The earliest earthen stoves were very small, all made of mud and adobe bricks, without chimneys. After a long rain, firewood and grass are wet, which often makes mothers with asthma suffocate painfully.
Two large iron pots are classics that I can't erase from my memory. I still remember two large iron pots installed horizontally side by side. My mother or grandmother often cooks two pots at the same time to add firewood to the cooking stove, or my mother and grandmother cook a stove in front and light it. While chatting happily, I talked about things I have never seen, or stories told by my mother or grandmother's mother or father or grandparents, such as what Japanese devils did when they went to Japan: teasing children with sugar. Poke the pumpkin with a bayonet, pull out the shit inside and cover it. After catching the big fat pig in the farm, he wanted to eat pork but couldn't cook it. He dug meat from the live pig's ass with a bayonet and roasted it now, making the big fat pig bleed. Although China and Japan have been friendly for many years, the old man still insists on this unchanging title. But they don't know about the Nanjing Massacre, and they don't know about Pearl Harbor. ...
A small mouth was opened in front of the two cauldrons, and a small pottery bowl was put just right. The tile bowl is heated by the flame or waste heat of the stove. In fact, these are two hot pots, which will roll and give off bursts of fragrance during the Spring Festival holiday or when guests come. There are two iron-covered altars between the two large iron pots, called urn altars, which are mainly used to hold hot water for washing faces and bathing.
It is absolutely necessary to add firewood and fire, because in order to save firewood, a clay pot is placed in the middle of the stove, which is filled with water and simmered in the middle of the stove. After the water in the pot is boiled, mom or grandma can drag out a pot of boiling water with a fire stick, then wrap the pot with a rag and pour the boiling water into the water bottle.
Burn the overlord's fire first, and then burn the ghost to light the lamp. This is one of the secrets of burning a big stove. When cooking, the pot will burn before it boils. Before the rice is almost cooked, listen to the slight cooking noise in the iron pot and change it into a very small flame, or scoop up the ash in the stove to cover the open flame, and only rely on the waste heat of the fire to suffocate the fast-cooked rice to prevent the bottom of the pot from burning.
None of this is my job. Of course, I will also be busy behind the stove, pounding, frying and rummaging in this pot. My mother or grandmother has been holding the spatula in my hand and won't let me help, while coaxing me to go away, girl. ; Or move a chair and stand by the pottery bowl, sipping my mouth, and the flames or smoke from the kitchen make me suffocate or turn black at the moment; Or grab a stick and turn it over to see if the stove is cooked.
Later, I don't know whether it was at the suggestion of Uncle Colin or Uncle Xinhua that the first small earthen stove in the house was changed into a fire stove with two large iron pots and a stove mouth, which saved more firewood. There is a smaller iron pot next to it. When there are few people eating, use a small pot. Still retains all the functions of the previous furnace.
A few years ago, when the house was rebuilt, the earthen stove became a Shi Zhuan stove, and white tiles were stuck around the stove body and chimney. An urn and several iron pots were installed in a triangle, and two earthen pots with the function of hot pot were cancelled.
My husband likes to eat crispy rice. Huang Chengcheng's crispy rice is delicious in his mouth. There is no delicious food without a big stove.
The busy figure before and after the big stove has changed for three generations: the delicious food made by grandma with her little feet at the pace of singing Beijing opera is now only endless thoughts; Mom and dad are old, so it is inconvenient to walk back and forth in the kitchen. As father and son, father and daughter, mother and daughter are also getting farther and farther away. Sister-in-law who cooks well.
There are coal stoves, induction cookers, liquefied gas stoves and health pots at home. The big stove is now a symbol of reunion and a continuation of family ties. It is estimated that the father who is not good at words must expect his children and grandchildren to gather in front of the kitchen and talk about new things they don't understand: QQ, WeChat, Tik Tok ... Lolita, which my girl's film likes, is called "princess dress" by them.
Girl, try this salty or weak. ' '
Girl, let's see if the water in the stove is boiling. ' '
? Girl, you can't cook. Be careful not to be demoted when you marry your husband's family. ' '
? Young girls eat the rice cooked in their earthen stoves and grow up happily. Young girls all grow up.
? I can't forget my earthen stove, my brother and my home.