Chapter 118: Soul Dipping Sauce
After Deng Shirong received the matchmaking gift from Deng Changwang, the cash in his hands exceeded the 5,000 mark, making him a half-millionaire.
However, half of the cash on hand was spent on making furniture, cultivating an orchard, marrying off the eldest daughter-in-law, buying seafood, and daily miscellaneous expenses. If news of this speed of spending were to get out, it would probably cause a sensation in the entire Bobai County.
After all, in this era, there is really only one rural person like Deng Shirong who can spend money like this.
Although half of the money was spent, Deng Shirong had received money from the tile factory three times since Deng Changwang got married. In addition, he received a thank-you gift from Deng Changmei's family yesterday, which just made up for all the money he had spent before.
Therefore, Deng Shirong still had 5,000 yuan in cash in his hands.
Now, he received the thank-you gift from the Zhang family. The 38-yuan red envelope became 418 yuan with the tenfold reward from the matchmaker reward system. After two and a half months, his wealth finally began to grow again.
In addition to cash, various supplies were also replenished.
Other supplies were easy to handle, but the 20 kilograms of braised pork and more than ten kilograms of pork that were on display were not easy to handle. Deng Shirong thought about it, and the next day he called a few young and strong men in the village who had nothing to do, and asked them to help transport stones back from the stone mountain, so that they could build their own water wall after the Spring Festival.
When Jiugong invited them, the young and strong people in the village all showed great enthusiasm.
Over the past few months, most people in the village have tasted Jiugong's cooking and know that his dishes are delicious. Plus, most families in the village are at a stage where they can eat enough but do not have the conditions to eat well. It is impossible for the young and strong people who eat meat less than twice a month not to be greedy.
Although there is no salary for coming to help Jiugong, at least you can have a few good meals, which is enough for a young and strong man with nothing to do!
So, originally Deng Shirong only invited a few young and strong men to help transport the stones. As a result, these young and strong men only worked for half a day, and the team began to grow again. On the second day, more than a dozen young and strong men came forward to help.
Deng Shirong naturally accepted all offers, as he only provided food. There was no cheaper labor than this.
The working ability of the young and strong people of this era is not comparable to that of the young and strong people in later generations who feel dizzy even standing in the sun. Although everyone used relatively primitive tools, lifting with hands, carrying on shoulders, and pulling with ox carts, their work efficiency was still very good.
In just one week, more than a dozen young and strong men in the village brought back a large pile of stones to Deng Shirong's family, enough for building the water wall.
With more than a dozen young and strong men plus their own family members, there are more than 20 people eating every day. After a week, the more than 30 kilograms of meat are not enough.
Therefore, Deng Shirong got two pork buttocks from the system space and added other vegetarian dishes to get through the week.
In order to thank the young and strong people in the village, Deng Shirong specially bought several chickens to kill today.
The simplest way to cook chicken is to boil it in water. The taste of boiled chicken depends on the following three aspects:
1. The quality of the chicken.
Second, control the heat.
3. Soul Dipping Sauce.
First of all, let’s talk about the quality of the chicken. If the chicken used is the cheap feed chicken of later generations, the boiled chicken made from it will really make people lose their appetite. This is also the main reason why friends from other provinces think that boiled chicken is not delicious, because they have never eaten truly delicious boiled chicken.
The chickens nowadays are the most authentic local chickens, and the quality of the meat is naturally beyond words.
Speaking of controlling the heat, when rural people make boiled chicken at home, they naturally cannot do the three-in-three-out method or soak it in ice water like they do in restaurants.
When the people of Naye Village cook the chicken, they just need to add some water from time to time (that is, lift the chicken with chopsticks or other suitable tools and pour out the non-boiling water in the chicken's stomach, so that the chicken can be heated evenly while cooking), and then cook until no blood comes out when you pierce the chicken leg with chopsticks.
Finally, the most important part of boiled chicken is the dipping sauce. Because boiled chicken itself has no taste, its flavor depends entirely on this dipping sauce.
This soul-stirring dipping sauce has different flavors in different places, but in Naye Village, the most classic white-cut chicken dipping sauce is recognized to be made with local sand ginger.
At this time, Deng Shirong was instructing his eldest daughter-in-law to make sand ginger dipping sauce.
"Sister Ping, this ginger dipping sauce is actually very simple to make. First, take a bowl, pour an appropriate amount of oyster sauce into it, and dissolve it with a little water. The main purpose of adding this water is to reduce the saltiness of the soy sauce."
Deng Shirong said as he watched Zhang Xiuping's operation. After she dissolved the oyster sauce with water, he continued, "Now pour an appropriate amount of soy sauce into the bowl, and then you can heat the oil in a pan. Don't add lard to the oil, add the peanut oil I bought a few days ago.
Yes, add a little more, well, now it’s almost there! ”
Zhang Xiuping asked, "Dad, should we pour the prepared dipping sauce in and cook it now?"
Deng Shirong shook his head and smiled, "It's not about pouring it in and cooking it, because that won't make it fragrant. You have to heat the oil until it smokes, then pour the prepared dipping sauce in, and use the high temperature of the pan and the oil to bring out the aroma of the soy sauce. It will take about two to three seconds to serve the dipping sauce!"
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Zhang Xiuping did as she was told. When the dipping sauce was poured in, it began to boil in the pot with a sizzling sound, and a rich aroma of sauce instantly rose up.
Zhang Xiuping stirred the sauce twice with a spatula and quickly poured it into another clean bowl.
Deng Shirong scooped a spoonful of water into the pot and said with a smile: "See, it's simple, isn't it? The dipping sauce is ready. Next, just smash the washed sand ginger and put it into the dipping sauce. It will be an extremely delicious dipping sauce for white-cut chicken!"
Zhang Xiuping looked at the dipping sauce she made herself and said in surprise: "It's really simple!"
As she spoke, she crushed the washed sand ginger.
This sand ginger is locally grown and has a very strong fragrance. It smells very fragrant when it is washed. If it is crushed, the fragrance can be smelled throughout the kitchen. Compared with the foreign sand ginger bought in the vegetable market in later generations which has no fragrance at all, there is really a world of difference.
Put the crushed sand ginger into the dipping sauce, and then the overall effect will come out.
It is truly a soul-decorating dip with all the flavors and tastes.
Zhang Xiuping said with a smile on her face: "Dad, I feel that after learning how to make this dipping sauce, my level of cooking white-cut chicken has surpassed most people in the village!"
Deng Shirong said with a smile: "Don't doubt it, if we only talk about the dish of white-cut chicken, your level is already better than 99% of the people in the village!"
(End of this chapter)