She opened the chicken intestines with scissors, and flushed out the chicken feces inside with cold water. When she was repairing the backyard, she specially asked someone to build a ditch beside the well, leading to the septic tank behind the toilet. In this way, when washing clothes and vegetables by the well, the dirty water can flow away automatically.
"Cao'er, what can mother do to help?" Liu Shi still couldn't bear to see the two sisters busy, so she came over and asked.
Yu Xiaocao smiled at her and said, "Mom, you came just in time. Do you have some coarse salt at home? You can bring some and rub the inside of the chicken intestines with salt, so that there will be no peculiar smell."
"Rub it with coarse salt? Are you sure it can be sold for money? But don't sell it and you won't be able to sell it, and you won't be able to eat it. It's a waste of things!" Although coarse salt by the sea can buy half a jar for a penny, it is used to frugality. Liu Shi, still couldn't help reminding.
Xiaocao raised her mouth and said, "Mom! Don't worry! These methods of mine are all inspired by the God of Wealth, and you can't go wrong!"
The little girl took out the gods as a talisman, and Liu Shi didn't say anything else, squatting down and trying to scrub the chicken intestines. She did it very seriously, for fear that the uncleanness would drag her daughter's hind legs.
Xiaocao began to concentrate on dealing with chicken livers and chicken gizzards. Cleaning the chicken liver is mainly to cut the chicken gall from the top, which is a delicate job, if it is accidentally broken, the chicken liver will have a bitter taste, which will affect the effect of the lo-mei. Fortunately, she has been doing this for more than ten years, and she can do it with her eyes closed.
The chicken gizzard is a little troublesome. You need to cut open the chicken dung bag, wash off the chicken manure inside, and then peel off the yellow skin inside. Don't underestimate this layer of skin, it is called chicken inner gold in traditional Chinese medicine, and it can help digestion. If the child eats accumulated food, dry it and grind it up to eat it, and it will be able to digest it soon.
Xiaocao is the best at peeling off this layer of skin, forty chicken gizzards, all of them are intact, none of them are torn.
After tidying up the chicken intestines, liver, and gizzards, Xiaocao asked Mrs. Liu to rest, and took Xiaolian into the kitchen by herself. She wants to get all these out tonight, and go to town tomorrow to see if she can sell them.
"Sell it in the town? The people in the town are so weird. If you know that you made these things from the belly of a chicken, you will be killed. If you want me to say, you might as well go to the pier to try your luck. Come on, let's This is closer to the pier, and it will take less than an hour. Secondly, the fish sellers and porters on the pier get up early, and breakfast is usually brought or bought. These people do not have high requirements for food. As long as it tastes good and the price is cheap, it doesn’t hurt to spend two dollars.” Xiaolian heard from her aunt who runs a small business on the pier, and made a suggestion.
Yu Xiaocao thought for a while, nodded, and said, "Yes! You're right. Tanggu Wharf is still very lively. The dock workers alone are quite a market. Let's try it there tomorrow!"
The two sisters went to the kitchen to light a fire to boil water, put the chicken giblets into the boiling water and pass through the water to get rid of the smell on them. Then it's time to prepare the marinade. Whether the marinade tastes good or not depends on the marinade. Marinade is divided into red marinade, white marinade and yellow marinade.
Xiaocao got the true biography of the proprietress of the stewed vegetable shop in her previous life, and marinated sauce is a unique skill. She thought for a while, then asked Xiao Lian: "Xiao Lian, give me some more money, and I will go to Doctor You to buy some medicinal materials..."
Dr. You came back in early spring, and brought back a young boy in his teens, who was said to be his nephew or something. Yu Xiaocao has already returned all the medicine box and all the money he earned in one autumn and winter to him. The villagers are also relieved, although Yu Xiaocao's medical skills have been recognized by most people, but the neighbors are still more willing to trust the older doctors.
"Medical materials? Can you still use medicinal materials for cooking?" Xiaolian asked puzzled.
Xiaocao said with a smile: "Of course, don't rich people often eat angelica chicken and ginseng chicken? Aren't the angelica and ginseng in it all medicinal materials?"
Xiao Lian muttered softly: Can we compare with other rich people? However, she went back to the house, took the purse that Xiaocao gave her in the afternoon, and put it back into her younger sister's hand.
The herbs that Xiaocao needs are common and cheap. She bought several items for only ten Wen. Then I started to prepare the marinade. It's cold now, so she made a lot of it this time.
The marinade for marinated dishes can be used many times as long as it is well preserved. The more times the marinade is used, the longer the preservation time, the better the quality and the more beautiful the taste. This is because there are more and more ingredients such as soluble protein contained in marinade. This is why the older the stew, the more mellow the taste of the dish.
20 grams of star anise, 20 grams of cinnamon, 50 grams of tangerine peel, 20 grams of Chinese pepper, 15 grams of fennel, 20 grams of fragrant leaves, 15 grams of licorice, 100 grams of dried red pepper, 150 grams of chives, 150 grams of ginger, a catty of rice wine, 400 grams of soy sauce gram, 200 grams of salt... (refer to the simplification of the Internet, please do not pay attention)
When Xiaolian saw the materials for forty articles, she immediately wrapped them in gauze and threw them in. She said anxiously: "It's the first time I've done it, so I made so many. If it fails..."
"There will be no mistakes!" Xiaocao said firmly. Perhaps it was her self-confidence that gave Xiaolian confidence, she didn't say anything, but increased or decreased the firewood in the stove according to Xiaocao's request.
"It smells so good! Mother, do you smell it? It must be the second sister's internal organs. I'll go and have a look!" Lying on the bed to digest, Xiaoshi shrugged his nose like a police dog, and got up from the kang with a grunt. , He rushed out with his ragged cotton shoes, almost tripping over the threshold and eating shit like a dog.
Liu Shi smiled and shook her head: "This child... her father, let's go and see too?"
Yu Hai couldn't sit still anymore, nodded, put on his shoes and walked quickly to the kitchen.
Forty pieces of chicken giblets were marinated in a whole pot, and they were stewed on the stove on a low heat. Little Stone waited anxiously by the stove, his eyes gleaming with scorching light, like a puppy who only sees meat and bones, and almost wags his tail and sticks out his tongue.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Xiaocao lifted the lid of the pot, fished out a section of chicken intestines, and blew it to the little guy's mouth.
Xiao Shitou shook his head and refused: "These are for sale, I won't eat them..."
"It's not bad for you!" Xiaocao stuffed it into the little guy's mouth. The chicken intestines are marinated very tasty, chewy and crunchy, and the taste is very good. The little guy narrowed his eyes contentedly, chewing carefully, reluctant to swallow.
Xiaocao picked some more and let Xiaolian and her parents taste it. Both Yu Hai and Xiao Lian opened their mouths to catch it applaudingly, but Liu Shi hesitated, and asked the man worriedly: "Her father, how does it taste? Is it stinky? Is it bad?"
Xiaocao didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Mom, why are you so disapproving of your daughter's craftsmanship?"
Yu Hai nodded with pride: "Delicious! Delicious!! You can't tell it's chicken intestines at all, but it tastes like chicken—no, it tastes better than your braised chicken nuggets! Well, take it like this Sell it, someone will definitely eat it!"
Xiao Lian also nodded earnestly, expressing her agreement. Xiaocao took a sip by herself, frowned and said, "It's a pity that there is no monosodium glutamate and bone broth, and the taste is a bit lacking. However, it tastes pretty good!"
Seeing that everyone was full of praise, Mrs. Liu took a sip boldly, and was immediately attracted by the strong taste: "This... is really the taste made of marinated chicken intestines? Really, it's really incredible!! "
Xiaocao also put the leftover chicken blood in the evening into the marinade, marinated it out, and prepared to sell it with chicken giblets tomorrow.
"How much does it cost per catty?" Xiaocao said to herself a little anxiously.
Yu Hai gave her a very good suggestion: the workers on the dock, when they work a lot, can earn thirty or forty copper coins a day, and when they are not good, they can earn more than twenty copper coins. Although the braised vegetables made by Xiaocao are made from the contents of chicken stomachs, it is a meat dish after all, and it tastes like meat. If the price is low, no money can be made if the price is low, and workers are reluctant to buy it if the price is high.
If it is divided into small portions and sold for a penny, the workers will definitely not care about the copper coins. After all, it is meat and vegetables, which are delicious and cheap, can they still be sold
When Xiaocao heard the words, he suddenly realized, and looked at his father with adoring eyes with sparkling eyes—not to mention, his father really has a business mind!
Yu Hai's vanity was satisfied when his daughter looked at him like this, and he looked for oil paper with a smile. The family divided the pot of stewed chicken offal into sixty small portions, each with sliced intestines, chicken liver and chicken gizzard. Chicken blood is not easy to package, so it is put in jars, and a few yuan are added to each serving when it is sold. In this way, a penny is worth a lot!
That night, Xiaocao tossed and tossed excitedly on the kang, unable to fall asleep, until the fourth watch, when she squinted for a while, and woke up again early in the morning.
Yu Hai saw the blue and black under the eyes of his youngest daughter, and laughed and teased her: "You're worthless! Aren't you very confident in your skills? What are you worried about?"
Why are people worried? People are excited, aren't they
After breakfast early, Xiaocao rejected father's proposal to go with her, and headed towards the pier with the same excited little stone and a big basket.
The pier shrouded in the morning light is still so lively. The sound of hawking, yelling, and chant... are intertwined. An ocean-going cargo ship has just docked, and the dock workers are unloading the cargo in full swing.
The second time I came to the pier, Xiaocao was still deeply moved by this scene full of life.
"Second sister, where are we selling stewed vegetables?" Xiao Shitou was full of confidence in his second sister, eager to try.
Xiaocao thought for a while, maybe the dock workers and fishermen could bring dry food. But in the cold morning, you still have to drink a bowl of hot soup to warm up your body. So he took the basket and came to this row of low grass sheds.
Here, there are those who sell porridge, noodle soup, and those who set up a stove to sell steamed buns. There are also some like her who carry baskets and sell some home-made side dishes or pickled pickles—for example, Xiaocao’s eldest aunt is one of them.