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Chapter 41 Fresh Meat and Bacon

I want to eat bacon!Jiang Shaoyan stared at the tent above her head in a daze for a moment, then quickly got up, if she didn't want to buy Jinhua County's bacon that was more expensive than stewed beef, then she could cook it herself!
The art of salting and drying is a skill that our ancestors have. Not only in the previous life, but even the original owner himself has eaten salted bacon in his memory, but it is a pity that he has never met a cook who knows how to eat bacon, and Changan is not famous. to the famed bacon.I don't know how to buy bacon and I don't know how to make bacon dishes. The taste of cured bacon in my memory is simply not flattering.

Let’s not talk about it, let’s just say that the original owner had eaten cured bacon during the New Year’s Eve in the memory of the previous year, but the cook who didn’t know how to make pickled wax and didn’t know how to pick and buy cured bacon, stewed a salty meat with two swords combined. Bitter, oily and greasy pork legs, the original owner only took one bite and then stopped eating. Since then, he has never touched cured bacon, which is a pity for Jiang Shao Yanjue.

This is probably because of eating a bad dish so that "I was bitten by a snake for ten years and afraid of well ropes"!

However, Jiang Shaoyan is never afraid of eating the wrong dish. Although she didn’t buy pork leg, she bought a lot of pork. Jiang Shaoyan hurried to the kitchen after washing up early in the morning. After picking up two, I started to make horses and kill chickens for pork over and over again.

The methods of marinating meat are similar, but it is the "small differences" that cause the taste to be different. There is a salty, bitter, oily whole big pork leg that the original owner ate, and the price is relatively high. Jinhua bacon with high beef.

The salt used and the method of marinating will make a difference in the taste.After a few rounds of salting and killing the chickens, it is necessary to start various steps such as washing, drying, and subsequent fermentation. The real process is complicated, but if there is no such complicated process, the attention to each step will not be condensed into So delicious.

Jiang Shaoyan recalled the deliciousness of the bacon that he had eaten, and hung the bacon that had been slaughtered with ropes firmly under the eaves. When the wind blew, the bacon collided with each other and made a common "meat sound". Like a row of meat bells.

It's a pity that this meaty wind chime can only be seen but not eaten.

This is a delicacy that really condenses time, and it is very particular.

Whether you can see it or not... Swallowing silently at the bacon, Jiang Shaoyan walked aside and looked through the basket of washed and peeled crucian carp that she brought back yesterday.

The sun is good today, and the little crucian carp that has been in the sun for a long time is already half dry.

In the carriage yesterday, she made arrangements for the whereabouts of these small crucian carp: take a clay pot, stack up a layer of fish, a layer of salt, and a layer of fermented glutinous rice, and take it out in a few months for dinner and wine or as snacks. Can.

After receiving the earthen jar from Xiangli, Jiang Shaoyan, while reluctant to part with the cured meat in memory, filled the whole earthenware jar with crucian carp layer by layer and began to distribute these fish for the rest of his life, keeping them for a long time until the future Take it out and simmer until soft without adding any seasoning. Salted Jinjin itself is an excellent accompaniment to food and wine, but besides stewing, she prefers deep-frying. Take it out and fry it in oil to eat as a snack.

Of course, this deep-fried snack dish already has a name in the world - fish bream.

Jiang Shaoyan had already tasted this dish before, and the cooks in the Jiang Family Bieyuan would also cook this dish, but after tasting it, Jiang Shaoyan really didn't have any desire to order another dish, because the taste was really monotonous. The way of deep-frying is not very good, it really makes people not want to have a second bite.

However, the taste of fish bream with fermented glutinous rice will not be so monotonous.Of course, the deep-frying method cannot be like the cooks in the Jiangjia Bieyuan who wait until it is cooked and then take it out of the pan. Instead, it should use the double-frying method. Turn up the oil temperature and put it into the pan to count the number from one to ten, then pick it up immediately, all the fried food will have a more unique crispy texture than fried one time alone.

This kind of fish bream is good to eat alone. If it is delicious and spicy, you can roll it up to make it more spicy. It is spicy and crispy, so that almost every flavor hits the taste buds. It is an excellent food for snacks.

It's a pity that you don't have to wait a year and a half or even longer like bacon, and you can't eat it right away.

It is really tormenting to see but not to eat!But before Jiang Shaoyan sighed a few times, she soon discovered the problem before her: there was no more meat in the kitchen.

Recalling the previous situation, Jiang Shaoyan couldn't help but support her forehead: I really can't blame others for this!Just now when she was curing the bacon, the white steward came to ask Mu Shi if he would save some food for her. Jiang Shaoyan, who was thinking about curing the bacon, instinctively shook her head.

Later, when she used crockpots to stack glutinous rice fish, Xiangli also came to ask her if she would like to go to the kitchen to bring some food, but Jiang Shaoyan, who was thinking about the fish, still shook her head.

So at this time, Jiang Shaoyan, who was busy preparing to make evening food, realized that there was no meat for her to eat in the kitchen.

Clever woman... No matter how clever a clever woman is, she can't make meat!Jiang Shaoyan, who was fighting with meat in her mind, urgently needed some meat to slowly suppress her appetite. She searched the kitchen, but only found two eggs that could not be considered meat. Looking at the only two eggs in her hand As a last resort, Jiang Shaoyan was going to make a simple omelet to satisfy his hunger.

But she was just about to pour some flour out to make batter, when she heard the sound of fragrant pears outside.

"Miss, someone brought us something again!"

Oh?Jiang Shaoyan put down the egg in her hand and came out, surprised: "What did Guangming Temple send this time?"

Since she came to Baoling, she has never made any other friends except Guangming Nunnery's Mrs. Jingci, and Jiang Shaoyan really can't think of anyone else except Guangming Nunnery.

Holding two pieces of bacon in her hand, Xiangli said excitedly, "It was sent by a young, tall and good-looking guard brother!"

Xiao Wu, who was also young, tall and good-looking on the roof beside him, touched his face subconsciously after hearing this: Mr. Jiang's honesty for the first time in the Xiyuan made him useless as a hero, which is quite worrying!
Still young, tall and good-looking... Jiang Shaoyan couldn't help but sneer, and asked Xiangli, "Who can he say is the master?"

Although Mrs. Jingci is not taboo about meat and vegetables, she is a decent teacher, and she can't do the thing of inviting a "young, tall and good-looking guard brother" to show Guangming Nunnery a temple.

"I've said it! Thank you for the lion's head, miss. His mother likes it very much, and it's a special thank you gift!" Of course, the reason why Xiangli was so excited was not only because of the two pieces of bacon, It was also because the two characters on the bacon red seal were among the few Chinese characters she knew.

"Jinhua, it's Jinhua's bacon!" She still remembered the Jinhua bacon that the butcher said yesterday. She heard that Jinhua bacon was more expensive than Huangji braised beef.Unexpectedly, the master of the guard brother is really generous and courteous, Xiangli has a good impression of this "master" who delivers bacon.

Jiang Shaoyan's eyes lit up immediately: Jinhua's bacon?This is really a sleepy pillow, and it is worthwhile for her to have a dream all night yesterday!

After receiving the famous Jinhua bacon from Xiangli, Jiang Shaoyan took a close look and smelled it, and glanced at the ripe color. The aroma of bacon can be smelled just by being close, which shows that this is really a good piece of meat!
In this way, that bowl of bacon and eight-treasure rice that has fallen into the dream will really be eaten soon.

This reciprocation really pleased her, Jiang Shaoyan asked Xiangli to stop the "young, tall and good-looking" guard brother, and asked him to wait a while, and she had to prepare some reciprocation and go back.

Listening to Mrs. Jing Ci's description of the unique Langyan born by the young son who can be called a little fresh meat, Jiang Shaoyan decided to send back a piece of old bacon that has been fermented for years, ah bah, it is bacon eight-treasure rice.

(End of this chapter)