In fact, Su Qingluan also knew that "raw pickling", a cooking method that does not even require "cooking", is very common in this era, but she does not always use cooking techniques to make more delicious food.
In fact, the cooking method of "raw pickling", as the name suggests, is to soak the ingredients in the prepared sauce, using high-salt, high-sugar or high-proof liquor and other seasonings as raw materials for "sterilization and disinfection", and by the way, the unique flavor can be marinated into the ingredients to make them unique.
Fresh fish, shrimp, and slices of meat from various animals are common raw materials for raw pickling.
However, although pickled food is delicious, strong liquor is indispensable during the pickling process. Su Qingluan still does not want her younger brothers and sisters to become alcoholics at a young age. Moreover, if children eat raw food, they may suffer from gastroenteritis due to weak spleen and stomach.
In this era, Su Qingluan had no place to give them antibiotics.
So to be on the safe side, Su Qingluan discussed with the four adults and decided to keep only four crabs for raw pickling. For the remaining two, she cut ginger slices and put them on the crab's abdomen to remove the fishy smell, then steamed them in a pot for the two little ones to eat.
Steaming crabs is very simple. All you have to do is wash the crabs clean, put them in the pot, and steam them for a fixed time without using too high a heat.
But the process of pickling is a bit troublesome.
Su Qingluan soaked the cleaned crabs in a high-temperature "shaodaozi" and prepared the marinade with soy sauce as the main base.
Yang and Sun Guixiang were busy preparing dinner for tonight. Of course, since Sun Guixiang was pregnant with a twin, neither Yang nor Li Saner dared to make her too tired, so she only helped Yang by picking vegetables, cutting seasonings, or passing things.
Of course, the most important thing is to chat and relieve boredom.
The two men were covered in mud after a chaotic crab catching spree. Yang sent them to the river to wash clean before coming back with disgust. Although the weather had turned cold, the sun had not set yet. The two men were strong middle-aged men, so they naturally didn't care much about the low water temperature.
In fact, the sauce for raw marinades is not made of any fresh seasoning. It is just soy sauce, salt, sugar, onion, ginger, garlic and spices.
Since there were no peppers like Erjingtiao that were relatively fresh and spicy, Su Qingluan had to use Cornus officinalis instead. However, although Cornus officinalis had a spicy taste, it also had a subtle bitter taste.
Fortunately, there were sugar and other seasonings. Su Qingluan cleverly changed the ratio and added some onions and coriander to the sauce, so that the slightly bitter taste of dogwood not only did not seem very abrupt, but because of Su Qingluan's very clever taste combination, the subtle bitterness diluted the original fishy smell of the crab meat, making it very fresh.
Because the raw pickled crab is first soaked in high-concentration white wine and marinated for a while, although it does not have a strong smell of wine, it still leaves a faint wine aroma.
It takes at least two hours to marinate the raw food. After the children and pregnant women have finished eating, those who need to go back to their rooms go back to their rooms, and those who need to go home go home. Only three adults and Su Qingluan, the pseudo-child, are left. They are still chatting and waiting for the time to marinate the raw food.
In fact, everyone originally 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 in it will fully play the role of eliminating parasites. However, Yang told her that if they wait until tomorrow, the raw pickled crab may go bad.
Su Qingluan slapped her head: There were no refrigerators or freezers in this era, and poor families - although the Su family was not very poor now - could not even find Ling Yin to store ice cubes, so naturally there was no particularly reliable place to store raw pickles.
There was a "refrigerator" for the poor - the wells in various places. However, the wells were usually used to keep fruits frozen, and the people living nearby were the first to enjoy the benefits.
Even if the Su family puts crabs in, they cannot guarantee that they will be stored properly and the soup will not spill out.
Since I can’t stay overnight, I can only stay up late with tears for the delicious food.
Gradually, the sun set and the moon climbed up in the eastern sky.
Although it is not a full moon today, the weather is very clear and cloudless.
The bright moonlight sprinkled on the earth, even illuminating the entire yard.
The insects in the grass began to sing high and low, as if they were making a final struggle to seize the last few days for them to reproduce before the severe cold came.
A few people who were feeling a little sleepy finally got to eat the raw pickled crabs.
It turns out that "staying up late with tears for raw pickled crabs" is worth it.
Although the crabs sent by the Su family could not be compared with those from truly wealthy families, as they were smaller in quantity and size, they were fresher.
The green crab shell was broken open, revealing the crystal crab meat inside.
They were all rough farmers, and they didn't know how to use the "Eight Crab Dishes" that were labor-intensive and uncomfortable to prepare. In fact, Li Saner and Su Guangfu even thought that eating crab roe, which "didn't have enough meat to fill my teeth", was something the pragmatic Su Guangfu couldn't understand.
However, the taste of raw marinated crab is really delicious - the crab meat is crystal clear, the crab roe is plump, and with the double flavor of high-proof liquor and raw marinade, everyone only feels that the crab meat in their mouth has no fishy smell at all, but instead reveals a light salty fragrance and the taste of wine.
When you take a bite, the tender and smooth crab meat slides into your mouth, just like eating a bite of salty ice cream with the aroma of wine. It’s so delicious that it’s enough to make your eyebrows drop!
So Su Guangfu, who was just complaining that "the crab meat was not enough to fill his teeth", immediately found it really delicious - he bit off one-third of the crab body in one bite. Judging from his posture, if the crab's sandbags were not really inedible, Su Guangfu could have thrown the whole raw pickled crab into his mouth.
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