Chapter 166: Cutting up the Cow
If beef is classified according to the conventional classification, it is tenderloin, sirloin, top brain, eye meat, oxtail, shank...
But according to what people in Guangdong Province say, it's a little different. Zhao Yeqing thought that while the beef is the freshest now, he might as well blanch the beef slices directly with clean water.
According to the Guangdong Province, the upper brain and eye meat are called "diaolong", the chest and belly meat are called "fat callus", the front leg is called "sanhua toe", the hind leg is called "wuhua toe", and the front breast meat is called "chest bladder"...
It’s a pity that there is no shacha sauce.
This Chaozhou hotpot from Guangdong Province is very simple. The meat does not need any seasoning. The pot only contains water, a little salt, and a few slices of white radish.
The only difficulty is the knife skills in slicing the beef.
The beef should be thin enough so that it can be taken out of the pot in a few seconds.
By the end of Qingshui’s hotpot, the bottom of the pot had turned into beef soup.
This hot pot meal did not wait until the evening, so we set up the pot at noon when the meat was at its freshest.
The knife was sharpened as quickly as possible, and three large plates of beef slices were piled high.
There is no need for staple food, just fill the stomach with meat.
The dipping sauce is light soy sauce, minced garlic and fermented bean curd.
The freshly cooked beef is dipped in a little sauce, and the salty taste makes the sweetness of the fresh beef even more obvious.
It was the first time I enjoyed beef for free.
Still such high quality fresh beef.
The three plates of beef eaten by the two people were just a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of meat in the entire cow.
Mu Xi saved the beef for dinner and put the rest in the refrigerator.
The beef offal and cowhide have not been processed yet. The processing methods of cowhide and sheepskin are similar. First clean them with detergent and then dry them in the sun or soak them.
The soaking method is the same as sheepskin, soaking in salt water.
The sheepskin has been soaked last time. After taking it out, you need to apply a layer of salt before preserving it, and turn it over from time to time.
After cleaning the cowhide, put it in salt water and then process the offal.
Zhao Yeqing had already taken away most of the beef offal and processed them, leaving only the intestines and tripe in the basin.
The undigested feed inside must be cleaned out.
Strictly speaking, a cow has four stomachs. The first stomach is called the rumen, which is the largest one and the most troublesome to clean. Mu Xi turned it over and cleaned out most of the remaining feed, and then cleaned it a second time after a while.
After Zhao Yeqing cleaned most of the beef offal and put them in the refrigerator, he squatted beside it and watched with his nose covered.
He pinched his nose and spoke in a strange voice, "Is this grass tripe?"
Mu Xi was not angry either. The smell was unpleasant, so he nodded as an answer to her question.
There are a few stomachs in the basin next to it.
The second stomach is the honeycomb stomach, which is connected to the rumen. The feed eaten by the cow is ground and digested back and forth in the two stomachs.
This part is the money belly.
There is another stomach in front of the honeycomb stomach, which is the third stomach. It is the double-layer stomach, which is the location of beef tripe, lasagna and tripe.
The fourth stomach is the abomasum, which is relatively smooth and is usually called tripe strips.
These are all delicious parts, but if they are not cleaned thoroughly, the taste will be terrible.
She couldn't hold her breath anymore, so she quickly walked away and retreated several meters before she dared to breathe.
Mu Xi tilted his head and shouted, "Please bring me some lime."
There is mucus in the stomach, which needs to be cleaned with lime.
After qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis is needed, so a small amount of lime will not overheat and burn the cow's stomach, but will instead be able to clean off the mucus on it very well.
The pale yellow cow stomach and intestines become white and tender after being washed with quicklime.
Zhao Yeqing looked at the tripe and wanted to eat hotpot again.
The hot pot base from last time has been used up. If I want to eat hot pot again in the evening, I have to stir-fry the ingredients on the spot.
This cow is a little fat, maybe the feed ratio is not scientific. According to the original farmer's notes, under normal circumstances, this cow weighing more than 1,000 kilograms should not have more than 100 kilograms of oil.
The normal oil yield is controlled at about 4% of the cow's body weight, but the two don't care about this. The extra butter can just make up for the family's cooking oil consumption.
Mu Xi took a scale to weigh the butter, which was about 150 kilograms.
The two of them put the butter into the pot and started refining it before it froze.
In the end, the 150 kilograms of beef suet were refined into nearly 80 kilograms of butter.
Leave five pounds of oil in the pot and start frying the hot pot base.
There is no shortage of butter, but there seems to be not enough dried chilies. It is definitely enough for normal cooking, but the amount needed for hot pot base is large.
I originally wanted to make a hot pot base with ten pounds of butter, but now I can only use five pounds.
There is no shortage of peppercorns, and there is even a big bag of it.
Take out all the spices at home, bay leaves, cinnamon, star anise, fennel...
It is best to add some fermented glutinous rice to the hot pot base.
It’s a pity that many spices are gone, otherwise it would be even more fragrant.
The aroma of the fried hot pot base made Zhao Yeqing drool the whole time.
The aroma of chili peppers fried in butter is so delicious that I can't help but drool.
She sneezed and swallowed her saliva at the same time, and the fragrance even spread into the room, causing the dogs to sneeze continuously.
Mu Xi then remembered that he had not closed the window in the morning in order to ventilate the room, so he quickly returned to the room and closed the window.
Fortunately, the quilt has not been stained with too much smell.
He prepared the ingredients for the spicy hot pot in the evening in advance. Fat beef was a must, as well as tripe, lasagna, and marinated beef.
The mutton was frozen hard before, and after it was placed indoors to soften a little, it was easy to cut in a semi-soft state.
Slice the lamb into thin slices.
The vegetables are pea tips and cabbage.
The cabbages were placed underground. The original owner had a small cellar that was only half a meter deep. At this temperature, the cellar was almost empty, but the vegetables were still frozen solid.
Mu Xi took the cabbage and firewood into the kitchen.
"There's not much left in the province."
Zhao Yeqing nodded. "Look at the sky outside. It doesn't look like it will snow tomorrow. Let's get up early and chop wood."
The base ingredients have been fried.
Evenly distribute the base ingredients into small bowls, and it will all be frozen in a short time.
A small bowl of base is just enough for one meal, and there is no need to divide it.
The spices were not used up, so Zhao Yeqing cut off a large piece of beef tendon and put it into the pot, then added the spices, water and soy sauce.
"Braise some beef. When you get up in the morning and cook noodles or eat sweet potato noodles, just cut some braised beef and put it in."
She loves beef, and when she sees beef, her mind is filled with delicious food.
If she didn't think it was too tiring, she would have liked to pound the beef balls by hand.
But when she thought about the time during the Chinese New Year when she wanted to eat rice cakes and ended up pounding glutinous rice with her hands until she couldn't lift them, she gave up the idea.
At dinner time, the two of them ate hot pot in the house, while Leopard and Dog had dinner outside.
Several animals said they couldn't stand the pungent smell of chili peppers, and they ran to the door with their food bowls in their mouths to have dinner.
The behavior is spontaneous and the eyes are resentful.
Zhao Yeqing added a fist-sized piece of beef to each animal's bowl, which calmed everyone's resentment.
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