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■ Feature
 By soaking fruit together with alcohol, it is a method of preservation which can be saved for a long period of time.This alcohol is called liqueur.Liqueur is used for the material of a cocktail, flavoring of sweets, etc.Ume liquor etc. are contained in soaked in alcohol in Japan.

■ Were made why
 The Nara period was considered as soaked in alcohol beginning, and people in those days promoted appetite, and were making soaked in alcohol as a medicinal herb which relieves the pain of a throat.The method of the structure has hardly changed with how to build the present except that the alcohol to soak was aged sake.
 
■ Feature
 They are the pickles of vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste which lactic acid fermentation was carried out and made rice bran, or Japan which soaks foods and makes them in a floor. Much salt and many potassium are contained, and since potassium has the action which takes out excessive sodium outside, ingestion of salt is eased.Since a taste also comes to be included and a scent sticks, food progresses.Although watery vegetables are generally pickled in many cases, there are some which attach meat, a fish and a boiled egg, konnyaku, etc.

■ Were made why
 The Nara period had pickles using the cereals and the soybean which were ground with the mortar as vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste called "suzuhori".It is the vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste which saved the rice bran which comes out in the case of rice cleaning from the Edo period using instead of these cereals and a soybean.To say that the present vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran paste were made is made into the early stages of the Edo period, and it was often eaten those days as easy food which maintains health.
 
■ Feature
 Since it is humid from spring in autumn, even if it dries vegetables etc.It does not get dry in Caracalla in many cases.
There is work with slight moisture mind which is dried and, as for vegetables, mold and a microbe move actively.
 Therefore, by pickling the vegetables etc. which were dried in oil, air can be intercepted and it can save for a long period of time.

■ Were made why
 Fat was insufficient for the moral dish of the temple of the Nara period only about vegetables.When the dish fried in the oil of the China style was made, oil was used as edible for the first time.It was made in order for oiling to also take in fat at the beginning.