Farmhouse pretty cook

Chapter 365 Warm Bed (4)
Moreover, Mu Xiang wanted to keep the best duck downs, although there were too few duck downs to make a down jacket, at least five duck downs were needed to make clothes.

The best duck down is the belly of a duck. After removing a layer of large hairs, the bottom layer, with almost invisible hair tubes, is the real duck down.

The eiderdown quilts or eiderdown garments that come out of modern processing workshops are actually a layer of big hair on the top. After being broken, the processed ones are not real duck down.

The newly collected duck down must be soaked in alum overnight, and then taken out to dry before it can be used.

The duck that Damei gave was very fat, and He An staggered heavily, "How did Damei feed the ducks? How can they be so fat?"

Mu Xiang was concentrating on plucking the ducks' necks. "Changshuan must have caught a lot of small fish and shrimps to feed them. Next year we will also feed some ducks. We will catch some ducklings at the beginning of spring. By June [-]th, we will feed them some ducks." You can eat it."

"It's okay to feed the ducks, but...you're not going back to the capital with the master?" He An asked cautiously.

"I'm going to the capital, but not now. As for when it will be, let's talk about it depending on the situation. Don't just talk, grab it and don't move."

Mu Xiang raised the knife and dropped it cleanly and neatly.

Caiyun scooped up boiling water and poured it into the wooden basin, "Sister, I'll help him pluck his feathers later, this duck's feathers are very difficult to pluck."

Mu Xiang also thought about it, duck feathers are indeed much harder to pull out than chicken feathers.

Large and small hair tubes, especially the small hairs on the neck, can make your nails hurt.

Modern people use bitumen to pluck duck feathers. After removing the big hairs of ducks, wrap the duck with bitumen, and then peel it off after it cools down. The duck is as clean as a bald duck.

Although it saves trouble, that thing is poisonous after all, no different from taking chronic poison.

He Liancheng was standing in front of the big table writing couplets, his writing was flowing like flowing water, and his posture was also beautiful.His handwriting is the same as his, elegant and domineering.

He heard what Mu Xiang and the others said in the courtyard, "Wu Qing, you can help her too, I can do it here alone."

Wu Qing glanced outside the door, put down the scissors, "Yes, that subordinate has gone out."

When she got to the yard, Mu Xiang was squatting there with her sleeves rolled up, scalding a duck there!
The water was too hot, and she could only turn it with a kitchen knife.

"Let me do it," Wu Qing squatted down, without using the kitchen knife in her hand, she directly reached out to rummage through it.

Mu Xiang withdrew her hand, seeing him in the scalding water, retracting it freely, she was speechless immediately, "This water has just boiled, are you not afraid of being scalded?"

"Fortunately, I hold the knife in my hand all the year round, and the calluses are thick," Wu Qing said without raising his head.

Mu Xiang was silent for a moment, then looked up at He An, "You know martial arts too, but why don't you have calluses on your hands?"

He An's face turned dark, "I'm just a servant, not a guard. I practice martial arts for self-defense, and he practices martial arts to protect his master. Can it be the same?"

Mu Xiang thought for a while, then nodded, "You seem to be right, but why is Liu Erdan okay? He is supposed to be younger than you, right?"

"I don't know," He An had nothing to answer, and simply turned his back and ignored her.

Caiyun couldn't hold back her laughter, and suddenly burst out laughing when she saw He An's angry back.

Mu Xiang also smiled, and Wu Qing had a faint smile on his face, which was hard to see unless you looked carefully.

"I'll leave it to you here. The duck is almost scalded. You can pick it up and pluck it." Mu Xiang stood up, leaving the kitchen knife by the edge of the well. There was another one in the kitchen. They would have to dissect and wash the duck later. This knife will come in handy.

When she entered the kitchen, Caiyun asked: "Sister, how do you cook the duck at night? Braised in brown sauce or stewed?"

Mu Xiang stopped and thought for a while, "Neither braised in soy sauce nor stewed in clear water, I will stir-fry some rice later, after grinding it, mix it with duck meat, it is very fragrant!"

"What kind of burning method is this?" Caiyun didn't understand, could a duck still do this?

"Of course it's fine. As for how it's cooked, you'll know when I cook it. Now I have to cook rice porridge. It's getting late. If I don't cook it, it's time to delay cooking the New Year's Eve dinner."

"Then let Xiao Anzi light the fire for you, and I'll help Brother Ang pluck the duck feathers." Both Wu Qing and He An are new to this job, so she has to watch it.

To cook rice porridge, it is not enough to just prepare rice.There must be lean meat, mushrooms, and eggs.

Her family now has preserved eggs, which are perfect for cooking rice porridge.

In addition to ordinary rice, the main ingredient has to add some glutinous rice and soak it in cold water for a while.

Before Da Fei came back, Mu Xiang had no choice but to take a knife and cut some lean meat. After chopping, add fine powder and some vinegar, and grab it evenly.

There are many ways to make rice porridge, each method is different, and the taste of the rice porridge made is also different.

Muxiang’s method is to boil the rice first, then simmer for a while, then pour in the lean meat and mushrooms, and put the preserved eggs last, otherwise it will become pulpy.

Don’t be in a hurry to cook the porridge. You have to simmer it slowly over a low fire. The longer the simmering time, the better. When it’s out of the pot, sprinkle some chives on it and it’s done.

When it was time to eat, Damei came. She heard Liu Erdan say that Muxiang had returned.

Out of emotion and reason, she wanted to come and see, and originally wanted to gossip, but both of them were very busy.On the first day of the new year, Damei and his family were going to Damei's grandma's house to pay New Year's greetings.

Although Da Mei Niang is dead, but grandma is still there, so she must go.

Hearing Damei talk about her mother and her grandma, Mu Xiang also remembered that it has been half a year since she came here, and she still hasn't paid homage to her mother's grave!
Caiyun didn't mention it to Mu Lang, so she ignored it. Thinking about it, it really shouldn't be.Taking up the body of the eldest daughter, and not going to worship her as a mother, is too unfilial.

Knowing that the three siblings were going to visit the grave of the deceased mother-in-law, He Liancheng definitely wanted to go together.

It's just that the family didn't have anything to go to the grave, so Wu Qing rode a horse to buy it temporarily, and it was too late to come and go.

The things that go to the grave are nothing but yellow paper and incense, and most of them are ghost coins and paper money.

Wu Qing bought a lot, a whole half of the basket.

(End of this chapter)