OBS Chapter 328: Live and learn
Chapter 328: Live and learn
Old Lady Wang and Mrs. Fang carried pig's blood into the yard basin by basin, and they walked very carefully for fear of spilling any blood.
Add a little salt and seasoning to the pig blood and mix it evenly to make blood tofu. Although it is easy to make, the blood tofu made by a skilled hand is chewy and not easy to break.
It doesn't matter whether you make pig blood soup or stir-fry pig blood with wild vegetables, both are delicious. In fact, stewing pig blood with cabbage is the best.
But the cabbage hasn't grown yet.
Nowadays, most people are reluctant to eat young cabbages that have not grown yet, as it is such a waste.
The women outside the yard were even busier. They cut the large chunks of pork fat taken from the pigs into small pieces and were about to boil them into white and fragrant meat oil.
I saw them pouring the chopped pork into a large iron pot, adding some water, and frying the small pieces of lard in the pot over and over again.
It changed from white to golden yellow, and soon, the rich fragrance filled the entire sky.
It attracted the little kids from Tangjia Village and the Nine Clans who came to watch the pig slaughtering.
Of course, Shen Luming and Shen Yuanbao are no exception. This has always been one of the foods that children are most interested in.
They circled around the pot again and again. They knew that they couldn't eat the lard residue because they were just circling around it. But they couldn't control themselves and their eyes were always attracted by the lard residue.
But if there are so many children, there won’t be much lard left if it is really divided among them.
Several women from Tangjia Village coaxed their children to wait while they worked, after all, the lard residue could be fried and it would be a dish if they sacrificed some money.
However, the little guys wandering around are all very smart. If there is oil splashing in the pot occasionally, they will cleverly run away from there. Their safety awareness is very good.
And what is Shen Youyou busy with? Why is he and his sisters making blood sausage? How can the pig-killing dish not include blood sausage?
She had been preparing for this pig-killing dish for two days and bought all the pig offal and large bones from Liu the butcher yesterday.
The big bone soup was also cooked last night. She first chopped some green onions and ginger and put them into the clay pots for stewing bone soup.
It was easy to tell that their big iron pot would be very tight today, so I took the small stove built by my sisters and stewed the broth in clay pots.
Then add appropriate amount of salt for seasoning, beat in a few pheasant eggs and a little oil, and stir evenly.
After that, let the big bone soup cool down slightly, add a bowl of pig blood without adding salt, mix it evenly with the broth and you can make blood sausage.
But she didn't have an enema, so she had to use bamboo instead.
"Big sister, tie the tail end of this pig intestine."
Shen Daya was quick and fast, fastened it and continued to ask: "Okay, what else do you want to do?"
Shen Youyou put the open end of the pig intestine on the bamboo and said, "Come on, take the gourd, bottle and ladle. Be careful not to spill it outside."
As the mixed blood gurgled into the bamboo tube, it flowed into the pig's large intestine in turn, and the originally thin pig's large intestine was bulged up.
After a while, an ordinary pig intestine will become abnormally thick after being injected with blood.
Although there is not much pig blood, after mixing it with the broth, it still fills two large basins of blood sausage.
Shen Erya lit a fire under a large pot set up nearby, preparing to cook the blood sausage that had been canned. She asked, "Hey, aren't Grandma Wang and the others going to make blood tofu? Is there any difference between blood tofu and blood sausage?"
Shen Youyou smiled and said, "After you eat this, tell me what's different."
Boil water in a pot. When small bubbles appear at the bottom of the pot, start to put the blood sausage in. Simmer slowly over low heat, keeping the water just barely boiling, for about a quarter of an hour.
Then Shen Youyou said, "Second sister, we can stop fighting now."
Shen Erya took out the unburned firewood under the stove, and Shen Youyou covered it with the lid, intending to keep it warm for a while.
She estimated that the time was about right, so she lifted the lid of the pot and used a small bamboo stick to deflate the completely solidified blood sausage inside the large intestine.
The blood sausage was now completely cooked. She took a bamboo strainer and scooped it out of the water.
Now there is no sauerkraut made from Chinese cabbage, so her mother can only use pickled bamboo shoots to make the pig-killing dish. Although it is not authentic, she will just make do with it.
In fact, "Slaughtering Pigs" is not just one dish, but a general term for a series of meat dishes made from pork, pork bones, and offal.
It is famous for its large plates with lots of meat to satisfy the hearty appetite, and its delicious taste lies in the freshness of the pork.
In the past, slaughtering pigs was an indispensable dish for the people in Northeast China during the New Year. Once the dishes such as boneless meat, hand-broken liver, and stuffed blood sausage were served on the table, the boldness and enthusiasm engraved in the souls of the people in Northeast China would unconsciously emerge.
It can be said that slaughtering pig dishes is the highest etiquette of Northeastern people in entertaining guests. People sit together, eating steaming hot slaughtering pig dishes, enjoying delicious meat and wine, and chatting with friends and relatives. Adults and children alike are all intoxicated by the fragrant delicacies.
The pig-killing dishes prepared by Li Jingshu included braised pork ribs, braised pork offal, blood sausage stewed with sour bamboo shoots, stir-fried ground vegetables with lard, pig blood and soybean soup, blood tofu stir-fried with wild vegetables, pork stir-fried with bamboo shoots, and the braised pork with preserved vegetables was changed to braised pork with dried purslane.
There are eight dishes in total. We won’t have to worry about the fish from Xiaoqing River today. Since they started to open up the land, they have caught a lot of fish. Let’s save some for everyone during the New Year.
Shen Zhiqiu and his team finished laying the roofs of the last few rooms. The roof is one of the most important steps in building a house.
If the floor is not laid carefully, it is very likely that when it rains, it will rain heavily outside and lightly inside.
Especially in the cold winter, even if you have a kang or a fireplace in your house, if the roof leaks and the heat rises, it still cannot keep you warm.
Nowadays, most rural roofs are built with pointed roofs. They use wood as thick as an adult's thigh as the frame. On the two sides of the roof, two flattened wooden sticks as thick as an adult's arm are arranged and fixed in a certain proportion.
Finally, a large straw mat similar to a mattress is laid on top. This is the first layer. The second layer is a straw mat with only the tail end of the thatch fixed.
Lay them layer by layer from bottom to top, staggered at a certain distance, so that the second layer can cover the first layer.
And so on. Finally, a layer of oil paper is laid on the eaves of the triangular roof to prevent rain from leaking through the gaps, and then a tied triangular thing similar to a straw hat is covered on top.
The last step is to bend the elastic bamboo into a "U" shape and insert it into the thatch. Someone in the house also stands on a ladder at the foot of the mountain and rotates the elastic bamboo with its long head exposed a few times, and then inserts it into the bound bamboo ring to fix it.
Even Tang Wenzheng couldn't help but admire: "Nephew, I really learned a lot from following you to build a house this time."
Shen Zhiqiu smiled and said, "Maybe many of these things won't be useful for building a house, but they can still be used to build a barn or a pigpen."
The two of them looked at each other and laughed. Indeed, it was estimated that no one would build thatched houses in Tangjia Village in the future. After all, most of the houses they built would be replaced with brick and tile houses.
After all, there are not many mud-brick houses in the village.