SFS Chapter 377 Making Preserved Eggs
Chapter 377 Making Preserved Eggs
Gu Qingqing raised her hand and scratched her nose, saying with a smile, "If we kill it now, your grandma will have to eat it. If you give her a live chicken, do you think she will still be willing to kill it?"
Dahua answered without even thinking, "No."
Because if it were her, she wouldn't be willing to kill it and would definitely keep it for it to lay eggs.
"That's it. Only if we are good can they eat meat. Hurry up and help mother run errands and call the three aunts on the hillside." Gu Qingqing said to Dahua.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Dahua said and ran out.
After a while, Yang Xing, Zhao Qin and Wu Fang arrived. Wu Fang, who had a loud voice, had already heard her voice before she even entered the yard.
"Qingqing, are you dissatisfied with Wu Fang and I for not working efficiently, so you even asked Yang Xing to help?"
"This is unlike you in normal times. Who can do a better job than you? I came here today to tell you something else." Gu Qingqing's voice rang out from the front yard.
As the three of them entered the yard, Gu Qingqing told them the reason why she called them here. Gu Qingqing wanted to let the three of them do the job of making preserved eggs and boiled eggs.
"Preserved eggs? What are preserved eggs?" Wu Fang asked suspiciously.
"Could it be that you have thought of something again? Preserved eggs are made of fur? How can they be eaten?" Zhao Qin was also puzzled.
Although Yang Xing didn't ask, the expectant look in her eyes also showed her curiosity.
Gu Qingqing was amused by their innocent appearance. "Preserved eggs are made from duck eggs. The method is not complicated. If you are interested, I will let you do this job. I will provide the materials, and I will give you one cent for every five you make. You can come to my house and do it when you are free."
"This is not good. I have already received so much salary from you. How can I ask you for more money for doing such a small thing? Just teach me how to do it." Yang Xing expressed his opinion.
"I think so too. How can a young woman in the village earn 600 coins a month? Now that the chickens are grown up, it doesn't take much effort. If we couldn't pick up chicken and duck eggs now, we would be bored on the hillside every day. We would feel bad if you gave us money." Zhao Qin also said.
Seeing that Wu Fang was about to say something, Gu Qingqing interrupted her and said, "Let's put it this way. It makes no sense not to pay for the extra work. If you don't want hard work fees, then I will just pay you the fees."
Gu Qingqing strives hard not to be a black-hearted boss.
Wu Fang just interrupted the conversation and immediately said, "I can agree to everything else, except this one. Zhao Xi and his friends have been working in town recently and have earned a lot of money. We can't thank you enough. If you say something so distant again, we will be annoyed."
"Qingqing, we know very well how you treat us. Don't you know what kind of life we lived in the past and what kind of life we live now? If you insist, we will go back to our hillside to raise pigs. Otherwise, I will suspect that you will not let us work for you." Zhao Qin refused.
Seeing that they were unwilling to ask for labor fees, Gu Qingqing smiled and sighed, "It's up to you. I'll teach you how to do it first. When you three have learned it, it will be considered a skill. If the villagers ask you to do it in the future, you can charge them."
"Haha, this is a good idea. We will do it for you for free. If other people come with eggs, we will ask them for money." Wu Fang laughed out loud.
Gu Qingqing also laughed and said, "Since the three of you have decided this, I won't say much. Let's get started now. I have prepared fifty duck eggs and fifty chicken eggs. Let's wash off the feces with water first, and then let them dry."
All four of them were quick and nimble. Each person was responsible for about twenty eggs and was able to wash all the chicken and duck eggs. Gu Qingqing then poured the water used to wash the eggs into the flowers planted in the front yard.
Then, Gu Qingqing started by teaching them how to burn straw and cypress leaves into ash, and then boil water with yellow broom leaves and a small amount of tea leaves.
"Here is a pound of lime. Let's pour the boiled water into the lime." As the water was added to the lime, the basin began to bubble. Gu Qingqing said to the three people, "Don't worry about it at this time, and don't touch it with your hands. You can only wait for the water to calm down, and stir it with a bamboo stick or a wooden stick to completely melt the lime."
Gu Qingqing demonstrated to the three of them and explained, "Now add the wood ash we just burned."
As Gu Qingqing finished speaking, Yang Xing immediately turned around and picked up some wood ash from the ground, and asked uncertainly, "Should we put it all in?"
"Let it go. I'll tell you when it's almost time."
During this process, Gu Qingqing did not forget to ask the remaining two to turn over the washed duck eggs so that the moisture on the skin would be easier to dry.
When Yang Xing was holding the seventh handful, Gu Qingqing called for a stop.
Yang Xing looked at the pile of wood ash on the ground and asked with some regret, "Are you not going to use any of this?"
Gu Qingqing smiled at her and said, "We'll need it later. Next, we'll add salt and baking soda, three taels of salt and three taels of baking soda. If you don't know how to calculate, two spoons of this big spoon will be enough. Then stir it." Gu Qingqing had just stirred a few times with the bamboo stick when Zhao Qin took over.
The three of them looked at the gray and white substance that looked like mud, and they all looked up at Gu Qingqing, waiting for her next instruction.
"Put the washed and dried duck eggs in this and coat them with a layer of paste." Gu Qingqing pointed to the mud with lime in the basin and said, "Then take them out and roll them in the ash over there. Today we will use a spoon to scoop them out, and I will make tools for you later. Then you can put them in a big jar and seal it."
Wu Fang saw her using a spoon and thought it was too delicate. "Why not just use your hands?"
As she said this, she wanted to start, but was quickly stopped by Gu Qingqing, "No, burn..." Gu Qingqing originally wanted to say that lime would hurt your hands, but she was afraid that they wouldn't care if she said it hurt their hands, so she said, "That would not taste right."
When she said the taste was wrong, Wu Fang was so scared that she quickly withdrew her hand.
The three of them listened carefully, but in the end they put the duck eggs wrapped in wood ash into a can and sealed it.
Then I heard Gu Qingqing clapped her hands and said, "Okay."
"Hey, is it ready now? Qingqing, did we forget about the eggs?" Yang Xing asked, pointing at the eggs that were still drying not far away.
“Chicken eggs are prepared a little differently than duck eggs.”
I followed Gu Qingqing and used a pot to boil water with cypress leaves, tea leaves, star anise, peppercorns, and cinnamon.
Then pour in quicklime and wait for it to cool.
At this time, Gu Qingqing brought some wheat bran in a winnowing basket.
After rolling the eggs that have been dipped in lime in the wheat bran, put them into the jar.
With Gu Qingqing's voice, "It's done."
Wu Fang showed a very strange expression on the side. "You can eat it right after you make it here? You add all the ingredients to the ash and lime. What should the egg taste like when you eat it? And, you first wrap it in lime mud and then in plant ash. How do you eat it when you want to? Wash it and then cook it?"
Gu Qingqing didn't know what she was thinking of, and her face was full of expression. However, she was amused when she heard her words. "When you don't want to eat this, you don't need to cook it. Just remove the shell we just wrapped it with, and then peel off the original skin of the egg and you can eat it. What flavor did you ask about just now? I can't tell you. When you taste it in your mouth, you can tell what it tastes like for yourself."
"I don't even dare to imagine what the final outcome will be like." Zhao Qin said on the sidelines.
Gu Qingqing tilted her head and thought for a while before saying, "I can only say that it has a unique flavor."
They chatted for a while with a few people about what the taste would be like, and waited until Wen Wuyan came back from Shuangxi Village before the three of them left.
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