After everyone worked together to carry the bear back to the tribe, Jiang Xue naturally thought about the bear's paw.
The saying "Fish is what I want, bear's paw is also what I want, but I cannot have both, so I would rather give up fish and take bear's paw" is just a joke in Jiang Xue's opinion.
She now has a bear in her hands, and the bear meat is going to be eaten, so eating bear paws is inevitable.
As for fish, there are plenty of them in the river behind the mountain. In spring, the fish are fat and tender, and are a delicious delicacy.
"I've lived for so long, but I've never seen such a big bear!" Aunt Cao stared at the bear with her eyes shining.
This bear weighs at least four or five hundred pounds. Excluding the bones and inedible hair, the edible part is at least two or three hundred pounds!
Enough food for everyone in the tribe for two days.
Jiang Xue brought back those wild onions, wild garlic, and young leaves of Houttuynia cordata...
Jiang Xue couldn't stop drooling just thinking about it.
"That's right. Our tribe was attacked by a bear once before, and we suffered heavy losses that time!" Aunt Ye, who had always had a good relationship with Aunt Cao, interjected. "That time, the bear was much smaller than this one. If we hadn't been so lucky, we might have ended up in its stomach long ago."
"Yes," Aunt Cao couldn't help sighing when she thought of that incident. She found Jiang Xue and asked her, "Snow Witch, how are we going to feed this bear?"
Jiang Xue shrugged nonchalantly: "You guys can do whatever you want. I can't do it anyway."
This was the first time she had seen a wild bear, but she had never eaten one before.
Aunt Cao was met with a setback, but she didn't care: "Then we'll roast it and eat it." Then she said with regret: "What a shame to waste such thick hair."
Jiang Xue blinked. The bear's fur had been singed by her fireball, which was indeed a shame. She rolled her eyes and said with a giggle, "Grass Auntie, I heard bear paws are delicious. How do you make them?"
Aunt Cao groaned and said, "Snow Witch, you've really stumped me. We used to hide from this thing so quickly, we never thought we'd get to eat its flesh one day!"
Jiang Xue uttered an "ah." She hadn't expected it and didn't know how to do it. She sighed slowly, her tone sounding extremely lonely. "Okay then, help me chop off the bear paws so I can steam them and eat them."
If it's braised, you need to prepare some seasoning, but the tribe doesn't have any seasoning...
Is steamed bear paw better or braised bear paw better? I'm so confused...
"Steam it?" Aunt Cao looked at her doubtfully. "You can't roast it?"
“No.”
It doesn't taste the same if you bake it. Besides, before she made the clay pot, they baked everything. They didn't get tired of it, but she did.
"Okay, I'll clean it up for you later."
It’s so beautiful just thinking about it, I can even eat bear paws.
Jiang Xue was in a good mood.
After saying a few more words to Aunt Cao, she turned around, picked up the basket of wild onions and garlic, and went to the river to start washing them.
The ice on the river surface had long disappeared without a trace, but there was a lot of rain in the spring and the riverbed was muddy. Jiang Xue frowned. It seemed that the riverside needed to be improved. A step should be built with long stone strips to make it more convenient for the tribe members to get water or wash things.
Now that we have chisels and hammers, it shouldn't be a difficult task to arrange a few people to chisel some stone slabs and then carry them over. It will just take some time.
She had just squatted down by the river when Vanilla came over with Xiaohua.
"Sister Xue, do you need my help?"
Xiaohua's clear voice rang out, and Jiang Xue turned her head and smiled at her: "Yes, go find a few more people to come and take a shower together."
Xiaohua responded and left quickly.
Vanilla squatted down beside her silently. After what happened today, she seemed to have not yet recovered.
Jiang Xue hesitated for a moment and then asked her, "Xiangcao, don't take today's events too seriously. Just remember this: if you work hard, you can grind an iron rod into a needle. As long as you're willing to work hard and practice, there's nothing you can't do."
Vanilla paused while washing the wild onions and said sullenly, "Okay, I get it."
Xiaohua moved very quickly and soon pulled out the wooden core, green sand and wooden beads.
Six people worked together and washed the wild onions quickly.
"Sister Axue, how are you going to eat this?"
"These things are delicious when fried with eggs," Jiang Xue said, "but the Houttuynia cordata..."
Houttuynia cordata is usually eaten cold. Since there are no chili peppers in the tribe, and we can't even make chili oil, eating it cold is naturally not practical. Plus, it has a strong smell, and I'm not sure if they can handle it.
"Houttuynia cordata?" Mu Xin's eyes rolled, and he picked up a piece of Houttuynia cordata and asked, "Xue Wu, are you talking about this?"
"Yeah," Jiang Xue pursed her lips, "but the taste is a bit strong."
"I don't think so. Isn't it quite fragrant?" Mu Xin seemed to think the smell of Houttuynia cordata wasn't strong enough. He held it under his nose and sniffed hard. "It smells quite good."
As soon as she said it smelled good, the others followed suit and took one to sniff. Some said it smelled bad, while others said it smelled good. In short, there were mixed reviews.
"Now that we've brought them all back, there's no way we're throwing them away." Jiang Xue said helplessly. She had anticipated this outcome. "Luckily, I brought back some wild onions and garlic. I'll stir-fry them. You can have whichever you like."
Without chili peppers, Houttuynia cordata cannot be used for cold dishes, so it can only be fried.
After washing all these things and returning to the tribe, Jiang Xue took the hatchet and used it as a kitchen knife. When she was thinking of chopping the wild onions and garlic, she found that there was no chopping board in the tribe.
She had no choice but to take out the saw, find a thick piece of wood, ask Chimu to saw off a piece, rinse it with water, and then chop the wild onions and garlic on the wooden block.
Then, he took out about thirty eggs and beat them for later use.
Then heat the oil in a pan, fry the wild onions first, then pour the egg liquid in, and add salt after the egg liquid solidifies.
There are many people in the tribe, and thirty eggs may seem like a lot, but when they are actually divided into everyone's bowls, it is really not enough.
“It smells so good!”
Xiaohua picked up an egg and put it in her mouth, swallowing it without chewing it. Then she ate all the eggs in her bowl in no time. After she finished, she looked eagerly at the scrambled eggs with wild onions in Jiang Xue's bowl. "Sister Xue, I want more."
Without waiting for Jiang Xue to reply, Xiangcao grabbed her ear and said, "Even if you're greedy, you can't eat Snow Witch's food. I still have some here, you..."
Before she could finish her words, Xiaohua snatched her bowl and ate everything in it. After she finished, she still looked at Xiangcao pitifully and said, "I haven't had enough."
Vanilla was furious. She cursed angrily, "I couldn't bear to eat more, but you finished it in one bite. You...how can I say good things about you!"
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