Chapter 19
Excitedly, he took the iron pot home, found a large piece of fat, cut it into small pieces, and then used the large iron pot to refine the oil, and then boiled it all.
The methods of boiling a pot that he had learned were too complicated, and Yu Sui was too lazy to do it. He boiled a pot of animal oil, and the grease soaked the inner wall of the iron pot, which was also very toxic to the pot.
Yu Sui used warm water to dissolve the old dough he had saved, mixed it with flour and made a large ball of dough, which he placed near the fire to allow it to rise faster.
Every time he makes noodles, he would leave a piece of fermented dough as fermented dough. The yeast powder still needs to be processed, but he didn't think it was too troublesome and just kept the fermented dough. This is what people in his hometown used to do.
He had been busy making bricks and building brick kilns with the dwarves recently, and had rarely returned home to cook. When he was hungry, he would just eat some barbecue with the dwarves to fill his stomach.
Sometimes at night, he would just spread some grass next to the brick kiln, and sleep there in his animal form with a bunch of cubs who were having fun, without even going home.
So recently the green guys have been delivering the meat directly to him near the brick kiln, along with the dwarves' share.
When the snow wolves took turns to help, Ashan always stared at him with resentment. Fortunately, Dolly and Karan had also learned cooking skills no less than a year ago. These days, Ashan took turns eating at these two families.
Looking at the time, it would be a bit late to cook after the soldiers came back from hunting and divided the meat, so Yu Sui simply decided to go to other people's homes to look for surplus food.
He was quite familiar with Xu and the others. Xu's home was closer to him. Yu Sui poured the boiled animal oil into a stone basin, fed the oil residue to Xiao Chu, and then ran to Xu's home.
Xu's father happened to be at home. "Xu Xiaosui is here, Xu hasn't come back yet." Feng said with a smile.
"I want to come here and borrow some monster meat to cook. I haven't been home these few days and there is no fresh meat at home." Yu Sui said a little embarrassedly.
"It just so happened that Xu also killed an extra big-horned bull yesterday. We have eaten all the meat we were given, but we haven't touched this big-horned bull yet." Feng went straight to the back of the tent and dragged out a big-horned bull.
The hunting that the Black Rock Tribe catches as a group belongs to the tribe, and any extra hunting that is done by individuals does not need to be handed in.
Yu Sui was overjoyed. He looked at the size of the horned bull that Feng had dragged out and said, "I'll just take half of it, Uncle Feng."
Feng waved his hand cheerfully and said, "Take them all. Xu, that brat, comes to eat at your place every day. He must have consumed a lot of your food. You're still just a little cub."
"No, no, Brother Xu and the others brought their own prey, and also brought a lot of food for Xiaochu and me. Now our tents are almost full." Yu Sui said quickly, thinking of his own tents that were full.
Feng didn't wait for him to refuse, and picked up the ox and walked towards Yu Sui's house. The ox must have weighed more than ten tons, and Yu Sui was too strong to lift it.
Yu Sui enthusiastically invited Feng to stay for dinner. Feng listened to Yu Sui talking about how good his cooking skills were every day, but he was too embarrassed to come and eat for free. He had wanted to try it for a long time, so he stayed.
Because there are many people coming to Yu Sui's house to eat, most of the time they choose to eat in human form. Sometimes, warriors who have consumed too much energy from hunting will feed themselves some barbecue to restore their energy.
After all, snow werewolves have big appetites. Even if they are in human form, seven or eight adult snow werewolves, plus a few cubs, will eat a lot at each meal.
Sometimes Yu Sui felt that it made sense for the beastmen to have such a hard time reproducing cubs. These big eaters were so powerful and had such big appetites that if they had enough people they could eat up the continent.
This ox was enough for these people to eat for two or three meals today. Feng Bang's Yu Sui dismembered the ox into dozens of pieces and hung the uneaten ones on the wall.
Yu Sui chopped the large pieces of meat with bones into smaller pieces, put them into a large iron pan, and stir-fried them with the remaining oil.
He really likes this big iron pan. It is convenient for distributing heat evenly, and he can fry each piece of meat until the edges are golden brown without having to worry about it cracking.
The shape of the iron pan is also very convenient for frying things, unlike a clay pot which is difficult to stir-fry if there are too many things in it.
He placed star anise and bay leaves in the pot, added water, and simmered. He then added sugar to a small iron pot and stir-fried it until it turned a deep brown and bubbles formed. He then poured water into the simmering meat.
After the air in the fermented dough was released, Yu Sui used a wooden stick to roll it into a huge pancake. When the meat stewed in the iron pot was almost cooked, he placed the pancake on top and covered the iron pot with a lid made of a large wooden board.
This was not enough to fill the Snow Wolf people's stomachs, so Yu Sui grilled some beef chunks. Modern people's staple food is carbohydrates, while the Snow Wolf people's staple food is barbecue.
"Xiao Yu, I could smell the fragrance from far away. I knew it was you who made it!" Notting and Ashan came running over from a distance, shouting.
Yu Sui looked up and saw that he didn't need Xiaochu to call him when he was cooking. After everyone finished their work and smelled the delicious food, they all came over in tacit understanding.
Xiao Hua ran as fast as she could, wagging her tail. Yu Sui hadn't been home to cook these past few days, and she was ravenous. While making bricks with her friends, she could eat some of Yu Sui's barbecue, but it was just a quick bite, not as fancy as usual.
Xu walked over and saw his father Feng was there too, and couldn't help but smile.
"Dad, you can't tell me what to do? And you laugh at me for coming here every day to eat the cubs' food."
Feng turned his head away awkwardly and pretended not to hear.
"You two are here, why doesn't Qing come over?" Lu suddenly asked.
Heiyan's steps froze.
Xu and Feng were silent for a while, and Xu spoke with difficulty: "Mom... doesn't like to eat with a lot of people..."
Karan quickly greeted them: "Alright, alright, let's eat. I don't know what Xiao Yu Sui made today, but it seems to taste even better than before."
Yu Sui was laughing beside him. Qi's mother Lu and Xu's mother A Qing had pursued Uncle Heiyan together before, but Lu ended up becoming Heiyan's partner.
This led to some discord between Lu and Qing.
In the original novel, because of this incident, Lu was reluctant to agree to Qi and Xu's relationship. On the contrary, the original owner's mother and Lu were good friends, and Lu was more inclined to let Yu Sui become her son's partner.
Now that Qi and Xu are adults, Lu and Qing are still enemies. It's really funny to think about it.
Qi turned his head and glanced at him. Yu Sui coughed twice and lifted the lid of the large iron pot.
The aroma filled his nose, and Yu Sui used a spatula to scoop out the large pancake and placed it on the wooden board where he usually ate.
The noodles were evaporated to twice their size, and half of the soft and thick noodles were immersed in the soup, which looked very appetizing.
Yu Sui used a spatula to cut the dough into small pieces so that it would be easier to pick up with chopsticks, and brought them to them.
The meat stewed today is particularly rosy in color. Yu Sui specially added sugar color to enhance the flavor. After adding spices, the taste is even more delicious than usual.
After the big iron pot was filled with food, it was a little heavy for Sui, so Qi picked up the pot and placed it among the crowd.
"These spices are really our biggest gain from that mercenary group. I used to think that the human merchant group sold spices too expensively." Notting sighed.
Ah Shan, with a bread in his mouth, immediately responded, "That's right, when human caravans came to trade with us, the last thing anyone wanted was spices. They were pungent and expensive."
After enjoying the delicious food, Lu immediately forgot about his old enemy. "Next time a human caravan comes, let's trade more spices with them."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Heiyan quickly echoed his partner's words, "These spices are easy to store and don't spoil easily. We really should store more."
While eating the calf (big cow?) and covering himself with a blanket, Yu Sui thought to himself that there were more and more people here, and if there were any more, he wouldn't be able to handle it all.
I might as well ask Uncle Heiyan to open a canteen in the tribe. This way, when he is cooking, many snow wolves will not peek in and the food won’t be available to him.
He could teach Kalan and Dolly while he was cooking, or he could find some more dwarves. Dwarves have been in the human world for a long time and their cooking skills are much better than those of the snow werewolves.
Speaking of dwarves, he had seen a bread oven in the dwarf's house before. He didn't know how to build it, so he was waiting for Uncle Robert to make him a bread oven to bake bread. He missed it a little after not eating it for a long time.
Robert's family was so engrossed in building the kiln and making bricks that they didn't come over for dinner. Thanks to the dwarves' hard work, they had already accumulated a large number of bricks, which were densely packed and laid out on a large area.
After dinner, he brought a portion of stewed beef and flatbread to Feng who was about to go home, and took it back to Aunt Qing whom he had not met yet.
After seeing them off, Yu Sui called Qi, ran into the house, and showed Qi the limestone left over from making sugar.
"This can not only be used to make sugar, but also to build houses. It's much stronger than yellow mud. I found it when I was digging red beets the other day."
Qi took it and placed it in his palm. The limestone that seemed so large in Yu Sui's hand suddenly looked smaller in Qi's.
Sooner or later, he will grow this tall, this strong, and his hands will grow this big! Yu Sui thought jealously.
To Qi, this was just an ordinary gray stone, not as hard as other stones.
But he said without hesitation: "Do you need this stone? I can dig it up for you."
Yu Sui happily went forward and hugged him, "Thank you! Help me dig a little more, this will be very useful. When the bricks are baked, I also want to build a new house."
Qi stood there in a daze, looking unusually bewildered.
Yu Sui didn't notice anything unusual about him. Over the past few days, he had already regarded Qi as a good brother who would always respond to his requests. In his mind, this was just a hug that simply expressed intimacy.
The carefree Yu Sui didn't even notice Qi's expression and turned around to get busy.
I have been busy making bricks recently, and the fermented soybeans have been drying in the sun for several days.
I originally wanted to make soy sauce from the soybeans right away, but then I thought that soy sauce made with refined salt would be better without the bitter taste.
The activated carbon needed for refining refined salt has not been made yet... Alas, I'm really tired of this kind of life where I have to DIY everything myself.
Yu Sui tasted the rice vinegar he had made earlier and found it was almost fermented.
Take the charcoal you prepared earlier and crush it into a fine powder with a stone. Wrap the charcoal powder in linen, tie it with string to form a bag, and place it in a clay pot and cook it with water and rice vinegar.
This process takes several hours, and all that's left is to watch the fire, a job Yu Sui gave to Xiaochu.
He then tasted the glutinous rice wine and berry wine he had brewed earlier. The glutinous rice wine had a sweet and lingering aftertaste, a true success. The berry wine still needed some more fermentation time.
The glutinous rice wine was sweet and delicious. Yu Sui gave a small bowl to Xiaochu, who was watching the fire attentively. He thought it was a drink, but Xiaochu drank it all and soon passed out. He lay there snoring.
The glutinous rice wine was sweet and not too strong, so Yu Sui drank it as a beverage.
The cooked activated carbon was placed on the ground and the rope was untied to dry. After drinking a few bowls of glutinous rice wine, Yu Sui hugged Xiao Chu and slept sweetly all night.
The dried activated carbon needed to be packaged separately. Yu Sui was not very good at sewing, so he took some linen and thin thread and asked Karan to sew small cloth bags for him.
It was Vanilla's turn to rest today. After knowing the purpose of his visit, she silently sewed for him with Karan. Yu Sui was very grateful.
He also brought them some glutinous rice wine as a thank you gift, which is sweet and most women would probably like to drink.
"We are the ones who should say thank you," Karan said gently. "Thank you for taking such good care of Xiaohua."
Vanilla looked at him in agreement. Although she wasn't good at expressing herself, she could see the changes in Yu Sui. Whether it was cooking for everyone or taking care of the cubs, she should thank him.
"So, I should also thank Aunt Karan for making the tools for me..."
It was too troublesome to thank them all, as the snow werewolves had helped him more. Yu Sui grabbed the sewn cloth bags in distress and ran away, leaving the rice wine there for them.
People with social anxiety are most afraid of scenes like the ones when they were children and relatives came to give them gifts during festivals. They feel so embarrassed that they want to crawl into the ground.
However, Karan and Vanilla, mother and daughter, have excellent craftsmanship. The small cloth bags they sew are of uniform size and have dense stitches, so the activated carbon powder will not leak when it is stored.
Yu Sui really admires Xiangcao. This powerful female warrior is really versatile.
He put the dried activated carbon into these small cloth bags and sealed them, ready to be used for filtering later.
He collected all the wood ash left over from cooking. How could a veteran novel reader not know about this magical tool called wood ash?
He took out a can of coarse salt, dissolved it in water, and added wood ash to mix well. Yu Sui's heart trembled as he stirred. After all, it was his first time to do this, and seeing a can of coarse salt turn into black water like this, he was a little uneasy.
After all, the salt here is so rare, so don't waste it.
Place a layer of sackcloth on the empty bamboo tube, place the activated carbon bag on the sackcloth, let the gray-black salt water settle for a while, and then pour the turbid liquid above from the top of the activated carbon bag.
After pouring the salt water, the remaining impurities were discarded. Yu Sui held the two ends of the sackcloth and waited until the salt water was completely filtered, then set it aside. At this point, the sackcloth and the activated carbon bag were covered in black impurities.
Yu Sui placed the small iron pot on the fire, poured the filtered salt water into the pot and began to cook.
Burning over a high fire, a pot of salt water slowly evaporates until only white crystals remain, which is refined salt.
The coarse salt that originally filled the bamboo tube was filtered into refined salt, leaving only two-thirds.
The snow-white refined salt sparkled in the sunlight. Yu Sui dipped his finger in it and licked a little bit. It was very pure and had no bitter taste at all.
He really wanted to set off a firework for himself. It was so hard, but he finally got to eat refined salt.
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