binnovel Chapter 253 Smoked Sausage (Completed)
Chapter 253 Smoked Sausage (Completed)
Lin Lanshan left, and Taozi obediently pulled the cart and followed her. Lin Chunyi left after that.
Tuantuan, Yuanyuan, An'an, and Kang'kang were left behind, shaking their heads unhappily, having already fallen several steps behind.
Just then, a cool voice suddenly sounded in their ears: "Jackals, you're coming to steal goose and chicken meat!"
Startled, they shook their feathers, spread their wings, and ran quickly with a thud under their claws, chasing after the pursuer.
"Giggle!" "Coo coo!" Wait for us, wait for us!
The two sisters heard several shouting and running voices behind them, getting closer and closer. "Hahahaha..."
The burst of laughter, which he couldn't help, startled birds that were resting among the branches for miles around, sending them flying in all directions...
Once inside the valley, the two sisters sent Peach and Reunion to play, and then pulled their cart home.
Next, they're going to smoke sausages at home with cypress branches, but the smell is too pungent, so there's no need to send them back to suffer that.
There are techniques to smoking sausages with cypress branches: the fire should be the smallest, the smoke the largest, and the smoking time slow and long.
They cut the tender branches from higher up, which have a pleasant aroma and are not easily flammable, making them perfect for smoking sausages.
The two men pulled the cart back to the inner courtyard.
First, place some charcoal on the ground where the sausages are hung, and then cover it with a thin layer of dry grass.
Then spread the cypress branches evenly on top, layer after layer, and then set the dry grass on fire. The fire spread instantly along the dry grass leaves.
Before long, thick white smoke rose from under the cypress branches, along with a pungent odor.
The strong smell made Lin Chunyi cover her mouth and nose, coughing several times. She took a few steps back and suddenly had an idea: "Lanshan, why don't we put some orange peels in the fumes together?"
She remembered that her grandparents liked to add leftover fruit peels, especially orange peels, grapefruit peels, and sugarcane shells, when making sausages.
The combination of woody and fruity notes will definitely make it taste even better!
Lin Lanshan probably remembered something too, her eyes lit up, and she turned and ran towards the cellar, saying, "Then I'll go get a few."
Perfect timing, she wanted to eat oranges too. The smoked sausage uses orange peel, and she can eat the orange flesh—perfect!
Seeing her delighted expression, Lin Chunyi knew she was craving something sweet, and called out worriedly, "Don't take too many, seven or eight at most!"
"Alright~" Lin Lanshan, who was originally planning to only be able to show off her oranges during the New Year, can now eat a few. She doesn't mind at all that it's not enough, hehe~
Adding a few pieces of orange peel and some smoking cypress branches caused the aroma to change again.
It's pungent, but it also has a hint of orange peel fragrance.
The two sisters brought small wooden stools from the kitchen and sat far from where the sausages were being smoked, near the inner doorway. Their eyes were fixed on the thick smoke, constantly watching to make sure the fire didn't get too big, or they'd end up as grilled sausages.
Just sitting there looking at those fragrant smoked sausages isn't enough; it'll make your mouth and eyes hungry.
They broke the oranges apart segment by segment and put them in their mouths. After finishing the oranges, they chewed on dried pork. When they got tired of chewing the dried pork, they sucked on jujubes; they just couldn't keep their mouths idle.
So they used cypress branches and orange peels to fumigate the area for an hour each day, intermittently for five days, until the entire inner courtyard smelled smoky.
The deep red sausage has finally turned into a glossy, dark red smoked sausage!
The next step is to continue air drying.
Depending on the dryness of the air, they'll air-dry for about half a month. Once the sausage casings become wrinkled, they're ready to cook!
While waiting for the sausages to dry, the two sisters didn't just sit at the door staring blankly at the eaves all day; they still had many important things to do.
such as,
They only used one of their planting boxes to grow lettuce; the other two were empty. They'd just bought them; they couldn't just throw them into the storeroom to gather ashes so soon.
Therefore, the important matter of indoor vegetable growing needs to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
The two sisters actually disagreed on what vegetables to plant.
Two empty boxes, one of which they have jointly decided to plant with millet peppers.
For the two sisters who have eaten spicy food for over a decade, a constant supply of chili peppers at home is absolutely essential. They have to plant them whenever they get the chance, planting them like crazy!
The dried chilies must be hung bright red under the eaves of the houses before they can be used to make chili powder and chili oil, which they can then add to their dishes and eat without any hesitation.
But with the other empty planting box, the two had different ideas.
Lin Chunyi said she wanted to use the whole plant to grow cilantro. "We bought a whole sheep, we can't just roast it all, can we? Winter is the perfect time for lamb soup, so we'll save some meat and bones to make lamb soup. Will it taste good without cilantro?"
Lin Lanshan shook her head frantically, resolutely disagreeing, "What cilantro? It's more like stinky vegetable! I don't want it, I want to grow scallions! Scallions are so much better! They're perfect for scallion oil noodles, scallion pancakes, and scallion flower rolls—aren't they all tastier than cilantro!"
"How about we plant half of each?" For the sake of scallion pancakes, Lin Chunyi was reluctantly willing to take a step back.
"Is that even edible? Let alone your cilantro, I bet even my scallions would be a struggle to sprinkle three times while stir-frying."
The planting boxes they ordered were not large, only about the size of two hands to hold.
If you only plant half of the scallions, the entire crop in the planting box will probably be wiped out after just one scallion pancake.
Lin Chunyi spread her hands and said helplessly, "What should we do then?" We can't just go down the mountain now and find someone to make a few more planting boxes.
Lin Lanshan pouted and said, "I don't know..."
Anyway, she felt that planting a whole basket of cilantro just for a bowl of mutton soup was a complete waste of the planter.
Besides adding flavor to mutton soup and increasing the pungent aroma in the bedroom, what else can cilantro do?! Even if you give her half of the space in the planting box, she still thinks it's too much.
The two sisters are at an impasse over what vegetables to plant in the growing box...
However, this stalemate did not last long; within half a day, they reached a consensus.
So, okay, half for each of us then!
That's not enough. Once they grow true leaves, we'll transplant them into the planting boxes for lettuce and chili peppers, wherever there's space.
Since we're all trying to make something delicious, and neither of us can give way to the other, then there's really no other way but to divide it equally.
Just remember to buy things in even numbers from now on... Odd numbers are really easy to cause arguments between two people!
Another half month has passed.
The lettuce in the planting box has already sprouted true leaves, and the chili peppers, cilantro, and scallions have gradually sprouted small buds.
The two sisters have finally ushered in this important and auspicious day, which is...
The sausages are ready to eat!!!
The sad thing is that, under the eaves outside the kitchen, strings of tempting smoked sausages hang high, visibly more plentiful than they were a few days ago.
Much less!
Forty pounds of meat and ribs, after being made into dried sausages and rib sausages, only about half of it remains.
That's a really drastic reduction in size!