In the blink of an eye, two days later, the snail had almost vomited all the dirt in its stomach.
Lin Mai is going to use the snails to make spicy snails.
Grandma Fang asked: "You really do it."
Lin Mai nodded: "Of course I do."
"The snails have an earthy smell and are not delicious. Your grandpa and I won't eat them, and Doudou probably won't eat them either.
If you cook less, if you cook too much, no one will eat it, which is a waste of firewood, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar."
Lin Mai poured the snails into a bucket filled with salt water and forced them to continue vomiting.
"It is impossible for snails to have an earthy smell if they are cooked well, and they will have an earthy smell only if they are not cooked well."
Lin Mai washed the snails, cut off the tails, and started cooking.
Grandma Fang kept watching her make spicy snails,
Seeing her adding white wine and Chinese sichuan peppercorns to it, he asked, "Does the earthy smell disappear after adding white wine and Chinese sichuan peppercorns?"
Lin Mai smiled and nodded yes.
Grandma Fang suddenly realized: "That's it.
No one here knows that white wine is needed to cook snails.
As for Sichuan peppercorns, no one likes them because they despise numbing the tongue.
When cooking snails, you don’t add white wine and Sichuan peppercorns, so it’s no wonder it tastes bad.”
She watched Lin Mai stir-fry the snails and asked, "If you give the snails so much pepper, they will be very numb."
Lin Mai said: "You can just separate the peppercorns when putting them on the plate."
Grandma Fang thought to herself that it is not easy to pick out these peppers one by one.
What she thought was not easy was very easy for Lin Mai.
The spicy snails were cooked. Before Lin Mai put it in the pot, he picked up the pot and shook it for a few minutes. The peppercorns strangely sank to the bottom of the pot, and the cooked snails were all on top.
When shoveling the snails with a spatula, just pay attention and almost no peppercorns will be brought into the pot.
Grandma Fang was amazed and asked: "Why did the peppercorns sink? What is the principle?"
Lin Mai shook his head: "I don't know what the principle is. Anyway, when I was learning from the master, he taught me to hold the two ears of the pot and shake it back and forth to separate the two ingredients."
Grandma Fang said in surprise: "You also learned cooking skills from a teacher."
"Yeah!" Lin Mai nodded.
However, she is not the teacher she worshiped in this life, but in her previous life.
At this time, Doudou's voice came from outside the kitchen: "Wow! It smells so good?"
What delicious food is mom making? I want to eat it!"
Immediately afterwards, Doudou ran in with her fat short legs, stood on tiptoes and looked into the pot, and saw the snails in the pot.
He clapped his little hands and said happily: "Okay! There are snails to eat!"
Ever since Lin Mai told her that snails were edible, the little one had been looking forward to eating snails every day, and she finally got her chance today.
Lin Mai glanced at her.
In the past few days, after breakfast every day, Grandpa Fang took Doudou out to "hunt".
The little guy had been playing outside all morning, his face was red and his back was covered in sweat.
Lin Mai: "Look at you, you're all sweaty from playing again. Go take a shower, change into a dress, and eat spicy snails again."
Grandma Fang immediately took Doudou to take a bath, and saw Grandpa Fang in the main room who came back later.
He scolded him: "Doudou has a heart disease, and you still take her running around like crazy, and you don't care whether she can bear it or not!"
Grandpa Fang hurriedly explained: "I didn't take her to run wildly, I just took her to trot, and just trot from time to time.
I'm so old, I can't run anywhere, and how can I run away with Doudou?"
Grandma Fang remained silent.
Doudou took a bath, changed clothes and came out. Lin Mai had not only put half of the pot of snails on the table, but also fried some vegetables and made a simple tomato and egg soup.
As soon as Grandma Fang and Doudou were served, the four of them started eating.
Everyone reached out to grab the snails in unison.
Lin Mai picked up a field snail to demonstrate to Doudou.
First, suck the snail with your mouth to absorb the juice outside, then aim at the mouth of the snail, increase the sucking intensity, and the snail meat will be sucked into your mouth!
It is said that the snails are full in March, and the snails are the most plump in autumn.
Although autumn in Hu Province only begins after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the snails now have no eggs and the meat is delicious. Although not as good as those after the Mid-Autumn Festival, they are just as delicious.
Everyone had a great time eating.
Doudou ate a little anxiously, as she has little strength.
Lin Mai, Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang were able to suck out the snail meat from the snails with ease.
She can't, it takes several sucks to suck it out.
Seeing his mother and grandparents piling up a tall pile of snail shells in front of him, the little guy was so anxious that he was sweating.
She was afraid that all the snails would be eaten by her mother, grandparents, and grandparents, and she would be gone.
When Grandma Fang saw it, she took a large bowl from the kitchen, filled her with a large bowl of spicy snails, put it in front of her, and said with a smile: "These are all yours, eat slowly."
The little guy ate more calmly now.
While eating spicy snails, she faced Lin Mai and said, "Mom, it would be great if Qiqi could also eat spicy snails."
Lin Mai saw that there were not many spicy snails left in the basin, so he wiped them with a rag and prepared the rest for Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang to eat.
He said to the little cute baby: "Mom is going to sell spicy snails at our barbecue restaurant, so you can invite Qiqi to eat."
Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang all nodded and said, "This snack will definitely be popular if sold in a barbecue restaurant."
In her previous life, Lin Mai stayed in Jiangcheng from the age of about 20 until she was killed by Wu Xiaoyu and Lin Bei. She knew more about Jiangcheng than her hometown.
Therefore, she knew how popular spicy snails were in Jiangcheng, so she thought of selling this snack in her barbecue restaurant.
At this time, there were no crayfish in the countryside. If there were crayfish, she would sell spicy crayfish.
She vaguely remembered that creatures like crayfish seemed to appear suddenly.
It didn't happen before, but it became widespread in rural areas after 1995.
The little cute baby was very happy when he heard Lin Mai said that he would sell spicy snails at his barbecue restaurant in the future.
He raised his little face covered in snail soup and asked happily: "Then I can eat spicy snails often?"
Lin Mai smiled and nodded.
We will go back to the city tomorrow. After lunch, Grandpa Fang will go to contact the car.
Lin Mai hurriedly stopped him: "Grandpa, you don't need to call the car, and you don't need to take away the furniture and pots and pans. You and grandma just need to bring a few clothes that are suitable for this season. Let's take the train to Jiangcheng."
Grandpa Fang said in surprise: "You only bring a few changes of clothes? You don't even need bedding?"
"Yes!" Lin Mai nodded, "I have already prepared all the bedding for you all year round. If you want to buy it, you only need to buy a big mat."
Grandpa Fang looked around with a sense of loss.
Although he has not lived in this house for a long time, he and Grandma Fang have purchased every stitch, every plant and every tree here by themselves.
Now that he doesn't want them all, he feels uncomfortable.
Lin Mai comforted him and said: "The things left here will be useful when we come back to live occasionally."
Grandpa Fang's eyes lit up: "Can you come back in the future?"
Lin Mai nodded with certainty: "Of course I will come back during the holidays, just treat it as a trip!"
Only then did a smile appear on Master Fang's face: "Well, I'll go out and buy a big chicken coop and bring all our chickens to the city. Anyway, Zhuoran's villa is big enough to raise a few chickens."