Nongmen sisters and brothers are not simple

Chapter 110 Kimchi
"Fanxing, we can only pull out these tea seeds to dry and fall off the tea seeds? Can't we manually peel the tea seeds out? You see, our backyard is small, half of which is used for brick kilns, and half for us to squeeze tea oil. There is not enough ground to dry so many tea seeds." Qian asked with a frown.

"We can pull some tea seeds out to dry and let the tea seeds be threshed automatically. If there are enough people, we can also manually shell and thresh the tea seeds, which is no problem.

However, the tea seeds that are manually threshed are neither dry nor brittle, and they need to be dried in the sun or fried at home before they can be ground into powder. "Xie Fanxing looked at the backyard of her uncle's house and said.

In fact, the backyard of her uncle's house is not small, it is as large as an acre of land.

Before her uncle's house was built, they had considered burning bricks and squeezing tea seed oil, so before building the house, her uncle also bought a foundation, just to circle a place for them to burn bricks and squeeze tea seed oil.

Now the backyard of her uncle's house is divided into two working areas, one is for burning bricks and stacking the burnt bricks.

Because the roof was not covered with gray tiles, it is fine if it does not rain or snow now, and you can still burn bricks to work. If it snows or rains, you can't do this work.

The other is where the oil is pressed.

This place is divided into two places, one is a warehouse with a roof, which occupies two-thirds of the area, and is specially used for storing tea seeds.

Fortunately, the warehouse was built spacious, otherwise, it would not be able to hold so many tea seeds.

The remaining one-third of the place is a flat area for drying things.

"Well, tomorrow, your aunt and grandmother can peel the tea seeds manually, and the peeled tea seeds don't need to be dried by ourselves. Let's put the tea seeds in the dustpan and put them next to the brick kiln for a while. , these tea seeds can be shaken dry and ground soon.”

"Auntie, has the other oil tank been dug?"

"It's also done. Your uncle and I discussed it yesterday. Let's thresh all the tea seeds first. After the threshing is dried, we will grind the tea seeds and squeeze the oil.

You signed a paperwork with the wine shop in the town this summer, and it has been so long now, and we haven't sent oil to the wine shop. Although the wine shop in the town didn't say anything, we are embarrassed.

We have to squeeze out this oil as soon as possible and send it to the wine shop in the town. "

"That's right, tomorrow I'll bring my younger siblings to help." Xie Fanxing was also a little worried about letting her uncle and aunt do the oil extraction for the first time.

After her aunt and uncle got acquainted with oil extraction this year, next year she will teach her uncle to manage these things.

As for the work of burning bricks, she has taken her uncle and aunt for a long time, and they are completely proficient in the work of burning bricks, so Xie Fanxing doesn't have to worry.

"That's okay. This year, Fan Xing will take you to watch us extract oil, and your aunt and uncle will be more confident and bold to do it." Qian Shi also nodded and said.

Although the couple had squeezed oil with Fanxing this year, the amount of oil squeezed was not much. In addition, it had been several months in the past, and Qian was also worried that something would go wrong. Now that Fanxing is watching, they are more at ease.

"Auntie, I see that my uncle, aunt and uncle are very busy. Are you busy? If not, why don't we invite one or two people to help.

My aunt went to find people, and if they were suitable, they would recruit workers, and the wages would be the same as what was said before. Seeing that her uncle and the others are busy these days, Xie Fanxing immediately suggested that she was afraid of tiring them.

"Let's talk to your uncle later, let's see what he thinks about this matter." Qian did not refuse Fanxing's proposal. He has been really busy lately, getting up early and working late at night, and doing all kinds of work. It's like there's never enough work to do.

Qian also felt that it would be okay to invite one or two more people to help and share some work.

But she wants to see how their income is this month. If they don't earn any money, there is no need to hire someone to help them.

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"Sister, we picked all the vegetables in the vegetable field and put them in the warehouse a few days ago. I think there are many vegetables that can't be eaten, and many of them are sick. Do you think we pickled some vegetables and kept them as food?" Eat it in the future, otherwise it won't last long and it will be a pity." As soon as Xie Fanxing came back from her aunt's house, Fanyue greeted him and said to Xie Fanxing.

"Okay, you move all the vegetables to the kitchen, I can figure it out. Fanyang, you go to your uncle's house to move an oil tank to pickle vegetables, Fanyu and Fanchen, you two go pick some thicker and tender pumpkin seedlings , Sweet potato stalks, let's pickle a piece later." Xie Fanxing ordered his younger siblings to work.

She came to the kitchen, set up a pot to boil water, put cinnamon bark, star anise, fragrant leaves and other spices into the pot and boiled it, and waited for Fanyue to pick up all kinds of vegetables that had sprouted.

She reckoned which ones could be made into kimchi, and how much to make kimchi. She reckoned putting an appropriate amount of salt in the pot, and waited for the water to boil and let it cool for later use.

After Fanyue brought the vegetables from the warehouse, Xie Fanxing took Fanyue to start processing these vegetables.

Eggplant and foreign peppers cannot be made into kimchi, so she washes and slices them, puts them in a dustpan to dry, and saves them for later eating or makes pickled fruits.

Crock beans, goose beans, water spinach stalks, cucumbers, peppers, garlic seeds, ginger and other vegetables are washed, wiped dry, then put them into the jar, and pour them into the cold brine.

"Sister, let's carry this vat back, what do we need to do next?" After the three brothers Fanyang, Fanri, and Fanwen walked into the kitchen carrying the vat, Fan Yang asked his elder sister.

"First check the vat for cracks or the like, otherwise, the soaked kimchi will go bad! If there is no problem with the vat, you can wipe it again. After cleaning it, wipe it with wine again." Xie Fanxing said Watching Fanyue remove the heads and tails of the kimchi to be marinated, wash those that should be washed, and wipe off the water after washing, Fanchen and Fanyu also picked a lot of pumpkin seedlings and sweet potato stems Come on, after you wash and dry everything.

The big vat was also washed by Fanyang, dried, and the brine was also cooled.

After that, Xie Fanxing put water spinach stalks, sweet potato stems, pumpkin seedlings, goose beans, beans and other vegetables into the big tank one by one.

Then add an appropriate amount of wine, then pour in the cooled brine, and finally cover the lid, and pour clean water on the edge of the altar to seal it.In addition, you should pay more attention to the water in the jar, and remember to add water to seal it in time, so as to ensure that the air is blocked and the quality of kimchi is guaranteed.

After the third day of kimchi soaking, the kimchi will change, and after soaking for another half a month, it can be taken out and eaten.

Of course, the longer the kimchi is cooked, the better the taste.

There are also people who, when pickling kimchi, put the brine from the previous kimchi into the newly pickled kimchi, because the more times the kimchi is marinated, the more fragrant and delicious the pickled vegetables will be.But every time pickles, depending on the quantity of vegetables, it is enough to add some salt, pepper, ginger slices and white wine appropriately.

(End of this chapter)