Chapter 172: Saving Meat
Qin Xi has a great appetite and buys a lot of meat, but if it weren't for the fact that there are a lot of people queuing up behind, she might have bought more, after all, compared to the black market two pieces of pork for two yuan and one pound, this five cents and one pound is like picking it up for nothing.
But she must leave enough things for the people behind her, if a greedy person buys too much, causing the people behind to have no room to choose, it will attract gossip and the eyes of people with a heart.
Originally, the three brothers and sisters were publicized enough in the village, and they were the first educated youth to go out and start a house, and it cost a lot of money to build that house.
She was afraid that they would be too flamboyant in the village, and they would buy so much meat back at once, and some people with bad intentions would target their family, of course, now that Fangzheng and their little couple have moved next to their house, the safety of their three brothers and sisters is naturally more guaranteed.
The two sides can help each other to guard each other, this is a tacit understanding that they needless to say, they should have secretly, and they, the foreign educated youth, should help each other.
When the brothers and sisters left, many people stared at the things in their hands, but after seeing that there were only four pig's trotters in the basket, many people with pregnant women at home were relieved, a total of sixteen pig's trotters, and there were twelve left, enough for them to buy, after all, they would only buy one or two pig's trotters to go back to make soybean stewed pig's trotters for their pregnant daughter-in-law, which is enough, what are these countrymen doing when they eat so well.
Of course, such mothers-in-law are still a minority, and those who are as mean as Li Dazui are also a minority, and more of them don't care about their daughters-in-law, life and death are up to them, whether they live or not, it depends on luck.
At this time, women have many births and deaths, often eight or nine children, and in the end there are often only four or five who can be supported, and one or two are not nothing, like that, luck is very bad.
Speaking of which, it is not because of poverty, there is not enough nutritional supplement during pregnancy, the mother is weak, and the situation of the fetus is naturally not much better.
The last ones who can survive are often those who are physically strong and resistant to bitter cold, unless they are like Li Dazui's grandson Chen Jun, a seedling in a thousand hectares, otherwise in this poor family, where can there be so much food, and the fat people who feed him are not pulled from the mouths of other family members, just look at his second uncle's family, even pregnant women have become skinny and bone-ty, not to mention other people.
Tang Ying saw that they were leaving, so she hurriedly trotted over and looked at the things Qin Xi had bought.
As for the pig brain in Qin He's hand that was cut in half, it was too bloody, and she refused.
"Qin Xi, wait a while, if it's our turn later, what do you say it's good to buy? Give me some advice, I really don't have any ideas. ”
Seeing the pig's trotters, pork liver, pork belly and pork ribs in Qinxi's basket, Tang Ying was envious.
She and He Yuan had a limited budget, and the two of them scraped together a total of two yuan, and they couldn't buy so many of their things at all.
"What do you want to buy, don't you know what to buy?"
Seeing that she shook her head, Qin Xi didn't know what to say: "Pork liver and intestines or something, if you have it, you can buy some." ”
"Then there are pork ribs and pig's trotters, which are also good, see when it's your turn, buy the leftovers!"
Will she buy pork liver, or because this thing can be eye-catching, and at night she is blind, which is really annoying.
And the taste of pork liver is still very good, and she likes to eat it.
As for the pig's head, if she didn't smoke bacon, she would definitely not buy it, because it was too difficult to clean up.
As soon as he got home, Qin He pinched two pieces of oil residue to relieve his hunger, and began to help Qin Xi clean up the meat he bought.
Qin Xi didn't think of the stuffing of meat sausages and smoked sausages when she got home, it was difficult to take off the raw pork face meat completely, she could completely chop the meat of the ear pig face, marinate it, and pour it into the powder sausage, tie it tightly on both sides, it was simple, and a meat sausage would be ready, it was really not difficult.
Moreover, the sausage is smoked for a shorter time than bacon, and the operation is simpler and easier, and the taste is better than that of simple bacon.
But she didn't buy the sausage, which was a minor annoyance, but it wasn't a big problem.
"Second brother, you take this money to find Tang Ying and them, if there is, let them bring us two catties of powder sausages." Qin Xi handed the money to Qin He and said.
"What is this going to do?" Qin He wondered.
He has lived for so many years, but he has never seen anyone make sausages, and even the bacon at home is rarely smoked, even if it is smoked, it is very simple, marinate the bacon with a lot of salt for one night, and the next day directly tie the meat with a rope and hang it on the edge of the firewood stove, and after ten days and a half months, it is almost done.
As soon as someone from another family comes, the meat will go directly into the pot, and then it will be eaten separately, and it will not last long at all.
"Making sausages is similar to smoking bacon, and you also need to marinate meat, but you need to cut small pieces, stuff them into the powder sausages, and then tie the mouth tightly with a rope.
Qin Xi doesn't like to smoke meat or intestines directly over an open fire, the meat that comes out of the roast is black, there is a layer of pine smoke paste on it, it is extremely difficult to clean up, not to mention, the smoky smell is still very strong, and it is choking to eat, not to mention, it is easy to roast the meat with an open flame to smoke the barbecue.
Although the barbecue sausage is slowly smoked with thick smoke, the speed will be much slower, but the sausage is not large, about four or five days, and it will be smoked almost, and this is still in the case of no work at night.
Use thick smoke, especially fire, to slowly ignite the smoke produced by fruit tree branches, that is, to keep the branches unburned to ensure that there is no open flame, the color of the sausage smoked in this way is golden, and the taste is also very different from other sausages, with a little fruit wood fragrance.
Compared with smoked bacon, the people of Chen Hui Village prefer to dry bacon, after marinating the pork with a lot of salt, choose a day with good weather, and hang the meat directly on the clothes pole at home to dry, so that the bacon comes out, it also has a different flavor, more importantly, as long as it is dried, the meat is very durable, if you see that the bacon is a little mildew, you can also take it out to dry again, keep the bacon dry, as long as the moisture is less enough, the salt is enough, the meat can not be broken.
In addition, cut the meat into 1/4 the size of the palm of an adult, roll it in a salt basin, sprinkle with chili powder, and put it neatly in the jar, this method can also make the meat preserve for a long time, this is called jar meat, when you want to eat, use chopsticks to clip a piece of meat out, you can use it to fry a large dish.