Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

Chapter 442: An Family New Year’s Eve Dinner

Then put it on the chopping board and cut the meat into small cubes.

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At this time, my sister-in-law Meng Xiuer had already washed the clothes.

She hung the clothes and diapers one by one on the bamboo poles in the yard, then went back to the earthen kang in the east room and fed the baby to sleep.

In order to be able to help An Yue in the kitchen, Meng Xiuer asked An Nian to read in the east ear room.

On the one hand, the earthen kang in the east room was warm, and on the other hand, he wanted An Nian to help look after the sleeping Xiaobao.

At this time, An Yue had already cut the meat into small pieces and began to sprinkle various ingredients on the meat.

Such as; pepper powder, chili powder, various spices, soy sauce, and salt.

After all the ingredients are prepared, mix the meat and ingredients thoroughly.

Next, start preparing to stuff the sausages.

Meng Xiuer came to the kitchen and saw An Yue holding a machete and cutting a bamboo tube as long as a finger.

"Yueyue, Xiaobao has fallen asleep. Let me do it with you."

"Okay, okay, sister-in-law, you're here just in time. I just need some help."

As she spoke, sister-in-law Meng Xiuer hurriedly began to wash her hands.

"I've never heard of bacon and sausage before, and I probably don't know how to make it. But, Yueyue, just tell me how to make it, and I'll do it."

An Yue pointed to the wooden basin on the table and said, "Okay, okay! Then sister-in-law, help me turn the small intestine in the basin inside out."

"okay!"

After Meng Xiuer responded, she started flipping through the books as An Yue had said.

Meng Xiuer looked at the spices and pork being mixed together and couldn't help but say, "This smells delicious. It looks like another delicious dish."

"The sausage tastes really good, but after it is made, it needs to be dried for a while until it is no longer dripping with water, and then smoked with the smoke of pine and cypress leaves to make it into sausage."

Meng Xiuer said as she turned over the small intestines: "It sounds complicated, but as long as it tastes good, it will be worth the trouble."

Meng Xiuer quickly turned the small intestine over.

An Yue picked up the sharpened bamboo tube and walked up to Meng Xiuer to try it out.

An Yue passed the small intestine through the bamboo tube and then put it on the bamboo tube.

"Okay."

As An Yue spoke, she began to pour the blended pork into the small intestine.

While An Yue was operating, she reminded Meng Xiu'er, "Sister-in-law, you must be careful when you are injecting it. You must not cut the small intestine."

Meng Xiuer nodded, her eyes fixed on An Yue's movements, learning seriously.

An Yue stuffed the meat in, and Meng Xiuer pushed the meat down.

After squeezing it tightly, tie a knot tightly with a softened hemp rope.

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In this way, the aunt and sister-in-law were busy in the kitchen.

After a while, the sausages were stuffed one piece after another.

An Yue tied the stuffed sausages with a hemp rope and hung them on a bamboo pole in the yard to dry.

Then, start pouring a small intestine.

The aunt and the sister-in-law cooperated very well, and soon, all the pork in the wooden basin was stuffed in, and the small intestines turned into plump sausages.

Just then, Ale came back with a basket full of pine and cypress trees.

He asked, "Miss, we have picked the pines and cypresses. Where should we put them first?"

An Yue pointed to the gate of the yard and said, "Put it in the east field! We can't smoke the meat at home, we have to smoke it in the east field."

"Okay!" After A'le responded, he walked towards the east-west open space.

At this time, it was the end of the You hour.

Daniu Chunzhi and his friends are back.

A man carried two bundles of firewood and walked towards the east side of the yard.

They piled the firewood close together at the base of the outer wall.

An Yue and Meng Xiuer in the kitchen had already stuffed all the sausages.

The sunset in December always sets very early, and the sky gets dark before you know it.

An Yue took down all the sausages that were drying in the yard and hung them in the empty west wing.

Place two pinches of wood ash on the ground to prevent water from the meat from dripping onto the ground.

Wait until the sun comes out tomorrow and then dry it in the sun for another day.

Just apply a layer of salt on the bacon and marinate it overnight.

Tomorrow afternoon, we will start using pine and cypress smoke to smoke bacon and sausages.

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The next day.

early morning.

The sunlight shines through the clouds, adding a touch of warmth to the cold twelfth month.

After the family finished their breakfast early, they moved all the pots, pans, and utensils in the kitchen to the yard, and Daniu and Ale began to dust the kitchen.

Since it is a newly built brick and adobe house, there is a lot of dust in the kitchen, but the other rooms are extremely clean.

An Nian is preparing for the provincial examination in April of the following year.

Nowadays, he reads more and more books, and has a lot of knowledge to remember and recite. He spends most of his time reading and writing in his room.

My sister-in-law Meng Xiuer took the clothes and diapers that she washed yesterday afternoon to the yard to dry in the sun.

Chunzhi and her grandmother took brooms and cleaned every room in the house.

My aunt-in-law held a long broom and carefully swept every corner of the yard.

Just then, Xiaobao woke up from his sleep on the kang.

He was crying loudly in the east wing. When his sister-in-law Meng Xiuer heard the crying, she quickly hung up the clothes and diapers and ran to the east wing.

An Yue brought all the sausages in the west wing to the yard to dry.

Coming to the west wing, An Yue looked at the hanging sausages, which had been hanging there all night.

The moisture on the surface of the sausage has been reduced a lot, and it still exudes a faint unique meaty aroma.

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Time always passes quietly in the busyness, and soon it is afternoon.

The family has cleaned the house, yard and yard.

Not yet.

An Yue first arranged for Daniu A'er to build the smoked meat rack on the east side against the earth slope.

After building the bacon rack, put the pickled bacon and sausages on the bacon rack and hang them up.

Then take the pine and cypress branches and leaves in the open space on the east side and put them under the rack and light them.

Suddenly, a thin cloud of smoke rose up, carrying the unique fragrance of pine and cypress leaves, lingering in the entire open space.

An Yue carefully observed the smoking process, adjusting the temperature and smoke concentration from time to time.

When smoking bacon, both time and heat are crucial.

If the fire is too big, the hanging bacon and sausages will be burned black.

If the fire is too small, the sparks in the pine and cypress branches will be extinguished.

An Yue and Daniu were smoking bacon and sausages in the open space, while the others began to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.

My sister-in-law Meng Xiuer was cutting vegetables and preparing side dishes in the kitchen with very skillful and neat movements.

Chunzhi and her aunt were busy making a few plates of dumplings, while her grandmother was stewing pork ribs and meat with firewood under the stove.

An Nian was watching Xiao Bao in the east ear room, reciting poems to him from time to time.

At the hour of You, the bacon and sausages that had been smoked for several hours had turned slightly yellow in color.

An Yue saw that the smoking was almost done, so she and Daniu took the smoked bacon and sausages and placed them in a dustpan covered with dry grass beside them.

At this time, the New Year’s Eve dinner in the kitchen was almost ready.