Gao Yuanyuan accompanied Huo Xinbei back from shopping, and smelled the sweet aroma of the house.

"What is this doing?" Huo Xinbei looked in the direction of the kitchen.

Gao Yuanyuan said while changing his slippers: "It must be my uncle and aunt making something delicious, aren't there two female students at home?" ”

Gao Yuanyuan's voice was very gentle and easy-going, which made Huo Xinbei very satisfied with this sister-in-law.

My sister-in-law has such a kind personality, and there must be a lot of family conflicts in the future.

Huo Xinbei is a cool person, and he hates the problems caused by trivial things between women the most.

She has been full of imagination and planning for her future sister-in-law since she was a child, and she is even more active than Huo Taipei looking for a girlfriend.

Listening to Gao Yuanyuan call his uncle and aunt, Huo Xinbei thought to himself, it would be good for his brother to find something to marry his sister-in-law into the door, so that he could change his name to Mom and Dad.

Just now, Gao Yuanyuan paid for the new clothes for her, and she also wanted to marry Gao Yuanyuan.

Huo Xinbei had already rushed to the door of the kitchen, and then turned back to Gao Yuanyuan and said, "It's not my parents." ”

Gao Yuanyuan walked over, but saw Huo Taipei and his two female students standing in the kitchen.

Yang was holding a few bunches of fruit in one hand, while Huo Taipei was picking up the cut pieces of fruit from the plate and skewering them on the washed bamboo skewers.

And in front of the stove, Zhao Huanhuan was cooking something in the pot with an apron.

The sweet aroma wafting up from the pot in the air.

"What are you doing?" Gao Yuanyuan and Huo Xinbei spoke in unison.

Huo Taipei, with a smile, said, "Make a sugar gourd!" ”

"Sugar gourd?" Gao Yuanyuan and Huo Xinbei spoke in unison again, and their eyes also drifted to the fruit bunch held in Yang's hand.

The fruit on the skewers has been peeled and cut into pieces, but it can still be seen that it is an apple, a pear, or something like that, and it is not a hawthorn anyway.

"But it's not a hawthorn!" Huo Xinbei said.

Huo Taipei's eyes were raised and he glanced at his sister lovingly: "This is called Li Dai Taozhuang, carefully improved." ”

Seeing that Huo Xinbei and Gao Yuanyuan's expressions were incredible, Huo Taipei added: "In fact, whether the sugar gourd is delicious or not, you don't have to choose hawthorn, after all, hawthorn will be sour, many people don't like it, the key is to look at sugar." ”

Yang Yi's mouth twitched, heh, Mr. Huo, this is what Zhao Huanhuan said just now.

"The sugar of the rock sugar gourd is boiled and dipped in sugar."

Huo Taipei walked to Zhao Huanhuan's side as he spoke, and Gao Yuanyuan and Huo Xinbei also followed.

Yang Yi was stunned one by one, and also raised her feet to pass, as if she didn't go over and didn't fit in.

I saw a girl wearing an apron, one hand on her waist, and the other hand kept stirring in the pot with a spoon.

"The ratio of sugar to water should be two to one, and it should be boiled for twenty minutes on a fierce fire, and now it has been boiled for almost twenty minutes, so there is very little water in the pot, and it is boiling very much, and there is a fine dense foam on the sugar, like a golden beer?"

Zhao Huanhuan asked, and Huo Xinbei immediately echoed: "It's like beer!" ”

It seems that she is also a girl who loves to drink.

"Give me a chopstick." Zhao Huanhuan said.

Huo Taipei immediately handed over the chopsticks.

Zhao Huanhuan took the chopsticks, dipped them in syrup and lifted them up, and he was able to pull out the silk slightly.

Zhao Huanhuan immediately turned off the fire on the gas stove.

"That's it?" Gao Yuanyuan asked.

"If it takes too long, the color will turn brown, just slightly pull out the silk, if it is obviously pulled out, it means that the sugar has been burnt, it will lose its original sweetness, and it will also bring bitterness, it will be a bit like double coptis."

Double coptis? Yang Yi felt a pimple in his heart, this little slut began to say the name of the medicine again, did she want to be a doctor or what?

"The following is the most important part, dipping sugar, dipping sugar, this part seems simple, but it requires a lot of skill. If the sugar is too thick, you can't bite the fruit in one bite, and it is a failure. The sugar should be dipped in a thin and even layer to be considered successful. ”

Yang Yi was really impatient to listen to Zhao Huanhuan's compulsion, but the others listened with interest.

"Then hurry up and dip the sugar!" Huo Xinbei couldn't wait to urge.

Huo Taipei called Yang to send a bunch of fruits over.

Yang Yihao gave Zhao Huanhuan a bunch of fruits, which felt like a maid in ancient times handing things to the young lady, which made Yang Yi really annoyed and aggrieved.

I saw Zhao Huanhuan tilt the pot, gently rotate the fruit bunches against the foam on the boiled hot sugar, and the fruit bunches were wrapped in a thin layer of syrup.

"Is this edible?" Huo Xinbei was eager to try and wanted to be the first person to try it.

Zhao Huanhuan said: "It has to be cooled." ”

Hearing Zhao Huanhuan say this, Huo Xinbei couldn't help but be disappointed.

Zhao Huanhuan said: "But it only needs to be cooled for two or three minutes to enjoy." ”

In this way, Huo Xinbei was happy again.

Zhao Huanhuan shouted: "Where is the water board?" ”

Huo Taipei took out the wooden cutting board that had been soaked in clean water early in the morning and flattened it, took the new-style sugar gourd in Zhao Huanhuan's hand and put it on the water board to cool.

Huo Xinbei's eyes rolled, and he said with anticipation: "I really want to try the dipping candy too." ”

Zhao Huanhuan hurriedly vacated his position, but still tilted the pot and helped Huo Xinbei.

Huo Xinbei took the fruit skewer from Yang Yi's hand and dipped it in the pot, and asked in his mouth, "Why is the pot tilted?" ”

"It's so that all the pieces of fruit are dipped in sugar."

After listening to Zhao Huanhuan's explanation, Huo Xinbei let out an "oh".

Although Huo Xinbei learned Zhao Huanhuan's movements, the syrup dipped in the fruit pieces was still very thick.

But it's about participating, and it's fun to make it yourself.

Gao Yuanyuan and Huo Taipei also tried to dip a handful of sugar each.

After a while, there was already a row of sugar gourds lying on the water board.

Yang Yi was itching to see it on the side, and she wanted to try it, but the fruit bunches were gone.

Fortunately, I can't make it myself, but I can finally taste it myself.

It's just that eighty percent of the sugar gourd that Yang Yi got was made by Huo Xinbei, and the syrup was too thick and stuck to her teeth.

She looked at the others aggrievedly, everyone was eating happily, and she didn't see who was stuck in the sugar.

Huo Xinbei also asked with hatred: "The sugar gourds bought on the street are sticky to the teeth, why do the sugar gourds made by Huanhuan not stick to the teeth?" ”

Zhao Huanhuan explained: "The successful rock sugar gourd, after it comes out of the pot, the outer sugar will cool down quickly, and the bite is crispy and not sticky to the teeth at all. To achieve this effect, boiling sugar is the most critical.

Boiled syrup, to the syrup thick, light yellow, with chopsticks to pick up visible drawing, chopsticks into cold water, the syrup can quickly solidify, bite, hard.

Remember, when the syrup is slightly drawn, turn off the heat immediately and pour it over the sugar gourd. Otherwise, the syrup will become dry and hard and cannot be further made.

And you can't throw the sugar gourd into the pot for convenience, because then the fruit will be crispy. ”

Everyone listened carefully to Zhao Huanhuan's introduction, recalling Zhao Huanhuan's practice just now, it seemed to be true.

Huo Xinbei asked again: "Why do you put it on the cutting board to cool?" ”

Zhao Huanhuan patiently explained: "It's not a cutting board, it's a water board, or a smooth wooden board, soaked in clean water for a long time, the temperature is low, and the wood has water absorption, which can help the sugar gourd cool and shape." So we can use a cutting board instead, because this is a wooden cutting board, not if it's plastic. Of course, marble slabs are also a good choice. ”

Huo Xinbei suddenly brightened: "Sister Yuanyuan, let's go to the street to buy some fruit later, I really want to make it again." ”

"I want to, too." Gao Yuanyuan was also in high spirits.

Huo Taipei thought of something and said, "I want to do it again, my parents haven't eaten this sugar gourd yet." ”

Everyone was in high spirits, only Yang Yi was not interested.

Anyway, she is the one who is ignored, she can't do it if she wants to, and she can't eat well if she wants to.

When she gets home this time, she will do it herself. She has memorized all the steps!