Stay at home to pickle sauerkraut today?

Li Zhongxin, who was just about to go out, heard his grandmother's words, and a layer of black lines appeared on his head.

Thinking that today's weather is very good, it is a good time to pickle sauerkraut, and Li Zhongxin can't watch his grandmother and grandfather do this thing at such an age, so he decided to cancel the trip to Zhubantun, and promised his grandmother to stay at home to help pickle sauerkraut.

In the homes of Northeast people, there are two things that are indispensable, one is a large sauerkraut tank, and the other is a large stone for pickling sauerkraut.

Regardless of whether they are rich or poor, every household in the Northeast will make a large vat of sauerkraut in winter, and can eat it from the full moon of sauerkraut (counting from the day when sauerkraut accumulates, cabbage becomes edible sauerkraut after 30 days of fermentation) until about May of the following year.

Every autumn harvest, whether it is in the city or in the countryside, regardless of cadres and workers, the poor and the rich, every household will buy hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties of Chinese cabbage.

The best part of these Chinese cabbages is kept for sauerkraut, and the other cabbages will be placed in the vegetable cellar (Northeast people generally dig a vegetable cellar in the yard to store cabbage, potatoes and radish, the vegetable cellar is warm in winter and cool in summer, which is the best weapon to store vegetables when there is no refrigerator in the Northeast) as the main dish in winter.

After the cabbage came down in large quantities, Li Zhongxin's grandmother would go to the door every morning and walk around the car selling the cabbage, looking at the cabbage and asking about the price of the cabbage.

If the price of cabbage is low and the cabbage core is full, Tai Ma will buy it directly.

At that time, the cabbage sellers were transported by horse-drawn carts and tractors, and the pole scales were the kind of pole scales that could weigh more than 100 catties at a time.

Every 100 catties are weighed, and the farmer who sells the vegetables will put the vegetables into a square pocket made of sacks, and two people will carry the cabbage with a stick on their shoulders and send it to the courtyard of the cabbage buyer. If it is far away from the vegetable cart, they will carry 200 catties at a time, saving one more trip. At this time, almost every household will buy hundreds of catties of cabbage, and families with many people can even buy thousands of catties of cabbage at a time. The main food in winter is cabbage, so if you don't buy more at this time, you can't buy vegetables when it's cold and snowy in winter.

Li Zhongxin will help his grandmother He Shuqing pickle sauerkraut almost every year at this time, although others are not big and their strength is not great, but it is quite possible to carry cabbage and do some things within their ability.

Li Zhongxin's grandmother and grandfather pickle sauerkraut every year, they do it themselves, and they don't need others to help.

According to the two of them, the family pickles sauerkraut with one taste, and their own pickled sauerkraut has been pickled for decades, and the taste has not changed, and it has always been the best taste of sauerkraut in the neighborhood, and pickled sauerkraut must not be borrowed from others.

Grandpa Wang Xiutai was in charge of brushing the large vat and stones of pickled cabbage with water, while Li Zhongxin held a cutting board to the side, cutting off the roots of the Chinese cabbage that had been exposed to the sun for several days, and tearing off the wilted and rotten leaves on the cabbage.

Why do you say tear it off?

It is because as long as the part of the cabbage is not bad, it can be put into the sauerkraut jar to pickle, although this kind of old cabbage is rarely eaten after pickling the sauerkraut, but this kind of old cabbage can make the taste of the cabbage in the pickled cabbage better.

The cabbage also needs to be rinsed with clean water, and after rinsing, the cabbage is placed tightly on top of the head, and stacked layer by layer.

When each layer is ready, it is necessary to sprinkle a layer evenly with large grains of salt supplied by the grain store, and the cabbage should be stacked until it is one layer higher than the sauerkraut jar.

After placing the large cleaned stone on top, it takes about two hours to pour clean water into it.

In the process of pickling sauerkraut, people's hands should not be stained with oil, if they are stained with oil, there will be a chemical reaction, and a tank of sauerkraut will rot.

After pickling the sauerkraut, you should write it down, and after a month, that is, thirty days, you can eat the first wave of sauerkraut.

Seeing the happy smiles on the faces of the two old men after pickling sauerkraut, Li Zhongxin's mood gradually improved.

After pickling the sauerkraut, Li Zhongxin, a foodie, immediately thought of sauerkraut vermicelli with pork belly.

In the winter of the Northeast, sauerkraut stewed vermicelli and chicken stewed mushroom vermicelli are good things, and they are the most famous dishes in the Northeast cauldron stew.

But what! In the early 80s, when winter came, there was basically nothing to be seen on the dinner table except cabbage, potatoes, turnips and pickles.

Due to the difficulty of transportation, vermicelli and vermicelli are considered rare, and most of the time they are not sold in state-run grocery stores.

Li Zhongxin came over in later generations, and saw that there were good local chickens, good hazelnut mushrooms, and sauerkraut coming down immediately, but there were no good vermicelli, so he immediately rushed to Zhubantun.

called in the reception room and summoned Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu together, ready to discuss the feasibility of the vermicelli factory with them.

In 82, the year in the northeast was not good, and the peasants basically had no possibility of getting rich by planting the grain, and it was very good to be able to eat enough after handing over the public grain, Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu were the village party secretaries, and if they wanted to lead the villagers in the village to get rich together, they had to rely on other inputs.

Li Zhong knew in his confidence that Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu had always wanted him to come up with ideas to let the people in the village do something, at least let those in the village have some income for those who have a bad harvest.

As soon as Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu heard him say that they had good ideas, he was speechless about the two people's eyes shining.

After sighing slightly, Li Zhongxin said to Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu very casually: "Uncle Zhong, Uncle Liang, the potatoes are coming down soon, I wondered, should we organize the people in the village, and we should open a vermicelli processing factory to sell vermicelli?" ”

Li Zhong is confident that the processing of vermicelli is very simple, and there is no technical content.

In later generations, the famous food in the Northeast was nothing more than pig-killing vegetables and pork stewed vermicelli.

In the early 80s, pork stewed vermicelli was a luxury, not to mention that pork had to be bought with a ticket, but the vermicelli was quite difficult to buy.

Now the potatoes are scarce and cheap, only a few cents a pound, the raw materials for making potato flour are very cheap, and in terms of labor, there are many people in Zhubantun who are ready to work with the faithful company, and the price of labor is almost negligible.

In winter, you can eat both sauerkraut noodles and pork stewed vermicelli, why not!

For Li Zhongxin, he can't look down on half of his eyes when he buys and sells vermicelli, this thing has no technical content like fishing, and it won't take two years for this kind of vermicelli factory to spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and the possibility of making money is too small.

But what! Li Zhongxin has a lot of ideas, making this thing can not only allow him and his family to eat the best vermicelli whenever they want, but also use this kind of thing to exchange materials.

In '82, people began to have money in their hands, but they didn't necessarily get what they wanted.

Take vermicelli as an example, if you don't know anyone in the state-run grocery store, you won't be able to buy a pound of vermicelli, and even if you have this kind of vermicelli, it will be left and divided internally.

As soon as they heard that Li Zhongxin was going to lead the villagers to make noodles together, Dong Guozhong and Liang Guofu's hearts immediately surged.