Chapter 135: Making Sausages
Although it is still a little early to kill pigs now, in previous years, pigs were killed years ago, but some people in the village could not stand the noise of some people in the village, saying that the pigs were getting thinner and thinner, so everyone in the village discussed, and the result was to kill the pigs first and divide the meat.
Mu Shui went to line up early in the morning to divide the meat, and the pork had to be divided according to the family's work, and Mu Shui's Zhou Shuilian and Mu Xiu's work was calculated, that is, three catties of meat......
Mu Xiu stepped forward to take a look, and saw a piece of lean meat on the slate, and there was a little fat hanging on the lean meat, which looked six points thin and four points fat, but this piece of meat was so good in Mu Xiu's eyes, especially this is not like the kind of instant pig in later generations, which can be slaughtered in a few months, this is pure and pure local pork! Especially with so much lean meat! It was just perfect!
"This meat is pretty good!" Mu Xiu spoke out while thinking.
"Where's this meat? It's all lean meat, there's not much fatty meat, and fatty meat can also be refined into lard, and it can withstand eating there, what can these lean meats do, and there is no ice... No, there is no way to save it, this will be bad if you don't finish it in a hurry! When you're done eating, what should you do for the New Year? Mu Xiaocao looked at Mu Xiu with some collapse.
Hearing that Mu Xiaocao came to be angry because of this, Mu Xiu suddenly realized, what Mu Xiaocao said is also that in this era, although there are refrigerators, there are only a few people who can afford them, and that is only available to people in big cities, like in the countryside, there is not even electricity, let alone knowing these things.
On weekdays, there are also people who grow some rapeseed oil to eat, but perhaps because of process limitations, the taste of rapeseed oil squeezed by themselves is not only not good, but the fried vegetables also have a taste, and everyone still prefers to eat lard boiled out of fatty meat, which is really fragrant, so these lean meat will be so disgusted by Mu Xiaocao......
"That's all there is to it, I'll finish it when I'm done, and I'll buy it when I get back." Mu Xiu said indifferently.
"It's light to say, there are six people in this family, big and small, you can't waste all of them with a little money in your hands, I know you can make money, you can waste it, but we still have to live carefully." Mu Xiaocao saw Mu Xiu's attitude, and her tone began to become heavier.
"Xiaocao, this meat has been divided, and now there is no way, don't make any noise, let's marinate this meat and eat it slowly." Zhou Shuilian said weakly on the side, and stepped forward to get the meat.
"Don't!" Mu Xiu thought of the cured meat she ate at Mu's house last time, not only was it surprisingly salty, but there was not even a trace of fragrance in her mouth, and it was an unpalatable mess, so she hurriedly spoke out to stop it.
After finishing speaking, Mu Xiu explained to everyone's puzzled eyes: "I saw others making sausages in the provincial capital, and the sausages can be made and can be tasted and fragrant, and two slices are put on when stir-frying, which is much better than lard." ”
"Really?" Zhou Shuilian was a little unconvinced.
"Really, mother, if you don't believe me, I'll make this sausage, let's try it, Dad, you go to the place where the pig was killed and take a look, and ask for the pig's small intestine." Mu Xiu thought of the casing clothes needed to make sausages, and hurriedly said.
"The pig's small intestine tastes bitter and smelly, what do you want that?" Mu Shui asked.
"Dad, go get it quickly, you need to make sausages." Mu Xiu urged Mu Shui.
Mu Shui heard that he needed to make sausages, so he immediately went out to find the pig's small intestines, while Mu Xiu went into the kitchen and picked up a kitchen knife, first cut a small piece of pure lean meat on this piece of meat, put it in a bowl, and kept it for these two days to eat.
Mu Xiu washed the meat, and cut the fat and lean meat into small pieces first, but when he washed the meat and cut the meat, Mu Xiu secretly took out some pork in the space and mixed it in......
Mu Xiu began to chop with a kitchen knife, during which Mu Xiaocao also replaced her to rest, and when the two sisters chopped the meat, Mu Xiu marinated the meat with seasonings, and Mu Shui came back with a pair of pig intestines.
"No one wants this thing, but I'm glad I went, otherwise I would have thrown it to feed the dogs." Mu Shui said happily.
Mu Xiu: "......"
But what Mu Shui said is also right, the pig small intestine is very troublesome to deal with, and if you don't deal with it, it tastes like pig, so basically no one eats this thing.
At that time, Mu Xiu already had artificial casings, but the taste of sausages made by artificial casings was still not as good as pig casings, so Mu Xiu herself tried to use pig casings to fill sausages, so she knew how difficult pig's small intestines were to wash......
After Mu Xiu scalded the pig's small intestine with hot water, he turned the opening of one end of the small intestine outward a little, and pressed the opened end against the chopsticks. Then, follow the chopsticks to put the small intestine on the chopsticks, and push the end of the chopsticks as you put it on, until the other end of the small intestine also passes through the head of the chopsticks.
The hand holding the chopsticks and the hand holding the small intestine are pulled in the opposite direction, and the remaining small intestine is turned out when the chopsticks are drawn, turning the small intestine over.
Rinse the turned small intestine with warm water to remove dirt and some mucus, and then start scraping on the small intestine with a bamboo board, scraping off the grease and unused parts of the lining of the small intestine until the small intestine is scraped into a transparent film.
When all this was done, Mu Xiu's already tired waist couldn't straighten up, Mu Xiaocao pointed to the small intestine in the bowl, which was close to transparent, and asked with some uncertainty: "Do you want to stuff pork here?" ”
"You guessed it!" Mu Xiu looked at Mu Xiaocao approvingly.
"How is this stuffed?? Stuff it in and it breaks! "The wood grass is messy.
"No, mother, you go boil some ginger soup and soak the pig's small intestines, I'll see how the meat is marinated." After Mu Xiu finished speaking to Zhou Shuilian, he got up and went to the kitchen to see the marinated meat just now.
Mu Xiu only put an appropriate amount of salt, sugar, and wine in the meat filling, marinated it with salt, used sugar to enhance freshness, and used wine to remove the fishiness, so that it was enough, although the recipe of the sausage looked simple, but it was definitely delicious enough.
After all this was done, Mu Xiu asked for the funnel and cotton thread for oiling from Zhou Shuilian, so that all the preparations were completed, and then he waited for the meat filling to taste and the casing to taste.
"I don't know what this sausage tastes like? But it smells weird. Mu Shui sniffed the meat filling that Mu Xiu had mixed, sniffled and said.
"As long as it's made by the show, it's definitely delicious." Zhou Shuilian replied with a smile on the side.
"Okay, it's going to take a few hours, mother, let's make cotton clothes first." Mu Xiu pointed to the piles of cotton in the house.
"Okay, I'll give you a measure first." Zhou Shuilian is also bright, and making new clothes is also very pleasant.
Mu Xiaocao saw these things that Mu Xiu bought, and she didn't say that Mu Xiu was wasting for the first time, because looking at everyone in the family, all of them were wearing tatters, especially Mu Xiaohua and Li Pandi, the clothes wrapped around their bodies were all worn by her when she was a child, and they had long been out of warmth......