The peace of the Three Realms depends on me [Food]

46. ​​Spicy Sausage

Stuffed meat with straw is a hard dish, and most people can't hold on after eating two yuan, but everyone present is not a normal person except Ji Pingan.He Lang ate three pieces, Xiaobai ate four pieces, and the most amazing thing was Xiaohuang—he swept up the remaining pieces of meat, and even grabbed the broth to bibimbap.

Ji Pingan originally thought that if there was any leftover meat, He Lang would pack it up and take it home, but Xiao Huang stuck in his mouth, and there was not even any broth left.Fortunately, He Lang didn't say anything, he was quite happy to see Xiao Huang eating so well.

After dinner, He Lang put the prepared spicy cabbage and half of wild boar in his wooden basin and pushed them away.Usually, after He Lang leaves, Ji's family will calm down.The situation is different now, even though He Lang is gone, the house is still lively.

Taking advantage of the hot water in the pot, Xiaobai was washing the pot and dishes.Xiaobai does everything without rushing, as if there is nothing in the world that can stump him.Obviously he was just washing the dishes, but he showed the posture of reviewing the memorial.

Ji Pingan is counting the meat in his house, and now there are wild boars in the larger containers in his kitchen.There are strips of meat in the bamboo basket, two large bowls of meat in the two wooden basins on the table, and even several wooden barrels in the kitchen are filled with pig blood and offal.

The smell of wild boar is stronger than that of domestic pig. After the smell of the food fades, the kitchen is filled with a strong smell of blood.It doesn't smell very good, but this smell makes Ji Ping'an happy.

Ji Pingan said with a smile: "We can have a good year this year, thank you Xiao Huang, thank you for catching such a big pig. Thank you for saving Langzi!"

Xiao Huang, who was squatting behind the stove, poked his head out: "Huh?"

Xiao Bai said softly: "His thoughts are all on the potato, he won't listen to what you say now."

Today, the fire has been burning for a long time, and the stove has flames until now. Xiao Huang secretly buried two large potatoes in the stove.At this moment, he was looking eagerly at the stove, hoping that the yams would be ripe soon.

Ji Pingan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Didn't you just finish dinner? Why are you hungry again?"

Xiao Huang's stomach is like a bottomless pit, obviously just put down the bowls and chopsticks, he was thinking about Bie Yam again.Ji Pingan was not afraid that he could eat, but that he would break his body.

After counting the meat for bacon and sausage at home, Ji Pingan got busy.He took out the scale at home and began to weigh the seasonings.

The shaukei in front of him is full of dried red peppers and red prickly ash shells, and the small bowl next to him is filled with white sesame seeds, star anise leaves and other spices. The unique taste is slowly spreading out. Come.

After washing his hands, Xiaobai looked over curiously: "Why are there so many seasonings?"

Ji Pingan explained: "We are going to make spicy sausage, we have to marinate the meat first, these are the ingredients for marinating meat."

Hearing this, Xiaobai dried his hands: "I'll help too."

Under the dim oil lamp, Ji Ping'an and Xiao Bai are working together.Ji Pingan wiped the surface of the dried peppers carefully with a clean veil, while Xiao Bai used scissors to cut off the stalks of the peppers and shake out the seeds inside.

This year's dry chili peppers are quite spicy. If you don't shake off the chili seeds, you may not be able to eat the spicy sausage Ji Pingan made according to the recipe of previous years.

Xiaobai doesn't know how to read human scales until now, he only knows that Ji Pingan has weighed a lot of peppers: "Are these all put into the meat?"

Ji Pingan said with a smile: "No, we only make [-] catties of spicy sausages. In fact, we only need to use [-] taels of chili noodles. These chili peppers seem to be a lot, but after removing the seeds, frying them and grinding them into powder, the volume will decrease. It has been greatly reduced. I estimate that the peppers here are more than a catty after being ground into powder, which cannot be used for cured meat, and the rest can be saved for other uses. In short, it will not be wasted!"

Xiaobai praised: "You still have experience. By the way, what is a sausage?"

He has always wanted to ask this question, and now he can finally ask it out.Xiaobai doesn't understand human food very well: "It looks like it's made of meat."

Ji Pingan was happy: "Sausage, the meat is marinated with various seasonings and then stuffed into the pig's intestines. Then it is dried for a few days, and after a few days, it is smoked with cypress branches, and the spicy sausage is made. .”

noob:? ? ?

Pig intestines?Pig intestines?Is that what he understands?He had eaten the stir-fried sausage made by Ji Pingan, and it was delicious.But he really couldn't think of what it would taste like after stuffing the meat in it.

Xiaobai thought about it: "Isn't the pig's intestines very thick? Won't it spoil if you stuff the meat in?"

Ji Pingan put down the rag in his hand, he opened the cupboard and took out a small cloth pocket from inside. After opening the cloth pocket, he saw some strip-shaped hard things inside.This thing is yellowish in color, slightly transparent.

Ji Pingan showed it to Xiaobai: "This is the casing."

Xiao Bai was even more puzzled: "This is not the same as the intestines I saw." Could it be the dried intestines?But it's not right, even if the intestines are dried, they won't be so thin, right?

Ji Pingan explained: "This is the outer casing of the intestines. The meat and fat inside have been removed. After the casing is dried, it can be stored for several years. This is last year's casing."

Xiaobai looked at the casing in Ji Ping'an's hand: "Just this...can it hold forty catties of meat?"

Ji Pingan gave a thumbs up and said affirmatively: "Yes! Don't look at the small and thin casings, do you know that? The casing of a pig's small intestine can hold the whole pig's meat."

Xiaobai still didn't quite believe it, Ji Pingan said with a smile: "You will know when we do it tomorrow."

As he spoke, he conveniently put the casings in a small wooden basin. After adding water and white wine to the basin, he stopped caring about the casings in the basin.

The dried chili was processed quickly, and a layer of white chili seeds piled up in front of Xiaobai.Ji Pingan carefully put away these pepper seeds: "Next year, these pepper seeds can be used to grow pepper seedlings."

The red peppers he harvested were the largest and the best, and the seeds he selected were also the fullest.Such pepper seeds will definitely grow strong pepper seedlings!

Ji Pingan came to the stove with the processed pepper skins, and he took a few steps back to look at the back of the stove: "Xiao Huang, are your yams cooked yet?"

Little Huang's head was almost stuffed into the stove's bore, and he pulled out two sweet potatoes from the glowing ashes.After smelling it, Xiao Huang said with certainty: "It's done!"

Ji Pingan said softly, "Then why don't you take it aside and eat?"

Xiao Huang happily rolled away from the stove with two yams in his arms. At the same time, he was still asking Ji Pingan and the others: "Do you want to eat?"

Xiaobai is a little relieved, although Xiaohuang loves to eat, but there is one good thing, he doesn't eat alone, which is quite like a feather emperor.

After getting a negative answer, Xiao Huang sat at the table and began to peel off the burnt shell of the sweet potato.The sweet potatoes left by Ji Pingan include red hearts and white hearts, and the red hearts taste the best.Xiao Huang can always accurately find the red heart yam among a pile of yams with similar appearance and color.

Breaking open the shell of the sweet potato, the orange-red sweet potato was hot and exuded a sweet aroma, which made Ji Pingan even hungry.Xiao Huang was humming and dangling his short legs, sitting on the stool and eating sweet potatoes happily. Seeing this scene, Ji Ping'an felt his heart soften.

Ji Pingan said softly to Xiaobai: "Do you know Xiaobai? Meeting you and Xiaohuang is the luckiest thing in my life."

Except for He Lang, Ji Pingan has no friends or family in this world.Although on the surface, the clouds are calm and the wind is calm, but the loneliness and loneliness in his heart cannot be expressed at all.He told himself countless times that he could do it alone, but when the night was quiet, he could only spend it in fear.

Until he met Xiaobai, he had someone he wanted to protect, even if Xiaobai was just a spirit beast, he didn't want him to be wronged.Now with the addition of Xiao Huang, he felt that the family had never been so lively.

Xiaobai looked at Ji Ping'an's face quietly: "Me too."

If he hadn't met him, he wouldn't have known that the human beings he despised turned out to be such an extraordinary race.Together with Ji Ping'an, he has experienced too many firsts, he wants to continue to be with him, to live a warm and steady life, to have countless sunrises and dusks with him.

The fire in the stove is licking the bottom of the pot without delay, and in the hot iron pot, the red peppers are being roasted by a small fire.Ji Pingan slowly stir-fried the chili peppers until the unique spicy smell of chili peppers wafted out of the pot, then the chili peppers were considered ready.

Ji Pingan put the fried peppers in the Shau Kei: "Xiaobai, can you pound the peppers for me? I'll fry the peppercorns."

To make sausage, you need pepper noodles and chili noodles, both of which are available at home.Ji Pingan thought that he would mix all the seasonings into the meat slices tonight, and he could pack the sausages tomorrow.

Xiaobai responded, and he threw a log into the pot: "Okay."

Just as he stood up, he saw Xiao Huang walking over with two big yams in his arms.Xiaobai subconsciously looked at the table, only to see that there were only skins left on the two sweet potatoes on the table.

Looking at Xiao Huang's appearance, Xiao Bai still doesn't understand what he means.Xiao Huang still wants to continue roasting yams, is that okay? !

Xiaobai bent down and took away the sweet potato under Xiaohuang's wings: "I can't eat any more today, let's talk about it tomorrow."

Xiao Huang looked as if struck by lightning, the sky was about to collapse.

Ji Pingan quickly comforted him: "Xiao Huang ate too much today, and his stomach will burst. It's not that you are not allowed to eat, but you must be in moderation. If your stomach is spoiled, it is one thing for us to feel sorry for you. It will be uncomfortable. So can we eat tomorrow?"

Xiao Huang thought for a moment: "Okay!"

Ji Pingan smiled and rubbed Xiao Huang's head: "Our Xiao Huang is really obedient, obedient and obedient!"

Xiao Huang immediately snarled, and he patted his wings: "Yes!"

The corners of Xiaobai's lips are slightly upturned, if only Leng Changtian was Xiaohuang all the time?

The fried peppers are crisp, and they can be easily ground into powder by throwing them in a wooden mortar and pounding them while they are hot.There are no chili seeds in the chili this time, and the chili skin is easy to mash.Xiao Bai poured the crushed chili powder into a big bowl, and the big red bowl of chili powder looked hot.

After pounding the chili powder, the peppercorns are also fried.Ji Pingan took the yellow-brown prickly ash out of the pot and poured it into the wooden mortar: "Xiaobai..."

Before Ji Ping'an could finish speaking, Xiao Bai said, "Leave it to me."

47. ​​Spicy Sausage

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a seasoning that looks harmless to humans and animals, but once you touch it, you can feel its power.Xiaobai has experienced this when eating pepper oil, and now, he wants to feel the charm of pepper again.

The fried prickly ash gives off a numbing smell after being pounded. This smell may not be as strong as that of chili powder, but it can make people sneeze constantly.Xiaobai sneezed three times in a row after beating him for a while. Not only did he get hit, but even Ji Pingan, who was preparing the seasoning beside him, sneezed along with him.

From time to time, the sound of a family of three sneezing came from the kitchen. When Ji Ping'an's eyes were red, the prickly ash noodles were finally ready!

The meat to make spicy sausage weighed forty catties, and they were divided into two large wooden basins.Ji Ping'an had already weighed it before, making sure that there was no more than [-] catties of meat in each pot.Now that the meat and seasoning are in place, it's time to marinate the meat!

Ji Pingan held the scale, and Xiao Bai helped to increase or decrease the seasoning.Ji Pingan said softly: "In each pot of meat, put three taels of chili noodles, three taels of prickly ash noodles, half a catty of salt, two taels of rock sugar, two taels of white wine, and a little bit of five-spice powder and pepper..."

Every time Ji Pingan said the same thing, Xiao Bai took the corresponding seasoning and added it to the bowl on the weighing pan.Every time a seasoning is weighed, Xiaobai pours it into the corresponding wooden basin.

After the seasoning was prepared, a layer of seasoning powder was spread on the fat and thin meat.The pungent taste of the seasoning dilutes the original fishy smell of wild pork, and the mixed seasoning smells spicy and spicy, which feels good.

After washing their hands, Ji Pingan and Xiao Bai carefully stirred the meat slices and seasonings together. The three fat and seven thin pork was stained with a layer of red chili powder, which looked particularly appetizing.

Xiao Huang stretched his neck and looked at the meat in the tub: "It smells so good~"

Ji Ping'an was happy: "What kind of nose is this, you can smell the fragrance before it's finished?"

Xiaobai smiled and said: "He may be talking about the taste of the seasoning, which is indeed very fragrant." Although it was a mess when making pepper noodles and chili noodles, once they were added to the meat, the aroma could not be hidden.

You can feel the meat is delicious just by marinating. How delicious will it be when it is finished?

After the meat was marinated, Ji Pingan covered the two tubs with two pieces of gauze.After pressing the gauze with the cover, he closed the doors and windows: "Let's go, go back and rest?"

As soon as the words fell, Xiaobai couldn't hold on anymore.With a flash of inspiration, Xiao Bai turned into a thin and thin kitten.Ji Pingan hugged Xiaobai in his arms distressedly: "I told you so many times not to force yourself, why didn't you listen?"

Xiaobai must have survived until now in order to accompany him to marinate the meat. Thinking of this, Ji Pingan was very annoyed: "It's also my fault, I just want to marinate the meat early, forgetting about your body is not enough."

Xiaobai rubbed Ji Ping'an's palm: "I'm in good health, you don't have to worry. Look, the hair on my body has grown out."

As soon as Xiaobai said, Ji Pingan looked at his body carefully.I saw that the scorched black of Xiaobai's tail and abdomen had gradually faded away, and a layer of white fluff appeared on it.Although the fine hair is not as dense as the hair on the neck and head, Ji Pingan is very happy: "Really!"

Xiaobai said seriously: "So you don't have to worry about me, my body is getting better gradually. When the aura is more abundant, I can keep my human form longer and longer."

At that time, I can help Ji Pingan do more things!

Ji Pingan didn't understand Xiaobai's intentions, he lowered his head and buried his face on Xiaobai's body: "Xiaobai, thank you."

The warm breath hit Xiaobai's abdomen, and Xiaobai couldn't help but raised his head and licked Ji Ping'an's temples: "You're welcome."

No matter how much he does for Ji Ping'an, he is willing to do so.

There is a saying that snow does not cool down, and when the sun rises the next day, the thin snow in the field begins to melt slowly, and only some residual snow remains in the shade.Today's temperature was several degrees lower than yesterday's, and Ji Ping'an felt the severe cold early in the morning.

Xiaobai still wanted to transform into a human form today, but Ji Pingan stopped him forcefully: "There is nothing important to do today, I can handle those sausages by myself, you have to cultivate well today."

Speaking of which, Ji Pingan put the padded jacket on Xiao Bai's body: "Don't worry, it's not difficult, filling sausages is easy."

Today's breakfast is tofu soup. After crushing the tofu made yesterday, add a little pig's blood, add a little gravy, and add a few eggs.Drinking a bowl of delicious tofu soup in the morning on a cold day is a kind of enjoyment.

It's easy to get hungry just eating tofu soup, Ji Pingan even cut a handful of leeks to make leek pancakes.

Originally, leeks will grow sparsely in winter, let alone cutting leeks, it’s good if the leeks don’t freeze to death.But in Ji Ping'an's house, the leeks are still growing normally.

When the frost started to fall, Ji Pingan went to the hill to pick a lot of thin bamboos and came back.He bent the bamboo and inserted it on both sides of the leek field, and then pasted a layer of slightly transparent oil paper on it.After compacting the oil paper around with bricks, a small greenhouse was formed under the oil paper.

With such a greenhouse, some delicate vegetables can also grow.The leeks, green onions and chrysanthemums in Ji Ping'an's house were all covered with oiled paper and covered with bamboo branches.

After breakfast, it's time to stuff the sausages.Ji Pingan took out the tools that his family had used for enemas over the years. It was a round bamboo tube half a foot long with smooth ends, and a wooden stick that matched the bamboo tube.Although the tool is simple, it is very practical.

The sausage casing that was soaked yesterday has changed its appearance this morning. It is not as tenaciously branched as it was last night, but has softened at the bottom of the water and turned into a beautiful white color.With a light hand, a soft and slightly transparent casing appeared in Ji Ping'an's hand.

Ji Pingan checked the casing briefly: "The quality of the casing is pretty good, and it's not damaged. It will be easy to fill after a while."

After the water in the casing was drained, Ji Ping'an touched a layer of clear oil on the outer ring of the bamboo tube.He stretched one end of the casing and put it on the outside of the bamboo tube, and tied one end of the casing to the bamboo tube with a thin rope.

After fixing one end of the casing, he easily picked up the remaining part of the casing and put it on the bamboo tube.After a few strokes, a casing several feet long was hung on the bamboo tube.The soybean oil that had been smeared on the bamboo tube in advance also adhered evenly to the inside of the casing, and the casing was dyed yellow, which was a pretty color.

Ji Pingan tied the back hem of the casing, and the preparations were in place.

At this time, he removed the cover and gauze on the marinated meat slices, and saw that the pot was glowing red, and the wild boar meat was covered with a beautiful red layer, which looked warm even in the cold.

Ji Pingan held the bamboo tube with his left hand, and stuffed a handful of meat slices into the bamboo tube with his right hand.After stuffing some meat, he pushed the meat out of the bamboo tube with a wooden stick.

If there is no casing outside the bamboo tube, the meat in the bamboo tube will roll to the ground.It is because of this layer of casing that the cured meat is pushed into the casing.

When he first started pushing, Ji Ping'an's hands were a little raw, and there was some air in the middle of the meat.But it doesn't matter, as long as the meat is in the casing, a little squeeze can squeeze the meat to one place.

As Ji Ping'an became proficient in his movements, he squeezed the meat faster and faster.

At this moment, Xiaobai understood the meaning of the sausage. After the casing was opened, he saw that the transparent casing was filled with red and white meat.Round and meaty, it looks very delicious!

Ji Pingan didn't stuff the sausage very much because he hadn't divided the sausage into sections.If it is overstuffed, the casings tend to split when the grass is used to segment the sausage.How can the intestines that have been painstakingly filled open?

After Ji Pingan filled most of the sausage casings, he stopped what he was doing.He took out a small handful of one-foot-long brown rope. Xiaobai had never seen such a rope before, so he took a few more glances.

Ji Pingan explained: "This is a rope made from palm tree leaves. It looks thin, but it is strong!"

While talking, Ji Pingan tied up the sausage.With his movements, a whole long sausage quickly turned into a small sausage half a foot long.The little sausages are bounded by palm cord, they are round and lovely, and they can cut a plate in one knot.

Every few small sausages, Ji Pingan would tie a knot with a straw rope so that he could hang the sausages on the hook.

After Ji Ping'an had filled a whole intestine, he took out a weird-looking brush.It has the shape of a brush, but instead of hairs underneath, there are thin needles lined up one by one.

Ji Pingan took the brush and pricked evenly around the surface of the sausage, and the slight sound of the casing being punctured continued to be heard.

Xiaobai didn't understand: "Ping An, if you puncture the casing, won't the meat inside flow out?"

Ji Pingan smiled and said, "No, the needle is very thin, so it won't leak the casing. After the hole is pierced, the inside of the sausage will be more breathable and easy to dry."

Xiaobai nodded: "I see."

Just as Ji Pingan said, forty catties of meat could not trouble him, and he poured two large pots of meat into his intestines before lunch time.After the stuffed sausages were rinsed with water, they were hung under the eaves to dry.

It's strange to say, there are forty catties of meat, why does it look like there is not much in the intestines?

Xiaobai and Xiaohuang looked up at the sausages on the bamboo pole. Xiaohuang counted the sausages with interest, but his face collapsed after counting: "42, why are there only 42? There are so many meats !"

Ji Pingan stood on the stool and took away the pigskin that had been hanging under the eaves. After hearing Xiao Huang's complaint, he smiled: "The pig's intestines don't look big, but they can hold meat well. Forty catties of meat can be packed." There are 42 sausages, almost one sausage weighs a catty. Each sausage is half a foot long, and there are more than two feet long sausages here."

Two feet, if it is extended, it can be regarded as an astonishing length.However, these sausages are entangled on the bamboo poles, and there are not many sausages.

Xiaobai believed it: "It seems that a pig's intestines can really hold a whole pig."

The author has something to say:

I still have spicy sausages sent by my aunt from Sichuan in my refrigerator~ Don’t say anything, cook sausages for lunch today~

No... my gums are still swollen, eating a woolen sausage...

_(:з」∠)_What a pity...