Xiao Qian then followed her to take a look, and said with just one glance: "Sure enough, this is a place where pigs have never been raised."
Although she has never raised one, there are people in the village who raise it, and the pig looks very energetic at first glance.
Xiao Qian asked the village chief, "Don't you like eating?"
"No, they love to eat very much, but they eat too much. It's winter, and there is less pigweed, so I feed them less."
Everyone:......
I understand, this is purely because I am hungry.
Bai Shan said tactfully: "It should be fed well so that it can grow faster. Otherwise, it may be difficult to slaughter it for next autumn harvest. If it is really raised for a year and a half, it will not be good and it will lose money."
The village chief sighed and said, "Actually, we regretted this pig not long after we raised it. It is so edible!"
He said: "It's okay if it's edible. We also bought some pork, but we found that it was not delicious at all. It was far inferior to mutton and chicken, and even fish was inferior to it. It had a very bad taste.
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Zhou Man: "How come? Pork is still very delicious. The meatballs, steamed pork and steamed pork ribs made by my sister-in-law are all made of pork."
Bai Shan cleared his throat and whispered: "There are differences in cooking skills between people. Shouldn't you have understood this since you were a child?"
Zhou Man thought of her second sister-in-law's craftsmanship, her body trembled, and she immediately admitted her mistake, "That was my fault. It's really not good to generalize."
The village chief said quickly: "Although the craftsmanship of the wives in the village is not as good as that of the nobles, they are not all inferior. I have asked people outside and many people say that pork is not delicious."
Now even Bai Shan was curious, "How did you do it?"
No one in the village was buying pork today. When Bai Shan saw it, he immediately turned to the guard and said, "Go back and get a piece of pork."
The guard went back and soon brought a piece of meat.
The village chief's wife and daughter-in-law took it and made it carefully. Because they were entertaining distinguished guests, they even added a little more oil and salt.
Xiao Qian looked on from the side and hesitated several times.
When the dishes were served, everyone looked at each other, but none of them took their chopsticks for a moment. Although they all looked similar in appearance, even Bai Shan and the others, who were not very good at cooking, knew that something was wrong with the cooking, but they couldn't remember it.
Something was wrong, so they looked at Xiao Qian together.
Xiao Qian said: "This meat doesn't need to be cooked for so long. The piece of meat that was delivered is very good. You can fry it first..."
She looked around and found that they didn't have an iron pot, and immediately said: "You can just cook it without frying, but it's best to separate the fat and thin parts when cutting. Just put a little bit of thin on top of the fat, and leave the remaining thin slices."
Take it out and keep it. Boil the fat first, add slices of ginger, and if there are Sichuan peppercorns, add some. Boil out the oil and then add the vegetables and cook."
"The lean meat is marinated with a little bit of oil and salt. If there is sauce, it will be good. Marinate it, put it down when the vegetables are cooked, roll it for a few times and it will be cooked, and then it is ready to be cooked." Xiao Qian said.
: "It will taste much better this way."
She smiled and said: "Actually, if there are aniseed, the pork can be cut into large pieces and stewed, which will be more flavorful and delicious."
The village chief turned to look at his wife and daughter-in-law. His wife was dumbfounded and said, "Where do you have those things at home?"
Xiao Qian then smiled and said, "You can do it with ginger."
"No."
Xiao Qian said, "It's okay to have peppercorns and soy sauce."
There is no Sichuan peppercorns either. As for the sauce, they don’t have the sauce Xiao Qian’s mentioned, they only have fish sauce.
Bai Shan asked curiously: "Is this how everyone around here cooks pork?"
The village chief nodded and said, "Yes."
“But some mutton also has a mutton smell, so it’s hard to make it delicious without adding a lot of ingredients.”
The village chief didn't think so. He said: "Mutton is very delicious. We don't think it's smelly. Even when it's stewed, it's delicious. But pork is the most flavorful. If it's cooked with too much wood, it'll taste just average if it's cooked too short."
, and there’s a strange smell.”
Yin You on the side laughed, shook his head and said: "Rich people don't bother to eat pork, but poor people don't know how to cook pork, which is a waste of this delicacy."
Before Xiao Qian, Yin Hui never ate pork.
After Xiao Qian came, he gradually tasted various pork dishes.
Bai Erlang thinks this is not a big problem, "Since it is a matter of cooking skills, wouldn't it be good to widely publicize several ways to prepare pork?"
Bai Shan picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and ate it, frowning slightly, "It does have a taste."
When Zhou Man heard this, she immediately ate a piece. She stared slightly. It was indeed not delicious, and it was only slightly more delicious than the second sister-in-law's. But it was not the same as the second sister-in-law's. It seemed to be the same ingredient.
The smell itself has not been dealt with properly.
A flash of light suddenly flashed through Zhou Man's mind, and he asked Keke, "I remember that I collected piglets for you, or several of them one after another. It's rare for the encyclopedia to ask me to include more piglets. What was the reason for that?"
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Koko: "They want castration."
"Yes! Castrate!" Zhou Man glanced at it at the time, but didn't take it to heart because the points for including pigs were not very high. It is said that they have livestock that are very similar to pigs, which are considered to be a variant of pigs. The current
Pigs are just a research species, so the points awarded are very few, far less than the points awarded for horses, cattle and sheep.
At this moment, she finally remembered, what are the researchers at the encyclopedia supposed to do to castrate people?
Zhou Man asked Keke to search for terms while staring at the pig's butt.
Soon Keke called up the entry. Zhou Man closed his eyes slightly and leaned on Bai Shan. He sank his consciousness into the encyclopedia and read the entry from beginning to end. After "castration, pork tastes better, and
The feeding time is greatly shortened, the restlessness is also reduced, and it is easier to manage..." I read this sentence back and forth twice.
Zhou Man suddenly opened his eyes. Bai Shan, who half hugged her and picked her up with his cloak, was startled and asked her, "Aren't you tired?"
Zhou Man's eyes sparkled, "I know how to get rid of this smell. I can make the pork taste better without using aniseed, and it can also make it grow faster."
"What method?"
Zhou Man cut his hand in front of him and said, "Cast it."
Everyone was shocked, and the chamberlain who was following Princess Mingda quietly took a step back and clamped her legs.
Zhou Man turned to Bai Shan and asked, "Do you want to give it a try?"
Bai Shan knew that she was not sleepy just now. After thinking for a while, he said: "Okay, there are pigs in the village in Guanzhong. I will go and take a look when the time comes, but..."
He paused and asked, "Can you castrate a pig? And you are pregnant at this time, so be careful, what if it struggles and hurts you?"
Xiao Qian also recovered from the shock, nodded repeatedly and said: "That's right, Man Bao, don't mess around."
She also pulled Zheng's hand, "Do you think it's my in-laws?"
Mrs. Zheng finally came back to her senses and nodded repeatedly, "That's right, you can't take risks."
She said with a tangled look on her face: "How about leaving it to Dr. Tian and the others? They should be able to do it, right?"