Chapter 24 - spicy chicken
Because it was too tiring to rush to harvest and rush to plant, Chen Xiayue got a chicken from the farm to make up for everyone.
In order to eat more meat, Chen Xiayue unlocked the farm’s pig farm again, raising pigs to eat meat.
The chickens on the farm are not impossible to take out. If you want to keep the raw eggs, you only need to harvest the eggs when the time is up. If you want to eat chicken, you have to catch the chicken and kill it.
Chen Xiayue caught the chicken, and then spent gold coins to make up another chicken. Chen Xiayue unlocked the pig farm after seeing that her gold coins were not bad.
Back in the 1960s, she only ate pork on the two days she got married, and she hasn’t eaten pork since.
Chen Xiayue misses the taste of pork very much, such as braised pork, double-cooked pork, pot-wrapped pork, Dongpo pork, fish-flavored shredded pork, chili fried pork… She misses them very much.
So after Chen Xiayue unlocked the pig farm, she spent gold coins to get the pig farm out. She raised two pigs directly, and she will harvest more pork by then.
Of course, the pork harvested by the pig farm on the farm is pork belly. If you want to eat pig’s head, pig ears, pig internal organs, pig trotters, pig elbows, etc., you have to raise the pigs and then catch them just like catching chickens before killing them. Can get other pork.
The chicken that Chen Xiayue caught weighs about seven or eight pounds. After all, she has been raising it for a long time, and the chicken has laid eggs for a long time.
Since the chickens on the farm can lay eggs, it means that they have grown up and can be eaten. She has raised them for so long, so it is very natural for the chickens to be heavier.
After Chen Xiayue caught the chicken, she wiped the chicken’s neck, and of course the blood was left behind. Then boiled water to scald the chicken feathers and pulled them out. After cleaning, the internal organs were cleaned.
Chen Xiayue processed all the chicken offal. After rubbing the chicken intestines and chicken gizzards with salt and flour, he cut the chicken hearts, chicken livers, chicken intestines, and chicken gizzards into smaller pieces, and made a stir-fried chicken offal with green peppers later.
Chen Xiayue cut out the chicken breast and drumstick, then chopped the rest and boiled the soup. The chicken breast and drumstick Chen Xiayue made a spicy chicken, of course not authentic spicy chicken.
After all, authentic spicy chicken needs to be fried again. Zhang Jiake doesn’t have so much oil for her to fry the chicken, so she just stir-fries the chicken and then adds the ingredients and seasonings of the spicy chicken to fry it together.
Of course, a chicken weighing seven or eight pounds, Chen Xiayue, can’t be finished in one meal. After all, there are only four people in the family, and if you cook too much, you won’t be able to finish it.
In this age without a refrigerator, there are too many leftovers and it is difficult to keep them. Even if their family has a well, Chen Xiayue doesn’t want to cook too many leftovers.
Chen Xiayue made half of the chicken, and the other half of the chicken was smeared with salt and hung on the stove, waiting for the next time.
In addition to stir-fried chicken with green peppers, **** chicken soup and spicy chicken, Chen Xiayue also made stir-fried sweet potato leaves, and the meal is ready.
Zhang Deping and his wife and Zhang Chengchuan ate very satisfied. Liu Guiying saw that the egg laying chicken was alive and well and didn’t care where her daughter-in-law bought the chicken. Anyway, the chicken entered her stomach.
“It’s been almost two days since the rice was harvested. Do you still need to keep busy?” Chen Xiayue asked. She didn’t quite understand whether rice was grown twice a year in the South in the 1960s.
Chen Xiayue was from Qiong Province in her previous life. When she was a child, she grew rice in the countryside twice a year. Early rice was planted in January and late rice in August. The early rice was harvested in May and the late rice was harvested in October. , the middle two months is the time for free and raising seedlings.
And most of the chronological texts that Chen Xiayue read are written in the north, especially in the northeast. A small part of it is about life on the seaside or on the island. Chen Xiayue really doesn’t know whether there are two seasons of rice in Yunnan and Guangxi in the 1960s and 1970s.
Chen Xiayue also knew that some crops were grown three seasons a year, but she didn’t know which regions would grow crops three seasons a year.
I don’t know if the Yunnan-Guangxi region in the 1960s would be able to grow crops three seasons a year. After all, the grain output in this era was low, and everyone was very poor. I really hoped to eat more food.
According to the environment in the 1960s, she shouldn’t have the same free time as in her previous life for a month or two, right?
“The rice is harvested, but it won’t be long before we have to plant sweet potatoes. After the sweet potatoes can be harvested, we will plant rice seedlings.” Zhang Chengchuan explained to his daughter-in-law.
The daughter-in-law is a city girl and should not understand the rules and regulations of farming in the countryside, so he explained it to his daughter-in-law.
Chen Xiayue nodded, it turned out to be sweet potatoes? It’s good, although the sweet potato of this era has not been improved and the yield is not as high as that of later generations, but it is also much higher than the yield of rice.
After eating, everyone went back to rest. After all, harvesting rice is really tiring these days. After harvesting rice, we have to continue to grow sweet potatoes.
Chen Xiayue tried her best to make delicious food to supplement her family. There were many eggs on the farm, so Chen Xiayue often cooked them for them. Zhang Deping and Liu Guiying didn’t care where the eggs came from. Zhang Chengchuan helped Chen Xiayue to explain.
Chen Xiayue felt that it was a wise decision to let Zhang Chengchuan become the deputy farmer. After all, she would live with Zhang Chengchuan for the rest of her life. He could not know what she did, and could not feel anything strange.
Not now, with Zhang Chengchuan explaining and covering up for Chen Xiayue, and Chen Xiayue making delicious nourishment for her family, no one questioned where she got so many eggs.
In addition to eggs every day, the pork in Chen Xiayue’s farm can also be harvested. Chen Xiayue took out a pound of pork belly and stewed peanuts. Of course, she didn’t stew all of it, and left a little stir-fry.
Because Chen Xiayue cooks eggs for them every day, and occasionally has pork to eat, Zhang’s family didn’t lose much weight during the double grab, they were just too tired, so their spirits weren’t very good.
Shuangluo is really tired. Chen Xiayue’s body can’t do too tiring work, so she will go home in only an hour or two when she goes to the field, and will not go to work at the same time as other people. work.
After finally planting sweet potatoes, Chen Xiayue asked Zhang Chengchuan to take him out, and when he came back, he took a pound of pork belly and made a braised pork meal.
Chen Xiayue fry the rock sugar until it turns candy, wrap it in the pork belly, put the star anise aniseed and other ingredients and simmer it for two hours.
Because of Chen Xiayue’s pork belly meal, almost a dozen households near Zhang’s house smelled the smell of braised pork. The children were all greedy and the adults were greedy, but the adults didn’t cry because they wanted to save face.