Chapter Ninety-Five: Rice Candy
Lin He said that he killed a chicken at home, bought some mushrooms back, made chicken stewed mushrooms to eat, there are eggs at home, these days Dabao is at home, boil a few eggs for him to eat every morning, and wait until he goes back to the town to let him bring some to eat, although they are all ordinary food, but the nutrition is very rich.
Er Niu listened to what Huang and Lin He said they wanted to buy, so he drove the ox cart to the street, and he didn't care about the things in the field. Huang looked at Dabao and asked distressedly, "Dabao, how is your food in the store, can you eat enough every day?" ”
Dabao watched the family all chattering together, and talked more, "The food in the store is fine, but the dishes made by the lady who cook are not as delicious as those made by He'er, and the food is also a combination of white noodles and wowotou, eat a meal of white noodles a day, have no food to eat at night, and sometimes be hungry in the middle of the night. But, don't worry, Mom and Dad, I can still eat enough every day, the people in the store are very nice, and I learned a lot in the store. Dabao said with a smile.
Huang didn't care if Dabao had learned much or not, she was just worried that Dabao was there alone and couldn't take care of herself. Lin He listened to Dabao's words and felt that it was indeed the same, Dabao was the time to grow his body, and if he didn't eat dinner, he would definitely be hungry at night, so let's see if he could make some snacks for Dabao to take with him, and he could fill his stomach at night.
During this time, the family was busy, Lin He was in a hurry to do this and that, and rarely made snacks for the little guys, just took advantage of the two days Dabao was at home, made some food out, made snacks for the little ones, and let Dabao bring some to eat, Lin He thought for a while, and remembered a kind of thing in his previous life, he ate in the welfare home when he was a child, a kind of rice candy thing, and then Lin He went out to college, and others called this Mitong.
But at this time there is no rice, corn is used. Wheat is OK. And the method of doing it Lin He remembers, it is not complicated, but it needs some raw materials, the main raw materials are sugar, and the other has some sesame seeds and peanuts. Raisins will be more delicious, but raisins should not be available at this time. However, there are sesame seeds and peanuts, but the little sugar at home is not usable, and it seems that you have to wait for Erniu to come back, and then buy some maltose or osmanthus candy again.
Lin He told everyone that he wanted to make rice candy, and everyone agreed, even the Huang family was quite in favor. said that the corn at home was not enough, so I went to Aunt Xu's house to borrow some and waited until the new corn was planted. He also said that when Erniu came back, he would let him go to the town for a run, buy some maltose, peanuts and sesame seeds, and make them together in the afternoon.
At noon, Erniu came back from buying vegetables, and was immediately driven to the town by the Huang family to buy things. The family was in a hurry to make the meal. When Erniu comes back for dinner, you can make rice candy in the afternoon. Every time Lin He was about to make snacks, the happiest thing was a few little guys, some of them playing and some eating.
Huang saw that Erniu hadn't come back yet, so he said that he would go to Aunt Xu's house to borrow corn first, Lin He remembered that he needed a few molds to make rice candy, and Uncle Li was a carpenter, so there should be this kind of thing at home.
When I arrived at Aunt Xu's house, Aunt Xu's family was eating. Seeing Huang and Lin He coming, he was a little surprised, and Huang said, "Aunt Xu, I'll come to your house to borrow some things and disturb your dinner, or you eat first, I'll come back later." ”
The Huang family is also joking, the people have already gone to the courtyard, and the Lin He family feels more relaxed when they come to Aunt Xu's house than they go to their grandmother's house, and Aunt Xu also smiled and said, "Look at you, what bother, come and borrow something?" ”
Huang said his intention, Lin He also told Uncle Li about the mold he wanted, Uncle Li understood Lin He's meaning and took out a big new bamboo from home, don't stutter where there is, make a few sections in the empty place, you can make a mold in one section, get five or six, Lin He felt that it was almost the same, so he told Uncle Li that it was okay.
Back at home, Lin He washed the bamboo with water and soaked it in oil so that it would not get sugar on it when he got the rice candy.
Erniu came back, and after eating, Huang also borrowed a large bag of corn from Aunt Xu's house, which was scraped from under the corn cob and dried very dry, which can also be used to make grain, and the corn can be ground into flour, and then boiled porridge and drunk.
The corn is dry, Lin He asked Huang to put it directly into the pot to fry first, Chen'er and Xiaojun are burning the fire on the stove, and put maltose in the other pot to heat it in the pot, and after the sugar is completely melted, then stir it with the fried corn, wait until the sugar and corn are stirred very evenly, and then sprinkle the sesame seeds and cooked peanuts into it.
In this way, this pot of rice candy will be boiled out, as long as it is put into the round mold made by Lin He, and pressed by hand, it will be made into a round rice candy. The rest is cut piece by piece, without molds, what is made is square, and the rice candy can not be stacked together, put it alone, and put it in a ventilated place.
Over there, Lin He asked Chen'er and Xiaojun to take a rest, although the weather was not as hot as in the previous life, it was still a little hot, and it was even hotter to burn the fire by the stove, and let Dabao and Dayuan go there to burn the fire, and let them go out to cool off.
The freshly made rice candy is still soft, sweet and soft in the mouth, and it is very filling, wait for a few days, the rice candy is put for a period of time, put it hard, and then tie it up with a bag, put some loose corn into it so that it will not all stick together, and it is also more durable.
This rice candy has no fragrance when it is hard and taken out, but when it is boiled, the thick fragrance of maltose and the fragrance of corn flowers are mixed together, which makes people smell it really mouthwatering, and the fragrance wafts far away, and the whole Linjia Village is filled with this fragrance.
In one afternoon, a total of three pots of rice candy were boiled, and more than 100 rice candy of all sizes were made, and they were made at home to make snacks to eat, and they could be eaten for a while, but Lin He said that these were cold for one night, and they would be done tomorrow, let Dabao take them, and bring them to send some to Uncle Wen, and the people in the store also gave a few, and the rest were put in the house, and they could be eaten when they were hungry at night.
The little ones in their own family want to eat, and they will do it tomorrow, anyway, this thing, although the sugar is more expensive, but the family can still eat it, buy three taels of silver sugar, can boil several pots of rice candy out, corn or something at home, sesame, peanuts These are also bought a little bit, it does not cost money, the important thing to bring to Dabao, can make Dabao fill his stomach, and can put it is a good snack.
In the second half of the year, the wheat at home is ripe, the corn has also been harvested, and a lot of peanuts, sesame seeds, soybeans and other things are planted in the ten acres of sand fields bought by my family, and it will be better to make it in the second half of the year. (To be continued.) )