After the villagers dispersed, Xu Qingfeng told his mother and sister-in-law that he had agreed with his brother to make dumplings with roe deer meat for lunch.
“If you’re not celebrating the Chinese New Year, why should you eat dumplings...”
In the 1980s, most people did not have much money.
So eating dumplings is also a very luxurious thing.
You may not be able to eat it once a month.
Flour, that's fine grain.
So I would be reluctant to make dumplings.
Eating bran wild vegetables is the mainstream of this era.
"You can still eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year and the holidays. You can eat them if you want." Xu Qingfeng smiled slightly at his mother.
He Chunhua just said that when her son wanted to eat dumplings, her body was still honest and she immediately took out a 10-pound bag of flour from the kitchen.
Xu Qingfeng bought this flour at the supply and marketing cooperative the day before yesterday.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t have so much white flour at home.
"My son wants to eat dumplings, okay, mom will make them for you." He Chunhua smiled slightly.
"Pack more. We have a lot of family members. I will go to the forest farm these days. I can send some to my father then." Xu Qingfeng said to He Chunhua.
He Chunhua nodded: "Okay, it's rare that you still think about your father. Unexpectedly, you fell down and became sensible."
Xu Qingfeng scratched his head in embarrassment.
When he was this age in his previous life, he didn't seem to be very considerate of his family.
My relationship with my parents is not very good.
I especially like to fight against my parents.
But there are only children who are not, and there are rarely parents who are not.
There are very few scumbag fathers and scumbag mothers.
Most parents love their children very much.
Unfortunately, he understood it too late in his previous life.
Nowadays, I cannot properly repay my parents for their upbringing.
He Chunhua and Li Ruyue took out the flour, poured some water in, and started kneading the dough.
The two brothers, Xu Qingfeng and Xu Qiusheng, were responsible for doing manual labor and chopping meat!
In this era, there were no meat grinders and everything was chopped by hand.
But let alone, even if there are meat grinders in later generations, Xu Qingfeng still feels that dumplings only taste right if they have fillings chopped by hand.
"Brother, you don't even need this little meat. I rounded it and chopped it all by myself."
Xu Qiusheng cut the ten kilograms of meat he had reserved into two pieces, and picked up a piece of roe deer meat, which was about three or four kilograms.
This much should be enough.
It’s not all wrapped in meat, but also filled with various fillings, so three or four kilograms of roe deer meat is enough.
"Really? Then I won't argue with you." Xu Qingfeng was very happy.
Chopping meat is an easy thing for them.
Anyone can come.
Xu Qiusheng smiled slightly and said: "Let's just say that it is not difficult for me to chop meat. Compared with working in the fields, it is too easy."
These days, most rural people are strong laborers and do manual labor.
It's really easy to chop some meat.
Xu Qingfeng only saw his brother, holding a kitchen knife, raising and lowering the knife, and frantically chopped meat on the cutting board.
This hand speed is dazzling.
Xu Qingfeng was not idle either. He went to the kitchen to find some vegetables, such as cabbage, radish, corn, and sauerkraut. These can be used with meat fillings to make dumplings.
In addition to meat fillings, Xu Qingfeng also plans to make some vegetable fillings.
For example, leek and egg filling.
Xu Qingfeng went to pull out some four-season green onions.
These vegetables also needed to be chopped. Xu Qingfeng found a spare kitchen knife from the kitchen and started chopping.
Two brothers enjoy chopping meat.
In order to eat this dumpling, the whole family is in action.
Even the little niece Xu Jiajia followed her grandma and mother, kneading dough there.
He didn't even knead the dough a few times, but his face was covered with flour, which made his family members smile happily.
This kind of family atmosphere makes Xu Qingfeng feel extra warm.
I haven’t experienced the warmth of home in decades.
Just like this, simple daily life almost brought tears to Xu Qingfeng's eyes.
The tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop, the child wants to be nourished but the relatives don't wait for it. Only after losing it and finding it again can you know how precious it is.
After a while, Xu Qingfeng and Xu Qiusheng's vegetables and meat were chopped.
At this time, Li Ruyue sent over her assistant 'Xu Jiajia', carrying several plates.
Put different vegetables on different plates, then add chopped roe deer meat to each, stir well, and you will get a filling.
With more people working faster, the dumplings were wrapped quickly thanks to the division of labor and cooperation.
What about leek and egg stuffing, shredded radish stuffing, cabbage stuffing, pickled cabbage stuffing, etc...
There are quite a lot of varieties.
Different types, arranged in categories.
"Is it too much? In fact, just one kind of sauerkraut filling is enough." He Chunhua couldn't laugh or cry when she saw so many kinds of dumplings.
Later, the difficulty of choosing comes out. What fillings to eat? This is really a problem.
"Grandma, I think you can have one of them all, and then you can eat whatever filling you like." Xu Jiajia blinked and smiled.
Xu Qingfeng gave a thumbs up to his niece: "Jia Jia is right, it's better to have more choices. As that saying goes, it's hard for everyone to agree. If there's only one kind of filling, not everyone may like it."
"Uncle, is roe deer meat delicious? I haven't eaten roe deer meat yet." Xu Jiajia asked Xu Qingfeng curiously.
Xu Qingfeng nodded: "Of course it's delicious. Didn't you notice that its price is nearly twice that of pork? If it's not delicious, it won't be so expensive."
Xu Jiajia swallowed. It tasted better than pork, so she was looking forward to it even more.
"Although roe deer meat tastes more delicious, I still prefer to eat pork." He Chunhua smiled at the side.
Xu Jiajia was a little confused: "Grandma, why?"
He Chunhua told her granddaughter that because pork is fattier.
This is no joke.
People in the 1970s and 1980s liked to eat fat meat.
When buying meat, I prefer meat with more fat.
Lean meat, ribs, cheap, but no one wants it.
Because there is too little oil and water in this era.
So everyone especially likes to eat fat meat.
This is also the reason why He Chunhua doesn't like roe deer meat but likes pork.
Pork has fat, which can be boiled in oil. As for roe deer meat...it's basically all lean meat, with nothing fatty at all.
When Xu Qingfeng cut the meat just now, he cut it in the fattest area, but there were not even two pounds of fat in ten pounds of roe deer meat.
"Grandma, when you say that, it's true, why is roe deer meat so lean? And pork has so much fat." Xu Jiajia exclaimed, as if she had discovered some blind spot.
"Jiajia, let me tell you this." Xu Qingfeng smiled slightly and started to explain to his niece.
Most of the pigs in the slaughterhouse are farmed. These pigs have been kept in pig pens all day long. They eat, sleep and do not exercise. Of course, they are fatter.
The roe deer is completely different. It is wild and lives in the wild mountains and forests for a long time.
Roe deer are at the lower end of the food chain and have many natural enemies, so they keep running to avoid predators.
Therefore, the texture of roe deer meat is very firm, elastic, tender and delicious, with almost no fat.
It is precisely because of this that roe deer meat is also called the king of lean meat.
