Small fry - one of the most widespread fishes of family cyprinid which is found in reservoirs of Russia everywhere. It is dried and seldom prepared by any different way. This fish is ideal for drying.
It is required to you
- 1 kg of small fry;
- 150-350 g of salt.
Instruction
1. Prepare dried small fry of the small size (to 500 grams), without undressing fish. Wash out small fry in cold water, let's it flow down, but don't wipe and don't dry napkins.
2. Take from 150 to 350 grams of salt on kilogram of a fresh fish depending on what salinity you want to receive. Sometimes add a little sugar for receiving more delicate flavor to salt (on one kilogram of fish about one quarter of a teaspoon).
3. Mix small fry with salt and put in the wide enameled ware (a bucket or a tub, capacity from stainless steel).
4. Put from above cargo - a cover with a stone, a wooden circle with any capacity filled with water. Cargo is necessary in order that fish was constantly shipped in a brine. Leave to prosalivatsya on some or three days depending on the size of fish.
5. Cut large small fry (from 500 grams and more): make a longitudinal section along a paunch, remove all entrails, including caviar and milts, wash out in cold water and fill a paunch I will merge, especially carefully rub fish near a zhaber.
6. Then lay ranks in the enameled ware, paunches up, from above fill up with salt (it is possible not to put cargo, to cover only with a gauze, fish will be is salted in the dry way).
7. Leave large small fry to prosalivatsya for three-six days in the cool place. Then soak the salted fish to the necessary degree of salinity.
8. Wash out it in cold flowing water, take in fresh water some time (sometimes fish soak as much time how many it was in a brine), then again wash out and you will hang out on drying.
9. Pass pieces of a wire through eye-sockets and hang up to the shady, well blown by wind place. Place fish on a rope freely that carcasses didn't adjoin with each other. Unbend gills outside for process acceleration, insert wooden sticks struts into paunches of a large fish.
10. You will hang out fish towards evening that she dried up in a night and not so strongly I attracted flies. Use gauze covers for protection against flies it is, also, possible to smear with sunflower oil the fish heads as it beats off the smell attracting insects.