Chapter 21: Family Dinner (2)_1
First, she thoroughly washed the pig skin several times with coarse salt water, until there was no strange smell left. Then, she used a burning piece of firewood to sear it from one end to another. The hair on the skin was gone, but the dark, black roots could still be seen clearly inside the skin. Instead of immediately dealing with those roots, she put the skin in the pot and started boiling it.
About half an hour later, she stopped the fire. She fetched the boiled pig skin out of the pot with a strainer, cooled it down with cold water, spread it out on the chopping board, and used an awl to pick out the dark remnants from the hair follicles one by one.
Since the skin was boiled to a soft state, it was easy to remove the remnants. Before long, the pieces of skin were cleaned, becoming white chunks that were still giving off a strong aroma of meat.
"It smells so delicious. Are you cooking meat, elder sister?"