Chapter 38 Braised food

Jiang Yan quickly understood that farmers rarely eat meat. Sometimes when they are really greedy, they will buy some pig meat. Although they cannot clean it cleanly, even after it is cooked, it still smells like rice fields.

, but after all it is meat and the price is cheap, so eating it once in a while can satisfy your craving.

If you want to wash it clean and have a beautiful color, it's best to use cornstarch and flour to knead it repeatedly, but Jiang Yan couldn't bear to waste it. She thought about it and pulled out some plant ash from the earthen stove.

Instruct the two daughters-in-law to turn over the pig's large intestine, then clean it, rub it vigorously with plant ash, remove all the large pieces of fat and lymph nodes inside, rub it repeatedly with plant ash, and then wash it with water. Repeat this several times and it will be clean.

Clean.

The remaining pig lungs and pork belly were processed in the same way. After they were all washed, they were washed with hot water again. Jiang Yan poured some flour and kneaded them again, so that the color of the pig water would be whiter.

It took a long time for the three of them to work together to get the pigs weighing several dozen kilograms into the water. At this time, the bone soup on the stove was almost ready. After taking down everything from the two stoves, Jiang Yan washed the big iron pot.

I cut some pork belly and large intestine, stir-fried ginger slices in hot oil, stir-fried the cut pork in a pot under water, put some wild vegetables and chili sauce, and a pungent aroma came out instantly.

Jiang Yan shoveled out the stir-fried pig offal, washed the large iron pot and earthen pot again, added water to boil, and prepared a simple braised pig offal.

"Mom...yesterday, it was my fault. I didn't take good care of Xiaowu, and he was kidnapped and sold out. Mom...don't be angry, I...I know I was wrong."

Wang Jinhua looked at her mother-in-law who was busy in the kitchen and had been silent. She felt uncertain. She thought her mother-in-law wanted her to admit her mistake. She hesitated and spoke. Her eyes suddenly turned red and filled with tears.

"Mom, I'm not wrong either. Don't be angry. My daughter-in-law will never make mistakes again in the future..."

Seeing this, Liu Xiaomeng also said with tears in her eyes that although she had never seen her mother-in-law lose her temper since she came to the Lin family, she had seen her mother-in-law several times before. Every time she lost her temper, she would greet the eighteenth generation of her ancestors and say one word.

If they don't get along, they'll hit them!

Jiang Yan felt a little distressed for a moment when she saw the two people's trembling faces. The toes exposed on their straw sandals were bleeding. Although they had simply washed themselves, there were many obvious scratches on their bodies.

The two of them had probably walked several times in and out of villages and mountains yesterday to find Xiaowu, but they didn't know how hard it was. Even now, they are still worried about whether she will be angry.

"I can't blame you. Anyway, it's good that Xiao Wu has been found. Don't cry and cry. Hurry up and get the food out and get ready for dinner."

When the two daughters-in-law saw that their mother-in-law was not angry, they immediately went to serve the dishes and set out the bowls and chopsticks. Wang Jinhua took out a set of brand-new earth-colored ceramic bowls. These were the bowls and chopsticks newly bought by her mother-in-law. There are exactly ten people in the family now, and a set of ten bowls is just right.

One per person.

"Mom, is the pig boiling in the pot? Don't you need to cut it into smaller pieces?"

Wang Jinhua asked as she watched her mother-in-law make a few cuts and then throw the pig into the pot and help burn the firewood.

"No, just cook it like this. I'm going to try to make something new to eat."

As Jiang Yan spoke, she took out some spices from her pocket and placed them on the stove.

Wang Jinhua held half a basin of water and said curiously while washing: "Mom, what are these? Do you have to put them all in?"

Jiang Yan said: "These are some medicinal materials found in the mountains. I have seen some restaurants putting them in dishes, and some are seasonings bought in the town. They smell very fragrant. These are fragrant leaves, these are star anise, and these are licorice."

.Cumin...if I finish it later, I will write down the list and you will learn to make it."

Jiang Yan wrapped the medicinal materials in the leftover cloth from the last time she cut the cloth bag, tied them into two small Sunny Day dolls, and placed one in each pot.

These ingredients tend to sink to the bottom if cooked for too long. For convenience, it would be better to wrap them in cloth and stew them.

These common seasonings are rarely used in food in this era. Most of them are sold in medical clinics as medicinal materials. People here don't know that they can be used as seasoning ingredients. All medicines are not cheap.

Jiang Yan did not go to the medical clinic in the town, but bought everything secretly in the mall. Moreover, there were no chili peppers in this era. Even if the villagers found wild chili peppers in the mountains, they would not take them back to eat, but would use dogwood instead.

Every household has some Cornus officinalis. When Jiang Yan made chili sauce, she put a lot of Cornus officinalis along with it. This is also a relatively common spicy condiment in this era.

After putting all the ingredients, she covered the pot and simmered it. She said, "You won't go up the mountain today. You are at home with Xiaodouzi and Xiaowu, filling up the firewood from time to time. This pot of pig water will take a long time to stew."

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Wang Jinhua nodded repeatedly: "I understand, mother, I will take good care of Huo and Xiao Wu!"

Back in the main room, the whole family was sitting at the dinner table. Except for Erbi and Lin Dong who couldn't get up, everyone else was waiting for Jiang Yan.

After Jiang Yan took the main seat, Lin Dong also hurried back. He subconsciously stared at the dishes on the dinner table and licked his saliva before saying, "Mom, I went to see Grandpa Tiezhu. He said he was just injured. How much can he drink?"

Just take the medicine and it will be fine. If he can't cure the other problems, he didn't come to see me and prescribed medicine for two days."

Grandpa Tiezhu is the mountain doctor in the village. Because his name is Lin Tiezhu, everyone calls him Grandpa Tiezhu. When he was young, he worked in a pharmacy and did not learn medical skills seriously, but he knew how to deal with some minor ailments in the village.

Help me take a look.

Generally speaking, if the family is poor, they will probably prescribe medicine based on the symptoms, because home visits cost money. I guess they just thought that the Lin family was relatively poor and couldn't afford the money, so they simply prescribed medicine without anyone coming.

Jiang Yan nodded: "Let's eat quickly. We have to go up the mountain in a while. I'll go check on Erbi."

Jiang Yan carried a bowl of brown rice porridge with a few pieces of twice-cooked pork and some sliced ​​meat and fried mushrooms on top. She mixed some of the same vegetables with her. She returned to the room and carefully lifted Erbi up and leaned against the folded quilt.

"Can you sit still? I've prescribed medicine for you. After dinner, I'll ask your cousin Dongzi to carry you to the doctor."

Erbi shook his little head and whispered in a soft voice: "Thank you...little aunt, I don't need to see a doctor, I just need to lie down for a while and it will be fine."

"Don't...waste money, I...I don't feel any pain!"

"Eat first."

Jiang Yan handed over the bowl, but the little guy raised his hand a few times and put it down hoarsely and grinning in pain. Jiang Yan had to feed him bit by bit. When the chopped meat was eaten in his mouth, his little eyes were swollen.

It lit up, and then the small body hurriedly shrank back.

"Little aunt... no, I don't want meat, little aunt will eat it by herself! Just give me a bowl of wild vegetable paste!"

My aunt's family is also very poor. If he eats meat and brown rice porridge, what will happen to others? My aunt must have cooked it specially for her because he was injured! We can't waste it like this!
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