After Gu Tingzhou left, Dabao got up, had his meal, happily put on his little black shoes and went to school. Now only Li Qingyun and Erbao were left at home.
Li Qingyun placed her second baby on a wooden baby chair and gave him a steamed bun to break and eat by himself. Very little of it ended up in his mouth. She just treated it as a game to kill time and also to exercise the fine motor skills of his fingers, killing two birds with one stone.
She could also be freed up to do something. Gu Tingzhou was leaving tomorrow, and she had to prepare some food and daily necessities for him to take away.
Thinking back to when he just came back, it seems like it was just yesterday, and he will be leaving again tomorrow.
In order to collect enough fur to make rabbit fur clothes for his mother, Gu Tingzhou hunted a lot of rabbits.
It just so happened that today Li Qingyun was going to use these rabbits to make a delicacy: cold-cooked rabbit, and give it to Gu Tingzhou to take away.
Cold rabbit is a dish with a spicy flavor. As the name suggests, you can eat it directly after opening it. It is very convenient. In this weather, it is not a problem to store it for ten days.
Take out the processed rabbits from the space. For making cold rabbits, it is best to choose baby rabbits weighing about three pounds. Li Qingyun selected ten baby rabbits.
Cut off the rabbit's head and cut the body into thumb-sized cubes. Add salt, cooking wine, soy sauce, green onion, and ginger, marinate for half an hour, and then prepare the seasoning for eating the rabbit cold.
She had already used scissors to cut a large basket of the main ingredient, dried chili peppers, last night, and then she would prepare seasonings such as ginger slices, green onion segments, peppercorns, cooking wine, sugar, vinegar, rapeseed oil, salt, and soy sauce.
When everything is ready, pour a bucket of rapeseed oil directly into the oil. When the oil temperature reaches 70% hot, pour in the diced rabbit and fry until the moisture on the surface is dry. Take it out and set aside.
Because there was a lot of rabbit meat, about 30 kilograms, she fried it in three pots before she finished frying it. The fried rabbit pieces were obviously shrunk a lot.
Leave some oil in the pot, wait until the oil temperature drops to 60% hot, add peppercorns and dried chili segments, stir-fry until fragrant, then pour in the fried rabbit cubes, stir-fry over low heat until the rabbit meat is crispy and fragrant, add sugar and vinegar, and when the rabbit meat is fragrant, you can remove the pot from the oil and continue to stir-fry the next pot. After three pots, all the rabbit meat is finally stir-fried.
Li Qingyun put them in several large basins, placed them under the eaves and waited for them to cool naturally before putting them into jars.
After finishing all these, she took the time to feed the child and coax him to sleep. After he fell asleep, she ate a few big meat buns in the space for lunch, took a rest, and started preparing the meat sauce.
There was still plenty of wild boar meat in the space, so she planned to make some meat sauce for him. Sometimes when she was busy, she could eat it with steamed buns, wraps, or as a side dish, and it was all very delicious.
Make more. There are many people in the army, and we have to send some to the leaders, Jiang Fan and a few good friends. If everyone gets a little, there will be nothing left.
We also took out about 30 kilograms of wild boar meat with alternating fat and lean meat. The first step was to cut it into small cubes the size of the little finger nail.
This was a big project, even harder to cut than the rabbit meat I had this morning. I had to rest for a long time before I had the energy to continue making the meat sauce.
She often makes meat sauce and is used to it, but today there is more meat, so she repeated the same steps many times before she made all 30 kilograms of meat into meat sauce, half of which was chili flavored and half was mushroom flavored.
After finishing, you can also wait for it to cool down naturally before assembling it.
After finishing all this, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon. I don't know how they are doing in the mountains, or if they are in any danger. However, there are only about ten of them in the group, and as long as they don't encounter wolves or large animals, there shouldn't be any trouble.
Li Qingyun found all the usable jars at home. The empty bottles of canned fruits that Jiang Fan had sent to her before could also be used. She freed up a few more jars in the space and started canning the cold rabbit and pork sauce.
The cold rabbit, along with the oil and ingredients, filled ten jars, all of which were small jars weighing about two pounds. In the end, there were still about two or three pounds of cold rabbit left, which we kept for home.
The meat sauce filled six large jars with a capacity of about four pounds, and they were just full.
She packed up all the meat sauce and took it away. There was still a lot of it left at home, so she could make it anytime when she wanted to eat it. She would give it to those who were away first.
Each jar was treated to prevent leakage, and after repeated testing several times to make sure that there would be no leakage, Li Qingyun packed the ten or so jars into a box brought back by Gu Tingzhou. The spaces between the jars were filled with Ula grass to prevent them from colliding with each other and breaking.
It was already past six o'clock when they finished cleaning up, and it was already dark. They still hadn't returned. Li Qingyun looked outside the door anxiously several times, but still no one was there.
After a while, Dabao came back, but there was still no sign of Gu Tingzhou and his group.
Li Qingyun had to prepare the meal first so that she wouldn't have to think about anything else when she was busy.
She took out a pot of rabbit heads that had been pickled and marinated for a long time.
She chopped off the heads of the ten rabbits from the morning, plus the ones she had collected before and the remaining rabbits, making a total of more than twenty rabbit heads.
Prepare to make a famous dish in later generations, spicy rabbit head.
Before, she didn’t know that some people liked to eat rabbit heads, and she thought that thing was not delicious. Later, after eating spicy rabbit heads once in the south, she couldn’t stop and fell in love with the taste.
Including cold rabbit, I happened to eat it once when I was working in the south, and then I learned how to make it myself. Although it is not particularly authentic, it should be about 80% similar.
Wash the rabbit head with clean water, then blanch it in boiling water and take it out.
Put the rabbit head and the seasonings prepared in advance into water, boil over high heat for a few minutes, then turn off the heat. Remove from the heat and place in a large bowl to let it soak in the flavors.
Then I steamed another pot of rice and made a bowl of Gu Tingzhou's favorite pork and sauerkraut stewed with vermicelli. He was leaving tomorrow and I didn't know if he could eat it in the army, so I made it for him again so that he could have enough.
Just as I threw the vermicelli into the pot, I heard Dabao's cheering voice at the door: "Dad? Mom, my dad is back."
Li Qingyun didn't care about what was in the pot and hurried out of the kitchen.
"Why did you come back just now?"
Gu Tingzhou looked at his nervous wife and smiled.
"I've been back for a while. I was distributing meat in the team and forgot to tell you when I came back." He pointed at the things he brought back on the ground, looking like he was asking for praise.
Li Qingyun used the kerosene lamp in Dabao's hand to take a look and saw a fat goat on the ground.
"Are they all ours?" Li Qingyun asked in disbelief. It was no wonder she was surprised. After all, there were so many people in the village. After a winter hunt, it would be good enough for her family to get a few pounds of meat. She didn't expect that her family could monopolize the entire sheep.
Gu Tingzhou nodded somewhat cockily, "They're all ours. I was lucky enough to lead everyone in hunting four goats and three large wild boars. We also got quite a few pheasants and rabbits. I didn't want the wild boar meat, pheasants, or rabbits, so the team decided to give us a whole wild goat."
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