Chapter 66: Smoked Dates
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The girl who has been trapped in the small yard for a long time suddenly spread the joy and couldn't hold it back.
On the first day of Chen Axing's hunting with Feng Dazhuang in the ravine, he didn't come back until it was dark.
"Oh, hey, Da Zhuang, look at you, starve Ah Xing girl, right? You have rough skin and thick meat, and you can cause trouble at will, but Axing can't help but be windy and tender, hurry up, my mother will warm the rice on the stove......".
Li Shi looked at what he wanted to wear, and when he saw the figure, he was a chatter.
The two children were still excited, Feng Dazhuang went to settle the prey, Chen Axing grabbed Li's arm, and jumped twice on tiptoe, narrating in his mouth.
"Auntie, I'm not hungry! Brother Big Brother took me to roast a hare, and went to our old stone cave to see the 'big brother', but the weather was still cold, it didn't want to move more, Brother Big Brother gave it a jar of wine, in the blink of an eye, the 'big brother' drank it out, and when we came, the snoring could be heard a mile away......".
In Chen Axing's eyes, every scene and thing in the deep mountains is so cute and warm, and the "big brother" is also extremely handsome and martial.
Li's happy eyebrows and smiles, after getting along for a few days, the more I look at this little girl, the more I like it, she is beautiful, she cooks beautifully, and her temperament is refreshing.
The most rare thing is to look at his son, standing together, one black, one white, one tall, one short, one strong and one soft, isn't it just a good match?
Ah Hua is also happy to see it, she originally thought that men and women should get along more before marriage, so as not to find all kinds of disharmony after marriage, and then make trouble, now it is like this, very good.
Her stomach was like blowing up a balloon, and the family didn't dare to stay away, so Ah Hua planned to wait until she unloaded the "ball" in her stomach and then worry about Chen Axing's lawsuit.
The clothes, bedding and diapers prepared for the child were all in place, and Ah Hua began to consciously conduct prenatal training for her mother Li, she leaned on the kang to observe Li's new birth procedures, commented one by one, and emphasized the precautions for hygiene and disinfection.
"Mother, don't worry, your daughter will enjoy great blessings in the future, it is absolutely impossible to drop the chain when giving birth to a child, and when the time comes, you can do it and think about ......it."
Don't complain that Ah Hua herself is constantly strengthening her mother's confidence, she is actually really scared.
Just impulsively nested in the deep mountains and old forests, Dafan had a deviation in production, purely "eating arsenic and then hanging himself - he will definitely die"!
Later, Chen Axing didn't dare to run out, accompanied the Li family to guard the big-bellied woman, and supported Ah Hua to pace slowly and hard in the jujube forest.
The fruits of those sour jujube trees have been picked, and the taste is much more sour than that of jujube when it is tender and green, and the kernel is also large, but the color will become red when it is dried, and the sweetness will come up.
There is a saying among the folk that "eating jujube for a day, not showing old for a lifetime", many people are planting jujube trees, and the deep processing of jujube in the Qi Dynasty is not popular, in fact, making jujube wine, jujube powder, jujube cake and ......, the prospect is definitely worth looking forward to.
It's a pity that Ah Hua's physical state can't be too tossed at present, and there is no place to store a lot of red dates.
The pot-bellied woman found the easiest processing method and arranged for Feng Dazhuang to make smoked dates, which were forbidden and delicious......
It is said that smoked jujube has the functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach, health care and longevity, the processing process is simple, no need to add any chemical raw materials, and after smoking and roasting, it can kill many germs on the surface of fresh jujube, and it is a green fruit that people can eat with confidence.
So, the sturdy Feng Dazhuang learned another unique trick. Dig a trapezoidal soil pit with an upper mouth length of 6m, a width of 2m, a lower mouth of 5m long, a width of 0.7m, and a depth of 1.6m in the ground, and dig an operation road about 1m long and 0.8m wide along the vertical direction in the middle and lower part of the long side. Place two large wooden mounds on both sides of the bottom of the soil pit, lay a layer of wooden sticks with a diameter of 20cm on the upper part of the soil pit, lay a layer of shelf board above the wooden sticks, and lay iron sand above the shelf board to facilitate turning jujubes, this is the smoking bed.
Around the bed, a stone rim about 50 centimeters high was built to create a simple smoker.
Select fresh jujubes without insect mouth, no damage, and no mildew, wash them, boil them in boiling water for a minute or two, and when the jujubes are ripe to 6~7, take them out, quickly put them in cold water, flush them, and then put them on the smoking and baking bed, spread them evenly, about 10cm thick, and cover the jujubes with a layer of thick cotton cloth.
Ignite the wooden pier from the operation road, because the wooden pier is large in size and density, the underground air is thin, and the wooden pier mouth is smoking, which is very easy to extinguish. Let the wooden pier burn, but there is no open flame, this is the key technology of processing, the operation is not good, the wooden pier only smokes, there is no spark. Inside the operating tunnel, the smoke is pressing.
Feng Dazhuang's eyes were red and swollen several times, and he coughed constantly, so he could be regarded as finding some operating experience.
Smoke for a day and a half, but also turn over the layer, first take out the upper date, then put the upper date into the smoking bed, spread evenly, then put in the lower date, flattened, re-covered with cotton cloth, continue to smoke, wait for another day and a half, you can bake.
After smoking all the dates to be smoked once, mix well, and then smoke them a second time in the same way, and after smoking and roasting them twice, they will be processed into smoked dates with a unique flavor.
In February, the smoker never stopped, and Feng Dazhuang devoted almost all his energy to the great cause of smoking dates, except for taking the leopard and wild boar to patrol the mountains in the morning and evening, harvesting the prey in the trap, and then taking the time to cut a few honey dishes to fill the altar.
March is a good day.
Legend has it that the wedding date of Prince Mu Ke is in March, and the "ball" in Ah Hua's belly, the melon is ripe and falling in this season.
Although Li practiced the delivery process with his daughter and Ah Xing many times, when he stepped into March, he couldn't eat in a panic and couldn't sleep at night.
Those fetal pills, birth boosting pills, and maintenance pills from Qingshui County haven't come in handy, but she still has a weak heart, and Ah Hua's belly is too big, and she wasn't so brilliant and majestic when she was pregnant with her daughter!
"Mother, there are more than 20 days, I can eat well and sleep, the child is naturally older, and it is easy to feed when he is older." Ah Hua can only comfort her mother like this, when she arrives at this kind of field, even if she doesn't care about going down the mountain to explain to others, she can't go down.
"No, Ah Hua!" Li helped her daughter pick up her big belly and put it on the dining table, tears crackling and falling: "No! Let your brother go down the mountain to pick up a man and come up, you can spend as much money as you want, my mother is going to be scared to death! ”
In fact, Ah Hua is not as calm as she said, she eats well - is that she eats hard and sleeps? Only she knows that with a large pillow on the left and right sides of her body to place her stomach, it is still difficult to sleep.
A little "ball" with no conscience, but whether it is a break or not, when he is happy or not, he has to play a set of punches and kick a few legs, and his mother's belly will burst into tears......
At the end of February, Ah Hua could only sit and rest on the futon, and if she lay down, she couldn't breathe at all.
"Okay, let my brother run again, and by the way, take the smoked dates down, and ask Aunt Li to help sell ......."