Braised carp (top)
After Huzi left reluctantly, Chunqiu turned his head and looked at Sister Chunhua who was ready to eat fish next to him, Chunqiu paused inexplicably, and said, "Second sister, you better go and put the duck eggs in your arms in the grandmother's house first, I'll just go and find the eldest sister myself" Chunqiu finished speaking and moved the carp in his hand again, "Let's eat braised carp today"
"Braised carp?" Chunhua shook her head when she heard the braised fish, and then nodded violently and smiled even more happily. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info "By the way, you have to put more sauce, the bean paste made by our milk is delicious" Chunhua also put forward her own opinion.
"Got it" Chunqiu nodded, her second sister's research on food was much more unique.
Chunqiu walked to the door of the small kitchen in the west with the carp, and saw that the eldest sister Chunni was busy working on the stove on the right, because when Chunhua kowtowed before, Yang Li said that he wanted to change the stove, so he changed all the stoves in the west wing to be smaller, which was officially suitable for the children of their Yang family, so Yang Chunni and their children moved their cooking from the big kitchen to the west wing.
Chunqiu walked into the small kitchen with the two carps in his hand, and said to Chunni, who was busy, "Sister, let's eat fish today"
Hearing someone talking, Chunni raised her head, and then noticed the person in front of her, "The third sister is back so soon", "Yes" Chun Qiu nodded. Chunni noticed the two-day big fish in Chunqiu's hand, and exclaimed suddenly, "Yo, the third sister is really amazing, she caught such a big fish" Chunni was excited, and she couldn't even maintain her usual shy and quiet temperament, showing the lively temperament in her body.
Chunqiu looked at the eldest sister who jumped in front of her, took the carp in her hand and put it in the wooden basin on the side, and asked with some curiosity, "Eldest sister, do you know how to make fish?" She herself knew how to make fish in her previous life, but now she doesn't know if she can do it well.
"I won't" Chunni shook her head honestly when she heard Chunqiu's words, "My mother didn't teach me to be a fisher" Chunni looked sure.
After Chunni finished speaking, she looked at the third sister whose face quickly darkened, and was a little worried about whether she said that she couldn't make fish, and her sister was sad, "Why don't I try to do it?" Chunni said carefully, she really hadn't done it, looking at the two dead fish in her hand, she was a little unsure.
Chunqiu raised his head in astonishment, only then did he realize that his thinking appearance had made the eldest sister misunderstand that she wanted to eat fish, "Eldest sister, it's okay" Chunqiu adjusted her face to make her look less serious, "I will do it, I have seen how my mother did it, just now I was just thinking about how to do it" Chunqiu explained seriously.
"Oh, that's right" Chunni was suddenly relieved, the third sister looked like that just now, she was really worried that the third sister would be disappointed.
"Well, don't worry, I've done a good job" Chunqiu stretched out his hand and patted his chest, with a look of reassurance.
"Really, are you really okay cooking, will cooking make your forehead recur" Chunni's tone was puzzled, and she was worried, Chunqiu's previous fall was a bit big, although she now felt that her sister was completely well, but she was still worried that something would happen to the other party's cooking.
"It's okay" Chunqiu shook his head, and reached out to touch the almost invisible wound on his head, "It's been well for a long time, sister, look, can't you see it?" Chunqiu showed Chunni with a smooth forehead.
"Well, okay then, I'll give you a hand," Chunni said uneasily.
Chunqiu nodded, "That's good, let's show our skills, let grandma and grandpa they must eat well today" In fact, Chunqiu wanted to say that she could do it herself, but looking at the eldest sister's face and doing so, she still responded, and her sister was also worried that she was tired, ah! The home she lives in is so good, Chunqiu thought in her heart.
Just do it, after the two of them explained some things, Chunqiu walked out of the door with the two fish in the basin. Bian You also said to the eldest sister, "Eldest sister, you go and bring all the seasonings from our house" Chunqiu sat at the door of the house, holding a special knife made for her by Yang Weibai in his hand, and went to the scales of the carp little by little.
"And what else?" said Chunni, who came back with a bunch of condiments and placed them on the left stove where Chunqiu was cooking.
"Eldest sister, you go and cut the ginger into shreds, crush the garlic, and cut the wild onions" Chunqiu put down the knife in his hand and stretched out his finger to point to something on the board not far away.
"Okay," Chunni nodded, took the kitchen knife on the board and cut it with her hands.
Here in the spring and autumn also took the opportunity to scrape the scales of the two carps, and then took a knife to cut a knife from the position behind the gills of the fish, and after seeing a white line in the fish meat, he grabbed the white line with his hand, and patted the fish body with the back of the knife while pulling, and took out the fishy line of the fish, and the other side also operated in the same way. This is the most basic thing to do with carp, if you don't remove the fishy line, then everything will have a fishy smell and it will be difficult to eat. Considering that the Yang family has a large population and has worked for another day, Chunqiu did not hesitate to clean up all the two carps, for fear that they would not have enough to eat.
Holding the processed carp, Chunqiu stood next to the board, looking at the materials in front of him, the fish was there, green onions, ginger, garlic, the eldest sister had cut it, and it had been neatly placed in a white porcelain bowl, chili, refined salt, Sichuan pepper, bean paste at home, and sugar, Chunqiu counted the condiments in front of him, well, there was still a lack of pepper and vinegar, and shouted to Chunni beside him, "Sister, do we have vinegar in our house?" or pepper?" In the Spring and Autumn Period, I thought that pepper was first found in the books of "Youyang Miscellaneous" and "Tang Materia Medica" in the Tang Dynasty, and it was said that the Tang monks took the scriptures from the Western Regions and brought them back. In the future, the materia medica has been described, mostly for medicinal purposes, and also used for food seasoning.
And the main production area of pepper is located in today's Hainan, Guangdong and other places, now, although the era is somewhat like the Ming Dynasty, but it is not certain, so she does not know whether pepper is not.
"Vinegar?" Chunni replied, "You wait, I'll get it for you" Chunni finished speaking, put down the rice in her hand, and hurriedly ran to the back of the small kitchen to get vinegar.
"Sister, what about the pepper?" asked Chunqiu, "it's the light brown powder that is a little fragrant and spicy."
"The one you are talking about?" Chunni stood at the back of the kitchen and poked her head out, thinking for a moment, "It seems that there is" Chunni said uncertainly.
"Where?" Chunqiu was surprised, there really is, the braised carp can be made perfectly.
"It should be in the kitchen that the mother uses, there is no one here" Chunni heard the sound of "I'll get it" before she finished speaking, and then she ran away without a trace, "It's in a small white pocket, don't make a mistake" Chunni shouted at the door, "I know" Chun Chun turned back and replied.
When Chunqiu ran to the big kitchen, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, her mother's cooking place was so tall, if their small kitchen was simple before, then now it is full of dazzling, whether it is salt, sugar, or ingredients, they are all bulging and neatly placed on the shelves on the side, from left to right. In comparison, the small white pocket that her eldest sister said was clearly visible, and Chunqiu found it next to a pile of refined salt. Open the small pocket, Chunqiu carefully dipped his hands and tasted it in his mouth, well, that's the taste, Chunqiu spit out the pepper in his mouth, and sealed the small white pocket, looking at the appearance that she could completely hold it up, well, grandma wouldn't care if she took it away, but Chunqiu took half a bowl of white noodles from the kitchen before leaving, and she wanted to wrap the fish in a while, and when she was satisfied, she left the big kitchen, and decided that if there was not enough in the future, she would come and get it, anyway, she had so many families, it should satisfy herγ
When everything is ready, it's time to do it.
Chunqiu looked at the things full of boards in front of him, and nodded with satisfaction, Chunni was cooking for the family, Chun Qiu planned to let her help make a fire when cooking fish for a while, otherwise she couldn't take care of it herself.
Take out a kitchen knife and cut the carp into three pieces, cutting each piece back and forth several times. The fish head is directly kept, ready to get up early tomorrow to make fish head soup, and then take out the previous bottles and cans, with sugar, vinegar, salt, pepper and a series of materials such as spring and autumn to make a simple cooking wine, the chopped green onions, shredded ginger, minced garlic are evenly filled on both sides of the carp and the stomach.
Then pour the mixed cooking wine over the fish and wait for about 20-30 minutes for it to absorb the flavor.
During this time, Chunqiu was not idle, preparing the white noodles that were taken out of the big kitchen before, mixing them with water to make a batter, and then taking out the soybean oil bought at home and pouring it into the pot to prepare.
Chunni was already busy at this time, and was sitting at the stove to light a fire.
"Eldest sister, the fire is a little smaller, it doesn't need to be too big," Chunqiu said to Chunni, who was adding fire to the stove.
"Oh, I know, I know," Chunni stretched out her hand to signal that she understood.
When the spring and autumn are estimated to be about the same, immediately clean the condiments on the fish with their hands, and then take them out and roll them in the good batter, the oil in the pot has already been boiled by Chunni, and the unique fragrance of soybean oil is also coming from the kitchen, crackling, and so on until the fish is evenly glued on both sides of the batter, then put the carp in the hand into the pot and fry, and wait until the fish is golden on both sides of the fried oil, and then use chopsticks to get out of the pot.
Scoop out a little oil in the pot with a spoon, pour the peppercorns and green onions, ginger, garlic and chili peppers on the side into the pot, and put the simple cooking wine that was made before into it, add less than sugar and vinegar, and wait until the fragrance bursts, pour the boiling water prepared next to you into the pot, and add bean paste.
With the addition of bean paste, the soup made is suddenly full of fragrance, and the air is full of the fragrance of bean paste and the fragrance of the ingredients. "It's so fragrant" Chunni lit the fire on the side, smelled the fragrance coming from the pot, and took a deep breath, it looked delicious.
"It's even better when it's done in a while," Chunqiu looked proud. She made it herself, and of course it was delicious.
After the water kept boiling and boiling, Chunqiu put the fried golden fish in it and closed the lid on the side of the pot.
"Eldest sister, it's okay to wait for a quarter of an hour or so" Chun Qiu said to Chun Ni who was burning the fire next to him, the time algorithm of their time is different from that of later generations, their day is twelve hours, each hour represents two hours, and a quarter of an hour represents thirty minutes.
"Then you come over and light the fire, I'm going to go to the next rice, otherwise our milk will come back and talk about me in a while" Chunni left the stove and hurriedly poured the rice that was placed aside into the pot next to it.
"No, grandma loves us so much, so I won't say it" Spring and Autumn don't believe it, her grandma doesn't have a little patriarchal idea, well, there is indeed a point, although Yang Li is very fond of them, but they are still the two who like to read the most, but for other families in this era, they are already much happier.
"If Grandma doesn't say it, my mother will talk about me too," Chunni continued. Her mother has been a little strict with her lately. She is 11 years old, and according to her mother's words, she is already a big girl, and she has to plan for the future.
"That's right" Chunqiu nodded, the eldest aunt Gu is really strict with Sister Chunni. Look at her eldest sister's hands that are already obviously red and swollen, and at a glance, you can see that they are embroidered, but fortunately her mother Yuan is not like this, hehe, Spring and Autumn feel happy.