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Chapter 56: Pig's Head and Sausage
Five-spice powder is made by grinding amomum, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, galangal, star anise, etc. into powder.

Except for Amomum villosum, all other herbs were purchased.

In addition, Jiang Yunjin added peppercorns and fennel seeds.

She learned all these methods on the Internet in later life.

Due to her professional habit, she prefers to make some rare snacks by herself rather than buy them outside.

The spices bought at the clinic have a strong medicinal flavor.

Jiang Yunjin got a bowl of spiritual spring water, then found a clean wooden basin and put the spices in according to their grams.

She didn't have a small scale, so she put in as much as she could based on her previous feelings.

Washing it with spiritual spring water not only removes the smell of medicine, but also locks in the smell of spices.

After washing them, she took out the spices, drained the water, spread them on a clean white cloth, and dried them.

She poured the water used to wash the spices into the vegetable garden.

At this time, Mrs. Jiang and a few others were cleaning the pig offal. There were more than a dozen sacks full, which made people's scalps numb.

Fortunately, it is winter now and the weather is cold, so it won’t stink for a while.

Jiang Yunjin only asked for one pair to be cleaned first, but took out the casings of the others first.

After cleaning the casings, be careful to remove the grease on them as well. This is a delicate job.

Mrs. Jiang volunteered to carefully scrape off the grease.

After the fat is scraped off, the casing becomes slightly transparent.

The casings are large and small, and they are kept separately.

The pig offal has been almost processed.

Clean the big pot, add clean well water, then put the washed pig's head and other things into the pot and stew them.

Several children were vying to make the fire.

Jiang Yunjin also came over with a white cloth bag sewn by Old Mrs. Jiang. It was filled with spices specially used for making braised food.

Throw the small cloth bag in and cover the pot.

The stove was burning hot, and soon a fragrance slowly emanated from the pot.

Mrs. Jiang Da and Mrs. Jiang Er took turns skimming off the blood foam. After the pot boiled, they covered the pot with the lid, leaving a gap for the blood to flow out.

After it has completely boiled, add salt, onion, ginger, soy sauce and other ingredients into the pot and continue to simmer.

After about half an hour, the fire on the stove gradually went out.

When you poke it with chopsticks, it is soft but not mushy, and has a chewy texture.

After the pot cooled down, Jiang Laosi came over, opened the lid, and deboned the pork halves as the little girl had instructed.

In order to ensure the safety of the food he ate, Jiang Laosi also wore gloves specially made by Old Lady Jiang, which were made of several layers of white cloth.

This is also what Jiang Yunjin requested.

Things were not as developed as they are in later generations, and there were no transparent gloves or rubber gloves.

Only use your hands to handle food.

However, Jiang Yunjin felt that this was not a good idea, so she asked Old Lady Jiang to sew a pair of special gloves for her.

Just wash it and you can use it many times.

Wearing gloves, Jiang Laosi removes the bones from the pig's head without damaging the entire face. It is a delicate job.

It was also the first time for him to do this. Fortunately, he had plenty of strength and was not afraid of hard work. Even so, it took him an hour to remove all the bones.

The boneless pig head is soaked in brine again to make it more flavorful.

At this moment, the Jiang family members could not suppress their excitement as they smelled the fragrance filling the yard.

What is this scent?
It was also the first time for them to smell it, let alone eat it.

Just smelling this fragrance makes people swallow their saliva.

The pork head was ready and the spices that Jiang Yunjin had dried were also dry. She found a small iron pot and set up a simple fire rack.

Put the dried spices in the pot and stir-fry for a few times. When you smell the tempting aroma, turn off the heat.

Seeing this, Jiang Laosi covered the iron pot ears, took the small pot off, and poured it on the small lid prepared by Jiang Yunjin.

After it cooled down completely, Jiang Yunjin took out a small medicine grinder from somewhere.

The medicine grinder is made of wood. A smooth piece of wood is used with a long groove in the middle. A small roller made of wood is placed on it and rolled back and forth. It is the most suitable for grinding powder.

Jiang Yunjin put the things on the medicine grinder and crushed them back and forth. If she was tired, she would take over her older brothers.

A few little guys stuck their butts out and soon ground the spices into powder, filling up half a jar.

Of the spices bought with ten taels of silver, only one tenth was used.

All the materials are ready, just waiting for Boss Jiang to make the tools.

Just as she raised her foot to take a look, she saw her father coming towards her carrying a wooden funnel.

A funnel is one of the main tools for making an enema.

The funnel was fixed in place by a wooden frame, with the bowl-sized part facing the sky and the thumb-sized part facing the ground.

She originally wanted her father to make a hand-cranked tool, but when she actually operated it, she couldn't remember the fine details.

It can only be a minimalist tool.

The surface of the funnel is very smooth without any burrs, which shows that the craftsmanship is indeed superb.

Now that everything is ready, start marinating the meat.

First, cut the skin off the 22 pounds of pork, then cut the pork into long strips, and then cut the long strips into small pieces of uniform size.

After the meat was cut, Jiang Yunjin stood aside and directed his mother and second aunt to pour the ingredients into a clean wooden basin one by one, and then put the meat in it.

Secondly, sprinkle in a little five-spice powder and pour in a little white wine.

After stirring, it can be filled.

While stirring, Jiang Yunjin dropped in a small wine glass-sized amount of spiritual spring water to further enhance the aroma of the meat.

In order to know exactly how much meat can be put into a pound, Boss Jiang went to the village chief's house to borrow a scale.

According to Jiang Yunjin, one pound of meat was stuffed into a long strip, which was divided into four sections, with knots tied at each connection.

She plans to sell it by the root.

Not only that, she also mixed two kilograms of it with chili powder to make it a spicy taste.

The stuffed meat was hung on a makeshift wooden rack.

The long rows look very spectacular.

The freshly stuffed sausages are not flavorful enough yet, so you can eat them after a day or two. If you want to keep them for a longer time, you can dry them in the sun and steam them whenever you want to eat them.

There will be no sausages to eat today.

The Jiang family did not feel discouraged, but instead felt secretly excited.

Because the pig's head is edible.

The village chief has been bothering her these past two days, so Mrs. Jiang asked Boss Jiang to take some pork heads to the village chief and weigh them as well.

This was also proposed by Jiang Yunjin.

She wanted to try and see if it suits everyone's taste.

Even the family of Old Lady Qian across the street sent a lot of gifts.

When old lady Qian saw the food for the first time, she felt it was too hot in her hand. Later, when she heard that it was a dish to go with wine, she accepted it with gratitude.

After a while, he asked his grandson to bring a basket of eggs as a return gift.

Old Mrs. Jiang didn't hesitate and took the eggs immediately.

Mrs. Jiang and a few others went to prepare dinner.

It was said that he was cooking dinner, but in fact he just cooked a pot of porridge.

Jiang Yunjin talked about several ways to eat pig head. First, he sliced ​​it and cooked it whole. Then he stir-fried the large intestine and lungs with chili peppers.

The pig's trotters are also braised, torn into small pieces and placed on a plate.

These are all meat!
Seeing this, Mrs. Jiang fried some vegetarian vegetables as a garnish.

at night.

There was a charcoal fire burning in the house. The Jiang family members were sitting around a table. When they saw the sumptuous food on the table, their eyes were all red.

This was the most delicious food they had ever tasted.

(End of this chapter)