Chapter 182 Cheese
Zhao Yeqing subconsciously dodged backwards, and the animal missed.
The animal fell to the ground after missing its target, and Zhao Yeqing took a closer look.
An animal about 70 cm long, it looks very much like a cat, with hair spreading outwards on its cheeks, upright and pointed ears, and two small tufts of upright black hair on the tips of its ears.
The ears point outwards, the body is pink-brown with scattered spots, and only the belly is white.
The animal landed on the ground and was about to jump again, when suddenly two brown figures jumped out from the side and knocked the animal away when it had just jumped half a meter.
It's porridge and snow cakes!
She hurried to the kitchen and slammed the door shut.
Mu Xi stood up and walked over, "What's wrong?"
He couldn't see anything clearly from that angle just now, Zhao Yeqing replied,
"In the yard, it's a bobcat."
Mu Xi looked out the window and the lynx had disappeared.
I only saw the backs of Huhu and Xuebing who were chasing after me.
Zhao Yeqing recalled: "The bobcat was only about 70cm long and looked like it was not yet an adult."
The scientific name of bobcat is lynx. I have seen it before in Meishan. It looks very similar to a domestic cat.
The lynx in their country is the largest subspecies of lynx. Generally speaking, the length of an adult lynx is over 80 to 100 centimeters. This lynx looks like it is not an adult and its body is very thin.
The lynx's breeding season should be the past few months. Normally, it is after the beginning of spring when the weather has become warmer. However, the current climate is abnormal, and the breeding month happens to be after the beginning of winter. It must be very difficult for them to store food, so they grow so thin and small.
In addition to eating some small animals, lynxes love to rob wolf dens. They are very intelligent and will lie in ambush for a long time, waiting for the most appropriate time. When the mother wolf comes out of the den to hunt, they will take away all the wolf cubs in the den.
But after such a long period of extreme cold, not to mention the wolf cubs, even the adult wolves may not survive.
This is probably why the lynx took the risk and came to our house again and again to look for food.
It's not easy to survive this winter.
Mu Xi caught a bit of cotton wool in the air and followed the direction. He saw that there was a cut on the edge of Zhao Yeqing's coat and the white cotton inside came out.
He pulled her back to the room. The fireplace was still burning and the room was warm.
Zhao Yeqing took off his coat, and Mu Xi took it and took out needle and thread to mend the clothes.
The dogs are not in the room. The weather has gotten warmer recently, so I opened the door and let a few of them out to play.
While Zhao Yeqing was waiting to put on his coat, he wandered around the room. Next to the windowsill was the clay pot that he had planted before. There were no pea tips planted in it anymore, but instead there were coriander with small sprouts.
The lettuce has not yet sprouted in the wooden breeding basin next to it, and it will probably take another week to wait.
Water is consumed slowly when growing indoors, so just spray a little water every few days will be enough. Since there is no watering can at home, Zhao Yeqing scoops water and sprinkles it little by little on the surface of the soil.
Mu Xi mended the clothes and bit off the threads before handing the clothes to her to put on.
"Huhu and Xuebing chased after it. The mountain cat probably doesn't dare to look back, at least not today. Didn't you say you wanted to check on the oven?"
Zhao Yeqing then remembered what he had gone out for, so he zipped up his coat and walked out the door.
The previous oven was crudely built and was no longer usable after the earthquake.
Zhao Yeqing disassembled the damaged version of the oven. Some of the bricks were broken, but most of them were still intact and could be recycled.
When the oven was being built, limestone had not yet been found, so they used wood ash as a glue, which was not very strong.
Mu Xi moved the lime to the yard and poured water on the grayish-white blocks of limestone. The limestone heated up and dissolved in water, and the blocks turned into powder after a while, which was then mixed evenly with water.
Zhao Yeqing had the experience of building the oven last time, so he was able to set it up easily this time. He expanded the space on the inner wall. After all, pizza is larger than cake.
It’s best to bake two at a time.
The fire chamber below was also paved with red bricks, making it easier to burn than lighting a fire directly on wet soil.
The oven is built, but it takes time to make the sausages.
She doesn't necessarily want to eat sausages, as long as there's meat on them.
The pizza dough also needs to be fermented. It is not difficult to make the dough, but it takes some time to ferment.
Mix the yeast evenly with warm water over 30 degrees, pour it into the flour, add salt, sugar and a little butter, stir with chopsticks first, and wait until the dough can no longer be stirred, then knead it a few times with your hands.
Cover the dough kneading bowl and take it indoors to ferment. In today's weather, it needs to ferment overnight even in a bedroom with a fireplace.
The next day, open the lid of the basin and you will see that the dough inside has expanded to twice its size. Pull open the dough and you will see that it is a honeycomb with dense pores. Then you can prepare to make other things.
When making pizza, besides the dough, the sauce and the side dishes, the most important thing is the cheese that can be drawn.
This was thanks to the fact that when she was buying mozzarella cheese online, the boss sent her a 10,000-word document in order to promote the delicacies of his hometown, which also introduced the detailed method of making mozzarella cheese.
Because the production steps are very simple and almost the same as the method of making goat cheese, except more delicate, she remembered it after watching it twice.
Mu Xi brought the freshly squeezed milk into the kitchen. Zhao Yeqing scooped a few scoops of milk into the pot and lit a fire to heat it.
When the temperature of the milk reaches about 50 degrees and it feels warm to the touch, take the pot off the heat, place it on the ground, and pour white vinegar into it.
After stirring for a few times, flocs appeared. She took the gauze skillfully, filtered the flocs in the milk, and poured the whey back into the pot.
The cheese in the gauze is solidified cow cheese.
When she first saw the recipe, she immediately used milk to make it, and as expected, she failed the first time.
After some research, I found out that it is impossible to make boxed milk. Even if flocs are coagulated, they are small particles without elasticity.
During the production process of boxed milk, homogenization technology is used to prevent fat from floating up, making it difficult to coagulate.
At that time, she waited until the weekend, took time out to go to the dairy factory, and spent a huge amount of money to buy a bucket of fresh milk. Only then did she succeed.
The flocs condensed from fresh milk are of certain length. After being filtered with gauze, they look like kneaded dough and can be pulled and folded. They are very elastic.
Because of the temperature, it will become hard after being pulled a few times. Zhao Yeqing waited until the whey in the pot was heated to about 70 degrees again. When it felt a little hot to the touch, he put the cheese in his hand in and rolled it a few times before taking it out.
The cheese heated in whey becomes soft again and can be pulled, folded, and pulled repeatedly in your hands.
When it becomes hard, put it back into the whey and heat it, and repeat the process.
Until it can be stretched into a long length and becomes smooth like dough, roll it into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap and freeze it.
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