, and use it as the main raw material for the Spring Festival dumpling filling. Generally, the neighbors will also discuss together who has good knife work and who will cut the chrysanthemum cabbage more finely. At that time, every household would dry a few baskets of such vegetables, which became a mark for the festival.
Generally, it takes the whole half a day, and a large pot of chrysanthemum cabbage is finished, and it is placed in the kitchen to prepare dumplings for the New Year. The dumplings made of chrysanthemum cabbage have a refreshing and sweet flavor that suits our appetite.
The leaves of these vegetables are generally older, and the vegetable stalks will be pulled out in a filamentous way, but in that era when there were fewer varieties of vegetables, they also felt that the taste was excellent.
In the current Spring Festival, the variety of vegetables is becoming more and more abundant, but every Spring Festival, I will miss the chrysanthemum cabbage when I was a child, I will feel very kind when I see it, I will know that it is going to be the New Year, and I will be greedy for its sweetness and deliciousness, and irreplaceable.