Seven horns food

"Seven horns food" is a stinging wild vegetables and in the spring in the field a although everywhere, but the people in the city but few know it, first meeting "seven horns food" or in the early seventy s, then we have just down to rural northern jiangsu province, after the countryside, we found that at this point in the northern jiangsu province is so poor rural areas, especially in the spring, when the temporary shortage the plants of the field became the villagers to appease hunger incense MoMo.

Early winter, spring when we went to the home of some rice noodles and from belt has "dispersed in order to look for his hunger can rations, early morning on morning, and rural children as, I carry the wicker basket in a series of the candidate for edge, the candidate many side of sense of weeds, translucent dewdrop JinYing, sending out the dazzling light, under the guidance of the children in the village, I find the first meeting of finally called" seven horns food "the potherb of, this" seven horns food "in my view, it is just one of the wild vegetables, I didn't find it a" Angle "much less what" seven horns "so I don't know why the villagers call" seven horns food "? The spring, when the "seven horns food" just when the ground and other wild grass, green as arrogant, but the differences in Lebanon lies in its every piece of elliptic impeller with sharp thorn with sides. Food "seven horns food" seasonally, early spring "seven horns food" just to break ground on the edge of the impeller when stab soft, processing after good do not wear a voice, the elders in be eat, remember that year, I still don't know the reason, although in the early, but was used to work every time after dig some take home. By the way, as the mother of the bread is still and found "seven horns food" some old, afraid of the firm, and in operation throat specially with boiled water Tun, after Tun with a knife chop it to, then use the flour into HuHu shape, in pieces in the midst, and bring to a boil for water in large POTS and pans cover with lid, little fire about 20 minutes after the steam, "seven horns food" bunches of out of the pot, pantomime horse is a small table, a bowl of porridge soup, not meters and caesious "seven horns food" bread, is our case in spring lunch.

In "seven horns food" bread to eat up really to endure, although some of Tun, chop, steaming through DuoZhong working procedure such as, but when you eat bread, that many fine needle thorn such as "a tie the hemp pipes", at that age, in that the poverty of the country, if not hungry bear hard, I think I would never go eat of it is.

Years after decades of waste, that year with "seven horns food" bread to the scene of his hunger, always already in to sealed in this generation memory. Again, when I come spring and his family to the suburbs recurring long outing "seven horns food" often remind me the memory of that year.