Chapter 250: Continue to Stockpile Winter Food
"It just can't be left out for too long, as it tends to turn sour. Fresh foods like radish peels, celery stalks, and cabbage leaves are very suitable.
Other ingredients that can often stay in the kimchi water are things like young ginger, chili peppers, garlic, etc. They can be mixed with rice or porridge and used as seasonings.
"Strange, there are so many ways to eat it. I really didn't know anything when I stayed in Qili Village." Li E exclaimed.
In the past, she only thought about filling her family's stomachs, and on that basis, she thought about how to save more oil and salt, and at most she would pickle some pickles.
Today, after seeing Liu Cuihua and her friends making sauerkraut, I realized that using less oil and salt can also change the taste of dishes.
After listening to Shen Qing's method, I found that there are other ways to cook the same dish without using more oil or salt.
Shen Qing thought that it was normal for her to not know anything since she was staying in Qili Village. If she didn't have a TV or a mobile phone in China, how could she know the different practices in different places?
And this is just by watching various videos, which is equivalent to learning it through someone else’s hands-on teaching!
"I also heard about it from someone in a city I passed by. This is the first time I've tried making it. Let's see how it goes. If it tastes good, we'll make more. If not, forget it."
That being said, how can Sichuan pickles not be delicious?
Hong Hehua agreed, "Yes, yes. Now that we have money, of course we should try more. Especially since these things use less salt than the pickles we used to make."
"If it doesn't taste good, it must be because we didn't cook it well. Let's think about it more. I don't believe that if others say it tastes good, we can't make it!" Zheng Hui said proudly.
Shen Qing: ...As expected, when it comes to food, people in every dynasty, once they have the means, have always had a relentless spirit of research.
For an entire afternoon, a group of women immersed themselves in discussion, guiding each other, and asking questions when they didn't understand. Basically, at least two or three people in every household figured it out.
Fang Ting and Ma Pandi climbed back up the mountain again, filled two buckets of old water in wooden barrels, and distributed two scoops of water to each family.
The one who benefited the most was Shen Qing. Her family's sauerkraut and kimchi were cleaned, blanched, packed in jars, and soaked during the teaching.
There is strength in numbers, and the pickling skills of a group of women are incredibly powerful!
Just after noon, the women who had learned the tricks hurried back to clean up their homes.
For a while, every household was cleaning large vats and jars, washing various vegetables, boiling water and letting it cool down. It was a lively scene.
The children only knew that there was delicious food, especially since this delicious food was learned from Aunt Shen Qing, and they were all excited.
They crave meat, but they also know that they can't eat meat every day. Most of the time they still have to eat vegetables. But it's also nice to change the taste of the vegetables they eat every day.
How can anyone eat meat whenever they want, every day? That's just not a good life.
The men only knew how to work. Seeing that they had bought a lot of vegetables, the women were happy, the children were happy, and the elderly were not worried, they just felt that their lives were getting more promising!
Mrs. Cao on the hillside gritted her teeth as she watched.
"Grandma, I want to eat meat. How long has it been since we last had meat? I don't care. Cao Da injured his leg, but we still have big brother. You can ask big brother to buy it!" Cao Qingzhu was full of resentment and complained with a pout.
Ever since this group of disaster victims arrived, the Lei family went hunting less frequently in the mountains, and there was even no prey to sell to them, as all of it was bought up by this group of people.
Their lives were actually not much different from those of previous years. Except for morning meals, they ate refined rice and white flour almost every meal, and they could eat until they were completely full. From time to time, they would go to the city to buy a lot of meat, and the Lei family would also buy some wild game after hunting to change their taste.
Although I haven't bought game from the Lei family yet, it's only been twice. It's still the same when I go to the city to buy it, but somehow I feel that the quality is obviously much worse!
I think the refined rice and white flour that were originally only eaten by them are now eaten by the three families of the Lei family. They no longer belong to them. This refined rice and white flour was given or exchanged by the group of disaster victims below. In his eyes, it is an extremely precious fine grain, and they can give it away generously.
Just thinking about how proud and boastful I used to be makes me feel embarrassed!
In the past, they could eat their fill, and they felt very happy compared to the Lei family who only ate 70% or even 50% full. But now, the Lei family can basically eat their fill, and everyone is equally full. What else is there for him to be happy about?
Especially now that Cao Da is injured again, he can't go to the city to buy meat from time to time. As hunters, the Lei family can eat meat at any time by catching a rabbit or shooting a pheasant or musk deer in the mountains, even if they don't go to the mountains.
What’s even more hateful is that the Lei family earns more!
How could a group of illiterate and rough hunters earn more money than the Cao family!
Mrs. Cao was also a little greedy for meat, but said, "No, your brother's hands are for holding a pen, how can he drive a car?
Besides, the person sitting on the carriage is a groom, and we, the sons of the Cao family, cannot do such a lowly thing."
Cao Qingzhu didn't care. He just wanted to eat meat, cakes, and candies. "Who's going? The villagers down there definitely won't want to go. Do you want to keep getting harassed?"
Mrs. Cao curled her lips and said nothing.
How could she go to those villagers? Last time, those rude and vulgar women asked her for the silver hairpin.
What if she was seen when she went over and people surrounded her and asked for the silver hairpin?
She thought about it, and when she thought of a suitable candidate, she looked up and said, "Let Cao's wife go!"
Cao Qingzhu opened her mouth in surprise and asked, "A woman, can it be possible?"
"Why not? Look at these women down there, aren't they driving the cars to go out and do the shopping? Other women can learn it, but she is a servant of my Cao family, so how can she not learn it?" Mrs. Cao said nonchalantly.
Cao Qingzhu wanted to say that his original intention was "one". I heard that many disaster victims came to Jincheng and gathered together. Can it be safe for a woman to drive back and forth?
Then he thought of meat candy and pastries. Forget it. It’s okay for the villagers to go back and forth so many times. It’s impossible for something to happen to Mrs. Cao just because she goes out.
Those villagers have already bought batch after batch, and it’s time for them to start stockpiling goods at home.
Winter is coming, but it’s okay. They have three donkeys at home. Let Cao’s wife take turns driving them out. They can go shopping for a few days in a row. As long as they have money, there is no need to worry about running out of stock.
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Shen Qing and his group went directly to the farmer's house to buy vegetables, and then they thought that they could also buy chicken, duck, goose eggs and the like directly from the farmer's house.
It not only saves time, but also reduces the city entry fee for both parties.
So after buying large jars, bowls and dishes and other necessities from the city, they also exchanged them for fine grain and brought back a large number of sheep.
Next came the vegetables, which were soaked that day, filling up all the large and small jars and pots in the house;
Next came chickens, ducks, and geese. Shen Qing also bought a lot of chicken eggs and duck eggs. The chicken eggs were eaten fresh, and the duck eggs were pickled to make salted duck eggs.
The woman who followed now followed Shen Qing's lead. Seeing her buying chicken and duck eggs and calculating the price, it seemed that she could also pickle a batch of salted duck eggs at home?
Salty egg whites, golden and oily yolks, cut in half, then cut into quarters, three or four pieces are enough for the whole family to share a piece...
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