Chapter 16: Hawthorn Cake and Liquor Medicine
Duobao saw that Miao Miao didn't listen, and there was no way.
Thinking about it again, what Miao Miao said also makes sense.
It's also hearsay, who knows if it's true or not?
Human beings are the most likely to be jealous, and are there fewer tragedies caused by jealousy?
So......
Maybe it's just that others are jealous of the Yunshan clan? After all, the Yunshan clan is the strongest among the four major families, and it is the head of the four major families, so it is normal to be rumored a little, right?
Thinking of this, Duobao pouted.
Except for the woman named Yang Miaomiao in front of her, the other human beings are all bad guys! Therefore, since the bad woman believes in that person, then it also tries to believe in him. Hmph, it's Uncle Duobao is kind, always thinking about others, not because he doesn't want to see stupid women unhappy!
After an autumn rain and a cold season, the weather is getting colder, and the hawthorn trees located on the hill of the forest are blooming red. The hawthorns all over the mountains are like miniature red lanterns hanging in the mountains, adding a sense of joy to this autumn day.
Miao Miao made a few baskets with rattan, went up the mountain with Duobao, and began to pick hawthorns. The Qiankun bag is basically full, and there is no material to make a new Qiankun bag at the moment, so it can only return to the original way and weave baskets to load things.
It is also thanks to Miao Miao that she has developed the Mizuki spell to the awakening state, and the rattan can be changed according to her will, otherwise it will take a lot of effort to weave the basket!
Although Duobao is young, his posture is flexible, and the two of them cooperated, and it didn't take long to fill the two baskets they brought. The two were not greedy, and when they saw that the basket was full, they carried the basket down the mountain and prepared to return to the camp.
Of course, you'll have to pick a little more hedge flowers before heading back to camp. The plant can be used to refine agar, which is essential for making hawthorn cakes.
Back at the camp, Duobao took out the large plaque basket that Miao Miao had made before, and Miao Miao used the remaining wood from the previous house to make a few benches and a large wooden basin.
After pouring the hawthorn in the basket into the large wooden basin, after releasing a water balloon in the basin, a little salt was put down, and after some stirring, it was soaked for about ten minutes, and then it was scooped up again, and after cleaning it again with dust removal, the hawthorn was spread out on the plaque basket and placed on the bench to drain the water.
Taking advantage of the drainage, Miao Miao dealt with the stone hedge flowers again.
The cleaned hedgerows were poured into a clay pot and mashed with a small amount of water, and then heated by a fire. After watching the liquid in the pot gradually thicken, he took out a handkerchief and tied it on another clay pot, and slowly poured out the juice in the pot in batches for filtration.
The filtered juice is then poured into a small wooden basin, and then cooled with spiritual power, and then dried with spiritual power after seeing the water precipitated from it. After repeating this cooling and air-drying action two or three times, when the liquid in the wooden basin is dry, the agar is ready.
Miao Miao looked at the agar in the pot and couldn't help but sigh: If only the rabbits who planted flowers also had this kind of superpower. If there were no spells, it would take a few days for this agar to be ready.
So......
Is there something wrong with the monk's brain?
If you don't use your skills for farming and development, but fooling around with a group of mortal nobles, you are really mentally retarded!
After soaking a little agar in warm water, it's time to process the hawthorn.
Remove the hawthorn from the head and tail, remove the core, put it in the pot and add water and honey to boil, boil for ten minutes, mash the puree, filter it with a bamboo basket, and then pour it into the pot and continue to boil for half an hour, when the water evaporates almost, pour in the agar and stir for a while, then pour it into the wooden basin, wait for it to cool down.
Two baskets of hawthorn can make a lot of hawthorn cakes, and Ziling bees have also started to produce honey early, so there is no need to save it, you can make more hawthorn cakes and keep them for later.
Moreover, after the winter, you should also build a foundation, and then you should set off for the town with a little self-protection ability, and these hawthorn cakes may also be sold for money.
Thinking like this, he took out some things in the Qiankun bag that could be stored for a long time and piled them up in a small warehouse in the kitchen, and the vacated space was used to put these hawthorn cakes and other hawthorn products.
On the second day, Miao Miao went out with Duobao again.
Only this time, instead of picking hawthorns, I went to pick plants that can be used to make sake medicine.
Light bamboo leaves, nightshade vine, spicy knotweed, mugwort, mulberry leaves, cinnamon leaves, gold and silver vine, and soil poria cocos can all be used to make wine medicine. However, she didn't have the old koji in her hand, so she boiled the wine Jiang gave herself, and planned to add a little new wine medicine to replace the koji at that time.
The process of making alcohol pills is not difficult. After these plants are cleaned and filtered out of fine powder, the broken plant crushed is soaked in water overnight, then wrapped in a handkerchief, squeezed out the juice and filtered, poured in the fine powder sieved out before, beat the rice into rice flour and poured it into it, plus the boiled old wine primer, kneaded into a ball, put it on the ground rice bran, cover the lid, wrap it in a quilt, keep it warm and ferment for 48 hours, and when the surface layer appears fine fluff, the wine medicine is done.
While waiting for the fermentation of the liquor, Miao Miao made several wooden pots and large vats, which were all things needed to make wine.
After two days of such a busy work, she and Duobao set off again to pick hawthorn on the hill.
There are a lot of hawthorns needed to make wine, so she and Duobaolai went back and forth several times to pick enough hawthorn for winemaking.
Making wine is a more elaborate job, such as the wine brought by Jiang is obviously too primitive. Wine is not only cloudy and slightly sour, which can affect the taste of the dish even if it is used for cooking. As an agriculturist in a big foodie country, Miao Miao said that this is unbearable and must improve the technology.
The hawthorn is cleaned, the core is removed, and the hawthorn is spread on the bamboo plaque to dry the water a little, and then steamed in the pot. When the hawthorn is steamed soft, take out the hawthorn and cool it with cold water, then put it into the vat, add honey and medicinal wine, seal it with a large sun-dried leaf, and then take two hollow bamboos, and insert one at each end so that the water vapor in the brewing process can evaporate.
Allowing the wine to breathe is a very important step. During the brewing process, if the water vapor drops, it will make the wine sour. If the wine is sour, then the vat is in vain, and the whole fermentation process takes about 22 days, or longer if the weather is cold.
After making the hawthorn wine, Miao Miao looked at the grain, thought about it, and took out twenty catties of rice to make grain wine. The process is about the same as hawthorn wine, except that the brewing of grain wine is more particular. For example, 20 catties of rice must be added with 16 catties of water, this ratio can not be mistaken, otherwise the wine will not taste good.
Once the wine is ready, the next thing is to wait. There are a lot of things to eat in the autumn forest, and there is always something to gain when you go out for a walk every day. And every time it rains, Miao Miao will use the rain to perceive the outside world.
As Jiang said, the world before winter becomes particularly dangerous. In the Pregnant River, there are always corpses floating down the river, and the killing by the river is always taking place. Miao Miao also understands now, why there are no powerful monsters in this forest except for the wolf demon.
It must have been a place where battles often broke out, so all the youkai in the forest who had a little vision ran away. As for the wolf demon...... Listening to Duobao, it seems that he can't mix it up? It's just that he didn't have a place to go, so he was stuck here?
Come to think of it, I don't even have a little brother, and I really don't mix well.
After watching too much killing, her mood will become bad, and after observing it a few times, Miao Miao stopped inquiring.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and the wine in the tank can be opened.
Opening the wine vat, the smell of wine came to her face, Miao Miao smelled for a while, scooped a little with a homemade wooden wine spoon and tasted it, and couldn't help nodding.
The craftsmanship has not regressed, yes, this wine is much better than what Jiang brought to himself. After filtering a part of the fruit wine and putting it in the bottle, he used a special large spoon to reach into the vat and stir it, and after thoroughly stirring the wine and pomace, he took out his medicine pod.
The medicine pod has Qiankun inside, and it can hold three large jars of wine each time, which is much more convenient than burning it in a clay pot.
There is also a small hole on the lid of the medicine pod that can be switched on/off, Miao Miao took out the hollow vine prepared earlier, inserted it into the hole, and found some soil to cover it around the hole, sealed it thoroughly, took a basin of cold water, soaked the hollow vine in cold water, and began to make a fire.
Not to mention the longer the distilled liquor is stored, the better the taste. Of course, correspondingly, the degree of distilled liquor will also increase.
Miao Miao has a bold temperament, how can a woman like a man drink such light wine? The technique must be studied the most difficult, and the wine must be drunk the strongest, so as to live up to the youth!
The hollow vine gradually dripped, and the strong aroma of wine spread, and Duobao on the side looked at the basin where the wine was received, scratching his ears with both hands, and asked: "Is it okay? What kind of wine are you making? Why is it so fragrant? Why is it so fragrant? It is more fragrant than the wine in the first restaurant in Chuzhou City!"
"Oh?"
Miao Miao smiled, "Duobao, you have been to a lot of places!"
"I ......"
Duobao choked, and immediately crossed his waist and snorted: "That's natural! Don't look at who I am! I'm a noble monkey!"
"Look at your appearance. ”
Miao Miao pouted, "The saliva has fallen, and what are you talking about noble." ”
"You!"
Duobao was angry.
This woman who is always smiling is actually very vicious in her mouth. Swearing doesn't take a dirty word, but it can always make it half angry.
It held its mouth and said reluctantly, "It's not that this wine is too fragrant......
"Huh?"
Miao Miao plucked her ears, "What did you say?" I didn't hear clearly. ”
"You ......"
Duobao's face flushed. But it really couldn't resist the temptation of fine wine, so it had to grit its teeth and say, "I mean the wine you brew is so fragrant!"
"Haha!"
Miao Miao clapped her hands and said, "That's right! How good is it to be honest, is it so difficult to admit that I'm good?"
Duobao felt that his dignity as a monkey was completely gone.
There was a sense of self-loathing in its heart, it couldn't look directly at Miao Miao, it turned around, its curly tail hung down, and there was a little sadness in its heart.
What's that......
I always feel that something is far away from me......