After finalizing the list of gifts for Christmas, Tian Minyan and his family got busy. Putting aside the other gifts, even the rice dumplings, they weighed and weighed and wrapped more than 30 kilograms of rice.
Taking advantage of the time when Tian Minrui and the others didn't have to go to town to study, Tian Minyan went up the mountain with them to pick a whole basket of moso bamboo leaves and brought them home. They first roughly washed them with water, then put them in a large pot to boil water and cooked them before taking them out and using well water.
Clean and wipe them one by one with a cloth and set aside.
When the family was divided, the food distributed to the third room also included glutinous rice. Tian Huairen went to the warehouse where the food was stored and weighed thirty kilograms of glutinous rice and washed it. As for the bean filling, the seeds used to wrap it were mostly made of eyebrow beans, red beans, and some
If you have good conditions, just put some peanuts. If you are poor, you don't want to put even pork, so just put a piece of pig skin.
Tian Minyan and the others are now having a better life, so they are thinking of making rice dumplings with several kinds of fillings, including mung bean paste, black bean paste and peanut filling, and red bean paste. The meat is all made of streaky fat.
The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, there is enough rain, and the crops in the field are growing very well. Before the summer harvest, Tian Minyan asked Tian Huairen to lead a few long-term workers to plow the hundred acres of wasteland again, and only stopped for this day. A few of them stopped.
The long-term workers heard that their boss wanted to make rice dumplings, and that they also had a role to play, so they all happily came to help.
Tian Minyan divided the work. The beans had to be boiled and pounded with a mallet. These tasks were left to the long-term workers. Tian Minrui and the others were responsible for washing the rice dumpling leaves. Luo Shi had a good command of taste, so she was responsible for seasoning.
Xing started, while Tian Minyan led Xie Chengzhong to wash and cut the pork.
The pork was brought over by Butcher Zhang, who sells pork in the village. Tian Minyan and the others wanted more, so they paid thirteen cents per catty and also sent some pigs for free.
The meat is all streaky fat, and the strips are very shiny. Wash it and cut it into pieces. First, fry it with oil, then add the southern milk sauce, sugar flower soy sauce and other seasonings, stir-fry it, put it in the pot, and put it on a large copper plate.
Have a spare inside.
After all preparations were done, the whole family and the long-term maid got ready to wrap up rice dumplings in the courtyard.
Luo Shi is used to doing this kind of work, and his hands and feet are very nimble. He saw three rice dumpling leaves spread out in the palm of his hand, first put a layer of glutinous rice, then put stuffing on top, then sandwiched the meat, and then put a layer of glutinous rice.
Cover it with a piece of rice dumpling leaf, fold the two ends to form a rectangular rice dumpling, wrap it with a bamboo strips cut from bamboo, and it's done.
Because there were several kinds of fillings, everyone wrapped them separately and put the rice dumplings separately. Among the long-term workers, Zhou Gui was the best at wrapping the rice dumplings and moved quickly. Tian Minyan praised the triangular rice dumplings.
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"In my family, my mother is the only one who does the work. I don't help with the wrapping. She has to do it, so I can practice it." Zhou Gui said with a simple smile.
"So there is no job that you can't do, only lazy ones. The key depends on whether you want to learn it or not." Luo Shi chuckled and looked at Tian Minyan teasingly.
Because Tian Minyan is not good at wrapping rice dumplings. She just wrapped one, and either the bamboo leaves were broken or the rice leaked out from the gaps in the bamboo leaves. Even Xiaoxing could wrap it better than her, so she simply gave up.
Work as a supervisor on the side.
Tian Minyan blushed, stamped her feet and said, "Mom, I can't wrap rice dumplings, but I'm really good at other things. No one is perfect, and neither can Xiao Wu."
"Hehe, sister, I'm still young, so it's not bad if I don't know how to do it." Xiao Wu smiled and handed Luo Shi a few bamboo leaves. Today, all he does is help pass the rice dumpling leaves.
"Neither does Xie Chengzhong." Tian Minyan glanced at Xie Chengzhong.
"Um, second girl, I used to be a scoundrel who only knew how to fool around. How could I know how to do this?" Xie Chengzhong scratched his head and smiled, then added: "But I can make a fire to cook rice dumplings." With that, he put a
The rice dumplings wrapped in the dustpan were taken to the kitchen.
Tian Minyan's face turned red with embarrassment, but Zhou Gui smiled when he saw her like this, and said: "The second girl is a big shot, so naturally she does big things. She doesn't know how to do these things and is not afraid of them. After all, she has servants."
"Well, you're right!" Tian Minyan said with a look of deep approval, pretending to be serious: "My boss will give you a salary increase next year."
After hearing this, Luo Shi chuckled and said, "You are just a poor person and you know how to trick people."
"Grandma, I also think the second girl is very capable." The puzzled and honest Qian Sheng said with a smile.
"Yes, which child of eleven or twelve years old knows so much? I looked at the fermented fertilizer, and it's almost ready. I'm sure it will work." He Fu agreed with some excitement.
"Well, when I heard about the increase in wages, your mouths were filled with honey. You were usually silent like a quail, but now you are like a magpie. You can only sing good words to coax people." Tian Minyan spread her hands and said: "
OK, girl, I’m happy to hear that, so I’ll give you two more rice dumplings to eat.”
"Brothers, you have to thank the girl properly. Usually girls are very picky. There is no shop like this after passing this village." Xie Chengzhong walked out of the kitchen, happened to listen, and said with a smile.
"Thank you, scoundrel, I'll save you two rice dumplings." Tian Minyan raised her eyebrows and pretended to be angry.
"My good girl, isn't it true that my slave made a mistake?" Xie Chengzhong bowed in response: "I will kowtow to you and admit my mistake."
"Well, seeing that you sincerely admit your mistake, then forget it."
Everyone burst out laughing when they saw them acting like this, and Xiao Wu even rolled on his stomach with laughter, making the atmosphere more lively.
"I heard you guys bustling before I even entered the door. What kind of joke is this? Oh, I'm wrapping rice dumplings. Why didn't you ask me to help?"
Just as he was talking happily, another voice came from outside the courtyard door. Tian Minyan looked around, but it was Aunt Zhu and Zhu Yanyin who came. Without saying hello, they fetched well water, washed their hands, and started to help with rice dumpling leaves.
"There are people at home who are also busy, so I didn't call you." Luo asked Tian Minyan to bring two small dishes for them to sit on, and said with a smile: "You guys came uninvited. I'm lucky. Don't do anything today.
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Aunt Zhu snorted, said a few words, and said what Cai'er was talking about was so lively, so that she could also laugh, and Luo Shi said it.
After hearing this, Aunt Zhu ouched and said: "According to me, these brothers are very good. Our second girl is the first one in this village. She is shrewd and smart, so she has great fortune.
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"Don't join in the fun and praise her. Besides, her tail is straight up to the sky." Luo Shi chuckled, but that was not the case at all in his eyes. He was clearly very proud.
"Mom, you don't know, Aunt Zhu also came to trick us into eating rice dumplings." Tian Minyan wailed exaggeratedly and said, "Dad, hurry up and weigh ten kilograms of rice again. I'm afraid these rice dumplings are not enough to share."
As soon as her words came out, everyone laughed, and the laughter spread far away. People passing by wondered, what good things happened to the Tian family?
