Ao Fugui interjected: "You have to ask your family about this, he is a chef, you ask my dad what he does, my dad definitely won't do it, otherwise I haven't eaten much?"

Ao Qianmao glared: "What nonsense, your father and I will have a lot of craftsmanship, let me tell you Mr. Lu, this production of cockroach sauce is particular, you must use the proper rice field cockroach, not the seaside kind." Although they look alike, experts say they are all cockroaches, in fact, they are very different, they are sand fierce seeds, there is sand in the body, and the taste is salty, if you make the sauce, it will be over. ”

Ao Muyang listened with relish, nodded and said: "Yes, uncle, you are right, I remember that you have to use these freshwater cockroaches to make the sauce of the Eight Classics, you continue to say, I will learn." ”

Ao Qianmao coughed and said, "You don't know how to do it, Yangzi? You're a chef who has returned from studying in the capital." ”

Ao Muyang said: "It's impossible for me to learn to do this in the capital." ”

Ao Qianmao said: "Nacheng, uncle will show you a hand, the process of this cockroach sauce is passed down from generation to generation by our fathers, and its production process is quite complicated, with a long time and low income, so there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to learn to do it." ”

Ao Muyang nodded and said: "Yes, we should inherit the practice of this dish, it is actually a sauce with the characteristics of our fisherman, and it definitely has a unique position in food culture." ”

"Well said, sheep, you kid can see far. Ao Qianmao also nodded, with a look of approval on his face, "Our cockroach sauce is a good thing, and it is very easy to eat." ”

Licking his tongue, he came up with momentum and continued: "Now they all say that the original ecology, some of the original ecological dishes are delicious, for example, it is stir-fried with cockroach sauce, that is a big guy, fried cabbage, water spinach, beans, cucumbers, tofu, there are things that it can't fry?"

"You just say that this cockroach sauce fried cabbage, heat the oil to a boiling hot, get some cockroach sauce into the oil pot and burst it, immediately, I tell you, immediately this fragrance will come out, don't do anything else, then pour the dish in and fry a few times, out of the pot is a good dish, the taste is absolutely fragrant, absolutely first-class!"

Ao Fugui swallowed his saliva when he listened: "Dad, you said this thing is so delicious, why don't you make me something to eat?"

Ao Qianmao glared at him: "If you want to do it, you have to have a cockroach, why don't you usually catch a cockroach?"

Ao Fugui said aggrievedly: "I caught a lot of cockroaches when I was a child, and I often went to catch them with the sheep, but I didn't see you do it." ”

Ao Qianmao stopped talking, humming and his face was a little red.

Ao Muyang thought that he was blocked by Ao Fugui's words, so he said: "Uncle, it's okay, let's go back and make a pot of cockroach sauce today, so that Fugui can eat enough." ”

Ao Qianmao said vaguely: "Hehe, this kid doesn't need to eat such high-grade things." ”

Knowing the son is more than the father, and in the same way, knowing the father is not the son.

Ao Fugui stared at his father suspiciously and said, "Dad, will you be able to?" You have been chattering here again and again, will you not be able to do it?"

Ao Qianmao blinked and said, "Didn't I just say, I will use the cockroach sauce to stir-fry, how to make this cockroach sauce of our fisherman, I am really not very good." ”

If it weren't for the close relationship and the fact that he was an elder, Ao Muyang would have wanted to beat someone, this is purely pretending?

From this point, it can be seen that the traditional method of this dish is indeed on the verge of being lost, and even people of Ao Qianmao's age have never seen the practice, which is very rare in fishermen's cuisine.

As the saying goes, I have never eaten pork and seen a pig run, for the fishermen, maybe a lot of seafood has not been eaten, but you should have seen the method, if you have not even seen the method, it can only mean that this dish is usually very rare.

He was curious, and originally planned to grind the cockroaches and make them into a sauce, but after listening to Ao Qianmao's words, he decided that he wanted to learn how to make this dish.

Ao Qianmao helped him call a few old people who were good at cooking, and said that everything else was fine, but after talking about Jiao Flyer sauce, they were all a little vague.

It's not that everyone doesn't know how to cook this dish, but everyone can do it, and the methods are different, and they all say that their practice is the most traditional inherited from their parents, which makes Ao Muyang have a headache.

In this way, he simply started the stove again and pondered it himself according to the recipe he had heard.

What is certain is that there are three ingredients to prepare to make the sauce: glutinous rice, the grasshopper and coarse salt, which are the three common ingredients, as well as things like monosodium glutamate, soy sauce and chili sauce.

Ao Muyang feels that as long as other ingredients are added, it is not the traditional cockroach sauce, because when the fisherman's cockroach sauce appeared, the life of the big guy was the most difficult, how could there be so many ingredients available?

So he prepared a large pot, and according to the recipe, he put in the glutinous rice and stir-fried it over a wood fire until it was browned.

Then he used a fish knife to cut off the mouths of the cockroaches one by one, this is the news he got from the mouth of one of the old fishermen, the mouths of the cockroaches are the most fishy, in the era when there is no cooking wine, onions, ginger and garlic are rare, this kind of sauce can not be removed, can only start from the raw materials.

One by one, the cockroach cut off its mouth, he put it in a large bamboo sieve, mixed with fresh ginger and pounded it with a wooden pestle.

This is a work of strength, Zhong Cang took over directly, and said in a muffled voice: "Dragon, look at me!"

The wooden pestle was played with by him like a golden hoop stick, and soon, the rotten cockroach gradually became a pulp and water.

The bamboo sieve has fine pores, and the slurry seeps down until it drips onto the glutinous rice, and finally only those smashed cockroach shells are left on the bamboo sieve.

Zhong Cang was thrifty and wanted to rinse the cockroach shell with water to make the best use of it, Ao Muyang shook his head and said, "No, you can't add water to this process, otherwise the sauce will be easy to spoil." ”

The cockroaches on the bamboo sieve have been weighed in advance, and this sauce is made for rice, similar to pickles, and a lot of salt must be used, which can also increase its shelf life.

According to the news inquired, Ao Muyang added glutinous rice to the ratio of 1 catty of cockroach to 4 taels of salt, stirred it evenly and put it into the jar.

The mouth of the jar had to be sealed with plastic film, then wrapped around with a rope loop, and after drying, he put it in the direction of due south, and finally the fisherman's cockroach sauce had to ferment, which required high temperatures.

Busy until the evening, Lu Zhizi called a regret: "Can't you eat cockroach sauce today?"

Ao Muyang said: "There are other delicious things. ”

When he was cleaning up the school, he got a batch of wood with chicken fir mycelium and put it in the shade of the old house, and now Zhong Cang and his wife live in the old house, and he specially told Wang Xia to occasionally sprinkle some water on it to create a humid environment for the mycelium to multiply.

It's spring, and the temperature and humidity are suitable for fungus development, and some chicken fir fungi have grown.

Wang Xia picked it in time, and then dried it, and now it is more convenient to make chicken fir oil after drying, eliminating the process of removing water with high-temperature frying.