Chapter 42: Good Craft
"Jiaojiao, this loquat ointment, I think it's going well! This is not hooked, my Jiaojiao is really a genius! I've seen it in the book, I haven't done it once, and I can boil it out so well, and my daughter-in-law for many years has not had such a good craft! ”
Xu Jiaojiao smiled weakly, every time she had a summer vacation in her previous life, her grandmother would help her boil loquat ointment and loquat dew to drink, and she was too ripe to be ripe anymore.
Xu Zhangshi finally tasted the loquat paste silk on the tip of the chopsticks and put it in his mouth.
"Mmmmmm After three snorts, the bark-like old folds on Xu Zhang's face seemed to be relaxed, "The sweet and sour are moderate, refreshing, eat it, the throat is sweet, soft and smooth, and the taste is good, this is really made of wild loquat fruit?" Why is there no bitterness, astringency, or numbness? ”
When Xu Zhang's tasted the loquat paste, Luo secretly swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva on the side.
She stretched her neck and looked into the bamboo tube in Xu Zhang's hand, she was tall, she could see it, but she couldn't eat it.
Hearing Xu Zhang's comment, his saliva was even more overflowing, no less drooling than her son Xiaoliuzi.
The difference between the two is that one swallows it all while drooling.
One is clearly hanging on the corners of his mouth, and it all drips to the corners of his clothes.
Xu Zhangshi just didn't see it, and used chopsticks to scoop up a large chopstick paste and put it in his mouth.
This time, I tasted it carefully, and said in a loud voice, "Okay, good!" This tastes good, and I, a person who doesn't like sourness, feel like I can eat half of the tube at once. You will also taste the craftsmanship of my old daughter. ”
Luo Zhi had been waiting for this sentence for a long time, she had already taken the long wooden spoon in her hand and was ready to scoop it, "Mother, I'll scoop a little for Xiao Liuzi first." ”
As he spoke, he leaned over and scooped ......
was slapped by Xu Zhang's and flew out.
"It's good enough for you to pick a silk with chopsticks, you use such a big wooden scoop to scoop off half a tube, my old girl has been boiling it for a long time, and I'll eat it all for you, okay?"
Luo was slapped in the face, so he could only put down the long wooden scoop and replace it with chopsticks, looked at Xu Zhang's eyes, and picked some.
The mother and son tasted it.
Then, Xu Zhang's asked Yuan's and Sanya to try it, but Yuan's and Sanya didn't dare to make a mistake, so one of them picked a little bit of silk and put it in his mouth and sipped it.
Several people entered at the same time, and at the moment of entry, almost all of them showed disbelief at the same time.
Amaze!
First of all, it is sweet, sweet to the kind of sweetness and softness in the heart, and secondly, sour, sour to make people feel comfortable, and then the two are combined, so that people's taste glands have a passion that is instantly mobilized, and a thousand words are turned into two words, delicious.
In their philosophy, things like meat buns and meat dumplings are not exaggerated to describe them as the most delicious.
But this loquat ointment, they thought of it was delicious, and eating it made people feel inexplicably happy.
They had never eaten anything so delicious in their lives.
Xiao Liuzi finished smacking the aftertaste, and was impatient, "Milk, Xiao Liuzi still needs to be anointed to eat, and he still has to ...... ......"
"Mother, give me another chopstick! Mother, what kind of fairy loquat paste is this, it's really delicious, our old sister is a fairy who will make such a delicious loquat paste! ”
The two mothers and sons of the Luo family couldn't wait, especially the Luo family, ignoring Xu Zhang's white eyes, stepped forward and dug a chopstick deeply, and stuffed it into his mouth.
Xiao Liuzi saw that Luo had eaten it secretly and didn't give it to him, so he was so anxious that he cried.
"...... Milk, grandma......"
It's useless to call mother, it's useless to shout milk, the kid is clever, and he turned his head and shouted at Xu Jiaojiao, "Auntie, auntie, eat, eat...... Plaster ...... Auntie ......"
Xu Jiaojiao thought it was funny, this was really because the child next door was not crying, but her own child was crying.
Yuan's and Sanya's are also unfinished.
Xu Zhang's reluctant, Xu Jiaojiao smiled, "Mother, this pot has boiled more than a dozen bamboo tubes of loquat paste, this tube is taken out for everyone to taste, all of them are everyone's hard work, they are all divided and eaten, it's not worth it, you continue to peel the pulp, I and Sanya continue to boil, so many fruits, as long as it takes time, how much loquat paste can be boiled." ”
"Okay, listen to the old girl, today is a good day, happy, you are all thanks to my old daughter, so you can have such a delicious loquat ointment. Let me tell you, this is a good thing that can only be eaten by rich and noble families, let you ghosts also taste it, and you will have to thank you sister in the future, auntie, did you hear? Take a small bowl out, each person gets a scoop, is there more, the whole family has to taste this bamboo tube, your grandfather, your father is still working in the field, and he hasn't tasted it yet, so I gave you these ghosts to taste it first! ”
Roche and others were overjoyed.
Xu Zhang's chattered and gave everyone a big wooden spoon, and the loquat paste of this bamboo tube was about half a catty.
Half is divided, and half is left.
The flesh hurts so much.
"Old girl, such a big fruit of dozens of catties, I boiled so many bamboo tubes of loquat paste, this loquat paste is expensive, how much do you plan to sell it tomorrow?"
Xu Jiaojiao's boiling method is a big one, and the cost of sugar is added, and the process of boiling is added.
She plans to price it at around 50 wen a tube.
When Xu Zhangshi heard this price, he felt distressed, "Ouch, it's so expensive!" What to eat for these ghosts on their backs, this tube is 50 Wen, several catties of meat, and I can't give it to them next time. Old girl, hurry up and receive the boiled loquat paste to your mother's house, and your mother will help you lock it with a cabinet and keep it well. ”
Speaking of the issue of preservation.
Xu Jiaojiao encountered another big problem, "Mother, these foods need to be stored at low temperatures, and they can't be placed in a warm house." Mother, can we dig a cellar in the backyard, and put the fruit in the future, put loquat paste, loquat dew and the like. If you put it outside, it will be bad in a few days, and if you put it in the cellar, you can keep it fresh for several months or even half a year. ”
If you dig a bigger one, you can also store loquat wine.
It is this digging cellar, which is a civil engineering job, Xu Jiaojiao has not studied it, and she is not very good at it.
When Xu Zhang heard this, he said easily, "Dig the cellar? Yes! When your father used to build a house, he said that he wanted to dig a cellar to make it easier to put things, but the family is so poor that it would be good to have enough to eat, where is there any extra things to store? In the past, your father marked out the ground where he was going to dig the cellar, but I didn't agree to dig it, but since you need it now, I asked your father to dig it for you again, and dig a ...... for you."
"My dad, he'll dig?" Xu Jiaojiao was slightly surprised.
"Of course your father can dig, your father learned to be a mason when he was young, and our mud house was built by your father himself! From digging the foundation, to putting up beams, and covering straw, he did it all by himself. Digging a cellar or something, it's hard for him. However, he doesn't have the strength to get it himself now, let a few of your brothers and nephews help you, and within a few days, he can dig a big cellar for you, old girl, don't worry. ”