Chapter 3095 A Flash of Inspiration
Xiao Qian followed them to take a look, and after just one glance she said, "It really is a place where pigs have never been raised."
Although she had never raised a pig, some people in the village did, and this pig looked unhealthy.
Little Qian asked the village chief, "Don't you like to eat?"
"No, they love to eat, but they eat too much. It's winter now, and there's less pig grass, so we feed them less."
Everyone: ...
I see, this is purely due to hunger.
Bai Shan said tactfully, "They should be fed well so they can grow faster. Otherwise, it will be difficult to slaughter them by next autumn harvest. If you really keep them for a year and a half, it will be bad and you will lose money."
The village chief sighed and said, "We regretted raising this pig not long ago. It eats too much!"
He said, "It's edible, but we bought some pork, but it wasn't tasty at all. It wasn't as good as mutton and chicken, not even as good as fish. It had a very bad smell."
Zhou Man: "How could that be? Pork is delicious. My sister-in-law makes meatballs, steamed pork with rice flour, and steamed spareribs with rice flour, all of which are made with pork."
Bai Shan cleared his throat and whispered, "People's cooking skills are different. Shouldn't you have understood this principle since childhood?"
Zhou Man thought of her second sister-in-law's cooking skills, and her body trembled. She immediately admitted her mistake, "It's my fault. It's really not good to generalize."
The village chief quickly said, "Although the cooking skills of the wives in the village are not as good as those of the nobles, they are not all bad. I have asked people outside, and many people say that pork is not tasty."
Now even Bai Shan was curious, "How did you do it?"
No one in the village was buying pork today. Bai Shan saw this and immediately turned to the guard and said, "Go back and get a piece of pork."
The guard went back and quickly brought a piece of meat.
The village chief's wife and daughter-in-law took it and made it very seriously. Because they were going to entertain a distinguished guest, they even added a little more oil and salt.
Xiao Qian watched from the side, wanting to say something but stopping herself several times.
When the dishes were served, everyone looked at each other and didn't pick up their chopsticks for a while. Although they all looked the same, even Bai Shan, who didn't cook much, knew that the dishes seemed to be cooked wrong, but they couldn't remember what was wrong, so they all looked at Xiao Qian.
Xiao Qian said, "This meat doesn't need to be cooked for so long. The piece of meat they sent is very good. We can stir-fry it first..."
She looked around and found that they didn't have an iron pan, so she immediately said, "You can boil it directly instead of frying it, but it's best to separate the fat and lean meat when cutting it, with a little bit of lean meat on top of the fat. Slice the remaining lean meat and save it. Boil the fat meat first, add ginger slices, and if you have peppercorns, you can also add some. Boil the oil and then add the vegetables and cook it."
"Marinate the lean meat with a little oil and salt. If you have sauce, that's even better. Marinate it for a while, and then add it when the vegetables are cooked. Once it's cooked through, it's ready to be served." Xiao Qian said, "It will taste much better this way."
She laughed and said, "Actually, if you have some spices, you can cut the pork into large chunks and stew it. That way it will be more flavorful and delicious."
The village chief turned to look at his wife and daughter-in-law. His wife was stunned and asked, "Where are those things at home?"
Xiao Qian smiled and said, "Ginger is also fine."
"No."
Xiao Qian said, "Peppercorns and sauce will do."
There were no peppercorns either, and as for sauce, they didn't have the kind of sauce that Xiao Qian mentioned, they only had fish sauce.
Bai Shan asked curiously, "Is this how people around here cook pork?"
The village chief nodded and said, "Yes."
"But some mutton has a strong smell, and it's hard to make it tasty without adding spices."
The village chief disagreed. He said, "Mutton is delicious. We don't find it smelly at all. It's delicious even when stewed. But pork is flavorful. If you cook it too long, it's tough. If you cook it too short, it's just average. It even has a weird smell."
Yin Huo, who was standing by, laughed and shook his head, saying, "Rich people disdain to eat pork, while poor people don't know how to cook it. It's a waste of this delicacy."
Before Xiao Qianshi, Yin Huo never ate pork.
It was only after Xiao Qian came that he gradually tasted various pork dishes.
Bai Erlang thought this wasn't a big problem. "Since it's a matter of cooking skills, wouldn't it be better to publicize the various ways to cook pork?"
Bai Shan picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of meat to eat, frowning slightly, "It does have a smell."
When Zhou Man heard this, she immediately ate a piece as well. She glared slightly. It was indeed not tasty, only a little bit better than what her second sister-in-law made, but it was not the same kind of bad taste as her second sister-in-law's. It seemed that the taste of the ingredients themselves was not processed cleanly.
Zhou Man suddenly had a flash of light in his mind, and asked Keke, "I remember I included piglets for you, quite a few at that. It's rare for the Encyclopedia to ask me to include more. What was the reason then?"
Koko: “They want to castrate.”
"Yes! Castration!" Zhou Man glanced at it at the time, but did not take it to heart, because the points for including pigs were not very high. It was said that this was because they had livestock that were very similar to pigs, which were considered variants of pigs. The current pigs were just a research breed, so the points given were very few, far less than the points for including horses, cattle and sheep.
At this moment, she finally remembered, why would the researcher at the encyclopedia castrate someone for no reason?
While Zhou Man asked Keke to search for terms, he stared at the pig's... butt.
Soon Keke brought up the entry. Zhou Man closed his eyes slightly and leaned against Bai Shan, sinking his consciousness into the encyclopedia. He read the entry from beginning to end, and read the sentence "Pork tastes better after castration, and the breeding time is greatly shortened, the restlessness is also reduced, and it is easier to manage..." twice.
Zhou Man opened her eyes suddenly. Bai Shan, who was half hugging her and holding her up with his cloak, was startled and asked her, "Aren't you tired?"
Zhou Man's eyes sparkled. "I know how to remove this smell. Even without spices, the pork will taste better and grow faster."
"What method?"
Zhou Man put his hands in front of him and said, "Castrate it."
Everyone was shocked, and the eunuch following Princess Mingda quietly took a step back and clamped his legs together.
Zhou Man turned around and asked Bai Shan: "Do you want to try it?"
Bai Shan knew that she was not sleepy just now. After thinking for a while, he said, "Okay, there are pigs raised in the official farm. I can go and see them when the time comes, but..."
He paused and asked, "Can you castrate a pig? And you're pregnant now, so be careful. What if it struggles and hurts you?"
Little Qian also came back to her senses from her shock and nodded repeatedly, saying, "Yes, yes, Manbao, don't do anything rash."
She also pulled Zheng, "Don't you think so, in-laws?"
Zheng finally came back to her senses and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, we can't take any risks."
She said with a conflicted look on her face, "Why don't we let Doctor Tian and the others do it? They should be able to do it, right?"
See you at 11:30 pm
(End of this chapter)
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