Chapter 49: Busy
By the time everyone returned to the tribe, the villagers were already looking forward to it. The people www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the safe return of the hunting team, followed by pride and joy for the warriors. Hymns resounded on the field, melodious echoes.
Everyone is rejoicing in this year's hunt, and the amount of prey is enough to keep their tribe through the rainy season.
Don't think you're safe enough to relax back in the tribe, in fact, the busy season has only just begun. Like harvesting rice, there is a lot of follow-up work such as drying and molting. Because the tribe doesn't have such a thing as 'ice', food is not stored for a long time. Therefore, everyone should carry out a series of processing processes such as molting, smoking, drying and storage of freshly hunted prey to make dried meat that can be stored for a long time.
Because considering that there is only one thirteen-year-old Ling in Chen Yuanyuan's family, the prey hunted by Chen Yuanyuan is distributed to everyone, and a certain amount of remuneration is paid for their family to help pickle it. Or hire pickles. Of course, this kind of employment pickling is not a precedent set by Chen Yuanyuan, but a transaction that has existed in the first place. So Chen Yuanyuan only needs to deal with the prey and food in the space on the last day.
Retrieving his jerky and some other things from Grandma's house, Chen Yuanyuan was about to start busy.
The first is to cramp and peel off the bones of the hunted mutant beast, strip a whole body of fur, and then deal with it. Useful ones are left behind, useless ones are thrown away. Then it's time to pickle. To marinate or something, Chen Yuanyuan put the pieces of meat and ginger grass into the same basin, add an appropriate amount of salt, minced bay leaves, chili noodles, thirteen spices and a little soy sauce, and then rub them together with their hands, knead them well, and set them aside to taste. In the evening, when it is fully immersed in the flavor, it is smoked with fragrant pine or other wood.
During this waiting time, Chen Yuanyuan, Xiu and Ling washed all the mushrooms and fruits they brought back, and then dried them separately.
In fact, drying in the sun is the best way to deal with fungi, but because the air humidity in the rainy season is too high, this method is completely unworkable, so Chen Yuanyuan switched to drying and sealing. However, here Chen Yuanyuan moved a little bit and dried the fungi and put them in the space to dry. After all, there is no such thing as water in a space.
As for vegetables, the longest storage method is naturally pickled.
For this reason, Chen Yuanyuan specially bought several more jars. There are two kinds of pickling, one with salt and the other with vinegar. But after all, there is not much vinegar in storage, and Chen Yuanyuan doesn't want to use it indiscriminately, so she uses salt. There are not many vegetables that can be salted, and baby cabbage and bitter water chestnut are two of them. The pickling method is almost the same.
The washed vegetables are first sliced from it and then layered in a dry jar. Sprinkle a layer of salt on each layer, spread it until the neck of the jar, and then pour it into the cool white open on the side, leaving no trace of air, cover the lid, and pour a layer of water on the edge, and seal it tightly. Then you get two different pickles, one pickle and one sauerkraut.
In the end, the fruit remains. Chen Yuanyuan plans to use it all to make preserved fruits. This preserved fruit is completely prepared for a short period of time. I believe that the pregnant sub-beast likes to eat these sour things the most. The first is to make jam, and the sweet water stem and sour sour seeds are the ingredients for making jam. Wash them and mash them into a liquid and you're good to go. Fortunately, the former one is easy to melt, and the latter can be broken to extract juice.
The next step is to wash and peel the freshly ripe or crispy sour plums, cut them into thumb-sized pieces and pour them into a crockpot, then add an appropriate amount of white sugar and mix well, then pour in the jam and cook together for half an hour. After the sugar is cooled, the dried fruit is drained, dried or dried, sealed in a jar and refrigerated.