Chapter 55 Chapter 55 Catching eels and eating eels

When I saw people hunting eels before, I admired them very much, thinking that it was a supernatural ability, because eels are extremely slippery animals, and they are extremely difficult to catch.Eel eyes are as small as rapeseed, and their shape is weird. I heard friends warn that people with eel eyes should not be friends with. I haven’t taken it to heart, it’s just a physiological phenomenon.In the future, those who pay close attention to eel eyes and long eel eyes will know that the warning is not without reason. Eels are male and female, and the young eels are slender women. After laying eggs, their ovaries degenerate and become males.Just imagine animals that can experience the existence of both sexes in their lifetime, how can they not have both sides?It is said that the soup of a century-old eel can melt flesh and rot bones. It is said that an educated youth in a certain village caught a century-old eel with a thick bowl mouth under the old willow in the old pond at the entrance of the village. He went to work, checked it, there was only a puddle of water and a bunch of hair on his bed, and his body was completely dissolved by the soup of a century-old eel, which was more powerful than the Bone Bone Pill.When I heard this news, my first reaction was to quickly recall, have I ever eaten too big rice field eel?Will I just drink the stew when I meet eel again?

Eels live in ponds, rivers, rivers, lakes and rice fields. There are always different ways to catch eels. Those who catch eels on the lake beach use bamboo cages, which are conical in shape and have an inverted opening at the entrance. Thorn, once the eel gets into the cage, it cannot retreat.Eel catchers put earthworms or snail meat into the cages to lure eels into the cages. Thousands of cages are thrown into the lake beach. When the cages are put away at dawn, many eels can be harvested. This is like industrial production.There are roughly two types of individualized professional eel fishing, one is catching eels and the other is fishing eels. Both methods have been tried below and have yielded a lot.Catching eels with bare hands is mostly carried out in rice fields.In spring, after the rice fields that have been dormant for the winter are plowed and harrowed by farmers, through the clear water, you can see many mud holes on the flat field mud, the big ones are eel holes, and the small ones are loach holes.The eel sleeps in the hole, and only comes out of the hole at night to look for food.To catch an eel, you have to bravely insert your middle finger into the hole, and pay attention to the surroundings with your eyes, because all eels have a back hole, which is slightly smaller.Insert your finger into the hole, and the eel will surely retreat. At this time, muddy water will seep out of the back hole. Once you find it, insert your left hand into the back hole, and implement the tactic of outflanking the eel at both ends.In desperation, the strong male eel will not be willing to catch it, and will bite his finger fiercely, but the eel has no teeth and only two plates. Although it hurts when bitten by it, it does not hurt the finger. If he let go, it is equivalent to capturing him alive.Typically, the eel retreats quickly, stirring up the ooze with its tail, in order to escape.But at this time, the right hand (or left hand for left-handed people) can quickly pass over its head and grab its body violently. Even if the eel has all kinds of abilities, it will not be able to escape.In comparison, eel fishing is naturally much more interesting.The first eel fisherman I saw was wearing a bamboo hat and a brown coir raincoat, with a large flat bamboo eel basket on his waist, holding a handful of eel fishing bamboo fiber, and a black earthworm stuck in one end of the bamboo fiber.When I was fishing for eels, everyone used the steel frame of the kelami umbrella, sharpened one end of the steel frame of the umbrella, hooked it with wire cutters, and put black earthworms on it to catch eels.Fishing eels often go to ponds. Where there are soil holes, rock crevices or under the roots of willow trees, you can insert an eel hook. When the eel bites the hook, the hook will vibrate.After inserting several eel hooks, choose a place where large eels may live, gently twist the eel hooks, and pull them back and forth.Bow your middle finger into an O shape, stick it close to the water surface, and hit it vigorously, and the water will make a "beep" sound. This sound is the sound of eels eating, and this sound will wake up the dozing eels in the cave, and wake up eels The fish will inevitably smell the fragrance of earthworms, and at this time it will inevitably come to take the bait.The eel eats fast and makes a strange sound, surpassing the soup that Chinese people drink.The fun of eel fishing lies in the graceful stroke of the water. When the eel actually takes the bait, it is called a tug-of-war. It is a tug of war between two parties. At this time, people only care about their strength. How can people lose to the eel?But there are some losers, because the eel hook is very thin, and the eel is in the curved hole, knowing that it will die when it comes out of the hole, so why not use all its strength?Earlier I saw people wearing bamboo hats and brown coir raincoats fishing for eels, and I was very fascinated. This kind of fishing for eels with bamboo fibers is no different from Jiang Taigong.

Of course eating eel is important.The most important thing to do in eating eel is to kill the eel. Today, people ask the eel seller to kill the eel in the market, but I prefer to copy the knife myself, because the eel killer does not remove the eel bone. The second is to sell the eel. The eel man's basin of slurry water can't wash the eel clean, so he has to wash it again when he gets home.When eating eel, you must never wash the blood, as it will be tasteless.The procedure for killing eels is as follows: prepare a special wooden board, drive a nail obliquely from the reverse side, with the tip of the nail facing the end of the head of the board, clean the eels, knock them unconscious, and then put the head of the eels Hang it sideways on a nail (this is cruel, but it has to be done), straighten its body, use our commonly used paper knife or an electrician's knife, cut a small crosswise knife in the neck of the eel, and then turn the knife edge, Close to the spine of the eel and pull it to the tail, then go back to the neck of the eel to cut off the spine, and then cut it against the spine again to the tail. If you are proficient, you can only hear "brushing" twice. Both intestines and intestines have been removed.Throw away the intestines and belly of the eel, and remove the head. The meat can be cut into inch lengths or shredded. Stir-fried leeks with eel shreds are good, and eel segments can be made into various tricks.The key point is that the eel bones should not be thrown away, and they should be used to cook soup, and the noodles in this soup are extremely delicious.It is the best policy to copy the knife by yourself without washing off the blood and mucus of the eel.For the fried eel section, you can grab a little cornstarch, add some soy sauce, fry until tender, and when it is cooked, it will be cooked, and the eel will melt in your mouth.I think many people have made this dish, but not many people have eaten steamed eel with rice flour. You can buy steamed meat powder in the supermarket for steamed eel with rice flour. Oil, steamed over high heat, wonderful.In fact, stir-fried green peas with shredded eel are delicious, and you can also stir-fry garlic sprouts. When I was in the geological team, I often ate these two dishes. Later, when I became a miner, I also made plate eel.Pan eel belongs to the practice of Jiangsu and Zhejiang people. It is to use pen eel. In the old days, there was a saying that it was called horseshoe turtle pen eel. It was believed that the soft-shelled turtle was as big as a horseshoe.It is very cumbersome to make a plate of eel. First, the eel must be cleaned with clean water, and then the eel must be scalded in boiling water to sacrifice.I used to think that Jiangsu and Zhejiang people were cumbersome and boring, so I didn't like their approach.However, I learned an unremarkable method of stuffing a live eel with heavy oil. The naked eel oil is smooth and shiny, and the chopsticks pick up its back to tear off a piece of meat. This method of eating eel is completely unreliable Out of flavor, the taste is extremely strong, and it is also a good way to eat.In fact, there are infinite possibilities for eating eel. If you can catch it by yourself, keep it in clean water for a week, and if you do it carefully, you can make a good taste. It is because eel is slippery and difficult to catch. Killing eels and cooking eels, people seem so hasty, it is very different from cooking snails, it is unnecessary to think about it, you can do it leisurely.