After nuclear sewage, I can hear the voices of plants

Chapter 124 "Fried Tea"

After seeing how powerful ants are, Jiang Yan no longer dares to put all kinds of food scraps at home. If the ant colony is hundreds of square meters, if they are attracted, the entire farm will be submerged by the ant colony.

Seeing Zhao Dabai send the pig bones out the door, Jiang Yan returned to the storage room and took out the steel wire he bought earlier.

Such a large amount of pork can no longer be stored in the well. In this case, there is only one way to preserve the pork for a longer period of time.

That's air drying.

Taking out the cutting board, Jiang Yan cut off all the thick lard and put it into the pot. Then he cut the remaining pork into thin strips and hung them on the wire.

Jiang Yan didn't have any oil on his hands. This little bit of lard just became Jiang Yan's hard-earned cooking oil. After shaving off the fat meat, the remaining lean meat just met the conditions for drying. This was simply killing two birds with one stone.

According to this method, Jiang Yan, with the cooperation of the Lu sisters, worked hard all afternoon and finally decomposed the whole pig. The remaining lean meat was hung by the Lu sisters like clothes by the fire. The temperature and breeze continue to roast the lean meat above, allowing the lean meat to be preserved longer.

The fat meat in the iron pot was soaked in water. As the flames in the stove pit became more fierce, the water in the pot gradually began to boil.

In order to prevent the lard from producing peculiar smell, Jiang Yan put some onions, ginger and garlic into the water. In theory, star anise and cinnamon are also needed, but these are not available in Jiang Yan now.

Watching the water in the pot continue to boil, Jiang Yan asked the Lu sisters to keep an eye on the two fires, and then poured the pine needles in the basket into the basin next to the well, followed by a large amount of water.

Jiang Yan knows a little about the steps of making pine needle tea. The most important thing about pine needle tea is not to roast the tea, but to remove the bitter taste from the skin of the pine needles. Otherwise, the pine needle tea will be bitter and astringent, and may even sting the throat. .

Soaking all the pine needles in the water, Jiang Yan took some plant ashes from the barbecue campfire, and then poured all the plant ashes into the water for washing the pine needles.

If you want to remove the bitter taste of pine needle tea, the best way is to use edible alkali, but Jiang Yan does not have alkali at home. Baking soda can be used as a substitute, but Jiang Yan does not have baking soda at home.

Plant ash water is a kind of alkaline water. Using plant ash to clean pine needles can theoretically achieve the desired effect, but it is not convenient to clean.

Soaking all the pine needles in plant ash water, Jiang Yan was distracted and observing the smoked meat strips. From the moment the pork was decomposed, Lu Lili had been smoking the meat strips non-stop. The estimated time had exceeded two hours, and night had come two hours ago.

Due to the large quantity of meat strips, Jiang Yan estimated that it would take another two hours to smoke and roast, and the lard in the pot was almost finished refining at this moment.

There was a lot of oil residue floating on the crystal clear lard. He took out the spatula and stirred the lard. After realizing that the lard had been refined, Jiang Yan took out a sealed jar from the storage room and poured a spoonful of lard into it. Spoon the inside.

After pouring the last spoonful of lard into the jar, Jiang Yan sealed the jar and put it in the storage room. Then he took out a pair of chopsticks and picked up the lard residue in the pot on a plate.

"Hoohoo!"

Picking one up, Jiang Yan blew it and then stuffed the lard residue into his mouth.

The crispy texture is accompanied by an extremely rich aroma. Tasting the delicious taste in her mouth, Jiang Yan seems to have returned to the days when her grandma cooked lard for her when she was a child.

"Quick, come and taste."

Opening her eyes of enjoyment, Jiang Yan hurriedly asked the Lu family sisters to taste the oil residue. Upon hearing Jiang Yan's voice, the Lu family sisters immediately gathered around and looked at the oil residue on the plate curiously. "Sister Yan, what is this?"

Hearing Lu Lili's curiosity, Jiang Yan picked up a piece of lard residue and placed it on Lu Lili's mouth.

"Open your mouth, this is lard residue, it's very fragrant!"

Feeling the heat on the tip of her nose, Lu Lili opened her mouth. Jiang Yan put the lard residue into Lu Lili's mouth. The crispy taste instantly poured in, making the still curious Lu Lili narrow her eyes in happiness, and the taste in her mouth was so delicious. Tasting the fragrance makes Lu Lili's pores relax.

"Sister! This is so delicious!"

After swallowing the lard residue, Lu Lili came back to her senses with her empty mouth. Her eyes looked at the lard residue on the plate in disbelief. Lu Lili pointed at the plate and kept jumping excitedly.

Seeing Lu Lili's appearance, Lu Linlin also picked up a piece and slowly put it into her mouth, chewed it a little, and the fragrance that filled the air was as rich as ice cream melting in her mouth. It flowed around. She closed her eyes and enjoyed the taste in her mouth. It was delicious. Lu Linlin licked her lips after swallowing the lard residue.

Lu Lili on the side looked at Lu Linlin expectantly. Seeing the intoxicated expression on the latter's face, the corners of Lu Lili's mouth raised even more.

"It's delicious!"

"Well, it's super delicious!"

Looking at each other, Lu Linlin and Lu Lili hugged each other excitedly as if they had discovered a rare treasure. Jiang Yan, who was holding a plate on the side, called Zhao Dabai and Kaka to enjoy the hard-won food together.

Picking up two small pieces, Jiang Yan deftly threw them into the mouths of Zhao Dabai and Kaka. However, after chewing, Zhao Dabai and Kaka did not show the same excitement as Lu Linlin and Lu Lili. This reminded Jiang Yan of , no other animal has such a sensitive sense of taste.

But even if the two little ones couldn't eat it, Jiang Yan still took two more pieces and gave them to Zhao Dabai and Kaka. They wanted to share the joy together.

The lard residue on the plate was quickly eaten by the three of them. Looking at the empty plate, Lu Lili wanted to take it and lick the lard on it. Jiang Yan hurriedly stopped her. Although the lard residue was very fragrant, the plate was full of lard. The content inside was real lard. If Lu Lili licked it, he would probably spit out the lard residue just now.

After the small dessert, Jiang Yan and the others returned to their posts again. The Lu sisters filled some firewood into the fire and then grilled the remaining meat strips, while Jiang Yan cleaned and salvaged all the soaked pine needles. Take it out and put it next to the fire to dry.

Clean the iron pot with well water, Jiang Yan fills the iron pot with a full pot of water, and boil it over high heat.

The purpose of this step is not to boil the water, but to remove the peculiar smell in the pot. Fried tea requires a very clean pot. If there are other smells in the pot, the tea will not taste so good.

After boiling a whole pot of water, Jiang Yan poured out all the water, and then boiled another full pot.

After repeating this process five times, the iron pot finally lost any odor. Seeing that the time was right, Jiang Yan put the dried pine needles into the pot, then reached out and continued to stir-fry the pine needles in the iron pot.

Stir-fried tea is not like stir-frying. It is more like a teppanyaki. Use an iron pot to dry out the water in the tea, leaving the most essence.

After frying it once, the pine needles that came out of the pot had faded from their previous emerald green color and turned into gray-green. Checking the pine needle tea on the bamboo fence, Jiang Yan poured the pine needles into the iron pot again, for the second time The roasted tea will make the aroma of the whole tea more intense.

(End of this chapter)