Gryllotalps grow in clear streams or rocky waters at the bottom of large and small rivers in northeast China, and their growing environment is extremely harsh, so they must flow in clear and pollution-free waters.
? The mole looks like a crayfish, but it is much bigger than a crayfish. Its tail is bigger and wider than crayfish, and its two big claws in front are round, not as slender as crayfish. The tail and claws of shrews are all meat, which is much fatter than crayfish. If the crayfish is compared to a skinny little beauty in the south, then the shrew is a stocky daughter-in-law in the north. The meat of shrew is very delicious. In the breeding period, there is a smell similar to Huang's crab paste, and shrew is the best food in that poor era.
Adult shrews are about ten centimeters long, and the big ones can reach twelve or thirteen centimeters. Fish, shrimp and ephemera in the river are used as food, and the internal organs of some domestic animals are delicious.
There are many ways to catch an emu: grab it directly with your hands, watch the emu in the water, quietly insert your hands obliquely from its tail into its back, grab both ends of its hard shell with your thumb and forefinger at lightning speed, take it out of the water and put it in a cloth pocket or a small bucket; Or fishing for cockroaches, which is different from fishing. Catch a frog, peel off its skin or use the internal organs of an animal, tie elm bark or hemp rope to a rectangular or oval stone half the size of a palm, find a long pole and tie it to your head, and put it in a place where there are many cockroaches, and then go to see it later. When you mention it, there are usually cockroaches. Or use a net (similar to the net for catching butterflies, but the net for catching cockroaches is deeper and stronger) to copy, just like playing billiards, which requires certain skills. When you find a cockroach standing in the water, quietly put the net with the net bag down in front of the cockroach. No matter how the mole is caught, the big one is left behind, and the small one is not caught or thrown back into the river until it grows up slowly.
? I once saw a big boy in the village cut a snake open, rolled it into a plate and threw it at the bottom of the water as bait to catch a mole. After a while, his hands raised a snake, which was full of greedy goods. The big boy went home happily with a snake full of cockroaches.
? Chicken intestines killed by farmers are their favorite. Find a rope or put it in a small broken basket and find a clear and slow place to put it down. After about 20 minutes, you will see a large and small number of cockroaches crawling on it to enjoy delicious food. It is recommended that people with intensive phobia not watch it. What if you meet a cockroach? During the great migration, the bottom of the river was so dense that there was no place to put feet. Soon, you can grab a woven bag or copy net with your hands, which is ten or twenty pounds.
Spring, summer and autumn are the best time to catch crickets, and the river will freeze in winter. At night, when a mole is illuminated, it is easier to catch a fool with a net. At that time, my mother had to take care of her three sisters and four sisters at night, so it fell to me to hold lanterns to illuminate my father and catch crickets. My father asked someone to make a lighting tool called "Gus lamp", two slender cylinders with spiral buttons, put acetylene blocks in them, pour some water and tighten them, and then light them at the long mouth. A fire screamed and lit up a water area in front of him. The illuminated bottom of the river was unobstructed, and the mole or fish at the bottom of the river was kicked into the net before it could fully react. You can copy half a bag in an hour or two. People who don't have chandeliers catch crickets at night, so they use small iron nets to install small pieces of pine nuts (pine roots that have been oiled for many years) for lighting, but the lighting effect is not as good as that of chandeliers.
If you catch more cockroaches, you can't finish steaming them, and you will make delicious cockroach tofu. Although it is called tofu, it has nothing to do with soybeans. Now I know that this piece of tofu was once designated as a royal banquet by Emperor Mao. This is a dish at the Manchu-Han banquet. It is not only delicious, but also nutritious and suitable for all ages. Unexpectedly, the delicious food that I often ate as a child turned out to be the emperor's favorite dish. Think about it and savor it. The Financial Channel said in Charming China City that the best crickets are produced in Huinan, Jilin Province, just like hairy crabs are recognized as the best in Yangcheng Lake. I have never eaten crickets in Huinan, but I think the best place is Guanghua, Tonghua, Jilin, where I live.
Because I often watch my mother cook tofu, I will. Clean the mole cricket, remove the shell and head from the back, and remove the black line from the tail at the same time, chop it into pieces on the vegetable pier, put it in a vegetable basin, pour in clean water, filter out the broken shell crumbs, and leave the filtered water for a while. When it is completely precipitated, pour out a part of the precipitated water and stir it into a paste with chopsticks for later use. Heat the oil in the pot, add chopped green onion and Jiang Mo until fragrant, add salt, add appropriate amount of water to boil, pour two drops of white wine to remove fishy smell, stir the slugs evenly, and slowly pour them into boiling water while stirring. In an instant, slugs will solidify into light powder and light yellow flocs and roll in the pot. If there was a drop of fragrant oil that year, it might taste better. Put it in a white porcelain bowl, sprinkle with chopped coriander or leek, and without a porcelain spoon, my two sisters and I took a sip at the edge of the bowl. Tender, smooth and refreshing, the lips and teeth are fragrant, and the aftertaste is endless, which is amazing. There is no delicious food in the world. My mother would say from time to time: Eat slowly, little greedy cat, and don't burn them. There is enough for you to eat in the basin. At this time, the hungry taste buds got the greatest satisfaction, and they put down their bowls until their bellies were round. Although they were often eaten then, they never got enough food. To say that the happiest thing at that time was to read a fairy tale book in one hand, taste tofu slowly with a small spoon in the other and compete with the gods.
Now life is good, the material is rich beyond imagination, the delicacies are delicious, it is not difficult to eat anything, and the taste buds are used to eating nothing and enjoying it. Now, many years have passed, and I have never eaten the delicious clams and clam tofu there again. Even if I eat them, I'm afraid I won't get the taste of that year! Even so, I still want to eat salamander and salamander tofu again and taste the most delicious food in my childhood!