Chapter 42: Spicy snails
Huang Yiyun was still crawling, and slowly climbed into the ravine overgrown with barbed vines.
Originally, Huang Yiyun wanted to cut a way out directly and walked in directly.
After thinking about it for a while, Huang Yiyun still decided to keep it as it was.
Endure hardships by yourself, carefully wrap your face and exposed hands and feet, and then slowly crawl into it.
After entering this valley, it is not big, only a dozen zhang in size, and grows a few dwarf anise trees, two stout cinnamon trees, and three persimmon trees.
The persimmon tree is already full of green persimmons, and the fruit is abundant, and the branches are bent.
In addition, not far from the creek, there are several tall trees with cyan leaves and purple-brown fruits.
Fortunately, before going up the mountain, Huang Yiyun asked his aunt to make four small cloth bags, which were not big, only a few feet in size.
It was Huang Yiyun who specially went up the mountain to pick these four spices.
Climbing up the tree slowly, he first picked the star anise, grass fruits and bay leaves into the cloth bag one by one.
After that, Huang Yiyun climbed the cinnamon tree again.
The medicinal parts of cinnamon are the skin and young shoots.
Huang Yiyun did not dare to wantonly peel off the bark of the tree, as the so-called people want face, and trees want bark.
Once too much bark is peeled, it will slowly wither and die.
Therefore, most of the cinnamon used by Huang Yiyun is to peel the bark on the top of the cinnamon, and get some twigs to go back with him by the way.
After Huang Yiyun finished this, after walking around the valley again, he wanted to leave after seeing that there was no new discovery.
It's just that when Huang Yiyun was next to the stream, he saw traces of animals trampling on it.
Huang Yiyun's heart moved, there were a lot of footprints, and Huang Yiyun could only distinguish the footprints of hares and pheasants.
In addition, Huang Yiyun also saw a footstep with a lot of traces, which did not look like the footprints of a wild boar.
Huang Yiyun's heart moved.
Follow the trail of these footsteps slowly.
It was found in the direction of the east side of the mountain.
After Huang Yiyun thought about it, he took out the improved little hoe that his uncle had given him.
Not far from the stream, several traps were dug.
Huang Yiyun saw that there was no suitable thing around, which could be sharpened into something sharp and inserted into the bottom of the trap, and there was no rope to bring it, so the trap dug by Huang Yiyun was relatively deep and narrow.
Dig three big and one small.
Spread another layer of leaves and grass on the trap.
Huang Yiyun looked left and right, and after seeing that there was nothing to improve, he went out of the valley.
As for whether the three traps can catch something, Huang Yiyun really doesn't have much hope to go up, but he just hopes to find something.
"Eldest sister, you went up the mountain, why did you get so dirty?" Huang Li saw that the eldest sister was stained with a lot of dirt and grass and trees.
"Grandma, the eldest sister was idle, she went to a valley halfway up the mountain, picked some spices and came back, and the eldest sister will use it to fry snails later." Huang Yiyun replied.
"Cheng, Grandma knows that you are a person with ideas, and Grandma doesn't restrain you, just be careful." Huang Li knew that the eldest sister was smart and resolute since she was a child, and she had an idea, and after the eldest sister had something that could make her dream come true, Huang Li would not hold her back.
"Well, the first few small ones in the family, the things have been prepared, just wait for you to come back and fry the snails?"
"That's it, the eldest sister is going to have breakfast." Huang Yiyun walked to the kitchen with the basket on his back.
"Eldest sister, you're back, we've got everything ready." The second sister said when she saw her eldest sister coming back.
"Cheng, eldest sister is going to do breakfast. Third sister, you take these four flavors of spices and put them in a sieve, and then put them in the sun to dry, and after that, you take a handful of these four flavors of dried spices, and the eldest sister will use them to fry snails. Huang Yiyun handed the four-flavor spices he picked from the mountain to the third sister, and instructed the third sister.
"Okay, big sister, I'll go now."
"Second sister, eat today's staple pancakes, and then cut some pickles."
"Okay, big sister."
"Fourth brother, boil the water."
Half of the water is in a large pot, and the cold water is put in the snails.
Then put green onion and ginger, grass fruit, bay leaves, cinnamon and bay leaves to avoid fish.
After the water boiled, after boiling for a few minutes, Huang Yiyun opened the lid of the pot and came out to take a look, and saw that the film covered the meat by the snail was boiling.
After Huang Yiyun saw that it was about the same, he took it out and cleaned it again to control the water.
After that, heat the oil.
After the oil is red, put the green onion, ginger, garlic, dried chili, and the four spices into the fragrance, and then put the snail into it after the fragrance comes out, put the salt down, and then quickly stir-fry a few times, and then put the water into the boil.
Originally, it was best to fry the hot pot base, and then use beer and fried snails.
It's just that there were not so many conditions in ancient times.
Coupled with the seasonings of the Huang family, there is only salt when they come and go, not even cooking wine, sugar, and soy sauce.
Rao is so, with the water down, cook the snails over high heat.
The thick fragrance of the four spices gradually emanated, slowly penetrating into the snails, even if nothing else was put in, the smell was old.
A few small eyes looked at the pot where the snails were fried.
Smelling the white mist again, I couldn't help but swallow.
Huang Yiyun on the side looked a little funny.
After cooking for more than a quarter of an hour, remove the lid.
"Almost, fourth brother, you go get a few bamboo sticks, and they will be used to eat snails later." After Huang Yiyun stir-fried a few times, when he saw that it was almost over, he instructed the fourth brother.
"Okay, big sister, I'll go."
took out a small plate, deliberately loaded a little snail out and said, "You eat, try the taste, see if it's delicious." ”
"This ......, how can I eat this eldest sister?" The fourth brother asked after getting a few bamboo sticks.
"Let's take the snail and suck it first, if you suck it out, eat the meat on the top of the head, the bottom is the internal organs of the snail, you can't eat it, if you can't suck it out, you can pick it out with a bamboo skewer and eat the meat."
Of course, you can suck the snails, this taste is good, the taste of the soup is full of the tip of the tongue, fragrant and delicious, the chewiness of the snail meat, the spicy flavor of the soup, the eldest sister keeps you to eat it once, you want to eat it a second time, it is delicious. After Huang Yiyun spoke, he saw his younger siblings looking at the snail one by one, and kept swallowing saliva in his mouth.
"Let's eat!" Huang Yiyun took the lead in picking up a snail, and after a few sounds of 'zizi' in his mouth, he quickly sucked the snail out, and then demonstrated to his younger siblings, "That's how to eat." ”
"Eldest sister, how about the food?" After the foodie's fifth sister smoked the snail, the taste made the fifth sister's eyes light up.
"Eldest sister, I'll suck it out, it's the tail that can't be eaten, right?" The fourth brother narrowed his eyes and said with a smile on his face.
"I sucked it out too, oh no, big sister, I ate it all." After the sixth sister sucked out the snail meat, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it all, the sixth sister remembered that the eldest sister said that the snail offal should not be eaten.
"It's okay, just don't eat it next time."