The worst time travel, surviving seven years of famine

The old man was very tired and the old man was very tired.

"Grandma, how are you going to eat this loach?" Gu Liang asked expectantly.

Old lady Gu said casually: "Either stew it in soup or fry it. Stewing soup can help to increase milk production, and frying loach can help to go with wine."

It must be said that in this era of food and clothing shortage, food ingredients are scarce, and even seasonings are very scarce. Before Gu Liang came, the Gu family only had two seasonings: salt and stinky bean paste made by themselves. Let alone chicken essence, MSG, oyster sauce, thirteen spices, etc. in later generations, there was not even soy sauce and vinegar. In the words of old lady Gu, soy sauce and vinegar are free. How can you not eat anything with salt?

People here usually only consider steaming, boiling, stewing and stir-frying when cooking. Frying, roasting and deep-frying are basically not seen because they waste oil. As for braised and stewed, I'm sorry, I have never heard of it.

At this moment, Gu Liang felt that his grandmother was insulting the ingredients. The loach stewed in clear soup would be so fishy. If it was stir-fried without oil, even the fishy mucus on the loach could not be removed.

Gu Liang thought to himself who said that there were many delicacies in ancient times. In one ounce of pepper, one ounce of gold, there is no trace of chili, cinnamon and star anise are not common, bay leaves and nutmeg are not heard of, soy sauce and vinegar are unaffordable, you say that cooking can be delicious, I admire you even if you don't admire anything.

Ordinary vegetables such as radish and cabbage are also delicious when stir-fried, the key is that this loach has its own fishy smell, if it is not cooked well, it has nothing to do with food.

Gu Liang could only hurriedly say: "Grandma, why don't you let me do it. I know a way to make this loach delicious and not fishy."

Grandma Gu was very confused. How could this loach not taste fishy when it burrows in the soil? However, this loach is not a valuable thing, so it is better to let her grandson try it. So she handed the basin with loach to Gu Liang and let him do it.

The first step to cook loach is to open the belly and remove the internal organs.

Gu Liang took the scissors and went to the stream. Gu Liang's second aunt was drawing water from the well not far from the stream. Seeing Gu Liang processing loaches, he couldn't help but smile and said: "Nephew, are you really going to eat this loach? This thing that grows in the stinky mud is so fishy when cooked."

After hearing this, Gu Liang replied: "Second Aunt, isn't it just for eating? Otherwise, why would I waste so much effort?"

When Li heard what Gu Liang said, she pouted and said: "I advise you not to waste your time. When I was in confinement, your grandmother made me loach soup to help me produce milk. I still remember the taste."

Gu Liang guessed that Second Aunt Li must have been disgusted by the loach soup stewed in clear water, so she was so resistant, so he kindly said: "Second Aunt, I won't stew the soup today. I can find a way to make it not fishy."

"If you have this effort, you might as well ask your grandmother to buy a pound of pork to eat you. Pork is delicious no matter how it is cooked." Li still felt that loach was fishy no matter how it was cooked, and it was not as real as pork.

Gu Liang thought, if my family could afford pork, I wouldn't have to catch loaches here now. No, then I wouldn't have to worry about starving to death in three years.

Gu Liang didn't say anything, and continued to gut the loach, throwing the contents of the loach directly into the stream and letting it wash away.

After processing the loach, Gu Liang took out his secret recipe - wood ash, sprinkled the wood ash on the loach, rubbed it and washed it, which could directly remove the mucus on the loach's body and remove the fishy smell. Flour or salt could have been used, but flour is more expensive than loach here. If you really use flour to wash it, Mrs. Gu will probably make a sharp explosion when she sees it, not to mention salt.

After washing the loach, Gu Liang handed it to Mrs. Gu. He was only suitable for off-field guidance. If he really came, others would only see a head on the stove.

Put oil in the pan, and fry the loach after the oil is hot. In fact, deep-frying is the best step, but Grandma Gu is definitely unwilling to do so. She even drips the oil for frying the loach like cat urine.

Gu Liang said on the side: "Grandma, pour more." Grandma Gu dripped two more drops.

"More, Grandma." Grandma Gu dripped two more drops.

"More", Grandma Gu dripped another drop.

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Don't turn the loach easily after it is put into the pan, it is easy to turn over. Wait until the loach is fried straight and then turn it over until both sides are golden.

Then add scallion, minced garlic, and ginger slices and stir-fry until fragrant, and pour in the rice wine collected by Old Man Gu as cooking wine.

This rice wine is placed on the counter in the living room of the Gu family. Old Man Gu usually doesn't want to drink it. When Gu Liang took it down, he was seen by Old Man Gu and quickly snatched it back from him.

Old Man Gu hurriedly

He held the jar of rice wine in his arms like a treasure, and scolded: "You kid, why are you messing with your grandfather's wine? This wine is precious."

Gu Liang said with a smile: "Grandpa, this wine is for you to remove the fishy smell when cooking. It tastes delicious with this."

When Old Man Gu heard that it was used for cooking, he was even more reluctant. How could this wine not go into his stomach? It would be wasted if it was put in the dishes, so he said: "I have never heard of cooking with wine. You are just messing around. No, no."

When Old Lady Gu heard this in the kitchen, she raised her loud voice and said: "Old thing, this little wine is treated as a treasure for you, but you can only drink it. We can't use it, right? You will drink it to death one day. Hurry and bring it to me, the dishes are waiting!"

Old Lady Gu still dotes on her eldest grandson the most. She even dares to give Gu Liang the most precious wine that Old Man Gu usually uses for cooking.

Old Man Gu stood in front of the pot unwillingly, raised the wine jar, and poured a little into it.

"You are pouring cat urine, just a little bit." Old Lady Gu couldn't stand the old man's shy look, so she took action herself, grabbed the wine jar held by Old Man Gu, and poured it hard.

"Hey, hey, hey, old woman, you are crazy, do you know how expensive this jar of yellow wine is?" Old Man Gu was frightened by Old Lady Gu's action at this time, as if what Old Lady Gu poured was not wine, but his heart's blood.

Old Lady Gu disagreed with this, pretending to be angry and said: "What's the point of drinking this wine that is the same color as horse urine? It's not a good thing. You will die of drinking it one day."

Old Lady Gu turned her head to Gu Liang, then tilted her mouth and said in the direction of Old Man Gu's big eyes: "Look, you are teasing your grandfather. Such a small thing makes him feel so distressed."

Gu Liang had nothing to say about the old couple. One was stingy when pouring oil, and the other was timid when pouring wine. They were simply a match made in heaven.

After the loach is fried, add soy sauce to adjust the color, add star anise and cinnamon to enhance the flavor, then pour in clean water to cover the loach, cover the pot, and boil over high heat.

Soon, the small house was filled with the aroma of stewed loach, and the younger generation of the Gu family also gathered in front of the stove.

After a while, Old Man Gu reappeared in the kitchen.

When Old Lady Gu saw Old Man Gu walk in with a satisfied look on his face, she knew what he had just done. She jokingly asked Gu Liang and his sisters: "Guess what your grandfather just did?"

Gu Liang and Gu Dani shook their heads and said they didn't know.

Old Lady Gu said with certainty: "Just now, your grandfather must have gone to hide the wine. Does anyone know where he hid it?"

"Under the bed"

"Inside the closet"

"It must be hidden in our two rooms. Erni and I don't drink, so grandpa must be most relieved..."

Old Man Gu patted Gu Liang and the others on the head and hurriedly told them not to guess.

Then Old Man Gu said to Old Lady Gu: "I have put away the wine. Wine is for drinking, not for cooking."

Old Lady Gu was helpless with Old Man Gu who was addicted to alcohol, but she was not angry. She smiled perfunctorily and said: "Okay, okay, I will never touch your wine next time. If it wasn't for your eldest grandson to cook, who would want to touch it."

The old and young of the Gu family gathered in the kitchen to talk and laugh, which actually gave Gu Liang a warm and happy feeling of finding joy in suffering, and made Gu Liang feel like a family with the "family" in this world.