The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 95 The Deliciousness of Horse Meat

Those who gather firewood return much later than those who gather wild vegetables.

In the valley, which is mainly composed of rock layers, only some wood chips washed down by flash floods were found.

It took more than twenty people an hour to collect about two loads of firewood!
Firewood is limited and should not be wasted.

The ground at the abandoned post station site has long been cleared.

The stove and pot are all set up!

The She family and others first boiled the cleaned rock olives, including the leaves, roots, and fruit, together with the horse spine for half an hour to make four large pots of soup.

While the soup was being simmered, Gan Minglan took over the task of cutting the meat.

She deftly cut the horse meat into palm-sized slices, two to three millimeters thick.

These large, thin slices only need to be briefly dipped in the boiling broth seven or eight times before being taken out of the pot!

There's just too little firewood today, so we can only cook one pot.

Cut the meat, cut the meat like crazy!

Her effortless and smooth slicing of meat, as if it were tofu, attracted a large crowd of onlookers.

Children drool at the sight of the bright red horse meat, and even adults would want to eat a piece raw to try it.

After she had cut about 100 kilograms of meat, the broth was ready.

The two leaders couldn't hold back any longer!

They said they wanted to eat the first cut of meat, so they started cooking it right now!

What could the She family and others do?
You can only pour sliced ​​meat into it!
Two boiling soup pots were filled with fifty or sixty pounds of large slices of meat. After stirring them together, a handful of salt was sprinkled in, and the soup was ready to serve immediately!
Fresh horse meat is different from the coarse fibers of beef.

Lean but not dry, surprisingly tender and juicy.

The meat also has a subtle sweetness and a rich aroma.

It doesn't require much chewing; it melts quickly in your mouth.

The officials who were to eat the first batch of horse meat fought so fiercely after the very first bite that they couldn't even lift their heads.

Even if it's scalding hot, you have to force it into your mouth!
The Zuo clan members watching were so engrossed that their mouths watered.

Many people urged Gan Minglan not to stop and to keep cutting!

Gan Minglan: They may have forgotten how ruthless I was when I killed wolves during the day!

The meat cutter was grumbling to himself, but his hands never stopped cutting meat!

The main reason is that her eldest son is eagerly waiting to eat meat!
It is like this.

Another half hour passed before the meat was added to the third pot.

After eating meat for half an hour, the officials finally said they couldn't work anymore!
Only a dozen or so of the biggest eaters remained, and they planned to drink half a bowl of soup to tide them over.

The broth tastes completely different from horse meat.

With the unique fragrance of rock olives, it has a distinct sweetness that is more pronounced than the original flavor of horse meat.

After drinking most of the scalding hot meat, a layer of sweat broke out on my forehead.

I felt completely relaxed, both physically and mentally, and my throat felt especially comfortable.

They loudly praised the deliciousness of the broth, and those who had just said they couldn't handle the meat now gathered around the pot with their earthenware bowls.

The men, women, and children of the Zuo clan ate to their hearts' content.

Everyone performed exceptionally well tonight.

Even with such an unrestrained way of eating, only half of that huge pile of horse meat was digested.

There are still about 300 pounds left!

Horses have almost no fat; they're all pure lean meat!

The group regretted once again that they hadn't brought enough salt to cure the horse meat into salted meat for storage.

Furthermore, they couldn't find enough firewood to smoke the horse meat.

Finally, the leader surnamed Huang could only say helplessly:

"Then hang the rest of the meat over the puddle. If it's still edible tomorrow morning, we can have it for breakfast."

A puddle is not a well and does not have refrigeration technology.

It's obvious without even thinking about it that in this hot weather, food will definitely smell bad overnight!

The Zuo clan members were not from poor backgrounds; they valued their lives more than anyone else.

They also expressed:
"Being able to eat such a delicious horse meat meal is more than enough for us!" "I have inexhaustible energy right now, and I can walk the rest of the way in one go!"

"Sir, I advise you to eat more mixed grain porridge tomorrow to recover. This stuff is very nourishing. Eating one pound of horse meat is equivalent to five pounds of beef or mutton."

"Exactly! In this weather, another meal would be too much!"

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Horse meat, which was just a hot commodity that was snapped up, has suddenly become an unsaleable item.
They might dislike it, but Gan Minglan didn't dislike it at all.

If you clean up the kitchen freezer properly, you can still fit some more meat in it.

That was meat she had painstakingly prepared during the day; how could she just stand by and watch it spoil?

In the dead of night, someone became a meat thief.

While committing theft, he also had King Atu and his underlings leave many footprints near the puddles afterward.

They staged a scene of a rat stealing meat.

Gan Minglan was initially ambitious, wanting to turn all three hundred catties of fresh horse meat into jerky.

With her incredible physical abilities, she would have almost collapsed by midnight if she hadn't been drinking the essence of the sacred tree like Red Bull.

Making dried meat is a very time-consuming task.

The meat must be cooked before grilling.

To make the original flavor roasted meat jerky the most delicious jerky.

Gan Minglan had a sudden inspiration.

She laid a thick layer of fresh doggrass roots at the bottom of the pressure cooker where the meat was cooked, and then spread the horse meat, which had been marinated in salt for half an hour, on top of the roots.

This process is repeated, layering grass roots with layers of horse meat.

Not a drop of water is added to the pot.

The process relies on the roots of the dog rice grass melting into juice at high temperatures, which then turns into steam that circulates inside the pot.

An hour later, the horse meat in the pressure cooker was finally tender.

As it turns out, her ingenious idea was quite reliable!

The moment the pot lid was opened, the top of my head was filled with freshness.

It's a flavor where every cell in every strand of meat is bursting with freshness.

The deliciousness of this meat soup was enhanced tenfold, building upon the already delicious flavor of the meat slice soup we had that night!
Gan Minglan only had time to praise it once: "One bite of horse meat is so delicious that all other meats in the world taste bland!"

He ate while clicking his tongue, his hands never stopping.

She also wanted to tear these large pieces of meat into strips twice the size of her finger while they were still hot.

Once these strips of meat have cooled down, the most time-consuming step begins.

Her family oven can bake up to four pounds of meat at a time.

It takes more than an hour to bake one tray, and it only gets most of the food dry.

I didn't sleep all night, and in the end I only got ten pounds of dried horse meat!
Oven-baked meat is not as hard as sun-dried or air-dried jerky.

It has a bit of the chewiness of dried meat, so it's easy for the elderly and children to eat.

Authentic flavor, perfectly seasoned.

Unfortunately, she could only take a small bite before she couldn't eat any more.

I'll find another opportunity to come in tomorrow night and vacuum-seal them all, then put them in the freezer to freeze.

When you want to eat it, you can reheat it.

That's at most ten pounds!
My ambitions have been killed by this night of slow, meticulous work!
The remaining fresh horse meat was cut into uniform sizes, vacuum-sealed, and frozen!
The result of an immersive overnight barbecue was that even her hair smelled of meat.

I need to hurry up and take a quick shower in the bathroom.
The next day, the mouse stole all the horse meat, and no one was angry.

The physical reaction to last night's over-nourishment, even for a young and strong person, is so agonizing.

The biggest beneficiaries are the injured.

After eating their fill of meat and drinking herbal soup, they all felt that their wounds were less painful this morning.

If Zuo Wenkang hadn't seen the bloody hole on his calf still there that morning, he would have doubted that he had already healed.

Not only does it not hurt, but it also feels itchy inside the flesh.

(End of this chapter)