Chapter 42: Spicy Snails
Huang Yiyun still crawled into the ravine covered with barbed vines and slowly climbed into the ravine.
Originally, Huang Yiyun wanted to cut out a path and walk in directly.
After thinking about it for a while, Huang Yiyun decided to keep it the same.
Be harder yourself, carefully wrap your face and exposed hands and feet, and then slowly crawl in.
After entering the valley, it was not big, only a dozen feet in size. A few short octagonal trees, two thick cinnamon trees, and three persimmon trees grew.
The persimmon tree is already full of green persimmons, with fruits full of bent branches.
In addition, not far from the stream, there are several tall trees with green leaves and purple-brown fruits.
Fortunately, before going up the mountain, Huang Yiyun asked his aunt to make four small cloth bags. The cloth bag was not big, only about the size of a foot.
Huang Yiyun specially used it to go up the mountain to pick these four spices.
He climbed up the tree and first picked the star anise, grass fruit and bay leaves into the cloth bag one by one.
Afterwards, Huang Yiyun climbed up the cinnamon tree again.
The medicines for cinnamon are the skin and tender branches.
Huang Yiyun did not dare to peel the bark of trees randomly. As the saying goes, people need face, trees need bark.
Once the bark is peeled too much, it will slowly wither and die.
Therefore, most of the cinnamon used by Huang Yiyun is peeling the bark on the top of the cinnamon, and then making some tender branches to go back together.
After Huang Yiyun finished this, he walked around the valley and saw that there was no new discovery, so he wanted to leave.
However, when Huang Yiyun was next to the stream, he saw traces of animals trampling.
Huang Yiyun's mind moved, and there were many footprints. Huang Yiyun's simplest one could only distinguish the footprints of hares and pheasants.
In addition, Huang Yiyun also saw a big step, and he didn't look like a wild boar's footprint.
After Huang Yiyun's heart moved.
Follow these traces of the steps slowly.
I found it was going up the mountain to the east.
After thinking about it, Huang Yiyun took out the improved hoe that his uncle had given him.
A few traps were dug not far from the stream.
Huang Yiyun saw that there was no suitable thing around him, which could be sharpened and inserted into the bottom of the trap, and there was no rope to cover the prey. Therefore, the trap Huang Yiyun dug was a deeper and narrower one.
Digged three big and one small.
Another layer of leaves and grass was laid on the trap.
Huang Yiyun looked around and saw that there was no place to improve, and then left the valley.
As for whether those three traps can catch things, Huang Yiyun really doesn’t have much hope to go up, but he just hopes to find something.
"Big sister, you've gone up the mountain, why are you so dirty?" Huang Li said after seeing that the eldest sister was stained with a lot of soil and plants.
"My grandma, the eldest sister is idle and goes to a valley halfway up the mountain. She picks some spices and comes back. The eldest sister will use it to fry snails later." Huang Yiyun replied.
"Success, my grandma knows that you have an idea, and my grandma doesn't care about you, just be careful." Huang Li knew that the eldest sister had been smart and resolute since she was a child, and she was an idea. In addition, after the eldest sister had something that could make her dream come true, Huang Li would not be even more restrained.
"Well, the few small ones in the house are ready, and are you waiting for you to come back and fry the snails?"
"That's it, the eldest sister goes to make breakfast." Huang Yiyun walked towards the kitchen with a basket on her back.
"Sister, you are back, we are ready for everything." The second sister said after seeing her elder sister come back.
"Son, my elder sister is going to make breakfast. Third sister, put these four spices in a sieve and then dry them in the sun. After that, you can take another handful of these four spices dried. The elder sister will use them to stir-fry snails." Huang Yiyun handed the four spices he picked from the mountain to the third sister and told the third sister.
"Okay, sister, I'll go now."
"Second sister, today I will eat pancakes and cut some pickled vegetables."
"Okay, sister."
"Fourth brother, get the pot and boil water."
After putting half of the water in a large pot, put the snails in the cold water.
Then add onion, ginger, grass fruit, bay leaves, cinnamon and bay leaves to avoid fishy smell.
After the water boiled and boiled for a few more minutes, Huang Yiyun opened the lid of the pot and looked out. After the film covered with the snails was boiled.
After seeing that it was almost the same, Huang Yiyun took it out, cleaned it again, and controlled the water.
Afterwards, start the pan and cook oil.
After the oil is red, add onion, ginger, garlic, dried chili peppers, and the four flavors of spices are in. After the aroma is in, add snails, add salt, and stir-fry quickly for a few times. After fully savoring, add water and cook.
Originally, it was best to put the hot pot base and then use beer to stir-fry the snails.
However, there were no such conditions in ancient times.
With the seasonings from the Huang family, there is only salt when you come and go, and there is not even cooking wine, sugar, and soy sauce.
Even so, boil the snails over high heat as you put them down.
The strong fragrance of the four flavors gradually emanates and slowly penetrates into the snails. Even if nothing else is put in, the smell will smell like it.
A few small eyes looked at the pot where the snails were being fryed.
He smelled the white mist coming out hard and couldn't help swallowing.
Huang Yiyun, who was beside him, looked a little funny.
After cooking for more than a minute, uncover the lid of the pot.
"It's almost done, fourth brother, go and get a few bamboo sticks, which will be used for eating snails later." Huang Yiyun stir-fryed a few times, and saw that it was almost done, he ordered the fourth brother.
"Okay, sister, I'll go."
He took out a small plate, put some snails on it and said, "You guys eat it, try the taste, and see if it tastes delicious."
"This..., how do you eat this elder sister?" The fourth brother asked after getting a few bamboo sticks.
"Let's take the snail and suck it first. If it is sucked out, eat the piece of 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, just pick it out with bamboo sticks and eat the meat.
Of course, you can absorb snails. The taste is better. The soup is filled with the tip of your tongue. It is fragrant and delicious. The chewy snail meat is so good that the soup is spicy. My sister keeps it. After you eat it once, you want to eat it for the second time. It is very delicious. "When Huang Yiyun said, he saw his younger brothers and sisters looking at the snails one by one, and kept swallowing their saliva in their mouths.
"Eat!" Huang Yiyun took the lead in picking up a snail, and sucked out a few sizzling sounds in his mouth. After quickly, he demonstrated to his younger brother and sister, "That's how you eat it."
"Sister, is it delicious?" After the foodie's fifth sister sucked the snails, the smell made the fifth sister's eyes lit up.
"Sister, I sucked it out, but the tail cannot be eaten, right?" The fourth brother narrowed his eyes and said with a smile on his face.
"I sucked it out too, oh, sister, I've eaten it all." After Liu Mei sucked out the snail meat, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it all. Liu Mei remembered that the elder sister said that the internal organs of snails cannot be eaten.
"It's okay, I won't eat it next time."
Chapter completed!