Chapter 29: Pork
I thought that the girl was going to buy a pound or two of pork to take back to improve the food, but I didn't expect to buy a lot of this purchase, if it was all semi-fat and lean pork belly, how could I still buy pig water, pig head and other things that no one eats?
"Don't worry, I have my own plans, and I have enough money with me?"
"Don't worry, girl, the slave maid brought a hundred taels today, which is enough." Fennel was puzzled, but the girl decided, and she couldn't refute it.
It didn't take long for Fennel to buy everything back, and she almost couldn't walk with a basket full of meat. Du Yong saw it, and hurriedly stepped forward to pick it up and put it at the wheel.
"Girl, I bought ten catties of pork belly, five catties of bones, a pair of pig's intestines, and half a pig's head."
Xiao Jinyue nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, I will give you a reward for going back to the house to make a good meal." ”
Fennel muttered in a low voice, "Girl, I don't like to eat pig's intestines, and I don't like pig's head meat, I only need pork belly and bone broth." ”
Xiao Jinyue quipped her, "You really don't want pig intestines and pig head meat?" The food I made was so delicious that I wanted to swallow it with my tongue, so don't regret it. ”
Fennel shook her head firmly, although she didn't like the pig's head meat, she could barely accept it. The pig intestine is stinky, and she really can't eat it.
Xiao Jinyue saw her shake her head, didn't tease her anymore, and only told Du Yong to drive to a pharmacy.
Both of them thought that she was going to the pharmacy to buy medicine, but in fact, Xiao Jinyue was going to buy the materials needed to make lo-mei.
I thought that I could buy the marinade I needed by finding a random pharmacy, but there were not many types in the pharmacy, and finally I found a spice shop, so I bought all the things.
It's a pity that I didn't find the peppers.
asked Fennel and Du Yong, but they didn't know what chili peppers were, and there were no pharmacies and spice shops, so Xiao Jinyue knew that this Ming Kang Dynasty didn't even have chili peppers.
Xiao Jinyue was not disappointed, this can be regarded as another business opportunity for her, as long as she thinks about it, when she finds chili seeds and grows chili peppers, there will be countless silver running into her bowl.
The next second, she smiled bitterly in her heart, she was really stunned, what she encountered now, the first thing she thought of was to make money, she almost forgot that her old profession was a doctor who saved lives.
When she returned home, sure enough, as soon as her mother saw her, she immediately pulled her and began to nag.
Xiao Jinyue knew that she cared about herself, but she didn't dare to resist, so she sat next to her obediently with a cup of tea and listened.
didn't want her mother to become more and more addicted to nagging, Xiao Jinyue saw her chanting a tea time, not only did she not stop, but she also became more and more energetic, and quietly reached out and rubbed her ears.
Unexpectedly, her mother suddenly looked over and saw that she was rubbing her ears, and she immediately laughed angrily.
Xiao Jinyue put down her hand curtly, picked up the teacup and handed it over, and said with a smile, "Mother, you're tired, drink some tea to moisten your throat." ”
Xue glared at her with hatred, and reached out to take the teacup.
Xiao Jinyue saw that she wasn't chattering, so she took the opportunity to say, "Mother, I bought a lot of meat today, I'll go to the kitchen to see if it's cleaned up." My mother is tired for a day, I will stew a soup for you, and my father has been on duty for a long day, so I will make him a snack for him. ”
Xue Shi knew that it was too much, so he didn't talk to her anymore, and waved his hand weakly, "I know that you have filial piety, but you have to be more careful when cooking, don't be burned by oil smoke, you just stand aside and instruct the cook to do it." ”
Xiao Jinyue nodded obediently, "Okay, I'll listen to my mother." ”
Stepping out of the flower hall, Xiao Jinyue finally breathed a sigh of relief, her mother's skills were really more and more terrifying.
Although she cares about her, she has been chanting like a sutra, and she has a headache.
After returning home, Xiao Jinyue asked Fennel to take the meat she bought directly to the kitchen.
When I arrived at the kitchen, I saw that the preliminary preparations had been completed.
Half of the pig's head was cleaned, and the pig's hair on it was also shaved clean, Xiao Jinyue was going to make a dish of braised pig's head meat for his father to make snacks.
First instructed the cook to put the pig's head in a pot under cold water, using ginger and white wine to make water, because there was no cooking wine, he could only use the wine his father drank.
After suffocating the water, clean it, and then fry the sugar color with the cane sugar you bought.
After Xiao Jinyue took out the marinade she bought and cleaned it, she personally taught her to identify various marinades in front of the cook, and when she remembered it, she matched it according to the amount.
Add boiling water, soy sauce, salt, white wine, ginger, and the marinade to the pot and start to marinate.
The pig's head meat is boiled for more than half an hour, and then the pig's large intestine is ready to be processed.
Although the pig's large intestine is also washed, it is only washed with water, which is naturally not clean.
Xiao Jinyue instructed the cook, rubbed it with cornstarch and salt, rubbed it like a garment, and then washed the impurities with water.
Of course, rubbing it once is not enough, the second time it is rubbed with cornstarch and salt, plus vinegar, and then rinsed.
After the outside is cleaned, turn the pig's large intestine over and rub and clean it again as in the above steps, until you can't smell the strange smell, and then it is considered clean.
The large intestine of the pig naturally has to be stir-fried to be delicious, but unfortunately there are no chili peppers in this era, so Xiao Jinyue had to use a kind of fragrant sauce brewed by some chefs to stir-fry.
Naturally, pork belly is used to make Dongpo meat, and large bones are used to stew soup.
It didn't take long for the kitchen to waft with a mouth-watering scent, and the fennel girl followed the scent and stood in front of the stove with her stomach in her arms, unwilling to leave half a step.
The people in the kitchen couldn't help but swallow their saliva quietly while they were busy, and the taste was too domineering.
Xiao Jinyue snorted suddenly, she actually smelled a smell from the fragrance.
She swept around the crowd, but saw that everyone had an intoxicated expression.
Didn't they smell it?
Xiao Jinyue sniffled again, yes, there was indeed a smell mixed with the fragrance.
But it shouldn't.
She went through the various methods from beginning to end, and every ingredient was cleaned, and the methods and steps were not wrong.
Although the marinades and ingredients are not as complete as those she uses in modern times, they should not smell like they are.
Smelling the increasingly fishy smell, Xiao Jinyue couldn't hold back, and stepped forward to open the lid of the braised pig's head meat.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the lid of the pot was opened, the fishy and sassy smell became stronger, and even so many marinades did not cover it up.
In addition to the pig's head meat, Xiao Jinyue also checked the Dongpo meat, pig intestine and bone broth, all of which had a fishy smell.
Fennel looked at her movements with a puzzled expression, "Girl, what are you looking at?" The meat is so fragrant tonight, and the slave thinks she can swallow two cows now. ”
"Don't you smell all the meat?"
Fennel waved her hand casually, and said nonchalantly, "What's this, the boar's meat has a smell, but that smell is nothing, it's much more fragrant than the meat that is usually cooked." ”
Xiao Jinyue was puzzled, the boar meat smelled of commotion, why didn't she know?
With such a strong smell, this girl didn't care at all, she really didn't know what to say.