When it comes to the most grand meal of the year, the New Year’s Eve dinner must have a place. As soon as Qingyu entered the kitchen, she heard Mrs. Tong introducing the New Year’s Eve dinner: “This New Year’s dinner is divided into six categories: steaming, cooking, frying, stir-frying, stew, and mixing.
Boiling means cooking cured meat, cured sausage, cured pork ribs, and cured pork belly;
Fried means fried three things, fried peanuts, fried pancakes, and fried bean curds;
Stir-fried is stir-fried with six vegetables, fungus meat slices, lettuce meat slices, cucumber meat slices, red pepper shredded pork, braised pork ribs, twice-cooked pork;
To stew, it’s kelp, radish and pig’s trotters soup; to mix it, it’s cold tofu skin and cold folded ear root.”
Qingyu sighed inwardly, the New Year's Eve dinner should not be underestimated. It would take a lot of effort to make these items alone.
Just as she was thinking about it, Wen Ya asked in surprise: "There are so many, when will we get them?"
Mrs. Tong laughed: "Otherwise, how can we call it New Year's Eve dinner? It will be night after all these are cooked and put on the table."
"Thanks to my aunt for coming today. Otherwise, relying on my father and mother's skills, it would be extremely difficult to prepare a table of decent dishes, and the taste would be even worse." Hong Tao did not forget to add a sentence while washing the dishes.
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Seeing that the senior sister was smiling but not smiling at all, Qingyu was thankful for the second senior sister. The senior sister was holding back the attack because someone was present.
She walked over and washed vegetables with Hongtao.
Shi'an brought over the peeled raw peanuts, "Auntie, how do you get these peanuts?"
"It's used for frying." Mrs. Tong scooped two spoonfuls of flour into the basin, beat a few more eggs, and mixed it into a paste. Then she poured the shelled peanuts in, and while stirring, she said, "These peanuts are coated in egg batter."
, it’s crispy, crispy and fragrant after being fried.”
Hong Tao placed the washed vegetables on the chopping board. Wen Ya turned the kitchen knife in her hand and picked up a piece of lettuce. There was a flick of the knife. In the blink of an eye, the lettuce turned into pieces as thin as cicada wings.
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She raised her eyebrows at Hong Tao proudly, and Hong Tao laughed dryly, clapped her hands, "Auntie, you're amazing."
Da Wa lit all three stoves. Tong added water to two of the pots, threw various cured meats and fresh pork belly into one pot to cook, and poured a handful of sweet potatoes cut into slices into another pot to cook. Then she added
Pour half a pot of oil into the third pot.
Wen Ya couldn't help but wonder: "Why cook so many sweet potato slices?"
"Fried pancakes, this is the way we eat them in our hometown. The mashed sweet potatoes and flour are mixed together, then filled with brown sugar fillings, formed into pancakes and fried in a pan.
After the brown sugar is fried, it sticks to the sweet potato dough, making it taste sweet, soft and glutinous, but not greasy," explained Tong.
Wen Ya unconsciously nodded her head and worked even harder on chopping vegetables.
While the sweet potatoes were boiling, Mrs. Tong fried the prepared peanuts. The fragrance was overflowing, and she felt crispy just by smelling it. The second and third babies who were playing in the yard came over and shouted for them.
Mrs. Tong directly loaded two large plates and asked the six children to sit and eat in the courtyard.
When Wen Ya was done chopping the vegetables, she turned to the stove, and now the stove was completely handed over to Mrs. Tong.
At that time, the sweet potato slices were also cooked. Tong took the sweet potatoes out of the pot, mashed them into puree, and mixed with a small amount of flour. Then she called Zhao Qian into the kitchen and asked him to make the dumplings.
Zhufeng naturally had to follow suit. The two of them put the basin aside and sat down, starting to make dumplings. Zhao Qian was obviously used to this job, so he reminded Zhufeng: "It's enough to make the dumplings the size of a child's fist."
Zhufeng nodded: "I'm good at making balls."
Tong freed up the pot for boiling sweet potatoes and started cooking glutinous rice again. At the same time, she did not forget to explain to Wen Ya, "To steam glutinous rice cake, you must first boil the glutinous rice into dry rice, then put it into a red porcelain bowl, sprinkle with a layer of brown sugar and
Put the orange peel in a steamer and steam it, so that the glutinous rice cake will be sticky and chewy, sweet and not greasy."
Wen Ya nodded and asked Zhufeng again: "Did you hear it clearly? Remember it."
Zhufeng rolled his eyes inwardly, but shouted: "I know."
The pork belly was quickly cooked until it was about half done. Tong picked up the pork belly. After draining the water, he threw the pork belly into the oil pan and fried it until the surface was crispy. Then he picked it up and turned the back side up.
Spread the brown sugar evenly on the skin of the meat while it's hot.
The high temperature of the meat skin melted the brown sugar. After gradually cooling, the brown sugar evenly adhered to the browned meat skin. Tong continued to teach orally: "The coloring of the steamed meat may seem insignificant, but in fact the coloring is very good.
, the skin of the meat will be golden and translucent when steamed, and the color will be attractive.”
After the pork belly is browned, Mrs. Tong starts to make the sauce again. Sauté the onion, ginger, garlic, black bean, soy sauce, vinegar and other seasonings in oil first, then add a little water, and cook the sauce over high heat. After the juice boils, pour it on and cut it.
Arrange the pork belly on the plate and put it on the steamer.
"Steamed meat should be steamed until it is soft and glutinous and melts in your mouth, but it should not be steamed until it is soft and rotten, otherwise the meat will be steamed and will not fit into the chopsticks."
Wen Ya was curious: "How long does it take to steam?"
"One hour is enough."
Here the steamer was put on the pot, and over there Zhufeng and Zhao Qian also finished rolling the dumplings. Tong drove them out of the kitchen again, and then started filling the fried pancakes.
After the noodles with melted sweet potatoes are fried, they turn golden in color. The inside expands when exposed to high temperatures and becomes an oval shape. You can hear a crunchy sound when you tap it lightly with chopsticks.
After Mrs. Tong heated up the first pot of pancakes, she asked everyone to eat first. After all, it was still early for dinner.
Qingyu sat down happily. She ate a lot of shortcakes. This was the first time she had seen this kind of pancake. It was very novel. She tried to take a bite. The skin was crispy and the flesh was sweet. The brown sugar filling turned into juice and she accidentally got it.
It burned her tongue and it hurt so much that she stuck it out.
When it was almost midnight, two tables of sumptuous meals were finally placed on the table, and at that time the sound of firecrackers could be heard everywhere in the city.
Zhufeng carried two firecrackers and set them off at the entrance of the courtyard. Although the crackling sound was deafening, it could not stand up to the excitement. After all, the three children of the Zhao family were mentally young, so they shouted and screamed at the sound of the firecrackers, very excited.
As for Qingyu Shi'an and Hong Tao, they naturally couldn't be as happy as children and stayed far away, but they were really happy when they were happy.
Qingyu smelled the smell of firecrackers and couldn't help but take two more puffs, feeling peaceful and peaceful in her heart.
After dinner, it was time to watch the New Year's Eve. Oil lamps were lit in several rooms, and lanterns were hung even outside the courtyard. The courtyard was brightly lit.
Shi'an set up a fire, Hongtao brought out the chessboard, dragged Qingyu to his seat and sat down, threatening to kill everyone.
The two families were sitting around the fire chatting. Zhufeng came out with two large plates of melon seeds and oranges, and put two large plates of fried cakes, peanuts, etc. on the table.
As soon as midnight arrived, the whole city was filled with the sound of crackling firecrackers. Zhufeng quickly went to set off two more firecrackers.
In the middle of the night, Wen Ya proposed to teach Zhao Qian a set of boxing skills. After all, he joined the army and had skills at his side. Whether it was to perform meritorious service or to save his life, he would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
Zhao Qian was naturally happy and willing to endure hardships. He learned all the moves in just one night.
Wen Ya was very pleased. Although Zhao Qian was not a particularly gifted person, he was better because he was willing to endure hardship and had perseverance. She finally warned: "This boxing method seems simple, but it is not pretentious. If you can master it, you can master it."
, it will be of great benefit to you in the future.”
Zhao Qian thanked him again and again, and then practiced until the next morning.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, it was time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Zhao Qian’s family left after breakfast. Qingyu’s family burned incense and worshiped the heaven and earth. After worshiping the God of the Year, they dressed up and got ready to go out. Those noble people who have interacted with them in recent days,
I still have to go celebrate the New Year.
But before they even went out, people from Gushu Alley came to visit one by one, congratulating them on the New Year and giving them New Year gifts. It was very lively.
During this period, Pan Ming also came to visit with congratulatory gifts, and then followed the Qingyu family to pay New Year greetings to others, and then took the family for a lively stroll in the city.