Chapter 8: May Not Believe
Zhang Sijiu looked at Xu with a serious face.
Xu Shi was stunned by this gaze, "What's wrong?" ”
Zhang Sijiu cleared his throat: "The second aunt may not believe it when she says it." In fact, I once heard people say that pig's feet and soybean soup are milk-provoking. ”
She smiled kindly: "If you can't eat too much milk, eat more little pumpkin, it's nothing, right?" ”
It's just that her self-conceived "very persuasive and reliable face" falls on the face of an eight-year-old child with yellow muscles and thin muscles, which is not convincing. There was only a strong expectation in a pair of big eyes, and a flattering look in that humble smile.
Xu's heart was sour, thinking that the pig's feet were not delicious anyway, so she would make this if she wanted to. So she nodded: "Okay, then make pork knuckle soybean soup?" How? ”
Anyway, Xu has never eaten pork knuckle soybean soup.
The main pork knuckle is unpalatable, and everyone doesn't eat it.
She asked Zhang Sijiu because she thought Zhang Sijiu must have eaten somewhere.
Zhang Sijiu thought back to the content of the "Great Exchange of Maternal Families" that he had heard in the ward, and said confidently: "Otherwise, I'll come." The second aunt went to rest for a while. You will be able to eat in a while. ”
After walking such a long way early in the morning, Xu's face was also visibly tired.
The Xu family still wanted to be suspicious, but the Yang family opened his mouth: "Let Jiuniang come." She's also older, and it's time to learn how to cook. Otherwise, if you marry someone in the future, you won't be able to make people laugh? ”
So Xu didn't insist anymore.
And Zhang Sijiu's scalp was numb when he heard this: Isn't it too early to think about this now?
She picked up the pig's feet: "I'll go wash first." ”
Xiaosong Xiaobai also wanted to follow, but the Yang family didn't allow Xiaobai to go to the edge of the ditch, so he simply detained both of them at home.
Zhang Sijiu went out with pig's feet - now the family's drinking water depends on well water, and it is impossible to use well water for washing vegetables. However, this is a place with abundant water resources, and the imperial court vigorously built water canals and ditches, so there must be a small ditch passing by in front of and behind every house.
Every short distance, there is a place where you can wash your vegetables, do your laundry, and ...... Bathing and foot washing.
Yes, according to Zhang Sijiu's observation, this is a multi-functional washing point. From the vegetables eaten by people, to the grass eaten by pigs, to the slaughtered chickens and ducks, and even to the living humans and livestock, they can all be thrown down and washed.
Zhang Sijiu resisted in his heart.
Then she hypnotized herself: this is a mega faucet, this is a mega faucet! The water from the faucet can be washed in any way!
Thinking about it like this, she felt reluctantly accepted this setting in her heart. It doesn't matter, the bigger the faucet, the stronger the water flow and the easier it is to wash!
The two pig's feet are threaded together with straw ropes, and the fleshy part of the top has already been cut clean, leaving only the pig's trotters the length of a palm.
Resting in modern times, such trotters are the most expensive.
But now...... The meat is less and smelly, no wonder it is suspected.
The pig is a black pig, and there is a lot of black, coarse and hard hair on the pig's feet. The dirt has not been removed where the pig's trotters forked. Even the hoof shells are still there.
The smell of non-existent emanation makes it hard to believe that this is something to eat.
As a medical student, no matter what the major, you have to go through the process of anatomy class. In order to learn this course well, Zhang Sijiu also practiced it specially.
So when you get such a primitive pig's trotter at this time, you really won't be blind.
Fortunately, when the pig was killed, the pig had already been scalded, so at this time, the hoof shell was opened with a knife, and after the hoof shell was pried open, the tip of the pig's hoof was only left with a pink appearance, which looked much more comfortable.
As for the hair, it is a bit difficult to pull it out, so Zhang Sijiu didn't plan to get the hair now. Instead, wash and soak to remove residual blood and wash away the dirt.
Zhang Sijiu submerged the pig's trotters into the stream, and pushed the blood vessels with his fingers to squeeze out the remaining blood.
It wasn't until no matter how much he rubbed and pushed, that no red blood came out again, and Zhang Sijiu withdrew his hand.
Then she scraped off the dirt that could not be washed away from the section little by little.
Under the treatment of Zhang Sijiu's thin fingers, the pig's trotters gradually receded from their dusty and smelly appearance, with a hint of white and tender feeling.
In particular, the truncated section of the pig's trotters is snow-white and crystalline, without the slightest blood.
Zhang Sijiu's fingers were already white.
But looking at the pig's feet, she expressed satisfaction.
Carrying the half-finished pig's feet, Zhang Sijiu returned home.
The porridge is still stuffy, Yang is picking vegetables, and Xu is chopping pigweed.
Two little boys play rattan ball in the yard.
Zhang Sijiu carried the pig's feet directly into the kitchen. Then the pig's trotters were clamped with tongs and sent directly into the stove.
This scene directly startled the little head poking out of the door.
Komatsu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his face full of anticipation: "Do you want to bake and eat it?" ”
Xiaobai's control was almost a little, saliva was already flowing out, and his eyes were full of anticipation.
Then, a peculiar smell of burnt meat and the aroma of barbecue directly interrupted their fantasies.
Zhang Sijiu's face did not change: "Don't eat." ”
Zhang Sijiu has smelled this smell many times in the operating room.
Later, he was even able to be aroused, and after the operation, he went to eat barbecue with his colleagues.
Komatsu rushed over excitedly: "Sister, I'm scorched!" The meat is burnt! ”
Zhang Sijiu looked at the heat, and turned it evenly at this time, so that every place was evenly burned by the fire.
It wasn't until the whole trotter was pitch black that she caught it.
Komatsu almost cried: "It's burnt, I can't eat it!" ”
Zhang Sijiu looked at him, and the word "foodie" flashed in his mind: "Don't worry. You can still eat it. ”
Komatsu was skeptical, and the words "You must be lying to me when I'm young" were written on his face.
Xiaobai is young, but his vigilance is obviously stronger than Xiaosong, he has a small face, and said seriously: "It's dark, don't eat, diarrhea." ”
Zhang Sijiu was almost amused. pinched Xiaobai's face: "Don't worry, little guy!" ”
Produced by Dr. Zhang, whether it is delicious or not is another matter, but it must ensure food safety!
After saying this, Zhang Sijiu concocted another pig's trotter in the same way.
Two charred pig's feet freshly baked.
Zhang Sijiu waited for it to get a little cooler, so he carried it and went to the small ditch again.
This time, the two little boys sneakily avoided the Yang family and secretly followed.
Zhang Sijiu saw them, but as long as they didn't get close to the water's edge, he didn't bother to care about them. She concentrated on scraping off the scorched marks on the pig's feet with a knife, so that the pig's feet re-exposed the slightly yellowed pigskin.
The pigskin has shrunk a little at this point, but there is no hair on it at all.
After even scraping the toe seams, Zhang Sijiu was satisfied with the end.
Komatsu and Kobai squatted next to him, watching intently.
But neither of them clearly understood what they were doing, and their little faces were full of big doubts.
After Zhang Sijiu went back with the pig's feet, he took out the crockpot and brushed it clean, and finally asked Xu for two handfuls of soybeans and asked Xu to chop the pig's feet open.
In fact, she can also make several pieces of pig's feet according to the principles of anatomy, but that way, the marrow in the bones will not be easy to boil out.
After the soybeans and pig's feet were washed with well water, Zhang Sijiu directly filled the bottom of the jar, broke a small piece of old ginger and washed it and smashed it and threw it in, then added water to fill the jar, and then put it directly on the small stove, lit the fire again, and began to boil.
After skimming, boiling water, turning down the heat and simmering, gradually the fragrance wafts out.
Xu Shi sniffled and took the lead in surprise: "It's really made?" ”
Zhang Sijiu explained: "I heard the uncle who passed by the river to rest. He said he was a cook when he was younger. ”
Xu nodded, he didn't think about it so much at all: "I will taste it later, if it is delicious, I will send it to the daughter-in-law of the Li family, although she has less milk, but in case there is more milk in the future, we can also take the little pumpkin." ”
For Xu's cautious life, Zhang Sijiu silently praised it: Learned.
However, this soup should be very suitable for the daughter-in-law of the Li family.
Zhang Sijiu made a wish: I hope that the daughter-in-law of the Li family will become a fountain in her chest, and she will not be able to finish eating.