Chapter 1115: Learning to Make Pig Head Jelly (Part 2)
“The first step in making pig head jelly is to boil the pig head. If the pig head is not cooked well, the resulting pig head jelly will not taste good.
When cooking pig's head, remember to add ginger slices, white wine and galangal to remove the fishy smell.
How to judge whether the pig's head is cooked? Use chopsticks to poke the pig's head meat. If you can easily poke the chopsticks into the pig's head meat, then the pig's head is cooked.
After the pig's head is cooked, take it out, but do not turn off the fire immediately. Instead, add salt to the soup and let the soup cook for a while.
The next steps are simple. Cut the removed pig head into thin strips, then mix it with the soup and let it cool.
It only takes about half a day for the soup to solidify into jelly, and the pig head jelly is ready. "
After Liu explained the steps of how to make pig head jelly, she turned to Lu Xiaoxiao and said, "Do you remember what I just said? If not, I will say it again."
"I remember everything Auntie said. In order not to forget it so quickly, I will watch Auntie do it again carefully."
"Okay, I'll do it now." After saying this, Liu picked up the knife and started cutting the pig's head.
After an hour, Lu Xiaoxiao knew how to make pig head jelly, so she thanked Liu and went home.
After returning home, Lu Xiaoxiao took out six pig's trotters from the space. After blanching the trotters in water, she began to cook them according to Liu's method, but she added a few more spices when cooking the trotters.
Since it took a long time to cook pig's trotters, Lu Xiaoxiao went to the yard to collect herbs. After looking at the pile of herbs on the ground in silence for a while, she decided to teach Liu Biao and the others to recognize a few herbs this evening. Otherwise, Liu Biao and the others would dig these herbs every day, which would not be able to alleviate her shortage of herbs at all.
Three hours later, after Lu Xiaoxiao put the collected herbs on a dustpan to dry, she went into the kitchen to check on the pig's trotters she had cooked.
After Lu Xiaoxiao opened the lid of the pot, she poked a pig's trotter with chopsticks. She found that the chopsticks could easily penetrate into the trotter, so she took all the trotters out of the pot, added appropriate amount of salt to the soup, and began to remove the meat from the trotters.
An hour later, after Lu Xiaoxiao had shaved all the meat off the six pig trotters, she cut the meat into strips and then mixed the trotter meat with the soup.
After mixing the pig's trotter meat and soup, Lu Xiaoxiao found a deeper baking tray, and then she poured the mixed pig's trotter meat soup into the baking tray.
"Er Shunzi, wait a moment before you leave." Lu Xiaoxiao said to Er Shunzi after teaching Liu Biao and the others about herbs.
"Mr. Xiao, what can I do for you?" Er Shunzi asked Lu Xiaoxiao after hearing what Lu Xiaoxiao said.
"Your ginseng is ready. I'll get it for you now. You can use it to make soup for your parents tomorrow."
Er Shunzi was delighted when he heard what Lu Xiaoxiao said, and then he said to Lu Xiaoxiao: "Thank you, Master Xiao."
"You're welcome. I hope your parents get better soon."
After Er Shunzi returned home with the ginseng, he immediately closed the door. Then he called his parents into the room and showed them the ginseng.
"Shunzi, is this the ginseng you mentioned before?" Huang Xiaoya asked Er Shunzi after seeing what he was holding in his hand.
"That's right. From today on, you and Dad will have to make soup with ginseng once a week. After eating this ginseng, your health will be much better."
Huang Xiaoya gritted her teeth and nodded after hearing what Er Shunzi said: "Okay, I will do as you say. When your father and I are well, we will go to the fields to earn work points and try to get you married as soon as possible."
(End of this chapter)
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