Chapter 15: The Birth of Deliciousness
There is a very large pot in Dousha Village, to be specific, this is a huge copper pot, it is said to be handed down by the ancestors, I heard that it is related to Zhuge Liang, and the specific events are too far away to be distinguished, but Yun Zheng is still sure that this should be a marching pot.
Usually this thing is hidden in the old patriarch's house, and when he doesn't use it once, he heard that Yun Zheng couldn't find a suitable meat cooking pot, so the old patriarch specially brought this treasure over for Yun Zheng to use.
The beef boiled in a small pot is not fragrant, which has long been a well-known common sense in the northwest, and the beef is not fragrant when cut into small pieces and boiled, so Yun Zheng divided the beef into large pieces and threw them all into it and boiled it over high heat, grate off the blood water, pour new water into it again and boil it again, and then pour it out after boiling, and the third time the water is the water that is really used to cook beef.
There are few spices available, only ginger, onions, garlic and peppercorns, and Yun Zheng has no choice but to settle.
Boiling beef is a hard work, Cang'er Jing is bare-backed, and the long bamboo pole keeps stirring the beef, and it doesn't take long for the aroma of beef to float out.
The whole village eats dinner on the edge of the meat pot, and the beef has not yet been cooked, but the beef broth with a thick layer of butter is ready to drink.
Scooping it out with salt and coriander is the most delicious thing, and there are not many opportunities to eat beef in Da Song. His own rice was soaked in the Yun family's beef soup, and the old patriarch ate three bowls in one go, and after eating, he put down the dishes and chopsticks and kept saying that he had done evil. In his opinion, living like this is a sin.
The beef is cooked until it is seven mature, it is hooked out by Yun Zheng with an iron hook, put it on the mat next to it to cool, the salt flavor has already entered it, and then cut the beef into small slices, pour dogwood water, smear the peppercorn noodles, and then knead the icing in and dry it, and everything will be fine, and the delicious beef jerky will be completely done.
Because of the travel, people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang need to bring a variety of pickles, only these pickles can ensure that they will not spoil on the road, of course, stinky tofu and other peculiar delicacies also came into being.
Yun Zheng's only worry is whether the beef jerky can be dried quickly in the humid weather here, if it is not feasible, then it has to be roasted, the beef jerky that comes out of this way has no taste of sunshine, and the flavor will be worse, but it doesn't matter, it is a blessing to have beef to eat this year, who dares to ask for taste?
Five cows were boiled five times, and it was already the second half of the night when it was Zuihou's turn to be a cow, and Yun Zheng asked that the beef must be thoroughly cooked this time, after all, tomorrow's hospitality will count on it.
There are few people in the village, and the children do not feel sleepy in the middle of the night, and they can always get a little offal from their mothers with their mouths open, and they refuse to let go of any opportunity to eat beef. The offal distributed to each household was also churned in each family's crockpot at this time.
The bacon was busy going in and out, and she was always worried that the women who cut the meat would steal it, and two of them had already rolled their eyes, so they still looked for an opportunity to stuff it into their mouths.
Yun Zheng sat in front of the window with a book and said to the bacon with a smile: "If you like to eat it, you can eat it, there will be a lot of such work in the future, and you can't prevent it, and when they get hurt, they won't eat it." "No, young master, they don't have enough to eat, you look at the tiger, if you eat it again, you will be strangled to death." The bacon anxiously pointed to the woman in front of him who was stealing food and complained to Yun Zheng.
Yun Zheng put away the book in his hand, patted the bacon's head and said, "What if you don't do this?" You can't cut the beef by yourself until next month, and I can't help you, and Yun Er can't do it, so it's their salary, and they're all people in their own village, and it's not a big deal to eat a little. ”
Bacon always didn't understand that the young master Weishenme would be so calm, the birds and birds needed to scare away with stones when they ate their own crops, and Weishenme would be so tolerant of these women who stole food.
When the sky was bright, taking advantage of the dew, the women poured the beef slices into the basket and added dogwood water, salt, peppercorns, and icing, and kept kneading them with their hands until each slice was covered with spices, and dried them on the bamboo mats one by one, waiting for the sun to rise.
Yun Zheng, who slept in the middle of the night, got up, came to the front of the bamboo mat after washing, took a piece of beef and put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly, nodding while eating, the taste is really good, the salty fragrance is full of sweetness, and the aftertaste is a little spicy, and the taste of peppercorns is also strong, stronger than the taste of beef jerky that I have eaten in later generations, the only drawback is that it is not spicy enough.
Yun Er now completely thinks of himself as a child, he goes out of the house with his bare butt, eats a piece of beef jerky and goes to find the unconscious bacon who sleeps on the pyre, this poor girl didn't close her eyes at all last night, the thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy is the age of snooze, and he sleeps in the dark when he gets a little free, Yun Er pushed her twice and didn't wake her up.
"Someone stole beef!" Yun Er shouted violently, only to see the bacon jump up all of a sudden, picking up the stick and looking for the meat thief everywhere with his confused eyes open.
"Go back to the house and sleep, the dew will wet your clothes." Yun Da commanded, and continued to look at the knife work of the beef slices, which was not bad, the thickness and size were the same, and there should be a good appearance.
The bacon was carried back to the room by Yun Er with his head, and as he walked, he assured the young master that he would take a nap, and there would be guests at home in a while, so he would not dare to be rude.
Guests will not come until noon, and only need to make a cold beef salad, a beef soup, a toon steamed beef tenderloin, a green onion fried beef, a celery stir-fried beef, and a cage of beef buns are enough, compared to the so-called big dishes they often eat, this is already the best in the world.
The tea is still their own fried tea, and the wine is the old patriarch who asked someone to get back the haode aged rice wine, and the best of these people is Liu Xiancheng, followed by Wugou monk, and the most difficult to send is the well-informed Liang master, I heard that he lived in Bianliang City, Tokyo for two years.
The materials are all ready-made, that is, steaming the buns requires Yun Zheng to do it himself, don't care about others first, Yun Er heard that Yun Da was going to steam beef buns, and his mouth was already drooling.
The flour has been made, mixed with a little alkaline noodles, took a little kneaded a small noodle ball and put it in the fire to burn, wait until the dough ball is cooked, after breaking it open, smell the noodles, eat a little and do not find that there is a sour taste, which shows that the alkaline noodles in the noodles are very suitable, so I took the beef stuffing that has been adjusted haode and began to wrap the buns.
The process of eighteen pleats of thin-skinned stuffing is unattainable, but the size of the buns from Yun Dabao is the same, and the quality is not too bad.
Since the cage drawer was put on the pot, Yun Er stayed on the side and didn't go away, and the curious Yun San also walked over with his tail wagging, and after a while, the watchdog swayed up the tree, sticking out his tongue to see what Yun Er was going to do?
Finally waited for Yun Da to say that the buns were cooked, Yun Er sneaked into the bacon room, and dragged the sleeping bacon under the bed: "Bacon, hurry up, there is something delicious, Yun Da has wrapped beef buns." “