Duck eggs at Dragon Boat Festival Wang Zengqi

My hometown is a water town. Out of the duck. Gaoyou hemp duck is a famous duck species. There are many ducks, and there are many duck eggs. Gaoyou people are also good at pickling duck eggs. Gaoyou salted duck eggs became famous. I live in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Whenever someone asks me about my place of origin, after answering, the person will be in awe: "Oh! You sell salted duck eggs there!" Salted duck eggs are also sold in shops selling pickled meat in Shanghai. They must be used. The note was specifically marked: "Gaoyou Salted Egg". Gaoyou also sells double yellow duck eggs. There are occasionally double-yolk duck eggs elsewhere, but not as many as in Gaoyou, and they can be exported in batches. The taste of double yellow duck eggs is actually nothing special. Not just a duck egg! But after cutting it open, the two round yellow pieces inside were surprising. I am not very happy when strangers praise Gaoyou duck eggs, as if duck eggs are produced in our poor place! However, the salted duck eggs in Gaoyou are indeed good. I travel a lot and eat a lot of duck eggs, but they are not comparable to those in my hometown! Once upon a time, it was difficult to find water in the sea, and I really looked down on salted duck eggs from other places. Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List·Small Menu" has an item about "pickled eggs". I don't like Yuan Zicai. Many of the recipes in his "Food List" are from what I heard, and he doesn't know how to cook himself. But after reading "Pickled Eggs", I felt it was very kind and "proud". The article is not long, so here’s the summary: Gaoyou’s best pickled eggs are fine in color and rich in oil, and Gao Wen Duangong likes to eat them the most. During the banquet, first pick it up to honor the guests and put it on the plate. It is always advisable to cut the shell and use both yellow and white; do not keep the yellow and remove the white, otherwise the flavor will be incomplete and the oil will be dispersed. ”

The characteristics of Gaoyou salted eggs are that they are fine in texture and have a lot of oil. The protein is soft, not dry and powdery like elsewhere, and the mouth feels like chewing lime. The oil is especially high and cannot be found elsewhere. How to eat duck eggs, As Yuan Zicai said, cutting it in the shell is a way to entertain guests at a banquet. Normally, it is eaten by breaking the "empty head" and digging it in with the chopsticks. The oil will come out. The yolk of Gaoyou salted eggs is bright red. There is a famous dish in northern Jiangsu called "Cinnabar Tofu", which is the salted duck eggs I ate in Beijing. Yes, what are these salted duck eggs? On the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival, our aunt or sister tied the duck eggs with colored silk threads. Let your child choose one. What are the options for duck eggs? First, choose the ones with light green shells. There are two kinds of duck eggs: the ones with beautiful shapes, not to mention the thin ones. They look different. Some look silly, and some are delicate. They are hung on the buttons of the placket. What’s so beautiful about them? For a long time, when the child was happy, he took out the duck eggs from the egg and ate them. The duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival were freshly pickled and had only a slight salty taste.

The children can eat them with their mouths. When eating duck eggs, be very careful. In addition to knocking off the short ends, don't break the egg shell. After eating up the yolk and protein, wash the inside of the duck eggs with water. At night, you catch fireflies and put them in the egg shells, and paste the short ends. The layers are thin. The fireflies are shining brightly in the duck egg shells, so beautiful!

When I was reading the story of Nang Yingxue when I was young, I thought that Che Yin of the Eastern Jin Dynasty used a bag to hold dozens of fireflies. Reading according to the light is not as good as using duck egg shells to hold fireflies. But is it possible to use fireflies to illuminate and read until dawn? Che Yin is reading a handwritten paper with large fonts. If he is reading the current Xinwu. It probably won't work with a large number.