Going back to the old days of hunting at sea

Chapter 911: A tiger bone soup, is there so much to it?

Wu Daisong was just about to find paper and pen for Chen Hui.

Chen Hui had already taken out a small notebook and pen from his shirt pocket.

"You still carry these with you? That's rare."

"Only those who work have this habit." Wu Daisong was a little surprised.

"I didn't have it before, I just bought it today." Chen Hui said with a smile.

I forget it every time I go to the county town.

Today, on the way to Chen Yaozu's house, I passed by the No. 1 Middle School in the county and saw the stationery store next to it, which reminded me of it.

I didn't expect it would come in handy right after I bought it.

"Okay, that saves me a piece of paper."

"Then I'll talk and you write."

Wu Daisong said this and pulled the examination chair and sat down.

Tell Chen Hui in detail.

The steps are not difficult.

First put the herbs into a large pot and boil them twice, then mix the two herbal soups together.

This is the water used to make tiger bone soup.

Then remove the meat from the tiger bones, but it doesn't have to be very clean.

Tiger bones are chopped into pieces.

Do not blanch it, soak it in running spring water overnight.

Wash off the blood, put it into herbal soup and simmer it on low heat for a day.

"one day?!"

"Grandpa Wu, does this need to be cooked for so long?"

"How long is this day? Do I have to cook from morning to night?"

"We have dinner, when do we usually start cooking?"

Chen Hui interrupted Wu Daisong and asked.

"If conditions permit, try to cook it for a longer time. If you want to eat it for dinner, you should cook it after breakfast."

"What I said is to start cooking tiger bones, not to start cooking herbs!" Wu Daisong emphasized.

"What about the meat? Don't you eat meat?" Chen Hui asked again.

Lin Jiao simply stewed the piece she brought back last time for a few hours.

The meat is soft but not mushy and is quite delicious.

The soup tastes a bit strange, it tastes a bit like deer soup mixed with some pork soup.

After eating it, I didn't feel like I had any supplements.

Now I think I didn't cook it to its essence.

"Put the cut tiger meat in two or three hours before eating."

"If you like soft ones, put them in earlier. If you like hard ones, put them in later. It doesn't matter."

"The important thing is this herbal soup!"

Wu Daisong began to mark the key points seriously.

Tiger bone soup needs to be boiled in a clay pot for a whole day, and it is inevitable that the base soup will become less and less as it cooks.

When stewing herbs, boil the herbal water a little longer.

If the water level in the pot is too low, add herbal broth.

Do not add water to the cooking tiger bone soup, neither cold water nor hot water.

The herbal soup added must be hot.

It is best to keep the charcoal fire on the charcoal stove stable and not fluctuate.

"That is to say, there needs to be someone who sits by the charcoal stove all the time."

"Continuously fan the charcoal stove with roughly the same strength and frequency?" Chen Hui asked.

"Yes!" Wu Daisong nodded affirmatively.

"what!!!"

This process is quite time-consuming if you think about it.

At times like this, I especially want a gas stove, but an induction cooker will also do.

When it comes to maintaining constant temperature, they are much more stable than human power.

"There's nothing else to pay attention to!"

“This tiger bone soup is difficult to make, but you’ll know once you try it!”

"The effect is so good that you can't even tell me what it is!"

Wu Daisong pointed at the herbs in front of him and spoke with great confidence.

Chen Hui asked curiously, "Grandpa Wu, have you tried this prescription yourself? You didn't read it in a medical book, did you?"

"I have eaten it! I followed my master when I was young!"

"I'm old now and can't stand this kind of supplementation."

"If I were ten or twenty years younger, I would ask you to get me one no matter what." Wu Daisong said with emotion on his face.

When you get older, you can't help but miss your youth.

"Grandpa Wu, another serving of this!"

"Next time Gou Shun and I go there to eat, we'll do something like this!" Wu Si said excitedly.

"I don't have the time to stay at home and take care of the stove all day."

Chen Hui was a little resistant.

He has the time, but the process is too boring.

"Goushun and I will do it! If it's really that good, we can watch the stove for three days instead of just one day!" Wu Si said solemnly.

Now that the labor force was in place, Chen Hui asked Wu Daisong to get a smaller portion of the herbs.

Write down the key points he said.

After paying the money, he took two large bags of herbs and went to the dock to find Li Jianshe.

"Chen Hui, what do you want to buy today?"

Li Jianshe saw that Chen Hui came empty-handed and knew that he was not here to sell goods.

"Um"

Chen Hui pondered for a while.

There are a lot of things to pay attention to when eating tiger bone soup.

It is best not to eat irritating foods such as shrimp and crabs.

Let Li Jianshe collect the big conches and keep some for himself.

If there are live sea urchins, keep one for yourself, preferably a bigger one.

"Conches are easy to collect. If you pick and choose, you will definitely get a plate of them."

"There are only a few sea urchins a year that are bigger and more alive."

"Besides, there are fewer fishing boats out to sea recently, so it's even more unlikely that there will be any."

Li Jianshe looked at the fishing boats parked at the dock and seemed a little embarrassed.

The weather is so cold that most fishing boats have reduced their frequency of going out to sea.

Even Chen Hui himself and Wu Shuisheng and others had not been there for nearly twenty days.

"Try your best. If you can't find anything, forget it."

Chen Hui explained.

He returned to Chenjia Village with the tiger's leg and two large bags of Chinese medicinal materials.

The temperature outside is comparable to that in the refrigerator's fresh-keeping layer.

Chen Hui took the tiger leg out of the bag, put it in a large vegetable washing basin, and placed it in the yard to thaw naturally.

Plan to take it into the kitchen again before bed at night.

Put the vegetable washing basin into the sink with a drain, then take out the soft water pipe from the water tank and put it into the vegetable washing basin.

This is what Wu Daisong said, "Use running cold water to soak out the blood."

Got these done.

Chen Hui closed the door and strolled to the door of Chen Kaiming's house.

Seeing that his house was quiet, he shouted into the house: "Chen Xiaoqiao!!"

"Why am I calling you uncle?!"

Chen Xiaoqiao's response came from behind.

Chen Hui turned around and saw him coming from the other side of the village road.

"Uncle Xiaoqiao, are you free tonight? Shall we go fishing?" Chen Hui asked.

"Are you sure? What's wrong with you today? Why are you going to the beach in such a cold weather?"

Chen Xiaoqiao asked doubtfully.

He went to see Chen Hui half a month ago, and Chen Hui said that he was sick.

These days are even colder than that time.

"Today is the fifteenth, high tide!"

"I heard that on the first day of the new year, someone in Dasha Village caught a tiger fish that weighed nearly two kilograms and sold it for more than a hundred yuan!"

Chen Hui started making up stories.

"real!?"

When he heard the price was over a hundred yuan, Chen Xiaoqiao's eyes brightened.

The Chinese New Year is about a month away, and he is worried about not having enough money in his pocket.

"Let's go together! It's been cold lately and no one is going there. The good stuff is all in the cracks of the rocks and no one is grabbing it."

Chen Hui then added fuel to the fire.

Chen Xiaoqiao was persuaded and nodded to agree to go together.

"There is one thing I need to make clear to you! Don't cheat me again this time."

"It's so cold, if you dare to lie to me and wait for you for so long at the beach again, I will..."

(End of this chapter)