When does Fujiang start cooking?

The sun began to shine on the day of squatting, covering the whole dog days. The way to save time is to bask in the sun all day during the summer solar term. Fujiang: From Shanxi, Henan and other places in China. In dog days, people slice or juice ginger, mix it with brown sugar, put it in a container, cover it with gauze, dry it in the sun, and eat it after mixing it thoroughly. Poria cocos is rich in gingerol, volatile oil, vitamins, molasses, malic acid, riboflavin, carotene, nicotinic acid and trace elements such as manganese, zinc, chromium and iron.

Ginger: a perennial herb of the genus Zingiberaceae. Rootstock, yellow-green flowers, pungent smell. Plant height 0.5-1m; The rhizome is stout, multi-branched, fragrant and spicy. Leaf blade lanceolate or linear lanceolate, glabrous, sessile; Ligule membranous. The total pedicel is 25 cm long; Spike conical; Bracts ovate, light green or yellowish at the margin, with a small apex. Calyx tube is about 65438 0 cm long; Corolla yellow-green, lobes lanceolate; The central lobe of the lip is oblong and obovate.

In the central, southeast and southwest of China, Xianfeng, Huolong, Laifeng, Tongshan, Yangxin, Sun Yicheng, Xianning and Daye provinces are widely planted. It is also widely cultivated in tropical Asia.

Roots are used as medicine, and fresh or dried products can be used as cooking ingredients or made into pickles and sugar ginger. Aromatic oil can be extracted from stems, leaves and rhizomes, and can be used in food, beverage and cosmetics.