Cooking Steps

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   Step1:Mother will carefully select the fresh duck eggs before salting the salted duck eggs. The shell of the duck eggs with good quality is smooth without cracks. The shell is slightly cyan. Wash and dry the jars for use.

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   Step2:Salted duck eggs are salted on the Dragon Boat Festival. It's summer. Mosquito activities are rampant. Housewives do a good job in protecting the safety of duck eggs. Duck eggs are like turtles. They are most afraid of mosquito bites. Once bitten by mosquitoes, the eggs will go bad and stink. There will be excrement on fresh duck eggs. Wash duck eggs with flowing water. Never immerse them in water. After cleaning, take them out and air them. Then wipe them with a clean rag.

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   Step3:As the old saying goes - one duck egg and two salt. Preserved eggs in yellow mud are usually a jin of eggs with one or two salt. 10 jin of eggs need a jin of salt.

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   Step4:Add water to the black tea and boil it over high fire to make the thick tea juice for use. This is my mother's recipe. Salted duck eggs have a fresh tea flavor.

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   Step5:Boil a pot of boiling water; pour it into a bowl and wash the salt until it dissolves.

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   Step6:The yellow mud is not easy to handle now. This kind of hard work can only be done by the labor boss. Many of them are transported back. My mother soaked and precipitated the yellow mud in dry water, and then removed the coarse sand and impurities mixed in the mud. Prepare more yellow mud. There is not much left after removing coarse sand and impurities.

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   Step7:The dried yellow mud is rammed into yellow soil. The dissolved salt water is poured into the yellow mud; the yellow mud is stirred. The amount of salt should be well controlled. Otherwise, the duck eggs are either salted or even damaged. The ratio of yellow mud and salt is explored by mom after years of practice.

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   Step8:Be sure to put in a high level of white spirit. My mother put Erguotou. Because white spirit can accelerate the protein solidification in the egg and squeeze out the oil in the yolk. In addition, adding white wine in the salting process is the key to make salted duck eggs produce oil; it can also enhance the flavor of salted duck eggs.

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   Step9:Remove the tea residue from the boiled black tea water and put it into the yellow mud after cooling.

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    Step10:After pouring high white spirit, boiled black tea and soaked salt water into the yellow mud, start mixing the mud with moderate consistency. If the yellow mud is too hard, it is easy to mix into paste after soaking and penetrating.

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    Step11:After the mud is mixed, check whether the mud is thick; if the mud is too thick, it will be uneven on the duck eggshell; if it is too thin, it will not stick to the eggshell. First put the fresh duck eggs into the mu

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