We love fish

Find our Siberia on the map of Russia, this is what is beyond the Urals. Have you noticed how many rivers, lakes? And they have fish. Our parents from a small village of Ust-Chulym in the Tomsk region.

For life, the people of the code chose this place, where Chulym empties into the Ob. It turned out that the village is washed by two rivers. Even the revolutionaries were not born, and the inhabitants were already fishing, including sturgeon, sterlet ...

And when the right time came, the men agreed, and the whole village went "to break the pits" - they extracted delicacies. The booty was transported to Tomsk, sold to merchants, and the fish was the first fresh, because the boats on which it was carried were made in such a way that the Ob water in them came in and out and the fish did not spoil.

One man was sitting in the boat and driving it, the others were walking along the shore, pulling the boats by the ropes. They left not for one day, but it was safe. In winter, they brought fish to the city on horseback, by train. So it was from the decade to the decade.

Fish production allowed to live decently. My mother told me that my father from Tomsk brought me a roll of money, clothes and shoes for older children, and there were nine in all, some products, for example, sugar, sweets. Sweets were stored in a grandmother's trunk when she needed something to get, the children surrounded her - everyone needed candy or sugar. Another power came.

The villagers still extracted fish, especially many, during the war, the front had to be fed. Friends told me that my grandfather Ivanov Kasyan Vasilievich, especially different, in a local newspaper he was called a leading man. Then the settlement was declared to be unpromising, and now on that place, except that the beekeepers keep their apiaries. But the passion for fishing in descendants in the blood, I mean my father and son.

We have many reservoirs in the region, and since almost every man is an aspirant, the majority of the fish have fish. Mistress can cook any: pike, carp, bream, roach ... Tasty and useful. My son went back to the river again in April to see whether the ice melted, whether the ice drift had started, whether the water had risen ... Finally, the river was cleared, it was going to go fishing, the snow went, the fish could not be caught in such cold weather.

A few more days passed. Finally we have a fish - a crucian. Large, it's good, I'll cook three dishes from them at once. I cleaned the scales, I cleaned the insides, mine. I cut off the head, tails, fins, it's on my ear. There are a lot of bones in the backs and near the tails, very small, we do not like it.

I cut the fillets from the backs, from the tails, too. It will go for cutlets. Ribryshki I fry, having rolled in flour, on a frying pan, on vegetable oil. If you want the fish to be more tender, cover the frying pan with a lid. Of course, salt and pepper. With cutlets will have to tinker.

Fish I pass through a meat grinder two times, in the second - together with onions, put, how many it is not a pity. In the stuffing put still grated carrot, cheese, salt, pepper, egg, greens on a small grater. Cutlets are very delicious.