Chapter 539 Haggis Soup and White Water Sheep Head! New Year’s Eve Is Here, Let’s Start Preparing for the New Year’s Eve Dinner! 【Please Subscribe】

"Xubao, what goes with the lamb offal soup?"

As soon as she cleaned the intestines, tripe and other internal organs with flour, Shen Jiayue stumbled into the kitchen, holding a bunch of candied haws with walnuts in her hand.

Lin Xu wiped his hands and said:

"Usually it's served with flatbread, but if you order it, it can also be served with noodles or naan. What do you want to eat?"

Shen Jiayue brought the candied haws over and asked Lin Xu to bite one, and then said:

"I don't care, I'm not hungry yet. Sister Yuanyuan asked me to go boating, saying it helps digestion. We are going to try it so that we can eat more haggis in the afternoon."

"Be safe and don't fall into the water."

"No, there were always rumors of floods a few years ago. My dad asked someone to teach me how to kayak. I am proficient in both water and water."

She fed Lin Xu another candied haws, and then went rowing with Chen Yuanyuan.

Lin Xu put the washed sheep tripe intestines into a pot of cold water, added high-strength white wine and green onions and ginger to blanch them to remove as much odor as possible from the internal organs.

In the yard, Chen Meijuan opened the oil pan she used for lunch again, preparing to fry some Chinese New Year fried foods.

I actually fried a batch in the morning, such as dried tofu, large pieces of roast pork, ribs, fish pieces, etc., but some meatballs still need to be fried separately.

The old lady likes to eat vermicelli balls, Lin Hongqi likes to eat mung bean noodles, Lin Xu likes to eat meatballs, there are also sweet potato balls, radish balls, tofu balls and so on.

During the Chinese New Year, you have to prepare enough food.

Boil the blanched haggis. Use a spoon to skim off the scum, then take it out and wash it with warm water.

After blanching, the smell is much reduced.

Lin Xu changed a pot of water, put the sheep intestines and lamb tripe in, added the green onion and ginger, then added peppercorns, peppercorns, angelica, galangal, and grass fruit, and started to stew.

To make haggis, you need to boil the haggis first, then add it to the mutton soup and cook it a second time.

If you put raw haggis directly into the mutton soup, it will give the soup a peculiar smell.

In haggis, sheep lungs and liver are not resistant to cooking and need to be put in last. Generally speaking, wait until the sheep intestines and sheep tripe are cooked thoroughly before adding the sheep liver and sheep lungs, and then cook for about fifteen minutes. Pot.

While cooking the haggis, Lin Xu came to the yard with the two sheep heads chopped off in the morning and started burning the wool with a spray gun.

There is sheep head meat in the traditional mutton soup, but Lin Xu felt that it was a waste to boil it directly into the soup, so he planned to pack it out and make a traditional Beijing delicacy - Baishui sheep head.

This is a dish very similar to the dipped lamb, but the dipped mutton is eaten in slices and dipped in the sauce, while the white water sheep head is eaten in slices and sprinkled with pepper and salt.

Because sheep head is eaten with the skin on, it has a chewy texture and delicious flavor, making it a delicacy that many people will never forget.

Burn the sheep's head completely black and soak it in warm water for a while so that the black ash on the surface can be completely washed away.

At this moment, the sweet potato balls were fried. Lin Xu washed his hands, picked up one and tasted it, and couldn't help but say:

“The freshly fried meatballs are still delicious.”

Chen Meijuan said while working:

"Don't just eat for yourself. Ask Yueyue to come and eat with you. When you get married, you have to think about your wife. Don't act like you have enough for yourself and the whole family is not hungry."

Lin Xu smiled:

"She went boating with Sister Yuanyuan. She was very full at noon. She also ate jujube cakes and candied haws. Now she can't eat anything."

"Boating now? You have to pay attention to safety. Wear thick clothes in winter. Even those who can swim may not be able to swim if they fall into the water."

Winter clothes are very absorbent. If dropped into water, the clothes can quickly absorb dozens of pounds of water.

These weights will increase the burden on the body. Coupled with panic, hypothermia, etc., even people with good water skills may capsize in the gutter.

Chen Meijuan's reminder brought Lin Xu back to his senses. He was just about to go to the reservoir to give a few reminders, only to find that Dundun was missing.

Just at this moment, Han Shuzhen accompanied Old Mrs. Shen from a circle outside and came back. As soon as she entered the farmyard, she said:

"I was carrying Dun Dun around, but Yue Yue had to carry her to go rowing. After this girl got married, she became more and more daring."

Lin Xu:? ? ? ? ? ?

Is Dundun involved?

I can rest assured that.

If you are on a boat, the chance of capsizing will be infinitely close to zero.

My sweet baby is really smart and knows how to hold on to Dundun to increase his luck.

Not bad, better than my sister-in-law!

He took an empty bowl, filled some freshly fried meatballs for his mother-in-law and Mrs. Shen to taste, and then went to clean the sheep's head.

Clean the black ash on the surface of the sheep's head, and then use a small brush to clean the ears, mouth and even the nasal cavity.

After washing, take the knife and cut it from the head of the sheep to the tip of the sheep's nose.

On the one hand, this facilitates ripening, and on the other hand, it allows the sheepskin to shrink during cooking, actively exposing the sheep skull, making it easier to remove the bones.

After everything was cleaned up, Lin Xu did not start production immediately.

Instead, put the sheep head into clean water and start soaking it to remove as much blood as possible to make the sheep head taste better.

No seasoning is added to the white water sheep head during the cooking process, so it needs to be soaked more, otherwise the meat will have a peculiar smell and the whole dish will be ruined.

Half an hour later, when the sheep tripe and intestines in the pot were almost cooked, he put in the sheep liver and lungs that had been cleaned repeatedly, cooked for another fifteen minutes, took them out of the pot, and set them aside to dry. .

After it cools down, start cutting.

Cut the sheep tripe into strips, cut the sheep intestines into hob segments, slice the sheep liver and sheep lungs, and then take the sheep blood and cut it into strips. The ingredients for the haggis soup are ready.

Later, just simmer it with the cooked mutton soup and season it with salt and pepper, and you can enjoy the deliciousness.

After finishing cutting the haggis, Lin Xu took out the soaked white sheep head, put it in clean water and began to stew it.

While the sheep head was stewing, he roasted it over low heat, fried some peppercorns and salt, grinded it into powder, and then added a little amomum powder and a little clove powder to increase the flavor of the meat.

The sheep head had been cooked for almost an hour. The skin on the front of the sheep head had completely cracked and shrunk, and the white skull was exposed.

Lin Xu peeled the meat skin out while it was hot, pulled out the sheep's skull, and then removed the lower jaw bones and the sheep's tongue.

In this way, the whole sheep head meat becomes a whole piece of meat connected by the chin. This piece of meat is the Baishui sheep head that has been remembered by generations of people in the capital.

In addition to the sheep head meat, the removed skull also contains the essence of the white water sheep head.

Disassemble the skull and take out the fully cooked sheep brain. The temperature is still high at this time and the sheep brain has the texture of tofu. After cooling, the sheep brain becomes slightly hard. Cut it into slices and enjoy the taste. Soft and full of flavor.

After taking out the sheep's brains, take out the sheep's eyes and let them dry for a while before slicing them into pieces. They will taste tender and delicious.

The upper jaw part of the sheep's mouth can also be completely removed. The meat in this part is called the ladder. It tastes crisp and tender, and it feels like eating brittle bones.

As for the lamb tongue, tear off the tongue coating on the surface and cut it into slices with a diagonal knife. It is also an unforgettable delicacy.

After removing the sheep head meat, put it in the refrigerator to cool it down completely. Only in this way can the sheep head taste good.

At this time, the mutton soup has been boiled, and Chen Meijuan has also used a large pan to fry the noodles and scallion pancakes outside. Everyone can eat whatever they want.

Lin Xu started making haggis soup in the kitchen.

Pour some mutton oil into the pot, heat it up, then add the chopped haggis and stir-fry.

Stir-frying the cooled mutton offal can bring out the fresh aroma in the meat again. Stir-fry the aroma and add the cooked mutton soup. The milky white soup will instantly make the whole soup taste better.

The haggis should be boiled for a while before eating to make it more delicious.

Lin Xu did not waste the mutton used to cook the haggis. He cut it into thick slices and put it on the plate. The ribs were separated separately and served with dipping sauce and salt and pepper. A perfect portion of dipping mutton and hand mutton was completed. .

The two mutton dishes were arranged, and Lin Xu brought them to the dining table. Then he took out the cold mutton head meat from the refrigerator and began to cut it.

Sheep head meat is relatively thin, while Baishui sheep head requires cutting the head into large pieces, which places high demands on the chef's knife skills.

Lin Xu placed a whole piece of lamb head meat flat on the chopping board, and then tilted the kitchen knife completely. The angle between the knife and the chopping board was only 20 degrees.

This kind of knife work is called slope knife.

The slope knife method can be used to cut thin ingredients into large slices. In addition to white water mutton, some kidney dishes and chicken gizzard dishes also require the slope knife to be sliced.

The thinner the lamb head meat, the better. The best knife skills are to cut the lamb head meat until it is as thin as paper, and you can even see the writing on the newspaper through the meat.

Only in this way can you truly feel the graceful and soft yet tough texture of sheep head meat.

After cutting the two sheep heads, Lin Xu cut the mutton tongue, ears, brain, eyes, ladder and other parts of the mutton into a large basin together with the mutton head meat.

Put the pot aside with one hand and shake it to stir the mutton inside, and sprinkle pepper and salt inside with the other hand.

Salt and pepper must be sprinkled on the mutton like snow, so that it will be delicious and the texture and taste will be at their peak.

If you dip it in pepper and salt like eating dry croquettes, the flavor of the meat will be completely suppressed by the pepper and salt, and it will take over the main role.

Lin Xu put the mutton mixed with salt and pepper into a stainless steel tray, and as soon as the mutton dipped in sauce and hand-made mutton were placed on the dining table, Shen Guofu, who had slept all afternoon, came over:

"Oh, it's actually a white water sheep's head. This is a centuries-old dish in the capital. You have to drink it..."

When he encountered such a good dish, he originally wanted to drink two drinks, but when he noticed Director Han glancing at him, he swallowed the drink abruptly and reorganized his words:

"I have to drink several bowls of haggis soup to be worthy of such a good dish."

Han Shuzhen rolled her eyes at him:

"If you drink so much at noon, don't drink it tonight. Wait until tomorrow's New Year's Eve dinner to allow you to drink more freely."

Upon hearing this, the smile on Lao Shen's face immediately appeared again:

"My wife still loves me!"

Shen Jiayue, who came back from rowing, said with a smile:

"How old are you, and are you still spreading dog food here? Do you have any sense of justice?"

"Go, go, make fun of your parents all day long... How does it feel to row? Have you exercised?"

"It's so cool. Sister Yuanyuan and I rowed to the other side. It feels like everything we ate has been digested... Today's haggis soup, I'm going to drink two big bowls, and after finishing it, I'll go to the reservoir to set off firecrackers."

I bought a few hundred yuan of small cannons today, and I have to set them all off, because tomorrow the small truck of fireworks and firecrackers ordered by my father will be delivered, and by then these small cannons will no longer be rare.

Lao Shen had not set off fireworks for many years, so he asked the company to order a truckload of various styles of fireworks to try to recreate the feeling of setting off firecrackers when he was young.

In the kitchen, Lin Xu added some salt and pepper to the pot, stirred evenly, poured the haggis soup into a basin, and carried it to the restaurant.

In addition to the haggis soup, he also prepared condiments such as minced chives, minced coriander, pepper salt, mutton oil chili, etc. You can freely mix and match the ingredients you add to the soup.

This afternoon, both the eldest aunt Lin Hongxin and the second aunt Lin Hongxia went back.

They also had to prepare for the New Year. There were fewer people eating, but there was still a large table. After all, the Chen Meide family, Chen Meiliang family, and the Lin Hongjun family, Lin Hongqi, and Shen Guofu family were still quite large in number.

Chen Yuanyuan took a spoon and helped everyone fill the soup. As soon as they sat down, Lin Xu brought some kimchi, sugar and garlic and other side dishes from the kitchen, and dinner officially began.

Shen Guofu picked up a piece of mutton and put it into his mouth to chew slowly, his face full of surprise:

"This mutton head meat is really strong and delicious. Xiaoxu will cook another mutton head tomorrow, and make a white water mutton head dish for the New Year's Eve dinner."

Lin Xu said:

"Okay, I happen to go to the city tomorrow to post Spring Festival couplets, and I'll buy a sheep head on the way."

To be honest, today's sheep are a bit small. Generally speaking, the heads of Jie sheep that are two or three years old are most suitable for making white water sheep heads. The meat of Jie sheep is tender and has no peculiar smell, so it is most suitable for this white water cooking method.

Lin Xu added minced chives and coriander to the haggis soup, and added a spoonful of mutton oil chili.

After melting, the fragrance of suet will spread out.

Take a bite of the mutton offal, the spicy taste combined with the unique texture of the mutton offal, plus the unique deliciousness of the mutton soup, it is really amazing.

After eating two mouthfuls of meat, the soup was still too hot to drink, so it was perfect for soaking the dead noodles.

Lin Xu broke the pot helmet into small pieces and soaked it in a bowl.

Before she had time to eat, Shen Jiayue next to her secretly picked up a piece of pancake with her chopsticks. After tasting it, she thought it tasted great, so she picked up a piece of pancake and broke it into pieces.

While eating, Mrs. Lin said:

"Tomorrow Xiaoxu and Yueyue will go to the city to put up Spring Festival couplets, and they just happen to recognize the door of their home. Meijuan and Hongqi will go to Qi's mother's place to put up Spring Festival couplets. Meiliang and Hongjun will go home to put up Spring Festival couplets and arrange their own affairs. At noon, If you can come back with food, come back. If you can't come back, you can work it out separately. Remember to visit the grave after lunch, don't forget this."

The family is getting better day by day, and during the Chinese New Year, it’s time to say something to the old man.

Mrs. Chen took over the conversation and said:

"I started preparing New Year's Eve dinner and making dumplings when I came back from visiting the grave. This year, our whole family will gather together to celebrate the New Year, and we will try to make it as lively as possible."

Shen Guofu said with a smile:

"You all go to work tomorrow. Shuzhen and I will also drive to the city to see if we can buy some more New Year's goods."

Although the ingredients are almost ready now, including chicken, duck, goose, and pig, but there is no seafood, Shen Guofu always feels that something is missing.

While I have nothing to do tomorrow morning, I will drive to the city to buy some seafood so that I can have a hearty New Year’s Eve dinner.

Lin Xu took a lamb rib, dipped it in the salt and pepper, and gently tore it apart, and a whole piece of lamb fell off.

He chewed the delicious mutton and said to Shen Guofu:

"You can drive my car to the city tomorrow. Yueyue and I will drive the X1."

My father-in-law has always thought that Maisarui's car is good, and it is just right for him to experience it. If he really wants to buy it, he should talk to Hou Dingshan, the vice president of Maisarui, and see if he can get a preferential price.

After all, this is considered to be something I helped sell, so the price has to be better.

Lao Shen has long been coveted for Lin Xu's car, and said with a smile:

"Okay, I'll drive it to experience it first. If it's good, I'll order two units. I'll keep one in the capital and send one to my second brother."

Chen Meiliang needs to keep up the facade. Although the G63 is very eye-catching, it needs to be upgraded.

As for the arrangement of G63, we can just turn it over to the hired vice president. The company is currently talking to the person in charge of the racecourse at the Beijing Suburban Equestrian Club.

Once an agreement is reached, he will immediately come to Yinzhou as the vice president and be responsible for setting up the specific framework of the racecourse.

After the meal, Lin Xu tidied up the kitchen and went to the reservoir with Shen Jiayue, Chen Yuanyuan, Chen Shaokang and Lin Hongjun's son, Lin Bin, Lin Xu's cousin, and Chen Shaowei, Chen Meide's son, to set off cannons at the reservoir.

You'll get tired of playing with Sky Monkeys after a while, and there's nothing to worry about if you throw cannons on the ice. The reservoir isn't frozen, so you can't feel the joy of throwing cannons on the ice.

It sounds like heaven and earth, and it’s quite exciting to play.

It exploded on the ground and then flew up to the sky to scatter a big firework. Everyone had a great time.

Chen Shaokang asked Lin Xu:

"Cousin, will Uncle Shen buy many fireworks tomorrow? Are these beautiful?"

Lin Xu said:

"There are hundreds of thousands of fireworks, but they are much more beautiful than this. It is said that there are also sky patterns. Just wait and be shocked tomorrow."

The next morning, Lin Xu and Shen Jiayue went to their homes in the city to post Spring Festival couplets and visited some old neighbors. By the way, they and Shen Jiayue walked around a nearby shopping mall and bought some stuffed toys that Dundun liked. I bought new mobile phones and hand warmers for several elderly people.

Shen Jiayue also went to a sports store to buy badminton and other sports equipment. She planned to play badminton with Chen Yuanyuan or her mother and exercise actively.

This is not only to prevent eating fat, but the most important thing is that only by exercising hard can you eat.

After buying these, the young couple bought a whole trunk of various fruits, including watermelon, cantaloupe, reticulated melon, sunshine rose grapes, imported cherries, imported mangosteen, big bayberry... almost everything they could buy. Bought them all.

Since I plan to stay in the mountains this year, I naturally need to prepare enough food.

The young couple originally planned to eat something outside, but after thinking about it there was nothing to eat, so they drove back and ate the noodles made by Mrs. Dunlin.

After lunch, we drove to Fenghuangshan Cemetery together, first to visit grandpa’s grave, and then to visit grandpa’s grave.

After the worship, we drove back to the scenic spot and started preparing for the highlight of the night - the New Year's Eve dinner!

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At two o'clock in the morning, someone set off fireworks here for half an hour. It was so noisy that I didn't sleep well, which caused the update to be late today. This chapter has 5,000 words. Please vote for me!