When the autumn wind blows, eat cured meats.
"Mom, where is the jar of wine I bought earlier?"
Chen Wanbai had just returned home, carried the bamboo basket into the kitchen, and asked Mrs. Liu who was wiping the cabinet.
"I kept it under the bed." Liu replied. She looked up and saw a lot of pig intestines in Chen Wanbai's bamboo basket, and asked curiously, "Didn't I kill a pig yesterday? There are still pig intestines. Why did you buy all these?"
< p> Early in the morning, Chen Wanbai walked to the town in the dark and bought a lot of seasonings. He passed by a pork stall and bought a few pig intestines."Didn't I say yesterday that I would make bacon today?" Chen Wanbai explained.
The best time to dry bacon is around the winter solstice. If it is too early and the temperature is not low enough, the meat may become smelly.
The sun before the winter solstice is hot and poisonous, unlike the sun after the winter solstice, which is warm and gentle.
There also needs to be dry north wind and sunshine, so that the bacon will be delicious.
Just a few days after the winter solstice, she had a great time and picked up a wild boar. God was supporting her in making bacon, so how could she not do it.
"If you cook less, we won't be able to eat much." Mrs. Liu rolled her eyes.
Chen Wanbai smiled, put down the basket and walked towards the room.
"Mom, I didn't see it." Wan Bai stood by the window of the room and shouted in the direction of the kitchen.
"I'll do it." Ms. Liu put down the rag and walked towards the room.
Mrs. Liu knelt down, pulled out a black jar from the foot of the bed, and said with a smile: "Isn't this right here? You didn't even look carefully."
"Then There are three identical jars under the bed, my mother, I don’t know which one it is." Chen Wanbai looked at the three identical jars under the bed and shook his head helplessly.
The other two jars, one contains eggs and the other contains sugar.
Chen Wanbai returned to the kitchen with the jar. There was a lot of pork on the rack in the kitchen, and she reached out to take down a lot of it.
Mrs. Liu took the pork and said, "Let me wash your meat."
Chen Wanbai jumped down from the chair and said, "Mom, you can't wash this with water. Just cut it into pieces."
"It's so dirty without washing. Look, there's a lot of grass stuck to the meat."
"Cut it into strips for me first. Yeah, it's about as long as an elbow."
Liu had no choice but to lift the meat, wipe the grass clippings off it, put it on the cutting board and cut it.
It is best to use pork belly for bacon, which is fat and lean and has an excellent taste.
While Mrs. Liu was cutting the meat, Chen Wanbai took out a bag of salt and poured it into the pot.
"You prodigal child, why do you pour so much salt on it!"
Ms. Liu looked at aboutThere was a pound of salt, and I was so distressed that I clicked my tongue.
Although salt is not expensive, no one uses it so lavishly.
The ratio of ten pounds of meat to three ounces of salt, here is fifty or sixty pounds of meat, uses almost seventeen ounces of salt.
(Note: One pound is sixteen taels.)
Chen Wanbai smiled and did not explain.
She continued to pour salt, sugar, peppercorns, cinnamon, star anise, fennel, etc. into the iron pot, and then began to stir-fry.
Before long, an attractive aroma wafted out, and the salt turned slightly yellow, which meant it was ready.
She immediately took out the iron pot and placed it on the small table to cool.
At this time, Mrs. Liu also cut up all the meat and filled the wooden basin.
Chen Wanbai picked up the jar of wine and poured it into the wooden basin.
"Hey, there is no such thing as cured meat!" Mrs. Liu was so excited that she felt like her heart was bleeding.
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Ordinary people just rub a little salt on the surface of the meat to marinate it.
She didn’t expect Chen Wanbai to buy so many fancy things, which were too expensive.
"Mom, don't get excited. The meat marinated like this is delicious." Seeing the distressed look on his mother's face, Chen Wanbai felt helpless and quickly comforted her.
"Where did you learn it from?" Ms. Liu frowned. She didn't know where this child learned it. It cost a lot of money.
"This is the county."
"Isn't this the way rich people marinate meat? Is it something we can learn?"
Yes The matter has reached this point, nothing can be said, I can only feel sad secretly. After all, everything is used so much.
Wash the pork strips with wine. The bacon will be more fragrant and sterilized.
It would be better if there is high-strength liquor, and the flavor of the bacon will be stronger.
Put the washed pork strips into the cooled salt and rub them with your hands to evenly coat every part with salt.
Finally, put the marinated pork strips into the jar and close the lid.
"Mom, let's pickle some chicken, duck and fish next year." Chen Wanbai said enthusiastically while looking at the pickled bacon.
"Can these also be pickled?" Ms. Liu raised her head in surprise and looked at her daughter, her eyes full of doubts.
"Well, the house we live in now is too small, so we don't plan to pickle so much and it won't be easy to store. Let's build a big house next year. I'm optimistic about the wasteland above. ”
“If I’m not living well now and building a house, how can I get so much money?” Ms. Liu frowned and didn’t agree.
The two wooden houses she lives in now were built not long ago. They are very comfortable to live in, and Ms. Liu does not feel small.
While the two of them were talking, the time had come to the end of the hour.
"Mom, don't cook for lunch. I bought some steamed buns in the town. I'll heat them up later and we can just have a meal together."
" Can't we make it in a clay pot? You can save the buns for tomorrow morning, so you don't have to get up early." Mrs. Liu glanced at the big iron pot and thought her daughter was tired of not cooking, so she bought the buns in advance.
"Don't waste time cooking, we still have to make sausages."
"Sausage?"
"Well, it's delicious. Cooking It’s very convenient to steam a plate.”
At this time, people eat less meat, let alone make bacon and sausages. It’s not that no one does it, it’s just that very few do it, especially in rural families.
Chen Wanbai didn’t know whether rich people fed them sausages. Anyway, it didn’t happen in her memory.
"Mom, let's go wash the intestines." Chen Wanbai took the pig intestines and took Ms. Liu to the small ditch.
Next to the small ditch, the water is gurgling and the stream is crystal clear.
Mrs. Liu squatted down and put the pig intestines in the water. She looked at the dirty intestines in confusion, not knowing what to do.
She rarely eats pig intestines and has never washed them. Chen Wanbai took away the pig intestines and tripe yesterday and washed them. She only washed the pig liver and pig heart.
Chen Wanbai saw this and said with a smile: "Mom, let me teach you."
"Rinse the intestines in water first to remove the dirt on the surface." Chen Wanbai While talking, he rubbed his intestines back and forth in the water. The stream water quickly washed away the dirt, and the surface of the intestines became cleaner.
Mrs. Liu imitated Chen Wanbai's example and slowly started scrubbing.
"The next step is to turn the intestines. This is a bit laborious." Chen Wanbai picked up a thin wooden stick from the side, carefully put one end of the intestines on the wooden stick, and slowly turned the intestines over. , exposing the inner part.
She demonstrated once and then handed Liu a wooden stick.
"Turn it over like this, and the intestines will be easier to clean." Chen Wanbai said.
Liu followed the instructions, but due to lack of experience, she seemed a little clumsy and failed to turn the intestines smoothly several times.