Chapter Eighty-Nine: Strange
I don't know if it's too dark or what's the reason, Old Man Chen scooped it wrong, and the people who fried the dishes that night were astringent couldn't open their mouths, so they had to pour all the dishes.
However, since last year, the rapeseed oil produced by the newly purchased machine has no such thing. First, the rapeseed is fried, and then pressed, so that the rapeseed oil can be eaten directly, and there is no astringency.
"I'll get it, you go for the croquettes. After Mr. Chen cleaned his hands, he took the balls in Granny Chen's hand, asked her to wash her hands, and went to the stove to fry the balls.
Because the creek is still small, it is not a little higher than the stove, after all, it is more than half a pot of oil, so she is not worried about going. In winter, it's thick to wear, and it's nothing if the hot oil splashes on the body, it's covered by clothes, and if you accidentally splash it on your face, it's a big deal, after all, it's a girl.
And Chen Yubin couldn't grasp the size of the fire, so he let Xiaoxi boil the pot, and Chen Yubin continued to make red balls.
He can make croquettes himself, but Granny Chen's pumpkin pie is slower than him, and Granny Chen is very good at frying things, she has to fry a lot of things every year.
So, let Granny Chen go for croquettes, and he will make pumpkin pie himself. This arrangement combines everyone's strengths and saves time.
It's not about waiting for the oil in the pan to boil before frying. Granny Chen stretched out her hand, probed the oil surface, the oil was warm, and brought the balls on the dinner table.
Put the meatballs into the pan one by one by hand and slowly sink to the bottom of the pan.
Because the freshly made meatballs have not been fried yet, they are a little sticky, so they are easy to separate by hand. Moreover, if you use chopsticks or other tools, the balls will not be round, and if you are worse, they will be damaged, and the appearance will not look good.
Don't put too much at once, just spread the bottom of the pot like boiling fish balls. Stir with a colander from time to time to avoid sticking to the pan.
Seeing that the balls were out of the pot, Xiaoxi got up, took an iron basin with a feeling, wiped the water, and found a basket, which also wiped the water. Place the basket on the basin and place it on the stove.
Wait for the round balls to float out of the oil surface, roll them twice, scoop them up with a colander, and put them in a basket resting on the iron basin to control the excess oil.
I saw one by one meatballs, fried into brown-red, evenly colored, without a little burnt. After frying, the red balls are bigger than before frying, and they are not so solid.
After drying for a while, Xiaoxi picked up a few and gave one to Chen Yubin and Old Man Chen, so that they could both taste it. picked up another one and handed it to Granny Chen, "Mother-in-law, you have worked hard to fry it for so long, taste it quickly, whether it is delicious or not." ”
"Mmmm~ It's delicious, it's delicious, it's so delicious, I want it too." Before Granny Chen took it over to eat, she heard Chen Yubin on the side speak.
"Hee hee ......" heard the good grandson say that it was delicious, and Granny Chen was also honored, although it was not her idea, it was not made by her, but at least she fried it.
"Wait a while, you make the balls first, and when you're done, then eat them, so that you can eat enough. Anyway, there are so many, I can't run, and there will be pumpkin pie later, don't worry. Seeing that he was about to get up, Xiaoxi hurriedly stopped him.
"Okay. "I heard that I would eat enough after a while, and there was also pumpkin pie, and the red balls were so delicious, so do you need to talk about pumpkin pie? There is nothing to be dissatisfied with, so I sucked the excessive saliva in my mouth, and hurried to make the balls.
When Granny Chen took over, Xiaoxi hurriedly picked one up and took a bite gently. The heat and time of frying are just right, and the skin is soft and crispy, as if you can hear the cracking sound of "click". The red paste inside is also fried and soaked, soft, very sweet and glutinous, and very delicious.
In a few moments, when the basket was almost full, Brook got up and brought half a pot of pumpkin pie from the board. Granny Chen scooped up the fried red balls in the pot and began to serve the pumpkin pie.
Xiaoxi wiped the clean basket again, replaced the basket full of red balls, walked to Chen Yubin's side, pinched one and stuffed it into his mouth, turned his back to Granny Chen, and put the whole basket of balls into the warehouse.
Seeing Xiaoxi come back empty-handed, Granny Chen knew that this was the jade perry stuffed into Binbin, and remembered that he was crying so sadly today, a little sad, so if you want to eat, you can eat more, anyway, there are so many, so I didn't take it to heart.
So much so that later, Xiaoxi received a few baskets of red balls and pumpkin pie one after another, without saying much, without raising his eyelids, and letting Xiaoxi call the shots.
Fried pumpkin pie is the same as fried red balls, wait for the oil surface to surface, and then pick it up one by one, control the excess oil in the basket, and put it into the warehouse while it is hot.
Back to the pot, back to the pot is the food is cold, and then heat the pot again, so that the taste will be somewhat affected.
Because of the need to control the heat, Xiaoxi sat in front of the stove and burned the pot carefully, occasionally helping to wipe a basket and serve a basin and the like.
Chen Yubin thought that he could eat enough red balls and pumpkin pie later, so he buried himself in hard work, and the red balls in his hand were rubbed out one after another.
And Mr. Chen has always maintained the same speed, trying to make each pumpkin pie the same size, thin and even.
Because it is faster to make red balls than pumpkin pie, Chen Yubin finished rubbing the balls early, and sat next to the fire with a small bowl and ate them fragrantly.
said that he had enough to eat, how could he let him eat it violently, after all, it was fried, and eating too much would hurt his stomach. It only contained a pumpkin pie and three red balls. A pumpkin pie is half the size of Old Man Chen's palm, and the red balls are the size of an egg, so he can still stand eating these.
"Binbin, keep some stomach, we still have rice balls that haven't been fried. The brook whispered into his ear.
Chen Yubin, who was eating seriously, his eyes lit up, yes, my sister said today that she was going to make fried rice balls, but she hadn't done it yet, so she had to keep some stomach. He could only nod his head straight and make a muffled "uh-huh" sound in his mouth because his mouth was stuffed with something.
After Chen Yubin finished eating a small bowl of fried food, he made a pot of pumpkin puree into pumpkin pie, and half a pot of bean paste remained.
Seeing that he had gone to wash his hands, Xiaoxi took a small bowl from the cupboard, drew a pair of chopsticks, and sandwiched one of the red balls and pumpkin pie, and brought it to the old man Chen who was sitting by the fire.
Seeing that he was almost finished, Xiaoxi stepped forward with a smile, "Hehe...... Grandpa, I'm done eating. ”
Old Man Chen put the bowl on the dining table and looked at the stream with interest, wanting to see what trick she was going to play.
"Grandpa, didn't you say that you want to make fried rice balls, you can rest for a while and mix the noodles. He sat on the chair next to him, lying on Old Man Chen's lap, looking at him expectantly.
I was still thinking about this, and when I saw that it was completely dark outside, I pretended to be very depressed and said: "Alas~ But it's too late, it's dark outside, it's time to cook dinner." ”
Dinner is the meaning of dinner.
Xiaoxi hurriedly propped up his arms and hurriedly shook his head, "It's not too late, it's not too late, I've fried the rice balls, and one person will have a bowl of noodles, soon, grandpa~" Pushing Old Man Chen's arm, he was coquettish.
"Huh...... Okay, okay, the arms are going to be deduced by you, I'll go, I'll go and figure out. Although he looked very disgusted with Xiaoxi's coquettishness, only he knew that he enjoyed it.
After scooping a few scoops of glutinous rice noodles, seeing that there was not much in the bag, Old Man Chen simply poured them all out, added water, and made glutinous rice dough, and made a desperate effort to make the dough, and then called Chen Yubin to help wrap the glutinous rice balls, because the creek wanted to watch the fire.
You don't need to wrap the stuffing, just rub the dough together, so the action is very fast. Because the glutinous rice balls are made of glutinous rice flour, unlike the red balls, which are mixed with red rice paste, and some are dry, there is nothing wrong with putting them together in a short time. But the glutinous rice balls are not good, they are all made of glutinous rice flour, and they have to stick to one piece, so they are made on the board.
Sprinkle a thin layer of glutinous rice flour on the cutting board, and put the finished rice balls on top of the glutinous rice flour, so you don't have to worry about sticking.
After rubbing the rice balls for a while, Chen Yubin inadvertently glanced at the half pot of bean paste resting in the corner of the board, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he pointed to the bean paste basin and said, "Grandpa, let's wrap some stuffed bean paste and wrap this red bean paste." ”
Old Man Chen had only eaten brown sugar filled rice balls, so he said with some hesitation: "There is a way to do this, right?"
Chen Yubin thought he was asking if there was a way to fry it in the pot, so he didn't care and said: "What's the way, isn't the pumpkin pie also stuffed and fried, it's the same, it's okay." ”
Old Man Chen rolled his eyes at him helplessly. Chen Yubin was stunned for a while, and the monk of the second zhang was confused, so he wanted to pick his head, and raised half of his hand before he remembered that he was making glutinous rice balls, and his hands were full of glutinous rice flour.
Old Man Chen turned around and asked Xiaoxi, "Xiaoxi, you said that this red bean paste can be wrapped in rice balls, right?"
The brook, who was cooking the pot, looked up at him in surprise, not understanding why he asked.
"It's your brother, when he saw the remaining half of the pot of red bean paste, he wanted to ask if it could be wrapped in the rice balls?" Mr. Chen continued to explain.
Xiaoxi felt a burst of surprise, this is the blind cat has met the dead mouse, "Yes, of course." Grandpa, the glutinous rice balls are not only the brown sugar stuffing we eat, but also peanut filling, sesame filling, purple potato filling, chestnut filling, and red date filling. ”
Granny Chen only knew about brown sugar rice balls, and when she heard Xiaoxi breaking her hands and counting what fillings the rice balls could have, her hand stirring the colander couldn't help but slow down and listen.
Xiaoxi continued: "Outside, the dumplings are not only sweet, but also idle. ”
Granny Chen stirred the colander's hand for a moment, looked up and asked in surprise, "Salty?"
For her, it is surprising enough to have peanut glutinous rice balls and sesame rice balls, and she doesn't want the rice balls to be salty and sweet, really, there are no strange and strange things in the world!