"What is this? Rats dry. Huh? Can mice eat dry food? " . If you invite friends from other places to eat Ninghua dried mice for the first time, they will definitely look frightened. That's because they don't understand ninghua rat terrier. Ninghua dried mice, one of the eight major projects in western Fujian, must have its reasons. Ninghua dry rat is a dry rat made from vole or mountain rat by molting, eviscerating and smoking. The dried incense sprayed on mice is delicious, with high protein content, which has the function of tonifying kidney and has obvious curative effect on frequent urination or bed wetting in children.
Winter is a delicious season for dry mice in Ninghua. At this time, you can see many rat catchers in the rural areas of Ninghua. So how do Ninghua people catch mice? How to smoke dried mice? Let's have a look.
Catch mice
In winter, late rice is harvested. Mountain rat and vole, who live in rice fields in the mountains this season, have lost a great food source. People use rice as bait and bamboo mousetraps (also iron clips) to catch rats. Making a bamboo tube mousetrap is a test of technology and experience.
▲ Make a bamboo mousetrap.
At four o'clock in the afternoon on the weekend, I went to pretend to be a mouse with Chen Dage, a rat catcher in the village. Prepare bamboo mousetraps, sickles and other tools and set out for the wild. When he arrived at the ridge of the field, Chen Dage found a rat path, a rat hole and a bamboo trap based on his years of experience in installing rats.
▲ Soak the bamboo tube trap in water before loading rats, so that the bait such as rice in the bamboo tube becomes larger.
▲ Ten or so traps are grouped and marked for easy recovery.
▲ Put a trap in the grass of Tiankan.
▲ Put the trap where there is a mouse road.
▲ Next to the cave, put a trap.
This time, Brother Chen brought more than 70 bamboo mousetraps, all of which were released and returned along the road (sometimes rats that came out early to steal food were found), and they were brought back early the next morning.
Smoked mouse
▲ Good harvest in the morning. More than 40 rats were loaded, and the capture rate was over 50%.
▲ Abdominal organ resection (liver and heart preservation)
▲ Put the mouse into a large pot and steam it with clear water. Once you have mastered the heat, you can depilate and wash the mice.
▲ Burn rice bran with charcoal.
▲ Wash the mouse meat and put it on a charcoal fire basin bamboo rack.
▲ Observe the smoke degree of mouse meat.
▲ Cover the grain with a thick quilt.
Pay attention to the color of mice when smoking. It is basically enough for the mouse to turn copper yellow.
▲ Excellent dry mouse
Ganlaoshu gourmet
Dried mouse is a delicious dish deeply loved by Ninghua people. When cooking, dry the mouse, remove the head, tail and feet, chop the rest, put it in a pot and fry it with edible oil, and then add seasonings such as pepper, garlic, celery, carrot, pork belly, wine girl, salt and soy sauce. After cooking, the aroma is pungent and appetizing. Drink or eat. Are you drooling?