Chapter 326: Wild Meat Not to Be Missed
However, what Liu Yi didn't expect was that this orchard had an inexplicable attraction for those birds, and the birds that were chased and expelled returned to the orchard after a while.
Liu Yi began to be puzzled by the behavior of these flying birds, and then thought of the fact that many animals in the vegetable greenhouse had entered to steal vegetables, and it suddenly dawned on him, it seemed that so many flying birds had made up their minds to steal the cherries that he was about to harvest with his hard work.
Human beings evaluate sparrows as not striking in shape, not oppressive in appearance, not charming in sound, and too familiar with people, but everyone does not know much about them.
Realistically speaking, sparrows do steal a lot of food from people in grain-producing areas where cereals are the main crop, so it is not an exaggeration to say that they are pest birds in this sense.
However, sparrows also play a very important role in the control of harmful insects, and in fact the number of pests, especially lepidopteran pests, is significantly lower in areas with a large number of sparrows, and they make a significant contribution to agricultural production in this regard.
So when Liu Yi gave instructions to the rock eagles, he only told them to drive away the birds in the orchard and drive them away, but they didn't repent and actually paid attention to the cherries, and when they faced their natural enemy, the rock eagles, they actually fought guerrilla warfare with the rock eagles.
This not only made Liu Yi very annoyed, but also made the rock eagle very faceless, even if some small mammals on the ground saw them and wanted to run away, these petite birds actually dared to ignore their existence.
So Yan Ying got angry, Yan Ying was angry, and the consequences were serious!
These rock eagles are all working together. One drove out the birds that hid in an orchard woods, and the other two were close to the orchard at a low altitude to drive away the birds, so that most of the birds could only flee to the sky, but they flew into the air without shelter, where was the opponent of the rock eagle, several rock eagles arbitrarily interspersed back and forth in the flock of birds, Liu Yi saw sparrows, thrushes, and pulsatillas in the orchard...... It rained like rain.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer birds in the air, and many birds also let out sharp wails, Liu Yi hurriedly used his consciousness to stop the unilateral slaughter of the rock eagle, but at this time, a large group of flying birds had been killed by the rock eagle, and the flying birds that could escape to the sky finally stopped wandering in the woods here this time. Fly farther into the woods.
I have suffered a big loss. The birds finally realized the ferocity of the rock eagle, and after chasing the birds several times, the orchard entered tranquility.
Liu Yi ran to the bottom of the battle between Rock Eagle and Asuka just now, and saw that the ground there was full of Asuka corpses. The most numerous are sparrows. There are also small amounts of pulsatillas, thrushes, turtledoves, etc. Since these birds were killed by the rock eagle, Liu Yi didn't want to let them go, these were very delicious ingredients.
Finish finding the weeds in the woods. Liu Yi picked up a total of 113 bird carcasses, and this night there was game to eat.
The method of sparrows is nothing more than smoked and fried, braised and stewed soup, and if you don't have a certain amount of cooking skills, the dishes you make are just as difficult to swallow.
When he got home, he quickly found a big basket and told his mother to boil a pot of boiling water, and Liu Yi came to the orchard where he placed the birds.
After a while, Liu Yi returned home with these birds on his back, and when he saw the things Liu Yi was carrying, several aunts and uncles who were still doing other things in his mother sighed and said: "Why did you get so many sparrows at once, isn't there other birds in it!" ”
My aunt immediately came to her senses: "Second baby, could it be that you got these from the rock eagle you brought over?" ”
Liu Yi smiled excitedly and said, "Yes, if I hadn't hurriedly stopped the rock eagles, they would have to continue to get them, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get them back alone!" ”
"Why don't you kill all the birds that plan to harm my cherries, and if you come back in the future, won't it be troublesome?" In the eyes of the villagers, the sparrows are the flying thieves who rob them of food, and everyone has no good impression of the sparrows, as long as they can get rid of them, they will not be soft-handed.
"I see that the birds in the future dare not go to the fruit grove of the cherry tree at will, and in the days when the cherries are ripe, I have asked the rock eagles to guard over there, they are much more effective than us guarding!" Liu Yi said lightly.
The fruit of the cherry ripens quickly, as long as it is ripe at the beginning of the week, it will be all ripe within a week at most, if it is not picked during this period, it will be bad or fall, if you are unlucky enough to encounter a rainy day, the cherry will be damaged more, even if you pick a lot of fruit surface will crack, affecting the taste of the cherry!
A large pot quickly boiled hot water, and found a large aluminum basin in the house, which was originally used to wash large clothes and sheets in the house, which is equivalent to the swimming pool of infants and young children now.
Pour the sparrows and birds in the basket into the aluminum basin, and then continue to pour boiling water, and turn it with a piece of bamboo until you can easily tear off the bird feathers.
"Erwa, what are you going to do at night with these more than 100 birds?" My aunt asked as she fished out a sparrow that could be plucked.
"There are more than a hundred, and the number of people in the family can be divided into 2 or 3, and I plan to use some of them to make fried sparrows and leave some for stewed soup!" Don't underestimate the therapeutic effect of sparrows, sparrows stewed together with Chinese medicinal materials can not only invigorate qi and blood, but also strengthen the waist and kidneys, and aphrodisiac! Liu Yi didn't say these explicitly, but he took a big supplement This is the truth.
"Okay, when I take care of the old sparrows, I will use them to stew soup, and the rest will be used for frying!" My aunt and uncle quickly plucked the bird's feathers with both hands.
When the plucked sparrows appeared in front of Liu Yi, to be honest, it was like chicks!
But Liu Yi doesn't care about these, what he does now is to buckle the internal organs of the birds and birds, a knife cuts through the belly of the birds, and the internal organs are easily deducted with two fingers, and secondly, the head of the bird is better not to be, there are a lot of fine hairs on it, and it is difficult to clean up the inside of the bird's beak! At the same time, the winged bird legs are removed, there is really no meat on them, so don't eat it!
After everything is taken care of, put it into a large basin and also add ginger, shallots, cooking wine, and salt to taste.
The authentic method of frying sparrows is a bit cruel, it is to suffocate the sparrows alive with water or strangle them with his right hand, Liu Yi can't do this now, but the sparrows obtained are all dead.
The rest of the recipe is very simple: put the vegetable oil in a wok, cook it over a high flame until it is ripe, and fry it for about five minutes with a good taste. Wait for the finch body in the pot to float and remove it (the oil in the pot is used separately). Put the fried sparrows into the original pot, add an appropriate amount of fresh soup, put in a spice bag and soy sauce, sugar, salt, boil over a strong fire, change to a slight until the soup in the pot is viscous, put it to cool, and soak it in sesame oil for one or two hours.
The stewed soup is simpler, with an appropriate amount of Chinese herbal medicines, nothing more than Codonopsis, sand ginseng, wolfberry, red dates, etc., I don't understand these as long as you go to the Chinese medicine store to sell medicine, they will also give the buyer a good grasp, this point is not repeated.
Put the delicious sparrows and herbs in a pot under cold water, start boiling the soup over high heat, and then switch to a simmer. Until the meat is rotten and the soup is rich in aroma, a pot of beautiful soup is done. (To be continued......)