six-fingered peasant girl

Chapter 224 The Birth of Chili Sauce

The war started in August, and good news came. Our army won a small battle in the first battle and killed 1 enemies.During the mid-autumn festival reunion in August, a small village near the border was brutally massacred. Women were even raped and murdered, even babies. The corpses were piled up like a mountain. The enemy’s actions were heinous. The army, fighting continuously, everyone on the Mobei border is in danger, and they have gone south to avoid disaster, and refugees are running around.

In September, due to the soaring prices of war things, especially rice, grain and medicinal materials, it is exactly the right time to have money but not money, so don't get sick, because you can't afford it.As for food, some people can't afford it even if they have money, and even poor rural farmers change from three meals to two meals, and use sweet potatoes soaked in rice bran to cook porridge to satisfy their hunger.

Fortunately, although prices have soared, the flames of war did not spread to small places like Da'ao Village in Changping County. It's just moisturizing.

After the severe drought, the rain increased instead, as if it was about to rain for the past two months. Fortunately, no floods were caused, and the growth of the new crops was still a relief.

The weather in the early autumn of September is already very cool. Su Liu originally planned to go to Shangjing when she was old, but because of one or another reason, she was stuck in her tracks, and it was difficult to make a schedule. However, she was busy because of the harvest of peppers. .

The previous batch of peppers had enough seeds, so they planted a total of thirteen acres of land. Because of the proper cooking, it can be considered a bumper harvest. In addition to supplying Song Fei and his family's restaurant, Su Liu also kept it for himself. Bought two hundred catties of chili, and made the chili sauce she had wanted to make for a long time.

Su Liu was a lover of spicy food in her previous life. Because she loved spicy food, she also learned how to make chili sauce. When she went to Guilin and Sichuan, she also watched how other people made chili sauce with garlic. Therefore, when making chili sauce now, she His gestures are also very skillful.

The bright red peppers were steamed and poured onto a large log cutting board, holding a knife in each hand, aggressively stamping their hands up and down quickly, making people dumbfounded.

"Young lady's knife skills are really good." Madam Cui said with eyes full of admiration, without blinking, "This chili pepper is stomped like this, and it still doesn't splatter everywhere."

Su Liu pursed her lips and smiled, and said, "That's not good. It's better to stamp the pepper after it's steamed than raw, and it won't splatter everywhere. And the jerky smell of the pepper is removed during steaming, so The sauce made will be more delicious.”

"Miss knows a lot." Seeing that her movements had slowed down, Madam Cui said, "Miss may be tired, so let me do it, just watch from the sidelines."

Su Liu was also really tired, flipping her hands was not for fun, her wrists were so sore, she said, "I haven't cooked for a long time, I'm not used to it, my hands are sore after just stomping for a while."

Mrs. Cui took the knife in her hand and said with a smile: "Young lady is the one who does big things, so let's do this small thing."

"My daughter's house should cook more, otherwise, if I go to someone else's house in the future, how can I serve the whole family?" Mrs. Chen walked into the kitchen from the outside, just in time to hear a smile.

"Madam." Seeing her coming, Mrs. Cui hurriedly put down the knife, wiped her apron twice, and walked over to pay her respects.

"You can do your own thing, I just came to see if the chili sauce she made came out." Chen smiled and gave her a hand.

Although Mrs. Cui handed over the job of stamping peppers, Su Liu's hands were not idle. Instead, she crushed the peeled white garlic, picked up another knife and stamped it. After hearing this, she smiled and replied. Said: "How can it be so fast."

Making chili sauce does not take a while, but it is definitely not as long as making donkey-hide gelatin. It only takes three or four days for the chili sauce to be made.

Su Liu packed the crushed minced garlic in a large wooden basin and put it aside for later use, and then went on to do other things. Now that she had started, she wanted to make a few more flavors at a time and send some to Ning Guang.

Therefore, she is also going to make a few cans of beef chili sauce. The weather in Mobei Border Pass is cold, so it is just right to eat these chili peppers. Moreover, their life is hard, anyway, this stuff can be stored, and it is easy to eat, which can be regarded as adding flavor to Ning Guang.

She had already ordered tens of catties of beef at the beef stall in the town. It was all fresh and high-quality pork belly, and the blood and water had been taken care of. Soft and fragrant, mouth-watering.

Su Liu greeted the girl, and even Mrs. Chen rolled up her sleeves to help. They quickly cut the beef into small cubes, filled a big pot and put it aside for later use.

At this time, Mrs. Cui also chopped the bright red Chaotian pepper into fine pieces, evenly and finely. Su Liu raised her thumb to her, making her smile shyly.

No one has ever made the hot sauce, so naturally Su Liu was in charge of the spoon. Ya'er had already made the fire, and because he wanted to control the heat, he gave the job to the more familiar lady Cui.

For the simple chili pepper sauce, you only need to chop the pepper finely, add seasonings such as salt and wine, press it tightly and seal it, and you can eat it in three or four days.

Garlic chili sauce is not complicated. Put the stamped chili and garlic in the same pot, add salt, sugar and high-grade three rice wine, and stir evenly, but during the process, do not get water, otherwise the sauce will will turn sour.And Su Liu seems to have done it thousands of times, and she is surprisingly familiar.

"If it wasn't for the chili pepper, it would be like doing it many times after looking at the big girl's hand gestures." Madam Cui's unintentional words made Su Liu's heart skip a beat.

Glancing at Mrs. Chen secretly, seeing her smiling without any doubts, she let go of the big stone in her heart, and said with a smile: "Miss Cui can cook good food, and she should be an old gourmet, why don't you understand?" The thoughts of us gluttons? We are a foodie, in order to eat well, what good things can’t come up with?”

"That's right, the big girl's brain is flexible, unlike us, who are so stupid." Mrs. Cui laughed.

Mrs. Chen said angrily: "It's a shame that you still think that you are a foodie. Who is so greedy like you? If you go to your in-law's house, you can't let people see the joke. If this is an ordinary family, you can't eat poor people's house?"

"I don't like to hear what my mother said. Food is the most important thing for the people here. What's wrong with it? It's a joke? It's a blessing to be able to eat." Su Liu retorted with a pout.

"Ma'am, don't worry, our son-in-law is a great general, and even if the eldest girl can't stop eating every day, she can't eat enough." Madam Cui joked as she added firewood.

"That's right." The girls laughed and laughed.

Su Liu blushed and pretended to be annoyed: "It seems that you are so used to it that you dare to make fun of the master."

After hearing this, Shuang Ning feigned panic and bowed her knees: "Girl, please forgive us, we don't like telling the truth, and we really don't dare to say it in the future. What's the matter, we have to tell lies in the future. talk?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed even more happily.

"Little Hoof, see if I don't tear your mouth." Su Liu scolded with a smile, and stretched out her hand to pinch her face, making Shuang Ning repeatedly beg for mercy, and the kitchen was full of laughter.

While laughing and cursing, the garlic chili sauce had already been stirred, and Su Liu asked the girl to move the whole pot to the shelf in the yard, and put it in the sun to dry it. After two days, it can be bottled and sealed.

The last is to make beef chili sauce, which is more complicated than the previous ones and requires more ingredients.

Su Liu dilutes the chopped red pepper with homemade soybean paste and water, then pours oil into the pot and heats it up, then puts the minced ginger, minced green onion, minced garlic, minced pepper and stir-fry until fragrant, then add Beef mince, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce and other seasonings.

Chili peppers are inherently spicy, but when they are fried, the pungent and pungent smell makes people blush like blood, making people sneeze and sneeze non-stop, but people can't help but inhale it. The taste is so fragrant.The scent wafting from the kitchen chimney made the passers-by unable to stop, guessing what kind of food it was, it smells so good!

After frying for a while, pour soybean paste water, sugar, etc. into the pot, remove the firewood and change the fire to a simmer, cover the pot and simmer slowly, stirring constantly during the period, until the meat is sticky, then sprinkle the fried rice on top. Stir-fry the cooked sesame seeds again, taste the taste with chopsticks, and then come out of the pan.

As soon as the beef sauce came out of the pot, everyone in the kitchen swallowed their mouths, and asked someone to fetch a crock to fill it.

There is no such thing as glass now, even if Su Liu wanted to use glass bottles to hold hot sauce, it would not work, but the ceramic crocks are the same, and they are more primitive, so she had ordered several porcelain jars early on. sized crocks.

The crock pot containing the hot sauce has been soaked in water for a few days, and it has been burnt with wine to poison it. It is clean and not stained with dust. It is food, especially Su Liu is a person from the new era, so naturally he pays more attention to it. Be hygienic.

A large pot full of beef sauce filled five or six large pots, and Su Liu started to make the second pot.

She had thought about it a long time ago, this big can was sent to Ning Guang for dinner, and Song Fei would also send some, and she also had an idea, that is, to pack some in a small can and take it to Shangjing to see if it would work. She can't open up a business. Of course, she also needs to put some in her bun shop for publicity. In the near future, she will start a small workshop specializing in chili sauce.

The old godmother also made a fortune in this way. She is the first to eat crabs, how can she get the first chance, right?This kind of sauce goes with rice and tastes good, and it will definitely cause a trend.

Su Liu was right. Her chili sauce had attracted the attention of many people as soon as it came out. Before the chili workshop opened, it had received a lot of orders, and more people inquired about chili seeds. It’s good to wait for the next year to plant it and sell it for money!

As for Ning Guang, when he received Su Liu's family letter and pickles, a smile finally appeared on his bearded face. After tasting the beef chili sauce, his eyes brightened even more, and he ate two more bowls of rice. Happy to win.

Su Liu said in the letter that he wanted to open a small workshop, and Ning Guang naturally had no reason not to support it, so he generously distributed two jars of sauce to the young generals, silently promoting it.

And this kind of publicity, such good things for dinner, naturally attracted the attention of those who bought military supplies, and with Ning Guang's help, they placed a big order first. Now, Su Liu's footsteps to Beijing were delayed indefinitely.

(End of this chapter)