Spring is always the most beautiful time for leafy vegetables. It is the beginning of spring after a severe cold. Vegetables are not as beautiful when there is rain in spring. Today there are watercress, kale, cabbage, lettuce, romaine lettuce, salad greens, lettuce, bean sprouts, and vegetables. Tomatoes, cherries, broccoli, broccoli florets, eggs, passion fruit, sweet potatoes, ginger, potatoes, carrots.
🍎 Activity Objectives
By making salted citrus fruits, we can understand the folk food therapy culture popular in southern China and Hong Kong, and the folk remedies that are regarded as soothing throat discomfort and the meaning behind them. It is generally believed that salt has a bactericidal effect and can help with sore throats, while sour hot water can help increase saliva secretion and moisturize the throat.
Get creative by making salted citrus fruits.
Discussion on food regulation: Since flower growers often treat New Year oranges as ornamental plants rather than edible fruits, they will use more pesticides on them, which is why there are more pesticide residues in New Year oranges[4]. Since New Year’s oranges are usually declared for import and export as ornamental plants, the government’s health quarantine department will treat them as flowers and will not subject them to stricter inspections as edible plants. Therefore, this should be considered before using Nian oranges to pickle salty kumquats.
❤️ Process introduction:
1. Brief introduction to salted tangerines. It is a folk food therapy popular in southern China. After cleaning the tangerines, put a lot of salt in them, seal them and store them for pickling. After several months to a year, the salted tangerines are made.
Salty citrus fruits are often regarded by the public as a folk remedy for soothing throat discomfort. Whenever you have a cough or sore throat, you can take out these salty citrus fruits and drink them with water. The taste is sweet, salty and sour, and people believe that it can relieve sore throats.
2. Introduce the tools and materials for making salted citrus fruits. Class content: Make salted oranges under the guidance of the instructor.
3. The instructor will also share the salted citrus fruits made in different years. It is generally believed that the longer the pickling time, the better the effect, so there are many salted citrus fruits that have been pickled for more than decades. We will also introduce some Hakka snacks and learn about the current farming in Hong Kong and how to make some by-products.
Finished product: Students take it home to share with their families, and the teacher collects photos and highlights of the production for display purposes.
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