A rare mountain product in northeast China used to be used only to entertain distinguished guests. Now everyone can afford to eat 20 jin.

It is the ripe season for all kinds of nuts, and the streets are full of vendors selling sugar-fried chestnuts. Speaking of Chinese chestnut, everyone probably likes it! Sweet and soft waxy, with a layer of sugar outside, eat sweet in the mouth, such a cold day, who does not want to eat a handful of steaming sugar fried chestnuts? In addition to Chinese chestnut, there is another kind of nut that has matured this season, which is the famous northeast specialty hazelnut. This name is known to everyone in the northeast, but few people know it in other places, because in the past, it was a relatively scarce and precious mountain product, and simple farmers were reluctant to eat it and used it to entertain distinguished guests.

Now it is almost the mature season of hazelnuts. When I was a child in the countryside, I would pick hazelnuts with my grandparents during the mature season of hazelnuts every year. At that time, there were a lot of hazelnuts on the mountain, and some of them were not picked. Hazelnuts that no one picked will fall by themselves in winter and can be picked directly under the tree. You must pick up hazelnuts quickly, or it will be cheaper for those little squirrels in the mountains. When I was a child, I often followed my grandparents to pick up hazelnuts. When I went out at that time, I put the hazelnuts into the cloth bag. Sometimes I could pick up a bag of hazelnuts in more than half a day. The appearance of hairy hazelnut has a thin layer of fluff, which is the difference between hairy hazelnut and ordinary hazelnut. Hairy hazelnut is usually more delicious.

Hazelnuts can be eaten raw or fried after they are brought home. No matter how hazelnuts are made, they all have a unique taste and are delicious. When we were young, our hazelnuts were all fried. Grandma said that only in this way can hazelnuts taste. I didn't eat hazelnuts less when I was a child. Grandma would fry a pot of hazelnuts every time. We would peel hazelnuts while watching TV at night and watch TV at the same time. I can finish this pot of hazelnuts in a while. Grandma eats very little herself, leaving it for our children to eat, and then she will save some hazelnuts for distinguished guests during the Spring Festival. This is a snack more handy than peanuts and melon seeds, and almost every household prepares some.

Now there are much fewer wild hazelnut trees in the mountains than when I was a child, so there is no fun in picking up hazelnuts when I go back to the countryside. The ready-made processed hazelnuts sold in the city always feel that something is missing. Now the reputation of hairy hazelnut has also become popular all over the country, and many people have begun to plant hazelnut trees. The price of hazelnut is very good. The processed fried hazelnut can be sold for 60 yuan per jin, and the raw hazelnut can be sold for 20 yuan. Everyone can afford it.