Sweet Garden Sands

Chapter 168 Bacon
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But there are no vegetables, but she has rice at home!
"There are still some, but it's still so long before Chinese New Year, I..." Ke Jiangshi bit her lip and did not continue.

"Third Aunt, the rice my father brought you last time was not for you to eat until the New Year. After eating, you can just bring it to our house. Qin'er and Zhu'er are now growing up, you have to let them Just eat enough!" Ke Hanxue frowned and paused, then said, "I'll let my father carry a bag of rice for you later."

"No, Xue'er!" Ke Jiangshi shouted: "We are all separated now, how can I go to your house to get it when I don't eat, it will make people laugh."

"Third Aunt, are we not relatives after the separation? Our family planted so much rice last season. If you, Qin'er, and Zhu'er are hungry, then the villagers will laugh at us!" Ke Hanxue After a meal, he said again: "Aunt San, we can't finish eating the rice in our house in a year. You also know that the old rice is not good, so you should help us eat the old rice first, and our family will eat it in spring. And new rice!"

After finishing speaking, Ke Hanxue took the fish into their kitchen, put it in a wooden barrel filled with water, and went back.
When Ke Zhong heard that Ke Jiang and his two children were drinking rice soup with wild vegetables, he hurriedly asked Ke Shuisheng to carry another bag of rice over.
"Ke Zhongshi, didn't you plant some radishes in the mulberry garden a while ago? You can eat them and get some for them." Ke Mengshi was also very distressed when she heard that her two granddaughters were drinking rice soup with wild vegetables.

"Mother, the radish won't be edible until half a month later." Ke Zhong said, "Tomorrow I will ask the children's father to bring back more meat, oil and salt, and then I will send some to them."

"Okay, okay!" Ke Mengshi nodded in relief. Fortunately, Dafang's family was not so fussy, which made her worry less.
But thinking of her four sons, now only Dafang is complete, Ke Meng felt sad again.
Ke Shuisheng carried the rice to Sanfang's house. Ke Jiang didn't dare to take it, but Ke Shuisheng reprimanded him angrily, so Ke Jiang let him carry the rice into the kitchen and pour it into the rice jar in the kitchen.
In the evening of the next day, Ke Shuisheng brought back twenty or thirty catties of pork belly and a few big bones in one go, which shocked Ke Zhongshi.

"Father, I asked you to bring back more meat, but I didn't ask you to bring so much!"

Ke Hanxue also looked at her father speechlessly, and asked, "Father, does this meat cost no money?"

Although it is November now, there is no snow in the winter here, and fresh meat cannot be frozen like in the north. The meat will spoil if left for a long time.
Ke Shuisheng scratched his head and said with a smile: "The boss of the meat stall asked me to buy all of them, and it was two pennies cheaper per catty. I saved dozens of pennies by buying these meats!"

Ke Zhongshi and Ke Hanxue looked at each other, and both sighed helplessly.

Ke Hanxue stared at the pile of meat and became worried. This meat can take a few catties to the third aunt's house. What if there are leftovers?

After a long while, Ke Hanxue's eyes suddenly lit up, she can roast these meats!
Although I don't know if the people here like to eat bacon, but it is not afraid that the meat will be spoiled after being cured.
Thinking of this, Ke Hanxue said to her parents: "Father, mother, give these meat to me!".
Ke Hanxue remembers that when he moved into a new house to treat guests last time, there were still a lot of fragrant leaves and star anise cinnamon that he bought for stew, and he hadn't finished drinking the wine he bought. With these ingredients for bacon, the meat can be cooked first tonight. Pickle down.

After dinner, Ke Hanxue was busy in the kitchen lighting the oil lamp, and Ke Zhongshi also entered the kitchen to help.
Mrs. Ke Zhong first cut out a piece of pork belly about two catties and hung it up, ready to take it to Mrs. Ke Jiang the next day, then shaved the rest of the meat, cut it into eight or nine pieces according to her daughter's request, and put it away after cutting. Set aside.
"Xue'er, is this bacon?" Ke Zhong asked while watching her daughter tinkering with the ingredients.
Some well-to-do families in the village will also marinate some meat for later use, but the marinated meat only needs to be marinated with soy sauce and salt, and these materials are not used.

"Mother, this is called bacon, and the taste of cured meat is completely different from that of salted bacon." Ke Hanxue said while putting the ingredients into a wooden basin.

"Bacon? I've never heard of it, how can you cook it?" Ke Zhong was suspicious.

"There are a lot of towns, so I can naturally hear some new things, just like the rice planted in our family, didn't I hear it from foreign businessmen." Ke Hanxue smiled perfunctorily, and poured white wine, soy sauce and salt into it again. In the wooden basin, put the cut meat into the basin together with those materials, and grab it by hand.

After catching it, Ke Hanxue took another basin and turned it upside down to prevent cockroaches and mice from running in.
"Xue'er, is this all right?"

"Mother, this meat can be hung up to dry in the morning after soaking, and then I will fry bacon for everyone!" Ke Hanxue said with a smile, hoping that his family would like this taste.
After finishing the meat, Ke Hanxue marinated a few big bones with salt and kept them for the next day before going back to the room with his mother.
When the time came, Ke Hanxue took out the soaked bacon, poked a small hole in one end of the meat, then strung it with a few straws, and hung it on the penny in the yard to dry clothes.

Ke Hanxue counted, there are more than [-] pieces of meat in total, and after the air is dried, I can send a few pieces to my grandfather and uncle, Ke Hanxue laughed.

A few days later, seeing that the bacon was almost dry, Ke Hanxue took down one and prepared to make it for everyone to try at night.
Ke Hanxue cut the bacon into thin slices for later use, planning to use it to stir-fry cabbage.

No way, because there are no other dishes at home.
In the pot on one side is a radish brought by Tongsuo Niang and a big bone radish soup. In the pot on the other side, I use the fish bought by my father to make a braised fish, and then stir-fry the bacon and cabbage. It is a simple two dishes. The soup is ready.
"Grandma, father and mother, how about you try this bacon first?" Ke Hanxue looked at them expectantly, and suddenly an idea came to her heart.

"Second Sister, I want to try it too!" Hong'er pouted dissatisfiedly. In the past, Second Sister would pick up food for herself first, how could she forget tonight.
"Hehe, I thought you only ate fish!" Ke Hanxue smiled and gave Hong'er a piece of bacon.
"This is the bacon made by the second sister, of course I want to eat it." Hong'er said as he put the bacon into his mouth and began to chew.

"It's delicious, Second Sister, I still want it!"

"Is it really delicious?" Ke Hanxue excitedly picked up two more pieces for his younger brother.
"Delicious, delicious." Hong'er ate a piece of meat and took a mouthful of rice.

Ke Mengshi and others saw that Hong'er was eating happily, so they also tried bacon with a smile.
"Well, Xue'er, this meat tastes really good!" Ke Shuisheng, who has never been too particular about food, said with his eyes lit up.

(End of this chapter)