[Pickled plums for children]
It is said that "umeboshi is effective against all diseases", but in our house, we used to pickle umeboshi for a long time, which is a regular food at home. Over time, around the time when plum cultivation began in Oyama Town, Hita City, Oita Prefecture (One Village, One Product Movement, 1979), our family's umeboshi began to rely on relatives in Oyama to make umeboshi in our house.
Plums picked by hand from around May are pickled in dried shiso for salting soil, and are ready around December. Every year, I become attached to umeboshi with a slightly different taste, and I put the year number on the package. There was a time when umeboshi was prized the older it was. We sell new and colorful products, but we also sell aged products as long as we have them in stock.
Shichiori Koume is a high-end variety of plum that is grown in a limited area. When it is ripe and golden brown, gently make umeboshi into umeboshi. Being able to eat the harvested plums as they are is a secret pleasure for farmers. The fragrant and elegant taste is more of a tea treat or snack than an accompaniment to rice. It is a very popular plum every year.
Unlike Nanko plums, the fragrant ume sevenfold small plum is a pickled plum that you should enjoy within one year.
【Zibao Vinegar】
It is a vinegar brewery with a history of over 300 years, and is made using domestic raw materials and slowly using the static manufacturing method. As the name suggests, fermentation turns it into Japan sake, and it takes a long time for the alcohol (sugar) to become vinegar as food for fermentation. Mellowness is the flavor that is created by taking time to make it. Vinegar, which is a product of Japan's sake brewing destination, can be used as effective as sake.
There are two types available: crane turtle and turtle. It is a "crane" with a full of flavor that goes well with Japanese food, and "turtle" that goes well with the aroma of flavored vegetables and flavored oils, such as Western, Chinese, and ethnic cuisine.
If you want to feel the flavor of Japanese food such as onamasu and shime mackerel, we recommend "Tsuru".
If you need a more crisp acidity and a subtle scent that matches your personality, we recommend "Kame".
If you use vinegar differently for each dish, the world of cooking will expand dramatically. Please enjoy.