Chapter 49: Making Dried Fish
Making dried fish is actually very simple, but it has to be delicious but not everyone can make it.
The first step in making dried fish is to clean the fish.
Li Qing thought about it and took a basin out of the house, fetched two buckets of water from the well, and poured it in.
Li Qing cut the large thick fish from the back of the fish, and cut the thick meat with a knife a few times to make it easier to absorb the taste.
For smaller fish, the head is cut in half by cutting the head in half.
When cutting the ventral edge, you can cut into the middle line of the fish's body, up to the periphery of the fish's eye, and down to the tail and anus.
After cutting, the internal organs are removed.
After the fish is eviscerated, use a brush to scrub the blood and mucus in clean water one by one.
Then put the fish in a basket and drip dry.
There are a lot of fish, and Li Qing is skillful, and it took almost an hour to get all the fish right.
Li Qing stood up, rubbed his waist, and bent over for so long, Li Qing felt that his waist was very sore.
After slowing down, Li Qing felt better.
Take the entrails of the fish and discard them.
Li Qing divided the fish into several portions.
It is divided into species, carp, crucian carp, grass carp, etc., and is divided into good categories.
The size of the fish determines the amount of salt, generally 18~24 kg of salt per 100 kg of fish.
There are fewer in winter and spring, and more in summer and autumn.
Li Qing took out a few jars of salt and began to marinate the fish.
Li Qing rubbed the salt evenly on the body, gills, swallowing knife, eyeballs and fishing holes.
Then put it down and put it in a clay pot, the meat side up, the scales downward, the head of the fish slightly lowered, the tail of the fish obliquely upward, layer upon layer.
When stacked to the mouth of the clay pot, you can continue to row and stack until it exceeds the mouth of the pool by 10~15 cm.
Li Qing did this for a reason, because after a few hours, the fish would shrink to the level of the mouth of the clay pot, and then sprinkle a layer of sealing salt, cover it with bamboo chips, and press it with a stone.
Li Qing put the fish into the clay pot one by one and packed it very carefully, he didn't want to ruin the fish in the clay pot because of his carelessness.
In order to successfully make dried fish, it needs to be dried and shaded, but it will take a few days.
Dried fish is a traditional Han famous dish in Hubei Province and belongs to the Hubei cuisine.
This dish is a way to eat fish with added salt.
Dried fish can be stored for a long time after drying.
It is a good dish to accompany rice and wine, but there are still some people who are not suitable for eating dried fish.
Because in order to make it easier to preserve, a lot of salt is added to dried fish, which will bring extra sodium when eaten, which is very bad for chronic patients, and may also aggravate puffiness, eye bags and premenstrual discomfort.
And dried fish is higher in calories, and eating more of it is no different from eating more meat.
Nowadays, dried fish have a lot of fat, and eating more is not good for weight loss, and it will also increase the intake of saturated fatty acids.
So although the food is good, you can't eat too much.
Li Qing moved a few small jars of dried fish into the kitchen and put them away.
After drawing water from the well and washing the utensils you have just used.
Li Qing began to prepare lunch.
However, neither Li Zhao nor Li Wang, who came to help yesterday, came.
said that Li Qing could do it alone, but they couldn't help much, they almost took their wages for nothing, and they couldn't get over it, so they didn't come.
After listening to what the uncle said, Li Qing nodded in his heart, these two people have good character.
However, Li Qing also found out that in the village, there is no one with a particularly bad character.
Li Qingxin sighed here that the village style was simple, but he didn't know that he was a crow's mouth.
It didn't take long to meet a well-known shroud, and his family was the best.
However, this has not happened yet, and Li Qing naturally does not know.
He was still thinking about the noon menu.
Li Qing is a lazy person, of course, most people don't know, only the close friends know Li Qing's true character.
Now Li Qing feels that cooking is also a kind of annoyance, because he doesn't know what to do, just like some people go to the vegetable market and walk around a few times, but they don't know what to buy.
Li Qing looked at the time, it was not early, and if he didn't start cooking, it would be too late.
Li Qing walked to the kitchen and prepared steamed buns.
However, when Li Qing thought of steamed steamed buns, he suddenly remembered a dish in his heart.
Able to cook and cook at the same time.
What Li Qing wants to do is small fish stickers.
Small fish? I fished up a bunch of them yesterday. Cake? There's a lot of flour too.
Li Qing thought about it, and got a lot of small fish out of the space, all of which were about two finger widths.
The small fish tastes good, but it's troublesome to cook, and the flour hasn't been kneaded yet.
Li Qingzheng thought that time was running out, and he couldn't be busy alone, so he should give up making this dish, and when he made it again in the evening, he heard a sound in the yard.
"Li Yuan? Why did you get here, didn't you go to the market today? Daddy? Li Qing walked out of the kitchen and saw that it was his cousin Li Yuan, and immediately spit out several questions.
"Cousin, you ask so many questions at once, which one should I answer" Li Yun wrinkled his nose and said a little coquettishly.
Li Qing obviously heard the change in Li Yuan's tone, since Juewei sold well every day, Li Yuan's personality has also been a lot more cheerful, not inferior as before, his face is full of smiles all day long, but he is cheerful but not pampered.
Li Qing saw a lot of pampered children in the original time and space, spoiled at home, almost dragged to the sky, looking like the second and third in the world, arrogant and unreasonable, no matter what means he wanted, he had to get what he wanted.
The uncle's family is the closest person to Li Qing since he came to this world, and he naturally doesn't want Li Qing to change.
I have to say that in Li Qing's subconscious, he regarded Li Yuan as a child.
Although the age of Li Qing's body is not much different from Li Yuan's age, Li Qing can be regarded as having experienced two lives, and his age in his heart is not only fifty or sixty, but also thirty or forty.
"Then answer them one by one" Li Qing cleared his throat, pretending to be old, and said to Li Yuan.
"Hmph," Li Yuan stuck out his tongue.
Seeing that Li Qing still didn't react, he began to answer Li Qing's questions.
"I didn't go to the market today, my eldest brother and my father went, and Li Jiang and I were at home; Before Daddy left this morning, he was afraid that you wouldn't be able to do it alone, so he asked me to come over at noon to help you. ”
After hearing this, Li Qing nodded, turned around and went into the kitchen, and motioned for Li Yuan to follow.
With someone to help, it's a lot faster.
Li Qing asked Li Yuan to knead the flour, while he sat on a small stool and cooked the small fish.
Li Yuan is at home, and he can do housework, and he often does it.
The phrase "children of poor families are in charge of the house early" is not wrong at all.
ps: Yesterday the bird was broken, the reason is not to say, and I don't want to explain it, I feel hypocritical when I explain more, anyway, it's broken.
Yesterday's break will be made up tomorrow, and it will be sauced.
Thank you for the support of the book friend Hongchen Heng and the fingertips for thousands of years, thank you~