New Year's Eve is bound to be a busy day, not only to prepare ingredients for tonight's reunion dinner, but also to see if there's anything left undone. Although their home already has buns, dumplings, sticky bean bags, various fried foods prepared, cured fish, cured meat, salted fish, salted vegetables, frozen pears, frozen persimmons, frozen tofu, and other ingredients kept fresh outside in the icy weather, An Yi always feels it's not quite enough.
Every household prepares for the New Year with chicken, duck, goose, pork, fish, shrimp, rice cakes, and seafood, but that's the standard of living in later times.
Actually, in 1955, if you could eat a meal of white flour dumplings, especially with meat filling, it was already a dream come true for many people.
A lot of ingredients An Yi stored outside for freshness were placed in an icebox she made outside, built with square blocks of ice, just like the method of preserving food on the prairie.
