for the ancient Japanese、Chestnuts were a luxury ingredient。Although famous brands such as Tamba chestnuts are still considered high-class ingredients,、Apparently all chestnuts were valuable in ancient times.。
Even now、What percentage of the population can go to the mountains and pick chestnuts?。Thanks to the distribution economy、If you have the money, you can get it by courier even if you are asleep.、I'm not trying to talk about that dimension.。
Chestnuts were a much more useful plant than acorns.。Similar to chestnuts、There are also different types of acorns.、The most common one is probably the acorn of the shiitake tree.。north tohoku、It is a species that can be found fairly easily in fields and mountains all over Japan except Hokkaido.。Among acorns, oaks with large fruit are considered high-class.。But、To make acorns edible, remove the strong scum.、It takes a lot of effort。
Chestnuts are、bigger than any of those acorns、There is almost no need to remove the scum, and the nutritional value is exceptionally high.。And the tree has become a big tree、Very useful as a building material。that's why、Chestnut trees were planted as much as possible around the ancient settlement.、Seems to be。by the way、The current location of the Sannai Maruyama ruins was where I played almost every day for three years.、I haven't been there since the excavation.。One of my must-go places。
Incidentally、There is a Western sweet called marron glacé (I haven't had it in a while).。There is an image that marron = chestnut.、Actually, “maron” is not a chestnut.。Maron is the fruit of the horse chestnut tree、Marronnier is “chestnut tree”。Tochimochi in Japan、It is used in tochi soba etc.、Not treated in the same way as chestnuts。The dawn of modern Japan、Most of the Japanese people who gathered in Paris、Only high class people、I have no experience of collecting native chestnuts in the fields and mountains of Japan.、I imagine that most of them couldn't tell the difference between a chestnut and a horse chestnut.。
When I see chestnuts、I always think like that。