Chapter 056: Jam, Dumplings, and Copying Hands
Mu Tong and Ah Yu returned home, and the wizard brought his apprentice and daughter, the chief followed by Baima, and some neighbors and most of the children of the tribe. There were too many people to sit in the house, so everyone waited in the courtyard.
The wizard and the chief are here to ask Mu Tong for advice, what kind of food are the ingredients collected today? How?
However, Baima, who has always been playful and never does housework, what is she doing here? Saying that she came to learn how to cook and cook, no one would believe it. No, Dorjee was glaring at her. Bai Ma had an indifferent attitude, anyway, when others asked her, she said that she was here to learn. What she wanted to learn, no one knew.
Mu Tong didn't look at Bai Ma, she never paid attention to this woman.
Bai Ma's eyes were like knives, and he looked at the two people who came back together like a wolf, especially staring at the hands held by the two, and he couldn't wait to rush forward and separate the two. But she remembered the purpose of her coming, and forcibly suppressed the unwillingness in her heart.
Ah Yu felt the malice in Bai Ma's eyes, and glared at her warningly: If she dared to do anything, even if the chief was there, he wouldn't mind giving her a little punishment.
Seeing everyone waiting, Mu Tong quickly washed his hands and began to prepare strawberry jam, pineapple jam and prickly lychee jam.
Remove the stems of the strawberries and wash them, cut them into small pieces, add the syrup in the sweetheart berries, mix well, and put them in a pot. Heat over low heat for half an hour, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking, skim off the foam until the jam is sticky, and seal it in a stone bottle with a lid while it is hot.
Peel the pineapple, chop the flesh into dices and add the syrup; After the fire boils, turn to low heat and boil until the water is dry, stirring constantly to prevent sticking and burning, boil into a sauce, let it cool, and then put it in a clean stone bottle with a lid for preservation.
Peel the skin, remove the core, wash the water, dry the prickly lychee meat, first cut it into dices, then gently crush the juice with a stone to the nest, pour the juice and pulp into the pot, boil over high heat and turn to low heat, add an appropriate amount of syrup, and finally reduce the juice to the sauce on low heat, and the lychee sauce is ready.
Three bottles of freshly baked jam, the sweet and sour taste of jam, was praised by everyone present. Jam lasts much longer than fresh fruit. It can be eaten alone or smeared on food, especially in winter when fruits and wild vegetables are extremely scarce.
Houyi remembered the method of making sauerkraut taught by Mu Tong a few days ago, and his eyes narrowed: This winter, with jam and sauerkraut, as well as purple rice crackers and konjac powder, there will be no only dried meat and a small amount of dried wild vegetables and noodles to eat. Old people and children, this winter should be better, right?
Bassan had apparently thought of this as well, and his eyes flashed, as if he was quite happy. As a chief, the more people in the tribe are more prosperous and prosperous, the stronger the tribe will be, and he naturally hopes that when there is enough food, the number of people in the tribe will not decrease, but gradually increase.
A few days ago, with the bow and arrow and archery skills taught by the divine envoy, the hunting team was able to hunt a lot more prey every day. Even the leopard beast, which everyone dared not hunt in the past, was beaten back by everyone two days ago.
With more meat, more fur. With more food and fur, everyone can survive the winter safely, and there is another layer of security.
Unlike the chief wizard who thought so much, the little fart children present ate the sweet and sour jam in their mouths and shouted with joy. Now the children in the tribe know that as long as they see the chief and the wizard running towards Ayu's courtyard, there is a good chance that there will be good food.
The three bottles of jam were not much left under the children's gluttony, and Dorjee put away the rest.
Actually, with syrup, you can also make candied fruit, but that one takes a long time to make, and Mu Tong plans to wait until he has time in the future, and then slowly teach everyone to make it.
Everyone knows the role of sweetheart fruit: in addition to being eaten as sugar, it can also be used to make jam. And what about the remaining dough leaves?
Mu Tong ran into the house, pretending to take out a large piece of fat and thin wild boar from the bedroom, and let Ah Yu chop it into minced meat.
Mu Tong washed the celery, blanched it with boiling water first, took out the cold water, controlled the moisture, cut it into fine pieces, and put the dry water into the meat filling chopped by Ayu.
Add a little oil from the avocado, as well as chopped green onions, pounded ginger powder, sesame leaf powder, soy sauce, salt, etc., and mix the filling well.
Pick out the thick dough leaves and wrap them into a dumpling shape, and the thin dough leaves into a copying hand.
This dough leaf, as long as you squeeze it gently, a little viscous liquid will appear on the leaf, which is very beneficial for pinching into dumplings or wrapping into hand.
Although Mu Tong knew that this was a natural dough, and the ingredients were similar to the real dumpling skins and hand-making skins, she was really not sure what the taste would be when cooked. In her mind, it was probably similar to dough mixed with vegetable juice.
The women present also washed their hands and learned to outflank dumplings with Mu Tong.
Dumplings originated in the Eastern Han Dynasty and are said to have been pioneered by the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing; Copying hands, also known as wontons, is said to have been invented by Xi Shi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Both of these kinds of food were produced after the Xia Dynasty where Baima was located, so even if Baima tried to look at it hard, he couldn't remember the source and any information about these two kinds of food.
The purpose of her coming today is naturally not to learn to do this, she wants to come and see if this divine envoy is really the same as her, in fact, she was born with memories?
But from the point of view of it, with her pitifully limited brain capacity, where can she see these things that she has never seen at all, which era and which country they are? Looking at the people around him, all looking at Mu Tong with admiration, Bai Ma's heart was twisted to the extreme.
Looking at Mu Tong wearing beautiful clothes that she had never seen before, Bai Ma's eyes darkened: one day, she could find the handle of this so-called messenger of the gods and knock her down from the high altar!
Mu Tong is wearing a set of Hushuilan's clothes today, the upper body is a half-sleeved tunic shirt, the lower body is an ankle-length hakama, with sandals of the same color, plus earrings on the ears, bracelets and rings on the hands, which looks very pleasing to the eye.
These things, sooner or later, will be mine! Bai Ma looked at the outstanding Mu Tong, and her heart was even more jealous: she couldn't allow any woman in the tribe to be stronger than her, better looking than her, and having many more beautiful and new things than her. Even if it was a messenger of the gods in the tribe's mouth, she would not allow it.
But Bai Ma, who was born as a prostitute in his previous life, is not without brains at all. At least she knew that she wouldn't act rashly until she discovered the flaws in this messenger of the gods.
This Mu Tong does have a set, and she has seen the bows and arrows she taught everyone before. The shooting practice of the soldiers in the barracks, she was also taken in by her friend, the leader of a certain squad. It's just that she has seen it, let her make a bow and arrow, but she still doesn't have that ability.
Therefore, after being reincarnated in the Chishui tribe for so long, she has never mentioned such a thing as a bow and arrow.