I still didn't get to eat the meat that night.

Hu Liang had already cooked the rice before they came back, put it in the pot and heated it, and served it out to eat. In addition, it was not early, and I was tired after running for this day, so everyone made do with it and rested.

Widow Xie's house is relatively small, and it is a narrow kang, and it is not spacious to sleep with her and Widow Xie's sister Hu, and now there is another old lady Xie, so she can't sleep.

After squeezing all night, Ji Yu made up her mind that she would have to ask Aunt Xie to help sew the quilt tomorrow, and she should move back to the broken shack.

After breakfast the next day, Widow Xie asked Ji Yu to take the quilt inside, and Hu Dacheng and Hu Ximei didn't go out to play with Xiao'an Xiaohua, so they squatted aside and watched.

How could Ji Yu not know what they were waiting for? Hu Liang just said that Hu Dacheng was shouting meat in his dream last night, and he was stunned to shout that he was hungry.

It was almost noon after the busy work, Ji Yu stretched her waist and said, "Make a fire." ”

"Hey!" Hu Dacheng responded loudly, ran into the stove room with a smoke, and shouted at the top of his voice inside, "Sister Xiaoyu! Big fire or small fire? ”

Hu Ximei and the two children cooed and laughed, Ji Yu laughed along, and also imitated him so loudly: "Medium fire!" ”

Ji Yu smeared the pork belly with salt and picked it up under the eaves to hang it, and didn't plan to eat it at noon, so she boiled the lard first.

The reason why lard has become a stove guest in every household, although it is mainly because it is affordable, it also tastes really good. Not to mention that it is used for the bottom of the incense, add a little lard when the noodles are raised, and the steamed steamed buns are puffy and white. Add a little lard when cooking rice, and the cooked rice is even softer and tasty. It's an all-purpose animal oil with a lot of functions.

The best lard is white and fragrant, and the oil residue is also very crispy, and it takes a white and thick plate oil to boil it, and she carefully selected it for a long time when she bought it yesterday.

Wash the oil and cut it into small cubes, put it in a wok, and pour an appropriate amount of water into it.

"Huh? Sister Xiaoyu, you're not right, you don't release water when you boil lard. Hu Ximei thought she was mistaken.

"It's okay to add water or not." Ji Yu instructed Dacheng to add firewood, boil over high heat, and then turn to low heat and boil slowly. She used a shovel to shovel in the pot and said it to Hu Ximei.

"Boil directly without adding water, which is very fast, but the oil boiled out will be older, and the color will not look good after cooling, and there may be black impurities. Add water to boil first and then boil, the boiled oil is not only white, but also fragrant, and the oil residue will not be scorched due to high temperature, and the storage time will be relatively long. ”

Hu Ximei nodded as if she didn't understand, but she only felt that Sister Xiaoyu knew a lot.

As the two spoke, the water in the pot slowly dried up and began to produce oil. As time passed, the oil gradually increased.

Ji Yu used a spoon to stir the oil from time to time, until they gradually shrunk and turned golden brown, and then quickly fished them out with a colander and put them into the ceramic basin next to them.

During the period, there was the sound of Hu Dacheng swallowing saliva.

In the countryside, boiling lard is one of the favorite moments of children.

Stay by the stove, wait for a piece of oil to be refined into a piece of burnt yellow oil residue at high temperature, at this time adults often put a piece into the child's mouth, or take advantage of the adult's inattention to steal one, even if it is hot and inhale, it does not hinder chewing, the oil residue that has just been boiled out is crispy in the mouth, chewing that is called a fragrant!

Several children of the Hu family are very well-behaved, and they are not allowed, even if they are gluttonous, they will not steal it.

Ji Yu first took a large piece and handed it to Hu Dacheng: "The first piece is for our Huotou general, this is today's great hero." ”

Hu Ximei hurriedly raised her hand: "And I still have me, and I also help brush the jar!" ”

"You are also a hero, you must be indispensable!" Ji Yu gave another piece to Hu Ximei, and Xiao An Xiaohua was also so anxious that she pulled her skirt underneath: "Meat ......"

Ji Yu hurriedly picked out two small ones, squatted down, blew the heat slightly, and then stuffed them into the two small mouths.

The children were satisfied with their meals, and they were happier than anything else.

Widow Xie and Hu Liang were still in the East House to wipe Xie Lao Niang's body and wash herself, Ji Yu asked Hu Ximei to bring the small half bag of white sugar stored at home, and asked Hu Dacheng to heat another pot, and put the fine salt newly bought yesterday and the peppercorns ground into powder into the pot to fry until fragrant, making pepper and salt.

He took several bowls, and put them on the dregs of oil, half of them sprinkled with sugar and half with salt and pepper, and brought them to the hall while they were hot, and called out to the widow and they ate together.

In fact, the oil residue can also be dipped in sweet noodle sauce like eating roast duck, rolled up with shredded green onions with steamed buns, and then stuffed into the mouth in one bite. However, it takes a bit of a lot of work to make the bun, and she still has finishing touches to do.

The lard jar has already been washed and dried, grab some white sugar and sprinkle it into the bottom of the jar to keep it fresh, scoop the lard in the pot into the jar one by one, and fill two large jars. I was able to eat it for a while.

As soon as he was busy here, Hu Dacheng hurriedly ran in with an empty bowl, and smiled: "My mother and second brother are all boasting about the deliciousness, and my mother is feeding grandma after eating, I told her what you said, saying that grandma can't eat too much greasy ......"

"You can't eat too much." Where didn't Ji Yu know that he was a little Jiujiu, he must have eaten ginseng fruit, but he didn't taste it, he devoured it in his stomach, and thought about the next bowl.

"If you eat too much oil residue, be careful of stomach trouble, there will be more delicious ones later, so you won't leave some stomach?"

Hu Dacheng pursed his lips and glanced at the half basin of oil residue, looking like he was difficult to choose. In the end, he compromised, walked to the door of the stove and sat down, and began to light the fire.

Ji Yu went to the vegetable garden and pulled a big radish, washed it and shredded it quickly, poured it into the pot where the lard was boiled and stir-fried with the lard residue, and sprinkled the chopped garlic seedlings into it when it was almost ripe.

After serving the plate, I picked up a chopstick and tasted it, the fried oil residue was given another moist taste, and the shredded radish that was rolled in the lard also changed its cold appearance and became oily, but it did not affect the original crispness and tenderness.

"Gollum ......"

Glancing down at the stove, I saw Hu Dacheng holding his stomach, staring at her with bright eyes, to be precise, into the basin.

Ji Yu couldn't help laughing and handed him the chopsticks: "Do you want to taste it?" ”

Hu Dacheng swallowed a few times in his throat and shook his head: "Wait a while...... Let's eat it later. ”

After that, he looked away with difficulty and added wood to the bottom of another pot.

This pot is going to boil water to cook noodles, Hu Ximei put all the empty bowls in the hall and scrub them clean, Ji Yu slipped the bowl on the stove, and added fresh lard, pepper and salt, shredded ginger, garlic slices, spicy seeds and chopped green onions to the bowl in turn.

After boiling the water, he put the noodles that Hu Liang had rolled out in advance in the morning, scooped out the boiling noodles from the pot and poured them into the bowl, stirred the seasoning and melted the lard.

Stir cold water into the boiling pot once or twice, and finally remove the cooked noodles and mix them in a bowl, and you're done.

This is another way of cooking noodles that Hu Ximei has never seen, but this time she was smart and didn't ask, now in her heart, Sister Xiaoyu is omnipotent, she is delicious and right!

Hu Ximei went to the hall to set the table, Hu Dacheng washed his hands and helped serve noodles together, and finally the pot of fried shredded radish with lard residue that made him hungry for a long time.