Chapter 226: Making Jelly
"Sister, are you up?"
Yao Hong came out of the room and saw that Yao Huang had just finished cleaning up the table, she looked out the window, it was still early, the sun had not yet risen, and she couldn't help asking, "Why did you leave so early?" ”
"They were in a hurry, and as soon as the chickens crowed, they left." Yao Huang replied.
"It's not dawn yet, so you won't bump into anything on your way now, right?" Yao Hong was worried.
"Eldest sister, there are so many of them, they will be afraid to avoid ghosts!" Yao Huang said with a smile.
Yao Qing packed up the gift and yawned heavily.
"You didn't sleep all night?" Yao Hong snatched the tray from Yao Huang's hand, elbowed his brother and sister, and drove them back to the room to rest.
Yao Qing was indeed very sleepy after being excited all night, rubbed his eyes, and returned to his room.
Yao Huang, as a cultivator, would not be sleepy if he didn't sleep for a year, but the eldest sister gave a strong order, and she obediently returned to her room. Sitting cross-legged on the bed, after a while entering a state of cultivation, the aura surged towards Yao Huang in an orderly manner, and was absorbed by him and transformed into his own true element......
Time passed quickly, and after a little week, Yao Huang heard the sound of Yao Qing getting up, and she got up and walked out the door. The sun is in the sky, and it is almost noon.
"All up? Let's have lunch! ”
Because her husband and younger siblings were making up for sleep, Yao Hong didn't make breakfast, only boiled two eggs for her two children, and she didn't eat anything, and she was already hungry at this time. Holding the rice bowl, Yao Hong sighed in her heart, the good days of the past few years have raised her delicately, she didn't eat two or three meals before, but now she has not eaten. The stomach just can't stand it.
Lunch is a simple three dishes and one soup. Sliced fungus meat, cold cucumber, scrambled eggs with bitter gourd and sauerkraut vermicelli soup. It's refreshing, non-greasy, and suitable for summer. Yao Qing soaked rice in soup and ate two bowls in a row.
Yao Hong took a bite of the noodles in the soup and said, "I sent the leftovers in the wooden barrel to the fourth aunt." The fourth aunt made cold powder in the afternoon and asked the second girl to help. ”
"Okay!" Yao Huang ate a small bowl of rice and put down the chopsticks, she was already eating just for a while. The food of jelly is all taught by Yao Huang to the women in the village, and the jelly is cool and smooth. It is best eaten in the summer.
"Eldest sister, let's make cold powder at home!" Foodie Yao Qing hurriedly said.
Yao Hong smiled: "Zhilu Dao, you will say this, I, I have already soaked the rice." ”
"I want to eat sweet jelly!" Xiao Ke raised his head and said, he likes to eat the tender cold powder drizzled with brown sugar water the most, it is cool and sweet, and it is very delicious.
"Sweet, sweet!" The one-year-old Xiao Yingchun learned to speak with his brother, and his small mouth was grinning, revealing his cute gums......
"By the way, I found a lot of leftovers in the barrels. The two fish barely moved. Isn't the food I cook to the same taste as Bai Gongzi's? Yao Hong was worried about this.
"Not really! It's Bai Gongzi who is not hungry, so they only drink wine and eat less vegetables. Yao Huang comforted his sister. My sister's cooking is delicious, and Miss Yunwu whispered to me that the dishes you cook are even better than those big restaurants! ”
"Hehe, how can I compare with the chef of the restaurant." Yao Hong was happy.
Because of the relationship between raw materials, there are many varieties of jelly, and the method is much the same. There is no jelly grass in the village, so most of them make rice jelly, mung bean jelly, and pea jelly. The rice is soaked for four or five hours, then ground into a pulp with graphite, put it in a pot and boiled, then add clarified lime water, and wait for the rice milk to solidify, and the rice jelly is ready. Mung bean jelly is more convenient to make than rice jelly, mix mung bean flour with water, stir well, boil and cool, you can get mung bean jelly in cakes. Rice jelly is usually mixed with green onions, garlic, light soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, vinegar, and chili oil, and mung bean jelly jelly can be used for dessert after cooking with brown sugar water.
In addition to Aunt Li Si, who made cold powder with the two sisters Yao Huang, there were also her two daughters-in-law, Biwen and Parsley, Parsley is Li Yunzhong's wife, the new daughter-in-law who has just passed the door, is generous, without the awkwardness of the new daughter-in-law, and gets along harmoniously with the two sisters. The five of them are all quick people with hands and feet, and in one afternoon, they made enough cold noodles for two families to eat for three days. Looking at the yellow rice jelly, Yao Huang remembered the incident of eating hot jelly with his classmates in junior high school. A few girls gathered at a fellow school to play, and suddenly they were hungry, so several people pooled money to buy rice noodles and cook them. Everyone worked together, and Yao Huang was assigned the task of running errands with another girl to buy jelly. The boss who sold the cold noodles asked the two how many catties they bought, and the other girl pointed to a piece of rice cold noodles and asked the boss to put it up, Yao Huang quickly stopped them and asked the boss to weigh another small piece of rice cold noodles. The other girl muttered that she didn't have enough to eat, and Yao Huang rolled her eyes and said that she had big eyes and a small belly. It turns out that Yao Huang is right, a piece of cold powder boiled two large pots, several girls ate the first pot after eating, and the second pot couldn't be eaten at all, and the most cheap classmates' families were cheaper.
"Erya, I just harvested some tender corn at home, I'll put some stubble, you can bring it back later and let them taste it." Biwen said to Yao Huang with a smile. She was grateful to Yao Huang for saving her brother. After the war subsided, she went to the city to visit her parents and younger siblings, and learned from her father that her brother had been injured, and that if it were not for Yao Huang's help, her brother would probably be disabled.
"Xie Lu, sister-in-law!"
"A few worthless corns, what is there to be thankful for." Because of Yao Huang's kindness to his mother's family, Biwen takes care of Yao Huang very much, and will think of giving the Yao family a copy of anything good.
"That's it! Erya, you girl is good at everything, but she is too outward. Aunt Li left a small piece of rice jelly to cook at night, and let the second daughter-in-law put the rest in the well to freeze. She poured a bowl of mung bean soup for the Yao sisters, the mung bean soup was iced with well water, and sugar was put in it, it was cool and sweet, and it was delicious.
Yao Huang smiled dryly, in her last life, she was a city child, accustomed to the estrangement in human affection, although she lived with simple and enthusiastic villagers for a few years in this life, the habits of her previous life still did not change much.
"Erya, the fruit pudding you made last time was so delicious, can you teach my second sister-in-law to make it?" After putting the parsley in the jelly, he walked to the shade of the tree, sat down next to Yao Huang, and then took a half-woven bamboo basket to weave.
"It's very easy to do, it's similar to the process of making mung bean jelly, but the raw material is changed from mung bean flour to corn flour, plus some fresh fruits, and you can let it cool." Yao Huang said.
"There is corn flour in the house, as well as preserved plums, peaches and apples, and I will give some to my parents-in-law in two days." Xiangqin happily thanked Yao Huang, her hands were very dexterous, and in a short time, a bamboo basket was weaved. (To be continued......)