泡臘八蒜是北方，尤其是華北地區的一個習俗。顧名思義，就是在陰曆臘月初八的這天來泡製蒜。其實材料非常簡單，就是醋和大蒜瓣兒。做法也是極其簡單，將剝了皮的蒜瓣兒放到一個可以密封的'罐子，瓶子之類的容器裏面，然後倒入醋，封上口放到一個冷的地方。慢慢地，泡在醋中的蒜就會變綠，最後會變得通體碧綠的，如同翡翠碧玉。老北京人家，一到臘月初八，過年的氣氛一天賽過一天，華北大部分地區在臘月初八這天有用醋泡蒜的習俗，叫“臘八蒜”。
The Spring Festival every year eat dumplings, we have to have a bottle LaBa vinegar and the mother LaBa garlic. That is luxuriantly green color, steady vinegar and sour garlic, would give the Spring Festival add thick Beijing flavour of the dumplings. One day, my mother brought out already prepared garlic, let me together with her LaBa garlic bubble.
We'll put garlic break into small disc, then the same small skin open. The skin of the true not the same small strip, the strength of the small strip does not open, the strength that big will pick the same. We stripped off for a long time, and slowly I more skilled, not only peeled off the skin, will also thin lining also strip off neatly. Mother to get a jar let me off with the good garlic in, and mother put vinegar into bottle, pushing the bottle of garlic after all didn't,