Hot-Pickled Mustard Root is a preserve made from the stem of the Swollen Stem Mustard plant. The smell is a bit like sauerkraut and chile mixed together. It has a crunchy-tender texture, like cucumber pickles, with a salty, sour, spicy taste. Different brands may emphasize one taste more than the other. It is used as…
Szechuan Food
Well Salt
Well Salt is salt made in China by boiling down brine obtained from wells, particularly in Sichuan.Cooks in Sichuan prefer their own local well salt in cooking. They say that sea salt, for instance, gives pickles a bitter taste. [1]Sichuan Cuisine. China Internet Information Center. Retrieved June 2009 from http://www.china.org.cn/english/imperial/26133.htm The historic centre of production…