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Before cooking dinner, Yang Yong's brothers ate too much dim sum, and both of them said that they couldn't eat dinner, and asked Yang Yun not to cook their portions. Yang Yun still cooked their portions, but they cooked less than before, and the children would feel hungry after running and jumping for a while. Yang Yun felt that since she came to Haoguo, she had never treated herself as a child.

Grandparents have become accustomed to Yang Yun's current appearance, and Yang Yong's brothers also listen to Yang Yun for everything, and after a long time, Yang Yun has forgotten that this body is still a ten-year-old child, and he will be eleven years old after the Chinese New Year. Everything is considered with the consciousness of an adult.

When it was time to eat in the evening, the two brothers really wanted to eat again, fortunately, Yang Yun had a share of cooking them, of course, they ate less at night than before, and one person ate a bowl to say that they didn't want it.

When Yang Yun and Yang Xuan slept at night, they talked carefully to him about the things to pay attention to when eating, and what kind of consequences would be caused if they ate too quickly. After Yang Xuan heard this, he said that he would no longer gobble it up in the future, and Yang Yun also assured Yang Xuan that as long as he thought something delicious, he would often make it for him in the future. Yang Xuan was happy, and felt that his sister was the person who loved him the most in the world.

Because the New Year is coming, the Yang family is also busy preparing for the New Year, although the family usually Yang Yun is very clean, grandma still went to fold some banyan leaves plus bamboo leaves and straw, and swept every corner of the house, indicating that the old and the new, remove the bad luck of the old year, and welcome the good luck of the new year.

Yang Yun also went to ask her grandmother what rice cakes she would make for the New Year, and her grandmother said that Zhoujia Village would make several kinds of rice cakes, one was red peach cake, one was sugar cake, and the other was radish cake. Yang Yun's eyes lit up when she heard the radish cake, this Yang Yun would do it, in her previous life, Yang Yun steamed the Cantonese radish cake by herself when she was free on holidays.

"Grandma, does Zhoujiacun have a rule on what kind of rice cakes must be made for the New Year?"

"There is no such thing, it depends on the situation of your own family, there are more people who make radish cakes, and there are no vegetables in winter, but there are a lot of radishes stored in every household. The process of red peach cake is more complicated, and it also requires a large number of mung beans, including sweet and salty flavors. People with good conditions will also wrap mushrooms and glutinous rice, of course, to worship the gods, or the ancestors are mainly vegetarian. ”

"Grandma, it's too difficult to make red peach cakes, or our family will make sugar cakes and radish cakes."

"It's really a bit difficult to make red peach cakes, and it takes a lot of effort to make glutinous rice noodles, and grandma is not moving now. Let's make radish cake at home, brown sugar cake is very sugary, there are many radishes in our cellar, just steam a few baskets of radish cake. ”

"Okay, this Xiao Yun will make it, Xiao Yun will make some radish cakes with different flavors for everyone to taste."

"You girl wants to toss and eat again, you have to remember, the radish cake needs to be steamed to the gods."

"Grandma, Xiao Yun knows, when the time comes, we will steam a few vegetarian sacrifices, and we will steam different ones at home."

"I'm too lazy to care about you, but I can't waste food, so that your grandfather will know about it and talk about you again."

"Grandma, don't worry, Xiao Yun is the kind of person who has no sense of proportion, when the time comes, don't rush to eat Xiao Yun's steamed radish cake."

"You girl, you are also making fun of grandma, you are a grandmother like Xiaoyong and Xiaoxuan, you want to grab food when you see it."

"Grandma, Xiao Yun is joking with you." The grandfather and grandson both laughed after speaking.

Yang Yun suddenly thought that she needed five-spice powder to make dried radish, so she hurriedly went to Dr. Xu's house and asked him for peppercorns, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, and cumin seeds. After getting these materials, they are directly fried, and then find a stone mortar to pound the materials into powder and pack them. In addition to steaming radish cake, five-spice powder can also marinate things.

The turnip cake will not start steaming until the morning of the twenty-ninth of the year, that is, on Chinese New Year's Eve, and there is no Chinese New Year's Eve in the lunar calendar of Haoguo this year. Tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, today Yang Yun will help her grandmother clean up the house, and then turn out the things in the utility room and cellar to see what materials can be used as New Year's food.

The snacks used to entertain guests during the New Year include dried bananas left some time ago, and then the peanut candy and red date cake made by Yang Yun in the past two days, and grandpa also bought a few catties of Yi sugar, these few things are enough.

And the dishes to prepare for the New Year, Yang Yun has also gone through it in her heart, and it is necessary to stew pig's feet with red dates, as if there is a custom that the second daughter of the new year goes back to her parents' house, and her son-in-law wants to bring a bowl of stewed pig's feet with red dates to honor her father-in-law. If the son-in-law sends this dish during the New Year, it means that he is very satisfied with marrying the daughter of his father-in-law's family. And the sweeter the stewed pig's feet with red dates, it proves that the happier the daughter is at her in-law's house.

Therefore, every household in Zhoujia Village has to make stewed dishes during the New Year. Of course, the daughter-in-law who makes this dish will not save sugar, which is also to show her parents that she is doing well in her in-law's house and reassure her parents.

There are dried fish at home, the fish caught in autumn, some two-finger or three-finger wide whole dried fish can be soaked in water first, and then cooked with some soup and seasoning, according to the custom should be steamed a whole fish, but there is no raw fish in this season, so it is directly replaced by the whole tail of dried fish.

Grandpa ordered pork, pig's feet, pig bones, and pig water at Zhou's butcher's house, and they had to wait for Chinese New Year's Eve to cook. And tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, you must get up early in the morning to deal with these things, Yang Yun when she sleeps at night, she also tells her grandmother to wake her up earlier tomorrow.

Yang Yun got up at dawn the next day, and by the way, she called the two brothers up, no one can be lazy today. After breakfast, Grandpa went to Zhou's butcher's house to get back the meat he had ordered. Yang Yun boiled a pot of hot water and asked Yang Yong to deal with the pig in the yard, clean the small hair on the pork and pig's feet, and clean the pig in the water, the water in the river was too cold, Yang Yun was reluctant to let Yang Yong go to the river to wash.

Grandpa and Yang Xuan helped peel the radish, because they had to peel a lot of radish cakes because they had to make a few baskets of radish cakes. Grandma took the pig's feet handled by Yang Yong to stew red dates first, and this one will be stewed for at least two hours. Another big pot at home took all the pig water to marinate, Yang Yun put five spice powder this time, I believe that the marinated pig water will be more fragrant and delicious.

Once the radish is peeled, it is ground into turnip puree, and the tool used to grind the radish puree is a rectangular wooden board with many iron nails nailed on it, and the nails are neatly arranged on the board. Some of the planks used to grind radish mash are arranged directly from hardwood to form a staircase, and the long wooden blocks are closely arranged together.

Of course, when it comes to tools for grinding radish puree, the wooden planks made of iron nails are the fastest and best to use. This iron plank was borrowed from Zhou Limin's family, and Zhou Limin had the advantage of learning carpenter, and many things could be made from leftover materials in the store. Zhou Limin's family also makes radish cakes, but his family has a lot of hands, so he made it first yesterday, so Yang Yun went to borrow a nail board today.

Yang Yun and Yang Yong took turns grinding radish puree, the raw radish was slightly spicy and dazzling, and Yang Yun came out with tears grinding and grinding. In the end, except for Yang Xuan, everyone else took turns grinding radish puree, and a total of two buckets of radish puree came out, and Yang Yun planned to be able to steam at least four baskets of radish cake.

(Digression: These chapters are all food texts, and many of them have been done by Bird Bird himself, so it is a little difficult to recall, and I am afraid that some steps will be forgotten.) As for those who like to watch farming and farming, just wait, spring is coming, and it is natural to plant. ）