I once heard a client talk about his hometown’s experience in the lean years of the 1950s and 1960s.
He said that crops have always had a season of spring planting and autumn harvest.
There is a folk proverb in the countryside: "The gods are sad in February and August."
At that time, the fields were dry, and the people relied on the mountains to eat, so they often went to the mountains to catch " There are several silt rivers in the ravine.
After heavy rains, many giant shrimps on the mountain will escape from the silt rivers and go up the hillside to avoid the floods.
What the locals call "toads" is what we call "toads".
The toads in the silt river grow fat and big because of the abundant water and grass.
After the rain, large groups of toads jump up the hillside, which is how the villagers solve the food problem. great opportunity One person carries a few sacks up the mountain and catches clams.
At the end of the day, he can fill several large sacks.
The family cannot eat so much, so he takes advantage of the time when the clams are still alive and have not yet died of suffocation.
Replace it with some oil, salt and tea leaves.
Restaurants in the city have a very particular way of cooking it.
It is simmered in a clay pot with Huadiao, simmered slowly, and mushrooms, ham, bamboo shoots and other ingredients are added to accompany it.
The whole thing is fragrant and delicious, and the five flavors are harmonious.
It is specially for those who can afford it.
Enjoyed by dignitaries, it can also be regarded as a famous dish in the Tao.
Ordinary people just use a big pot to boil the water, and there is no need to kill and wash the live fat toads.
They just throw them into the boiling water while they are still alive and kicking, and don't wait for them to jump out of the pot.
Press down with lid.
At this time, I heard the toads struggling and flopping in the pot.
In a moment, the hot water started to boil, and the pot was fragrant.
When I opened the lid and looked at it, each of the toads that had been cooked alive had their mouths open and stared tightly.
Hug a piece of potato or radish, because the toad was tortured by water and fire in the pot, and the pain was unbearable before it died.
There were all kinds of pain, so I had to hug the potato or radish desperately and not let go until death.
When cooking toads in the countryside, they usually use this cruel method.
They take the hot dead toad out of the pot and eat it together with the potatoes and radishes in its arms.
It tastes as delicious as a fat chicken.
At that time, I didn’t really believe this statement.
After all, I had never heard that toads could be eaten like this.
They didn’t wash or rinse them before putting them in the pot, and they didn’t even remove the internal organs.
Can I not get sick after eating them?
Until the Spring Festival of the year before last, I took a train to Dalian and listened to two college students chatting in the carriage.
One of them owned a river for his family.
Every time it rained, the whole family would carry buckets to catch toads and eat them in the same way as mine.
A customer friend said it very closely.
This is an important side job in their local area and can add a lot of extra income throughout the year.
I was very curious, so I asked him in detail, and then I found out that it was a kind of "forest frog", which has high nutritional value and can be exported to Japan and other places
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