Chapter 81: Winter Vegetables
In this life, the living conditions of the whole family are compared to the previous life, which is simply heaven and earth.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation, let's talk about the aspect of housing first.
Although a family of six once crowded on a kang and lived in an earthquake shed on the side of the road.
But that's only a year.
The spacious and comfortable house at the moment, not compared with other families at the moment, is also good in the future.
Let's talk about the aspect of wear.
Although Qin Yongmei no longer works in the garment factory in this life, she has no time to make clothes for Bai Ke and his brothers.
But relying on the subsidies of Bai Ke and Bai Zong, the family always has new clothes to wear.
I dare not say how trendy and fashionable.
But at least well-dressed.
As for the aspect of eating.
Bai Ke remembered that the most painful thing in his previous life was eating bud rice noodles for a while.
The dry is bud rice cake, and the thin is bud rice porridge.
In this life, after two years of hard work by Bai Ke.
The family had no problem eating rice and white noodles at once.
Just to be less arrogant, only for a third of the year.
Eat some bean noodles and bud rice cakes, or big rice porridge or something.
You must know that during this period, the vast majority of families can only eat some rice and white noodles during the Spring Festival.
Many families even have to start eating bud rice cakes again on the fifth and sixth days of the new year.
In addition to staple foods, the same is true for other non-staple foods.
On the one hand, because Bai Ke and Bai Zong often subsidize their families, on the other hand, Bai Ce and Qin Yongmei, under the encouragement of Bai Ke, also wanted to open up and were willing to make greater investment in food.
Because good health is the greatest wealth of the family.
Whenever seasonal seafood, vegetables, and fruits come down, Bai Ce and Qin Yongmei do not hesitate to buy a little money, and resolutely buy and buy.
In order to supplement protein and calcium, under the encouragement of Baike, the family also ordered milk, 3 catties a day.
It was sent by a farmer in the suburbs.
He raises his own cows, and every morning he rides his bicycle and carries two buckets of milk from door to door.
Bai Ke knew that his milk was not sterilized and perhaps not so clean.
But at least there are no additives.
And eggs, although grandpa had three chickens.
One male and two female.
But they're still young, and it's not time to lay eggs.
However, at this time, eggs are really not a shunt-after commodity.
It is sold everywhere all year round.
With Bai Ze's cultural knowledge, he certainly knows that eggs and milk are important for children's physical development.
So, he almost compulsively demanded that his four children eat two eggs a day.
In these days, most people are short of oil and water in their stomachs.
Because the supply of soybean oil at the grain station is too small.
Otherwise, northerners rarely stir-fry vegetables.
When stewing, oil is also added when the dish is almost cooked.
The oil flower seeds float on it, and they can't be eaten.
But that's not a big deal for the white guys either.
With the strong backing of the middle and long pig farms, what kind of oil is he worried about.
If soybean oil is not enough, use lard instead.
Although Bai Ke is so able to toss, there is one problem that he still can't solve at the moment.
For nearly half a year in this small northern town, the Bai Ke family, like most other families, did not eat fresh vegetables.
Therefore, before the beginning of winter, the old men of each family are very anxious.
Because to buy winter storage vegetables, you either have a way or physical strength.
People who have a way, such as white customers, can directly find the fat uncle to go through the back door.
The winter storage vegetables came down, and I bought them home as soon as possible.
What if there is no way?
Fight for physical strength.
Many of the big men got up in the middle of the night to line up.
Wrapped in a military coat, he was swaying.
When you meet a good store staff, they will send a serial number to each of these hard-working people.
It's marked one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, or something.
It means to go to the bank to line up to pick up money in later generations.
If you hit the plug, you will be unlucky.
No one sends you a serial number, and no one keeps order.
As soon as the morning dawned, as soon as the store window opened, a few ruffians suddenly rushed out and scattered the team.
After working hard for most of his life, he returned to the pre-liberation period overnight.
When there are too many people in line, some people even crawl over people's heads and squeeze in front of the window in order to clamp them.
In fact, there are two kinds of winter storage vegetables that everyone grabs.
One is Chinese cabbage, and the other is radish.
Both of these things are very fond of eating.
Chinese cabbage is almost versatile and can be eaten with many things.
It can be stir-fried, stewed, marinated or steamed.
Even if there is nothing, just put a few slices of ginger and fry them in lard to eat.
It's fragrant and sweet, with a creamy taste.
The radish is also delicious.
In this small northern town, all the radishes stored in winter are green-skinned sandy turnips.
This is what was later called a fruit radish in the Kyoto area.
Later generations said that it was a fruit radish, which is a bit of nonsense.
But at the moment, it's not an exaggeration to say that it's a fruit radish.
Because when children are hungry for fruits, they eat tomatoes in summer and radishes in winter.
However, this radish is not as versatile as cabbage.
There are only a few ways that white customers like to eat.
My favorite is shredded radish balls, or shredded radish soup.
There is also fried shrimp skin with shredded radish, which also has a sweet and fresh taste.
However, no matter how delicious the food is, you can't eat it all at once.
The last meal of cabbage, the next meal of radish, three meals a day can not be opened.
But even if Baike is a 10,000-yuan household at this time, there is nothing he can do about it.
On the one hand, there are no greenhouse vegetables at this time.
On the other hand, the logistics at this time were not so bad, and the vegetables in the south could not be transported at all.
I can only wait for the future, the white customer is strong, and at the same time, related technologies have also appeared, and then engage in greenhouse vegetables.
After the final exam, Bai Ke went to his classmates' door and saw that his family was sending bean sprouts, and he suddenly had an idea: bean sprouts are also a good vegetable, and they are fresh enough.
In order to let the whole family eat fresh bean sprouts, before the winter vacation, Baike began to tinker.
After listening to the introduction of his classmates' families, Bai Ke knew the general process of sprouting.
Soak the mung beans for a day and a night, then put them in a basket, cover them with gauze, and sprinkle them with water three times a day.
Bai Ke confidently tinkered in his room.
But five days have passed, and when I open it, few mung beans have sprouted, and some have rotten.
When Bai Ke squatted in the yard to check, his grandfather stretched out his head on crutches to take a look, shook his head and smiled.
Bai Ke remembered that his grandfather would definitely sprout bean sprouts at this age, so he hurriedly asked: "Grandpa, why didn't my sprouts come out?"
Grandpa reached out and touched the beans, thought about it, and didn't come up with a reason.
However, although grandpa couldn't find the mistake, he knew the right way.
He instructed Bai Ke to first scald the mung beans with boiling water at seventy or eighty degrees in a thermos pot, and then soaked them.
Last time, the white guest soaked for a day and a night.
According to grandpa's practice, you can soak it all night.
Then put it in the basket, but not too much, just lay out the bottom of the basket.
Cover it with several layers of gauze.
Water several times a day.
Three days later, Bai Ke went to the school to listen to the teacher's assignment for the winter vacation.
When he got home, his grandfather smiled and waved to him.
When Bai Ke entered his grandfather's house, he saw that the bean sprouts had been sent out.
The sprouts are very long, but they are not as fat as the sprouts of later generations.
That night, Bai Ke started to fry a plate of bean sprouts.
Mom and Dad were amazed, and it didn't take long for me to finish eating.
When the winter vacation was officially over, Bai Ke went to buy three bigger flat baskets.
He imitated the cat and the tiger, and initiated soybean sprouts and black bean sprouts.
Although they are all bean sprouts, they all grow similarly, but the taste is really different.
After a few days, Bai Ke suddenly remembered again: garlic can also sprout.
That thing seems to be called garlic sprouts.
This garlic sprout is simpler, put it directly in a pot, water it a little, and dry it in the sun, and it will start to sprout.
In five or six days, it is about 10 centimeters.
The most miraculous thing is that these garlic sprouts are the same as leeks, which can be eaten with stubble.
Of course, you can't eat it after three stubbles.
All in all, this winter vacation for Baike can be busy.