Chapter Eighty-Six: Jujube Cake
From that day on, Chai Yanfeng didn't think about the jade card anymore, but he also didn't think about the matter of making money as Shu Jin said. Because his leg felt more and more intense, for seven days, his leg was itching and painful.
Originally, only the waist and thighs were felt, but in the end, the whole lower body began to itch and sting.
Such a twenty-four hours a day of pain, just a few days tortured Chai Yanfeng to lose weight again, and because he was uncomfortable all the time, he couldn't sleep at night, and it was often difficult to wake up when he fell asleep, and the medicine to calm the nerves didn't work.
In the end, there was no way, so Shu Jin let him stay on the kang, and sleep when he was sleepy, otherwise he would stay and read. When Shu Jin went to the town to pick up custom-made futons, he bought Chai Yanfeng two books by the way, the Analects and the Tao Te Ching. (As for why there are books like the Analects and the Tao Te Ching in different time and space, Shu Jin can't figure it out, so you go ask Yuzu.) )
In Chai Yanfeng's situation, Shu Jin couldn't leave home for too long, except for going up the mountain to chop firewood, and then going to the town to get the bedding the day before yesterday, he basically stayed at home and watched him the rest of the time. No matter how kind Shu Jin is, his patience is about to run out, she thinks that if he doesn't get better, she just knocks him out and brings him into the spark to check it out, and by the way, it will be completely cured!
Fortunately, today, the tingling of Chai Yanfeng's body has finally passed, and all that remains is the occasional tingling.
Chai Yanfeng was tortured enough by several days of sleeplessness, but his spirit was very good. His eyes lit up. Obviously, this kind of pain is something he likes to see, because it means that he is in recovery.
Shu Jin is also happy. She also doesn't want her current "partner" to ask her to serve her every day. The faster he recovered, the happier she became.
Shu Jin couldn't go up the mountain, so he could only stay at home every day.
They don't have a field to serve, just a vegetable garden to be taken care of by Xiangrui's aunt Gao, except for the occasional weed, there is nothing that Shu Jin needs to manage, so Shu Jin spends his time studying and eating after cleaning up every day.
In the first few days, I had to look at Chai Yanfeng, and I couldn't calm down and do it, but today Chai Yanfeng was in a good state, so Shu Jin pushed him into a wheelchair and pushed him into the yard, let him bask in the sun, and he began to be busy cooking food in the yard.
Shu Jin, the red dates he bought last time, originally wanted to get Chai Yanfeng to eat and replenish his blood. In the past few days, she has been thinking about what she can do with dates.
Shu Jin picked out the beets that were dug out of the space and put into the sack, and peeled the whole beets into thin strips.
"What is this?" Chai Yanfeng, who was writing and painting on the ground with a branch, saw it, he hadn't seen this thing, so he asked curiously.
"If you dig in the mountains, it's sweet, so it's called beets."
Shu Jin replied casually, and as he spoke, he took a cut shredded beet for Chai Yanfeng to taste. When Chai Yanfeng heard this, he felt that Shu Jin was really bold. The unknown vegetables picked in the mountains dare to take them home at will to cook and eat.
How did Chai Yanfeng know that this beet was specially planted by Shu Jin in the space, just for boiling syrup. But she thought she should have eaten it herself before she brought it back, so she took it and tasted it.
"Well, it's really sweet. What are you going to do? ”
"I want to try and see if I can make sugar." As he spoke, Shu Jin poured the shredded beets into the boiling water and boiled.
The shredded beets had been boiling in water for about a quarter of an hour, and Shu Jin took out the shredded beets with a tong, and in order to avoid waste, he also used a drawer cloth to take out all the remaining water in the shredded beets and pour them back into the pot to continue boiling with the beet water in the pot. It takes at least two hours for this to be boiled out of syrup.
instructed Chai Yanfeng to watch the fire, and Shu Jin began to prepare for something else.
The purchased dates are pitted and chopped, then soaked in milk. Shu Jin also took advantage of this time to go up the mountain and chop firewood and grass and came back.
Coming back from the mountain, Shu Jin washed his hands and took out four eggs, separated the egg whites and yolks, put the egg whites into a waterless and oil-free basin alone, put the egg yolks in another basin, and then took a pair of chopsticks and kept whipping.
The crackling sound attracted Chai Yanfeng to look over from time to time, and then he saw that the originally transparent and colorless egg white slowly turned white, became larger, and finally became half a basin of white paste, and could even get on the chopsticks without falling off. Chai Yanfeng was amazed.
After Shu Jin finished beating the egg whites, he went into the house and turned the almost syrup that had been boiled in the pot into a part, and continued to boil the rest.
Scoop a few spoonfuls of syrup into the egg yolk and stir, and then mix it with jujube milk, because the boiled syrup is already very viscous, Shu Jin heated these waters, and when the syrup melted, Shu Jin took out some white noodles, sifted them through a fine sieve and poured them into a bowl, and then put a bowl of noodles from another small bag.
"What kind of noodles is that?" Chai Yanfeng saw the small bag and remembered that this was newly bought, and it didn't seem to be an ordinary white noodle, so he asked.
"This is glutinous rice flour." Shu Jin said and sifted the glutinous rice flour and poured it into the white flour to mix.
After mixing, the mixture did not have enough water, so Shu Jin poured milk into it until the mixture became a thick paste, and then began to add whipped egg whites to the paste in stages.
Shu Jin was very careful, stirring up and down gently, adding all the beaten egg whites all the time, and stirring well, and then put a whole pot of paste on the table for a few pauses, and vibrated the large bubbles in the paste. Finally, it is put into a cage drawer with a basin and steamed.
If she can succeed, then this is the first date cake she made when she came to this plane.
Taking advantage of the steaming of jujube cake, Shu Jin took a shovel and began to stir the syrup in the cauldron. The syrup became more and more viscous, more and more viscous, and finally began to crystallize.
Shu Jin changed from the beginning of the stirring to the final shoveling. In the end, a pot of thick syrup slowly turned into black and black brown sugar.
Shu Jin hurriedly took out all the brown sugar and put it into the jar, although this brown sugar is not as delicate as that of later generations, but the taste is not bad, after all, it is more convenient to use than slimy maltose.
The weather was hot, and it was hot enough for the kang to burn once a day, so Shu Jin simply extinguished the fire in the stove. Then I ran to the backyard to check if the jujube cake was successful.
Lifting the lid of the pot, there was immediately a fragrant and sweet jujube fragrance coming out, Shu Jin sniffed, it seemed to taste very good.
Shu Jin hurriedly cushioned it with a cloth and brought down the basin containing the jujube cake. Lift the top drawer to reveal the black and red pastry inside.
Chai Yanfeng also moved his wheelchair over curiously, and saw Shu Jin buckle the copper basin upside down on the cutting board and gently tap the bottom of the basin. After a while, Shu Jin picked up the basin, and a round, thick, black pastry appeared in front of Chai Yanfeng. (To be continued.) )