Happy Farmer's Life

The remaining pheasant was made into a salted chicken and hung behind the house. The hare kept one to eat and gave the other to the village chief. The other hare was sold to Tianxianglou together with the two roe deer for 100 renminbi. .Wang Wu bought two catties of pork and one catty of dried chili according to Du Weiming's request.Du Weiming decided to make the most delicious pickled Duxian, my sister's favorite.The method of pickling Duxian is very simple. Wash the pork belly, cook it, cut it into pieces, and set it aside.Then wash the bacon, cut it into pieces, add water, pork pieces, and bacon pieces to the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, add wine and scallions, and simmer slowly over medium heat until the meat is half-cooked, then add bamboo shoots Seasonings such as cubes and salt, continue to cook thoroughly, skim off the foam, remove the shallots and serve.

Zhou Wen and Wang Wu admire Du Weiming. They can often make some special food. It looks simple, but it tastes good.The pickled Duxian soup is fresh and tender, and the bamboo shoots in it absorb the umami taste of the meat, making it even more delicious. After a meal, the soup and bamboo shoots are all eaten, but the meat remains. This is not common.Most people are not willing to eat meat, so they are the first to eat up the pork. It is relatively rare to eat up the soup and bamboo shoots like this, but keep the meat.Du Weiming said that tomorrow, add some bamboo shoots and continue cooking.

Du Weiming washed the picked mushrooms and fungus first, and dried them outside the house.Blanch the fresh day lily in boiling water, then fully soak it in clean water for more than an hour, squeeze out the water and put it outside to dry together.

Bamboo shoots are a very seasonal thing. It is already late this year, and it is estimated that there will be no more bamboo shoots in half a month.How can we keep these delicious bamboo shoots? In addition to making pickled peppers and spring bamboo shoots, Du Weiming also thought of two things: flat tips and dried bamboo shoots.Pickled pepper spring bamboo shoots are easy to make. Boil a pot of salt water and add some dried chilies. Cut the bamboo shoots and throw them in. After cooking, pour the water and bamboo shoots into the jar, seal the mouth, and bury it in the ground. It will last for about a week. can eat.The method of flat tip and dried bamboo shoots is much more complicated.

Bianjian, also known as Bianjian bamboo shoots, is a culinary masterpiece made from bamboo buds or young whips.The flat tip is required to be green and slightly yellowish in color, without old roots, with white salt frost on the surface and not sticky to the hand, and the bamboo shoots are solid.Pay special attention to the salt content and dryness. Generally, the lower the dryness, the poorer the quality and the harder it is to preserve.Dried bamboo shoots are made from bamboo shoots through processes such as shelling, cooking, tableting, drying, and shaping.The color is golden, translucent, the slices are wide and short, the meat is thick, crisp and tender, and has a strong aroma. It is called "Magnolia slices". Dried bamboo shoots not only assist famous dishes, but also have considerable nutritional and medicinal value.The production of flat tips is relatively simple, but the salt is not cheap, and the production of dried bamboo shoots is troublesome, but the materials are indeed as long as there are bamboo shoots.Du Weiming decided to make half of each. There are still half a basket of bamboo shoots left in the house. Let's try it out first, and then go up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots if possible.

Flat tips are easier to make. After washing the bamboo shoots, select the tender heads, boil them in salt water, and then bake them on the fire.How to bake on the fire made Du Weiming think a lot, Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to go to the town once, asked a blacksmith to make an iron plate, and bought ten catties of salt back.The bamboo shoots are boiled in salt water, drained and placed on an iron plate, with a fire underneath for baking.Sprinkle salt on both sides at the end.Dried bamboo shoots need to be shelled, cut and trimmed first, then steamed at high temperature without any seasoning, then soaked in clean water, then squeezed and shaped, and finally dried.Several people worked hard for five days and finally made the first batch of flat tips and dried bamboo shoots.During the period, Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to go up the mountain to continue digging bamboo shoots and picking day lilies, while he and Zhou Wen made dried bamboo shoots, flat tips and dried day lilies at home.It is estimated that half of the bamboo shoots on the mountain were dug up by Wang Wu. Du Weiming refused to let them dig. I don't know how the market of dried bamboo shoots is. If I have made so many and can't sell them, I can eat them until the year of the monkey.

The three of them were busy day and night, and finally made half of the bamboo shoots in the room into semi-finished products. For more than 20 days, eating bamboo shoots every day, Du Weiming felt like vomiting, even if he ate too much dragon meat, he would get tired.The flat tip is almost finished. It cannot be exposed to the sun. It is neatly stacked in clay pots and placed in the storage room.The dried bamboo shoots are almost squeezed, and after the weather is good, they can be taken out and dried in the sun.

After making so many flat tips and dried bamboo shoots, Du Weiming has no plans yet on how to sell them.It’s better to eat Bianjian when it’s hot, Bianjian Laoya Soup, Bianjian Winter Melon Soup, etc., are often eaten in summer.Bamboo shoots have only been on the market for a short time now, so there is probably not much interest in selling them immediately. If the weather is hotter and then sold, the business should be much better.The storage time of dried bamboo shoots is longer, and it is also suitable to sell in autumn or winter.Store it all now, and plan it later.

Taking advantage of the time, the three of them went to Pingfu Town together once.The weather is going to be hot soon, buy some cloth to make some light clothes, and also go to see how the sales of soap and body oil are.Wang Wu looked at the ox cart and dared not leave.Zhou Wen accompanied Du Weiming to the shopkeeper's shop first, and found out that the 1840 sets delivered a while ago have almost sold out, there are only two pieces of soap left, and there are still ten bottles of body oil, and they settled the payment , a total of 1656 texts, and 656 texts are left after the housekeeper is removed.Du Weiming packed up the consistent money, and took [-] Wen to prepare for shopping.I made an agreement with the shopkeeper to send some more soap in two days. Now that the weather is getting hotter, the demand for body oil is not so high.Looks like it's time to do something else.

The two went to the cloth store to buy cloth again. Du Weiming chose light gray linen and bought navy blue linen for Wang Wu and Zhou Wen. The summer clothes cost 100 Wen because they used less fabric.In fact, to be honest, Du Weiming has no interest in those silks and satins. Modern clothes are mostly made of cotton. The cotton cloth here is really cheap, which also suits Du Weiming's mind.

When I walked to West Street, I saw a shop selling rouge and gouache, so Du Weiming went in to have a look.The customers in the store were all women, so it was a bit strange for two men to run in. Du Weiming walked around the store to get a general idea of ​​the situation. Under everyone's gaze, he blushed and pulled Zhou Wen over. step away.

Lunch was eaten in the town, Wang Wu was still guarding the ox cart, Du Weiming and Zhou Wen went to eat food, instead of going to Tianxianglou, they went to a small stall to eat noodles.The noodles in the small stall are made by ourselves, which are a bit similar to modern knife-shaved noodles. Du Weiming ate a bowl. Zhou Wen, a strong guy, Du Weiming thought that one bowl was not enough, so he ordered 2 bowls for him.It was inconvenient to bring noodles, so I brought two biscuits for Wang Wu.

On the way back, Wang Wu was driving the car, and Zhou Wen and Du Weiming were sitting in the car chatting.

"Master, where did you go to the rouge shop for what?"

"Nothing, just to see what's new."

Du Weiming didn't feel much about the two calling him young master, so he had no choice but to persuade him many times to no avail, and he didn't correct him.Du Weiming sat quietly without speaking, as if thinking about something.Zhou Wen also remained silent and became quiet.