Returning to the Pastoral: Mrs. Yipin

Chapter 99 Making Fish Balls and Shrimp Balls

Sliced ​​all the fish, and made two big pots. Looking at the many fish fillets, Su Yun was a little embarrassed: It seems that there is too much fish, and there is no meat grinder or electric egg beater in this era. , completely by hand, making fish balls is a physical effort!
But thinking of the deliciousness of the fish balls, Ms. Su is also ready to go all out.Fortunately, Erlang, Lu Xi'er, and Lu Huan'er were there to help, taking turns to chop the fish meat, pick out the fish bones, and then add salt, cooking wine, onion and ginger water soaked in onion and ginger, and beat the blended starch together.

When the fish meat is combined with salt, the salt-soluble protein in the fish meat will reorganize into a network structure in the process of beating and beating, and finally become a fine and shiny fish paste. Once the paste is released, the fish The pill is almost ready.

Put a large pot of water, boil it, squeeze out a ball of beaten fish paste, put it in the tiger's mouth and squeeze it, a round, white, fat and cute fish ball is rolled into the water, and it can be taken out after a little scalding .

The most critical step in making fish balls is on the word "beating". Whether the fish balls are good or not depends on how well the "beating" is done. The adjusted water starch should be added in three times until the fish meat is completely cooked. Fish paste can be extruded into shape and boiled in water.

It must be impossible to eat so many fish balls at one time.But it doesn't matter, the weather is cold at this time, as long as the fish balls are soaked in water, they will not spoil.

When it's time to eat, take some out, add a few meatballs, put a little soaked mushrooms, fungus and pork skin, and add a handful of spinach, it will be absolutely delicious.If possible, change the spinach into winter bamboo shoots, put a few quail eggs, and it will be the famous three-flavored soup in Changzhou City in later generations.

The fish balls should be boiled quickly, and they should be taken out when they are slightly cooked. Otherwise, if the fish balls are cooked for a long time, the fish balls will easily expand, and then they will not last long. The fish balls swell slightly, and the round and snow-white appearance is not to mention how mouth-watering.

The three of them took turns to work together, and after a whole morning, they finally finished the fish balls. At noon, the family ate Sanxian soup. Waiting for freshness enhancers, the flavor will never be worse than modern ones, but more delicious.

After a good meal, I drove the younger children to take a nap, while I continued to squeeze the shrimp with the two older children.

It was a very interesting job.Now Miss Su, who is rich and powerful, picks prawns from Chongming Island, Hu County, Songzhou.

This kind of sea prawn has a thin shell, is big, and has firm and delicious meat. It is best used to make pork and shrimp balls.There was another burst of knocking. The pork in this pork and shrimp ball is a bit particular. You have to choose the best tenderloin, marinate it with starch, and then chop it finely until the pork is completely mashed. Just pinch it with your hands until you don't feel any particles.

This is also physical work. While chopping meat, Su Yun misses the electric cooking machine in his previous life very much. It would be great to have one at this time...

With tears in her eyes, a certain girl brandished a kitchen knife, making herself covered in stinky sweat. After finally chopping up all the pork, Miss Su suddenly thought of a trick: the electric one doesn’t work, you can use a hand-cranked one. what!

Otherwise, if you eat fish balls and shrimp balls in the future, you will have to toss so much, won't you be exhausted?
She felt that her arms were no longer her own. The shrimp had already been handed over to Erlang to chop, but after the shrimp was chopped, the pork and shrimp had to be whipped together, just like making fish balls. It is not finished until the pulp is kneaded into a ball and boiled in a pan.

Alas, eating delicious food is really not easy. Even in modern times, making shrimp balls and fish balls is quite troublesome.Come to this cheating ancient times, if you want to satisfy your appetite, it seems that you have to use your brains and make some convenient tools, otherwise you will rely on the current backward tools, and before Miss Su can make money, it will be gone. I've exhausted myself to death.

After resting for a while, after making all the shrimp balls, take out some of the shrimp balls, let them dry out a little bit of water, and then roll them in the flour. Unfortunately, there is no bread crumbs in this era. If you roll some more For bread crumbs, fry them in a frying pan, and it will be a delicious snack for children.

But these are not difficult for Ms. Su, who loves to eat. She prepared it last night. She steamed the noodles made at home to make steamed buns, and then tore them into small pieces by hand, and then cut them with a knife. Make it more dense, put it in a colander and put it in the oil pan for a while, and then take it out after the color turns golden.

This is done to allow the water in the steamed bread crumbs to evaporate, so that it tastes dry like bread crumbs.Take out these fine and precious ancient bread crumbs, roll the prawn balls dipped in flour on them, and then put them in the oil pan to fry them. After they are all golden, they can be taken out, and the oil can be drained. have eaten.

The only fly in the ointment is that there are no tomatoes in this season, otherwise, boil some tomato sauce by yourself, dip some red tomato sauce, golden and red, take a bite, the tenderness of pork is combined with the deliciousness of prawns, flour Wrap most of the juice, take a sip, the juice is full of fragrance, and the feeling of springy and refreshing blooms in the mouth, combined with the sweet and sour tomato flavor, it is really a great enjoyment in life!

Although the decoration of tomato is missing, it has never been seen before, and the fresh food tasted still captured the hearts of several children at once.They had never tasted this kind of food before. Lu Erlang and Lu Xi'er were the first to try it. After eating one, they couldn't stop. After a while, they ate up a plate of shrimp balls.

The two looked at each other, thinking of their younger siblings who were still taking a nap, the two bosses blushed a little, feeling quite embarrassed.

Su Yun was delighted to see it, and comforted him: "There's still more here, let's do it slowly, and when Yuan'er and the others wake up, it should be done. I won't know that the two of you have already eaten a plate."

"Sister-in-law..."

The two older children who were teased by Su Yun blushed even more, Su Yun chuckled lightly, and then said: "Later, you share some, and send some to your seventh and eighth uncles to try something new. "

Paused, thought for a while and said: "Send some to the third young master."

"Got it, sister-in-law, we'll send it to them when it's done. Do you want to send the fish balls too?" Lu Erlang asked.

Su Yun nodded, for some reason, that dude's face suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, originally he had no place for him, but when that face appeared in front of his eyes, the image of baring his teeth and yelling that he was not kind appeared, Su Yun smiled lightly at first, and then thought, he should send some to him, otherwise it would be really unkind.

PS: Ask weakly, is there any recommendation tickets? (*^__^*)
(End of this chapter)