Although the two wild boars are not adult wild boars as strong as cattle, and their fangs are not so sharp and terrifying, they add up to four or five hundred catties. Peel off the thick skin, shave off the pig's head and internal organs, and there are about 200 catties of meat with bones.

Xiao Jingbang suggested that since the third family was going to visit relatives in Coal City, it would be better to make a few hams, which could be used as gifts to give more face than ordinary bacon and bacon.

At least ham is a good thing that is known throughout the country.

As for how to do it, "It's simple, I met a friend when I built the bridge, and I heard him say that his hometown is from Xuanxian County, Nancheng, and told me how the ham meat in their hometown is fragrant, or I will ask him how to do it." ”

Xiao Sanye waved him to hurry up.

"Go by bicycle, go early and come back early, and come back with a few catties of salt by the way, you give the ticket to your uncle." ”

"Hey. Yingfang wiped her hands clean and went into the house to get the salt ticket.

After the opening of the bridge, their family went to the county seat, and generally walked from the bridge, which was closer than going to the wharf, and there was no need to wait, and there was no time limit for coming back. As long as you are not afraid of walking at night, no one will care about you no matter how late it is.

After taking the salt bag and the ticket, Xiao Jingbang stepped on the bicycle and was about to go out, but was stopped by Xiao Sanye.

"Hey, I said boss, you can't get through the general affairs, so you can bring the tuition fee when you come to ask for advice. Take a pheasant or a hare, empty-handed, and you'll be happy to tell you?"

Xiao Jingbang touched his nose: "I know him very well, so I won't see him like this, right?"

"If you want to carry it, you can carry it! So much nonsense!" Xiao Sanye grabbed a pheasant that looked the most active, tied his wings, and tied it to the front of the car.

After Xiao Jingbang left, Xiao Sanye couldn't help but complain: "I know why he hasn't been promoted to the next level for ten years, it's stupid!"

Jiang Xinrou poked her husband's waist with her elbow: "Are you so buried in the eldest brother, your people are not necessarily good at learning." ”

Xiao Sanye muttered in a low voice: "It's better than the boss." ”

"Come on, work hard, don't wait for the eldest brother to come back with the trick of making ham, you are still busy with this nonsense. ”

Xiao Sanye and the triplets who were squatting aside to watch him cook pork squeezed their eyes, whispered a "don't pay attention to your grandma" mouth, and cut the wild boar with a knife in his hand.

Since the ham is to be made, the four hind legs of the two wild boars start from the hind rump, and the flesh is separated and cut down.

Generally, the four-hoofed animals are more fragrant than the front leg meat, because the hind hooves are often plowed, and even the whole leg is constantly moving, with less fat and more lean meat, and the meat quality is also strong.

As for how to cut it...... Xiao Sanye recalled the ham sold on the market, which seemed to be all lean meat and fat meat slightly trapped. In this way, it looks very plump and makes people have an appetite and move their index fingers.

He also tried to cut it like this.

Not to mention, it's quite presentable. The old man gave a thumbs up and praised: "Not bad, not bad, keep going." ”

The four hind legs of the pigs were cut off one after the other.

The rest of the meat is cut into long strips of uniform thickness and made into bacon for hanging. The trotters of the front legs were chopped off individually.

"Old man, four pairs of hooves, you and Xia Lao have two pairs of hooves, eat your feet and be stronger, and you can't bear to walk a long way in the province. ”

The old man glared: "Who can't bear it?"

Jiang Xinrou also glared at him.

Xiao Sanye smacked his mouth: "Don't let people tell the truth." ”

The triplets covered their mouths and laughed.

Why can't grandpa learn well? I always like to say something wrong, and I love to make my grandfather angry. If you can make people happy, you have to say the opposite, as if you don't feel comfortable. Grandma said this is called undersuffocation.

Except for the four hind legs of the pork that were kept for making ham, the rest of the meat was marinated and smoked, and the minced meat was cut into small pieces, seasoned with salt, old wine, wild pepper and chili seeds, and then poured into the casing to make sausages.

Pick off the bones cheap leper dog too. Today is the happiest time of the year, and the New Year has not been so happy!

The leper dog is even more determined to live forever and forever in Xiangjia. Hold the legs of the little master, hold the feet and neck of the big master, and no one will pick it up!

At that time, Xiao Jingbang drove the pheasant to the house of his little friend Jiang Jianshu, who he met when he built the bridge, in the only cotton mill dormitory in the county, and the daughter-in-law of Jiang Jianshu was the workshop director of the cotton mill.

During the construction of the bridge, Xiao Jingbang was pulled by Jiang Jianshu more than once to drink a little wine at home, so he was very familiar with the road, and rode his bicycle directly into the staff compound, parked at the downstairs of the unit where Jiang Jianshu's house was located, carried a pheasant, and took three steps and two steps up to the third floor.

The door of 301 is ajar.

Xiao Jingbang raised his hand and knocked: "Old Jiang, is Lao Jiang here?"

"Who's the door, it's unlocked, come in." ”

Jiang Jianshu's daughter-in-law came out of the kitchen with a spatula in her hand, and when she saw that it was Xiao Jingbang, she warmly welcomed him into the house and shouted to the inner room: "Jiang Jianshu, a guest is here!"

Jiang Jianshu seemed to be sleeping, his hair was messy, and he casually put on a cotton tunic and walked out: "Ah, Lao Xiao, what kind of wind blew you here?"

"Northwest wind!" Xiao Jingbang made a rare joke, and handed over the pheasant casually, "The mountain near my home catches the meat, but the meat is a little old, and it has to be stewed for a long time before it can be bitten." ”

"Then how embarrassing!" Jiang Jianshu refused to accept it.

It was his daughter-in-law who quietly glanced at him: Aren't you still worried about what your mother-in-law will give her on her birthday? Look at what a good ready-made gift this is!

Xiao Jingbang pretended not to see the couple's eyebrows and eyes, and said with a smile: "We are so acquainted, and I don't go around in circles." This chicken is a thank you gift, as for what to thank, you listen to me first. My brother bought a pig's hind leg and couldn't figure out how to get it. I remember you said that it won't go bad if you make ham for a year, but I don't know how to make it......"

"Hey, it's easy! I'll tell you carefully......" Jiang Jianshu pulled him to sit down at the table and asked his daughter-in-law to make a cup of tea and water.

After drinking a cup of tea, Jiang Jianshu also talked about how to make homemade ham.

Xiao Jingbang saw that it was not early, so he got up and said goodbye.

"I'll go after dinner. ”

"No, I still have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative, there is no salt at home, so I will take it back by the way." ”

"Then I really don't want to keep you?"

"Which of us is with whom! If you are so polite again, I won't dare to come to the door again next time. ”

"Cheng Cheng Cheng, then Lao Xiao is at your own convenience. ”

As he spoke, he sent Xiao Jingbang downstairs, and watched him ride his bicycle and walk away before turning around and going home.

"You've made a good friend! Your mother-in-law's birthday gift is done. Jiang Jianshu's daughter-in-law grabbed the lively pheasant and smiled, "By the way, did you say that he is single? Is he divorced or widowed? Why don't you introduce the second sister to him?"

Jiang Jianshu pinched his eyebrows with a headache: "Forget it, people don't have this heart." ”

Maybe people just don't say it, maybe they think it very much in their hearts, but they don't give up because there is no one around to talk about it. Since you are his friend, why don't you care about other people? You also know the temperament of the second sister, you have to think it is appropriate, hurry up and talk to him, and I will talk to the second sister. The second brother-in-law has been gone for so many years, it is time to find another person who knows the cold and the hot to form a new family together, and he can't live so alone for the rest of his life?......"

Jiang Jianshu didn't have a problem with her, so he had to respond a few words. Thinking that it's almost the New Year anyway, I'll talk about it when we meet after the New Year.

Xiao Jingbang got out of the staff dormitory of the cotton mill, went straight to the supply and marketing cooperative, and before the supply and marketing cooperatives closed, he took out all the salt tickets and planned to exchange them for salt.

It turned out that the people who were making a lot of noise in the supply and marketing cooperatives were all individuals.

It's all at this point, and there are so many people coming to buy things?

Xiao Jingbang wondered in his heart. While queuing, I listened with my ears pricked up, oh, it turned out that the salt ticket was going to be canceled. Although the specific time of cancellation has not yet been determined, the price of salt will rise after the cancellation.

No wonder so many people lined up to buy salt. Take advantage of the ticket in hand and hurry up to exchange it into a physical object. Only those who get their hands on it will not worry about price increases.

Xiao Jingbang bought salt, and when he went home and told him about it, everyone started to talk about it.

"What? The salt ticket is going to be cancelled? Can't it? Then the salt won't be grabbed like crazy in the future?" Xiao Sanye frowned, isn't the world really chaotic?

"I can't grab it, there will still be a limit in quantity. Xiao Jingbang is saying, "Now those who have tickets can weigh more, and if there are no tickets in the future, everyone may only be limited to half a catty." ”

"That's more convenient than a ticket, and it's a big deal to queue up a few more times. Xiao Sanye said, pointing to the north, and smiled mysteriously at the old man, "Speaking of the old man, is this the second of the three fires of the new official?

The old man took a sip of tea and said slowly, "Why." This year, you went to other people's factories to sell meat on your backs, and when were you chased up three streets by red armbands?"

The corners of Xiao Sanye's mouth twitched: "Don't talk about this kind of trouble, it's shameless." ”

And after so many years, it has been chased once, and the failure rate is actually quite small. But the old man was afraid that his family would forget, so he had to take it out and laugh at him every once in a while.

For the sake of Lao Tzu, Xiao Sanye decided to forgive him. But don't say it in front of the triplets, how can you make the babies worship their hero's grandfather in the future?

"Ahem, the salt is bought, and I have roughly figured out how to make the ham, why don't you start?" Boss Xiao, who loves his younger brother, bluntly diverted the topic.

Xiao Sanye immediately hooked the boss's neck, and the two brothers squatted in front of the four pigs' hind legs to talk about the production method of ham.

It sounds like the process is similar to bacon and bacon, first rubbing the whole pig's hind leg with salt.

For the sake of beauty and taste, before rubbing, you can use a knife to trim the whole pork leg neatly, cut off the excess fat, and flatten the protruding bone shovel, but don't hurt the fine meat.

"My friend said that when you cut the meat, you have to have a large area of meat, and you have to cut off the oily skin nearby. Otherwise, the salt will not be able to enter it, and it will not taste good, and it will be easy to deteriorate in summer. Fortunately, we are wild boar, and the whole layer of pork skin has been peeled, so it can be marinated without effort.

Oh, and you have to put the pork leg flat to drive away the blood. It seems like this...... From the end of the hoof, he drove his fingers along the veins and veins, and drove out all the blood in them. It is said that the blood is empty to be salted. Otherwise, the meat is not good-looking, and it won't be pickled......"

Boss Xiao explained and demonstrated at the same time, Xiao Sanye understood it at a glance, and he also got started after fishing for the other hind leg.

The brothers were in charge of the two hind legs of the pig, and the preparations before rubbing the salt were ready.

Next, start with the hooves and rub the salt vigorously along the tendons. You have to rub it vigorously until water droplets appear on the surface of the leg meat.

Rub one side well, then the other side. Rub out the water, too. Special attention should be paid to the pit recesses, which are easy to blur and not be salted properly.

After the salt is evenly kneaded, the four hams are stacked and placed on the kang noodles in the next courtyard. If you don't burn the fire, the temperature on the kang is the same as that of a normal room. Moreover, the stone brick kang surface is strong, and after pressing two wooden boards on the ham, it also needs to be pressed with stones, which requires a certain amount of load-bearing.

At this time, Yang Yang raised his hand and said that he wanted to help.

"I'm coming, I'm coming!

"Okay! Let our big baby play with light and heat. Xiao Sanye laughed, picked up his grandson, let him stand on the stone slab, and held Xiao Sanye's hand to jump hard.

Squeeze out all the excess water in the ham.

"Press it for three days, then add another salt, and in the same way, press it for another five or six days, and then put another salt on it. It is said that it is necessary to put on three salts, wash it with salted meat water when it is finished, wash off the excess salt stains on the skin, hang it in a ventilated place to dry, and then hang it in the sun for four or five days, hang it in the house to shade, and you can eat it for about two months. ”

"Tsk, the process is very complicated!" Xiao Sanye regretted a little, "It's so complicated, and it's so time-consuming, I can't even eat it during the New Year." How do you give it away?"

"Why don't you pickle two dishes at home, smear the salt a third time, let's take it to the coal city, get to grandma's house, and then dry it in the sun?" ”

"That's all there is to it. Xiao Sanye couldn't help but sigh, "It's not easy to taste something new." ”

"Good girl, why don't you slaughter the goat, bring half a fan to your grandma and grandpa?" Xiao Sanye finished his ham and remembered that there was a wild goat.

Ying Fang shook her head: "Didn't you say that you were caught alive? Don't be in a hurry to slaughter, tie the cowshed and raise it for a few days, look so thin, there are not a few catties of meat after slaughtering, raise it for two months, and wait for the New Year to eat." ”

"It's okay, the ham is all back, we want to eat it, and we can make it again when we go back." ”

"Let's leave one at home, the two uncles and grandparents happen to be one family, and there is no one who has more and who has less. It's the first time our family has done it, so let grandpa try it. In case a guest comes, there is also a dish to entertain. ”

"Okay!"

Xiao Sanye and his wife have always adhered to the principle that what their daughter says is what she says.

In the next few days, while the ham needed to be cured and pressed, Yingfang's family made a lot of snacks with fresh pork.

For dishes that are inconvenient to bring soup on the road, Sister-in-law Fu proposed to make more bamboo skewer meat, grilled dry, mixed with seasonings, wrapped in oil paper, and eaten hot or cold.

And considering the different preferences of each person, Sister-in-law Fu also skillfully made three flavors: spicy, spiced and cumin.

The old man simply asked Sister-in-law Fu to make the remaining boneless fresh pork into crispy toothpick meat.