Tian An laughed enough and stepped forward to take Xiaokang's candied haws: "I'll help you eat these two first. You can take care of your teeth first. I'll make you strawberry candied haws in a few days."
Xiaokang's eyes lit up: "Strawberries can be made into candied haws? Are they delicious?"
"You'll know when you eat it." Tian An said.
Xiaokang put his tooth in front of Tian An again and said, "Sister, what should I do with that second tooth?"
Tian An blinked, confused. "What should we do? How about putting it in a box and keeping it as a souvenir? Or dig a hole and bury it?"
Granny Qin, who was making clothes inside, was amused by the discussion between the two siblings. She put down her work and went outside to explain to them: "When your upper teeth fall out, you throw them under the bed. When your lower teeth fall out, you throw them on the roof."
The two siblings said they had learned a lot.
Tian An looked at Xiao Kang's upper teeth, which were missing a tooth, and said, "Then go and throw your tooth under your bed!"
Xiaokang thought for a while and said, "Then I'll go wash it first." Then he went to scoop water.
Put the teeth in warm water and rub them gently, and the sugar stuck on them will dissolve. Xiaokang will wash his teeth while muttering: "From today, oh no, from now on, you will leave me. I will clean you for the last time, and then you will stay under my bed!"
Tian An: ...this brat really pays attention to rituals.
Since we were slaughtering a pig today, we had stir-fried pork kidneys, stir-fried pork intestines, stir-fried pork liver with carrots, and sauerkraut pig blood soup for lunch.
Tian An loves stir-fried kidneys; their crispy, tender texture makes her want to eat them. In her previous life, whenever she ordered stir-fried kidneys at a restaurant, they would be served a large plate of chili peppers, scallions, garlic, and the like, which was never satisfying.
There are many people in the family, so this time Tian An asked someone to fry all the kidneys from the slaughtered pig together. She wanted to eat them all at once.
Seeing Tian An pick up another piece of pork kidney with chopsticks, Zhao Yiming waited for her to finish eating, and when he was about to pick up another dish, he took the initiative to pick up a piece of pork liver for her with chopsticks.
Zhao Yiming ordered the pork liver to be prepared. He didn't know when he started to pay attention to food, and he knew what to eat to replenish what.
For example, now, seeing Tian An resisting the pig liver in the bowl, Zhao Yiming persuaded him, "Pig liver replenishes blood. Even if you don't like it, just bear with it and eat some. It's good for your health."
Tian An was depressed. She was a girl who didn't even have her period, but she had meat for every meal. Why did she need to replenish her blood?
But seeing his serious expression, Tian An silently ate the pig liver in the bowl. Then, before he could pick up some vegetables, he picked up a piece of pig intestine for himself.
Zhao Yiming was not obsessed with the pig liver. He took a bowl and filled it with half a bowl of sauerkraut and pig blood soup for her.
Tian An took the bowl and told him to eat quickly, "Brother Yiming, eat quickly! It's cold, if you eat slowly the food will get cold."
Zhao Yiming agreed verbally, but still picked up some food for Tian An from time to time.
Xiaokang had just lost his teeth and was still not used to it, so Tian An worried that he wouldn't be able to eat the food on the table. So he had someone steam a bowl of egg custard and a bowl of vegetable and lean meat porridge for him, waiting for him to get used to it.
In the afternoon, the two pigs for the family's consumption were delivered. Tian An planned to shave off the ribs and save them for later, stuff them into sausages, save some for dumplings in the evening, and salt the rest to make bacon.
Pig intestines are used to make sausages. When the pigs are slaughtered, they are only roughly washed to remove the dirt inside.
To use it in sausage stuffing, the small intestines must be processed into a thin, transparent casing. The method is simple, but it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
First of all, you have to clean it carefully and repeatedly to remove all the mucus and oil film on it. You have to be especially careful when washing so as not to rupture the intestines. If they are ruptured, a large part of it will be unusable.
After the intestines are cleaned, they need to be soaked in high-proof liquor for a period of time to remove the fishy smell.
After soaking in white wine, rinse repeatedly with warm water until the smell of wine is completely gone.
Zhenniang brought over the sausage casings that had been washed for over an hour and showed them to Tian An: "Miss, I've never done this before. Can you take a look and see if it's washed well?"
Tian An picked up a piece of intestine, felt it, and smelled it. "It's tough, smooth, soft, elastic, and has no odor. It's almost done. Soak it in warm water and it will be ready to use soon. Go pick some palm leaves to make bandages."
He then took out the sausage-stuffing tools that Chen Qiang had prepared in advance, and asked Zhenniang to boil them in boiling water and dry them for later use.
The top of this tool is a funnel made of polished wood, with a bamboo tube connected to it at the bottom.
"Okay, girl. I'll prepare it right away." Zhenniang took some warm water from the pot to soak the sausage casings, then boiled the enema tools in boiling water, fished them out and put them away, then went to collect palm leaves.
There are a lot of these things in the village, and almost every household has them at the door. After picking them, tear them into small pieces, soak them in hot water to increase their flexibility, and then you can use them to tie things.
It is best to choose two parts of front sandwich meat that are 30% fat and 70% lean when stuffing sausages. You can also use the front sandwich meat and a small part of the hind leg meat. The sausage made in this way is tender and easy to cut into slices. If it is too lean, it will be too dry and the taste will not be good.
The sandwich meat was definitely not enough, so Tian An picked out a piece of hind leg meat and asked Liu Da to wash it clean, dry the surface moisture, and then cut it into small long pieces.
After all the meat was cut, it was divided into three portions using three bowls. Tian An planned to make three flavors.
There are spicy flavors, five-spice flavors, and Tian An’s favorite Cantonese sweet flavors.
After Tian An prepared the seasonings and added an appropriate amount of white wine, he asked Liu Da to mix the meat and set it aside. After the three pots of meat were mixed, beads of sweat began to seep out of Liu Da's forehead.
Everything was ready. Chunyi and Zhenniang washed their hands and started stuffing sausages.
Chunxi first put the casing on the bamboo tube, and then took a palm leaf rope to tie the end.
Zhenniang used chopsticks to pick up the meat and put it into the wooden funnel, pressing it down with the chopsticks, squeezing it as she went, until the meat was packed tightly. After it was packed, she divided it into small sections, squeezed them tightly, and tied them with palm leaf ropes.
Tian An found another needle and made a small hole in the place where the air was trapped to let out the air.
After all the sausages are stuffed, use a bamboo pole with a rope and hang it in a dry and ventilated place in the kitchen. If it is done now, you can eat it during the Chinese New Year.
After the sausages were ready, Tian An picked out a piece of hind leg meat and asked Liu Da to chop it into meat paste, ready to start making dumplings.
Liu Da had been cutting meat all day and his hands were covered with blisters. After Wu Zhuang came back, he took the initiative to take over the job of chopping meat.
There were many people in the family, so they needed a lot of meat, and it was impossible to chop it all at once. After he finished chopping a piece of meat, Chunxi cut the leeks and added seasoning.
Zhenniang took out the flour and started to mix the dough. When the dough was mixed, the meat filling was also mixed.
Just as Mangzhong and the others had almost finished making skin care products, they came to help make dumplings.
Although Tian An knew how to make dumplings, he wasn't very good at it, so he didn't join in the fun. Seeing that Wu Zhuang's meat was chopped, he cut up some cabbage and made a pork and cabbage filling.
Two flavors are enough.
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