When she got home, Xiang Jin asked her second aunt if anyone was selling dumplings on the street. She didn't pay much attention today. If someone was selling dumplings, she wouldn't teach them how to make them. After all, frying dumplings is quite a waste of oil.
Her second aunt said she didn't pay much attention, and then Xiang Jin asked Yang Hui and Yang Zhao brothers, and both of them shook their heads and said they didn't know.
Xiang Jin retreated to the next best thing and asked them if anyone could sell them in previous years. Her second aunt said that they did, for two cents a handful. Many people would buy dozens or hundreds of handfuls at the end of the year, and then raise them during the Chinese New Year.
Go up and visit relatives and friends.
Xiang Jin felt that it was better not to teach them how to make dumplings, and then asked them what kinds of cakes and snacks were sold at the end of the year in previous years?
They just talk about fried melon seeds and fried peanuts. Some families with good financial conditions will also be given some fruit candies, citrus fruits, and some biscuits.
Ha, snacks are really rare in this era. Xiang Jin thinks there is still a market for teaching her aunts how to make pork ribs, but their family did not buy fresh pork ribs today, nor did they buy fresh pork suet.
So Xiang Jin went to take out a few of their cured pork ribs, and then asked Yang Hui to cut them into two or three centimeters, wash off the excess salt, and then use seasoning powder to
Marinate them for a while.
Then she scooped out half a spoonful of sugar and asked Yang Zhao to put it in a small roller and grind it into powder for later use.
Finally, she asked her second aunt to roll out the two pieces of dough her mother made last night into two to three millimeters of dough.
Several people knew that she was teaching them how to make new food, so they all actively cooperated.
Soon her second aunt rolled out the dough, and then asked her what to do next. Xiang Jin walked over, sprinkled a little salt and pepper on the dough, and then asked her second aunt to rub it evenly, and then continued
Ask her second aunt to turn the dough over and repeat the operation just now.
Her second aunt asked her why she spread all this?
Xiang Jin said, "Because there are no seasonings added to this noodle, it is just pure white flour. I am here to add some flavor to this noodle."
But when making snacks like this, sweetness is usually the main focus. You can put some sugar in it appropriately when kneading the noodles. We will be able to make do with this trial today, right?"
Her second aunt nodded and then asked her what to do next.
Xiang Jin took out a mold that she usually used to make dumplings and asked her to rub out all the dough.
Her second aunt did as she was told.
Xiang Jin saw that she had printed out a few, and then cut them into quarters horizontally and vertically with a knife. Then he took a fork, and then lightly pressed the fork on the quartered dough.
A small wavy shell came out.
Her second aunt immediately became happy when she saw it, "Oh, this little noodle is so pretty!"
Xiang Jin said, "It will look like this when fried later."
Yang Zhao came over after grinding the sugar. When he saw it, he found it very interesting and said that he would try it too. Xiang Jin had other things to do, so he was naturally happy to leave this matter to him.
"Cousin Yang Hui, how did you do that thing?"
"The ribs will be cleaned soon!" Yang Hui said.
"Okay, tell me when you're done cleaning it?"
"good!"
Xiang Jin walked aside and took out a piece of brown sugar and a few spoons of white sugar, and put them in two bowls. Then he took out some flour and put them in two small basins.
As soon as she finished doing this, she heard Yang Hui calling her, "The ribs have been cleaned!"
"Oh, right away!"
Xiang Jin walked over and handed him a bottle of pepper, "Dry out the moisture in the ribs, then sprinkle some pepper and marinate for a while. Remember, don't put too much pepper, about a small spoonful."
Look."
"Oh, good!"
Xiang Jin watched from the side, and Yang Hui followed her instructions step by step. After a while, Xiang Jin, her second aunt and Yang Zhao finished their work, and came over to ask her what to do next.
Xiang Jin asked them to cover the small shell-shaped dough with a dustpan to prevent the water from evaporating quickly, and then came over to listen to her next explanation of the preparation of the other two snacks.
Yang Zhao hurriedly ran to the next room and got a clean dustpan to cover the small shell-shaped dough. Then he hurried over and waited for Xiang Jin's instructions.
Xiang Jin said to them, "The next two kinds of food I will teach you to make are, one is called cat ears, which is made by mixing brown sugar and white sugar.
Second aunt, chop up the brown sugar in the bowl, then dissolve it with boiling water and let it cool. Later, mix the brown sugar water into the flour, mix it with a little yeast powder and sesame oil, and knead it into a dough.
A smooth dough."
"Oh!" Her second aunt agreed and immediately followed the instructions.
Then Xiang Jin told Yang Zhao to turn the white sugar in the bowl into white sugar boiled water, and then use the same steps as the white sugar boiled water and brown sugar water to knead it into another smooth dough.
Yang Zhao also followed the instructions and asked Xiang Jin how much water to put in the bowl.
Xiang Jin pointed to the two small basins next to them and said, "We'll use the flour in them to make dough later. If you don't know how much water to use to melt the sugar, you can ask my second aunt."
So Yang Zhao ran over and asked his second aunt.
Xiang Jin said, "You all wait a moment, wait until I finish talking first before doing this!"
So her second aunt and Yang Zhao both stopped what they were doing and looked at her.
Xiang Jin continued, "The last kind of food is called paiguoer. As the name suggests, the ribs are wrapped in flour batter, then put into the oil pan to fry, and then they are wrapped in a layer after they cool down.
It is the food for the fine white sugar powder that Yang Zhao just grinded.
But this flour paste is not a simple ordinary flour paste made from pure flour, because this kind of flour paste cannot wrap the ribs, it has no stickiness, and the ribs and flour will easily fall off and separate during the frying process.
, when the time comes, it will be pork ribs, and noodles will be noodles.”
Then Yang Hui asked her what ingredients should be added to it?
Xiang Jin said, "Don't worry, let me explain it to you in the same way."
Then she asked Yang Zhao to get two eggs from the egg basket in the cupboard, and Yang Zhao went.
After he came back, she continued, "Cousin Yang Hui, go and get two spoons of flour from the flour bag, and then take half a spoon of sweet potato starch from the sweet potato flour bag next to it."
Yang Hui went and then came back.
Xiang Jin continued, "Mix the sweet potato starch and flour evenly, then beat in the two eggs to make a paste slightly thicker than pancakes. Okay, you all start working!"
A few people followed and started to get busy.
After Yang Hui mixed the flour batter and her second aunt mixed the dough with the two kinds of sugar, Xiang Jin asked her second aunt to cover the dough with a clean plastic bag and let it rest for ten or twenty minutes.
Now start frying the small shells and the row of fruits.
Several people gathered around the stove, and Xiang Jin asked Yang Zhao to cook the pot.
Yang Zhao was a little unhappy. He said he wanted to learn how to cook and eat. Xiang Jin said, "Don't think that cooking a pot is not a skill. I tell you that the fire should not be too strong or too soft. It will easily cover things."
Over-frying means not only that the moisture in the ingredients is not suitable for preservation, but also
It is easy to fry vegetables and fry them to a crisp. If the fire is too soft, the oil will not be warm enough and there will still be a vegetable flavor left in the oil. This will affect the taste of the food, so your first step is to
Master the heat, do you think I asked you to cook the pot in vain?"
Yang Zhao saw that what she said was true, so he took it seriously and hurriedly sat down in front of the stove to cook the pot obediently.
"When the water in the pot is dry, add oil. When the oil in the pot is 60% hot, start frying." Xiang Jin stood aside and gave instructions, letting his aunt and Yang Hui do the actual operation.
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After Yang Zhao put a piece of firewood into the pot, he stood up and stared at the pot and asked, "How do you know that the oil in the pot is 60% hot?"
Xiang Jin said, "This is simple. You just need to insert a chopstick into the oil pan. When you see small bubbles coming out around the chopstick, you can fry things. Of course, the fire in your pan also needs to be
Note that it must be a hard fire, but it cannot be too big or too strong, it must be changed to a slow fire."
Yang Hui inserted a pair of chopsticks into the oil pan and saw bubbling around the chopsticks, so he looked at Xiang Jin.
Xiang Jin said, "Wait a minute, the soaking is too small and too little, which proves that the oil is not hot enough, so the fried things will have a green taste."
A few people nodded, and after a while, when Yang Hui inserted the chopsticks into the oil pan again to test the temperature, he found that there were many dense bubbles around the chopsticks. He turned his head and looked at it again.
Jin, "Is that okay?"
Xiang Jin nodded, "Well, you can place your things."
Her second aunt quickly put the shell dough prepared on the side into the pot in batches.
Then they asked, how long will it take to explode?
Xiang Jin said, "You can fish them out after they all float and turn golden on both sides."
A few people nodded, and with Xiang Jin's guidance, there weren't any mistakes, and everything was fried successfully.
Seeing that they had mastered the frying skills of this small shell, Xiang Jin glanced at her watch, and then asked her second aunt to roll out the brown sugar dough and white sugar dough for making cat ears. The thickness was about two pieces of dough.
The rolled out dough is almost like the little shells when stacked together.
Her second aunt went there.
Then the task of frying the small shells was directly handed over to the brothers Yang Hui and Yang Zhao.
The two brothers cooperated very well, and they all cooked the dishes in style. The fried small shells in each pot were perfect, not a single one was burnt, and not one was over-fried. All of them were golden.
It's golden and looks great.
Xiang Jin felt that the two brothers were quite talented in making and eating this kind of pastry, which would be easy to handle. Then it would be much easier for her to teach them later, and she could just be a pure gesticulator.
"Girl Jin, two pieces of dough have been rolled out, what should we do next?" Half an hour later, Xiang Jin's second aunt called her.
"Oh, here we come!"
Xiang Jin walked over, then pointed to her second aunt and said, "Second aunt, sprinkle some water on the brown sugar dough, then spread it evenly on the dough, and then stack the white sugar dough on top of it.
Put the brown sugar dough on it, then roll it into a round shape, then put it outside to freeze for about half to an hour, and finally cut it into thin slices slightly thicker than a fingernail, and then you can
Put it in the pan and fry it."
"Oh, good!"
Her second aunt wrote down the steps and followed them. At this time, Yang Hui also finished frying the small shells, so she asked her if it was time to fry the row of fruits?
Xiang Jin nodded and asked him to use a colander to pick up the fallen noodle crumbs in the pot first, so as not to fry them in it for too long and burn the oil.
They also asked Yang Zhao to reduce the fire in the stove a little first. After all, they had not yet coated all the ribs in batter. This required a process.
The two nodded in agreement, and then Xiang Jin personally poured the marinated ribs into the batter that Yang Hui had prepared before, and then stirred so that each rib was evenly coated with a thick layer of sauce.
Then he personally gave them a demonstration of frying.
"It's still fried as before, and the oil temperature is also maintained as before. It's just that the frying time for this row of fruits is a little longer than the little shells and the cat ears that will be fried later, because the inside
There is a cut of ribs wrapped in it. To make the ribs inside deep-fried, this usually takes about ten to twelve or thirteen minutes, and both sides will be golden brown."
Yang Zhao said that he would fry this snack. Yang Hui was a little hesitant, but Xiang Jin had no objection. "Okay, I think each of you should master every step of the making process of these snacks, so that when the time comes, the adults at home will
If you are too busy, you can still help me."
Anyway, it was impossible for her to help them make these. The most she could do was help them give them ideas and teach them how to do it, but she felt it was impossible to help them. She still had a lot to do every day.
Yang Hui thought for a while and nodded. Yang Zhao immediately threw away the firewood in his hand, ran to wash his hands, and took over his brother's place.
After Xiang Jin watched for a while, he felt that although this boy was usually a bit chatty, he was still very attentive when it came to cooking, so he left the task in the kitchen to their nephew and aunt.
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Last time she asked Yan Chen when they would go back. He said that he would go back the day after his uncle Mingtao came. His uncle Mingtao came from home early in the morning and didn't know they would go back tomorrow.
Is it also time to set off early in the morning?
Therefore, she had better send those things to them later, lest when they leave, the things she prepared for them are not taken away.
Xiang Jin came out of the kitchen and saw her grandfather sitting on a stone bench in the yard smoking a cigarette. Xiang Jin walked over and reminded him, "Grandpa, it's cold on this stone bench. Don't sit here. Come in."
Go sit in the room."
Her grandfather said, "It's okay, I'll just smoke a cigarette. When I finish smoking this cigarette, I won't sit here. Everything in the kitchen has been taken care of?"
Xiang Jin said, "I taught my second aunt and cousin Yang Hui how to do it."
Her grandfather nodded, "We have to let them do it by themselves. They can make their own money and do what they should do. How can they rely on you for everything?"
"Grandpa, they don't rely on me either," Xiang Jin said a little sheepishly.
Her grandfather immediately changed the topic, "Has someone from Yan Chen's family come to pick him up?"
"Well," Xiang Jin nodded, and then her grandfather said, "I guess they have to leave tomorrow. It's better to get the things you prepared for them as soon as possible. If they don't want them to leave tomorrow, we don't know.
.”
Xiang Jin nodded again, and her grandfather stood up, patted his clothes, and said, "Let's go, grandpa will help you get those things."
"Oh, good!"
The grandfather and grandson brought two cardboard boxes to the storage room, and Xiang Jin and her grandfather asked her how to get these things.
Xiang Jin said, "Yan Chen doesn't like sweet taste, so I just loaded him with six or seven pounds of salty sausages, two pheasants, and two pieces of smoked bacon.
Han Che, just five kilograms of salty sausages and two pheasants, and two kilograms of sweet sausages outside, and then we can pick some vegetables for them and let Yan Chen help take them back, what do you think?"
Her grandfather nodded, "I think it will work!"
After the grandfather and grandson had finished chatting, they started to put things away. Only halfway through the arrangement, they heard the barking of dogs outside, and there were several puppies barking, including Hu Cai and A Hua.
They were all making whining noises.
"Grandpa, is there something going on outside?" Xiang Jin was taking a piece of bacon.
Her grandfather said, "I'll go out and take a look."
After a while, Xiang Jin and her grandfather called her outside, "Girl Jin, there are guests at home?!"
"Oh, okay, you say hello to me first, I'll be out right away," Xiang Jin responded, but in her heart she was thinking, what kind of guests could their family have? They had completely cut off all relations with Lao Xiang's family, and then they
There are only a few families from her grandparents' side, her two uncles and her eldest uncle
If the mothers come, they will come back with her mother, and the dog will not bark, and her grandmother and two little cousins will not come just at this time. Every time they come to their house, they leave early in the morning.
And in her grandfather's eyes, they were not guests, they were his family members.
Xiang Jin had just jumped off the stool after taking a piece of meat, and saw Yan Chen walking in. "What are you busy with? Do you need my help?"
"Oh, is it you?" Xiang Jin raised the corner of his mouth when he saw him, and then frowned again, "Oh, no, come here, the dog at home can't bark, right?"
Yan Chen said, "It's me and Uncle Tao. Han Che has brought you a New Year's gift, and we will deliver it to you."
"Ah? Han Che also brought us a New Year's gift?" Xiang Jin was a little surprised.
"Yeah," Yan Chen nodded.
Xiang Jin said, "I'm pretending for you too."
"Us?" Yan Chen followed and was surprised.
"Well, last time when Aunt Liao and her family were slaughtering the New Year pig, I made some sausages for you, just in time to bring them with you when you go back." Xiang Jin put the piece of bacon in her hand into the cardboard box
, "I'll go out and say hello to Uncle Tao first."
Yan Chen said, "No need, he has gone back."
"Going back?"
"Well, it seems he left something behind. He went back to get it."
"Oh, then I'll just clean up for a while?" She's a handy person.
"What else do you want to do, go help you?" Yan Chen rolled up his sleeves as he spoke.
Xiang Jin refused, "No, I'll be ready soon, don't get your hands dirty," she said and showed him her hands.
Yan Chen said, "It's okay, just wash it off."
Xiang Jin stopped, "It's really not necessary, I just need to take out another piece of meat," and she stepped on the stool again.
Seeing her insistence, Yan Chen no longer insisted on helping, but said, "Be careful?"
"Don't worry, it's okay!" She stood on tiptoe while talking and took a piece of meat from it. Then she jumped off the stool and explained to Yan Chen, "Well, what's in this carton is yours. What's this carton?"
Han Che’s, your and Han Che’s names are written on the outside of both boxes.”
Seeing that the box in front of him was full of meat, Yan Chen was surprised again, "So much! Isn't this too much?!"
Xiang Jin said, "Not much, just a few kilograms of sausages, two pheasants, and two pieces of smoked bacon. Oh, by the way, these pheasants are slaughtered by the pheasants we raise at home."
Yan Chen said, "There are a lot of them, take some out!"
Xiang Jin said, "What I cook is all delicious. Even if it is not made by me, it is still made under my guidance. Are you sure you don't want to try them all?!"
Yan Chen laughed, then stared at her and asked, "You did it all?"
Xiang Jin said, "I prepared the ingredients and guided them on how to make them."
Yan Chen stared at her for a while, then a smile appeared on his lips and between his eyebrows, "Okay, then I'll accept it!"
"Oh, that's right," Xiang Jin nodded and then said, "You don't like sweets, so I didn't give you the sweet sausages. They were all salty sausages. Han Che
There I gave two pounds of sweet sausage.
The pheasant is now hardened. Before you eat it, soak it in hot water for a few hours in advance, otherwise it will be difficult to cook it.
This smoked meat, although it doesn’t look good and is very dark, is absolutely delicious after being washed and eaten. I asked my grandpa to smoke it with several kinds of fruit wood. Because the fruit wood is limited, my family only makes it.
It’s only a few yuan or ten yuan, so I didn’t bring it to Han Che, you just need to know.”
After hearing her last words, Yan Chen's lips curved higher, "Okay!"
"When are you leaving tomorrow?" Xiang Jin asked after him.
Yan Chen said, "About ten o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Oh, okay! Then help me bring a basket of vegetables back to Han Che when the time comes?"
Yan Chen said, "You don't need to bring it. My grandparents want to bring it, and Aunt Liao also said that she will bring it to them. If you bring too much, it will be a waste if you can't finish it."
Xiang Jin said, "They must have finished eating. Don't forget that their family owns a restaurant, but if you two bring them, there is really no need for our family to bring those duplicate vegetables.
Well, then, I will bring you some sweet potato tips and pea tips when the time comes. You must have a refrigerator at home that can store both of these dishes."
"good!"
"Uncle Tao is coming again, right?" Xiang Jin asked again.
Yan Chen nodded and said to Xiang Jin, "Okay, then you can take these two cartons back together later, and I won't run away."