Chapter 22: Be a big crab
The next day, Qiu Fang and Dong Ying really got a lot of sake lees, and bought a few large vats to make vinegar in the yard. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoBaili Zimo divided the sake lees into several portions of different amounts, put them in different jars, and mixed them with water to seal their mouths. The ratio of sake lees to water is recorded on each vat to see which vat can produce the vinegar that best suits her taste.
Baili Zimo endured the little paws that scratched his heart, and after more than half a month, he opened the vat to test the vinegar. Hey, it was very successful. Baili Zimo smelled the thick vinegar sour smell in the air, that satisfaction, that achievement! So, Zimo personally went out and made a sweet and sour banquet.
What are "sweet and sour pork ribs", "sweet and sour fish", "sweet and sour tenderloin", "vinegar cabbage", "sweet and sour lotus root", "hot and sour shredded potatoes", "vinegar soaked peanuts", "sweet and sour fungus"...... The unique taste is so refreshing, almost everyone has an extra bowl of rice.
In particular, sweet and sour pork ribs, which are made of fresh pork chops, have fresh and tender meat, red and bright oily color, crispy and sweet taste, and are very popular. Eight catties of pork chops, all of a sudden, Yitong was still unsatisfied, pestering Zi Mo to make this dish tomorrow.
・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ vinegar is brewed, just when the crab is full of fat. How could Baili Zimo miss this great opportunity. Choosing a holiday day, Baili Zimo took Lin Ying, Ma Huilan, Brother Qianxiang and Huo Xiaodong, the youngest son of the cloth shop owner who provided clues, carrying a bamboo basket, holding tools, and a cage specially prepared by Zimo to catch crabs, and began to set off.
didn't go far, and I saw Mr. Lu, who was dignified on the surface and absolutely ** on the inside, seemed to be waiting for something on the side of the road. Seeing them coming, he raised his smiling face, and asked knowingly, "Zi Mo, what are you doing here?" Baili Zi Mo glanced at her and muttered, "Don't you know what we're going to do if you keep up?" Mr. Lu's goal was achieved, he was in a good mood, and he didn't care about Zimo's impolite words.
She snatched the small basket in Zi Mo's hand and smiled brightly, "You are a small person, I will help you carry the basket." The group talked and laughed, and soon arrived at the east of the town, the stream that Huo Xiaodong said. It was an endless sea of bamboo, stretching from the door of the last house in the east of the town to a large river. There are many creeks crisscrossing the valley of the bamboo forest.
The mountain road is steep and curved, and the bamboo forest is covered with soft yellow leaves. The damp soil under their feet made Zi Mo and the others slip and fall after a few steps, and when they reached the bottom of the ravine, Zi Mo almost slid down on his buttocks, which made Lin Ying laugh very much.
Although the autumn is slightly cold, everything is depressed. However, the dense bamboo forest, nestled into a natural "warm clothes", only to see that the bamboos are still vigorous and upright. A cool breeze blew, and the bamboo leaves made a trembling sound, but everyone did not have a trace of chill, but they were more relaxed.
At the bottom of the valley, the bamboo forest covered the sky and the earth, and I felt that the sky was much darker. There was silence all around, save for the cheerful sound of the stream. There were many stones rolling down from the mountain, and the crabs hid in them.
Sure enough, as Xiaodong said, the river crabs here are not only fat, but also numerous. Almost if you turn over a rock by the stream, there will be a crab underneath, and some even more than one. Most of the crabs are very big, as big as the mouth of the small bowl used by Zi Mo, these crabs are still dumbfounded, people don't know how to hide when they reach out to catch them, they have been holding them in their hands for a long time, and they have been shaking their teeth and claws like a god, but they can't escape the fate of being in the basket.
Soon there was a cry of catching crabs in the valley, and Lin Ying was very excited, rolling up her sleeves and dripping into the water. Mr. Lu, who caught crabs for the first time, also followed Zimo's example, and struggled to move away the stones that could be moved.
But it took a lot of effort, and the crab seemed to be playing hide and seek with her, but there was no trace of the crab. But her disciples counted one, two, three...... In a few moments, dozens of crabs were inhabited in their baskets or baskets.
Mr. Lu was a little anxious and felt embarrassed in front of the students. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, and she saw a big guy running desperately under the rocks she had moved away. Mr. Lu grabbed it, but the little guy was still very reluctant, desperately wielding his big claw and struggling.
Just as Mr. Lu was proudly admiring this hard-won trophy, he was very sad to be caught in his finger by the clip of the big hairy crab. She bared her teeth in pain and shook her hands vigorously, but the hairy crab's fingers were clamped tightly, and she did not relax.
Baili Zimo immediately took her hand and put it into the shallow stream, and the crab that entered the water quickly let go of Mr. Lu's hand and prepared to escape. Baili Zimo skillfully pressed the back shell of the crab and quickly threw it into the basket. The mouth said, "Sir, the crab catching action must be fast, and if you leave your hand before it reacts, it won't be caught." ”
For an entire afternoon, they kept lifting stone after stone in the valley. The harvest was quite good, and the three baskets and two baskets were almost full of crabs of all sizes. Baili Zimo looked at the sun that was about to sink in the west, and shouted, "Handmade, go to the ...... for a picnic"
Baili Zimo took this group of high-spirited crab catching troops, carrying rich loot, and chose a relatively flat place in a clearing in the bamboo forest. first asked the nearest Huo Xiaodong to run to the house to bring a big iron pot, and then instructed Lin Ying and Ma Huilan to collect firewood.
She and Brother Qianxiang built a simple stove out of stones. Soon, smoke rose from the bamboo forest, and steaming was the most delicious way to eat crabs. Zi Mo selects a large, full-limbed, and energetic big crab, washes it in clean water, and uses rope or grass to tie the crab's two clips and eight legs tightly into a ball, and steam it in a pot through water (it is better to use a steamer rather than a plate, so as not to accumulate refluxed water vapor to cover the delicious taste).
Steam for more than a quarter of an hour, and you can get off the pot. The original blue-black crab has a bright red color after steaming, which is very pleasing to the eye, and exudes a charming fragrance that makes people appetizing. Then dip it in the vinegar, ginger, and sugar that Zi Mo had prepared a long time ago, it was extremely delicious.
"Eating crabs is very particular about eating appearance and eating skills. People who don't know how to eat crabs bite down with meat in the shell, and then chew a few times and then spit out with meat in the shell, so that a crab will always step on three or four percent of the meat. Some people eat crabs by first lifting the crab shell and sucking the crab paste, then breaking the crab body and dividing it into two sides, eating one side after another, and finally eating crab claws and crab claws. It's also a bit inappropriate to eat like this. The best way to eat crab is to eat tongs and claws first, when the crab cover is not lifted, and the heat will not be removed. Baili Zimo taught everyone her gourmetous experience.
"First, eating crab legs and eating crabs is to pay attention to slow work and meticulous work, and the best is always left in the end. The first thing to eat is crab legs, there are eight crab legs, the meat in the legs is delicious, but it is not easy to take, when eating crab legs, you can eat two joints first, and then suck out the meat in the legs. ”
"Second, there is more meat to eat crab claws and crab claws, and it is relatively convenient to eat. According to the previous method, when eating crab claws, you need to use a small hammer to knock open, and then use a small stick to pick and eat, modern people have long lost that reserve, the two chelates are separated, and the snow-white crab meat is presented in front of you. ”
"3. When you eat crab roe, you eat crab when you eat crab roe. Lift the shell of the crab, pay attention to open the lid from the top of the head, remove the crab lungs, crab heart, crab stomach and crab intestines, bend the crab body to both sides, squeeze out the crab paste to eat, if it is a female crab, you can eat delicious crab roe, if it is a male crab, you can eat white crab paste. ”
"Fourth, the next thing to eat crab meat is to eat crab meat, the meat is petal by petal, silky, you need to beat half of the crab into the mouth, bite the crab shell one by one, so that the crab meat with large petals can be sucked smoothly. "Everyone is learning from the appearance of Baili Zimo, dipped in delicious sauce, tasting steamed crabs, and their faces are happy.
"That...... What are you eating?" a strange voice that did not belong to them sounded, accompanied by a very clear sound of spitting.