When Jiang Yan arrived in the middle courtyard, he saw that the three masters were about to speak, and when he looked closely, this guy was still holding a manuscript in his hand, which seemed to be quite formal.

After he stood in the center, he swept the people around him, and saw Jiang Yan sitting behind him smoking, his small eyes narrowed, his face changed, he opened his mouth, and he was about to stand up, Jiang Yan shook his head at him slightly, and he sat down when he saw Jiang Yan's action.

I have to say that since the two masters have become leaders, this eloquence is also good, and when they speak, it is a set of words, and combined with the current situation, the other people who listened were stunned, but the other two uncles looked bad, and the second uncle's speech lasted for about ten minutes, and then I wish everyone a happy Spring Festival, and everything is over.

The next thing is Yan Bugui, Yan Bugui's speech is very simple, it is to give everyone an early year in advance, and wish everyone a happy Spring Festival, good health, and all the best.

Next is Yi Zhonghai, Yi Zhonghai thinks that everyone should celebrate the New Year together, hold a group meeting tomorrow, and each family will have some peanuts and melon seeds, and then collectively worship the New Year. And then everyone agreed, it's actually good not to have to go door-to-door.

Since Yi Zhonghai adopted a child, he has never spent the New Year with the Jia family, but this Jia family is a double worker, Jia Dongxu is now a third-level worker, but he has 51 yuan a month, and his daughter-in-law has a small 30 yuan a month, according to the words of Jia Zhang's family, now the Jia family is a big family in the courtyard, so now I don't care if I am with Yi Zhonghai for the New Year.

Yesterday was the twenty-nineth, early in the morning, He Yuzhu began to get busy, in order to avoid other people in the courtyard, He Yuzhu deliberately set up a stove in Jiang Yan's small courtyard, preparing braised meat and oil, but the poor people will find a way to get some good things during the New Year.

Jiang Yan and they still got a lot of good things this year, needless to say meat, all kinds of meat add up to more than fifty catties, there are three pig heads and a few pieces of water, except for Dean Tang who gave Jiang Yan a pig head, the rest are all things that Xu Damao tried to get.

Jiang Yan's family had a clear division of labor in the afternoon, He Yuzhu was responsible for braised meat, and Liuzi was responsible for oiling the food. The rest of the people just lay hands.

According to He Yuzhu, his recipe for this braised pork comes from a piece of chai braised pork in Sijiu City.

This piece of wood-roasted pig's head meat is claimed to be able to burn the whole to a sparse point with only one piece of firewood, the skin is defleshed, and the fragrance is fragrant and flavorful, so this braised pork is quite famous in Sijiu City, and Jiang Yan is also very curious about how to use a piece of firewood to marinate the meat.

Jiang Yan was first curious about what kind of firewood to use, one can cook a pig's head. After seeing the firewood picked by He Yuzhu, I knew that this guy used hardwood and hard firewood, so that it could make a very strong flame, or it could only smoke and not catch fire. For example, the lychee wood used in Guangdong is also because of the smoke emitted by the lychee firewood, which is used to smoke food and play a burn-resistant role.

The key to the fact that a piece of firewood can cook the pig's head, in addition to using hard firewood, is also because the pig's head should be buckled with upper and lower tin guzi, which means that the cooking environment for cooking the pig's head is sealed.

The "Dictionary of the Golden Bottle and Plum" says that "Xiguzi" is: a tin pot with a seamed lid, which is close to each other, and is round like a drum. It should be made "tin drum". The tin guzi was probably covered with an iron wok containing half a pot of water, and the iron wok was covered with a high wooden wok lid. This prevents water vapor from escaping, which shortens the cooking time of the food.

Roast pig's head has five flavors, condiments are added to fennel ingredients, sugar, wine and the like are stewed, the finished product should be peeled off, and the meat is crispy and rotten.

However, in Jiang Yan's opinion, this is not so troublesome, if there is a pressure cooker, you only need to have a pressure cooker and press it for 30 minutes to ensure the separation of bone and flesh.

But if you want to cook according to the ancient method, not to mention that such a large firewood is difficult to find, the stove for burning wood is also difficult to find, and the cleaning of the pig's head is also labor-intensive, and it will inevitably be disliked It is a time-consuming and laborious dish, so the average family will not marinate the pig's head meat by themselves.

The cauldron is too fragrant, especially the marinated pig's head, pig's trotters, the yard is full of marinated flavor, this will be only in the afternoon, other people's families have not yet begun to cook Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Jiang Yan's door is surrounded by a group of children, the New Year, Jiang Yan is also happy, generously cut a little for each child, of course, only for those children who say good things.

In fact, every child has said good things, including stick terriers, and there is no shame in saying a few good words for the sake of delicious braised pork.

After the marinated meat, Liuzi has already boiled the lard, the weather is cold, the lard condenses quickly, and I don't know what Liuzi added to it, this pork looks as white as snow, the key is that there is no fishy smell, and there is only the unique fragrance of lard.

After the lard was raised, five catties of soybean oil were added, and things began to be fried, among the many fried things, Jiang Yan's favorite thing to eat was the croquettes made into meatballs made by mixing lotus root minced and pork, and the ladies liked the sweet potato fries that had been oiled, and Jiang Yan had eaten this thing, and it was a bit like the sweet plum fries sold on the street in later generations.

After the prepared things are oiled, the remaining oil will naturally be put away, and then everyone will start to make dumplings, different from other single fillings, Jiang Yan has four kinds of meat at home alone, what pork and green onions, mutton fennel, beef cabbage and other fillings, there are also two kinds of materials, one is leek eggs, and the other is cabbage radish tofu vermicelli.

This pork with green onions, with a little lard residue in it, must taste fragrant, and two of the dumplings also have coins. It depends on whose luck is good, everyone works together, there are a lot of these various dumplings, and Jiang Yan's small courtyard is full of homemade refrigerators against the kitchen wall.

In the evening, Jiang Yan's table was full of good things, He Yuzhu and Liuzi made eight big bowls, these eight big bowls were originally the most common dishes of the Manchu people, and the earlier Manchu eight big bowls were only eaten in the Manchu people's homes. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was in its heyday. "Manchu and Han full seats" have been developed in the catering industry, and the Manchu and Han full banquets are divided into "upper eight treasures", "middle eight treasures", and "lower eight treasures", and the Manchu eight large bowls are included as one of the lower eight treasures of the Manchu and Han full banquets.

However, the eight bowls are divided into thick and thin, and the eight large bowls refer to: boiled fish fillet, braised shrimp, family portrait, osmanthus fish bone, braised smooth fish, shredded Sichuan meat, Sichuan big meatballs, loose meat, etc.; Eight large bowls are: fried green shrimp, braised shredded chicken, stewed egg custard and crab roe, sea cucumber balls, ingots meat, clear soup chicken, braised chicken, home-cooked roasted carp, etc. Eight large bowls are used for banquets, with eight people at each table, eight dishes on the table, and a unified large bowl is used when serving. Place the octagonal shape.

However, the eight big bowls made by He Yuzhu and Liuzi are made from local materials, and there is no thickness at all, but these dishes in Jiang Yan's house are also well-known in later generations, and it is estimated that they are the only one in the compound.

Jiang Yan ate a bowl of dumplings and did not eat coins, both coins were eaten by He Yushui and Jiang Sirui, after eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, except for the old lady did not go, including Jiang Sirui went, what to do, of course, it was a cannon, and there was no Spring Festival Gala to watch in this era, of course, I found something to do.

Firecrackers are not set off at one time, they are all dismantled one by one, and suddenly Jiang Yan became the king of children, followed by a large group of children, large and small buttocks, not all parents are willing to buy guns for their children these days.

At this time, you can still set off guns, but you won't be able to do it later, although there is no TV to watch in this era, but it is still very New Year's flavor.

After the cannon was fired, Jiang Yan gave He Yushui and He Xiao ten yuan of New Year's money each, and the rest of the people more or less gave a red envelope, there is no way There are only these two children in the family now.

Thirty nights to stay up for a night, but just after twelve o'clock Jiang Yan went to sleep, there are too many people to visit during the New Year, the rest is not good and there is no energy at all, the group meeting in the courtyard is not important, just send someone to the family to go.

(End of chapter)