bookrebus Chapter 98 Preparing New Year’s Goods
Chapter 98 Preparing New Year’s Goods
The next day, Guan Zhuangtou led his men to slaughter the New Year pig. Xiaomi and his mother, along with the kitchen helpers, started frying cakes, fried pancakes, fish nuggets, fried chicken, fried meatballs, and crispy pork...
Today, Wang and Xiaomi did not rest either, and helped in the kitchen.
On the first day, fry the oil cakes, fish pieces and cakes.
Lin Dashan went to break the ice early in the morning and caught a lot of fish. The kitchen had already cleaned and marinated them early in the morning.
After the fish is marinated, it is coated with flour and fried in oil. During the Chinese New Year, fried fish pieces are fried with Chinese cabbage, which is a good dish to go with wine.
As soon as the first pot came out, Xiaomi couldn't wait to take a piece to taste it. It was moderately salty, crispy on the outside, and the fish meat inside was tender and juicy, delicious.
Thinking that she would entertain relatives during the Chinese New Year, there would probably be quite a few guests at home this year, so she had to prepare more. Wang fried fillets of 20 large fish before she gave up.
Fried cakes are small round cakes made from flour kneaded into small pieces, stuffed with brown sugar and eaten hot. The brown sugar juice will flow out when you take a bite, making the cake fragrant and sweet.
Some poorer families cannot afford brown sugar, so they just add a little sugar when kneading the dough to make it sweet.
Xiaomi’s cake not only uses brown sugar, but also sprinkles a lot of sesame seeds on the dough. You can imagine how fragrant it is when fried.
The method of making fried cakes and oil cakes is similar, but fried cakes use glutinous rice flour, while oil cakes use flour. Xiaomi's family bought a lot of red bean paste, oil cakes, and fried cakes this year, half of which was made of brown sugar and the other half was made of red bean paste.
The mother and daughter spent the whole day in the kitchen, eating a little bit of food when they came out. By the time dinner came, they were not hungry but felt a little greasy. Today's food was all desserts.
Each person had only a bowl of white porridge and two pickled vegetables in front of him.
"You don't want to eat?"
Lin Dashan ate the fried cake happily with two bites each.
"I'm full, eat now."
Seeing that the mother and daughter really had no appetite, Lin Dashan stopped forcing them.
"What else are you going to blow up tomorrow?"
Wang looked at Xiaomi. Her daughter wanted fried chicken, fried spareribs, crispy meat, and meatballs. She had never eaten fried chicken or spareribs before, so she didn't know how they tasted. There were so many, so it should be enough for tomorrow.
"Meat, chicken, ribs, crispy pork, and meatballs. We also need to fry some meat and some vegetarian ones."
Fried meatballs with vermicelli tasted amazing. Xiaomi was drooling just thinking about it.
"Mom, let's fry 20 chickens, 20 pounds of spare ribs, and 30 pounds of crispy pork tomorrow."
so much!
"Fry more and you can eat it now if you want. Dad has such a good appetite, it won't go bad."
Lin Dashan: ...Does my daughter think he eats too much?
Early in the morning, some people were killing chickens, some were chopping ribs. Lin Dashan walked around and saw that there was nothing for him to do, so he prepared to deliver some New Year gifts.
Ten catties of beef, ten catties of pork, two fish, two packs of cakes, and two jars of wine. The old Lin family gave him five catties of beef and two sets of cotton-padded jackets and trousers. He only bought clothes for his father on weekdays and festivals, but if he didn't give his mother clothes after the Chinese New Year, he was afraid that she would tell the whole village that he was unfilial.
I went to the village head's house first, gave him a New Year gift and left. Then I went to the clan leader's house. The third house was the old house. I opened the gate and found no one in the yard. The doors were all closed. Where was the person? Why was the child silent?
"father."
Old Man Lin looked at his eldest son who was standing at the door carrying a lot of things and said, "You're here!"
"Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Seeing his father looking weak and listless, Lin Dashan felt a little worried. He hadn't heard that he was sick.
"It's okay. I'm old and afraid of the cold. It will be fine in a few days." He would never say that he was angry with the fourth brother and his wife.
"Are you okay?" He didn't look like he was okay.
"It's okay." Old Man Lin nodded affirmatively.
"What about the rest?"
"Your mother and the children were staying in the second son's room. They probably didn't see you coming. The second and third sons went out with their wives to sell cakes."
"Are they all there? Where's our fourth brother?" Lin Dashan raised his eyebrows. It seemed that business was pretty good.
"Business is good at the end of the year, so we all went there, hoping to sell more. The fourth brother is in the house!" Old man Lin didn't want to mention this annoying thing now.
Seeing that Laozi didn't want to say more, he didn't want to ask any more questions.
"Dad, I just got some beef and brought it here for you to try today. You can ask your second brother and sister-in-law to cook it to nourish your body."
"Beef!" Old man Lin couldn't help but sit up straight and look at the thing at the door.
He had never eaten it before. When he was young, he only saw rich masters eating it. The eldest son was really promising. He could get such a rare thing. What was even more rare was that he still thought about his father.
Seeing his father leaning his head to look at the meat, Lin Dashan picked up a large piece of beef and walked up to him.
"So many!"
"Keep it and eat it slowly. It's cold, so it won't go bad if you leave it outside."
Old Man Lin nodded and asked the old woman to put away such a valuable item.
Li heard the noise and came in, just in time to see her stepson carrying a large piece of meat and dangling it in front of the old man. She curled her lips, thinking, it's just a piece of meat, why is it worth showing off like this?
"Dashan is here." He greeted him indifferently, took off his shoes, and sat cross-legged on the kang.
"Old lady, look, what is this?"
Li replied angrily: "Meat, I'm not blind."
"Take a closer look, what kind of meat is this?" Old Man Lin was sure that Li had never seen it before either.
It was bright red, not pork. "This is..."