Chapter 241 Spicy Cabbage
When Xu Qingmeng was in modern times, he loved making all kinds of pickles.
The radish skin made today is not too salty and is very refreshing to eat alone. Xu Qingmeng herself likes it very much.
Next, Xu Qingmeng prepared to start making kimchi. Her favorite was the spicy cabbage.
There are actually many ways to cook kimchi, including Sichuan kimchi, traditional Korean kimchi and Northeastern-style kimchi, but she still prefers the traditional Korean kimchi.
However, compared with several other methods, the traditional method is relatively complicated.
Xinting has already processed the cabbage. She rinsed the outside but not the inside. Just rinse it thoroughly after pickling.
Cut about seven or eight centimeters from the root, and then break it in half. This will ensure that no leaves are chopped into pieces and each piece is complete.
Then make another cut at the root, but don't cut it off. This will allow each leaf to be less tightly wrapped together, making it easier to sprinkle salt on the root of the leaves.
Xu Qingmeng had someone buy the coarse salt specifically for pickling vegetables, and then put the prepared cabbage in a large basin and began to sprinkle salt on it. Here, each cabbage leaf had to be broken open and the salt sprinkled on the roots of the cabbage.
After the cabbage is processed, it is time to prepare the salt water. Coarse salt is used here. Stir constantly with chopsticks until all the salt is dissolved in the water.
Then start from the roots and slowly pour water in, because there will be relatively more salt at the roots, until all the cabbage is submerged in salt water. Then press the cabbage with stones and soak it overnight.
The next morning, Xu Qing woke up thinking about the cabbage he had pickled yesterday. After a night, the cabbage had shrunk a lot.
Xu Qingmeng ordered his servants to take out the cabbage and rinse it all with water, making sure that every leaf was broken apart and rinsed clean. Then they wrung out the cabbage and placed it in a basin for later use.
Then she began to prepare the marinade. Fortunately, Xu Qingmeng was lucky. When she went to the market today, she bought apples and pears, as well as leeks, white radishes and celery for pickling spicy cabbage. He sighed all the way, saying that this city is the city, there is nothing that cannot be bought.
Peel the apples and pears, cut them into small pieces, remove the core, add the onions, and chop them into fine pieces.
Chop the ginger and garlic into fine pieces. Xu Qingmeng also chopped the shrimp into fine pieces. Put them in a large bowl, stir them, then add the chili powder and stir until it becomes a paste.
Cut the white radish and green onion into shreds and put them in. Cut the leek and celery into 5 to 6 cm lengths and set aside.
Take an appropriate amount of glutinous rice flour, add an appropriate amount of water, and then put in an appropriate amount of white sugar, stir evenly, pour into the pot, cook on low heat, stirring constantly until it becomes a translucent paste, then turn off the fire, pour in a basin of cold water, stir a few times and let cool for later use.
After the glutinous rice paste has cooled completely, pour the leeks and celery into the chili powder, stir evenly, then pour in the glutinous rice paste and mix well.
Then turn over each piece of cabbage, and spread the mixed chili powder evenly on the cabbage stalks and leaves, layer by layer. When you are done, hold and twist the leaves to wrap the cabbage tightly together and not let it get loose.
After all the cabbages were cooked, they were placed in a jar and sealed. There were still some white radishes left, and Xu Qingmeng did not waste them. She cut the radishes into cubes, added the chili powder marinade, mixed well, and left them for a few days before eating.
After doing all this, He is still looking forward to it.
However, the weather was bad today. It was gloomy all day. Not long after Gu Yunyi and the others came back, snowflakes began to fall.
The Gu family was close to the main street, and there were many people hurrying along the street. Of course, there were also many children who opened their doors, came out and happily spun around, shouting "It's snowing! It's snowing!"
Then they ran out of the yard, called their good friends, and began to enjoy the moment when the snow would cover the ground so that they could make a snowman. This is why children like winter more.
Yun Sheng was originally not in high spirits, but now he immediately became energetic.
Without waiting for the people behind him, he saw Xu Qingmeng running over quickly: "Sister-in-law, I want to make a snowman too."
Xu Qingmeng pinched her little face and said, "Not yet. Look, the snow on the ground hasn't even piled up yet."
Regardless of whether there is one or not, Yun Sheng is still very excited, and has even started to plan in his mind the team that will build a snowman tomorrow.
She, Yun Mo, the older brother and sister of the Li family, was actually thinking about Xiao Yuanbao, but she didn't know whether Xiao Yuanbao could go out, mainly because Yuanbao was relatively young.
Yun Sheng had beautiful thoughts and was even talking to Xu Qingmeng about piling this and that, and asked if Xiao Yuanbao could go out.
Xu Qingmeng listened quietly at the side, but did not say anything.
Gu Yunyi came in later and listened to Yun Sheng talking nonstop. He said, "Tomorrow, you have to go to your teacher's house to study. When you come back from school, the snow will have melted."
Gu Yunyi's words spoiled the mood and caused Yun Sheng's face to droop immediately.
"Okay, okay, wash your hands and eat, it's getting dark."
After Laba, the atmosphere of the New Year is becoming more and more intense. This year Xu Qingmeng gave birth to a child, and the child is relatively young. She will definitely not return to Yan County this year. However, after the child was born, Gu Yunyi had already sent a letter to the Xu family. However, since children in Yan County do not have a full-month gift or anything like that, there is only a hundred-day gift.
He had asked Xu Qingmeng if she wanted to ask someone to send some gifts. After all, it was her first year married into the Gu family, and she felt a little regretful that she couldn't go home after the New Year.
Xu Qingmeng said that when someone from Jinxiuxuan comes, he can just take it back.
Before coming to the provincial capital, I had made an agreement with Liu Zhigang to come once a month. However, when Xu Qingmeng left, I ordered two kinds of dim sum in advance and asked them to launch a new product every month. It would be around the time of the New Year.
Seeing that Xu Qingmeng had already made up her mind, He didn't ask any more questions.
It was getting later, the snow was falling heavier, and the house was getting colder. He reminded everyone to use the charcoal basins in the room, as it was too cold and they should not use them sparingly at this time.
Everyone responded one by one, and then after they had packed up, they went back to rest. However, before resting, Xu Qingmeng still asked someone to go to the workshop and tell them to use the charcoal basin when necessary, so as not to get frozen.
When I woke up the next morning, the ground was covered with snow.
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