Jianshu still remembers that when he was a child and his grandparents were still alive, his family would raise a pig every year and there was a special pigpen in the backyard.
The leftovers from every meal will become its food. It will be served with delicious food and drink all year round. All it needs to do is open its mouth for food every day.
When the weather gets cold in winter, the first thing my grandparents do is to spread a layer of straw to keep it warm. They take very good care of it.
By the end of the year, the piglets that have been well fed and barely moved for a whole year will have grown into big fat pigs weighing hundreds of pounds.
Once it has been raised, it is time to collect the upgrade fruit. Ask the neighbors to help drag it to the brigade's pig-slaughtering place. The butcher will cut the pig with a white knife going in and a red knife coming out. Then he will quickly place a basin prepared in advance under the pig's neck, and soon the pig's blood will flow into the basin.
The moment the knife was cut, the fat pig would let out a scream. Of course, Jianshu couldn't hear it because her ears had been covered in advance by her grandmother, and her eyes were also covered.
After bleeding, you can harvest a large basin of pig blood, take it home and stew it with cabbage, tofu, etc. It is also a rare delicacy in winter.
The next step was a series of processes such as depilation and cutting, which Jianshu did not see. When he finally got home, he could only see the pig's head, feet, tail and internal organs being disassembled, and the pig's body being split in half.
Then grandpa and grandma would temporarily place it on a makeshift platform made of chairs in the main room. Whenever Jianshu passed by it, he couldn't help but poke its flesh with his fingers.
These porks are the highlight of the Chinese New Year and are indispensable in the New Year’s Eve dinner.
I remember that there wasn't much variety in the winter back then. Basically, we had some cabbage and radishes grown at home. After slaughtering the pigs, we would cut some off for every meal. Cabbage stewed with meat and radish stewed with meat were the most frequently eaten dishes.
However, there was no refrigerator at home at that time, so even though the temperature was low, it couldn't be kept for long. Apart from giving it to others, most of it would be pickled and stored to be eaten later.
I have to say that domestic pork tastes much better than pork raised with feed.
At that time, Jianshu’s favorite was braised pig’s head. It was soft and crispy, fragrant but not greasy. Not only did she like it, but her grandpa and dad also liked to eat it with wine.
In the cold winter, they would have a plate of braised pork head and a glass of wine each. Although the ingredients were not as rich as they were later, they were as happy as gods at that time.
Unfortunately, since her grandma and grandpa passed away one after another, she has never eaten pork raised at home, nor has she eaten the braised pork head that she remembered.
This time of buying New Year’s goods reminded Jianshu of those distant memories.
It just so happened that I had slaughtered a few pigs before and still had their heads. Jianshu planned to braise them himself, and it would also be a dish for the New Year’s Eve dinner.
In addition to braised pig's head, there are also pig's trotters, pork, beef, chicken feet, chicken wings, eggs, bean curd sheets, lotus root, etc. These are all braised every year during the Chinese New Year in her family.
There were a lot of things to braise, so Jianshu had to divide it into several times. After braising, the braising liquid can be kept, which is convenient for braising things next time.
As time passed, the aroma of the braised food in the pot gradually wafted out, and Jianshu couldn't help swallowing.
I have to say, this taste is really overbearing and so tempting.
Fortunately, Jianshu braised the food in the space. If it was outside, I’m afraid the neighbors would be tempted by the smell of the braised food.
Especially since she was braising meat, who wouldn't crave meat at this time? If the children smelled it, they would probably roll on the ground and shout for meat.
When the first pot of braised food came out of the pot, Jianshu, who had been unable to resist, immediately ate several chicken feet and chicken wings. After satisfying his craving, he continued to braise other things.
By the time all these were braised, it was already very late, so Jianshu took some time to have lunch.
After the braised food is made, she leaves it in the brine to make it more flavorful, so she didn't rush to take it out. She went to wash up after it was soaked.
However, she still picked some and put them in a bowl and sent them to Aunt Chen next door and several nearby neighbors.
These days, every household is making all kinds of delicious food in preparation for the New Year, and they will send them to some close relatives after they are ready.
After being here for a few months, in addition to Aunt Chen's family, Jianshu also has some close neighbors.
There were many people in their family, and most of them didn't have to work, so they had prepared a lot of food in the past few days and sent a lot to her, including fried meatballs, fried glutinous rice cakes, braised fried tofu, and rice cakes...
In the past few days, they have sent homemade food to Jianshu one after another. The first time they sent food was in the morning. At that time, Jianshu was staying in bed and did not hear the knock on the door in his space.
I only found out when someone came again at noon. Later, in order to avoid such things from happening again, Jianshu didn't sleep in the space for the past few days.
Of course I have to send the food I made today to them. Only when there is give and take can things last.
After delivering the things, Jianshu washed up and went to bed.
New Year's Eve is coming soon. For some reasons, it is now advocated not to take holidays during the Spring Festival. We still have to go to work even during the New Year.
But this year it is also a coincidence. New Year's Eve happens to be a weekend, so Jianshu can take a break and does not have to work hard during the New Year.
The department store has also distributed New Year benefits. The unit’s performance is good this year, and the leaders also want the employees to have a good New Year, so the New Year benefits are quite generous.
It is not clear how other people received Jianshu, but she received two kilograms of pork, half a kilogram of oil, five kilograms of flour and some bills.
If other families had this New Year benefit, it would be the best.
Not to mention anything else, just take those two pounds of pork and five pounds of white flour, add some cabbage and sauerkraut, and you can make a meal of sauerkraut pork or cabbage and pork pure white flour dumplings.
The whole family can eat it. If you are a little frugal and add some cornmeal, you can make a full meal for the whole family.
During the Chinese New Year, everything else is meaningless. What everyone wants most is to eat and drink well, right?
Not to mention the oil. Nowadays, many people cook by dipping their chopsticks in the oil bottle and then pouring it into the pot.
Others cut a piece of white cotton cloth as big as a thumb, put it in the oil bottle, let the cotton cloth absorb the oil, and when cooking, quickly turn the cotton cloth back and forth a few times on the bottom of the pot, and use the oil absorbed by the cotton cloth to cook.
These are not stir-fried dishes at all, they are actually boiled dishes.
Therefore, this welfare is one of the best in the entire Beijing city, and compared with some daily necessities issued by other units, food is the most popular.
Even for Jianshu, this benefit is still satisfactory.
Although she has no shortage of these foods, there is no harm without comparison. Compared with some of the more useless ones in other units, she can still use these.
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