Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 15: Boiling Badger Oil
I was so moved that I almost cried. I had never been treated like this in my previous life even when I was in my sixties or seventies!

Chen Weidong quickly took two big bites.

Fragrant!
Really fragrant!

The rice and dishes my daughter served were delicious and fragrant!!
quickly,

The family ate up all the vegetables and meat in the pot, leaving no soup.

"Have you eaten enough, Xiao Si?"

Chen Weidong looked at the most greedy Si Ni and asked with a smile.

"Dad, Si Ni is full! You can touch her."

Si Ni said in a baby voice, then she stuck out her little belly, came to Chen Weidong and asked him to touch it.

"Oh, my little one's belly is so full, he's really full!"

Chen Weidong said with a smile.

"Daddy, touch!"

When Wu Ni saw her father touching her fourth sister, she immediately came closer with her belly bulging, and insisted on letting Chen Weidong touch her before she would give up.

The little girl is so cute, of course Chen Weidong satisfied her.

"Dad, it would be nice if we could have meals like this every day."

At this time, Si Ni sighed like a little adult.

"You greedy ghost, there is no meat in the house for you to eat~"

Erni ran over, pinched Sini's little face and said.

"Second sister, Si Ni is not a glutton. Si Ni eats a lot, so she can grow up quickly and help dad make money!"

Si Ni said in a baby voice.

Chen Weidong: “Uh…” This little guy always finds excuses for his greed.

Chen Weidong rested for a while, while Liu Xueting and Dani washed the dishes.

After the rest, it was time to deal with those wild hog badgers. As for the promise to sell the badgers to Wu Gensheng in the restaurant that morning, Chen Weidong had long forgotten about it...

Of course, even if he remembered it, Chen Weidong had no intention of selling it to Wu Gensheng.

There were still four wild hogs left at home. Chen Weidong tied them up with hemp ropes under the old elm tree in the yard to prevent them from biting the ropes and escaping. He also covered them with an old chicken coop from his previous home and put a big stone on top of it.

After killing four badgers, Chen Weidong hung the badgers one by one on an elm tree and began to skin them.

Chen Weidong’s skinning skills are quite skillful. In his previous life, he had done a lot of work to feed his remaining children, and he was also good at killing and skinning pigs!

There was a sharp knife in his hand, which was twirling flexibly. The knife was shaped like a butcher knife, but slightly shorter than a butcher knife. It was extremely sharp and could be used for chopping and stabbing, for opening the body and draining blood, and for removing bones and cutting flesh.

The most important thing is that this knife can be put on a long stick like a farm tool such as a hoe or a shovel, so it is like a long-handled weapon and is very easy to use.

In the past, when the mountains were blocked by heavy snow, some wild animals would enter the village. Therefore, in Jiuqu Village, not only hunters had this kind of knife, but even many homes in the village had this kind of knife.

Skinning, start from the beginning, peel off the entire badger skin bit by bit.

I peeled four of them in a row. To process the badger skin, I just need to put the badger on the wooden board and carefully scrape off the blood and flesh on it bit by bit.
Just stretch it out like this, wait for it to dry, and then roll it up to form a complete badger skin, which can be sold.
Generally, badger skin can be used as a cushion. Badger skin is very soft, so it is very comfortable to sit on it. It is also suitable for patients with hemorrhoids. After suffering from hemorrhoids, local pressure pain will occur, so the cushion cannot be too hard.

Badger skin is not easily affected by moisture, so it also has a certain effect on the prevention and treatment of hemorrhoids.

But Chen Weidong didn't have time to deal with the badger skins. He first deboned the badgers one by one.
The shaved badger meat was handed over to Liu Xueting who was helping.

Then Liu Xueting separated the fat and lean meat from the badger meat. She used the fat meat to make badger oil, and kept the lean meat for herself.

It is said that eight pounds of badgers yield seven pounds of oil, but this is undoubtedly an exaggeration.

Although wild hog badgers are quite fat in autumn, they actually have the most lean meat. Generally, Chen Weidong can make more than one kilogram of oil from one wild hog badger, and four badgers can make about six kilograms of badger oil.

After Chen Weidong shaved the bones, he looked at the fat and lean meat separated by Liu Xueting, and then filled another basin with clean water.
Take a piece of lean meat, chop it into small pieces, and then soak it in water.

I plan to eat this at night. Badger meat has a strong fishy smell, so I want to make it delicious.
The most important step is to soak the badger meat in clean water for several hours until the blood in the badger meat is soaked out.

As soon as Chen Weidong finished soaking, Liu Xueting had already separated the fat and lard from four wild hog badgers.

Cut into small pieces.

Next, remove from heat.

He added half a pot of water into the pot. After the water boiled, Chen Weidong put half of the fat meat into the pot.

When baking badger oil, you must add water, otherwise not only will the oil yield be low but the quality will also be poor.

Put the fat meat into the water, and after a while, a rich aroma came out of the pot.

As the water in the pot slowly turns yellow.

Looking at the badger oil in the pot, Chen Weidong was delighted. Badger oil can be used in the treatment of heat-clearing and detoxification, swelling and pain relief, skin moisturizing and muscle regeneration, scabies, hemorrhoids, gastric ulcers and other diseases. According to different treatment directions, it can be combined with different medicines to enhance the efficacy.

For example, frying eggs with badger seeds can treat gastric ulcers and uterine prolapse in women.

For example, use 500 grams of badger oil and 10 pieces of tofu, fry the tofu with badger oil, and take it two to three times a day, which can treat hemiplegia caused by stroke.

Chen Weidong kept stirring with a spoon until no more fat seeped out of the fat, and then he scooped out the fat that had turned into oily residue.

Chen Weidong asked the little ones to find an empty jar that was used to pickle pickles. After washing it, they scooped out the badger oil from the pot and put it into the jar.

Then, put it aside, clean the pot, add some water again, boil the water, and continue to cook the badger oil.

There was a lot of badger fat and oily meat, so in order to produce more oil, Chen Weidong naturally boiled them separately.

After a while, the badger oil was ready.

It was about the same as Chen Weidong expected, about six pounds. Chen Weidong planned to keep one pound for himself and sell the rest in the city when he had free time.

After finishing his work and cleaning the kitchen, Chen Weidong processed the badger skin. After giving instructions to Liu Xueting, Chen Weidong went out with a knife in hand.

He took the knife and went to cut a suitable branch to make a slingshot. Ever since he went up the mountain yesterday, he had been thinking about the greyhounds on the mountain. This thing is best shot with a slingshot.
The animals in the mountains were particularly clever, so hunting was not easy for him when he was hunting alone during this season.

Moreover, slingshots can be used to shoot pheasants and rabbits, and it saves bullets. What's more, there are basically no survivors when using a gun, so it is very necessary to bring a slingshot when going up the mountain to hunt. Therefore, this time when he entered the village, he also bought rubber bands for making slingshots at the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

Just as I was about to go out, Si Ni came running over and asked.

(End of this chapter)