Chapter 13 Cold Rabbit
After four or five days of harvest, the rapeseed was harvested and all placed in the threshing yard.
This day.
Lin Su'e had nothing to do, so after waking up from a nap, she walked towards the threshing ground in the village. Before she got close, the sound of crackling crops came into her ears.
Everyone is harvesting rapeseed.
Walking up to Zhao Zhenren, she said, "Boss, let me try."
"good."
Zhao Zhenren handed her the tools in his hand.
Lin Su'e took it in her hand and looked at it, her eyes revealing a hint of nostalgia.
This thing is called a flail, and it is a tool specifically used to beat rapeseed, rice, wheat, etc. A few decades later, with the advent of combine harvesters, the flail gradually disappeared from people's daily lives.
It had not been used for many years. At the beginning, she was a little unfamiliar with it and always swung it with the wrong strength. Soon, she regained the feel of an old farmer. The flail seemed to grow in her hands. She could hit whatever she pointed at with as much force as she wanted.
With the sound of the flail, the rapeseed grains are knocked off the rapeseed stalks and fall to the ground, giving people a great sense of accomplishment.
But after about 10 minutes, she stopped.
One reason was that I was too tired, and the other was that my body was really itchy.
The flail is a good tool, but when beating tea seeds, the broken pieces of rapeseed stalks are everywhere, and they keep drilling into the body, making it itchy and painful, which is really torturous.
Zhao Zhenren said, "Mom, let me do it."
Lin Su'e did not try to be brave, but returned it to him, and warned him: "Don't work too hard, take a rest when you are tired, the family doesn't need you to earn some work points, your health is the most important thing."
Zhao Zhenren smiled and nodded.
Lin Su'e returned home slowly.
There was hot water in the pot, so I took a nice bath and felt refreshed.
She went into the kitchen.
When I opened the lid of the backpack next to the firewood pile, I saw two fat rabbits.
They were eating grass, but were frightened by her and huddled together with their ears shaking.
Lin Su'e grabbed one of the rabbits by its ears and lifted it up. Then she picked up a kitchen knife and chopped the poor rabbit off with a single blow. The poor rabbit ended its tragic and short life.
Do the same with the other one.
She bought this when she happened to see someone selling a rabbit at the market two days ago.
Lin Su'e is preparing to make a famous snack from Gongshi, Sichuan Province - cold-eaten rabbit.
After processing the rabbit, cut it into thumb-sized pieces.
Prepare the ingredients: dried chili peppers, peppercorns, ginger, green onions, star anise, fennel, cooked white sesame seeds, cooking wine, soy sauce, and sugar.
Make a fire.
Heat the pan and pour in oil. When the oil temperature is about 50% hot, pour the seasoning into the pan and stir-fry over low heat.
Stir-fry until fragrant, turn to high heat, add diced rabbit head, stir-fry for five minutes, until the rabbit meat turns golden brown, turn to low heat, add soy sauce to enhance color, add sugar to enhance flavor, and finally add salt.
After adding salt, stir-fry over low heat until the rabbit cubes are dry, the meat becomes tight and the color darkens.
At this moment, sprinkle with white sesame seeds.
Put it in a pot.
After it has cooled completely, the cold rabbit is ready.
This cold rabbit dish has not been stained with any water and will not go bad even if it is kept for a few days. Lin Su'e plans to let the second child take it to school tomorrow.
Done.
She glanced at the sky. It was four o'clock.
She also prepared a side dish for her second child to take away, which was even simpler. She just grabbed a handful of pickled peppers, sour cowpeas, pickled ginger, and pickled radishes from the kimchi jar, washed and cut into cubes, added rapeseed oil, poured the kimchi into the pot, stir-fried over high heat for a few seconds, and served. The stir-fried sauerkraut was ready.
Each pickle is oily and looks tempting.
I left a small half bowl and put the rest in a glass jar so Zhao Zhenyi can take it away when he receives it tomorrow.
It's 4:20.
Two dishes are ready.
Lin Su'e thought about cooking: "It's hot, everyone wants to have a bowl of porridge in the evening. I just fried kimchi, so I'll just cook some mung bean porridge."
"Cook it now so it's neither too hot nor too cold when you eat it, just right."
Porridge is even simpler.
Time slipped away quietly, and in the blink of an eye it was 6 o'clock.
The children went home one after another.
Zhao Zhenli came up to her and asked, "Mom, what are we having for dinner today?"
Lin Su'e teased him: "Mung bean porridge, kimchi."
Zhao Zhenli frowned: "Ah?!"
Lin Su'e raised her eyebrows: "What's wrong, do you dislike it?"
Zhao Zhenli shook his head: "No."
He said this with an indescribably reluctant tone.
Zhao Fenglan came in and said, "Mom, are you still cooking? I'll help you."
"No, I've been pulling rapeseed stalks all day. I'm tired and hot, and I'm sweating all over. Go take a shower first, and I'll steam some eggplant."
"good."
Taking a shower in summer is very quick, it only takes a few minutes.
After the eggplants were steamed, she prepared some dipping sauce and told Zhao Zhenli, "Third brother, bring the porridge over."
The little guy said listlessly: "...Oh."
Lin Su'e found it funny.
Real children can't hide their thoughts at all.
Lin’s all-purpose dipping sauce: dice ginger and garlic, cut chili peppers into rings, add soy sauce, chopped green onions, sesame oil, and finally add a spoonful of hot water and stir well.
This dip is delicious with anything.
If you can handle vinegar, add a little more vinegar.
Lin Su'e doesn't like to be jealous, and her children's tastes follow hers and they are not very jealous either.
Dip in water and adjust.
The eggplant is also steamed.
She shouted: "Old Three!!!"
"Dengdengdeng."
Zhao Zhenli trotted over, followed by Zhao Zhenxin.
Zhao Zhenli: "Mom, what's the matter?"
Lin Su'e: "Xiao Si, bring the eggplant and pickled cabbage over."
Zhao Zhenxin: "Okay."
Zhao Zhenli was confused:? ? ?
Why did mom call me over here and ask my brother to do the work?
With a secret smile on her face, Lin Su'e turned around, opened the cupboard, and took out half a bowl of cold rabbit. The remaining half had already been put into a glass jar.
The rabbit is cold and the fragrance is very light.
However, when the cupboard is opened, a hint of fragrance can still be smelled.
Zhao Zhenli was immediately surprised and ran over: "Mom, you did it?!!!"
Without waiting for Lin Su'e to answer, he shouted, "Wow, hooray!", and then without her saying anything, he "grabbed" the basin away.
Lin Su'e laughed.
The rabbit is very fat, weighing 5 kilograms each, and 3 kilograms when fried dry. With the addition of seasonings, it fills a large pot.
Everyone was surprised when the cold-eaten rabbit appeared.
Zhao Zhenxin: “Wow!”
Zhao Yulan: "It looks delicious."
The three older ones were much more reserved, but from the frequency with which they swallowed their saliva, one could tell their state of mind.
Lin Su'e sat down and ate some porridge.
"Eat it."
6 pairs of chopsticks were put into the basin.
“This smell…”
"Shashasha, a little spicy, but delicious."
“This meat is so chewy~”
“It’s spicy and sweet, so addictive.”
“…”
The cold rabbit has a spicy and sweet taste. The greasy rabbit cubes are mixed with sesame seeds and chili seeds, and are mixed with dried chili segments that are stir-fried to a deep red with a hint of burnt yellow, forming a very impactful picture that whets one's appetite.
Taking a bite of diced rabbit meat, your taste buds are immediately awakened by the spicy, fresh and chewy taste. Taking another bite, the spicy taste spreads over your tongue, but the freshness of the rabbit meat and the spicy taste of the dried chili pepper blend together, running through the teeth and the tip of your tongue, making you unable to stop.
Everyone was impressed by Leng Chitu.
Lin Su'e was not surprised at all. After all, no one from Sichuan could refuse this dish. In the future, this dish would become more and more famous, becoming the representative dish of Sichuan Province and even famous throughout the country.
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