109. Zongzi
"Oh mom, my old waist!"
After a busy night's work, I got all the sauces ready, and when I woke up the next day, Wuya felt that her whole body was falling apart!
But the matter was not finished, and after lying on the bed for a while, Wuya got up.
After all, if you do it now, you can make a good salted fish in winter.
Today's main work is to make bacon wax cured, as well as bacon or something~ Meat is king!
Ermao got a lot of meat back, because she determined today's work last night, so she took it out in advance and put it on the platform, at this time, she was not afraid that any animals would come, and she was not afraid that it would break if there were ice stones to put it. Because there are all kinds of meat that Ermao took out, Wu Ya picked out the meat for bacon for a while.
The process of making bacon is very simple, because it takes a long time to go from raw meat to bacon, so she doesn't care much about it, anyway, she just takes things and hangs them up after she gets them and waits for her to dry. The only thing that Wu Ya feels sorry for is her salt, which is indispensable if she wants to make delicious bacon salt.
So Wu Ya started making bacon while holding her little heart. And when Ermao got up, the bacon was smeared with salt, and it was just waiting to be hung up.
Commanding Ermao to hang the meat on the newly arranged shelf on the platform for hanging bacon and salted fish, Wuya began to prepare to make sausages.
She didn't find a casing to make sausages, but she didn't think she would use them, and she always felt that she wouldn't be able to wash them, so she found a vine-like plant to replace the casings.
On a trip to find fruit, she tripped over this vine-like plant, so she found that this vine-like plant like a long tube had a very tough skin and was not easy to break.
At the beginning, she also picked up a few dried vines and studied them, and as long as she rubbed them and rubbed out the residue, she could get a long brown tube. Curious, Uya tried to stuff a few stones into the tube, and found that it was not only not broken, but also tightly wrapped so that the stones would not fall.
At that time, Wuya didn't think of what this thing could be used for, so she just marked it in her notebook and came to see it next time she needed it.
So Wu Ya took out the notebook and told Ermao about the characteristics of the plant and the place where she met this plant last time, and asked her to intercept some of them, and she was looking for the ingredients to make sausages.
"There are really a lot of things to do today!" Looking at the large pile of fish and meat on the platform, Wuya wiped her sweat bitterly.
However, for the sake of a more comfortable salted fish life in winter, Wu Ya felt that it was better to work obediently! It is better to be busy now than to toss in winter.
First, put peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon and other seasonings in the pot and boil them with water to make seasoning water. Then cut the meat carefully selected by Wuya into cubes, add salt to knead evenly, and finally add the boiled seasoning water and knead until it tastes. After this step, Uya sealed the meat, and she needed to marinate it before she could pour it into the rattan after two days.
As an authentic southerner, she saw the older generation of old people in the village make and help with sausage and bacon when she was a child, but to be honest, this is also the first time that she really does it, and she does it herself, unlike before, just starting.
Compared with unskilled bacon and sausages, Wuya is better at making salted fish. Because her grandmother's house is very rich in water resources, salted fish is a must-have food for every family, and she has been exposed to it since she was a child, so she is very confident in whether she can make delicious salted fish.
Compared with the hesitation and confusion of making bacon, Wuya is much more handy when making salted fish, and the action is also very quick, but it takes an hour to get the salted fish right.
After the salted fish was ready, Wuya was so tired that she almost didn't want to move.
This is bacon again, and it is sausage and salted fish, which are all very laborious work, and I didn't feel anything when I did it, and once I rested, it was very uncomfortable.
It was already past lunchtime, and now she was a little hungry. It may be too late to cook rice or something, and she had expected that she had thought of today's food yesterday, a relatively simple and easy-to-fill food, zongzi.
Seeing the fallen leaves on the platform, Wu Ya suddenly smiled and narrowed her eyes.
Zongzi is the festival food of the Dragon Boat Festival in the country where they grow flowers, and it is steamed from glutinous rice wrapped in zongzi leaves. Legend has it that it was passed down to pay tribute to Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river, and is one of the traditional foods that are characteristic of the country of flowers.
There are many kinds of zongzi, from the perspective of fillings, there are Beijing jujube brown wrapped in jujube in the north, and there are various fillings such as bean paste, fresh meat, eight treasures, ham, egg yolk and so on in the south.
Zongzi is also sweet and salty. Since ancient times, the difference between the sweet and salty of zongzi and glutinous rice balls has been disputed by everyone.
For Wuya, who has eaten both kinds of zongzi, although the sweet zongzi leaves are also good, the salted meat zongzi is a great love!
Meat, meat dumplings are king!
After picking the chili powder fruit yesterday, Wuya went to pick the rice crackers, and in the process of picking, she found a strange rice fruit tree.
Compared with the rice crackers that Wu Ya was familiar with, the rice of the rice fruit tree was a little strange, it was not white like rice crackers, and it was a little transparent, just like the rice on the earth.
When she got it down and cooked it that night, she found out that it was actually glutinous rice. This made her so happy!
There are many foods that can be made with glutinous rice, and the happiest thing for her is that she can make zongzi, hee hee meat zongzi!
After making a large bowl of soaked glutinous rice from the cave, Wuya took the pots and pans and went down to the edge of the waterhole and began to cook.
After knowing the existence of glutinous rice, Wu Ya had already silently decided that the leaves that could be used to make zongzi, and waited for the next time she made zongzi, she could pick them directly.
Just when Wu Ya had just moved all the things down, Ermao also came back with things, and Wu Ya was very excited to see Ermao, and hurriedly beckoned her to call her over, "Ermao, let's eat zongzi today, you come over and chop these ingredients, I'll pick the leaves and come back first!"
Ermao, who was confused, watched Wu Ya jump into the woods, and then looked at the knife in his hand, and began to cut food with a confused expression.
I always feel that in the past few days, her residents are very excited!
When Ermao did what Wu Ya ordered, Wu Ya also picked back the leaves to make zongzi and washed them by the way.
"Hehe, let you try one of my family's specialty zongzi today~" Wu Ya waved a spatula and said to Ermao, who was sitting obediently and waiting for orders: "You have a good mouth!"
Suck and slip, meat dumplings~