Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 908 Camphor Tea Duck

Chapter [-]: Camphor Tea Duck

After lunch, Li Junge first took out the duck that had been soaked for more than half a day, and put it in a boiling water pot to warm it up slightly. This process is called skin tightening.

After tightening the skin, take out the duck and let it dry out. At this time, the duck is already tasty.

On the other side, prepare the smoke material, mix well with pepper, sawdust, tea leaves, cypress leaves, and camphor leaves, put them in a pottery pot and light the smoke.

Cover the pot with bamboo smoker, put the ducks in the cage, cover the bamboo lid, smoke for 10 minutes first, then turn the ducks over one by one, add the smoker to the pot, and smoke for another 10 minutes.

After the duck is smoked, the skin has turned yellow, and there is a woody fragrance when you smell it carefully.

Then make a juice with Shaoxing wine, fermented glutinous rice juice, and pepper powder, spread it evenly on the duck skin and belly, put the duck in a large steamer and steam it for two hours, take it out and let it cool.

Today is a holiday, and Ayin is also at home. She and her grandma are making one of the few classic pasta dishes in Jiachuan, the thousand-layer shortbread.

Shortbread is made of shortbread and shortbread rolled into pastry, covered with sugar fillings, and baked in an oven.

It sounds simple, but the white case is Li Junge's hard work, and his craftsmanship in this area is not as good as that of A Yin who likes to make pastries, bread, and cassava cakes.

Auntie Ayin's pastries are becoming more and more delicious in the eyes of children.

The shortbread has sesame filling, sweet-scented osmanthus filling and orange filling.

The honey cake is the most famous Xiangshan honey cake in Zhongzhou County under Yuzhou.
The main raw materials of honey cakes are flour, honey and sesame oil.The production method is that the dough is kneaded with honey and wheat flour, fermented and then baked in a traditional oven. The orange butter is bright, sweet but not greasy, crisp but not broken, soft and delicious, and rich in honey fragrance.

This thing is said to have a thousand years of history.When Bai Juyi served as the governor of Zhongzhou, he brought the technology of making flax cakes from Fuxingfang in Chang'an to Zhongzhou. It is widely circulated among the people.

Because Bai Juyi was nicknamed "Xiangshan", the people in Zhongzhou named this cake "Xiangshan Honey Cake" in memory of him.

Jiachuan and Yuzhou are adjacent to each other, so the method of making honey cakes has been widely spread in the old days, and many elders know the method.

But now everything is convenient. Except for places like Lijiagou where I occasionally make it myself, I bought it in other places.

If it weren't for Ayin's liking to play with these things, grandma would not bother to bother to teach her.

But if grandma doesn’t make a move, it will be a big scene. The three women in the family have been busy all day, using the big iron pot on the stove as an oven, combined with Ayin’s modern oven, and made hundreds of cakes.

Then let Li Junge drive the car all the way to deliver the cakes.

The two aunts’ houses in Pan’ao Township, Uncle Shitou, Uncle Orion, Uncle Pharmacist, and Santaiguan, let’s just forget about what they can make, and mainly send them to those families who don’t have homemade mooncakes...

Sending them down in a circle, by the way, Liang girl, the family of the fourth grandfather, the family of the uncle, and the couple of the uncle's family were also brought to the house for the festival.

Passing by the end of the village, I saw a few fishermen getting off their guards by the water, stopped to say hello, and brought up three tails and three catties with pouty mouths.

The little milk dog has already started to recognize its owner. Alimu and Arthur are now holding the two dogs they have chosen all day long, and they like them very much.

Back at Tiren Garden, grandma was happy when she saw Tongtong, and clapped her hands to attract her attention: "Come here, give me a hug from Zuzu!"

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter hurriedly said: "Tongtong is very strong, be careful to hold your legs."

Grandma took Tongtong and let her sit on her lap, playing with her little arms and legs: "Oh, this bracelet is very delicate."

Liangzi smiled and said, "Grandpa Yu found the silversmith on the mountain to make it. The workmanship is indeed very fine."

Grandma turned her body to Tongtong: "Our Tongtong is just attractive, isn't it? The odds and ends of each family are not old or young..."

Tongtong looked up at her, and called out in a childish voice: "Grandma... grandma..."

Now grandma was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear: "Oh my little girl's mouth is so sweet!"

Dad came out to greet everyone to sit down and chat, and sent Li Junge to cook.

The dinner in Lijiagou is not too complicated. You just stir-fry a piece of spicy shredded beef and a piece of fish-flavored pork in a big pot, steam it well, and the rest are all kinds of stir-fried seasonal vegetables.

In addition to the stewed bamboo rats with dried bamboo shoots that were cooked in the afternoon, stewed chicken with matsutake mushrooms, Dongpo elbow, and steamed glutinous rice with brown sugar from newly-made black gold rice, the specifications of the family banquet are still sufficient.

Once the busy work is over, the time is almost the same, and the duck is fetched to start the next set of procedures.

Heat the frying pan on high heat, heat the vegetable oil until it is [-]% hot, and Li Junge begins to pour hot oil on the duck.

Drizzle the duck until the duck skin is crispy, fragrant, and crispy. Don’t fry it until it is burnt, otherwise the duck skin will become bitter if you wipe it with fermented glutinous rice.

Then brush it with sesame oil, and this is a famous Sichuan dish among duck dishes - camphor tea duck.

Now the duck has become the color of candied dates, oily and fragrant.

Li Junge first cut the duck into strips one finger long and two finger wide and put them on three plates.

Put two dipping plates made of sesame oil and sweet bean sauce next to each plate, cut the green onions into sections, and then finely cut the flowering onions from the head, and put them into two small plates, surrounding the duck.

That's it.

Finally, I fried a piece of steak for Ali Mudan, and made a porridge with chicken soup and minced vegetables for Tongtong, and then I greeted everyone to serve.

There are three tables of people sitting here.

The sweet-scented osmanthus in Tiren Garden was collected by grandma, some of them were made into sweet-scented osmanthus candy, and some of them were made into sweet-scented osmanthus wine.

Some of the sweet-scented osmanthus sugar was made into shortbread today. At the dinner party, everyone drank sweet-scented osmanthus wine.

Today is a family feast, and only two sisters came to the group of four.

Grandpa Fourth picked up the wine: "Is this the closest we've ever gotten together during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Siqin and Simei can't help it, otherwise we're all together."

Li Junge smiled and said: "When I sent the moon cakes over today, my aunt was packing up and said that she was going to get together with her cousin in the city. The second aunt just retired and sent Meixian to Shudu. I don't know when she will come back. Send the cake to my cousin."

The uncle said with a smile: "I'm afraid I can't hold the food for those little brats when I send it to the sub-bureau. Then I have to trouble Liang girl to bring another copy back to Zhilan and Zilun later."

Liang Huili responded with a smile.

Fourth Grandpa said: "Then don't worry about it, let's drink it ourselves!"

Today is the holiday, and Alimu and Arthur each got a glass of rice wine. Everyone walked together and began to eat vegetables.

Liangzi wanted to feed Tongtong, grandma smiled and said, "Liangzi, you can just eat, and Tongtong can feed it to me. You can try this duck, Piwa made it all day long."

Li Junge slapped his forehead: "I have to make a single dipping plate for Aunt Liangzi."

Turning around, he went into the kitchen and took out another Xiaodie, and said, "This one has mustard oil added, maybe you like it better."

Liangzi said, "Is this different from the geese we sell?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Then the difference is quite big. Ban Goose is a cured product, and the taste is completely different."

Liangzi dipped a strip of duck meat into the dipping sauce and chewed it in his mouth: "Well, it's really fragrant, and the taste is so rich! Many kinds of flavors come together, um, I know the smell of cypress sticks, and it's delicious. There are prickly ash, fermented glutinous rice... There is also a smell that is very familiar, but I can't name it."

Li Junge said: "There is also the fragrance of camphor leaves and tea leaves. This dish is called camphor tea duck."

Liangzi said: "This taste is really good. It is very suitable for our taste when paired with this mustard oil dish. Please teach me, Piwa. I will make it for my father when he comes."

While feeding Tongtong porridge, grandma smiled and said, "I think it's not too different from our local smoked duck and sweet-skinned duck, but the process is much more complicated. If you want to learn it, Liangzi, you should learn the first two first. , and then do this.”

Liangzi said with a smile: "A while ago there was a funny thing. There was a Korean post saying that Korea is a kingdom of gourmet food. Compared with Chinese food, Korean food is much worse."

Ayin asked: "And then?"

Ryoko laughed and said: "The result angered us Japanese. Many Japanese netizens ran to reply and listed all kinds of evidence, saying that Chinese food can only be compared with French food, and we dare not compare Japanese food. You Koreans, He Dehe dare to say that."

The old man couldn't help laughing: "What about the Chinese?"

Liangzi said: "The Chinese translated the screenshot of this post and posted it on domestic forums, treating it as a joke."

The uncle couldn't help laughing: "Our netizens are really reasonable."

Li Junge laughed loudly: "It's not unreasonable, it's because there are too many moths over there, I can't care about it."

Shirly and Alice searched for a long time: "Jungle, where's the cake?"

Li Junge said: "I will eat the cake later when I admire the moon. Now is the time to eat."

Alice said: "That's not right, shouldn't the duck be put in the pancake, with shredded green onions, dipped in cucumbers in this sauce, and rolled up to eat?"

Li Junge put his hand on his forehead: "The one you are talking about is BJ Roast Duck!"

My mother ate in two or three mouthfuls at random, and took Tongtong over to eat with grandma.

Grandma picked out the most tender meat from the pouty belly, checked that there were no thorns, and put it in Tongtong's small bowl.

The mother fed two mouthfuls and said, "Tongtong likes to eat fish. He will be smart when he grows up. Piwa liked to eat fish when he was a child."

Uncle Bamboo Carpenter said: "That's not necessarily true. I also liked to eat fish when I was a child, but I didn't grow a brain like Piwa."

This made everyone at the table laugh, not to mention this family, this township can compete with Li Junge, the fourth grandpa, the old man, uh, seems to be gone.

Even the kind of old cousin can only be regarded as having outstanding professional skills. When it comes to agility, even the old man dare not say that he is better than Li Junge.

The uncle sighed with emotion: "It seems that the child is still a bit spiritual..."

The people at the next table couldn't help it anymore, they couldn't help laughing together.

The Fourth Grandpa stroked Arthur and Alimu's little heads and smiled: "Our branch got a 'stick', and when we got to Yuxiang and Yuhuai, it turned into a 'sincere'; Siyuan's branch got a 'sincerity'. When it comes to Junwei, Junan, and Junhua, it turns into 'straight'; this can be regarded as a clue. But when it comes to Siqi, it obviously got a 'light', but why did it turn into 'cunning', It's really incredible!"

Liang Huili put down her chopsticks and applauded: "The fourth grandpa summed it up so well! Isn't he just a 'cunning'!"

Li Junge took a chicken wing and gave it to Liang Huili: "Hurry up and eat it! The township head has been serving for a long time, and he likes to write a summary! By the way, the [-] billion, how much is left in the township? Is there [-] million?"

Liang Huili said: "Huh? What good things are you thinking of? The county doesn't have so many. We in Pan'ao Township only have a little over [-] million."

(End of this chapter)