The Jin and Song dynasties were making intensive preparations, and the war was about to break out. The village was close to running out of food, and the beehives and bamboo insects could no longer be found. What should we do? At this time, Qian Manyu saw Ni Ren coming down from the edge of the dangerous rock, carrying Ni Ren on his back.
A big tree root walked away happily
Come down. What is this? There is no shortage of firewood in the village, so Zhao Kui is very surprised. He puts down the tree root and says: "This is enough for fifty of us to eat for three days. There are some growing on the side of the rock, which are too big.
I can't carry it, so I'll eat it together and it will last for ten days."
Can tree roots be eaten? I have only heard of eating grass roots and chewing tree bark, but never heard of eating tree roots. Zhao Kui stared at him suspiciously and looked again and again. He said: "This is not an ordinary tree root, it is kudzu root."
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Pueraria lobata can be ground into powder, and Pueraria lobata is a food for longevity. Zhao Hui, a Taoist priest in Xianju, has heard of it, but he never knew what Pueraria lobata looked like. Hearing what he said, he became interested. Ni Ren took a knife and chopped the Pueraria lobata.
Cut it into small pieces, smash it with stones and filter it with coarse cloth. Put the filtrate into a water tank and said to Zhao Hui: "My boss will come over tomorrow morning and you will see a layer of white powder at the bottom. This is how the kudzu powder comes from."
Trapped in the village, food was a big concern for everyone. Seeing the turbid water in the water tank gradually clearing up, everyone saw hope and were very excited. It was so sleepy that they couldn't bear it, so they left with great reluctance.
water tank.
In the middle of the night, Zhou Ling woke up screaming in the tent. Next to him, his younger brother Zhou Guojiang was lying, and he also screamed. The two siblings asked each other, "What did you dream about just now?"
Zhou Ling calmed down, patted his chest with his hand and said: "In my dream, I dreamed of sister An Xiangyi. She said that due to the invasion of Jin soldiers, no idlers were allowed to live in the military camp, so she and Zhu Yuanwai's family moved to the dock. That day
In the morning, everyone at the dock heard that the soldiers had died because of gold.
The army was so strong that they wanted to abandon Caishiji and flee south. Everyone dragged their families and fled for their lives. In the crowd, they were squeezed into the water and drowned. Tianmu accepted her as the Queen Mother's private chef because of her merit in recording recipes, and said that she was
The Heavenly Palace is waiting for us, and we look forward to meeting you in the future."
On this trip, Zhu Yuanwai and An Xiangyi's family could not climb the mountain because they each had babies, so they did not go to Jilong Mountain with everyone else. After catching fish, they returned to the barracks.
Zhou Guojiang also had the same dream. When he thought about it, stabilizing people's hearts is the first priority now. He said to his sister: "I think about it every day and dream about it at night. Sister An lives in the south of the Yangtze River, which is better than us."
We need to be safe when we are surrounded by Jin soldiers, not to mention having Zhu Yuanwai and his family taking care of us."
Zhou Ling thought about it and realized that it was right, so he said to his younger brother: "I can't sleep anyway, let's go see if there is kudzu powder in the water tank."
It was already getting light, so they looked down and found a layer of white powder at the bottom of the tank. After pouring out the upper layer of water, they scraped out the lower layer of powder, which weighed thirty or forty kilograms.
With arrowroot powder, how to cook is not a problem for a group of big cooks. They heat up the pot, brush a layer of oil on the bottom, and mix arrowroot powder and water at a ratio of one to four.
Mix the proportions and pour it evenly into the pot. After a while, a translucent pancake is revealed, sprinkle some salt and pepper on it, and it becomes a delicious pancake with a fragrant aroma. I don’t know.
How many days will it take for the Jin soldiers to spread their siege? In order to save spices, the cooks deliberately fry the kudzu root cake until it is slightly burnt, so that it can emit a natural burnt aroma.
"Zhaojun's Resent·Kudzu Root Cake"
Dig up a frame of kudzu root and chop it into pieces with a sharp knife. After soaking in water, the foundation will sink.
Collect arrowroot powder and beat into paste, slowly pour it into the hot pot, spread it into a cake, and eat it with the ingredients.
One cake per person only used about five kilograms of kudzu powder. Soon, the remaining kudzu roots were dug out. However, the second kudzu root dug out seemed to be more, and the powder extraction rate was not as high as that of the first taproot.
More than forty pounds of kudzu root powder.
Lieutenant Lin convened various shopkeepers to discuss: "The Jin soldiers have come from afar to fight quickly. It is estimated that after the deployment of troops is completed, they will have a decisive battle with the Song Dynasty in the near future. Now, although kudzu powder can temporarily satisfy hunger, it is not as good as
Meat or rice can replenish physical energy. You see, it has only been four or five days and everyone has lost a lot of weight. Think about it, what else can you find to eat?"
All the snakes, rats, bamboo insects, and bee pupae have been eaten, so what else is left? Everyone looked at the bare village. The wood and stones were all used as anti-unloading tools, and the bamboo shoots were basically dug up.
Everyone was silent. Finally, Ke Daxiong said: "While digging bamboo shoots, I also dug out a lot of cicada pupae. Since bee pupae can be eaten, maybe cicada pupae are the same. Tonight, I will test the poison. I will go first.
Dig a few and see how you burn them."
Zheng Fu knew that most insects would become crispy and non-toxic after being exposed to the high temperature of hot oil, including scorpions that were originally discolored by people. Of course, no one could guarantee it until they tried it. He raised his hand and signaled
He handles the ingredients and presides over how to cook them.
After a while, Ke Da Chong dug up a dozen cicada pupae. Zheng Fu looked at them, blanch them in water for a while, then cut them in half with a knife, took out a dark brown hard core inside, and drained it.
After a while, the aroma will come out. This aroma is completely different from the fragrance of bamboo worms. It is strong and will make people appetite when they smell it.
The name of Cicada Chrysalis was not very pleasant. Zhao Kui remembered the story about Tang Zang's Buddhist scriptures that he had heard in the academy. He called it Jin Chanzi and thought of a name called Jianjin Chanzi Chrysalis.
"Autumn Waves· Fried Golden Cicada Chrysalis"
Blanch the cicada pupa and cut it in half, remove the middle core. Drain the water and add hot oil. Fry and stir-fry and add spices. It is as fragrant as spring flowers. The shell is crispy and the inside is soft and waxy, which is also intoxicating.
Ke Da Chong tasted it, closed his eyes with a look of enjoyment, and said: "It's delicious. It has a different taste from bamboo insects. The outer shell is soft and crispy, but the inside is soft and glutinous, with a hint of salty taste."
It tastes so delicious that you will even admit it is poisonous to death."
"Crow's Mouth." Lieutenant Lin scolded: "Give me a good sleep and don't move around. We are still counting on it to give us strength tomorrow."
The next day, Ke DaCui clutched his stomach and screamed in pain. He was fine last night but complained of pain in the morning. Could it be that the cicada chrysalis was a chronic poison? Captain Lin came over and rolled his eyelids, but found nothing abnormal.
Suddenly, he stood up and said with a smile: "These cicada pupae are definitely edible. I will dig some in the bamboo forest to satisfy everyone's hunger."
After saying that, he stood up and ran into the bamboo forest. More than ten people followed him and started digging with knives.
This cicada pupa is not easy to find, nor is it easy to dig out. It is not like a bunch of bamboo insects, but they are found alone one by one. After digging for a long time and searching through the bamboo forest, I only found about two hundred.
Each person can only get four or five.
"It's better than nothing. It can be used as a dish when making kudzu starch soup in the evening." Captain Lin ordered, climbed to the top of the mountain again, observed the situation between the enemy and ourselves, and set off a beacon fire to tell Cui Shiji about the soldiers he had detected.
Affection.
After returning from the beacon tower on the top of the mountain, he frowned and said: "The Jin soldiers are mobilizing frequently today. In less than three days, there will be a big battle between the two sides."