Rebirth's Private Kitchen

"Where's your uncle and aunt, how about staying at home?" Mr. Tang asked again.

Tang Lin replied: "I heard from them that after the new year, my uncle and aunt will go to the city with my cousin to help take care of the children. My cousin and sister-in-law plan to set up a car wash this year, and there will be more Hire a few small workers." Tang Lin didn't pay much attention to the business of his cousins ​​before his rebirth, and they seemed to be doing well, anyway, the people in his uncle's family lived quite richly later.

"It's good to do business, and it's not a problem to stay in the village for the rest of your life." Mr. Tang finished his day's tobacco, he shook the pipe, took a last sip, and then put it aside, "You should also learn more. Your cousin and the others, don't think about staying in Tangjia Village all day long."

"It's worth it." Tang Lin replied with a smile.If you want to cook private meals, Tangjia Village is really not a good choice.The farmhouse was very happy later, but it is not suitable for this place.The development of Tangjia Village is too backward, and the construction of roads and bridges is slower than other places.It will take another two years for the road to be repaired here. People in big cities don't like to come here, and the traffic is really not very convenient.

Tang Lin still wanted to see what Mr. Tang thought about whether or not he wanted to cook private dishes in the city. He wanted to bring his grandfather and mother-in-law to cook private dishes together.But Tang Lin didn't want to talk about this idea with Mr. Tang for the time being, and it wouldn't be too late to talk about it when he had the opportunity.

"Grandma Wen went to the market to buy meat. You pick two handfuls of green vegetables and we'll fry them tonight." Mr. Tang ordered. Tang Lin nodded and pulled out the good vegetables.

"Su Zhi has gone back?" Watching Tang Lin pull out the vegetables, Mr. Tang continued to ask.

"Send me home and go back. His company seems to have something to do." Tang Lin saw that the vegetables were almost picked, and stopped when the three of them had enough to eat. He climbed the mountain ridge with a vegetable basket and walked to Mr. Tang's side.

Mr. Tang stood up, and Tang Linshun picked up the small wooden stool he had just sat on. As he walked, Mr. Tang said, "How are you and Su Zhi getting along these two days?"

Tang Lin was a little embarrassed by the question, and just about to raise his hand to touch his nose, he remembered that his hands were covered with things, "It's good."

"Get along well with people." Looking at him, Mr. Tang probably guessed something in his heart, raised the end of the cigarette pipe and tapped Tang Lin on the back.

"Yes." Tang Lin replied helplessly.

"I'll go dig some mugwort leaves with me tomorrow, and we'll make some mugwort leaf cakes the day after tomorrow." After entering the house, Mr. Tang thought of mugwort leaf cakes, so he raised his mouth.

Tang Lin put the small wooden stool behind the door, put the vegetable basket at the kitchen door, and turned around and asked, "Let's make more this year. I'll buy some specialties from our side and send them to the Su family together."

Mr. Tang nodded. It might be a bit crude to just send mugwort leaf cakes, but there would be nothing wrong with sending some special products.Although the Su family is not someone who would dislike them, they should not give things too casually.

"That night, ask Granny to take out the two big pots and wash them for preparation. I have to look for the model boards and throw them away." Mr. Tang tapped the back of his hand with the pipe, thinking about how to make mugwort cakes and what else. What tools should be prepared.

Tang Lin looked at him amusedly, came out after washing his hands, pulled him to sit on the sofa, and said, "I know where the model board is. I'll get it from the old house after dinner. Don't worry about it." Yes, my mother-in-law and I will be ready."

"That's fine." Mr. Tang finally felt relieved.

When the mother-in-law came back, Tang Lin took her meat and cooked a few dishes casually.During the meal, the mother-in-law also asked about Tang Lin's situation at his uncle's house, and Tang Lin didn't get impatient, so he said it again.

Not long after dinner, Kang Ye came to the door, and under the high pressure of the mother-in-law, he mixed two bottles of rice wine from Tang Lin.Mr. Kang's wish to have a drink with Mr. Tang could not be fulfilled, Mrs. Xi kept her eyes on him, and he had no choice but to leave in despair.

Mrs. Tang refused to let Mr. Tang drink the rest of the rice wine, and did not keep a bottle. She gave it to friends in the village who had a good relationship with Mr. Tang.

Mr. Tang's heart is bleeding. Although he loves the snake wine he brewed most, it's good to drink a sip or two of rice wine to moisten his throat, but this idea has been wiped out before it can be implemented. ah.

After hearing that she was going to make moxa leaf cakes, she took Tang Lin to search for the two big pots for making moxa leaves.In recent years, there have been few mugwort cakes, and I don't know where to collect these pots.

Seeing that the two of them searched the house for a long time without finding anything, Mr. Tang babbled, "Can you two do it? Let me look for it. You won't be able to find your hands and feet tomorrow."

The mother-in-law glared at him and scolded: "You sit and wait, it's in the way. Tang Lin, have you looked there?" After staring at Mr. Tang, she turned her head and pointed in one direction and asked Tang Lin.

Tang Lin followed the direction she pointed, shook his head and said, "Not yet, I'll go and have a look."

After a lot of effort, I finally turned two stone basins and a small mortar out from under Mr. Tang's bed.

The old lady remembered that she received the bottom of the kitchen cabinet when she used it last time, but now she can see that Mr. Tang has messed with things and moved all these tools into the room.

Mr. Tang kept denying it, and was so angry that Mrs. Tang cut off his drinking for a month.Tang Lin looked at Mr. Tang's bitter look, and smiled unkindly.

The next day, after breakfast, Tang Lin and the three of them put on straw hats and prepared to go out to dig mugwort leaves.Ai Ye actually grows in the field in front of the small villa.It's not their family's field, but the wasteland on the ridge beyond the field.

Tang Lin didn't know who the owner of this wasteland was. The thousands of acres of land were only planted by someone around Tang Lin's house, and the rest became wasteland directly.But there is no way around this. With the development of the times, fewer and fewer people are farming. Young people are going to big cities to find jobs. Who is willing to stay in the countryside as a farmer?The only ones who stay and cultivate are old people like Mr. Tang.

After walking a certain distance, we arrived at a small piece of wasteland where wild mugwort leaves are most concentrated.Artemisia argyi leaves grow in spring and are about 10 cm high. The leaves are green and covered with fluff all over the body. In fact, they look like weeds. Sometimes they will be confused if you don’t pay attention when picking them.Every time Mr. Tang and Mrs. Tang finished picking, they would check several times to remove the weeds that had mixed in.

Although the mugwort leaves are all in a piece of wasteland, they are a bit scattered, picking some here and there, and it takes half a day to pick a small half of the basket.Tang Lin and the others don't know how long it will take to pick them, and they will not stop until Ai Ye can fill the entire basket.The mugwort leaves will still be smashed, and it looks like there are a lot of them, but they need to be cleaned and dried before being smashed, and after some actions, they will be greatly shrunk to a small half.

After picking up a basket, Tang Lin pushed Mr. Tang and Mrs. Tang aside to have a rest, and he picked up the second basket in a hurry.After returning home, after pulling out the weeds in the basket, Tang Lin poured three or four basins of clean water, carefully rubbed off the soil on the wild mugwort leaves, put the cleaned mugwort leaves in two dustpans on the roof Let it dry on top.

In this way, it was too late to make mugwort cakes at night, so we had to dry them for another day, and then started to make them the next night.

There are two types of mugwort cakes: fragrant filling and sweet filling. In Tangjia Village, there are mainly two kinds of fillings. One is fragrant filling, which is mainly salty peanuts, and the other is sweet filling, which is mainly sesame.Tang Lin likes salty taste. In previous years, he would make a little more fragrant peanut stuffing. This year, he plans to send some to Su Zhi’s family. Considering that their family is in the provincial capital, they may prefer sweet taste. After Tang Lin told Mrs. Tang , I also plan to make some of both flavors on average.

After the four steps of drying, rubbing, boiling, and drying, the stalks can be picked out, and the rest can be used to make gray-green cotton-like mugwort cotton.In fact, the longer the sealed storage time, the better the finished product will be.But Tang Lin will start school soon, so he no longer cares about the time.

The skin of the mugwort cake is made of mugwort cotton and flour, and then the skin is used to wrap the fried peanut and sesame stuffing separately, and finally steamed. It tastes best when it is hot, and it is smooth and not sticky. Eat enough to make people eat three or four in a row.

Tang Lin and Mr. Tang were in charge of the wrapping, while Granny was in charge of molding the wrapped mugwort cakes, and it was enough to take pictures of each beautiful pattern.The three of them divided the labor, and their movements were skillful and orderly. In one night, several baskets of mugwort leaf cakes were steamed.

I evened out some to eat by myself, gave some to the village, and Tang Lin went to the small shop at the entrance of the village to get two ice packs for the rest.The ice pack was packed in a beautiful box together with the mugwort cake, and I planned to find a courier in the market to send it to the Su family.