As the tribesmen busily worked in the open space, the aroma of food soon spread.
There are already quite a few stone pots and wooden bowls in the tribe, and now the tribe’s food is no longer just barbecue, but also has broth.
However, because there is no salt, the broth is just average and not delicious. However, because it is cooked for a long time, the meat is soft, so it is very suitable for the elderly and children, and is therefore more popular than barbecue.
In addition to the broth, there is also the delicious and crispy oil residue. On the day the pot came out, Lin Xiaoman taught everyone how to make oil from fat. The more oil is boiled, the more oil residue will naturally appear.
But there is not much of this thing, so I can only give it to children as a snack, and eat a few of them to satisfy their cravings.
After drinking meat soup for several days, Lin Xiaoman started thinking about vegetables again. Most of the medicinal herbs that Grandma Yang had were bitter in taste and not suitable for consumption. She still needed to conduct on-site inspections to find vegetable substitutes!
This world also has four seasons, but they aren't called spring, summer, autumn, or winter. Instead, they're called the season of recovery, like spring, when everything regenerates. Then comes the hot season, summer, followed by the fruit season, autumn. The fruit season is when fruits are most abundant, much like the autumn harvest. During the fruit season, the tribesmen rush to harvest fruit and hunt more prey, storing them in the deepest parts of the caves to use during the colder months.
Winter, or the cold season, is the most difficult time to endure, as most of the dinosaurs here hibernate. Yes, they do. Of the few that don't hibernate, the vast majority migrate. Therefore, during the cold season, dinosaurs are rarely seen. Hunting for food is nearly impossible, and they rely on stored food to survive the winter. Every year, some die of freezing and starvation during the cold season.
Because there is no specific way to calculate time, Lin Xiaoman does not know how long each season is, but it is certain that the recovery season and fruit season are relatively short, and the hot season and cold season are relatively long.
In the hot season, there are almost no edible fruits, so gathering food is just a side job. People mainly pick up firewood, dry it, and store it in caves to keep warm in the cold season.
The collection was the responsibility of the clan leader's wife, the head of the household. While eating, Lin Xiaoman went to find the clan leader's wife and asked her to collect some plants and fruits. The clan leader's wife was very happy about this and repeatedly promised to complete the task.
Lin Xiaoman found the tribe leader again and assigned him a task, which was to ask the hunting team to bring back some plants that herbivorous dinosaurs eat. They didn't need to collect them specifically, just bring them back if they saw them along the way.
It was another day of intensive training. In the evening of the next day, with the return of the hunting team, Lin Xiaoman obtained more than a dozen kinds of plant leaves.
Dinosaurs are edible, so they are most likely non-toxic.
But when they heard that Lin Xiaoman wanted to eat these things she had never eaten before, the clan leader and Grandma Yang expressed their opposition in unison.
Faced with opposition, Lin Xiaoman righteously stated that this was for the purpose of expanding the tribe's food range and supplementing it with certain plants to reduce illness. This was something she inherited from the totem stone.
It was passed down from generation to generation. Once this was said, the clan leader and Grandma Yang no longer objected. However, they insisted that Lin Xiaoman could not eat it himself and that others must try it. Everyone in the tribe rushed to the job of testing the poison like grabbing eggs.
Lin Xiaoman, who was under a little pressure, made full use of his professional knowledge, removed the ones that looked potentially poisonous, and then began to try.
Lin Xiaoman fried the oil in a pan and simply stir-fried ten different plant leaves one by one. Ten people who volunteered to taste the food were then fed.
As for the taste, only two people said it was good, and the remaining eight said it was either bitter or astringent. One of them even said his tongue was numb and he could not speak clearly.
Uh, is it a pepper substitute?
Because he hasn't tasted it himself, Lin Xiaoman doesn't know what it tastes like for the time being.
Then on the second day, because it was confirmed that there was no poison, and the only tribe member who was numb was only numb for a short while, Lin Xiaoman finally tasted the flavor of the leaves.
The ones that were judged to taste okay, one tasted like green vegetables, one tasted like lettuce, and the numbing one tasted like a low-end version of Sichuan peppercorns, which could probably be made into seasoning powder. As for the remaining seven, they were probably just grass, and they didn't taste good anyway.
Lin Xiaoman directly named them green vegetables, lettuce and pepper leaves and added these three things to the collection list.
Although the variety of vegetables is limited, there are finally edible vegetables.
Adding greens to the broth will reduce the greasiness and make the soup taste better!
And lettuce?
Lettuce with barbecue!
Of course, it’s not the kind of barbecue cooked over campfire in the tribe, but fried barbecue!
After the soup pot, Lin Xiaoman found a thin stone slab that was particularly suitable for frying meat. It didn't need to be polished at all. He just needed to put a stove on it and start roasting.
First roast the fat to extract the oil, then fry the lean meat slices, sprinkle a little bit of salt and pepper powder, the taste... is the most delicious thing she has eaten since she came to this world!
Led by Lin Xiaoman, the tribesmen in the tribe all looked for thin stones on the hill when they were free.
Following barbecued meat and soup meat, the tribe now has fried meat.
Lin Xiaoman: Ah, improving life starts with food!
Another day passed, and the clan leader's wife brought her a large pile of things, mostly fruits. They were all confirmed to be edible, but they didn't taste very good.
It was the hot season, so there were not many fruits, and most of them were unripe. Lin Xiaoman tasted several edible wild fruits, and they tasted really astringent and sour.
However, from a pile of fruits, Lin Xiaoman found a lemon fruit. It was also yellow and looked similar, but this lemon was much bigger, almost the size of a grapefruit.
It is very sour, but it is very good as a seasoning and is suitable for adding to seafood.
However, she had not seen any fish since she came here.
Is there no fish?
With doubts, Lin Xiaoman asked Grandma Yang and got the reply that there were fish in several large lakes in the forest, which were called bone beasts here. Unless there were no other prey in the cold season, people in the tribe would not catch bone beasts.
Not only is the fish not tasty, with little meat and bones, but more importantly, the fish in the water are difficult to catch, and there are giant carnivorous dinosaurs in the lakes. If they encounter a carnivorous dinosaur in the water, they will be doomed.
After listening to Grandma Yang's words, Lin Xiaoman understood: It is obviously unrealistic to catch fish now.
But in the cold season, it might be possible.
Keep practicing.
Every day, Lin Xiaoman's schedule is to practice, learn about plants, and find out which ones are edible and which ones can be used for medicinal purposes.
Days passed one by one, and after more than half a month, Lin Xiaoman finally got news about Clay...
(End of this chapter)
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