Characteristics of pickles in Dacige

Dacige has become a symbol of Baoding with the reputation of "Lingxiao City Pavilion", so there is a saying that "I have never been to Baoding before I went to Dacige". Dacige has been a Buddhist shrine since ancient times and is now a national key cultural relic protection unit.

Dacige pickles began in the third year of Baoqing in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1227). In the 30th year of Qing Qianlong (A.D. 1765), Emperor Qianlong passed through Baoding. Because of coincidence, Dacige pickles were designated as imperial meals by Emperor Qianlong.

Dacige pickles are made of traditional craft sauce, with fine workmanship and exquisite materials. They are sweet, salty, tender and crisp, and have a strong sauce flavor.

Dacige pickles purchases raw materials, and in order to be excellent, it does not hesitate to pay a lot of money. For example, if you buy a carrot, you should give a price, but you must keep it tender and crisp. If you buy leek flowers, you need fresh and pure flowers, without seeds and bells. But the purchase price is often twice that of ordinary leeks. The finished product made of this raw material has no wood and slag.

In order to ensure the pure taste of Dacige pickles, its sales links are strict. Pickles should be stored in a sauce jar, and how much they are sold from the jar to the customers is completed in a very short time.

Dacige pickles are nutritious and varied, including Dacige pickles, Dacige pickles, Dacige pickles, Dacige sauces, Dacige sauces, Dacige sauces and peanuts. Its shape is strip, silk, diced, corner, block and slice, and its color is sauce yellow or golden yellow.

The above pickles can be packed in baskets, bottles, bags or mixed with almond paste, walnut paste and other accessories to make assorted pickles, which have simple flavor and good color, fragrance, taste and shape.

For hundreds of years, Dacige pickles not only retained its fine tradition of northern flavor, but also gradually absorbed the characteristics of southern pickles, forming its own unique production technology, and always maintained the sweet, salty and tender sauce flavor of the older generation.