Chapter 68 Chapter 68 White Pepper

White pepper is a nostalgia. The day before yesterday, we were discussing a manuscript. Li Guolin drove us to the Shuiyu restaurant next to Yansha, meaning to drink something. Jiang Lin ordered a steamed bacon with white pepper. She didn’t seem to want to eat that day, so she ordered white Chili is used to adjust the appetite. As soon as this dish is served, it makes me feel the far south and the long gone years. White pepper, it is a dish with profound nostalgia. White pepper is not a white pepper, it is made from a kind of southern thin-skinned lantern pepper that is sun-dried when it is green.I vaguely remember that there are three ways to dry white peppers. The first method is to cut the green peppers, put them in a round bamboo dustpan, set up a stool under the eaves and put them on it to dry; the second method is to pinch the pepper stalks. The intact green peppers are scalded with boiling water and dried in a dustpan; the third method is to cut the green peppers, dip them in salt water, then wrap them in wet rice flour slurry, set up a bamboo steamer on an iron pan, and spread gauze. Put the green pepper wrapped in rice flour on the gauze, cover the pot and steam.After steaming, take it to dry.The above-mentioned sun-dried peppers are all white, so they are called white peppers.

I like to eat the second and third types of white peppers. The second type of white peppers is good for roasting goose, fried fish offal, and stewed duck. It still has a green smell of green peppers, and it is not like The red pepper is so aggressive, it is mild, implying the greenness of summer and the bright sunshine, it is a sense of coolness in the heat.I remember that in the geological team, I once quietly took some white peppers from the dustpan of my fellow villagers amidst the warm sunshine in the afternoon and the noise of "cicadas". At this time, even the fellow villagers' dogs lazily fell asleep.There are white peppers, buy some pork head meat, put the pig head meat and white peppers in water and simmer in an iron pot, put them in, wash the iron pot, and then put oil, and braise the pig head meat and white peppers together, drink pure grain wine and eat White rice is very fragrant.

The third kind of white pepper wrapped in rice flour is dried in the sun and used to fry cured duck.This kind of stir-frying is dry frying. Cut the cured duck into cubes and heat the oil. It is like frying the cured duck. When the cured duck oil is bright and filled with the unique fragrance of cured duck, put the white pepper in it, and the white pepper will gradually be fried. Stir-fried, the rice noodles swell, the pepper skin curls or stretches, and there is a strong spicy smell, and then stir-fry a few times, and the pot is cooked, the cured duck is fragrant, the white pepper is loose, crispy, and it tastes crispy and spicy. Nostalgia hit my heart hotly.

Steamed bacon with white pepper, the white pepper is soft, soaked in some northern sauce flavor, the flavor is also strong, enough to stir up the metaphorical south in my heart, the hot land under the white sun, it raises the idea of ​​​​grasshoppers spreading their wings and flying, I When I left the south, I thought about when and how I would dig a piece of land by myself, plant an acre of peppers, and dry it when it was green (you can also dry it when it is red), and dry the common peppers one by one. The secular days of the sun are old and old, and then, taste it slowly.