Chapter 394: There are many things to pay attention to when eating crabs [Second update please vote]
Chapter 394: There are many things to pay attention to when eating crabs [Second update please vote]
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At noon, Shi Xiulan cooked a lot of delicious dishes. Yesterday's fish, shrimp, and crab were all used, especially the fried grass shrimp. It looked red and wrapped in a layer of brown puff pastry. It was not served yet. The three little guys
Already eyeing it. Steamed crabs, served with a lot of ingredients and a bottle of Gule old rice wine on the table.
At noon, Li Feng accompanied Mangu and had two drinks. Each of the children packed a big crab. Shi Xiulan taught him on the side, and the children followed suit. Unfortunately, the tools were not complete. Li Feng had seen others
To eat crabs, a set of tools is available, and the food is elegant. The way of eating and drinking is divided into civil and martial arts, and martial arts eat with pleasure. Wen eats with tools. At this time, I used two crabs, which Shi Xiulan bought at the supermarket yesterday.
It can be seen that the two tools are quite easy to use and do not require much.
"Haha, baby, you can't hold it like this." Li Feng saw his little girl waving the spoon and inserting it into the crab shell, and quickly stopped her. This plastic spoon is not made of fine steel and is not afraid of breaking. Li Feng took out the pliers
Cut off the unnecessary parts and pry open the crab shell. This is a female crab. You cannot eat it after removing it, revealing the yellow crab roe. This is the most delicious and nutritious thing on the crab. Crab roe is rich in protein.
, phospholipids and other nutrients, it is rich in nutrients and is best eaten by children. Of course, the elderly should try to eat male crabs. Although crab roe is rich in nutrients and contains a lot of fat and cholesterol, eating it by the elderly is not very good for the body. Although male crabs have no
Crab roe contains crab paste and is no less nutritious than crab roe. There was an old saying in the past, "nine females and ten males." This means that female crabs are eaten in September and male crabs are eaten in October. Now it happens to be the beginning of September in the lunar calendar. It's really
It’s a good time to eat female crabs.(《》)
"Let's go to Xiaobao. This man is old and his hands and feet are no longer flexible." Shi Xiulan helped Qi Qi get a crab. She was already a little tired, but Ling Dang was quite capable. She had already started eating. After finishing the crab roe, she started to eat.
Crab meat. Li Feng thought maybe his grandpa often made crabs, and there was a table of eight pieces of crabs in his house. There were four sets in total, all made of silver. I heard that his grandpa’s ancestors were bandits who robbed them from rich people in the city. Li Feng
I have seen it before, it looks a bit old.
"Dad, Huang Dongdong is so delicious." Baby Li used a small spoon to dig the crab roe into his mouth bit by bit. He ate it beautifully. He didn't even use the seasonings. He steamed the crabs and put some specific ingredients in the pot.
Crabs make crab roe delicious. Although Li Feng is not a big foodie, he does know a lot about crabs. There are not many others in the mountains, including river crabs, at least three kinds of mountain crabs, and hairy crabs. There are many kinds of crabs. There are different ways to eat them.
Different. However, the effects of using the eight pieces of crab are almost the same. Li Feng went to his grandfather's house when he was a child, and his grandfather taught him some.
"Haha, Xiaobao knows the origin of these tools." As a history teacher, Man Gu knows a lot about some literati anecdotes. He often talks to his daughter and grandson at home. As for Li Feng, Man Ying said that Jiang Dacai, maybe these things are still there
I really know. Eating and drinking may not necessarily be for the sake of eating and drinking. Sometimes some stories, anecdotes, and fables from ancient times are a bit unnecessary to eat.
Li Feng smiled slightly, maybe he didn't know much about anything else, but he still knew something about the eight pieces of crabs. Speaking of which, the history of this thing's appearance is not that long, but only in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the past, literati and elegant people ate and drank, but they were not ordinary people.
Comparable. People don’t need to consider time when eating and drinking. If you have time, you must find something to do when eating and drinking. It can’t just be eating vegetables and drinking. How tacky.
Eating crabs is also very common. Eating crabs is called crab tasting among literati. It is a cultural enjoyment for others. When appreciating chrysanthemums, reciting poems and eating crabs, everyone has a set of special tools. The Holy Church was the first to invent the use of tools to eat crabs.
The man was a man named Caoshu in the Ming Dynasty. He was a crab lover. He usually ate too much, but he always felt that the movement of eating crabs was not elegant enough, and it took a lot of effort to eat crabs. He could not enjoy it with everyone. In order to enjoy the food, he also
Able to have fun with everyone and eat with elegance, this man invented the hammer, knife, pliers, and later gradually invented eight items.
"Although our ancestors began to eat crabs more than 2,000 years ago, the use of tools was only after the Ming Dynasty." Li Feng said with a smile, while helping several children to open the crab shells and open the crab legs with pliers.
The little guy is not strong enough. The design of these pliers is not exquisite, but they only cost three or two yuan. Nowadays, eight pieces of crabs made of fine steel only cost tens of yuan, but few people use them. They are not as good as in the past. In the past, small landowners had a few in their homes.
It is not a set of crab-eating tools.
"Yes, this eight-piece round hammer, small square table, tweezers, long-handled axe, spoon, long-handled fork, scraper, and needle are rarely used nowadays." Man Gu sighed with emotion, and the eight pieces of crab were not actually used.
It's a lot, but few people have this skill nowadays, and there are only a few people who really appreciate crabs.
"No, literati also have a certain elegance in eating. This crab-eating tool has three pieces (ding, stick, hammer), four pieces, six pieces, eight pieces, ten pieces, twelve pieces, and later developed to the peak of its heyday.
The set of crab-eating tools actually has as many as sixty-four pieces. The ancients had extremely high requirements for eating and drinking." Li Feng only knew a little bit about the eight pieces of crabs, but he was very concerned about the most advanced way to eat crabs, the sixty-four pieces.
I am yearning for it, where is the food? It is a kind of ultimate culture. What you eat is not just crabs, but also has five thousand years of cultural accumulation.
"Xiaobao, you're right. The ancients didn't do it for food, but for elegance. It's really fascinating." The old man has a bit of a literati temperament.
"You, really, what are you doing when you talk about eating? Baby, don't listen to your grandpa. Eat more quickly. Only when you are chubby will you be cute." Shi Xiulan rolled her eyes at her wife in annoyance, what did she say?
Yes, eat.
"Haha, uncle, come on, let's have a drink." Li Feng smiled and raised his wine glass. The old man looked at each other, laughed, and drank and ate.
Speaking of the eight pieces of crab, it is quite interesting. The eight pieces of crab include a small square table, a round hammer, a long-handled axe, a long-handled fork, round-head scissors, tweezers, a drill, and a small spoon. They have pads, knockers, splitters, and forks respectively.
, cut, clip, pick, hold and other functions, beautiful appearance, shiny, exquisite and easy to use. The crabs are steamed and served to the table, steaming hot, and the crab eaters put the crabs on the small square table.
Use round-head scissors to cut off the two large claws and eight crab legs one by one. Use a round hammer to gently tap around the crab shell. Then use a long-handled ax to split the back shell and belly button. Then take a drill and tweezers.
Fork, hammer, pick or clamp, fork or knock, to take out the golden and shiny crab roe or the milky white and sticky crab paste, to take out the snow-white and tender crab meat, each tool is used in turn, each function is played alternately, like a spring.
Play a melodious food song. When you use a small spoon to scoop in the dipping sauce, pick up the crab shell and eat it, it is really a fairy-like happiness with endless flavor.
Li Feng and the old man were talking about interesting things about crabs. The more they chatted, the more they became more and more speculative. When Shi Xiulan saw Li Feng joking with her old man, she fell in love with Li Feng more and more. Teachers like students who study well the most.
My daughter is marrying an uneducated person. Besides, if my grandson has a father who doesn’t know anything, how will he study in the future? Xiaoying is so busy, so he and his wife can’t be with him every day, right?
"Xiaobao, don't you know, these eight pieces of crabs were quite meaningful to us during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. At that time, they were used as a dowry for a daughter's wedding." The old man was quite proud and pointed at the baby with the scoop.
Shao, he said with a smile. According to folklore, in the late Qing Dynasty, the daughter of a wealthy businessman got married in Changmen, Su Zhou Dynasty. According to the custom at the time, all the dowry should be decorated with red silk on the day before the hairdressing ceremony, and placed accordingly.
On the street, let the neighbors admire it. The wealthy businessman also took the opportunity to show off. On that day, the people watching the dowry were very lively. Amidst the constant praise, a craftsman said: "There are ninety-nine items in the dowry. If you add one more
'Eight pieces of crab', that's perfect!" After hearing this, the wealthy businessman felt that what he said was reasonable, so he asked the craftsman to make "eight pieces of crab" overnight that night. The next day, on the happy day, the words "Flying into a prosperous career" were written on it.
The "Eight Crab Pieces" were watched and admired by people at the groom's family, causing a sensation. Therefore, in the future, people in Suzhou and Zhou Dynasty liked to use the "Eight Crab Pieces" as one of the dowries when they married their daughters.
"Grandma, what is a dowry? The baby wants it too." The baby was eating the crab roe beautifully, but her little ears were perked up to listen to the conversation between her father and grandpa. When she heard about the dowry, the little girl couldn't help but ask.
"Okay, okay, when our baby gets married, how about doing a lot of things?" Several adults laughed, so that the girl has everything to do with her.
"The baby also wants big crabs, lots of crabs." The little girl stretched out her little arm and gestured, and Li Feng scratched the little girl's nose.
"Dad will raise a pond of crabs for you, little one. Do you know what marriage is and what dowry is?" Li Feng hung his little nose and cleaned some inedible things from the crabs on the side, removing the crab lungs and hearts.
Crab stomach and crab intestines, bend the crab body to both sides, so that the crab roe can be eaten. Not only the hair on both sides of the crab meat, remove it quickly, use pliers to crack the pliers. After Li Feng did this, he first handed it to the two old people,
child.
"Dad, you eat." The baby saw that his father had been busy for a long time without taking a bite. The little girl used a spoon to dig out a big spoonful of crab roe, which was the most delicious. Dad must like it. Li Feng laughed and opened his mouth to wait.
The baby feeds itself. "Wow, the baby feeds daddy, but daddy is so shy that the baby doesn't even want to be fed by mommy."
"Xiaobao, stop being busy, come and eat some food." The more Shi Xiulan looked at it, the more she liked Li Feng. He was an honest man and had a high level of education. The old man didn't say anything to the child, and he brought a lot with him every time he came over.
Souvenirs, children like this are really rare these days.
"Yes, Xiaobao, let's eat some food and let's have a few more drinks." Mangu usually has no one to drink with him, so why is he so happy to have someone to accompany him today? He has earned a lot of face in front of some old brothers today.
