Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 425, Hot Pot

Autumn turns to winter, and the days are like running water. After the first heavy snow, the whole Sijiu City starts to move. In winter, every household in Sijiu City starts to be busy storing cabbage, radish, and potatoes. !Without them, there would be no food to eat this winter!And you will have to eat this kind of food for several months.

In these days and months, storing these things is also a battle. At this time of year, the slogan of the Sijiu City Government is "Watch the battle of storing Chinese cabbage for the winter." It also has a dedicated leadership team for winter storage. At that time, cabbage was all about political achievements.

When winter comes in the alleys, the first thing neighbors say when they meet is: "How many kilograms did you buy here today?" At that time, cabbage was like buying a train ticket for the Spring Festival. You had to "grab" it. ".

Go to the non-staple food stalls before dawn and wait in long queues. Everyone has a non-staple food book in their hand. At that time, the supply was based on the book. You had to sleep all day long before going there, or you could use the leftovers picked by others. Otherwise, just wait and see!
After buying cabbage, it is a laborious task to take it home, so when storing cabbage, people say that they are dumping the cabbage. Some people ride tricycles, bicycles, and use small carts. Of course, there are also strong men who directly Carrying it back can be said to be like the eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing his magical powers.

However, due to the impact of the disaster this year, the number of items distributed was only three-quarters of the past.

This year, Red Star Farm also planted a lot of cabbage. Normally, these things are not valuable, but now they are given out as welfare, so whether the supplies are sufficient depends on the research institute, which is the indicator.

Jiang Yan couldn't bear to eat these old vegetables every day. Although he had other vegetables in his own space, taking them out was a problem.

As a result, this pickle became Jiang Yan's last stubbornness.

This time of year is He Yuzhu’s busiest time, making pickles!Pickled mustard mustard, pickled cabbage...,
He and Liuzi did all the work at home together. Who told them to make delicious pickles?
But every year, Jiang Yan’s friends and brothers come here to ask for pickles, and in the end, he doesn’t even have enough to eat. It’s so unreasonable!

So Jiang Yan thought that he would pickle more food this year, because he was afraid that his grandchildren would take all the food for him and leave him with nothing to eat.

Potherb mustard is a good thing. Once marinated and mixed with cooked soybeans, it becomes a great dish to go with wine!Stir-fry some meat and chili, and it's the best way to eat noodles!Sauerkraut is stewed with fatty vermicelli. It’s so delicious when it’s snowing in the winter!Pickled cabbage stuffed buns and dumplings, hey!Not to mention how delicious it is!But the key is to make it delicious.

Other people make tomato sauce in the summer, so Jiang Yan can only do as the Romans do. However, Jiang Yan is more proud of the watermelon sauce from his hometown. Jiang Yan knows the specific steps, but it makes him numb, but there are two cooks. It's not a difficult thing here. After Jiang Yan's narration and the two chefs' restoration, the watermelon sauce was finally made.

But now, this is not the era of free watermelon in future generations. Jiang Yan also worked hard to make watermelon pickled watermelon sauce.

Before the first snow fell in Sijiucheng, we had people clean up the several hot pots in our house in advance. The small boiler was also cleaned up, and the chimney was cleaned as needed to ensure the heating in the house.

Coal is also rationed. The coal you get back is not briquettes, you have to shake briquettes!This is a big deal.

However, Jiang Yan basically didn't have to worry about these things, He Yuzhu and the others took care of them beautifully.

Jiang Yan would help others when they were busy and had free time, so this was life. Later, our living conditions improved and we no longer had to worry about these things, but this life also lacked a lot of fun and vitality.So for this person, living is troublesome. He can't do it when he's tired, he can't do it when he's idle, he has too many things to do, so he just has to do nothing, and he starts to feel bored again.

Grandma and other female comrades are not idle either. They have to prepare cotton clothes, cotton shoes, woolen pants and socks, gloves and hats for the whole family for the winter. Not all of them are made new, but it takes several days to unpack, wash and dry them!

Moreover, Xu Damao got a lot of rabbit fur this year, and Jiang Yan took out the skins from his own space to make clothes for everyone. Qin Huairu became the main force this time.

Military coats have now almost become standard equipment for Jiang Yan and the others. However, only Jiang Yan can wear these generals. It's not that they don't have them. The key is to wear them so that they don't get bricks when they go out.

On this Sunday, Jiang Yan didn't know what was wrong. It was like eating butter hot pot. The key is that the food eaten in Sijiu City these days is basically shabu-shabu. Hot pot is not very popular here.

Before traveling through time, Jiang Yan watched many food programs, including making hot pot base.

He has also eaten hot pot in this world, but it always tasted a little tasteless.

"Boss, what did you buy?" Silly Zhu was wandering in the yard with his son in his arms. When he saw Jiang Yan walking over with a large bag of things, he couldn't help but ask.

"I bought some butter beef bones, and I plan to make a butter soup base and make a butter hot pot." When cooking was mentioned, Silly Zhu became interested.

"Boss, you can also make hot pot." He Yuzhu stared at Jiang Yan as if he had just seen the New World.

He has never seen his eldest son enter the kitchen since he met Jiang Yan, but there is really no need for the eldest son to enter the kitchen. After all, there are two chefs in the family.

"Look at it for me, or give me some pointers if it's not right."

Hearing Jiang Yan's words, He Yuzhu nodded like a chicken eating rice.

Jiang Yan only learned from the videos. It has been so many years and he has forgotten many details. No matter He Yuzhu is around, he is the expert in this field.

Jiang Yan and his family's kitchen stove quickly turned up, boiling beef suet first to make butter.

Then it was cooked with big bones. He Yuzhu was an expert in the ingredients. Within two hours, a scent spread throughout the kitchen.

Jiang Yan's kitchen has been specially prepared. The chimney goes directly outside, but the aroma still drifts out, which shows the dominance of this hot pot.

"I have to say Zhuzhu, and it has to be you. Without you, this pot of soup wouldn't be possible."

"Haha, boss, I am also following you to get rich. This hot pot thing is absolutely amazing. Compared with this, Dong Laishun's clear soup pot bottom is terrible."

Luo Xiaobao poured the boiled pot bottom into Silly Zhu's bowl and said, "Zhu Zhu is going to tidy it up. We will eat this tonight. By the way, we are making a pot bottom for fungus soup. I said to the old lady that they can't eat this." "

When making arrangements for He Yuzhu, Jiang Yan suddenly thought of something. The old lady was old and eating too much chili pepper was not good for her health, so she asked He Yuzhu to make the bottom of a mushroom soup pot.

He Yuzhu went into the kitchen and started working. Xu Damao and Shitou came back from get off work.Smelling the aroma, they went to the kitchen. When they found out that it was Jiang Yan who cooked the hot pot, the two of them looked like they had seen a ghost.

"Boss, I'm so low on drinks today. This is your first time cooking. I know you still have Moutai, how about we drink this tonight and try your butter hot pot by the way."

Jiang Yan smiled and said, "No problem. You know where the things are. Go get them. Let's have some drinks when Zhuzi prepares the dishes."

In order to eat this hot pot, Jiang Yan asked Xu Damao to take out the preparations from the cellar, including tripe louvers, mutton, beef, etc.

Jiang Yan asked these things to be placed in the basement in advance. He also asked He Yuzhu to make a batch of meatballs from beef and mutton. It felt like something was missing when eating hot pot without meatballs.

The mutton is cut freshly by Liu Zi after get off work. This is authentic hand-cut mutton.It’s a full five pounds!
In the evening, a group of people sat in the living room of Jiang Yan's house and cooked hot pot. They were divided into two tables.

Looking at the table full of beef and mutton, the old lady felt that eating these things in these days was a luxury, and she sighed for a long time.

In order to avoid others knowing, Jiang Yan also specially ordered the door in the courtyard to be locked.

Jiang Yan tasted the cooked mutton. It tasted very authentic, no worse than the authentic butter hot pot of the 21st century, and even tasted better.

(End of this chapter)