For the rest of October, Su Xia first pickled sauerkraut and spicy cabbage.
In addition, Chen's mother from the old house, Xia Laidi, and Liu Chunxia made vermicelli, potato flour, and sweet potato flour.
She cooked 30 kilograms of each, and her current stock of potatoes and sweet potatoes became 320 kilograms of potatoes and 270 kilograms of sweet potatoes.
Anyway, she doesn't feel bad about it, because the vermicelli can basically be eaten for a year. Besides, it is not only for cooking, but she can also make it into hot and sour noodles. Eating a bowl in winter will definitely make you sweat all over.
After that, I used their stone mill to grind 200 kilograms of corn. After taking it home, I used the wall-breaking machine in the space to grind the flour again.
In the end, we got 140 catties of cornmeal and 20 catties of corn grits, and the remaining corn husks could be fed to pigs.
Su Xia looked at the three pigs in the pigsty, each of them was fat and strong. Father Chen had come to see them before, and he estimated their weight, which was over 300 kilograms.
It's November now, and it doesn't matter whether you feed them or not. Su Xia wants to sell them, so that she can save food and keep some for next year to catch pigs and feed them.
It’s just that pigs in the village are usually slaughtered after the twelfth lunar month, and I don’t know what the rules are this year.
Su Xia cleaned the pigsty, replaced the dry straw, sprayed some vinegar around it, and disinfected it.
Wearing a mask and gloves, I clean the pigpen, chicken coop, and goose shed at least three times.
I went to clean the chicken coop again and picked up 6 eggs. Since winter, there haven't been 20 eggs per day, but Su Xia fed them well, and winter still picked them up.
It’s better than the old house not laying eggs.
Now in the chicken coop, there is only one rooster and 19 hens left. The rest have been killed and stored in the space.
When you want to eat it, just take it out and cook it.
Next year, when I sell the chicks, I will keep 10 hens and kill the rest.
Su Xia went to the front yard again and let the geese out, while she cleaned out the feces inside. Su Xia placed the feces of these three animals in front of the door, away from the house.
I also built a fence with branches, and I will exchange it for some work points next year.
Three geese were flying around in the yard, calling “geese, geese” all the time.
Su Xia would let them out almost every day. They were masters at guarding the house. When strangers came, they would pounce on them directly, scaring the villagers away.
Su Xia looked at the goose following behind her. This Xia had created 150 goose eggs for her, and even now she would still lay one or two eggs every few months.
But I am also very satisfied.
After finishing my work, I returned home and saw Niuniu and Bao playing in the living room.
The coal balls in the coal stove were burning red, and the temperature in the whole living room was about 25 degrees.
The two children were wearing warm clothes with fleece clothes inside, so they were not cold at all.
With Niuniu's encouragement, Xiaobao is walking with the help of the fence. He has been walking for a while now, but he is just swaying like a duck.
Seeing Su Xia coming in, he quickly quickened his pace and sat down on the ground with a plop.
Niu Niu saw her brother sitting on the ground and started laughing, "Haha..."
"Mom, my brother is so stupid, he fell again!"
Su Xia couldn't help laughing.
Xiaobao saw that his mother and sister were laughing at him, but the little boy didn't get angry. He held on to the fence and stood up again.
After standing up, he looked at Su Xia with a smile, "Mom, get up!"
Su Xia walked over with a smile and kissed his little face.
"You are amazing, baby. Try to walk on your own next month, okay?"
꺶宝 "Okay, Mom, I'm hungry?"
Niuniu also remembered at this time that she was hungry, but her mother asked her to look after her brother, so she forgot to find food.
She also walked up to Su Xia and hugged her: "Mom, I'm hungry too?"
Su Xia looked at her watch. It was already half past eleven. Her family still had three meals a day, but the baby basically stopped drinking milk after growing up. He just liked to eat vegetables, especially meat.
"So what do you want to eat?"
"Meat, meat——"
Bao stared at Su Xia with wide eyes, looked at his mother expectantly, and drooled.
Niuniu looked at her brother with disdain and said, "Mom, you don't want to eat dumplings. You haven't eaten them for a long time?"
Su Xia wiped the saliva of Coco Bao while agreeing to Niuniu's request.
"Okay, you two can have fun here. I'll go make some dumplings with meat filling. It's Bao's favorite. Okay?"
"Okay, Mom, I'll eat!"
Su Xia told Niuniu to stay close to her brother and call her whenever she needed anything.
Now, with 꺶宝, I can basically express my needs more clearly. Before, when I could hear it word by word, I had to guess halfway.
Now he can say 5 words at a time. After a while, he will be able to walk. That will be fine.
Niuniu is in the living room, letting her brother hold the fence.
"Brother, can you practice walking here?"
꺶Bao looked at his sister and answered in a baby voice: "Okay, let's learn to walk!"
Niuniu encouraged him with a kiss, which made 꺶宝 jump with excitement.
She watched her mother buy her picture books.
Su Xia in the kitchen took out a piece of meat weighing about two pounds from the space. The meat was mostly lean and less fat, and she used a meat grinder to grind it into stuffing.
Put the fat into the pot, wait until the oil is squeezed out, and put the small golden oil residue and lean meat filling in a basin together.
Take out another cabbage, mince it into stuffing, dip it in hot water to remove the water, and then put it in the meat stuffing.
Add salt, MSG, soy sauce, and a little bit of the lard that had just been boiled. Look at its color, and cut a carrot into pieces and put it in.
After being made into fillings, the dish looked much better, with black lean meat, yellow oil residue, cabbage, carrots, and some chopped green onions.
Su Xia looked at the stuffing she made with satisfaction. She had been here for two and a half years, and although she hadn't improved much, her cooking skills were getting better and better.
At this time, Su Xia quickly prepared a basin of white flour. When the flour was ready, she washed the pot, poured some water, and cooked the dumplings directly after a while.
There was also a steamer in the pot, which contained a whole soy sauce chicken that Su Xia had marinated yesterday, and it was not separated.
Just put the whole thing in a bowl, put it in a steamer, wait for the water to boil, and then steam it for half an hour, and it will be almost cooked.
While the pot is boiling, roll out the dough, and make little dumplings one by one.
By the end, there were about 200 dumplings for two covered dumplings, which were enough for three people to eat.
Su Xia put the remaining stuffing directly into the cupboard. It was winter now and the temperature in the kitchen was low, so it wouldn't go bad if it was left there for two days.
If you really can't figure it out, just make some pie.
At this time, Su Xia opened the pot and took out the steamed soy sauce chicken first. In the middle, she cut four pieces. Now it is fully cooked and the whole thing is the color of soy sauce, which looks much more tempting.
All that’s left is to cook the dumplings, about 70 of them, which is more than enough to eat.
But even dinner is ready.
By the time Su Xia had served the chicken and dumplings and placed them on the table in the living room, the two children could no longer wait and they waited for a full forty minutes to eat.
꺶宝 looked at the chicken and wanted to grab it.
"Mom, fleshy fleshy flesh..."
Su Xia took a wet towel, wiped his hands, and then threw it to Niu Niu.
"When you've cleaned yourself up, you can eat."
Niuniu wiped her hands obediently, and then started to eat.
"Mom, the dumplings today are so delicious, and the meat is so fragrant."
꺶宝 was holding a chicken drumstick in his hand and eating without even raising his head.
Su Xia also took a bite of the chicken. It was not dry at all, but tender and soft, not much different from the Cantonese soy sauce chicken of later generations.
Seeing the two children eating happily, she also smiled happily. Now she is accompanied by her children and every day is very fulfilling. She has not thought about her life in the afterlife for a long time!
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