Chapter 11 Chapter 11 Celosia

Celosia, Amaranthus genus, is an annual herbaceous plant with lanceolate leaves and spikes. It blooms in spring, summer and autumn. The flowers are red, white and yellow, with red being the most.Celosia is native to East Asia and South Subtropical and Subtropical In tropical areas, it likes plenty of light and hot and humid, loose and fertile sandy soil for rooting.It is a garden plant in the country. It is red and bright in the front and back of the farmhouse. It dresses up the quiet days of the countryside with firewood smoke. Now it can also be seen in the gardens of the city, but it is still the iconic flower of the country. , such as the art of New Year paintings, it is open in the local atmosphere.

Hakka people use cockscomb flowers for tea, which can be placed in the center of the seven-compartment plate.The seven grid plate is about 50 cm in diameter. The bottom layer is made of wood, surrounded by bamboo strips, and a small circle is surrounded by another bamboo strip in the center. Between the two circles, bamboo strips are used to divide into six equal parts. , filled with peanuts, sunflower seeds, rice bubble candy, sesame candy, ginger candy, sweet potato slices, pumpkin flowers, loofah, etc. When guests come, they pour tea and serve these refreshments. While drinking tea and eating snacks, While talking about the old days in the countryside and some things that don't match the boundaries of the countryside.The tea seems to be thick black tea, without much particularity, while the refreshments are exquisitely crafted, all by hand.

The cockscombs to be eaten should be cut off from the flower stalks if the flowers have no seeds, boiled in boiling water, wrapped in rice noodles, steamed, dried in a dustpan, then fried with tea oil, sealed in clay pots.In my impression, there are dozens of clay pots of different sizes in our house, which are placed in the attic on the second floor, which is the place I want to inspect after school.Clay pots are tightly fastened with soil bowls to prevent moisture and rodents.Tea oil is a kind of clear oil, which is not greasy when fried. It can be eaten cold, and its taste is like lard.Fried celosia is quite layered, because the top of its inflorescence is wavy, just like the cockscomb of a big rooster.Fried cockscomb flowers, the red color fades, and the outer layer of rice noodles looks like snow on the flowers, which are snow flowers.Fried cockscomb has amaranth flavor. It is composed of countless inflorescences. It is thicker than common flowers and has a faint salty taste. It is crispy and simple. Once you eat it, you will become a lover of local customs .It is true that this way of eating is best not in the living room, but in the drying yard in front of the door. On a day when there is winter sun but no wind, it is warm when sitting and drinking hot tea. The tea may as well be ordinary iron tea. Avalokitesvara, or homemade rough tea—the kind now called organic tea.

After frying, the nature of the substance will be changed. The crispy chicken comb has a good taste. If there is a little smell of perilla oil, it is a complete local flavor.Celosia is cool in nature, sweet, non-toxic, white cockscomb, soaked in vinegar seven times, ground into powder, taken with hot wine, every 2 qian, can stop bleeding——.I don't think anyone has used it to stop bleeding, or no one has eaten it. This is a kind of sadness, a loss of local family ties.Last year, I saw countless cockscombs in Beijing World Park, and my eyes were bright. How I wanted to pick them all back, fry them all, and make them into refreshments, and enjoy them slowly while reading at night, or entertain friends.The rural refreshment in memory has been wandering with people, how beautiful is it?And putting cockscombs in the park, I think it is a great waste, cockscombs really have to be appreciated with the sense of taste, so as not to end up being overshadowed.