Chapter 37: Tasteful
Eating pig-killing dishes is to pay attention to an atmosphere, no matter how well it is done, as long as there are many people, it will be fun to eat.
Now the atmosphere is very good, on the huge rice flat, the south side is the big pot of boiling, the west side is the chopping board, next to the big wooden basin for cleaning the pigs, and on the other side is the freshly cut meat.
Although many of the villagers left home early, many remained here.
Chen Fan stood in front of another board, a basin of pig blood was brought over, and a basin of bone broth.
This pot of bone broth is used to flush pig's blood, naturally you don't need to boil it for too long, you can use it when you boil it out, and the pork bones can be returned to the pot to stew other dishes, so you can get some meat.
Captain Yang, Master Zhu and his two apprentices, Liu Jiaojiang, the four people who helped in the village, as well as Aunt Yang and three women who were not much different in age, plus Yang Ju and Jiang Lili, surrounded Chen Fan in half a circle.
More than a dozen children stood in the distance, also looking at each other with curiosity on their faces.
Chen Fan saw this posture and simply smiled, "It's better to practice it than to learn it a hundred times, if you don't come and a few people try it, who will come?" ”
Liu Jujiang stood up without saying a word, Yang Ju looked at his parents and also stood up.
Jiang Lili wanted to move, but she was afraid of being in the limelight, so she stood in place according to her thoughts.
Two other women also stepped forward.
That's four people.
Chen Fan asked them to divide things into four parts, and then began to command, while also explaining the tricks,
"The ratio of pig blood to bone broth is best 1 to 1.3, that is, 1 catty of pig blood plus 1 catty of 3 taels of soup, and hot water is OK without soup. This soup is not easy to put more, and it can't be put less, too much is not cut, too old and not tender enough, green onions, ginger, garlic and salt are put into the bone broth first......"
Master Zhu stood on the periphery, couldn't help but nod slightly, and said to Captain Yang, "You picked up a treasure." ”
Captain Yang smiled from ear to ear, and turned his head to look at him, "That's not it, yesterday I taught the whole village to make soft-shelled turtles, and today I taught to make blood sausages, regardless of whether it tastes good or not, this thought is very rare." ”
Master Zhu nodded first and then shook his head, "This mind is indeed impeccable, but if you want me to say, the most rare thing is that he does not hide his selfishness." Do you know what you are most afraid of when you learn art from your master? ”
Captain Yang, "What? ”
Master Zhu's face was very complicated, "What I'm most afraid of is not to let you get started!" ”
After a pause, he continued, "This little comrade just now has a sentence that penetrates the essence of learning art, that is, 'it is better to learn to kill pigs than to practice a hundred times', I followed the master to learn to kill pigs at that time, and the master asked me to give him a miscellaneous for 2 years before he was willing to teach me to shave, and shaved for another 1 year before I was allowed to stab the first knife, and then slowly taught how to blow, how to peel, how to cut meat more smoothly, and I learned it for 5 years before I became a teacher.
In fact, it's just a pig to kill, what's so difficult, as long as you are willing to get started, kill more and practice, and the master will give more guidance on the side, point out the mistakes, and it will be very smooth for half a year at most.
That's why I said that this little comrade is good, and he will teach real kung fu when he comes up, which is very rare. ”
In these years, there is a craft that can be passed down to the family, and some can even rely on the craft to recruit workers into the city, as long as Chen Fan's cooking skills can be half of his eloquence, recruiting him to the commune guest house to make a second stove, most of the time there is no problem.
The handicraft of the housekeeper is preached, and I am afraid that only the model worker in the newspaper can do it.
Hearing Master Zhu's words, Captain Yang also nodded secretly, looking at Chen Fan, who had the demeanor of a general with his hands on his waist, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
Behind Master Zhu, his two apprentices couldn't help but glance at each other, and they all showed a wry smile.
They followed Master Zhu, that is, 2 years of miscellaneous work, 1 year of shaving, and then they really began to learn to kill pigs, and then the master did not move, and the pigs assigned to their group were all killed by two apprentices, and the master sat and watched, and pointed on the side.
According to what the master said, if you calculate the time, it will take 1 year to become a teacher?
The other side.
Chen Fan saw that someone was doing it for him, so he passed the addiction of being a conductor. These people are also accustomed to kitchen work, and their movements are swift, and they can fill four blood sausages in a while.
Each sausage is 80 centimeters long, tied with a string, and thrown into a large pot to boil.
At this time, Liu Jiaojiang also began to prepare his pig-killing dishes, Jiang Lili and Yang Ju were all on the side, and they were busy.
Aunt Yang took a few women to put all the cut meat into a large wooden basin one by one, sprinkled salt into it, grabbed the salt and kneaded the meat strips vigorously, and handed it to another person after each piece of meat was kneaded.
The man first made a small cut in the skin of the meat with a knife, then threaded it with an S-shaped iron hook and hung it on a bamboo pole to dry.
This is making bacon, in addition to bacon, there are also cured pork ribs, cured pork legs, pig heads, pig butts...... It's really not wasted at all, and some meat is left behind to stuff the sausage.
I don't know how long it took, but when it was, Chen Fan was already dizzy with hunger, and finally all the dishes were ready and ready to eat.
Today is divided into two tables as usual, one table of men sits in the hall, and a large square table is also placed in the room inside, and the four women who help and Jiang Lili all go inside to eat.
There were also a dozen children without seats, ranging from two or three years old to twelve or thirteen, who could only stand in the room with bowls and eat, and a few older ones, with a bowl full of dishes, ran out to eat happily.
At this time, Chen Fan knew that these four women were the wives of the man who helped build the stove and catch pigs just now, and those four people were all Captain Yang's own brothers.
In addition to the three sisters who married in other villages, the five brothers of the Yang family are here.
But this is just a brother, if you count cousins, there are 23 generals of the Yang family in this generation.
Chen Fan couldn't help but secretly speak, no wonder he can be the captain, there are many people and great power!
A hole was dug in the middle of the large square table, and there was an iron shelf underneath, and a small charcoal stove, the one used to stew soft-shelled turtle soup yesterday, was now brought over, and a small round iron pot was set up on it.
Pork hearts, pork lungs, fat intestines, pork bones, pork belly and other parts of the meat are stacked in the pot, the meat is pressed with cabbage, and under the fire of the charcoal fire, the soup rumbles and exudes a rich fragrance.
This is the pig-killing dish made by Liu Jiaojiang, and one pot of dishes is enough for a table of people to eat.
The dishes contributed by Chen Fan are on the side.
In addition to a plate of blood sausage and a plate of stir-fried pork liver, when he saw the fat pork belly just now, he couldn't help but cut half a catty, add carrot slices, potato slices and garlic sprouts, and fried two plates of back to the pot meat.
It's a pity that this is not a Chenghua pig, and it has to be the meat of Chenghua pig to eat back to the pot, and the others are a little bit worse.
Finally, with Aunt Yang's fried radish with oil residue, fried red cabbage moss with oil residue, and stir-fried lotus root slices, it can be described as sumptuous.
Chen Fan also swallowed his saliva and couldn't help but sigh.
The day before yesterday, I was still thinking about how to live in this era, I may not be able to eat a piece of meat for a long time, but it was only two or three days after I came, so what did I eat?
In addition to the first meal was fried cabbage and egg custard prepared by Jiang Lili, the second meal was steamed soft-shelled turtle made by herself, and the third meal was braised soft-shelled turtle eaten at Captain Yang's house, and I also drank a big meal.
The fourth meal was to return to the young man to warm up the soft-shelled turtle on the first day, and the food was not bad. It's the fifth meal.
Kill the pig dish!
It's been a good day.