Sauerkraut flavor prose

Pickled sauerkraut is a special vegetable storage method in Northeast China. Every autumn, around the middle and late days of 10, during the harvest season of Chinese cabbage, every household should buy a certain amount of potatoes, radishes and Chinese cabbage according to its own population, especially Chinese cabbage, in order to solve the problem of eating vegetables all winter. A considerable part of these cabbages are pickled by housewives into sauerkraut with special flavor.

Nowadays, few people bother to pickle a few pickles. Pickles can be bought in the market at any time all year round. You can even buy shredded and chopped jiaozi. Buy it and wash it, or cut some thin slices of meat and marinate it with sauerkraut soup. It is delicious. Or chop some meat, it must be fat, put all the seasonings together, make noodles, wake up for half an hour, and the whole family will get together, roll the skin and wrap it beautifully. In a short time, jiaozi hung the curtains like a pig. Pour some garlic sauce, and then pour some soy sauce monosodium glutamate on it, which will make jiaozi taste delicious and satisfy his thirst. But the sauerkraut bought from the market is not as delicious as the pickled sauerkraut at home.

When I was in primary school, in late autumn, my mother picked out some half-hearted or climbing vegetables from the bought Chinese cabbage, washed the jar, cooked a pot of boiling water and began to prepare sauerkraut. My younger brother and I, just sensible, stood by the sauerkraut jar, helped my mother choose the old leaves on the cabbage, and naively asked her, "Mom, how long does sauerkraut take?" Mother always takes pains to answer: "sauerkraut takes a long time to soak." "Mom, how about a week?" "Silly boy, pickling sauerkraut needs a fermentation process, and it takes at least one month." As she spoke, my mother put the cooked cabbage in the jar one by one, covered it with a layer, and my mother sprinkled some salt. I asked strangely, "Mom, what are you doing adding salt to cabbage?" "Oh, sprinkling salt on Chinese cabbage can not only make Chinese cabbage ferment faster, shorten the fermentation process, but also prevent sauerkraut from rotting."

In those years, our family had a large population, and we were reluctant to buy dishes that we devoted ourselves to. Most of them were half-hearted or unintentional. Nevertheless, after pickling, we also regard sauerkraut as the best dish in winter. Every time my mother cooks sauerkraut, she cuts it into very fine shredded vegetables and puts some vermicelli in it to make a delicious sauerkraut soup. If there is meat, cut some shredded pork and stir-fry a delicious shredded pork with sauerkraut. Although we seldom put meat in sauerkraut, adding some big oil (lard) can still make our appetite open. Watching us gobble, my mother put down her chopsticks and looked at us quietly with a loving smile on her face.

What makes us unforgettable especially is the sour and mellow pickled cabbage heart, which often becomes our children's meal replacement fruit in winter.

Every time my mother cuts sauerkraut, we children gather around and stare at my mother's face with hungry eyes. Mother always smiled lovingly and gave our brother and sister sauerkraut hearts. The unique sour taste seems to be more delicious than any fruit.

Time has passed for a long time, and the long years, on the journey of life, give people a short feeling, and my mother is gradually aging with the passage of time. However, her old man has always been very concerned about her children. Whenever we bring our children back to our mother, her mother is always busy. Let's eat more. If it is winter, never forget to make us a delicious sauerkraut. It has been ten years since my mother left us. I often fall into silent grief for a long time on the anniversary of my mother's death, and it is difficult to calm my nostalgia.

It is almost winter again. Whenever I taste the unique northeast flavor of sauerkraut, I will think of many childhood memories, my mother and the delicious sauerkraut my mother cooked for us. Think of the smile on my mother's kind face; Think about my mother's hard life for us.