In fact, Su Qingluan also knows that "raw pickling", a cooking method that does not even require "cooking", is very common in this era, but she does not always use her cooking skills to make more delicious food.
In fact, the cooking method of "raw pickling", as the name suggests, is to immerse the ingredients in the prepared sauce, and use seasonings such as high salt, high sugar or high liquor as the raw materials for "sterilization". By the way, you can make unique dishes. The flavor pickles into the ingredients, giving them their unique flavour.
Fresh fish, shrimp, and meat slices of various animals are common raw materials for pickling.
However, although raw pickling is delicious, after all, high-quality liquor is indispensable when pickling. Su Qingluan still does not want her younger siblings to become alcoholics at a young age, not to mention that children who eat fresh food are also afraid of gastroenteritis due to a weak spleen and stomach.
In this era, Su Qingluan had no place to give them any antibiotics.
So to be on the safe side, Su Qingluan discussed it with the four adults and left only four crab roes for raw pickling. For the remaining two, she cut ginger slices and put them on the abdomen of the crabs to remove the fishy smell. Steam it in a pot and feed it to the two little guys.
Steaming crab roe is very simple, just wash the crab roe and put it in the pot for a while to prevent it from overheating.
But the raw pickling step is a bit troublesome.
Su Qingluan soaked the cleaned crabs into a high-temperature "burning knife" and prepared the marinade with soy sauce as the main base.
Yang and Sun Guixiang were busy with tonight's dinner - of course, for Sun Guixiang, a twin, neither Yang nor Li Saner dared to overwork her, so she only gave Yang a hand. , choose a vegetable or cut a seasoning and pass an object or something.
Of course, the most important thing is to chat and relieve boredom.
The two men passed by after a while of catching crabs, and they were both covered in mud. Yang dismissed them and sent them to the river to wash up before coming back. Although the weather had turned cold, the sun had not set yet. He is a middle-aged man with strong firepower, so naturally he doesn't care much about the low water temperature.
In fact, the raw marinade sauce is not a fresh condiment, just soy sauce, salt, sugar, onion, ginger, garlic and spices.
Since there are no fresh and hot peppers such as Erjingtiao, Su Qingluan had to use dogwood instead. However, although Cornus officinalis has a spicy taste, it always has a vague bitter taste.
Fortunately, there was sugar and other seasonings. Su Qingluan cleverly changed the proportion and added some onions and coriander to the sauce, so that the slightly bitter taste of dogwood not only did not appear very abrupt, but because Su Qingluan was very clever The combination of flavors makes this slight hint of bitterness dilute the original fishy smell of crab meat, making it very fresh.
And because it was first immersed in high-concentration white wine and marinated for a while, although the raw marinated crab does not have a strong smell of wine, it still leaves a light aroma of wine.
Raw pickling needs at least two hours. After eating, the children and pregnant women should go back to their rooms, and those who should go home should go home. Only three adults and Su Qingluan, a pseudo-child, were still chatting. God, wait for the marinating time to come.
In fact, originally everyone wanted to wait until tomorrow to enjoy the raw pickled crab - after all, the pickling time is longer, the flavor will be more fully penetrated, and the various seasonings inside will fully play the role of eliminating parasites, but Yang told her , if we wait until tomorrow, the raw pickled crab may be spoiled.
Su Qingluan slapped his head: There are no refrigerators and freezers in this era. Poor families - although the Su family is not very poor now - can't even see Ling Yin who stores ice cubes, so naturally there is no particularly reliable storage method. Pickling place.
There is a "refrigerator" suitable for poor people - wells everywhere. However, the fruit there is usually served on ice, and it is a "first-come-first-served basis" for people nearby.
Even if the Su family puts crabs in, they can't guarantee that they will be stored properly and the soup will not spill out.
Since I couldn't stay the night, I had to stay up all night with tears in my eyes just for the delicious food.
Gradually, the sun went down and the moon climbed into the eastern sky.
Although it is not a full moon today, the weather is very clear and cloudless.
The bright moonlight shone on the ground, even making the whole yard bright.
The songbirds in the grass began to sing high and low, as if they were making a final struggle to seize the last few days before the severe cold that allowed them to reproduce.
And a few people who were a little sleepy finally waited for the raw pickled crab.
Facts have proved that "staying up late with tears in order to cook raw pickled crab" is worth it.
Although the crabs sent by the Su family cannot be compared with those from real wealthy families, as they are smaller in weight and size, they are better in terms of freshness.
The blue crab shell was broken open, and the crystal crab meat inside was exposed.
We are all rough farmers, and we don’t know how to use "eight pieces of crab", which is laborious and unsettling to eat. In fact, Li Saner and Su Guangfu even believe that eating "meat like crab roe" is not a bad idea. "Not enough ingredients to stuff my teeth", even the pragmatic Su Guangfu couldn't understand.
However, the taste of raw pickled crab is so delicious - the crab meat is crystal clear and the crab roe is plump. Under the double taste of high-quality white wine and raw marinade juice, everyone only feels that the taste of crab meat in the mouth is not fishy at all, but Reveals a touch of salty aroma and wine flavor.
When you take a bite, the tender crab meat slides into your mouth, as if you have taken a bite of salty ice cream with the aroma of wine, and you will almost lose your eyebrows!
So Su Guangfu, who had just been dissatisfied with the fact that crab meat was not enough to fill the gap between his teeth, immediately became so delicious - he bit off a third of the crab's body in one bite. Looking at the posture, if it weren't for the crab's sandbags, he would have eaten it. No, Su Guangfu could throw the whole raw pickled crab into his mouth.
Fortunately, many of the crabs on the market now are soft-shell crabs that have just been shelled. Even if Su Guangfu is such a "chewing peony", he doesn't need to worry about getting scratched at the corners of his mouth by crab shells.
Su Qingluan couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it. When he originally wanted to pat his chest and promise, "Don't eat so pitifully, it's like you missed the last meal, I might do it again." But he held it back.
After all, crab roes are considered a very rare food in this era. Even if the Su family is not short of money for a crab roe meal, they may not be able to buy such crab roe in the market with money.
It's very simple. There is no cold chain transportation in this era. If it is not properly preserved, the river seafood that has been left overnight will definitely deteriorate and rot.
As for the nearby streams and rivers, they will never produce large wild crabs.
From this point of view, the Li family really values the child in Sun Guixiang's belly - although this attachment is destined to be "no fate" with Sun Guixiang, thinking of this, Su Qingluan, who is a standard foodie, can't help but feel a little I felt sorry for this aunt.
Everyone was so satisfied with eating the raw pickled crab that they even couldn't help but look at the top of the marinated soup. Seeing this, Su Qingluan quickly told everyone to go back to their homes with the excuse of "it's too late and they have to sell the stall tomorrow morning." Otherwise, the people at this table—especially the two men—wouldn’t make weird moves like drinking braised soup?
Fortunately, the dishes and chopsticks have been put away, and the table of crab shells can be cleared away tomorrow, so several people from the Su family went back to bed after washing up.
Another three or four days passed in a blink of an eye, and it happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Although it was the first Mid-Autumn Festival since time travel, Su Qingluan didn't have a good time - she was thinking about whether the "Four Seasons" series of jams she made could please the nobles in the capital, and because that day There was a strange customer at the stall and he was forced to argue for a long time, which made him exhausted all day long.
Moreover, the sky, which was originally clear at noon, turned cloudy in the afternoon, and started to rain in the evening.
Although there is a custom of "appreciating the moon" in this era, I have never heard of any "moon cakes". It's just that each family made their own unique pastries and snacks, and everyone enjoyed the moon while eating them.
However, it is a pity that the rain is getting heavier and heavier, and there is no tendency to stop. The only moon-viewing activity that can best represent the "Mid-Autumn Festival" has been suspended.
Thus, the first Mid-Autumn Festival since Su Qingluan traveled through time passed quietly.
It would be false to say that she had no regrets at all, but starting from the next day, Su Qingluan had no time to dwell on the tangled thought of "the first Mid-Autumn Festival after time travel has no atmosphere."
...Because the next day, Mu Xingzhi sent Songbo to bring her a message. The students in the "Sketch Study Class" had already arrived, waiting for Su Qingluan, the "female gentleman", to teach them skills.
So from the day when the market opened, Su Qingluan would throw the remaining change to his parents as long as he saw that the soup stalls were almost selling, and he would quickly run to Mu Xingzhi's place to "order".
Although Su Qingluan still dressed up in men's clothing for the convenience of activities, Mu Xingzhi lost his sense of propriety because someone was so careless about Su Qingluan, so he still told several "students" that Su Qingluan was a woman and came here specifically to teach them this time. How to draw.
As he said that, he also brought Su Qingluan's previous sketch to these "students" to reassure them.
Sure enough, as the saying goes "facts speak louder than words", when they saw that someone with the skill of sketching could draw an object so vividly, even taking into account the texture on it, these people were finally convinced by Su Qingluan - —at least on the surface.
However, Su Qingluan discovered that even though these students had to execute all the orders conveyed to her very quickly, the completion effect was...
"The lines on your hands should be swaying freely, don't shake, and don't use so much force - you will break the charcoal strips!"
"Lifting up the little finger is just to give the hand a fulcrum, there is no need to deliberately show orchid fingers!"
"The curves are cut out bit by bit, not just stroked with a pen like this..."
"Use a steamed bun block to erase the charcoal marks. Don't wipe it everywhere with your hands..."
Even though there were only eight students in front of him, including Mu Xingzhi, Su Qingluan felt that he had corrected eighty-eight sixty-four kinds of mistakes.
Su Qingluan unconsciously remembered a joke she heard in modern times - I killed pigs in my previous life, but I teach in this life.
If you don't bully me! Su Qingluan sighed.
