reborn peasant mother

Chapter 37

After hearing this, Mother Zhong still cursed "eat things", but the chopsticks in her hand unconsciously stretched out towards the big crispy, soft and rotten meat in the basin.The Zhong family is not considered poor in the village, but eating meat with their stomachs open like this during the New Year is still something that they don't dare to think about.

According to the Chinese New Year tradition in rural areas, Feng Yujiang soaked two bowls of soybeans after dinner, and got up early on the 25th to make tofu.She asked Zhong Jipeng to help grind the beans.Zhong Jipeng yawned and said:
"I'm used to being used like this, so you're not welcome at all!"

"You don't want to eat tofu yourself?" Feng Yujiang said.

Grind the soaked soybeans with a stone mill first, then put the ground soybeans in a large gauze bag, put "eight beams" on the porcelain vat, pour water into the bag, and press hard to make the milky white soybean milk Press it out, over and over again, until the soy milk that is pressed out is thin, and only bean dregs are left in the gauze pocket.

"Eight Liangzi" is probably a kind of wooden frame supported on a porcelain vat, with two supporting wooden beams on both sides and two arc-shaped wood chips in the middle, which is convenient for pressing soybean milk and can smoothly flow into the vat.

Scoop the soybean milk into a large pot and boil, skim off the froth, add an appropriate amount of brine, and stir in one direction.The work of adding brine is the most technical content. If you add too much, the tofu will be bitter, and the juice will be yellow, and the tofu will also be bitter.If you put less, you can't make tofu.Put the tofu brain into a sieve covered with gauze, wrap it in gauze and press out the water with a heavy object, and it becomes tofu.

Feng Yujiang unhurriedly stirred the boiling soy milk, and after a while, the soy milk in the pot turned into white and tender tofu nao.

"Little ones, get up and eat tofu brains." Zhong Jipeng yelled.Get some red pepper noodles, soy sauce, vinegar, coriander, etc., it's delicious, and it's breakfast by the way.

Everyone in the family likes tofu nao, but Gangzi doesn't like it.

"Mom, where's my meat?" He was still thinking about the meat he ate last night.

Feng Yujiang smiled: "There's still some left, I'll warm it up for you to eat."

"Mom, this tofu fried bean curd is delicious when boiled."

Feng Yujiang said, "Okay, let's eat fried bean porridge."

What the locals call "boiling vegetables" means to put several dishes together and stew them slowly, which is a bit like the method of stewing in Northeast China.The deep-fried bean porridge is stewed in the soup soup. It is soft and delicious, especially with rice.

(End of this chapter)