Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Baked Eggs

Baked eggs, like baked potatoes, are a simple process. Generally speaking, there are very few people who have eaten baked eggs, and they would never think of baking an egg. There is no country or mountain life experience. Sometimes I think that if you have not eaten baked eggs, or if you have not baked eggs, a taste will be missing in the great life course, and a rich and memorable childhood will be missing. The creation of interest. When I was a child in the south, eating was also a topic.When I was a child, I was not short of food and clothing, and became a family of hungry wolves. The attic of my house was filled with various styles of roughly round jars. These pottery containers can resist rodents, except for me, a big rat.Inside those jars, there are fried potato chips, rice bubble sugar, sesame cakes, fried peanuts, fried sunflowers, fried soybeans, fried peas... In short, there are many contents. Put it in your pocket in a hurry, and your mouth will not stop for an afternoon.But how tedious is that?Rather than sit back and eat, I am more willing to be self-reliant, move out the semi-finished food at home, and process it into new food according to my imagination.

In the countryside, we can all get a pot of our own. We have a small pot-shaped iron pot for lighting oil lamps in the old society. It is like a pocket iron pot with a diameter of about 10 cm. This guy is very suitable for my mood. Seeing its serious use, every family will pour tung oil and rushes to light a bean lamp when worshiping the gods.I took it from home and used it to fry some aromatic things.Simple operation procedure, in a relatively hidden field, find a ridge, one person digs an L-shaped hole, put a pot on the top, light a fire below, make a small inclined hole, insert a bamboo pipe to make a chimney, and raise the curling smoke .

At that time, there were not so many available tools, such as lard boxes, mostly empty clam oil boxes, and the lard inside was still like clam oil.People lie on the ground and deep-fry food, such as rice noodles, potato chips, soybeans... Some small things are very fragrant. They are fried for a long time and eaten for a short time. Sometimes they eat them interchangeably.All of them were covered in dirt, especially their knees, their heads were covered with plant ash, and their eyes were swollen from the smoke.Suddenly for a while, we all became lazy people and didn't want to be so cumbersome, so baked eggs became popular.To bake eggs is to bring eggs, light a fire, put the eggs in the fire, and the eggs will be cooked gradually.During the baking process, turn the egg with a stick to prevent one side from being burnt.When the baked egg is cooked, it will make a "pop" sound, and the expanded egg white will burst the egg shell, and some egg white and egg yolk will flow out, and it will solidify immediately, just like a small melon with a stem.If the egg is not turned over, one side of the egg shell will be burnt, and the egg white inside will be slightly yellow or brown.After roasting, peel off the shell, spread out the salt, five-spice powder, and chili powder wrapped in paper in the pocket, and dip them in to eat.Baked eggs are much more fragrant than hard-boiled eggs. They also have the calcareous aroma of scorched eggshells. If eaten with pepper oil, the taste is especially good.

Eating baked eggs is easy to be beaten, because the burnt eggshell smell is not easy to get rid of, and parents will also count the eggs so that they cannot be stolen.Then I have to think of other ways. Generally speaking, as long as you pay attention to observation, it is not difficult to find the source of eggs. For example, a pullet often comes and goes in and out of a lion's grass, and you can follow it. They often lay there quietly. Nest eggs, because they can't beat the vicious old hen, and the old hen will occupy the nest where the eggs are laid.The straw pile is also very easy to lure the pullets to lay eggs. Look for these two places. There is a nest of eggs that can be baked for a long time.Later, it evolved into roasted sparrow eggs. Generally, when the spring flowers bloom in March, the sparrows are about to lay eggs.Sparrow eggs are small, delicate in texture, fragrant and delicious.The skin of the sparrow eggs is extremely thin, and the outer shell is covered with marsh-colored numb spots. It is ready to be placed by the fire, but it is a bit small. There are 4-6 sparrow eggs in a nest, and a few of them have small sparrows. Eat eggs with chicks.At that time, I also ate starling eggs, magpie eggs, and white crane eggs——white crane eggs are like duck eggs, and the shells are light green. If you break them in your pocket when you come down from the tree, it will be very fishy.Goose eggs are exactly the same as goose eggs. I also ate them when I was in the geological team, but the taste is not as good as sparrow and starling eggs, and not as good as magpie eggs.