What is Dried Mouse

Dried vole in Ninghua, also called dried mouse, one of the eight dried vegetables in western Fujian, is a famous local specialty of Tingzhou Prefecture, Fujian. Vole belongs to the mammalian class hamster family, hair color is generally dark gray-brown, some were sandy yellow, to rice for food. Late rice yellow ripening period - biting rice storage burrows, often at the foot of the field grass, digging hidden trails, very harmful to crops. Ninghua is a mountainous agricultural county, so many voles, people in order to protect crops and capture voles, and then the voles made of dried voles Ninghua. Every winter, it is the best time for Ninghua farmers to catch voles. The method of catching voles is simple, and most of them use "bamboo traps". Every evening, people carry traps, with rice or rice as bait, in the field, mountain side to find the rat road, where the rat road or rat holes, will be put on the traps, to be retrieved early the next morning. The catch rate is usually around 3/10, and in frosty weather, the catch rate is as high as 5/10 or more. When the season for catching mice comes, young people also catch mice for fun.

Making process: (1) Dehairing. Captured rats or racked in a pot with hot water steam, or into the wood ash baked, as long as the fire is properly mastered, so that the rat hair can be pulled out of a clean. (2) disemboweled to remove intestines, stomach and lungs (liver and heart can be retained), the rat meat washed with water. (3) Finally, with rice or rice bran smoke baking aroma, baked into the sauce yellow or coffee color can be, but do not bake scorched. (4) with pork, asparagus, radish, accompanied by garlic, ginger, sweet water wine, oil fried slightly burned and eaten. Dried mice are not only delicious, but also high in protein, nutrient-rich. Especially have the effect of tonifying the kidney, for frequent urination or children bed-wetting disease has significant curative effect, so there is a certain medicinal value. In recent years, due to the destruction of the environment, the number of wild voles has decreased dramatically, and fewer and fewer mice can be caught. Dried rats have always been popular among Taiwanese, and many Taiwanese want to eat authentic dried rats, I'm afraid it's difficult. 2014 so far, the price of dried rats in Ninghua Qingliu territory is 36 yuan / catty, although the price is high, however, the supply does not meet the demand. The key to the problem of dried rats in Ninghua is still the raw material - wild voles, to make the raw material is sufficient, it is necessary to make the number of wild vole populations are guaranteed.