Returning to the ranch, Assol started marinating the wild boar meat.
It’s similar to the method of marinating pork in Chen Mo’s hometown, but it uses a lot of spices that Chen Mo can’t name.
Canlby and his wife make lunch.
Chen Mo took Bai Xiaoou and the others to the mountains to dig ginseng.
Understory ginseng is artificially sown into a mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest composed of trees, shrubs, and weeds. It grows naturally without artificial intervention.
Ginseng is cultivated not only in China, but also in the United States and Canada. As for other places, Chen Mo didn't know much about it, but he estimated that it was also there.
Understory ginseng can be sold in five years. It usually takes seven years to sell it at a good price... American ginseng, which is ten years old, can be sold as wild ginseng. Anyway, not many people can tell the difference between understory ginseng and American ginseng.
Pure wild American ginseng... American ginseng that has been under the forest for ten years has been sorted. American ginseng with good quality can be purchased for US$500 per kilogram (dried ginseng), shipped price.
American ginseng with ordinary appearance can only be sold for about US$150 per kilogram (dried ginseng).
1 kilogram is 1000 grams, and 1 US dollar is 1 gram. It cannot be said to be particularly expensive, but it is not cheap either.
If it is the big American ginseng that Chen Mo gave to Bai Xiaoou before, the wet weight of that American ginseng is more than 1 kilogram, and the quality is also very good. Such American ginseng will be selected and sold separately...
1 kilogram of wet American ginseng can weigh 350 grams after drying. Some are super large American ginseng. The best American ginseng can sell for two to three thousand dollars. Such American ginseng is rarely produced even in greenhouses.
Not to mention growing naturally in mountains and forests.
There are very few large American ginseng. Chen Mo dug up more than a thousand ginseng. Ginseng with a wet weight of 500 grams is very rare and can be picked out and sold individually.
The older the ginseng is, the less water it contains. For example, an 8-year-old ginseng has a wet weight of 500 grams and a dry weight of at least 150 grams. It is also a very large ginseng.
Chen Mo didn't know this when he first dug ginseng. If he had known earlier, Chen Mo would have definitely transplanted the super-large ginseng into space and harvested the ginseng seeds to cultivate high quality.
"Thirty ginseng, is that enough?" Chen Mo dug up the ginseng for Bai Xiaoou and the others and said after cleaning it.
"Digging a few more ginseng. I used the largest ginseng you sent me to soak in wine, and the other two ginseng soaked in wolfberry and red dates. I felt very good after eating it for a few days. I felt a lot more relaxed.
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"Ginseng cannot be eaten as dry food." Chen Mo dug out a dozen more ginseng: "After eating, I will call and send them to you."
"Okay." Bai Xiaoou packed up the ginseng: "I plan to send a few ginseng to my mother, and also send a few to Zhang Kun's parents. Domestic ginseng with guaranteed quality is too expensive, and I am afraid of cheap ginseng.
It’s the problem ginseng.”
"This is a rich man's disease and hypocrisy. Even if there are differences in the efficacy of wild ginseng, forest ginseng, and garden ginseng, they are all ginseng, and the difference in efficacy should not be particularly big."
"What you said is wrong, go ahead and don't say it outside..." Bai Xiaoou rolled his eyes: "You are a big ginseng grower, you must at least have a heart of awe. Even if the ginseng here is average, you
You also have to believe that this is the best ginseng...you get what you pay for. If you want your ginseng to sell at a high price, at least you have to think that the ginseng here is very good and authentic."
"I'm too lazy to talk nonsense with you..." Chen Mo dug out another twenty or so with a hoe: "Dry them and send some to my house. The ranch is too remote. The nearest post office is thirty miles away."
There aren't many other things in the pasture, but there are especially a lot of ginseng.
Ginseng is really difficult to understand, and there are many different things in it.
For example, for ginseng grown in Marathon County, the average price of dry ginseng is about US$150 for 1 kilogram at wholesale price. In total, 1 kilogram of wet ginseng is about US$35 for garden ginseng, which is 5 years old.
This is considered a high price.
In China, American ginseng is also grown. The cheap wet American ginseng is about 40 yuan per kilogram, and the wholesale price is 35 years old.
There are also expensive garden ginseng and understory ginseng.
Selling ginseng at a high price is also a skill.
Back to the ranch, where Canlby and the others live, this is the large pastoral area...
The large pasture area is in the southeast of the snow-capped mountains, an irregular quadrilateral. The land is flat and slightly undulating, and the vegetation in the semi-arid climate area is sparse. The large pasture area is composed of perennial pastures, such as fescue, purple alfalfa, timothy and other mixed pastures.
There is not much pasture, only exposed brown sand, gravel, and even large areas of desert without any vegetation.
The workers' residential area is 2 kilometers away from where Chen Mo lives. The nearest neighbor of Snow Mountain Ranch is Roger Fork Ranch. The two ranches are next to each other, but it is 5 kilometers away from the residential area of Roger Fork Ranch...
It is very normal to live in a pastoral area for ten and a half months without seeing other people.
With the snow-capped mountains on the back and the desolate grassland facing the desolate grassland, the most heard sound is the howling wind. The snow-capped mountain pasture is not as beautiful as imagined, nor is it particularly bad...
The Ford pickup truck with excellent off-road performance was running in the wilderness, and the wheels kicked up dust all over the sky. This scene really made me want to scream.
Wild boar has a muttony smell, just like beef or mutton. The muttony smell is very special. People who have eaten it can easily distinguish it when they eat wild boar.
Chinese people like game, which is formed by China’s special cooking methods and culture. Most Americans like to eat beef. The cooking method of beef is simple and you can make delicious food casually. But wild boar is different and it is difficult to handle it well.
Swallow it below.
Each place has different ways of processing food. For hunters, they have their own way of processing wild boar as a delicacy.
In the kitchen, Mary was simmering pork bone soup. There was marinated pork in the yard, with a lot of spices that Chen Mo didn't know about, ready for barbecue...
A rack was set up outside Athol's house, and the male wild boar was still being processed.
This male wild boar is very big, weighing 48 kilograms after slaughter. The meat of the big wild boar is very refined and relatively old. It is delicious only after being pickled and made into old bacon. If you want to eat old bacon, Athol said that at least
You have to wait for three months, smoke, store, smoke again... repeat this many times, and then put it in a cool and ventilated place to wait for natural fermentation. Only in this way will the smell of wild boar be faded, and not only can you eat it directly
, can also be used for cooking and so on, it is very fragrant.
A similar practice is very common in the old rural areas of China, that is, Zaotou bacon.
The meat of the young wild boar is tender and suitable for many cooking methods. It is often used for barbecue and tastes very fragrant.
Of course, I heard what Asol said. Although Chen Mo lives in a rural mountain, he has never eaten real wild boar meat.
The lunch meal will not be eaten until after three o'clock in the afternoon.
First, I drank a bowl of bone soup, gnawed on the meat on the bones, and grilled it.
There are not many seasonings in the broth, just salt, pepper, and a small half of ginseng. Changbai Mountain ginseng stews the soup with a ginseng flavor (herbal flavor), which is very light and tastes good.
"This soup is good. It will be better if you drink it in winter." Chen Mo said with a smile. After drinking a bowl of soup, Chen Mo felt warm and comfortable.
"This is my new soup. I've seen Chinese soup on the Internet, and I probably simmered it and drank it." Mary said with a smile.
Americans also make soup.
Traditionally, American soups are thick soups that are so viscous that you can stand up a chopstick in the soup without pouring it over.
The meat is grilled directly on the wire mesh. There is not much sauce on it, just pepper and salt. In addition, grill a few pieces of fat meat. When the fat meat is oily, apply the oil from the fat meat to the lean meat, and the aroma will come out.