Travel through the ancient forest system

Chapter 39 Making Jerky
"It's more tiring than usual, because I have to watch her all the time, but it's acceptable." Lin Yi swallowed the soup in his mouth and said

"That's good, don't make yourself too tired." Wu Hao patted Lin Yi's hand and said.

For the next month or so, Wu Yu followed Lin Yi to the forest to search for vegetables every few days, and now he has found five kinds, including spinach and cabbage, shepherd's purse, lettuce and lettuce.

However, people here have never eaten lettuce.

Although Wu Hao knew that the vegetables in the album were edible, he still caught a rabbit in the forest and came back to experiment.

Because people at this time are still cautious about food and will not easily try unknown food. It is probably because someone has suffered a loss before and it is passed down as experience.

And the rabbit is of course alive and kicking after eating it.

Therefore, Wu Hao recommended lettuce to everyone in the tribe. Although not many people tried it at first, but seeing that the people who ate it were fine, everyone gradually accepted it.

As soon as August arrives, the tribe is ready to make jerky.

The Chasing Forest Tribe makes jerky twice a year, in March and August.

The dried meat in March is prepared for the trade fair, and in August, besides the trade, they also need to meet the needs of their own tribe.

The production of jerky is very cumbersome, it needs to go through several processes, and finally it has to be dried, so it takes about one month from the beginning to the finished product.

During this time, everyone in the tribe was busy.

Many fruits are ripe, and the collection team not only has to prepare the vegetables for the day, but also has to grab the fruits before they fall.

The hunting team also needs to supply more than twice the usual amount of fresh meat to meet the demand for making jerky.

Wu Yu also had to find the remaining five vegetables before winter.

And other people who have nothing to do except children under the age of ten have to help make jerky.

Wu Yu also went over to watch the excitement when Lin Yi wasn't collecting, only to find that there was a specially prepared stone cave for making jerky, which was very spacious and could accommodate dozens of people working at the same time.

There are also a series of tools for making jerky, such as more than a dozen bone knives, several large stone pots and shovels, several large stone platforms, several large wooden basins, and large wooden spoons for scooping water.

In order not to hinder their work, Wu Yu sat in the corner and watched.

After watching it on and off for a month, Wu Yu finally understood the complete steps.

First, you need to peel the fresh meat and remove the internal organs.

Next, cut the fresh meat into fist-sized pieces, and blanch them in a pot with cold water to remove the blood foam.

Third, cook over low heat.

Fourth, take it out and put it on a stone bed to cool.

Fifth, add salt to marinate
Sixth, put it in the sun
Wu Yu hadn't tasted the taste of tribal jerky, but judging by their steps, he could tell that the taste would not be very good.

Although she has never made jerky before, she has eaten it anyway, but she has never seen jerky that is the size of a fist, and it is usually in strips, which is easy to taste.

Also, people here don’t have the concept of condiments. Salt is only added for the needs of the body, and it’s salt that hasn’t been processed much. It’s very bitter.

How can this taste be so good? No wonder there is no competition in the trade fair.

It seems that in order to improve the taste of jerky, finding condiments is an essential step.

During this month, apart from watching the making of jerky, Wu Yu did not give up looking for vegetables.

On the way to pick fruit with Lin Yi, Wu Yu found leeks and water spinach, and even dug some up to show Wu Hao.

Wu Hao also experimented a bit, and then popularized it in the tribe, but the leeks were unpalatable and had a strange smell, which was not liked by people.

It's autumn in September, but the temperature hasn't dropped much, and the sun is still touching.

Wu Yu also couldn't find three kinds of baby vegetables, chrysanthemum chrysanthemums, and celery, and continued to run around with Lin Yi.

For this reason, she was tanned to a degree, but Wu Yu didn't care too much seeing that she was still fair.

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(End of this chapter)