Golden Fishing Village
Chapter 1117 1124. Throwing Haimi (5)
Because the people he wanted to give away were all high-ranking officials, the eagle claw shrimps Ao Muyang chose were the same size, about half the length of his index finger. They were neither bigger nor smaller. The shrimps produced this way were the best. .
Dried shrimps are not just shrimp meat. You can’t just look at the size. The smaller the eagle claw shrimps are, the more delicious they are. If they are bigger, they may be enjoyable to eat, but the umami flavor is not so strong.
The main feature of Jingou Haimi is one word, fresh!
In the past few years, the golden hooked sea rice produced in Hongyang has been nicknamed "Sea MSG".
A small four-ton shrimp looks like a lot, but it’s nothing if you really want to make it into dried shrimps. It takes about eight kilograms of shrimps to produce one kilogram of rice for Grade C dried shrimps, and twelve or even fourteen or even fifteen kilograms of shrimps for Grade D dried shrimps. Give out a pound of rice.
Ao Muyang only makes Grade C sea rice, and it is the top grade of Grade C sea rice.
After bringing the shrimps home, he put them in a big iron pot and cooked them. This was fast, the shrimps were easy to cook. The water boiled and they had to be fished out within two minutes of being put in the pot.
He is very particular about making shrimps. He cooks shrimps in a pot of spring water, and uses new mountain spring water for each batch of shrimps.
This is the most delicate method. Most people use a pot of water repeatedly. This way, the dried seafood will have a strong umami flavor, but it will also have a fishy smell.
A pot of mountain spring water produces a pot of shrimps. The shrimps produced in this way smell tasteless, but when eaten in the mouth after being made into a dish, they have a lot of umami flavor.
He cooked the shrimps in pots and the speed was slow, mainly because boiling water was a waste of time.
After cooking the shrimps, he dried them on the roof. During this period, he had to block the passage to the roof and keep an eye on the head of state and his group of kittens, otherwise he would kill these kittens.
The eagle claw shrimp is so fresh that the cats are more curious about its taste.
Ao Muyang was drying shrimps on the roof. Liang Fulai, a shell carving master in the village, came to him with his grandson. He stood outside the door and asked: "Leader, leader, are you at home?"
Hearing his voice, Lao Ao poked his head from the top of the building and said, "Here you are, old man. What's the matter? Go into the house and say, dogs don't bite. Don't worry, go inside."
His grandson was not afraid of dogs, so he had nothing to be afraid of. As soon as Liang Fulai stepped in, he immediately walked into the yard first.
Wolf Er heard the sound and ran out. He tilted his head and saw a child coming in, so he grinned and tried to scare others.
Liang Fulai's grandson looked at it expressionlessly, his eyes as straight as two frozen hemp ropes.
A gust of cold wind blew by, and Wolf Er frightened first, howled and ran away with his tail between his legs...
Ao Muyang pinched a handful of cooked shrimps, handed them to Liang Fulai and said, "What's the matter, old man? Here, I cooked the shrimps myself, have a try."
Liang Fulai was a little flattered and declined: "I don't dare to ask for it. We are not short of food and drink, not short of anything. Brother Zhiman even gave me a bowl this morning."
Ao Muyang said: "Eat it as a snack, what's wrong with it?"
Liang Fulai took the shrimps and said in embarrassment: "Well, I always trouble you and the fellow villagers when I come to the village. I'm sorry. This time I come to the door and I have to trouble you again."
Ao Muyang said: "It's nothing, tell me, what's going on?"
Liang Fulai said: "It's like this. I want to tell you through the leader to ask the fishermen in the village to help save some things, which are the shells left over from the abalone eaten by tourists. I think many people just throw them away. Don't throw them away. This thing is useful. My family has the craft of mother-of-pearl. I threw it away a few years ago, but now that there are so many abalone shells in the village, I want to pick it up and make something. "
Ao Muyang asked: "Mother-of-pearl? What is mother-of-pearl?"
Liang Fulai pondered and said: "How should I put it? There are also some places in the south called Dianluo. This is our traditional Chinese art treasure. It is in the same vein as shell carving, but it is completely different. Shell carving is a sculpture on the shell, while mother-of-pearl is The shells and seashells are ground into thin slices with various patterns, and then inlaid on furniture, musical instruments, and even clothes.”
Ao Muyang nodded and said: "I understand, you want to collect abalone shells and polish them into some decorative gadgets, right?"
Liang Fulai said: "That's pretty much what it means. However, the craftsmanship of mother-of-pearl is quite complicated. When the time comes, I will make a colorful dragon and give it to the leader as a New Year gift. You will know after you look at it. In addition, abalone shells can also be used to make tapestry silk. This is more complicated.”
Ao Muyang said: "Okay, I'll tell the village and you don't have to go to collect them. I'll ask Quan Tao to send them to you then."
Quan Tao held many jobs in the village, one of which was as a cleaner. When the time came, he asked the villagers to leave the abalone shells and give them to Quan Tao. They happened to live together.
Liang Fulai left with a lot of thanks, while Ao Muyang continued to show off his shrimps.
It is suitable to dry dried shrimps in winter. Shrimps are high in protein and will become smelly if the temperature is slightly higher.
In sunny winter, the sun is strong and the sea breeze is strong, but the temperature is relatively low, which can dry the shrimps without causing them to rot.
In the next few days, he would circle around the dried shrimps. In mid-January, the dried shrimps were dried, and then the dried shrimps would be dumped.
Throwing sea rice is an important step in making golden hook shrimp rice. There is no skill. Just spread the dried shrimps thickly on the cement floor and roll them back and forth with stones. The reason why it is called "throwing sea rice" is because it is cooked early. In some years, the harvest of shrimps was so small that they were not worth crushing with hoe, so fishermen would pack the shrimps in bags and beat them hard on the ground.
Whether it is crushed by a roller or beaten, the purpose is to break the shrimp shell. In addition, even if the roller is used for crushing, it still needs to go through the stage of beating and rubbing, otherwise the shrimp skin cannot be completely rubbed off.
Now there are shelling machines on the market, which makes the work simple and efficient. The village does not use such machines. Beating shrimp is not a very tiring job. Everyone does it by hand.
Ao Muyang got busy here. He asked Heilong to help. There are only two stone rollers in the village, which have been reserved by every household. Now the roller rolls from morning to night, and people rest while the roller does not.
Ao Zhiman has a rice pounding pestle at home, and Ao Muyang borrowed it to pound shrimp.
In some places, the rice pounding pestle is also called a pestle and mortar. This thing is used to pound rice and consists of two parts, that is, the pestle nest and the tread.
The pestle pit is a small round pit chiseled out of a square bluestone. It can be used to store brown rice, grains, etc. It is thick on the top and thin on the bottom, and the inner layer is smooth. The pedal is made of wood, like a seesaw, so that people stand on the pedal and step on it, and the pedal hits the pestle pit up and down.
If rice is placed in the pestle pit, the rice husk will be removed to reveal the white rice grains. If dried shrimps are placed in it, the shrimp shells will fall out and the shrimp meat will be shrimp meat.
However, this thing can chisel off the hard rice husk, so the strength is naturally beyond doubt. In order to prevent it from smashing the shrimp meat, Ao Muyang tied a layer of cowhide on it, so that it can ensure the impact force without smashing the shrimp meat.
In this way, he and Heilong got busy.
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