"Then I'll go find the axes and cut them shorter. Old Man Chen turned to Xiaoxi and said goodbye, and went back to the house to look for an axe.

"Binbin, let's go, let's go get firewood...... Oh, don't worry, your red lotus won't run away right here......"

The two sisters and brothers ran a few times, brought a bunch of firewood and threw it next to the oven, and the old man Chen took an axe and "spent" the firewood into two or three pieces, so that it was easy to burn.

"Flower" firewood refers to splitting the entire tree tube into pieces with an axe, which is also called chopping firewood, but in their case it is called "flower" firewood.

During this period, Xiaoxi went back to the stove house, lifted the lid of the pot, and saw that in the glutinous rice lotus pot, the soup was red and bright, and even the lotus root was dyed, and the soup was reduced by half. The stream was flipped over with chopsticks, and the lotus root on top was outside the soup.

I added more than a pound of rock sugar, added a few handfuls of wolfberries, re-covered the pot, and said to Granny Chen: "Mother, it's still simmering on low heat, and you don't need to burn it in about half an hour." ”

Granny Chen drooped her eyes and nodded.

After "flowering" the pile of firewood, it was estimated that the red lotus should be almost roasted, so he held the square wooden strip and took away the iron plate.

Holding the wooden handle, he took out the iron plate, only to see that the red lotus on the side next to the iron plate was a little burnt, the skin was a little wrinkled, and nothing else seemed to have changed. Pinch it with your hands, it is hot, and the whole red lotus is soft, which is cooked.

"Hey...... Master, you see, how good the red lotus baked out in this way is, and it is not black, so it will not dirty your hands. "Praise me, it's the tsundere I came up with. The unhappiness just now is long gone.

Chen Yubin wanted to see how his roasted red lotus was doing earlier, so he hurriedly came to fetch the iron plate and pull the iron plate, but was stopped by Old Man Chen.

Because of the addition of large firewood, the top iron plate was burned slightly red, you can imagine how high the temperature is, and Old Man Chen is afraid of burning him, so he is not allowed. I put on my gloves and came to pick them up myself.

So Chen Yubin was a little apprehensive, and when he saw that the red lotus was roasted, he raised his head.

"Well~ Okay, well, my family is the smartest. Seeing that Old Man Chen didn't speak, he was busy ignoring him, Chen Yubin pouted slightly, and Xiaoxi hurriedly praised him.

"Master, it seems that this is okay, let's go back and start making chestnut cakes. "Carefully take the roasted red roots, carefully pluck the skin, blow the hot air, and then take a bite.

The old man Chen on the side was also eating roasted red roots, and Xiaoxi looked at the oven carefully, "Okay, after eating the red roots, I'll do it." ”

Chen Yubin had already gone back with the roasted red lotus to share it with Granny Chen.

The two looked at the oven for a while, and then returned to the house with the red lotus.

After eating a roasted red lettuce, washing your hands, the stream was put on the stove.

When the lid was lifted, only half of the pot of soup remained, and the color was black and red, shiny, and very viscous.

"Mother, this pot doesn't need to be burned, and all the firewood is returned. Then he took the pot, put the glutinous rice lotus root and soup in the pot into two pots, and brought them to the board.

Take out a slice, put two plates, pour a layer of honey, pour another layer of soup, put a few dates and wolfberries, white and tender glutinous rice, red and bright soup, very beautiful.

He also used a basin to fill ten sections of glutinous rice lotus root, and invited Chen Yubin to serve the plate. Taking this opportunity, the remaining 20 or so sections of glutinous rice lotus root and a small pot of soup were put into the warehouse while they were steaming.

"Mother, these are for you. Xiaoxi brought the basin to the dining table and pushed it in front of Granny Chen in front of the table.

Granny Chen drooped her eyes, stared at the basin for two seconds, and accepted it without saying anything. She knew that the grandfather was in a gang, and she said that it was useless, forget it, don't waste saliva.

Drawing chopsticks, Xiaoxi smiled and squinted his eyes and greeted: "Grandpa, mother-in-law, Binbin, you all taste it, how about it?"

Old Man Chen took the chopsticks, took the lead in sandwiching a piece of glutinous rice lotus, threw it into his mouth, chewed it, raised his eyebrows, and praised: "Yes, it's delicious, soft and glutinous...... Although it is sweet, it is sweet and not greasy. ”

It is made of lotus root, so it is relatively soft.

Granny Chen and Chen Yubin heard this, and hurriedly sandwiched glutinous rice lotus root to eat.

"Hmm~ It's delicious, it's delicious. "He has a sweet tooth himself, and he likes it even more when he adds the soft glutinous lotus root and glutinous rice. Thinking of the more than 20 glutinous rice lotus roots hidden in the creek just now, Chen Yubin smiled at the creek.

"Tsk~ It's weird and delicious. After Granny Chen tasted the glutinous rice lotus, she was amazed. "The Creek Monster knows how to cook, and if you don't teach it, the food will be fragrant. From childhood to adulthood, whether I have seen it or not, heard it or not, it is very delicious. ”

"You still have to be talented...... Old Man Chen said arrogantly, nodded and agreed: "Don't you see that when she just could speak, she gave her mother some pointers, saying that this is how to cut that and how to fry, this is also strange, after she said this, it is more delicious to make it." ”

"Hehe......" Xiaoxi smiled a little embarrassed, and didn't want them to continue the topic, so he diverted and said: "Grandpa, mother-in-law, hurry up and eat, it's time to make chestnut cakes after eating, it's almost noon." ”

"Oh, yes, yes, yes. ”

Only then did a few people speed up, and after a while, the two plates of glutinous rice lotus root were eaten, and the whole family got up and began to make chestnut cakes.

"Master, I'm going to bring the lard jar over, I'm going to use the lard. After eating the glutinous rice lotus, Granny Chen got up and went to wash the dishes and chopsticks, while the rest of the people were still sitting by the fire.

Xiaoxi's house has a small round clay pot of more than 10 or 20 catties, which is used to hold lard, and the family killed the pig a few days ago, and the plate oil has just been boiled with a full jar of fresh lard.

Their lard jars were also placed in the same room next to the house where they slept where the grain was stored, and they were put in a small cupboard with rice and flour.

Xiaoxi still remembers that when she was very young, she went to scoop rice into the pot when she was cooking, and if there was not much rice in her rice pocket, she would have to lean half of her body into the cupboard, which was very funny.

Put the lard jar in the cupboard, and if the lard in the stove is finished, take a small bowl and a big spoon and scoop a bowl, and you can eat it for a while.

"Isn't there a small half pot of lard in the cupboard? Old Man Chen pointed to the cupboard and said, that means use the cupboard first, don't touch the whole jar.

"Master, the lard in that cupboard is old, and it tastes better with fresh lard. "The lard in the cupboard was still a small half-jar of lard that was left over from eating, and when it was time to fill it with fresh lard, it was all scraped out and left in the cupboard.

The old lard is still boiled with the plate oil bought in the first half of the year, and it is not very old, but of course fresh lard is made of fresh lard.

Old Man Chen had no choice but to nod, he had to eat sooner or later anyway.

Xiaoxi still had the strength to do it, and his face was not red or panting, so he brought the clay pot of more than ten or twenty catties over.

I found a small basin, scooped a few spoonfuls of lard from the lard jar, and put the small basin into the outermost pot of hot water, and heated the lard.

The outermost pot had already been washed and boiled. Lard is in a solidified state, and it is more convenient to use it to turn into liquid.

I scooped the flour again, and the ratio of flour to lard was two to one, and there was no small scale, so it could not be accurate, so I estimated it.

Mix the flour and the warmed lard into ghee balls.

I scooped some flour out again, and the ratio of the flour used for the ghee dough was five to two, and the lard was about the same as the one I had just used. Split in two, half with sugar and half with salt. Add hot water to make the dough, which is used to make puff pastry.

Once the three doughs are ready, they rest in a bowl for about 20 minutes. Since the three doughs were about the same size, Xiaoxi found a pen and marked them, so that he would not be busy with them for a while.

The dough is ready, set aside and let go. The next step is to prepare the chestnut stuffing.

Old Man Chen was in charge of the stove, and Xiaoxi was watching from the side.

Scoop all the water in the pot and pour in a little rapeseed oil when the pot is hot. When the oil smokes white, pour the rotten chestnut puree into the pan and stir-fry it with a spatula like a stir-fry.

Xiaoxi reached out and grabbed a handful of chestnut board mud, pinched it, pinched it, and kneaded it into a ball, which was fried, and put it into the iron basin out of the pot.

Roll out the puff pastry dough into slices with a rolling pin, divide the ghee dough into two parts, wrap the ghee dough into the dough sheet, wrap it up, use the rolling pin to roll out the dough wrapped in the ghee dough into a large dough sheet, fold it three times and then roll it into a large dough sheet, and then fold it three times into a thin dough sheet, preferably a rectangle.

Mr. Chen rolled it into a rectangle, and the chestnut cake made in this way was about the same size.

Roll the rolled dough sheet carefully into a long cylinder from one side and cut it into small pieces with a kitchen knife.

"Master, this is like making buns and dumplings, it is also to be rolled into skin, then wrapped in fried filling, and then ......" Xiaoxi was stunned for a long time before he said to Old Man Chen in a daze: "Master, I forgot something." ”

"What's the matter?" I heard that I want to roll the skin, which is Old Man Chen's specialty. When I turned around, I found a small rolling pin and scooped it with water to wash it. Because my back was to the creek, I didn't notice anything wrong.

However, Chen Yubin saw it, but Xiaoxi looked at Old Man Chen and said it, and he didn't tell him, so he couldn't interject.

Xiaoxi cried with a sad face, and said in annoyance: "Master, I forgot to use a mold." My family didn't do this before, and I didn't get it, and I don't think there is any one in the neighborhood that has this thing......"

It seems that it can only be pressed by hand, and it is uneven that can be pressed out by hand, and it is not as good as pressing it out with a mold. But what can I do, who let myself think of it now......

"Yes, there is ...... at home"

The three pairs of puzzled eyes looked at Old Man Chen in unison.

"Hey...... We have molds in our house. Old Man Chen said again embarrassedly.

"Why don't I know where our family comes from?" said Granny Chen in disbelief.

Seeing that Granny Chen didn't believe it, and the two grandchildren looked at him in disbelief, Old Man Chen said in a bad tone: "I said that there is." He put down the rolling pin and went out of the house, and the phrase "I'll go find it and show you."