Chapter 136 Making Dumplings
Xia Bin reached out and rubbed Xia Chan's hair, then stood up and went to the stove. There was only a wall between the stove and the kang. Xia Bin said while busy, "Xiao Chan, let's start making steamed buns and making dumplings tomorrow!"< br>
"Okay!" Xia Chan readily agreed, "Let's make the stuffing with leeks and eggs tomorrow! When we buy the pork, we'll make the stuffing with sauerkraut and pork."
The winter here here is more than ten degrees below zero, and the outdoors is like a large natural refrigerator. People who can afford it will make dumplings and freeze them outside. When they want to eat, they can just take some home and cook them. People who can't afford it will just cook them at home. Then you can make steamed buns and freeze them. You can just heat them up when you want to eat them, so you don’t have to waste time cooking every day.
She has a large family, so she has to eat more than a hundred dumplings at one meal. The whole winter is so long, and it takes several months, so she needs to make a lot of dumplings. But they have a large family, and there are four people in the family during this time, so they can make a lot. The dumplings are out!
"What else do you want to eat?" Xia Bin's voice came from the stove.
"Whatever, just pack whatever is available. If we can't buy pork, we can't force it!" Xia Chan said with a smile, asking her brother to buy meat. He will definitely not be able to buy much, and he may not be able to buy it, because The people in the city went earlier than they did.
But she is different, she can buy anything.
But she couldn't say it clearly.
"Tomorrow morning it's my turn to go to town. I'll go to the meat stall to see if I can buy meat." Xia Bin said.
Xia Chan's eyes lit up, "Then I'll go with you and buy more bones and pig offal as before."
Xia Qi and Jin Pengyuan did not come back at noon. When they set out in the morning, they brought pancakes and hid them in their clothes. When they were hungry, they took them out to eat and they were still warm without affecting their consumption. They came back in the evening and gained a lot. .
Twenty hares, ten pheasants, and three quails.
They are all temporarily stored in Xia Qi's house next door. When I go to sell them tomorrow morning, I can just take them over.
When going to bed at night, Xia Chan quietly opened a corner of the curtain and called to her brother in a low voice. Seeing that no one answered her, she made sure that they were all asleep, then she walked into the hotel room, picked up her phone and placed an order.
She searched for pork on the 'Crossing Mall'. She didn't know if the mall was holding an event. Pork was only eight yuan a pound, which was cheaper than what was sold in the 21st Century Supermarket, so Xia Chan placed the order directly. A hundred pounds.
Then I placed an order for ten kilograms of tubular bones. The tubular bones sold in this mall have meat. Unlike the ones from the supply and marketing cooperative, the meat has been picked cleanly. There is only a single bone there. When stewing the soup, it is filled with meat. Just a little bit of meaty flavor.
I placed an order for ten pounds of pork suet, and ten pounds each of her favorite shrimps and big head shrimps.
Xia Chan organized the things that needed to be taken out tomorrow, put them into the backpack, and placed the backpack on the table in the living room, so that when she arrived in town tomorrow, she could take the backpack out anywhere.
No need to actually go to the black market.
After all, it’s not time for black market trading yet.
The next morning, before dawn, Xia Chan and Xia Bin set off together. When they arrived in the town, the two agreed to meet in front of the meat stall of the supply and marketing cooperative, and then they split up. After Xia Bin left, Xia Chan walked into the darkness, went directly to the hotel, and went to the 'Crossing Mall' to place an order for some things, including large celery, corn kernels, and some fruits, because she wanted to pack some other items. Dumplings with different flavors, just those two types, will make you tired if you eat too much.
Pack a few more flavors so you can switch them up often.
Everything was almost ready, so Xia Chan rushed to the supply and marketing cooperative. Although it was still dark, there were already people queuing up at the meat stall of the supply and marketing cooperative. Xia Chan looked in front of her and saw that there were only twenty people. She was You can buy meat.
When it was Xia Chan's turn, Xia Chan took out her meat ticket and bought half a catty of pork belly. Then she asked the people in line behind her, "Comrades, does anyone want bones and pig meat?"
Seeing no one answered, Xia Chan said apologetically, "I'm sorry, comrades, someone in our village is getting married and having a banquet during the day. They don't have so many meat tickets, so they plan to buy bones and pig offal. Since no one wants it, then I It’s all round now!”
Afterwards, Xia Chan said to the butcher, "Comrade, please weigh all the bones and pig offal for me!"
In addition, Xia Chan also bought two pig trotters, which are used to stew lotus roots or radishes, which are actually quite good.
The three items weighed dozens of kilograms in total. Xia Chan couldn't move them at all, so she had to ask the butcher to help her put the items aside. Xia Bin brought five hares and five pheasants today, and they were all sold out quickly. .
Xia Bin put the bones and pig offal into the backpack, and both of them carried the heavy backpacks and embarked on the road back to the city.
After returning home and resting for a while, she started to deal with the things she brought back today. Xia Bin dealt with the hair on the pig's trotters, while Xia Chan heated up hot water to clean the pig's waste water. In the weather of more than ten degrees below zero, the water was frozen and could not be used. Do not boil hot water for cleaning.
Xia Chan was washing vigorously when someone suddenly grabbed her collar and pulled her aside. Then Xia Qi occupied her bench and said, "You go and have a rest. I'll take care of it."
Naturally, Xia Chan would not refuse someone working. She used hot water to clean the oil stains on her hands, and then took out all the pork she bought from the mall and the supply and marketing cooperative. She kept the pork she bought from the supply and marketing cooperative to eat, and the remaining The ten pounds of pork I bought were used to make dumplings.
She prepared the pork and celery stuffing, the pork corn stuffing, and the mushroom and pork stuffing. Then she left the dough and rollout of the dumpling wrappers to her brothers, because she really didn't know how.
Xia Bin cleaned the hair on the pig's trotters, chopped the pig's trotters into pieces, took them out and froze them together with the bones, then scooped out the noodles and started to prepare for making dumplings.
Xia Chan took out other things from the basket and kept those that should be frozen, while those that couldn't be frozen were taken out and placed in the house. As for the shrimps and big head shrimps, Xia Chan washed the shrimps directly and planned to cook them at noon. , there are many people in the family, and cooking a little is not enough to eat, so just cook them all!
As for dumplings, we definitely won’t be able to eat them at noon today. After all, it’s already noon, and we’ve just reached the stage of making noodles.
The brothers all had things to do and couldn't spare any time, so the task of cooking fell on Xia Chan's shoulders. Xia Chan directly cooked a pot of pumpkin soup, peeled and diced the pumpkin, added water and boiled it for a while. have eaten.
The pumpkin seeds are golden in color and look very nice.
Lunch was pumpkin soup and boiled prawns. Although it was not the first time for my brothers to eat prawns like this, they still thought it was delicious.
Xia Chan didn't have to do it herself because Xia Qi kept peeling shrimps for her. "I like shrimps so much that in summer I will go to the river to catch shrimps for you. The shrimps are as big as a person's little finger."