Chapter 44: Killing Pigs
Although Chen Jian has some ideas, creating a new combat class is not achieved overnight. It takes a long time to explore and experiment, but fortunately now he is not alone, he can learn the martial arts of warriors with Jiang Jinjiu and integrate knife work, and he can discuss the advantages and disadvantages of spells and Taoism with Luo Feng, and learn from each other's strengths to improve the power and scope of application of the fire system divine art.
Time unconsciously arrived at the end of the day of the Orend plane sleep month (December, also known as the last month), Orlund is the New Year is also a very important festival, the first day of the beginning of the month (January, also known as the first month) of the year is the New Year, the tradition of Orient will be every household to dig a pit near their home, and then burn some old things, buried in the soil, representing the removal of curses, farewell to the old and welcome the new. Afterwards, I went to the church of my deity to receive the sacrament, and most of the good gods took the New Year very seriously.
As the alternate deity, Chen Jian naturally couldn't miss this good opportunity to have fun with the believers, and was ready to introduce a dining tradition with northern Chinese characteristics to the Orende plane, that is, killing the New Year pig!
The children of Yier Village sang a nursery rhyme that they had just learned: "Don't cry, children, kill pigs in the early moon, don't be greedy for children, the last month is the new year." Come and greet the team returning from hunting in the mountains.
This time, Jiang Jinjiu led the team into the forest to fight wild boars, especially a steel-toothed wild boar king, which was already at the level of a demonic beast and was three times larger than an ordinary wild boar. The entire Yier Village, that is, Jiang Jinjiu can just face it, in order to make a pig-killing dish, he can't kill this wild boar king on the spot.
Finally, with the help of Dave, when Jiang Jinjiu wrestled with the Wild Boar King, he took the opportunity to use the Monster Vertigo Technique to stun him, and then tied the Pig King with demonized vines, and more than a dozen people carried it out of the woods together.
In front of the sacred canteen, thirty cauldrons had been set up, hot water was boiling, and Chen Jian led the chef apprentices to sharpen their knives and prepare to kill the pigs.
Now the actual population of Yier Village has exceeded 1,000, and most of them are believers in the god of food, Chen Jian selected a group of seedlings suitable for training to become chefs from the new foreign population, plus the original chef apprentices in Yier Village, a total of 36 people have become the first batch of chef apprentices to accept the crystal of food, and these 36 people are exactly half male and female. They were responsible for giving Chen Jian a hand this time.
Speaking of killing pigs, Chen Jian actually learned with Liu Fatzi's father that the predecessor of Liu Fatzi's food processing factory was a slaughterhouse, and Liu Fatzi's grandfather was a famous local pig killer, and this craft can be said to be ancestral.
In the past, every Chinese New Year, the two families would get together, Dad Liu killed pigs, Dad Chen cooked, and later Dad Liu said that he wanted to pass on the craft, and insisted on teaching Liu Fatzi to kill pigs.
However, looking at the fat man Liu, who was as fat as the pig, sweating profusely and chopping at the fat pig, he always felt a sense of cannibalism.
Looking back at Orende, the chef apprentices still need to sharpen their knives, but Chen Blade doesn't need to, the pig-killing knife turned into by the light of the crescent moon may be one of the sharpest knives in the world, sharp as light, sharpening iron like clay.
With a digital perception, he can clearly perceive the location of the neck artery of the Steeltooth Boar King, and with a knife, he cut the artery accurately and neatly, and the Boar King was killed before he even woke up from the stun effect of the magic.
For killing pigs, this knife is the most critical and the most exquisite, to cut the main artery, simply neat, this pig only has the point of breathing, no inhalation force, if a knife down the pig still has the strength to run around, then this pig killer will be smashed.
Because the moonlight pig killing knife was too thin and sharp, this knife didn't even have blood flowing out, Chen Jian pushed his wrist horizontally, expanding the knife edge, and a large wooden basin had already been placed under the pig's head, and when Chen Jian pulled out the knife, the bright red pig blood flowed most of the basin.
The apprentice chef on the side immediately used a slender wooden stick to stir in the basin to prevent coagulation, and the pig's blood was to be used to fill the blood sausage.
Then pour boiling water on the wild boar king, quickly scald the skin and remove the hair, this pig hair is also a technical job, as the saying goes: without Zhang Butcher, do not eat hairy pigs. This is not necessarily a good job for ordinary people.
It's not that dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water, the clever pig killer also has requirements for this water temperature, cold does not remove hair, hot on tight meat, Chen Jian tried the water temperature, soft and hard is just right, then bent down and rolled up his sleeves, poured two scoops of water, shaved three shovels of hair, picked up the iron plate, put down the scoop, the action is quick and sophisticated, clean and neat. After a while, this huge wild boar king was shaved clean, white and fat.
Then with a shake of his hand, the moonlight pig killing knife became longer and wider, and then the pig's blood was almost released, and people moved away from the wooden shed, and with a wave of his hand, the head and tail of the pig's trotters were all unloaded, and then a knife went down from the neck, and the stomach was opened, and the entire pig's internal organs were all displayed.
Chen Jian gestured with his hand and sighed: "It is worthy of being a Monster-level wild boar king, this fat is enough to have two slaps!" ”
Rural pig killing, all use "a few finger fat" to measure the fat and thinness of pork, that is, after the fingers are closed, the thickness of the fat part, generally three or four finger fat is good, the pig raised on the earth's farms, three or four months to slaughter, at most two finger fat. It can be seen how amazing the fat of the two slaps is, but the fatter the fatter, the more fragrant the dishes that will be cooked.
Cut open the stomach, first take off the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys and plate oil, then slice the ribs, change the knife waist meat, take out the stick bones, only to see Chen Blade's knife like flying, skillful, all in one go. The eyes of the apprentice chefs who watched and studied around them lit up, and they imagined that one day they would be able to have the knife skills of the Patriarch.
The fresh loin meat and stick bones that are still steaming in the snow are wiped with snow, and the blood stains on it are removed and thrown directly into the iron pot to boil the old soup, and then add green onion and ginger, star anise, Sichuan pepper, cooking wine and salt to the soup, which is also called boiled old soup.
This old soup is the base of the pig-killing dish, and the thirty cauldrons are burned together, which is really called a fragrant, and soon the air will be filled with a rich aroma of meat, wafting in the wind throughout Yier Village.
Not to mention the villagers of Il, even the well-informed bishops of the two major churches had never smelled such a strong smell of gluttonous meat.
After a while, the canteen was surrounded by onlookers who smelled the fragrance. Even the clergy of other churches couldn't help but run over to see the excitement, watching the thirty cauldrons gurgling with hot air and the smell of meat, swallowing saliva one by one, the more they looked, the more hungry they became, and the more they smelled, the more hungry they became.
"Lord Roy, when will we be able to eat?" Old Morgan couldn't help but ask.
"What's the hurry, this is just the beginning, this old soup will be stewed for at least two hours, you choose some careful women to help wash the intestines together, and you will have to fill the blood sausage later."
The wild boar king's intestines were too thick and too large to fit blood sausages, so Chen Jian then killed several other ordinary wild boars. Otherwise, these pigs will let a few chef apprentices practice.
Just now, they watched Chen Jian use his skills neatly and easily, but it was not the case at all. The onlookers also learned what it means to kill a pig, and the piercing howl sounded weak. Since then, the people of the village of Il have called the unpleasant sound the killing of pigs.
For example, as soon as Valen sang, old Morgan waved it with a stick: "What are you singing, killing pigs!" ”
However, under Chen Jian's guidance, the chef apprentices finally killed several wild boars. The head is the head, the meat is the meat is divided, and the pig's intestines are also washed by the villagers.
Then you can make blood sausage, which can be said to be one of the essences of pig-killing dishes, so naturally Chen Jian will personally season it.
First mix the cold old soup into the pig's blood, stir and observe while adding until a fish scale-shaped hanging bowl is formed, then add salt, green onions, ginger, pepper noodles, soy sauce, and finally chop some fat to enhance the flavor.
Then the blood sausage is simpler, Chen Jian demonstrated it again, tie one end of the small intestine with cotton thread, and then use a funnel to put the seasoned pig blood jar into it, and then tie the other end with cotton thread, and then tie the knot in the middle. Then I left the apprentice chef busy.
When boiling the blood sausage, the fire should always be maintained, and some cold water should be added from time to time, and a few holes should be poked with a needle to deflate the gas to prevent the blood sausage from bursting or blackening, so that the boiled blood sausage will be evenly clumped.
After the blood sausage is cooked, you can cut it and eat it directly, or you can put it in the old soup and then add sauerkraut to cook it together. I can't forget that taste after eating it.
As an indispensable part of the pig-killing dish, sauerkraut was prepared as early as a month ago, and it was pickled with local vegetables in Orlunde, and the flavor was not inferior to that of earth cabbage, and the more it was cooked, the more fragrant it became.
Soon the white meat was dipped in garlic paste, the bone-deboned meat, the sauerkraut was collected with blood sausage, and the original pig-killing dishes were out of the pot, in addition, Chen Jian also made stewed pork knuckle, marinated platter of pork heart and pork liver.
Although the main work is done by Chen Blade, the chef apprentices are also happy to learn a lot of new things, especially when making deboned meat, the bone edge meat on this big bone stick is already fragrant, and the trace of white and tender minced meat is too tempting. The chef apprentices couldn't help but eat while dismantling, and Chen Jian didn't blame him when he saw it, but just scolded with a smile: "This bone-splitting meat should be dipped in garlic sauce to eat, it tastes better." ”
The meat is delicious, everyone knows it, but the blood sausage is definitely a new thing for the people of the Orend Continent, and in their concepts, Ru Mao drinks blood is not a monster's thing.
Fortunately, the local villagers of Yier Village have long been domesticated by Chen Jian as foodie-level creatures, as long as it is something made by Chen Jian, they dare to eat it, Valen directly scooped up the blood sausage and tasted it, this blood sausage has the smell of garlic, the garlic has the taste of salt, the salt has the taste of meat, and the taste is also a little strange for Valen, round and smooth, others curiously asked him what it tasted like, but he couldn't describe what he ate at all, he could only praise the deliciousness, and the more he ate, the more addicted he became.
As a New Year's communion, it is naturally distributed to the believers of the god of food first, and then the clergy of the church who are allies of the ceremony.
The bishop of the Earth Church, who was happily eating, also took out his treasured good wine, and Chen Jian also politely sent a jar of Huadiao wine from the earth brought by Jiang Jin Wine as a gift in return.
Finally, there are the non-believers, but they can only get a small bowl, unlike the believers who can eat all-you-can-eat. But even so, a heart-warming bowl of delicious food on a winter day is more soothing to the hearts of displaced people than any words. Many people began to cry bitterly while eating.
On the first day of the new year, they thought of their homes destroyed by the war, and they thought of their relatives separated by yin and yang, but this time in addition to sadness, the evocative and heart-warming food, like the unquenchable spark in the dark midnight, the tenacious weeds that broke through the soil in the snow, represented the future, represented vitality, and hope, and hoped that they could eat such a New Year's sacrament every year in the future. 8)