Simmered thick cucumber. Thick cucumber is a well-known local vegetable of the Kaga area (around present-day Ishikawa prefecture). Cucumbers are described as a "low-class melon" in ancient documents. Also, the samurai class did not eat this vegetable because the cut section of a cucumber looks like the "three-leaf hollyhock," the crest of the Tokugawa shogun family, and they believed that it would be bad manners to eat the holy crest. Cucumbers have a diuretic effect which helps relieve swelling. The vegetable also helps to cleanse your blood.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 02:14:06 +0000
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