"Is there such a thing?" Jin Yao said in surprise. He did not suspect that Han Peacock was deceiving him. After all, if he thought about it carefully, he would know that Han Peacock had indeed discovered another skull on the opposite side of the previously discovered one.
A Hericium erinaceus.
"They can't be lovers, right? They always appear in pairs." Huang Shan had no other thoughts, he just felt strange.
Han Peacock said with a smile: "Don't tell me, there is such a legend about Hericium. It is said that when Sun Wukong protected Tang Monk to go to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures, there was a pair of young monkeys on Huaguo Mountain who comforted and took care of each other, and fell in love.
The lovelorn fox was dazzled by jealousy and complained against them, so they were exiled to Ningupa in the frontier.
Unable to adapt to the cold there, they both froze to death. Before they died, they chose two oak trees that were not far apart and could look at each other as their final destination. After their death, they turned into Hericium mushrooms.
In the big forest, they still depend on each other and appear in pairs."
"If you appear in pairs, you have to find one first. If you can't find the first one, where will the second one come from?" Mu Ling was not fooled by Han Peacock.
Han Kongque said with a smile: "I just told you about the living environment of Hericium erinaceus. Do you blame me if you can't find it?"
"You must be hiding something, otherwise how could we not find anyone?" Huang Shan looked at Han Kongque, wanting to see if he was lying.
However, why did Han Peacock show abnormality?
"You can't blame the boss for being stupid. Besides, you can't see such a big Hericium mushroom growing on the tree. Can you blame me?" Han Peacock said with a smile.
The three people in Huangshan were speechless, but the monkey head was not visible and easy to find, but why couldn't they find it?
Seeing Han Kongque find two Hericium erinaceus again, not only the wood spirit was suspicious, but the golden demon was also suspicious.
"Russians are really wasteful. They don't even know how to collect such good things." The Korean peacock happily jumped up the tree and collected a monkey head that was more than ten centimeters from a tree branch three meters high. Of course,
There is also a Hericium head on another tree opposite this Hericium mushroom.
"Isn't this thing very rare?" Mu Lingcai said.
Han Kongque said: "Of course, even among fungi and vegetables, Hericium erinaceus is a relatively rare one, so Hericium erinaceus is a truly precious edible fungus and is listed as one of the Eight Mountain Treasures."
Mu Ling nodded and said: "That's right. Hericium erinaceus has very good efficacy and has a combination of nutrition and medicinal properties. It is well deserved to be one of the eight mountain treasures."
Han Peacock said with a smile: "In ancient times, there was a saying that monkey heads are found in the mountains and bird's nests are eaten in the sea. Therefore, monkey heads, shark's fins, bear paws, and bird's nests are also known as the four famous dishes."
"But this is too difficult to find." Mu Ling sighed.
While looking for it, Han Peacock said casually: "What's so difficult about this? Everyone knows that Hericium is a large fleshy fungus found in deep mountains and old forests. It likes to grow on broad-leaf tree trunk sections or tree holes.
Just look for some tree holes and the shade of tree branches. Pay special attention to the fact that there are no unventilated places. Also, it is impossible for Hericium to grow in places with too much ventilation, so you still can't find it.
Then you can only blame yourself for being stupid."
"Well, we know. It turns out that there is still such a condition. If we are targeted, we will definitely be able to find it." At this time, Mu Ling laughed and said.
Han Kongque suddenly realized that he seemed to have been fooled?
"Look, is that a monkey's head? But is it too small?" At this moment, the golden demon found a small mushroom in the hole of a lime tree.
Although this mushroom can already see a bit of the shape of Hericium erinaceus, it is completely white, but not yellow.
"It's Hericium. Hericium is white when it's young, and turns into a fluffy yellow-brown color when mature. From the shape and color, it looks like the head of a hairy monkey. It must be Hericium, but unfortunately it's too small.
No, we can only stay here and let it continue to grow." Han Peacock said.
It has to be said that Siberia, a country with a vast land, rich resources and sparsely populated resources, is really rich in resources. Let’s talk about the hericium here. If it were in China, it might have been searched over and over again. How could it be in such a small forest?
, just found a dozen Hericium erinaceus?
In the deep mountains here in Siberia, this situation should be very common.
So, for the next half day, they all searched for Hericium mushrooms in the jungle with great interest. After all, they could all eat them, but if the quantity was small, no one would be happy to eat them.
"It would be great if there were so many Hericium mushrooms in the mountains in China. I heard they are not cheap." After finding another Hericium mushroom in Huangshan, he said with emotion.
Han Kongque said: "This is not to blame for the domestic environment. It used to be that Hericium erinaceus existed in most areas of our country. However, now that there are no forests, where can Hericium erinaceus still grow?"
The Korean peacock is not lying about this. Hericium erinaceus is the fruiting body of Hericium ericaceae. It is distributed in North my country, Northeast China, Central South and Southeast, Southwest, Northwest and other places in China, and is harvested in summer and autumn.
Perhaps it is because Chinese people know some traditional Chinese medicine, so they know that Hericium erinaceus is sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and has the function of nourishing the spleen and qi, and aiding digestion.
Medicinal hericium has a very high nutritional value. The dried product contains 263 grams of protein per 100 grams, which is twice that of shiitake mushrooms.
It contains as many as 17 kinds of amino acids, of which 8 are needed by the human body.
Hericium contains 42 grams of fat per 100 grams. It is a veritable high-protein, low-fat food. It is also rich in various vitamins and inorganic salts.
Hericium can increase appetite, enhance gastric mucosal barrier function, increase lymphocyte transformation rate, and increase white blood cells. Therefore, it can improve the body's immunity to diseases.
Hericium is also a good nourishing food and has good curative effect on neurasthenia and digestive tract ulcers.
During the screening of anti-cancer drugs, it was found that it has significant anti-cancer effects on skin and muscle cancers.
Therefore, eating Hericium erinaceus regularly can enhance disease resistance if you are not sick, and can treat diseases if you are sick.
Therefore, from ancient times to the present, there is no one who does not like to eat Hericium erinaceus, and from ancient times to the present, over thousands of years, no matter how many Hericium erinaceus there are, the production will be reduced or even extinct.
"There are a lot of Hericium mushrooms in the market!" Jin Yao said.
"That's farmed." Mu Ling said.
"Are there really many? Why have I never seen them before?" Huang Shan said.
Han Kongque said: "The average person can't afford Hericium mushrooms costing hundreds of yuan per pound."
"It's better to eat some farmed ones! After all, it's also Hericium, and it's not easy to be fooled." Jin Yao said with a smile.
"Yes! As long as there are farms, there will be people using farmed Hericium erinaceus to pass off as wild Hericium erinaceus." At this point, the Chinese are still very smart and try to fake everything.
Otherwise, smart people have been making fake antiques from ancient times to the present, and then there would be no need for the appraiser industry to exist.
Let’s talk about Hericium erinaceus. In recent times, Hericium erinaceus seems to have increased in number. However, it is an artificially cultivated Hericium erinaceus. The artificially cultivated Hericium erinaceus fruiting body needs to be more than 3 months old before the fruiting body matures.
Remove it from time to time and dry it or use it fresh.
Most of the artificial cultivation is carried out in greenhouses, with unified planting, picking and drying. In recent years, there are also plantings imitating the wild environment, and Baoshan planted mycelium on tree trunks.
Because of the rarity, preciousness and deliciousness of Hericium erinaceus, the wild ones cannot meet people's needs. In recent years, artificially cultivated Hericium erinaceus has gradually appeared. It should be said that this is a good thing, so that more people can enjoy this delicious food.
But at the same time, problems also arise, that is, the supply and demand market has caused the price difference between the two to become wider and wider. Some people use farmed Hericium erinaceus and pass it off as wild Hericium erinaceus to sell.
What Huangshan said just now is right. The price of Hericium erinaceus is very high. The artificial one costs tens of yuan per catty, and the wild one costs hundreds of yuan per catty, or even higher.
Then the question arises, no one wants to be taken advantage of and deceived, so how to identify whether the Hericium mushrooms you want to buy are wild or artificially cultivated?
Identifying Hericium erinaceus is actually the same as identifying antiques. If you see many real wild Hericium erinaceus, you can recognize them at a glance when you look at farmed ones.
Once you have seen real wild Hericium erinaceus, it will be much easier to identify it. In fact, there are only a few methods. First, look at the color, look at the size and shape, look at the hair, look at the roots, second, weigh, third, smell, and fourth, eat.
I have found a lot of wild Hericium mushrooms, so naturally I want to eat them. This is the simplest way to identify them, and once you identify them, you will be impressed.
There are many ways to eat Hericium. It turns out that due to the relatively abundant sources of Hericium and the development of the culinary industry, the number of Hericium recipes in many cuisines has increased, including not only traditional dishes, but also innovative dishes.
For example, Liao cuisine’s Hericium braised bear paws, Hericium stewed with Feilong, Ji cuisine’s pearl Hericium, Heilongjiang cuisine’s duck legs Hericium mushrooms, Capital cuisine’s pine tree Hericium river! Southern cuisine’s capped Hericium mushrooms.
In addition to these, there are other cuisines such as Hericium braised with cabbage, white braised Hericium, braised Hericium, braised Hericium, braised Hericium with seaweed in clear soup, stewed pigeon with Hericium mushroom, stewed quail with Hericium, pheasant and Hericium casserole
, fried chicken with shredded hericium, chicken slices with monkey mushrooms, stuffed chicken with hericium, hibiscus hericium, cloud sliced hericium, royal fan hericium, braised deer tail hericium, etc.
Han Kongque is also considered a gourmet expert. When he opened the Red Mansion Restaurant, he studied various cuisines, so he is still very knowledgeable about the cooking of Hericium mushrooms.
"There should be flying dragons here, and there is no shortage of sika deer. Of course, there are also bear paws. The simpler ones include pheasants, pigeons, and quails. These can all be used with monkey heads to cook delicious food. You guys, take a look.
Instead of looking for dragons, especially flying dragons, it seems unreasonable for us not to eat dragon meat when we come here." Han Peacock said while handling the Hericium mushrooms.
"Dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat in the underground." In the Northeast, the dragon meat mentioned in the sky is the meat of the flying dragon. In the United States, Korean peacocks have also found hazel grouse, and the common name of that thing is "flying dragon". To be continued.