SFS Chapter 164: Special Memory Pork Soup
Chapter 164: Special Memory Pork Soup
Shen Zhiqiu was suspicious: "Even if it's turnip, it hasn't grown yet, why are you beating the gong?"
Although Shen Youyou had never seen turnips growing, she had heard of them and quickly explained:
"Turnips are not just edible roots, their leaves and flowers are also edible."
At this time, the team also stopped, and Shen Youyou repeated to everyone that the leaves and flowers of turnips can also be fried or eaten cold.
The flowers are more useful, so let’s go and cut some.
In fact, ancient people were no strangers to turnip, which our grandmas called radish. Sometimes they would dig up its rhizomes in the mountains and collect some seeds to plant in their own vegetable gardens.
But everyone only knows that the roots and rhizomes are edible, and has never heard that the leaves and flowers can also be eaten.
Wild turnip, also known as turnip and wild radish, belongs to the genus Turnip in the cruciferous family and is an annual or biennial herb.
It likes to grow in plains, mountains, roadsides and edges of fields.
It has low requirements for soil, light and other conditions, is cold and drought resistant, and has strong vitality.
The small purple and white flowers bloom all year round, so people often call it the flower of immortality.
And this flower blooms in February, so it is also called February orchid.
As for the origin of Zhugecai, according to folk legend, when Zhuge Liang led his army to war, he used the stems and leaves of February blue as vegetables, and later it was widely planted as military rations.
When they reached the foot of the hillside, they were even more shocked when they looked up at the sea of purple flowers on the hillside.
These flowers are purple and white, very beautiful, and have a faint fragrance, giving people a fresh and elegant feeling.
Zhugecai is a treasure from head to toe. It has strong medicinal value.
Vegetable oil can also be extracted from its seeds, with an oil content of over 50 percent.
Moreover, rapeseed oil is rich in linoleic acid, which is very beneficial to humans.
It has great medicinal value and has the functions of strengthening the stomach, promoting diuresis, clearing away heat and detoxifying, inhibiting fat and losing weight, lowering blood pressure, and softening blood vessels.
Because linoleic acid has the function of lowering serum cholesterol and triglycerides in the human body, softening blood vessels and preventing thrombosis, it is a good medicine for patients with cardiovascular disease.
Of course, this has nothing to do with them now. After all, it is not the time to collect seeds and dig up rhizomes.
Shen Youyou called everyone: "We can just pick the tender buds with flowers on them. There's no need to dig up the whole plant."
Besides digging wild vegetables, what she wants to do most is to collect flowers. These purple flowers all over the mountains are natural edible pigments!
Everyone understood what was said immediately, and without anyone urging them, they began to pack up their bamboo baskets and each of them picked the tender buds with purple flowers.
Regardless of gender, age or status, everyone works very efficiently.
Shen Zhiqiu asked, "How do you eat this? I've heard that radish leaves can be used to make dumplings, can this be used as well?"
"The tips of the shoots with tender green buds can be boiled in water and used for salad dressing or cooking, but I plan to separate the flowers and leaves while everyone is resting.
I plan to dry most of these flowers, which will be used as natural edible coloring. As for a small part, I can add some to Pueraria paste and Pueraria cake while they are still fresh. They will definitely taste good with the fragrance of flowers.”
As soon as Shen Youyou finished speaking, several little kids started chattering. It turned out that Shen Nannan and the other three little girls saw the purple flowers and wanted to wear them on their heads.
Shen Luming and several little boys were giving people advice, saying that they should not plug it in on one side, as it would be crooked. Shouldn't the plug be plugged in on top?
Shen Youyou's attention was attracted. What kind of aesthetic taste do these little boys have?
Although she had some thoughts in mind, she did not interrupt and continued with her work, becoming more and more proficient at it.
Suddenly, I thought of what my father said about making dumplings, so I turned to Li Jingshu, who also got off the car to pick radish, and said:
"Mom, we have pork, why don't we make some kudzu root buns? They'll be delicious with kudzu root and pork."
Although Shen Zhiqiu was craving for steamed buns when he heard about it, he thought that his wife was with her aunt, and it would take a while to steam buns for so many people.
But the little kids who heard Roubaozi no longer paid attention to the little girls with flowers in their hair, but clapped their hands and surrounded Shen Zhiqiu.
One shouted "Third Uncle!" and the other shouted "Third Uncle!"
His face was full of an expression that showed he wanted to eat meat buns, and he was clenching his little fists, as if he wanted to thank Shen Zhiqiu.
Shen Zhiqiu rubbed his temples. He couldn't even say no because of these little kids.
Shen Youyou quickly replied: "My mother is taking a rest, I will take care of my aunt, my sister, and my sisters."
Li Jingshu said, "What are you bringing? Do you know how to make dumplings? This is not a big deal, so I'll do it. Besides, I haven't eaten dumplings for such a long time, I am really craving for it."
After hearing this, the little kids all looked from Shen Youyou and Li Jingshu to Shen Zhiqiu. Although they are small, they also know who everyone in the team listens to the most.
Shen Zhiqiu nodded helplessly: "Okay, let's eat the buns!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the little kids started to get excited, jumping, laughing and shouting.
Before she even had the meat buns, she was already shaking her little body happily, feeling so happy!
Since we were going to make buns, we found a flat place and set up camp.
Soon all kinds of noises were heard in the temporary camp, including "clang, clang, clang". These were the men chopping wood and building wooden frames for temporary accommodation.
There were also "knock knock knock" sounds. A dozen women were chopping stuffing on the chopping board, some were chopping pork, and some were chopping Chinese cabbage.
They are all in unison, and have a special rhythm.
With so many people eating meat buns, if they want to put more meat in them, it is definitely not allowed, even the old ladies won't allow it.
In their words, when it comes to life, we have to take things slow and steady!
But since the leader agreed to eat meat buns, the little kids kept clamoring, so they could only eat food with more wild vegetables and less meat.
The stingy old lady even said, "It can't be all meat filling. Don't we have the lard residue from yesterday's cooking? Put some of the lard residue in to make dumplings. If there's not enough lard residue, put some lard in and make more vegetarian fillings."
Master Shen also said, "Pack more today, pack for tomorrow's morning and lunch. Rest early today, and catch up with the schedule tomorrow."
Shen Fugui suddenly recalled the good old days while working and said to Grandpa:
"Grandpa, do you remember when we used to slaughter pigs for the New Year in our village, we would make pork offal soup from the pig's offal. I could drink three large bowls of it. At that time, everyone made white cabbage pies."
Grandpa Shen recalled that in the past, in Shenjia Village, every year when the villagers slaughtered the New Year pig, everyone would eat a big pot meal together.
If you don’t want to eat other things, you can just use some offal and make soup, and everyone can enjoy it happily.
Every household would buy a few pounds of the remaining pork to eat during the New Year or to entertain relatives and friends.
After going through so much, I can never go back to the village. Although I am fleeing famine now and the food is better than at home, I don’t have a stable place to stay, so I can’t feel at ease.
I have so much to think about, and I don’t know why, I miss Shenjia Village so much.
So when he spit out his words, he also said, "We haven't eaten the offal from the wild boar we hunted yesterday yet? Let's have some pork offal soup tonight."
After hearing these words, many people's eyes turned red, especially Shen Fugui, who squatted on the ground with his hands covering his face without even putting down the axe.