Chapter Twenty-Six: Rock Sugar Gourd
Yang Xu went to the mountain with Wang Dayi and Tianbao the next day. She plans to take a look around, with Wang Dayi with her, it will be much safer.
Walking very slowly along the way, Yang Xu looked left and right, and was surprised to find some wild ginger and peppercorns.
Yang Xu carefully dug it up and put it in the back basket. As for the wild vegetables and mushrooms on the road, the poplar flocculent was not picked.
She came mainly for the hawthorn tree this time. Brother Dayi said that there are several hawthorn trees on this mountain.
"Wow, that's a lot of hawthorn! However, this one is particularly sour, sister, will this really be delicious? "
"Really, I'll be the first one to taste when I get back, it's sweet and sour, you definitely like it."
Yang Xu also found that the hawthorn tree was red and fruitful, probably because it was relatively sour, and even so many birds in the mountain did not eat it.
"Come on, let's pick more today, just pick the ones that don't have wormholes, the red ones are ripe."
The three of them picked it together, and it was much faster, and it didn't take long for a basket to be picked.
"Alright, almost, let's go home!"
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When he got home, Yang Xu didn't let Tianbao help, and Wang Dayi washed the hawthorn. Yang Xu took a knife and took out some of the seeds in the hawthorn.
In the past, when Yang Xu ate rock sugar gourd, she didn't like to eat hawthorn core, but a colleague of hers said that the hawthorn in the rock sugar gourd has no core, what else does it taste? None of them are authentic.
Therefore, Yang Xu took out part of the core. I can also make some other flavors.
For example, there are those with glutinous rice in them, and those with bean paste in them.
In fact, there are other looks, but the materials of poplar flocculation are limited. Glutinous rice was bought in the town and is now called sticky rice, which is about the same price as rice.
As for the bean paste, it is still the red bean that Yang Fu exchanged for space. After changing a big bag, Yang Fu planted a small piece, and there was not much left, but it was enough to make a few strings of rock sugar gourds.
Yang Xu boiled the sticky rice with sugar, added more water, and boiled it a little worse.
Red beans are also boiled with sugar and mashed into bean paste with a mallet.
Then cut the washed hawthorn, remove a part, and stuff the sticky rice and bean paste into it separately.
When Yang Xu was preparing, Wang Dayi had already cut the bamboo and cut it into bamboo sticks.
Yang Xu was afraid that it would not be clean, so he boiled all the bamboo sticks before starting to string hawthorns.
Then start to boil the syrup, you have to control the heat, because the sugar is extremely easy to paste, just a little yellow.
Then quickly put the worn hawthorn in the pot and roll it around, and then the syrup quickly solidifies on the hawthorn.
Yang Xu made dozens of skewers in one go, until he ran out of sugar.
"Wow, that's beautiful!"
Tianbao had already come out to see it, and opened his mouth wide in surprise the whole time, and it suddenly became so good-looking!
Better than the sugar man, the red hawthorn has a clear syrup on it. It's so tempting!
"Little gluttonous cat." Yang Xu tapped Tianbao's nose amusedly.
"Well, here's this. Give it a try. "
Hawthorn will be sour if you eat too much, and this string is quite large. Therefore, poplar flocculation deliberately skewered a few bunches of mixed, whole hawthorn, as well as bean paste and sticky rice.
"Brother Dayi, try it too."
"Hmm."
Wang Dayi responded with a smile, Su'er always has a lot of ideas, and amazing cooking skills. It seems that something strange will be delicious in the hands of Xu'er.
"Delicious, delicious. This hawthorn is delicious, and the sticky rice and this red stuffing are also delicious. "
Tianbao has two bites and eats happily. He loves sweet and sour tastes. My sister really did the best for him!
He felt that now, yes, called rock sugar gourd, has become the second on the list of food in his heart. The first one is sweet and sour pork ribs, after all, that one is meat!
Although Wang Dayi doesn't like the sweet and sour taste very much, he unexpectedly likes the bean paste filling.
Obviously, that bean paste is also sweetened with sugar. But Wang Dayi likes this taste very much, rustling, delicious!
He knew that this bean paste was made of red beans, and the red beans were exchanged for that magical space. Well, Xu'er also planted a small piece, and there will be some to eat in the future.
Yang Xu also likes to eat bean paste filling, which is the same as Wang Dayi.
Yang Xu saw that the rock sugar gourd had a good response, so he smiled and said his thoughts.
"What do you think I should take to the town and sell it?"
"Yes, yes! It's definitely popular, the last time I saw a lot of kids in town, they definitely loved it. Sister, I'll go sell it with you. Tianbao was the first to agree, and he also wanted to follow, so that he could shout a few words to his sister.
"I'll go with you."
Wang Dayi also agreed, and when he saw that Su'er had prepared so much, Wang Dayi guessed it. He didn't have any idea that a woman couldn't show her face, and if she wanted to go, he supported it.
"Okay, we'll go tomorrow morning. In the evening, we went down the mountain, and I sent a few bunches to my cousin's family. "
"Okay."
Wang Dayi still went out in the afternoon, took a turn, and took a look at the traps laid out a few days ago.
The trap used the spiritual spring water of poplar catkins, and it was also discovered by chance that the rabbits raised in their yards were particularly sensitive to the spiritual spring water, and they were still diluted. Wang Dayi had a whim and added something to the cloth trap.
It turned out to be really unexpected, ho! There's really a big guy, a deer!
Venison is very expensive, and deer blood is also wanted, deer antlers, antlers...... In short, the whole body of the deer is a treasure.
Wang Dayi also accidentally killed a deer before and sold it to Shopkeeper Li for one hundred taels, and later Shopkeeper Li also clearly told himself that he also sold it separately to the rich merchants in the town, and he sold it for a total of one hundred and eighty taels of silver!
However, because it was also sold at a good price because the shopkeeper Li had a way, Wang Dayi had nothing to say. He was satisfied if he could get a hundred taels. This opportunity is hard to come by, and I have encountered it once in these years!
Wang Dayi suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, took off his clothes, and bandaged the wound on the deer's body to prevent the blood from flowing too much.
The trap was set far away, and the deer may have fallen into the trap for a day or two, and although it is not dead, it is also dying.
Wang Dayi carried the deer and went home quickly.
When he got home, Yang Xu was also startled, he didn't expect this spiritual spring water to be so effective!
The two men did not dare to leave the deer outside, and put it directly in the kitchen.
Wang Dayi handled it carefully, almost didn't lose anything, and even put the deer blood into a big gourd.
"Brother Dayi, when we go down the mountain, I will go to my aunt's house, and if you go to Uncle Dahe's house, I will spend money to rent his donkey cart for a day. We're going to have to hide something from this deer. I'll leave early tomorrow morning. "
"Good. We'll go now. "
Wang Dayi also knows that it is powerful, he is not stupid, this hundred taels of prey, let others see it, and there will be no accidents. So I used to leave before dawn.