Bai Guoguo was a little nervous about everyone's attention to her, as she had never prepared meals for so many people before.
There are more than 1,000 people in the brigade, big and small. They have to make eleven or twelve bags of flour for steamed buns or cornbread every day, and even then they have to mix in a lot of wild vegetables.
Even if you only eat one dish, you have to make three big pots.
She doesn't even know if she can do it, so why do these aunties and ladies have so much confidence in her?
"Auntie, sisters-in-law, why don't you come over? Aren't pig-killing dishes your specialty? I can't handle it!"
Bai Guoguo looked at the aunts and sisters-in-law with his big, wet eyes, and his little face was wrinkled.
According to the local customs, the first meal is to make the pig-killing dish. Bai Guoguo knows how to cook it, but it’s not as authentic as the ones made by the aunts and sisters-in-law.
So Bai Guoguo was afraid of messing up the first meal, which would be very embarrassing.
"How about this, for the first pig-killing meal, let's cook it together. Let's make it traditionally local. Then, you can cook it for Guoguo in the evening. How about we all help you?"
Aunt Wang thought, since the girl wanted to try something new.
Then let’s cook the first meal according to the traditional pig-killing dishes, and let Bai Guoguo be the chef for the evening meal. Isn’t that the best of both worlds?
When everyone heard this, they all agreed.
"Thank you for your care, aunties and sisters-in-law. I'm looking forward to learning from you and trying not to bring shame to our canteen!"
Bai Guoguo smiled and thanked everyone. The women from several teams looked at Bai Guoguo without any airs, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
Since Bai Guoguo came to the brigade, apart from having close contact with the He family and Li Xiuxiu, few other people have been able to come into contact with her.
I thought that since Bai Zhiqing is so capable, beautiful, and the director of a pastry factory and the leader of a business group, she would be very arrogant!
I didn't expect that after spending time with her today, she turned out to be lively, cute and down-to-earth. It wasn't difficult to get along with her at all!
The team leader specially assigned someone to slaughter the pig. Mrs. Zhang put some chopped green onion, ginger, salt, pepper powder, and lukewarm water in a large basin and used the basin to collect the pig's blood.
After the pig's blood is collected and the pig is cut open, someone will quickly clean the small intestine to make the blood sausage.
Put the stuffed blood sausage into a large pot with water at 60 to 70 degrees Celsius and simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes.
While slaughtering the pig, Bai Guoguo and the others distributed 7 bags of flour at once, all of which were to be used to steam buns.
Because it was the first meal after the harvest, Aunt He also brought out a big bag of sweet potato vermicelli.
There are three large pots of one meter in size and two pots of about 70 centimeters in the canteen.
The three big pots are used for cooking or making porridge, and the two small pots are used for steaming steamed buns or cornbread.
Because the weather was hot and to prevent heatstroke, the food distributed included two bags of mung beans, which were specially used to make mung bean soup.
He's aunt is the head of the canteen, and she is the one who decides how much food to prepare for each meal.
She filled a large basin with half a basin of mung beans, soaked the ginkgo nuts, and used it to make mung bean soup in the afternoon.
Others have gone to pick wild vegetables. The amount of food is limited, and the missing part has to be replaced with wild vegetables, fruits and melons.
After soaking the mung beans, Bai Guoguo sat down obediently and picked the dead leaves from a pile of cabbage.
As for the yellow leaves, they also need to be cooked in a pot and eaten by people. There is no such thing as waste nowadays. As long as they are edible, they must be collected and eaten by people.
The remaining dead branches and leaves are then eaten by livestock. Of course, livestock also have food rations, and sometimes they eat more food than humans.
There is no way around it. Large animals are all laborers, and one animal can do the work of three or five men.
The Red Star Production Brigade had three tractors, as well as several horse-drawn carts, mule-drawn carts, and donkey-drawn carts, which was much better than other brigades.
After Bai Guoguo finished cleaning the cabbage, she also peeled a few green onions and picked out some ginger and garlic.
Aunt He, who was busy shaving the pig's hair, looked at Bai Guoguo, who was working hard and not trying to be cunning, and nodded with satisfaction.
Bai Guoguo and Li Xiuxiu, who had just returned from picking wild vegetables, carried a large wooden basin to the well to wash the vegetables.
After washing the vegetables, Bai Guoguo returned to the kitchen to help cut lard while Aunt Wang boiled water to blanch the wild vegetables.
These wild vegetables are put into the dough and kneaded into vegetable steamed buns. They need to be blanched in boiling water and then rinsed with cold water twice. Only then will they taste good without the bitter taste.
While they were busy, children came one after another carrying wild vegetables. These were picked by the village children in exchange for work points.
Soon they received a large pile of wild vegetables, and Aunt He looked at Bai Guoguo with curiosity.
Tell her that it was the same in previous years, and the old and children in the village would pick some wild vegetables to exchange for centimeters.
Otherwise, how long would it take for the few people in their canteen to collect enough wild vegetables to feed more than 1,000 people?
Bai Guoguo nodded in sudden realization, then lowered his head and went back to work.
Everyone is busy now, and she has to watch two oil pans by herself.
It’s not that there are really two pots of fat, it’s just that the oil can be refined faster in two separate pots.
The stove fire licked the bottom of the pot, and the aroma of meat filled the entire kitchen, making everyone very greedy.
The oil was soon refined. Bai Guoguo and He Dabo's mother scooped the oil residue into a colander and scooped all the oil into a clay pot.
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