A foreign city, dear you

"It smells so good." Cao Xueqian exclaimed as soon as he entered the house, sniffed his nose.

After Ye Lian opened the door to Cao Xueqian who was off work, she quickly walked into the kitchen.

"Why do I smell sausage?" Cao Xueqian followed the scent to the kitchen.

"The dog's nose is pretty good." Ye Lian said exaggeratedly. She opened the lid of the pot, and the alluring aroma was even stronger.

"Where did the sausage come from?" Cao Xueqian saw the sausage. The sausages on the plate are arranged one by one, and they are delicious in color and flavor.

"Downstairs Zhou Danping gave it to us."

"Xingxi." Cao Xueqian's appetite increased when he saw the sausage.

Cao Xueqian went to the bedroom to put his things, while Ye Lian was busy setting the table and preparing for dinner.

It’s the end of the year again, and although people in the big city of Yancheng are not as busy making cured meats as in their hometown in the countryside, some clever women will also prepare some cured meats from their hometowns to satisfy their cravings.

After all, for people who work hard outside all year round, the taste of hometown is always the deepest nostalgia on the tip of the tongue.

Even if you can bring some from your hometown or send some from your family, it is far less satisfying than making it yourself.

Zhou Danping is an ingenious person who is good at cooking all kinds of delicacies.

But this was the first time she made cured sausages this year, and she brought several to Ye Lian after they were done.

Zhou Danping makes spicy sausages.

Ye Lian has eaten this spicy sausage before, it was given to her by Teacher Xie.

Time has passed, and Teacher Xie's face has long faded into clouds and smoke in the horizon, but the taste of spicy sausages was instantly awakened when Zhou Danping saw these spicy sausages brought up, and she couldn't help but salivate.

……

Start the meal.

Spicy sausage is very popular, it is really spicy, spicy and fragrant.

Ye Lian had to tell Cao Xueqian and Lanshan to eat less. After all, they usually don't eat spicy food.

"Mom, are you going to finish this sausage in one meal?"

"You can have another meal. What, you still want to eat every day?"

"You can't eat more than a few meals, but you still eat every day?"

"Hey, you little glutton. Aunt Zhou worked hard to make it. It would be great if you can try it. How many more meals do you want to eat?"

"Mom, can you do it?"

"No. This is a specialty of Aunt Zhou's hometown. Where can my mother make it?"

"These things are very simple. You can see Zhou Danping doing it once." Cao Xueqian interjected.

"I'm very stupid. I'm afraid I won't be able to learn." Ye Lian was unsure.

"It's okay, I'll help you." Cao Xueqian encouraged Ye Lian.

"Really? This is a job of counting stars?" As long as it is a job of counting stars, Ye Lian will have no pressure.

Cao Xueqian disagreed: "It's a job of counting the moon, but because you haven't done it before, you think it's like counting the stars."

"Haha!" Cao Xueqian's alert and defensive look made Ye Lian laugh.

……

But Zhou Danping will not make sausages this year, because her sausages are enough to eat, and she will have to make them next year.

There was no need to watch it, but now that she had decided to do it, Ye Lian didn’t want to wait until next year, so she asked Zhou Danping directly.

Zhou Danping is a very enthusiastic person. When Ye Lian said that she wanted to learn how to make sausages, she was very happy to be a master. She not only told Ye Lian the method, but also said that she could provide on-site guidance.

On Sunday, Cao Xueqian does not go to work.

Ye Lian took Cao Xueqian to the vegetable market and, according to Zhou Danping, bought ten pounds of lean meat with fat and more than two pounds of pig intestines.

Ye Lian sliced ​​the pork into thin slices.

Cao Xueqian, who rarely touches a kitchen knife, also helped cut with him.

When Lanshan heard that he was going to make sausages, he felt fresh and excited, so he volunteered to scrape the casings.

At first, Ye Lian was worried that Lanshan was just acting on a whim and would not be able to do the job in the end.

Unexpectedly, Lanshan scraped the casings very cleanly.

Ye Lian learned for the first time that the casings were scraped out with the small intestine.

The power of food is indeed huge, and Lanshan assigned Ye Lian a major task.

After the meat is cut, start mixing the seasonings.

The seasoning is provided by Zhou Danping. Because Cao Xueqian and Lanshan don't like spicy food, they didn't add so much chili pepper.

Mix the meat with seasonings, marinate it for a while, and then start enema.

Director Zhou Danping came up.

In her hand she held a white coil, a pair of scissors, and a small cut of a mineral water bottle with a mouth.

This guide is really good. It not only provides techniques, but also provides tools.

This tool is simple enough, haha.

Zhou Danping tied one end of a casing and put the other end on the mouth of the mineral water bottle, then used a spoon to fill the funnel-like bottle with meat, then used chopsticks to poke it into the casing, and then stroked the casing bit by bit. The bottom (the end that is stuck).

It turns out that this is how filling sausages works. It doesn’t seem difficult.

Ye Lian then tried to drink it herself.

Fill it slowly, stroke it to the bottom slowly, squeeze the meat tightly, and squeeze the casing full.

After filling a longer section, Zhou Danping tied it section by section with white thread every 20 centimeters or so.

This is what the sausages you see on weekdays look like.

It's just that the sausage looks like it has a lot of bubbles.

Zhou Danping took the toothpick on the coffee table and poked holes in the sausage to vent the air, making the sausage and casing stick more tightly.

Oh, it turns out there is another trick.

Ye Lian learned again.

Zhou Danping saw that Ye Lian was basically familiar with it, and after giving some instructions, she went home.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. Ye Lian thought she would not be able to learn it at first, but she didn't expect it to be really easy.

"I really learned it." Ye Lian felt a sense of accomplishment when she saw the sausages she filled with her own hands.

"I said it wouldn't be difficult." Cao Xueqian had been standing aside just now and watching.

"Do you want to come and feed me?" Ye Lian asked, and suddenly shouted: "Hey, look, the casing is torn and the meat is bulging out."

Cao Xueqian and Lan Shan also came closer and saw that a piece of meat from the sausage actually burst out.

Ye Lian picked up the empty casing at the near end and looked at it. There were some minced meat or seasoning particles on the casing. A closer look revealed that there were indeed cracks.

"We can't have this casing anymore," Ye Lian said.

"Why did it break? Is the casing too thin?" Lan Shan felt very distressed. He scraped out each casing slowly, which made his arms sore.

"I know the reason." This small problem is too small a case for Cao Xueqian, who makes products.

"What's the reason?" Ye Lian and Lan Shan asked at the same time.

"The meat of each sausage must be stroked from one end to the other, and the casing must be squeezed and rubbed over and over again. The casing will slowly burst."

"It seems to make sense, so what should we do?" Ye Lian asked.

"Look at me." Cao Xueqian looked confident.

Cao Xueqian took off the casing on the bottle mouth, cut it, threw it away, took another casing, knotted one end, and then put it all over the bottle mouth bit by bit, leaving only the knotted part untied. .

Ye Lian was not surprised.

Unexpectedly, a long casing can fit completely around the mouth of the bottle.

After Cao Xueqian put on the casing, he started stuffing the meat into the casing. The meat passed through the mouth of the bottle and reached the bottom end of the casing in one step. There was no need to go through eighteen turns like before. From one end to the other, not only It avoids squeezing and abrasion of the casing, makes it much faster, and greatly improves efficiency.

This is good, this is good.

Ye Lian couldn't help but praise it.

Due to improvements in technology, a large pot of meat was filled quickly.

After tying them section by section, poking them randomly with toothpicks, and cleaning the outside of the sausage, Cao Xueqian found a pole, put it between the balcony's anti-theft net and the wall, and then hung the sausage on the pole.

That's it.

This Chinese New Year, I can handle enough sausages.

The happiest person was Lanshan. As soon as the sausages were hung up, he asked when they could eat them.

Yes, this sausage also has its merits. When these sausages are dried and ready to eat, they will definitely be more delicious.

"Zhou Danping——" Ye Lian stretched her head and called to the balcony on the thirteenth floor.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Danping heard the cry and came to the balcony from the inner room.