Chapter Twenty-Nine: Making Bacon
Pulled Memmy over and whispered her thoughts.
When she heard that Lian Yue wanted to make bacon to increase the preservation time of the food, Mei Mi's eyes instantly lit up, and she was very excited to say that she wanted to try it with Lian Yue.
Perhaps, not all of them have a heart for exploration and love of research.
Just do it, Lian Yue and Mei Mi asked Nana for two large pieces of hairless black pork meat, about forty or fifty catties. This is what other hunting teams hunted today, and she has tasted it once before, the meat is delicious, soft and glutinous, fat and thin, and the taste tastes very similar to pork.
The black guinea beast is a relatively common beast in the Black Forest, the black guinea beast has a dark body, sharp fangs, tall and strong, usually two or three of them move together, and there is no habit of living in groups, so it is also easier to hunt.
With Meimi to start, the preliminary preparation is even simpler.
Lian Yue mobilized the space blade and cut the two large pieces of black pork meat in his hand into long strips, each about 5 centimeters wide and about 30 centimeters long, and pierced a hole in the back of each piece of black pork meat.
Ask Meimi to find some long, needle-shaped leaves that resemble palm leaves, string them through small holes, and put a knot on them, so that the meat can be hung up when the time comes.
The two squatted by the river, cleaning the black pork meat and prick holes in the skin of the black pork meat with some tiny wooden branches.
"Meimi, you can use a little more force to pierce the skin and flesh, so that when you smoke later, the fat can flow out smoothly." Lian Yue explained to Meimi as she moved.
Although Meimi still can't quite understand it, she just follows Lianyue's command.
...
Holding the cleaned black pork meat, Lian Yue followed Meimi back to the square.
Placing the meat next to a fire in the square, Lian Yue called King Meow, who was playing with the little Huan beast on the side, and asked him to help him look at the meat on the ground.
Meimi went to prepare the materials that Lianyue wanted, and Lianyue went to find some suitable containers.
Although there are clay pots in the tribe, they are of little use to her, and she wants to make a stone pot for her own stir-frying.
Dodge and teleport to the foot of the rocky mountain on the opposite side of the river valley, at the foot of which there are many piles of stones of various sizes.
There were also some colored lights, very similar to those colored stones in the square, which should have been the ore that Hilda used to paint before.
Lian Yue didn't think much about it, searched around the ground, and after a while, he found a bluestone the size of a basin.
Knocked hard, the stone was strong, and there were no fine debris slipping off, fine, this was the stone she wanted.
Lian Yue wanted a stone pot with a handle, with an open bottom and a thinner body, which was conducive to heat conduction, and it would be easier to fry the seasoning when the time came.
She took out a marker pen from the space, drew a rough shape on the stone, and then released her spiritual power, carefully depicting the desired shape, running the ability, a few spatial blades passed, and the general outline of the stone pot came out.
The rest is to carve carefully, and I haven't learned carving for a month, so I can only continue to mobilize my spiritual power, try to control it as finely, and let the shape of the space blade be adjusted according to my own ideas.
With the shape of the stone pot, it is relatively simple, and once you master the method, it is also very quick to mobilize mental power. Finally, before Lian Yue's spiritual power was exhausted, a stone cauldron was ready.
There is a handle on each side of the symmetry, which is what Lian Yue wants, but the surface looks a little rough.
It stands to reason that it still needs to be carefully polished, but now there is no such tool in hand, so Lian Yue has to give up, anyway, can it be used?
Now, there is still a shovel missing, and this one can't bother her.
After a short break, it is still the same steps as before, perhaps with previous experience, this time it is easier to make a stone shovel. Lian Yue didn't cut it very thin, it was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and it had a handle that wasn't too long, so it was enough to be able to flip things.
"Ah Yue!" Seeing Lian Yue coming back, she quickly stood up, no longer observing the play of King Meow's cubs, and handed her the two leaf bags in her hand.
Lian Yue gently put the cleaned stone pot and stone shovel on the ground, put it together with the two clay pots brought by Meimi, and took the leaf bag in her hand to check, well, it was she who wanted something.
There is a large piece of rock salt wrapped in it, as well as a few green sour fruits and pepper fruits that have been dried before.
"Ah Yue, this is yours?" Meimi looked at the stone pot on the ground curiously, and didn't quite understand how she could bring back a big stone pot after going out for a month, which was not available in this stone pot tribe, and it was already very difficult to make a stone bowl, and the clansmen were still willing to use the clay pot exchanged in the exchange season.
Lian Yue nodded, motioning for her to put the stone pot on the fire where she usually cooks soup.
It is a special fire, and a small stove is built out of clay underneath, with firewood placed below, clay pots placed above, and a stone pot placed just right on it so that it will not fall.
Meimi listened to Lian Yue's instructions, skillfully lit a fire, and burned the small stove.
When the fire started to heat up and the stone pot began to heat up, Lian Yue poured the rock salt that had been pressed into powder before into the stone pot, added the sun-dried green sour fruit and pepper fruit, and stir-fried it continuously with a stone shovel until the pot exuded a burst of aroma.
At this time, Lian Yue motioned to Meimi to remove the stove, let the fried ingredients in the pot slowly cool down, and put it aside for later use.
"Ah Yue, what are you going to do now?" Meimi squatted on the edge of Lian Yue, very curious.
"The rest is relatively simple, when the salt cools a little bit, we spread it all over the meat, marinate it for a few days, and then take it out and dry it for a few days before smoking." Lianyue scooped up a piece of meat and compared it with Meimi.
After a while, Lian Yue touched the salt in the stone pot and found that it was not hot, so he put the piece of meat in his hand into the stone pot and smeared it up and down, left and right, and said while smearing: "Meimi, you see, just like this, everything must be smeared in place, and you can press it properly." ”
"Then I'll try it too."
Meimi is very smart, and she only needs to demonstrate it for a month, and she naturally gets started.
Soon, the forty or fifty catties of meat were marinated by the two of them, and Lianyue put them into two clay pots for preservation.
"Okay, the marinating step is complete, the process takes about five days, every morning and evening, you need to turn it, put the top meat on the bottom, and turn the bottom meat up."
Lian Yue and the two walked to the hut with a clay pot, and the meow king, who had been playing with his friends on the side, saw this, and immediately jumped out from the side, ran to the two and began to meow, as if complaining about why the meat was taken away and not eaten.
"Little gluttonous cat, this thing can't be eaten yet, it's still early!"
"Meow~" Looking at the two people who went away, King Meow looked puzzled.
But soon, the call from his friends immediately made him forget these troubles and run freely to play.