To make sugar gourds, you have to find one more thing - bamboo skewers.

When I went up the mountain that day, Liuli saw a small bamboo forest, and the next morning I thought about cutting some to make bamboo sticks. However, she didn't have a firewood knife at home, so Liuli went to Aunt Liu's house next door to borrow it.

Aunt Liu's son heard that she was going up the mountain to cut bamboo, afraid that she would not be able to get a little girl, so without saying a word, he picked up the firewood knife and went up the mountain, while Liuli was dragged by Aunt Liu and was not allowed to go up the mountain.

"Liu, what do you want this bamboo to do?" Aunt Liu couldn't help but ask curiously.

"It's to make the same food", Liuli said, "When Brother Zhou cuts back the bamboo, I will cut it into bamboo skewers one by one." ”

Aunt Liu only thinks that the novelty is fun, when she is a child.

After Zhou Quan cut back the bamboo, he asked the style of Liuli's needs, and simply helped her make bamboo skewers, and Liuli was very grateful.

After thanking Aunt Liu's mother and son, Liuli went home and put the pre-washed hawthorns on bamboo skewers one by one, one wore five, and the two small ones saw it and came to help.

Liuli saw that the two of them were dressed very well, and explained: "Carefully prick your hands", and went to boil the syrup.

Iron is expensive, ordinary people can't buy it even if they have money, Liuli uses a wide-mouth clay pot, a fire is made at the bottom, and then the caramel is poured into it, and the fire is slowly boiled.

When the caramelization has turned into a thick syrup, take a bunch of hawthorn and put it in the syrup and roll it twice to make sure that each fruit is coated with sugar. Shake it twice more to let the excess syrup drip back into the pan. Finally, the sugar-coated hawthorn skewers are placed on a clean wooden board that has been vacated a long time ago, and when the syrup cools and solidifies, a string of rock sugar gourds is ready.

The weather is cold, the sugar dries quickly, and after a while, dozens of neat and neat strings of sugar gourds are placed on the wooden boards, and the red fruits are wrapped in the crystal yellow sugar coating, which makes people's appetite move.

"Taste it and see if it's delicious." Liuli took a string to the two little ones.

The two took it, and in Liuli's encouraging gaze, they took a tentative bite: "Ah, it's so sweet, and it's sour inside!" ”

"Second sister, this is the sugar gourd you said, it's really delicious!"

Liuli also took a bunch and tasted it: Well, although the taste is not as sweet as the white sugar made in the previous life, it has a unique malt aroma, but it is more flavorful.

Liuli thought about it, picked up three strings of sugar gourds, and said to the two little guys: "You go and send them to Aunt Liu next door, and ask them to taste them too." ”

Aunt Liu's youngest grandson, Sun Zhou, is 7 years old this year and often plays with Amber on weekdays. The two of them took the sugar gourd and were about to leave, but Liuli grabbed him but said, "You two are not busy going home, after sending the sugar gourd and the puppy to find other children to play." ”

"But what if they crave my sugar gourds?" Coral worried.

Liuli Xin wanted this effect, but he said: "If they want to eat, you can give one to whoever you like, and then tell them that we can buy it at home, and it costs two pennies a string." ”

"Ahh The two villains understood, and Coral jumped to his feet and shouted: "Is it possible to buy meat buns to eat if you exchange the money!" ”

"Yes", Liuli touched her hair and was relieved, "not only meat buns, but also eight-treasure sweet cheese and fine rice porridge...... You can buy all kinds of delicious sweets. ”

The two villains cheered, grabbed the sugar gourd and ran out eagerly.

Liuli smiled and watched the two little guys run away, clapped their hands to tidy up the house, the jar of boiling sugar was cold at the moment, and Liuli took the remaining sugar into the inner room together, and put away all the remaining bamboo skewers and hawthorns, and guarded dozens of strings of made sugar gourds, waiting for buyers to come to the door.