Section 48 Meatloaf
Tianhao didn't say it, but he was funny about it in his heart: What's so delicious about steamed buns?
Grinding sun-dried wheat into flour is an extremely boring job. There are no cattle and horses in Panshi Village, so naturally there is no talk of using animal power. There was a river outside the stockade, and the northern barbarians had zero use of hydraulic machinery. The work of hulling the wheat grains is left to the woman, and it usually lasts for a long time. In contrast, manual grinding is hard work, but it is also simple.
When the first packet of Xinmai flour was delivered to Tianhao, it had been four days since the autumn harvest ended.
The flour is grayish in color, even a little black, not the pink and white as you remember, which indicates that there is a lot of bran mixed with it. In the civilized era, the fine flour "eighty-five flour" (one hundred catties of wheat produces eighty-five catties of flour) can only be made by continuously hulling and removing a large amount of bran from one hundred catties of wheat, which is too extravagant in this era, and far beyond the logical concept of "grain" among the villagers.
Mixing water and dough and waiting for the dough to rise, Ayi has been chopping the meat on the cutting board. Tian Madness hunted a deer in the mountains, this kind of running animal does not have much fat in its body, Tian Hao cut a trout and asked Ah Yi to mix the two kinds of meat and chop it into minced meat. That way, it won't feel too chai to eat.
The prickly melon has grown. These fruits, with an average weight of about three kilograms, seem hostile to all pretenders. The spikes on the surface have become extremely hard, and they must be cut one by one with a firewood knife before they can reach out and pluck the melon from the vine and pick it up. The hard skin resembles a nut shell, and the separated flesh has an orange-red color that exudes an enticing sweet aroma.
Leaving the melon seeds for seeding, Tianhao selected a few pieces of melon flesh for Ayi to chop, mixed with the minced meat prepared before, and added various seasonings and salt.
Ayi is now his woman, but Tianhao never thought about getting married. It's not that you can't be responsible if you want to repay the debt after eating, but there is no need for this. In the age of civilization, the moral framework is useless in this world, and the observance of the old rules of marriage will seem incompatible with the whole society in the eyes of the northern barbarians. As the leader of the village, it's just enough to sleep with the ugliest woman in the village, if you want to talk about marriage further...... Everyone, including Yonggang and the old priest, will think that Tianhao is an idiot and a madman, and will further suspect Ayi that she is a terrible witch who has cast a trick on the great and wise leader, tempting him to do unruly and incomprehensible horrible behavior.
The fate of heretics is to be burned alive at the stake.
Since there is a good harvest, you must have a treat. Tianhao invited the old priest and Yonggang, as well as Tongbiao and Guoji. The family is small and can't sit so many people, so Tianhao simply put the banquet place in the village meeting hall.
People watched him expertly spread out the dough, roll it out with a smoothed wooden stick, fill it with a pre-prepared filling, make a pie, and put bear fat in a hot pan, slowly searing it, and soon the air was filled with a mouth-watering, intense aroma.
Tianhao used a lazy method, and he burned the cake very big. In doing so, it saves trouble and effort. The hot pie left the pot and lay flat on the cutting board, and Tianhao cut it with a kitchen knife and gave it to the people sitting around him with a smile.
It's hot! The dough is soaked with gravy and bear fat, which locks in the delicious filling.
When he took the first bite, Yonggang fell in love with this pie completely. He didn't care about the heat, he inhaled the cold air, the gravy and the oil pulsed on the tip of his tongue, and he swallowed in a panic without tasting anything. The second bite was so big that the food filled his entire mouth, and he nodded as he ate, his eyes full of happiness.
The old priest ate too quickly and gnawed out a tooth. He picked up his teeth in annoyance, a look of remorse on his face, and finally tucked them into his pockets and concentrated on munching on his share of meatloaf.
Ayi called more than a dozen women, who imitated Tianhao's movements, mixed noodles in large basins, and then chopped meat.
In this way, without any warning, the simple small-scale banquet unconsciously turned into a large-scale gathering with the participation of the whole village. The staple food is only this kind of pie, but the filling of the meat filling is different.
Everyone saw it as a gift from the young leader to himself. The new way to eat it is even more delicious than the monotonous steamed buns.
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Tianfeng took some people and set off with a cart full of grain.
The 30 percent amount to be handed over to the ethnic group must not be less. This matter is not negotiable, and the grain must be delivered to Thunderhorn City before winter. Otherwise, the entire stockade will face a monstrous wrath from the Thunder Bull King.
Yonggang organized the young men in the village to form a hunting team as usual. Autumn is the season for humans to celebrate the harvest, and the animals in the mountains also have more food than usual. They eat large quantities before the cold sets in and accumulate body fat. pheasants, hares, roe deer, badgers, ...... This is the fattest season of the year.
The black howling wolf near the rock village was scattered. They launched several successive attacks on the people who boiled salt on the seashore, and each time they were completely defeated by the barbarians relying on the watchtower. The large wolf population has shrunk dramatically over the past few months, and the existing black howling wolves are no longer a threat to the Rock Village. There are two ways out for them: either they can recuperate and wait patiently for a few years to return to their original numbers as a whole. Either leave the area and blend in with other wolves.
Once the door is opened, intelligent thinking can become out of control. Although it is not winter, and the practice of adding cartilage "condiment" to frozen meat cannot be used, this does not prevent hunters from thinking in other ways. The blacksmith made a lot of fine iron skewers with excellent elasticity, sharpened at both ends, and inserted them in an upright position, usually in an upright position, and took them out when they needed them, bent the iron skewers, tied them tightly in the middle with fine hemp rope with excellent toughness, and wrapped them in fresh meat. Stormmaned bears have no resistance to this kind of stuffed meatballs. Some swallowed directly, the gastric juice corroded the twine, and the iron skewers penetrated the stomachs, causing them to die in a howl of pain; Some would chew in their mouths, the strings would break on the spot, and the straight iron sticks would pierce the bear's mouth in an instant, and blood would be everywhere. The hunters, who had been waiting for a long time, took the opportunity to hug him, and the maned bear, which covered its mouth and howled in pain, could not resist at all, and could only watch as various weapons beckoned to him.
Tianhao takes the woman and the child to pick apples.
This thing bears no resemblance to the apple in memory. The black-gray shell is very hard, and it will crack a thin slit if you pinch it hard. The fruit is about the size of an adult's fist, and when you cut it, you can see the same fleshy layer as a regular apple, and there is no difference in taste.
The hard shell is a measure of self-protection. Tianhao doesn't understand, what happened to Apple during the time he was asleep?
This fruit forest is about six miles away from Panshi Village, the location is remote, the wolves are dense, and few people usually come. The whole forest valley ground was covered with fruit, a thick layer. The lower part is rotten, covered with the parts that fell last year, shrunken, dry and shriveled.
Tianhao brought eight carts, and baskets full of apples were stacked on the carts and piled up into a hill. Despite this, only a small part of the fruit is picked outside the woods.