Chapter 123: A Busy Year
On the sixteenth day of the lunar month, Yang Qitai also had a holiday. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info didn't dare to let Zhou Pinzheng go to dangle in front of him, or Second Brother Yi personally drove Wang Dacheng home, and took Yang Qitai back by the way. Now the family is finally together. So everyone is happy or busy.
If you really want to prepare for the New Year, the farmer's family will start in October. Because many pastries are made with glutinous rice, sticky rice, etc., the glutinous rice is steamed from a very early age, dried in the shade, and then dried repeatedly in the sun. The sun is weak in winter, which takes a long time. Then there is a part of the rice that is ground into rice noodles, but the Yang family didn't even think about it before these foods were put away. The yield of glutinous rice is lower than that of rice, and the Yang family doesn't even have enough rice to eat, so how can it be replaced with glutinous rice?
In the past, when I used to eat a good meal in Chinese New Year's Eve, only peanuts and sweet potatoes from my own field were considered food, and nothing else. This year is different, not to mention anything else, this year's pigs fed at home have grown to more than 100 catties because of sufficient food and oil and water. The key thing is not to sell yet!
The day after Yang Qitai returned, the pig killer came to the door. They are busy all year round, that is, when the Chinese New Year is approaching, but everyone knows it in their hearts, and they all make appointments. Yang Laohan estimated that the time when his youngest son came back was agreed in advance, no, as soon as the sky was bright, people came to the door with the guy.
The quilt in the winter morning is the warmest and most comfortable, Yang Xiaobei was sleeping soundly on the bed, and was woken up by a scream like killing a pig - uh, no, she remembered, isn't this the scream of killing a pig?
The pig is said to be an animal with a high IQ, and since a group of big men rushed to its nest and dragged it out, it knew that something was wrong, and began to scream heartbreakingly. That's a ...... voice Yang Xiaobei was annoyed by the screams of this high decibel and had a headache, shrunk into the quilt and covered his ears with his hands, thinking that it was better to wait for the pig to die before going out. Although she said that her neighbors killed pigs every year since she was a child, she never dared to look at it, so she said cruelly......
Of course, cruelty is cruelty, and pork is still delicious! When the screams outside stopped, Yang Xiaobei hurriedly got up and dressed and ran out.
The family is already busy. The second aunt boiled water in the kitchen, making the stove smoky. Coughing and scooping hot water to wash, by the time she cleaned up and went out, the white-haired pig on the board was already on all fours, blown into a balloon.
The pig killer's hands and feet are nimble, after fixing the pig, the red knife goes into the white knife and comes out, and soon it is bloody, at this time the practice is to pray - they are killing karma, and they don't know which way the gods are praying, anyway, it is roughly to tell the pig that they should not be reincarnated as a pig in the next life. It's pretty serious.
It is very simple to process pig blood into blood tofu, and it is not popular to eat blood sausage in my hometown, but simply add salt and wait for it to solidify, and then cook it and put it away for a few days. The next step is to make holes in the limbs and blow vigorously into the pig's body with a blow pipe.
This is individual work, Yang Xiaobei saw that the faces of the two pig killers were bruised, and they squatted and used all the strength of their bodies. The two of them bleed, and the shriveled pigs were about to blow up into balloons, which was considered to be done.
The reason why it is so troublesome is to shave well. If you don't blow it, the skin will be wrinkled and it will be difficult to clean the hair. This is the requirement of craftsmanship, it is necessary to clean the whole body, even the inside of the nails.
The next thing is to disembowel, the pig's whole body is full of treasures, basically nothing can be discarded, and at this time the main family will start to be busy. Cleaning the internal organs is none of the business of the pig killer, you have to deal with it yourself. The toys that the children had been waiting for for a long time also came out - yes, pig urine bubbles.
In fact, it is the pig's bladder. It's a rare thing that doesn't come in handy on pigs, but it's a rare toy for children. The pig killer turns the pig urine bubble over and washes it, then blows it and ties it tightly with a rope, and a freshly baked soccer ball is finished!
There was laughter and laughter on the field, and the children chased and frolicked and competed to play the "football". Children in the countryside have never had toys, and it is already a rare experience to be able to kick a pig urine bubble at the beginning of a year. It's very elastic and relatively strong, and the children will soon get all the dust on it, but no one will dislike it, and they will hold it in their arms like a baby.
When it comes to the wax moon, whose pigs are crowing, soon the whole village of children (of course, most of them are boys, girls are not interested in this kind of thing) will gather and wait for this. But as fun as it is, it's just a thin layer, and the shelf life is basically only one day. Even if it didn't break on the first day, the elasticity was gone on the second day, and it shrank into a ball and couldn't lift it. Fortunately, pigs are killed almost every day in the lunar month, so the children don't have to worry about not playing.
When I came back after admiring the children's skills, the pigs were completely gone. It became a large and small strip of meat. Finally kill a pig, the owner wants to give a gift, to repay the debt, and the pig killer said, they will sleep with a knife, you say a few pounds to cut a few pounds, never with deviation. And then there is their own meat. At this time, the pig killer does not need money, and it is enough to take a piece of meat with him when he leaves.
Next is the processing of the meat. The freshly chopped meat still has residual warmth, so it should be dried for the afternoon and the marinade begins. Spread a large amount of salt evenly on the meat pieces, and then place them in turn into a large water tank, which is pressed with a stone mill. After about two days, most of the moisture in the meat is precipitated, and then the meat is taken out of the salt water and put under the sun to dry.
When the sun is almost dry, you can start smoking the bacon. People in the southwest region like to eat smoked food, which is easy to preserve, and the bacon obtained by smoking can be kept until May of the next year, and it will be managed for half a year. Second, everyone also loves to eat this bite. Smoked bacon, sausage, pork head, pork liver...... Anyway, everyone thinks that smoked is delicious.
Not only pork, but also wild meat such as hares, fish, chickens, ducks and geese, etc., are generally smoked during the New Year. And fresh is a different taste. The meat smoked with wood and pine branches is firm and has a special aroma - not to mention, saliva comes out.
This year, the pig of the Yang family was fed well, and the pig killer praised "four fingers!" Our old man has killed the best meat today! "Yang Xiaobei Khan. Well, in the era of general shortage of oil and water, lard is also an important edible oil, and it is more expensive than vegetable oil. And the "four-finger thick fat" means that you don't need oil to cook vegetables, and those who save can use fat to wipe the pot and stir-fry, and a piece of meat can be used for a long time!
When the outside is processed, as usual, a large pot is boiled with fresh tube bones, blood tofu and cabbage are added inside, and then a small fried meat is stir-fried with tender meat, etc., which is the legendary "pig killing dish", which is not counted during the New Year, this is called the real open to eat meat!