As soon as Liu's words came out, he couldn't help blushing when he saw Wang Linyuan looking at him funny. p>

Lan Yi smiled and said: "The chestnuts in our mountains taste good, chestnuts are a good thing, and they are important food and fruits in our Great Zhou, but there are fewer people here who plant them." When I came back from Meixian, I saw that there were people in many places selling chestnuts to eat, and they all tasted good. ”p>

Lan Yi's words are well-founded, and there is a cloud in the "Book of Songs": "The chestnut is outside the east gate, not between the gardens, and the trees are also on the road." It shows that chestnut trees have been moved into courtyards or roadsides since the Western Zhou Dynasty; "Lü's Spring and Autumn Period" also records that "there are three beauties in the fruit, and there are chestnuts in Jishan." etc. p>

Don't be surprised, these are all found by Lan Yi after she wanted to make fried chestnuts with sugar and went to the county bookstore to check the classics. Tears run, she tried her best to find only these two, there are chestnut cakes in the dim sum shop in Huangxian County but there are no fried chestnuts in sugar, although Lan Yi has seen fried chestnuts along the way from Meixian to Huangxian, but she doesn't know how to make them, and there is no record in the books. The herbal medicine book in her hand only records the medicinal properties of chestnuts and how to use them, and does not record other ways to eat them. p>

"Sister-in-law, are you planning to make chestnuts into food and sell them?" Wang Linyuan asked. p>

Lan Yi nodded. p>

"What novel approach did my sister-in-law think of?" Liu asked again, her heart was itching like a cat's scratch, and she couldn't wait for her sister-in-law to quickly tell her how to make money. p>

At this time, it was already dark, and Lan Yi also wanted to go home early to let the children sleep, so he briefly introduced: "It's not a novelty, I ate fried chestnuts once on the way back from Meixian, and the store said it was called fried chestnuts with sugar." I plan to sell the chestnuts I harvested this year as sugar-fried chestnuts, but I don't know that what I fried tasted completely wrong, and there was always something missing. ”p>

"Is it the hairy chestnuts in the mountains?" The second aunt Li asked, "This thing can be boiled and eaten, and I only learned that it can be stewed into the dish tonight, but I didn't expect it to be fried and eaten." ”p>

"Yes, it's really troublesome to peel the chestnut flavor, and I haven't eaten much of what I have taken back." Liu thought and said, "It turned out to be fried and eaten...... How much can this sell for a pound? ”p>

Second Uncle Wang is no stranger to hairy chestnuts: "The idea of a bad harvest of crops in the field is also in the village, and the people in the village also go into the mountains to find hairy chestnuts and bring them back as winter food. ”p>

Chen asked, "Sister-in-law, what do you think is missing?" ”p>

Lan Yi said the process of making fried chestnuts with sugar: "I saw them fried chestnuts with black sand in that shop, and a few days ago I broke the ice by the stream to take river sand and add sugar to fry them, and the fried chestnuts were dry and not delicious. Lan Yi thought silently, hoping that his move did not infringe on any exclusive secret recipe, who knows what kind of chestnuts are fried here. p>

Everyone was surprised to hear that the chestnuts were fried with sand, Wang Linxi hugged the big girl, let her play with her big hands, and asked when she heard this: "Why do these chestnuts need to be fried with sand, how did this clean river sand turn black again?" ”p>

Lan Yi thought for a while: "It is estimated that the touch is for better heating, and the black is the color of the sand stained with sugar." ”p>

Chen's winter did not peel chestnuts to make porridge, and it was a little strange to hear Lan Yi say this: "Sister-in-law, the chestnut skin is not thin, can you get in with the added sugar sand and stir-fry the taste?" ”p>

Yes, the chestnuts themselves are fragrant when boiled, is it just to smell good when they are sweetened? Lan Yi always felt that something had flashed through her mind. p>

Several children couldn't speak because they were told to speak, and they only stared at this time, wondering why the adults suddenly didn't speak. p>

Liu looked left and right, and said in a weak voice: "If you can't get in, just cut a knife on the chestnut." ”p>

"But it's quite hard to cut one by one, what should I do if I get into the sand?" Chen asked rhetorically. p>

Liu Shi looked at Wang Linyuan, and saw that he didn't have any objection, so he continued: "Then prick a few stitches, it's not easy to get in if the sand is big." ”p>

The crowd was speechless...... p>

But Liu's words opened Lan Yi's train of thought. She knew that this time she was narrow-minded, limited to the modern memory and couldn't extricate herself, thinking only about how to make the modern kind of sugar-fried chestnuts, blindly pursuing the form, without carefully considering how to improve the existing practice. Thinking like this, my mind is much broader. p>

"Sister-in-law, what kind of sugar do you use to fry chestnuts?" There are two main types of sugar, one is granulated sugar made from sugarcane juice, and the other is starch hydrolyzed caramone, and the sweet component of caramel comes from maltose. In addition to these two sugars, honey is used for sweetening. p>

"I use sugar bought at the market, and I haven't tried it." Sugar is slightly sweeter than caramel sugar, which is more suitable for Lan Yi's taste. p>

Wang Linyuan nodded, most of the sugar used at home is granulated sugar, after all, this sugar is cheaper: "I think we should use starch sugar, and the sugar sellers use starch sugar to boil sugar." Since it's fried chestnuts, there must be something else besides sugar, right? ”p>

Liu Shi said as a matter of course: "There must be oil and salt." ”p>

Lan Yi's eyes lit up, yes! Salt, as the saying goes, no salt is not fragrant, do you want to put some salt to try? p>

"The third brother and sister are on the point! I have some ideas now, and I'll try it tomorrow and tell you about it. ”p>

Second Uncle Wang nodded: "Cheng, we still have some hairy chestnuts at home, and we will all fry them at home tomorrow." ”p>

Everyone nodded, eager to try it now. Liu Shi had a little more heart, and asked cautiously: "This time, are we hiding it from the people in the village, or are we not afraid of people looking at us?" ”p>

Everyone looked at Lan Yi. p>

"Hide it, especially the method of frying chestnuts with sugar can't let others know, if it becomes a big entry in the future." Lan Yi clapped the board, everyone nodded naturally, Liu's smile was particularly good-looking, she liked the stuffy hair and fortune the most. p>

After Wang Linyuan sent Lan Yi's mother and son back, Second Uncle Wang called the four of them to the front and said earnestly, "After your sister-in-law comes back, it is not easy for one person to take two children, she is a girl from the city who does not work less than any of you, and any way to make money will not forget our family, the four of you must remember the kindness of your sister-in-law, and you have written it down for me?" ”p>

The four of them bent down to respond, and the sister-in-law also remembered their kindness to them. p>

Today, everyone talked about it word by word, which was a great inspiration to Lan Yi. Now she deduces that the aroma of the chestnuts fried in sugar should be the caramel and vegetable oil, but it is the taste of the chestnuts themselves that makes them soft and sweet. The chestnuts she fried the first few times were dry and hard, and the chestnuts were due to lack of water, and the lack of flavor should be due to the problem with the frying technique. p>

So, she washed half a basin of chestnuts in the kitchen, picked a consistent size and soaked them in clean water to replenish the chestnuts, and planned to add sugar, oil, salt, and river sand to fry them again the next day. Stir-frying chestnuts requires constant turning of sand, which is a lot of effort, and if you really plan to do this business, you have to think about how to save effort, and that old-fashioned popcorn roller seems to be good. p>

Although it was a separate attempt by each family, the husband and wife Wang Linxi and Wang Linyuan brought chestnuts and sand to Lan Yi's house early the next morning, and the three children were handed over to the Li family to take with them at home. p>

Lan Yi and her two children also have the habit of waking up early, and at this time they are weeding in the greenhouse and building a shelf for cucumber seedlings. p>

"Sister-in-law, my second brother and I are thinking about going to this courtyard to get it done, and we can save some effort together." Wang Linyuan put the bamboo basket filled with sand on the ground, Liu and Chen both carried half a bag of chestnuts in their hands, and Wang Linxi carried a large iron pot on top. p>

Lan Yi twitched the corners of her mouth, she was quiet after a group of women who learned to make sauerkraut in this courtyard a few days ago, and the neighbors on the left and right were far away, not to mention that Zhou Weiji, the east neighbor of the kitchen, had not come back from a business trip to Meixian, it was indeed a good place. p>

Thinking of Zhou Weiji, who braved the wind and snow to go to Meixian County on this cold day, Lan Yi felt that it was not an easy job to catch fast. p>

"Second brother, the pot doesn't need to be installed, and then use this cauldron to boil pig food." Lan Yi's kitchen has three pots, which is also convenient. p>

Wang Linxi nodded, put the pot at the door of the kitchen, and Liu looked at Lan Yihong's fluttering little face and hurriedly pushed her into the kitchen: "Sister-in-law, it's hot in the greenhouse, you hurry up and stay in the house to stay don't suffer the cold." The two children are still in the greenhouse, I'll go and take them out, my mother-in-law said that she will send the children with her, and we are afraid of burning the children when we fry things here. ”p>

Lan Yi nodded, the weather was much colder after a heavy snowfall, and there were fewer people playing dog holes and kicking juju in the wheat field. After all, playing with these in the snow at noon is two feet of mud, so Yu'er and Daifuku are also staying at home these days. p>

The five of them stayed in the kitchen and spent three days to fry the chestnuts that Lan Yi thought were suitable, and during this period, the second uncle and aunt did not miss it. The fragrance of Lan Yi's fried chestnuts with sugar gradually drifted away, causing Sister-in-law Niu to run with cow eggs to see the excitement, Lan Yi only said that she was thinking about new food, and Sister-in-law Niu was also an eye-catcher and didn't ask much, she was busy pickling sauerkraut these days, just waiting to sell silver in another month, and there were not a few people in the village who were busy with this matter. p>

Three days later, the whole family sat around Lan Yi's house, staring at a large plate of sugar-fried chestnuts on the table. The chestnuts are bright in color and fragrant, and they are sweet and delicious when peeled off, Lan Yi actually felt that they were not bad at all compared to modern sugar-fried chestnuts, and after eating one, she smiled: "It's even better than what I've eaten before." ”p>

The joy and satisfaction of success drove smiling faces, and several children rushed to eat fried chestnuts with sugar. p>

"Sister-in-law, I really can't eat anymore." Liu has eaten too many half-finished sugar-fried chestnuts in the past few days, and now he is uncomfortable looking at them. p>

Chen also nodded in agreement: "Yes, I can't even smell the smell of chestnuts." ”p>

Wang Linxi and Wang Linyuan glanced at each other, shaking their sore arms, this fried chestnut is really a hard work. p>

Lan Yi looked at the wonderful expressions of the four people with a smile, and asked a few children: "Children, is it delicious?" "The kids didn't eat much of the test and still have a normal sense of taste. p>

Yu'er and Dafu nodded and said that it was delicious, the second girl was too young and only gave her one bite, and the baby and the big girl only had one each. p>

"It's delicious, my mother still wants it." Yu'er and Dafu shouted, and a few small ones also looked at the chestnuts to express the same meaning, and the things were really delicious! p>

"Bao'er,, what can I do with this black hand of eating?" Li Shi frowned at the brown sugar on Yu'er and Daifuku's hands. p>

"Well, that's the only way, no matter how little sugar and sand you have, you will scratch the chestnut shell. It's better to wait for everyone to buy it back and peel chestnuts with chestnut claws. Lan Yi drew a picture and asked Second Uncle Wang to find a blacksmith to hit a bunch of chestnut claws the size of his thumb, which was quite handy. p>

"It's delicious. Sister-in-law, how much is the right pound for our chestnuts? "Liu is most concerned about how much money he can make. p>

"Second brother and third brother, what do you think?" Lan Yi turned her head and asked. p>

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