1124. Fall Haimi (5)
Because the people who are going to give away are all high-ranking officials, Ao Muyang chose the eagle-clawed shrimps in the same size, about half a index finger long, and they will not be bigger or smaller. The sea rice produced in this way is the top.
Sea rice is not just shrimp meat, it can’t be seen just by size. The smaller the eagle claw shrimp, the more delicious it is. It may taste great when it is bigger, but the umami taste is not that heavy.
The primary feature of Jinghook Haimi is one word, fresh!
In the past few years, the golden hook sea rice produced by Hongyang has a nickname, that is, sea MSG.
There are a lot of shrimps with a small four-ton, but it doesn’t matter if you really want to make sea rice. C-level sea rice costs about eight kilograms of shrimps, and C-level sea rice costs twelve kilograms or even fourteen or five kilograms of shrimps to produce one kilogram of rice.
Ao Muyang only makes Class C sea rice, and it is the top product in Class C sea rice.
After taking the shrimp home, he put them into a large iron pot and started cooking. This is fast, the shrimps are easy to cook. They boil water and have to be taken out after two minutes.
He is very particular about making sea rice, and cooks shrimps in a pot of spring water. Every batch of shrimps must be made with new mountain spring water.
This is the most important method. Most people use a pot of water repeatedly. This makes the sea rice taste very strong, but it also has a fishy smell.
A pot of mountain spring water produces a pot of shrimp. The shrimps made in this way have no smell, but after cooking, they are eaten in their mouths, the umami taste is a little bit more.
The speed of cooking shrimps in a pot was slower, mainly because it was too wasteful of time to boil water.
After cooking the shrimp, he hung it on the roof. During this period, he had to block the passage to the roof, and also look at the head of state and his group of cubs, otherwise he could hold these kittens to death.
The eagle claw shrimp is too fresh, and the cats are more curious about its taste.
Ao Muyang was drying shrimps on the roof. Liang Fulai, the village’s carving master, came to him with his grandson and stood outside the door and asked, “Leader, leader, are you at home?”
Hearing his voice, Lao Ao poked his head from the roof and said, "Here is here, what's the matter with the old man? He went into the house and said, "Don't bite people, please walk in with confidence."
His grandson is not afraid of dogs, so he has nothing to be afraid of. As soon as Liang Fulai stepped in, he immediately walked into the yard.
When Lang Er heard the sound, he ran out. When he tilted his head and saw that a child was coming in, he grinned and wanted to scare others.
Liang Fulai's grandson looked at it expressionlessly, his eyes curled like two icy hemp ropes.
A cold wind blew, and Lang Er was timid first, and ran away with his tail squeezing...
Ao Muyang pinched a handful of cooked shrimps, and handed them to Liang Fu and said, "Is there anything wrong, old man? Look, I cooked the shrimp myself, try it."
Liang Fulai was a little flattered and said ruthlessly: "I dare not ask for it. We don't need food and drink, we don't need anything. This morning, Brother Zhiman gave me a bowl."
Ao Muyang said: "What are you afraid to eat as a snack?"
Liang Fulai took Xiami and said in embarrassment: "Oh, I'm here now, please bother you and the villagers. I'm sorry, I'm here. I'm sorry to ask you if you have something to do when I come to the door this time."
Ao Muyang said: "It's nothing, tell me, what's the matter?"
Liang Fulai said: "That's right. I want to tell you through your leader that the fishing house in the village helps save something. That is, tourists eat the shells left by abalone. I think many families throw it away directly. Don't throw it away. This thing is useful. My family's ancestors have the skills of mother-of-pearl. I threw it down a few years ago, but now seeing that there are many shells of abalone 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 to say it, there are also some places in the south called snails. This is a traditional Chinese art treasure. It is a lineage with shell carvings, but it is completely different. Shell carvings are sculptures on shells, while mother-of-pearl grinds the shells and sea shells into thin slices of various patterns, and then inlaid them on furniture, musical instruments, and even clothes."
Ao Muyang nodded and said, "I understand, you just want to collect abalone shells and polish them into some decorative gadgets, right?"
Liang Fu said, "That's about it, but the mother-of-pearl craft is quite complicated. Then I will make a colorful dragon and give it to your leader as a New Year gift. You will know it when you look. In addition, abalone shells can also be made into kesi, which is even more complicated."
Ao Muyang said, "Okay, I'll tell the village, you don't have to come to collect it. Then I'll ask Quan Tao to send it to you."
Quan Tao holds several positions in the village, one of which is a cleaner. At that time, he can ask the villagers to keep the abalone shells and hand them over to Quan Tao. The two happened to live together.
Liang Fulai left with great gratitude, and Ao Muyang continued to dry his shrimps.
It is suitable to dry shrimps in winter. Shrimps are high in protein and will smell slightly higher.
The sunny winter is strong and the sea breeze is strong, but the temperature is relatively low, so it can dry the shrimp without causing them to rot.
In the next few days, he circled around the shrimps. In mid-January, the shrimps were dried and then the sea rice would be thrown.
Throwing sea rice is an important step in making golden hook shrimp. There is no trick. It is to spread dried shrimps thickly on the concrete floor and roll them back and forth with stone rollers. The reason why it is called Throwing sea rice is because there were few shrimps harvested in the early years and it was not worth crushing with rollers. Fishermen would pack the shrimps in bags and smash them hard on the ground.
Whether it is crushing or slapping, the purpose is to crush the shrimp shells. In addition, even if the roller is crushed, it must go through the stage of crushing, otherwise the shrimp skin cannot be completely rubbed off.
Now there are shelling machines on the market, and it is easy to do the work. There is no such machine in the village. Droping Haimi is not a very tiring job, and everyone does it by hand.
Ao Muyang was busy, so he asked Heilong to help. There were only two stone rolls in the village, and they had been booked by every household. Now the rolls are rolling from morning to night, and people are resting.
Ao Zhiman had a rice pounding pestle at home, and Ao Muyang borrowed it to throw the sea of rice.
In some places, pounding rice pestle is also called a mortar. This thing is used to pound rice and consists of two parts, namely the mortar nest and the marrow tread.
The pestle nest is a small round nest chiseled in the middle of a square bluestone. It can be used to put brown rice, grains, etc., with a thick top and thin bottom, and a smooth inner layer. The pestle is made of wood, like a seesaw. In this way, people stand on the pestle and step on the pestle, hitting the pestle nest up and down.
If rice is placed in the mortar, the white rice grains will be exposed when the rice husks are taken off. If dried shrimps are placed inside, the shrimps that fall off the shrimp shells will be shrimps, which are shrimps.
However, this thing can chisel the hard rice husk, so the strength is naturally gone. In order to prevent it from smashing the shrimps and battering, Ao Muyang tied a layer of cowhide on it, which not only ensures that it has impact, but also does not smash the shrimps and batter.
In this way, he and Heilong got busy.
Chapter completed!