When will the bacon be cooked?

Bacon, bacon, as the name implies, requires curing in the twelfth lunar month, that is, it must be processed during the period from "Xiaoxue" to "beginning of spring", not for a day! If beginning of spring is on the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, and you don't marinate the meat until the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, then the processed meat is just ordinary bacon flavor, so it doesn't have the smell of bacon. The twenty-four "solar terms" discovered by our ancestors are so magical! Bacon is cured in winter because the temperature is low in winter and bacteria are not easy to reproduce.

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Generally speaking, the smell of bacon will come out after curing and drying for one month. The best time to eat bacon is from the fifteenth day of the first month to before the Dragon Boat Festival, when bacon tastes the most fragrant. Preserved bacon in the natural environment may be spicy after the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only deteriorates the taste, but also may contain some toxins.

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winter In China, there is a folk custom of "curing with wind in winter and storing it for the winter". Bacon is best preserved in the weather around 10 degrees after winter, and the light snow season after beginning of winter is the best time to make bacon. At this time, the temperature plummeted and the weather became dry, which was a good time to process bacon.

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