Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 125 Houji Braised Pork (1)

"Uncle, we are all family, there is no need to be so distant.

This is the first time I do this, so all other things belong to my nephew. After we make money tomorrow, we will be clear on everything and reconcile the accounts every day.

You can use this money as the starting capital for our stall. We will definitely have to pay taxes when we set up a stall tomorrow, so take it and use it to pay for it!" Hou Xiaoge said and waved his hand without taking the money.

"That's it!"

Money is a man's courage. Hou Yangmin now had only a dozen yuan of French currency left in his pocket. He was panicking and felt relieved only after he put two dollars in his pocket.

“Then let’s start cleaning the pig offal! It’s a huge project to deal with so much offal and pig heads.” Hou Xiaoge said with a wry smile as he looked at the pile of pig offal on the ground.

Although meat is a rare commodity these days, offal is really worthless. As for why, it is because it is too troublesome to handle and cook. After all, no one wants to eat a smell of "Olle Gei"!

However, he obviously underestimated the execution ability of people of this generation. His uncle and uncle-in-law went to roast the pig's head, his eldest cousin and second cousin went to clean the pig's lungs, and everyone else, young and old, also got busy.

The most difficult thing to clean after going into the water is the pig intestine. In those days, alkaline noodles were a high-end product, so it was naturally impossible to buy alkaline noodles to clean them.

However, the wood-burning stove solved this problem perfectly. Hou Xiaoge directly took a basin of wood ash from the stove.

This thing is also alkaline. It can kill bacteria and remove odors when cleaning pig intestines. It also has a granular texture and you don't need to waste flour to scrub the pig intestines.

The family had never dealt with it before, so this thing fell into the hands of Hou Xiaoge.

Fortunately, I am a country kid myself, and the boss simply prepared it, so it wasn't particularly stinky.

Hou Xiaoge started scrubbing it like washing clothes. It took him an hour to clean the mucus on the front, and then he started to deal with the large intestine.

The large intestine is even more difficult to deal with. In addition to mucus, there is also oil. This intestinal oil is not edible, so it has to be cleaned out with great effort.

It took Hou Xiaoge two hours to thoroughly clean the two pairs of pig intestines, and his hands were almost numb from exhaustion.

"Heiwa, you are really awesome. The stinky pig intestines become crystal clear after being processed, and the smell is much less." The eldest cousin Hou Chunhua looked at the crystal clear pig intestines in the basin, picked one up and smelled it and said.

"I'll teach you once, and I'll leave this job to you from now on. Ouch, my waist!" Hou Xiaoge, who had been squatting for a long time, stretched his tired body and sighed.

"Haha! Where did you get the waist from, little brat?" Hou Chunhua said, and everyone else in the yard started laughing.

"You guys wash it! I'm going to go out for a while. This is our first time doing business, so you have to eat carefully." After saying this, Hou Xiaoge pulled the cart and slipped out.

After resting outside for half an hour, Hou Xiaoge took out two bluestone slabs that were one meter long, half a meter wide, and three or four centimeters thick from the space, put them into the cart and pulled them back.

"Heiwa, what are you doing with those stone slabs?" After Hou Xiaoge came in, Hou Yangmin saw him and stood up and walked over.

"Uncle, have you processed the pig's head?" Hou Xiaoge asked with a smile when he saw his uncle and aunt sitting and drinking tea.

"Everything has been processed. Your mother just took it into the kitchen. By the way, what is this stone slab for? Put it there for you!" Hou Yangmin helped to unload the stone slab.

"Uncle, there are some adobe bricks in the corner. You and my uncle can move some of them and build two earthen stoves in the kitchen, and put these two stone slabs on them.

"An iron griddle costs eight or nine dollars, and it takes at least two or three pancakes. We don't have enough money now, so let's use a stone slab to make pancakes! Although it costs a little firewood, it can save a lot of money." Hou Xiaoge explained with a smile.

"Haha! You have so many clever ideas, but the thickness of the stone slab should be good for making pancakes." Hou Yangmin was also happy about the method Hou Xiaoge came up with to reduce expenses.

While Hou Yangmin and his uncle were building a clay stove, Hou Xiaoge directed his aunt and mother to start blanching the vegetables.

There was no cooking wine in those days, but there were white wine and yellow wine. Hou Xiaoge poured a little of each, then added green onions and ginger, and the three-piece set of deodorizing ingredients was complete.

"Little girl, mother, when you cook meat in the future, remove the fishy smell like this, and then remove all the black foam on the surface after the water boils.

When there is no more foam, most of the fishy smell of the meat has been removed. "Hou Xiaoge saw a group of women surrounding him and smiled as he gave instructions to them.

"You're being so wasteful. I think the wine you just poured is only worth a dime. We can't bear to waste it." Hou Cuiping said with a grimace.

"Be willing to give up, be willing to give up. Only by giving first can you gain later. The same goes for doing business. You must be willing to use ingredients and be willing to let people eat. Only then can you make money continuously in the future." Hou Xiaoge shook his head and muttered.

After blanching the meat and taking it out, Hou Xiaoge started to braise the meat, while the others tactfully left.

After Xiaoge told her mother about the ingredients, she let her aunt and eldest cousin come in and start making cakes.

After seven or eight hours of fermentation, the dough has become a honeycomb shape, which is the best time to make pancakes.

If you follow the old method at home, you would just knead it and then start making it.

But when doing business, one has to be strict. Hou Xiaoge took out the alkaline noodles that he had bought in advance, gave instructions to a few people, and began to knead the dough to neutralize the sour taste.

After kneading the dough, Hou Xiaoge took out the five-spice powder she made and asked her aunt to roll out the dough and then brush it with oil and sprinkle with five-spice powder and salt.

"Oh my God! Making cakes has never been so troublesome before." Hou Cuiping and several other female relatives kept exclaiming in amazement.

"Haha! You guys learn well. Once you learn how to make this pancake, even if we don't do the braised meat business, we can still make money just by selling pancakes." Hou Xiaoge said to the others with a smile.

Women spend their entire lives around the stove. Smelling the aroma of the pancakes, they naturally understood what Hou Xiaoge meant. Making pancakes is indeed a fine craft.

With five women, big and small, plus Hou Xiaoge, the division of labor was clear, and they baked more than 200 pancakes very quickly.

As time passed, the aroma of wheat and meat began to spread in the kitchen. Not only the people who were making pancakes, but even the adults and children sitting in a row on the steps outside could not help swallowing their saliva.

In fact, the real situation is not just like this. The smell of braised meat has already spread out. The aroma of meat can be smelled within a hundred meters. It is really overbearing.

"Wow! This smell is too overbearing."

"Oh my god, the gluttony in my stomach has come out."

"Me too."

Fortunately, Hou Xiaoge had the foresight to build a three-meter-high wall around his home in advance, otherwise the yard would have been filled with people.

As the aroma of meat wafted out, villagers gathered on three sides of Hou Xiaoge's door, and some familiar people even knocked on the door to ask questions.

Fortunately, the villagers of Nanjiagou Village are not short of food now, so Hou Yangmin and Zhou Xinmin dared to open the door to welcome them out.

"Everyone, my family has got a recipe for braised pork. As you can see, Xinmin and I bought some belongings today and are now braising the meat. We plan to set up a stall tomorrow to make a living." Hou Yangmin explained to the villagers with a smile.

"Chief, this fragrance is too overbearing. Can you give me some?"

"That's right! Chief, this is so delicious. Even if you don't want to eat the meat, drinking some soup will be fine!"

"Chief, since your family is in business, how do you sell the meat?"

"Patriarch, you said last time in Guanyin Hall that you would treat us when you get to Qin Province to kill a pig. Why not treat us today?"

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As more and more people came, people started saying all kinds of things. Some even asked Hou Yangmin to kill a pig in advance to entertain them.