HLnovel Chapter 303 Various Ways to Eat Fish Scales
Chapter 303 Various Ways to Eat Fish Scales
If others help with the work, you have to provide them with meals. Cooking for so many people is really not an easy job.
Old Lady Hua brought a group of old ladies from Tangjia Village to prepare dry food. Their own stove was not enough, so they borrowed stoves from several neighboring houses.
Tang Xin was carrying a basket of wild vegetables, including purslane, dandelions, and a variety of other things that filled the entire basket.
Many girls from Tangjia Village followed behind him.
"Grandma Hua, we washed all the wild vegetables we dug by the river,"
Old Lady Hua was worried sick. She smiled as she looked at the wild vegetables that Tang Xin and the other girls had dug.
"Okay, Tang Xin, thank you for your hard work. You and your sisters are eating here today. Come on, grandma is busy. Don't let me go door to door to call people."
These are all cooked in the pots set up outside the yard where we are temporarily staying.
In the yard, girls from the nine tribes were making jelly in buckets. This stuff couldn't be told to outsiders yet, after all, they had to wait for it to be eaten.
Although the method cannot be taught, so many people can still eat jelly at night. The main reason is that jelly is low in cost, delicious and can relieve heat.
The boys from the Nine Clans were also busy. Why didn't we see them all morning? Because they all went to the outskirts of Fangshan to look for jelly grass. When they came back, they all carried some older ones on their backs.
The Bai family, who make soy sauce at the entrance of the village, are from another family, but they know how to behave and have their own craftsmanship. They get along quite well with the people in Tangjia Village.
At this moment, the popular old lady of the Bai family was directing her sons and daughters-in-law to carry pots of soybean paste to Old Lady Hua and the others.
The old lady pulled Cuifener and said, "What do we farmers eat all year round? We don't have anything else at home, but we still have a lot of soybean paste. There are too many people to cook for us, so we can just eat with soybean paste. It's enough to fill our stomachs."
Li Jingshu was even busier. She took a few women to kill the fish. They caught the fish at noon. There was no meat or anything else, but at least you had to eat the fish you caught in the river. Besides, the fish were caught by everyone together.
Several women squatted by the river, gutting the fish, removing the internal organs and scraping the scales.
"Don't throw away the fish scales. They are good things and I can use them."
She wanted to make fish scale jelly with the scraped fish scales and add a dish to everyone's meal. After all, there weren't many things to eat.
The method of making fish scale jelly is very simple. You only need to add the cleaned fish scales to the scallions and ginger and simmer on low heat for half an hour.
After all the fish scale gelatin in the pot has been boiled out, filter out the fish scales, green onions and ginger, leaving only the clear gelatinous soup, and let it cool in a wooden basin or barrel. When you eat it, it is similar to jelly.
But fish scale jelly is fresh and fragrant without any fishy smell, crystal clear, full of frozen feeling, cool taste, and more chewy than jelly.
However, the most important thing in making fish scale jelly is to make sure the scales are cleaned thoroughly until they do not feel sticky to the touch.
Tang Xinniang watched Li Jingshu wash the fish scales again and again: "You don't want to fry the fish scales, do you? That wastes a lot of oil."
Li Jingshu washed the fish scales and smiled: "Sister-in-law, I am going to make fish scale jelly, which is delicious and cool to eat."
"What is fish scale jelly?"
Li Jingshu smiled and indicated that she could learn.
She can cook fish scales in many different ways.
There were a lot of fish and a lot of fish scales, so she planned to stew the fish and she also wanted to make a pot of fish scale soup.
In fact, the method of making fish scale soup is similar to that of fish scale jelly, which is to stir-fry the washed fish scales first, and then add salt and vinegar.
It can soften the fish scales, and stir-frying can also make the fish scales slightly curled.
Put it back into the pot and simmer over low heat for an hour. The soup will be milky white with a slightly yellowish color and extremely delicious.
They boiled five pots of fish scale soup at once. They were afraid that if they boiled less, it would not be enough, so they asked Yuanbao and Luming to guard the fire.
She started making fish scale jelly again. Don't underestimate fish scales. In fact, it is the exoskeleton of fish, containing rich collagen and a large amount of minerals, such as calcium, phosphorus, zinc, iron and so on.
Eating more fish scales is a good way to supplement calcium. Eating fish scales regularly can promote the growth of human bones and prevent osteoporosis. It is suitable for both young and old.
Moreover, fish scales are extremely rich in collagen. If women eat them regularly, it can increase skin elasticity, reduce the formation of wrinkles and spots, and theoretically delay aging.
In fact, fish scales contain a lot of chitin, which can promote insulin secretion, help lower blood sugar, and appropriately improve immunity.
From what Tang Xinniang said, it seems that some people now know that fried fish scales can be eaten, but she remembered a dish she had seen in the TV series "Wulin Waijiao": spicy fish scales.
But the fish scales made by Li Dazui in the play were not processed at all. He just scraped the scales off the fish and mixed them with chili powder. I'm afraid no one can eat this, right?
But fried fish scales are delicious, fragrant and crispy, but they do consume a lot of oil.
Shen Youyou and the others came back at this time. When they arrived at the door of their home, she and her brothers and sisters were stunned. What happened in just one day?
Why are the people who were fighting with them yesterday suddenly helping to cook for the family?
But they didn't have time to ask questions. With cornmeal on her hands, Old Lady Hua called out anxiously, "Hey, stop standing there. Your sisters in the yard are busy making jelly. Go and help them."
"Oh! Got it!"
Didn't you see that she was so busy? The old lady Hua was so worried about her little granddaughter. If she wasn't really so busy that she had no time to breathe, she would definitely be like this:
"Oh! My dear grandson, you are back. How was your trip to the county town? Did anyone bully you? You must be tired. Come and take a rest and drink some water."
So the eleven people including Shen Youyou didn't even pack up when they got home. They just gave the meat they bought to Li Jingshu and asked her to watch the cooking and help make the jelly. Not only did they have to make food for these people, but also for the stall tomorrow.
However, I won’t be able to eat pork bones and offal tonight. It’s not that I can’t bear to eat them, but I don’t have a stove. Besides, at this time, when can I cook them?
Tang Guangzheng's wife, the fierce Dou, was also helping to steam the dry food. She watched Shen Youyou lead her brothers and sisters into the courtyard:
"Tsk, tsk, tsk! Sister Hua, that's your grandson, he's so handsome! The boy has red lips and white teeth, he's prettier than the girl."
Old Lady Hua said proudly, "That's my little granddaughter. We have used all our money to buy land. It's still early for us to eat the food we grow ourselves. She took her brothers and sisters to set up a stall. She wore men's clothes because she was afraid of getting into trouble."
A group of old ladies from Tangjia Village were stunned when they heard this: "Oh, look at her granddaughter. She is still so young but she can lead her brothers and sisters to set up stalls. No wonder Mrs. Hua said it with such pride. If their granddaughter can also make money like this, they will definitely be happy to tell others about it."
No one exclaimed: "What? This is your granddaughter? How can she dress like this and show her face in public?"
Because this is a rural area, and the girls who never leave their homes are the city ladies. Even the other girls in the village have to collect grass for pigs, pick firewood and dig wild vegetables every day.
The second daughter-in-law of Old Lady Bai is the old lady's niece. She is white and plump, and doesn't look like a peasant woman at all.
It's not about how pretty she is, or how elegant she is, but in this era, there are very few white and plump peasant women.
She was now tiptoeing and looking into the yard: "What kind of business are you doing? Is it the jelly?"
Her mother-in-law immediately slapped her on the back: "What are you looking at? You are everywhere. Hurry up and work."
Old Mrs. Bai has her own business that makes her life possible, so she naturally knows the importance of the secret recipe. How could she just go and find out about it?
Old Lady Hua was willing to tell the truth because she saw Old Lady Bai's family. They were obviously from a different family and there was only one of them in the village. They controlled the soy sauce business and it had not been taken over by Tangjia Village. That's why she felt comfortable telling the truth. After all, isn't jelly much cheaper than soy sauce?
It also shows that although most of the people in Tangjia Village are from the Tang family and some of them are officials in the capital, they do not bully the people in their hometown, otherwise the soy sauce recipe would have changed hands long ago.