Year after year, flowers bloom and fall, and the change of time sequence in the world is usually measured by the movement of the planets, and for Chinese who pay attention to the return of fallen leaves to their roots, the taste of hometown can awaken the memory of the festival. If you want a "Xiao Shanning" to answer, how to call it a year? The most old-fashioned answer is probably "There is cured meat in the bowl, and the year has just arrived".
Sauce duck, sauce duck is a must-have in Xiaoshan's New Year's family banquet, and it is also the favorite of old drinkers. Firm meat, salty and fresh taste; A sip of old wine, a piece of sauce duck. Every time there is a banquet, the pickling level of the host's sauce will be taken out and tested by relatives and friends. When you are full of wine and food, you will inevitably have to ** some "secrets": a few catties of salt, a few amounts of sugar, a few cups of rice wine, what kind of ratio, the pickled sauce duck is delicious.
Sauce duck in a farmer's house
Sauce sausage is an indispensable member of the "cured meat family" on the New Year's table of Xiaoshan people. As soon as the weather is fine, mothers will go to the vegetable market to buy meat and sausages, and the taste of sausages in each family is completely different, some are sauce-flavored, some are sweet, and some are slightly spicy, each with its own deliciousness.
The dried fish with sauce and sausage in the attic must be grass fish to taste good, which can be grass carp, herring, bream, etc. Fresh fish is smeared with salt and exposed to the sun, and the salt of the high-thick mat "squeezes" the water out of the fish, and with the help of the sun and wind, it becomes dried fish after a few days. The dried fish is cut into slices and rinsed, then steamed in a pot, and drizzled with a little white wine to enhance the fragrance, which is very good for rice.
Dried fish and dried plum vegetables that shine in the sun - one of the "ten bowls" in Xiaoshan. Button meat is a must-have dish on the table of every household in Xiaoshan during the New Year. To do the button meat needs to be fried first and then steamed, fried button meat is a technical job, to the master fried out of the button meat, only to have a sense of tiger skin, with plum vegetables, fragrant and glutinous soft, fat but not greasy.
Freshly baked umeboshi is marinated in salt and soy sauce for meat and fish to preserve the meat for a long time. In the era when transportation was inconvenient and there were no refrigerators, this was an important way for people to preserve "goodies" such as fish and meat, which were hard to eat. In winter, making lap-mei is a major event in the village, but the difference now is that the average family generally controls the amount of pickled products to the amount that the family can eat. "Now everyone eats well, and there is no particularly large demand for pickled products. Now to make a little lap-mei, the main thing is to retain the taste of the new year. One housewife said, "When the next generation comes, they will definitely not do this." ”
Standardizing" the production of bacon becomes a business. For example, Hangzhou Dakang pickled food, located in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, uses a vacuum tumbling machine to marinate meat products, which can shorten the marinating time, make the auxiliary materials efficiently absorbed, and also avoid the trouble of manual flipping when making sauce duck in the ancient method.
On the table for the Chinese New Year this year, there are also new changes in drinks. 20 years ago, winter melon tea, coconut juice, and wangzi milk were on fire on the table, and ten years ago, cola, sprite, and herbal tea became the mainstream, and this year, grapefruit juice from Quzhou is all the rage.
The "Song Grapefruit Juice" and "Coke Sprite" on the table are not popular, not only for the New Year, but also for the New Year, but also for this drink to be used a lot, refreshing, greasy, and the packaging looks atmospheric. The owner of a store in a village in Xiaoshan told Silver Persimmon Finance that in his store, boxes of "Song Grapefruit Juice" were stacked in conspicuous places.
The most popular drink in the mouth of the owner of "Song Grapefruit Juice" in the store is the double grapefruit juice that became popular last year, and it was deeply troubled by the copycat problem because of "many people's popularity", so it was renamed "Song Grapefruit Juice". As a new beverage brand focusing on the domestic market in Zhejiang Province, Yuxiang Valley's "Song Yuzu Juice" shipped more than 2.2 million TEUs in the first month of the new year, and its sales exceeded 1200 million yuan, shipments increased by 133% year-on-year.
Yuxiang Valley is a brand of Zhejiang Changshan Hengshoutang Pomelo Co., Ltd., which is a high-tech enterprise, specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises. It is understood that in 2015, Yuzu Valley, a 1,300-year-old Chinese native variety of pomelo, was introduced back to China and planted in Changshan, Zhejiang. Six years later, in 2021, Yuxiang Valley developed and launched the Yuzu Xianggu "Double Grapefruit Juice" composed of Yuzu Xiangyu and Changshan Hu Pomelo, which was deeply loved by consumers, and its sales reached 500 million yuan in the second year of listing.
At a wedding banquet during the Spring Festival, the host said to Silver Persimmon Finance: "We first choose a drink to see whether the taste is delicious and healthy, and it is no longer the focus of consideration." At the wedding banquet held by this family, the drinks on the table were no longer "old actors" such as Coke and Sprite, but instead Song grapefruit juice and freshly squeezed coconut water.
The "Song Grapefruit Juice" at the rural wedding banquet Returning friends, what is the New Year's flavor of your hometown?