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"The little girl who picks mushrooms, carrying a large bamboo basket, walks barefoot in the morning through the woods and hills..."
The mushroom picking you think of may be such a childlike picture, but in Russia there may be a sudden change in the style of painting - the mushroom picking is a big Russian man with a bucket and a knife.
They held their breath and were overjoyed when they found a mushroom; they could jump up when they found a bunch of mushrooms; and if they found a large mushroom, even the strongest Russian uncle would laugh like a two-hundred-pound child.
△ Source: Weibo @ Crazy Russia
Every year from April to October, it is the season of mushroom picking, Russians will go out of the big cities, go to the forest, look for mushrooms on the ground and in the trees, Russians call this activity "quiet hunting", men, women and children, will participate in this national activity.
The Russian big man, who is usually serious in life and does not like to talk, will turn into a whole person as soon as he sees the huge mushrooms, and even gently touch, kiss and embrace these mushrooms after they are picked.
△ Source: Katyusha TV
There is even a joke in Russia: mushroom pickers say more love stories about mushrooms than they do to their wives.
Russian uncles, when they come to the forest, they don't want anything else at all, a mind is to pick mushrooms, a pick is a day, it doesn't matter if you don't eat or drink, as long as you can pick mushrooms, it is enough.
△ Source: youtube@Russain with Dasha
People who usually do not sleep in the middle of the night and do not get up in the morning, as long as they decide to go to pick mushrooms tomorrow, they will definitely go to bed early at night, and they will not have to be regular in the morning, and they can get up at a certain point.
When picking mushrooms, Russians will carefully cut them along the roots with a knife, and then gently cover them with soil and leaves, so that the mushrooms can develop again and wait for their second "luck", so carefully cared for, as if the mushrooms are their own biological children.
From ordinary people to celebrities, no one can resist the temptation to pick mushrooms.
Last year, on the birthday of Emperor Putin, he went to the Siberian forest to collect mushrooms and berries for a day, and happily put the mushrooms in his pocket, saying that "I want to take the mushrooms back as souvenirs."
Mushrooms are like magnets that attract every Russian who is crazy about it.
According to social surveys, Russian men are more interested in collecting mushrooms than women, and the deep love for mushrooms in Russia has defeated the division of labor that began in primitive society.
△ Source: ins
In order to defend their hard-won mushrooms, some mushroom pickers will even hide mushrooms in front of their neighbors, and when someone approaches, they will hurriedly cover the basket, afraid that others will see their picked mushrooms.
Many times, there are not only mushrooms in the forest, but also bears, but even bears cannot stop russians from picking mushrooms, and beating bears away with their bare hands is the normal operation of the fighting people.
For example, this Russian big man, after beating the bear with his bare hands and walking several kilometers in blood for help, lying on the hospital bed, people are not afraid at all, but still worry about the mushrooms: "When I am healed, I will go to pick mushrooms." ”
△ Source: Hohhot Evening News
Even the 83-year-old grandmother, who is also the ancestral fighting nation grandmother, can scare the bear away by sound alone.
Red, white, colorful... If it is the mushroom, it comes to the basket, and the brothers pick the mushroom together.
In order to carry out a mushroom picking operation smoothly, Russians often leave home early in the morning to go to the forest. Long pants, long sleeves, rubber boots, a small bucket, and a hat are standard when picking mushrooms.
△ Typical equipment: knife, barrel, rubber shoes| Source: youtube@Russain with Dasha
Sometimes I carry a compass and a satellite phone with me to make sure I don't get lost in the woods.
But you also know that the fighting nations always play their cards less logically, and they can even drive armored vehicles to pick mushrooms.
△Source: ins@blog_ribolava
The front look is a handsome and cool armored car, who can think of a car of wild mushrooms lying behind.
Normally, the best way to meet unknown mushrooms is to leave them in the forest, there are more than a hundred kinds of fungi in Russia, but only a dozen of the most common are edible.
△ When you encounter a brightly colored poisonous mushroom, take a photo
After roughly judging that the mushroom is not poisonous, you can use a knife to cut the mushroom and proceed to the next step - eating.
Skewer the mushrooms and grill them on the stove:
△ Source: Station B @ Walk Russia
Dumplings are one of the traditional foods of Russia, and mushroom-filled dumplings are much more normal than dumplings filled with milk residue, blueberry and creamy mashed potatoes, provided that no one sneaks into the filling with mashed potatoes and squeezes half a jar of tomato sauce.
△ This is actually a plate of mushroom stuffed dumplings do you dare to believe?
Russians have a great chance of mixing mashed potatoes with mushroom fillings, and they think potatoes and mushrooms are a perfect match.
The mushrooms are served in a soup stew with cream and potatoes, and then poured into crisp bread soaked with garlic juice, which is a typical Russian mushroom dish.
Mushroom sandwich potato cake, attached with a pile of butter and lard.
Put in the soup is also one of the destinations of Russian mushrooms, the basic production ideas of various mushroom soups are to add milk, oil, spices, beans, onions, meat, anyway, what you have at hand.
The mushrooms that cannot be eaten can also be salted and stored, and when served with vodka, it is a perfect appetizer.
△ Salted mushrooms
Why do Russians love mushroom picking so much?
In fact, mushrooms have always been a traditional Food in Russia. According to data, 83 percent of Russia's rural population was in 1913, when each person consumed 50 kilograms of wild mushrooms per year.
Even today, in modern times, Russians have not lost this tradition. In 2008, Russians consumed the world's largest total mushroom consumption, at 880,000 tons, compared with 400,000 tons in the United States.
The mushrooms are to be eaten fresh, and going to the forest to pick them yourself adds to the unexpected surprise of wild hunting.
Based on the Russians' deep love for mushrooms, mushrooms have become an artifact to alleviate social embarrassment, as long as the mushroom is mentioned, the conversation box is opened, and the status of mushrooms in Russian society is about equal to the status of weather in British social.
In the enlightenment books of Russian children, there are all kinds of porcini mushrooms, pine mushrooms, pine milk mushrooms, these words are everyday for them.
Why do Russians only have a feeling for mushrooms for so many kinds of food?
This brings us to the characteristics of Russian cuisine.
During the World Cup in Russia, the German team tweeted that it had brought hundreds of kilograms of sausage potatoes, the South Korean team brought kimchi, and the Portuguese team brought frozen octopus and Porto wine.
Although it turned out to be a joke of the editor afterwards, the attitude of the people of the world to Russian food was clear at a glance.
Russians cook, wide oil is the first, almost any dish has a thick layer of grease floating on the surface. The famous Slavic dish Salou is made with a large piece of hog fat, sprinkled with salt, sprinkled with spices and marinated, frozen and sliced to eat with a hard big lieba.
Russian beetroot pickled herring salad, which looks like a gorgeous mille-feuille cake on the outside, is actually oil-soaked herring meat and a variety of boiled vegetables layer by layer, the top is squeezed with mayonnaise, spread with dill grass, and in addition to the unique stinky chemical attack of herring, it is the grease brought by mayonnaise.
In addition to the regular rustling and potato flavor, the Russian-style mashed potatoes probably have a strong lard flavor.
Of course, Russians also have bitter intentions in eating like this, mainly because the Russian wife is too cold!
Most of the delicate vegetables can't grow up, only potatoes, radishes, onions and other skinny vegetables can survive the cold, in order to survive, high-calorie things are not delicious and have to be swallowed.
Historically, Russians have experienced a period of material deprivation, and natural disasters have been even more difficult.
Although mushrooms are not as delicious as meat, people who understand mushrooms know that fresh mushrooms do not require complex cooking techniques, and they can be fried and fried at will, and the taste is better than meat. The rest of the sun-dried or pickled up with a bunch of spices is another dish.
In order to survive, and a deep desire to eat a little fresher, the Russians gradually learned the housekeeping skills of picking wild mushrooms.
But picking mushrooms in Russia is sometimes not a small refreshing activity, because poisonous mushrooms are everywhere, such as death caps, and even a small flower is enough to kill an adult.
The Russians invented a magical way to verify whether mushrooms are poisonous or not - put the peeled onions and mushrooms together, and the onions turn blue and the mushrooms are poisonous, but there is no basis for it.
If you have a chance to go to Russia, it is recommended that you pick mushrooms with the Russian han.