Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

Chapter 250: Boiling Bone Oil

After dealing with the bicycle ticket, Chen Dehui immediately turned his attention to the pork shank on the table.

He asked seriously: "Dongzi..."

"The amount of trotter bones you brought back this year is three times more than last year."

"What are you going to do with it? Or just make soup and stew the radishes like last year."

"Big stock radish soup is both warming and nutritious in the winter."

"By the way, give a pot to each needy family in the yard."

"As a senior in the yard, I can't just hide at home and eat meat while my neighbors eat steamed bread and boiled cabbage."

Wang Dong shook his head: "Uncle..."

"It would be a waste to stew all these bones into soup. I plan to use one bone for two purposes."

"First, boil the bone oil, extract half of the lard from the corn bones, and then boil it into a thick soup to stew the radish. Give a bowl to each poor family in the yard, and we will eat the rest ourselves."

"Drinking a bowl every day during the Chinese New Year warms the stomach and is nutritious."

Aunt Li's eyes widened after hearing this. She looked at Wang Dong with disbelief and asked, "Dongzi..."

"There's no meat on these corn bones, so how can we make lard out of them? Are you right?"

Wang Dong answered confidently: "Body..."

"I'm a level 8 chef at a steel mill. How could I possibly joke with you about something like this?"

"Although there is no meat on the corn bone, it contains a lot of secrets. I don't know about other things, but the fat content alone is more than 10%."

"If we have the right tools, we can extract at least three kilograms of bone oil from these thirty kilograms of bones."

"But now we can only get bone oil by boiling it in water. If everything goes well, we should be able to extract one and a half kilograms."

"It should be enough to feed the family for a while."

Aunt Li still had an expression of disbelief on her face.

In the past, in the countryside, after slaughtering pigs every year, the meatless corn bones would either be thrown away or fed to dogs. I never thought that bone oil could be extracted from the bare corn bones.

But Wang Dong would definitely not lie to him, and immediately asked: "How to refine it?"

"The supply and marketing cooperatives and pigeon markets now have less food and pork, and even less oil."

“Many times, even if you have oil coupons, you can’t buy rapeseed oil.”

"If we can really make edible bone oil from corn bones, at least our family won't be short of oil for the New Year this year."

The method of extracting bone oil by boiling in water is very simple.

Soak fresh pig bones in clean water to remove blood and ensure that the extracted bone oil has no peculiar smell.

Wang Dong has already done this step in the kitchen of a cafeteria.

The second step is to chop the bones. The smaller the bones, the more bone oil can be extracted.

During this process, you can also dig out the marrow from the corn bones and fry it directly into lard without boiling it in water.

The third step is boiling.

Put the chopped bones into a large pot and boil them for about three to four hours.

This process is very important. The water temperature must be maintained at around 70 to 80 degrees, neither too high nor too low, otherwise it will affect the oil yield, or some collagen will be boiled out and mixed into the bone oil, affecting the taste of the bone oil.

If everything goes well, thirty kilograms of corn bones can produce at least one and a half kilograms of bone oil.

Add the lard fried from the bone marrow, and there will be no problem making up two kilograms.

At eight o'clock the next morning, a scream suddenly sounded in the kitchen in the courtyard.

"Old Chen... come quickly and take a look... he has really made it..."

"Mom...what's cooked..." Chen Jun, who had already moved into the wing room, rushed to the small kitchen first and asked in confusion. "Lard..." Aunt Li looked at the solidified lard in the iron pot and answered in shock.

"The top layer is all lard. One and a half pounds is probably too little... Dongzi is indeed an eighth-level chef. He can make bone lard from unwanted bones. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would definitely not believe it."

Chen Jun's eyes widened as he looked at the layer of bone fat that had already crusted over the iron pot.

Looking at Wang Dong who came over later, he said with surprise: "Dongzi..."

"You are really good..."

"A bunch of useless bones can be refined into bone oil... Then our family will never lack oil to eat in the future."

"If you can't buy oil, go buy unwanted pig bones and make your own lard..."

Wang Dong smiled and replied: "It is feasible..."

"But you can't eat too much bone oil, otherwise it will be bad for your health. If you can buy lard and rapeseed oil, try to eat them."

"If we don't have any oil at home, we can make some bone oil..."

After saying that, he began to process the crusted bone oil.

Pour it into a large bowl, and underneath is the bone soup that has been boiled into white color.

Wang Dong immediately said: "Uncle... body..."

"How about we have pork bone and carrot soup this morning..."

"After we finish eating, we'll go buy New Year's goods and buy the bicycle back at the same time."

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Perhaps because the Chinese New Year is approaching, the supply and marketing cooperative is very busy.

No matter how much money a family has, they all want their family to have two good meals during the Chinese New Year.

As soon as Wang Dong entered the room, he was shocked by the lively scene inside.

But when they walked to the innermost part of the supply and marketing cooperative, the crowded crowd suddenly disappeared.

Because the counter I was working at specialized in selling large items, such as radios, bicycles, sewing machines...all were sold here.

Although life is much better now than before, there are still only a handful of people who can afford to buy these big items.

In addition, you now need a bicycle ticket to buy a bicycle, and a sewing machine oil and a sewing ticket, resulting in fewer and fewer people being able to afford these big items.

For example, in a steel mill, many people's monthly salary is more than 50 yuan. If you are frugal in your daily life, it will be no problem to save 200 yuan a year.

Logically, this money is enough to buy a bicycle, but buying a bicycle requires not only money, but also a bicycle ticket.

A steel rolling mill with more than 10,000 employees may only be able to distribute less than 20 bicycle tickets each year. These tickets are either distributed to the factory leaders or rewarded to workers who have made special contributions to the factory. Ordinary workers have almost no chance of getting bicycle tickets.

Without a bicycle ticket, you can’t buy a bicycle no matter how much money you save.

In addition, there is a shortage of supplies in the city and food prices are soaring, so the workers basically use their meager wages to buy food.

Then no one will come to buy big items.

Because this counter hadn't sold a bicycle or a radio for several days, there was no salesperson assigned, or the salesperson was assigned to help at other counters.

Wang Dong and Chen Jun looked at several bicycles for a long time but no salesperson came to greet them.

Just as Wang Dong was about to squeeze the brake, a salesperson ran towards them and asked in a stern tone, "What are you doing?"

"Stay away from the bicycle...you can't afford to pay for it if it breaks..."

Seeing that the men were dressed very ordinary, he said in an impatient tone: "This is not the place for you to stay, leave here quickly..."

"A bicycle costs more than 100 yuan, which is not something you can afford." (End of this chapter)

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