Flower gum is a good thing. Nourishing yin and tonifying kidney. If your gelatin is ready, just stew chicken soup directly. Boil the gelatin in boiling water for ten seconds, add two slices of ginger and stew, and drop a few drops of cooking wine. It is best to use old hens for chickens. After opening, be sure to peel it and butter it. Put it in a saucepan, cover it with water and stew for four hours.
◆ Fish glue, the price is flat and expensive, depending on the rarity of fish species.
◆ Types and Selection of Flower Gum
There are many kinds of glue, the top ones are authentic yellow glue and white glue, which are rarely seen in the market. Most fishermen enjoy themselves after fishing. Yellow-flowered fish maw has many names. For example, the original swim bladder has not been cut into cylindrical tube glue, the smaller and thinner ones are called hanging pieces, and several fresh swim bladders are stuck together to form thick pieces, but the less transparent ones are overlapping pieces and block glue, and the strips are called long glue and adhesive tape.
Guangdu
At present, most of the beautiful flower glue bought on the market comes from India and Pakistan. "Wide belly" is a general term, as long as the body is relatively large, it is called "wide belly". Wide abdomen is divided into male and female. The male "broad-bellied male" is shaped like a saddle, with a thick belly in the middle and thin sides with V-stripes. The texture is firm, thick, dry and light, golden yellow is the best and translucent. It is firm and elastic after cooking. As for the "wide belly", it is slightly round and flat, shaped like a wavy plate, with a horizontal or wavy body, which is thinner, slightly inferior in texture and taste, and the price is 40% to 50% cheaper.
Adhesive binding (abdominal binding)
Originated in Central and South America, it was originally called "long belly" in the local area, with a long and narrow abdomen, and the word "narrow" was later written as "Zagreb" in the industry. Binding is also divided into male and female, with a thick belly and good appearance. It is easy to turn into glutinous rice flour after boiling and stick to teeth. The glue is thin and thick, and it is not easy to dissolve when cooking.
Braised fish belly with duck
Commonly known as the flower rubber tube, the "soaked duck" is named after its unopened shape like a purse. It mainly comes from Panama in Central America. It is a kind of swim bladder of freshwater grass bass. Its characteristics are neither tough nor brittle, and its price is moderate. Housewives often make soup by soaking ducks in fish bellies.
Fish tripe with flower heart
It's a fish belly with a dry inner bag. Some fishermen bask in the belly of fish on the shore, and sometimes it rains too late to harvest it, so the outside is dry and the inner bag is not dry enough. This kind of stomach is not suitable for eating.