Why does Chang Xia eat salted duck eggs?

Chang Xia wanted to eat eggs, but what he ate that day was salted eggs, which is salted duck eggs. This is slightly different from the eggs eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival a month later. Eggs are eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival, and they are not preserved. Some Shanghainese call it "white and egg", which means boiled eggs, which are cooked with zongzi in a pot during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Every folk festival, there is basically a kind of food, and most of this food is a bit of talk and fame. The same is eating eggs. Although the Dragon Boat Festival is different from the long summer, it is not difficult to understand how to eat it. Because after the boiled eggs are shelled, they are smooth as jade; Those who don't believe in eyeballs can also touch them. They are smoother and more elastic than silk. Speaking of this, the meaning of eating eggs is self-evident, that is, to be like "white and eggs"

Of course, it originally meant flowers of the motherland. I hope the child eats it and his skin is like an egg. I hope there will be no hot sores at least in hot summer. If the over-aged flowers of the motherland want to eat, it is ok, but I am afraid it will not have that effect. After all, the work of maintaining skin should also start with dolls.

Then, why should Chang Xia eat salted eggs instead of fresh eggs? At first, I couldn't understand. Later, I looked at the neighbors who boarded the table with salted eggs and found a clue to the problem: the food that Shanghainese ate that day in the long summer was under the same theme, that is, "freshness." In "Old Shanghai" published by 1924, the opposite summer wrote: "The shopkeeper must like to eat yellow croaker, salted eggs, amaranth, broad beans, fermented grains, plums, cherries and Haizi in food stalls." Among these seasonal commodities, there are natural foods such as amaranth and broad beans, as well as processed salted eggs and fermented grains.

Salted eggs are famous for their freshness, because these eggs were preserved before Qingming this year, and the long summer just came in handy a month later. They are the first batch of salted eggs this year. Of course they are fresh. In addition, the quality of eggs laid by ducks after spring is the best, which is the best material for making salted eggs. Before, my mother salted eggs, and Tomb-Sweeping Day chose ducks to lay eggs. It is said that the eggs laid by ducks after that are not as strong as before. For example, with salted eggs, after peeling, there will be eggs without arms and legs, sometimes even half.

According to legend, some people tease foreigners that salted eggs are the children of salted ducks' first relatives. Of course it's a joke. I remember that my mother had many processes to pickle salted eggs at that time. Wash the duck eggs one by one first, and then dry them, saying that dried eggs are easy to get oil from the yolk. People judge whether a salted egg is oil or not and how much oil it is. But today, in order to defend against the "three highs" (hypertension, hyperlipidemia and high cholesterol), we don't eat egg yolk, no matter whether it is salty or light, whether it is eggs or ducks. Because science tells us that the cholesterol of an egg is in the yolk, not in the protein.

In addition, the dried duck eggs should be rolled in sorghum wine and then dipped in salt water. The ratio of salt to water is better when duck eggs surface. Floating is for testing. Finally, you should lick the eggs into the water with a bamboo stick. You need to put some pepper, sorghum, ginger and onion in the altar salt water. Finally, seal the jar mouth and open the jar for eating in January.

My wife goes to college in Beijing. A classmate who is also going to the south, when the willow shoots, homesickness crawls out with greedy bugs. This greedy bug is a salted egg. So I decided to pickle salted eggs in the north and rewrite the history of southern oranges and northern oranges. At that time, food stamps were still used, and hard currency in food stamps sent from home and national food stamps were used to exchange eggs. There are no duck eggs, so we have to use eggs. Finally, it is freshly baked in the long summer, but it always has a taste. Anyway, I had a good time this long summer. Life is not like this.