Chapter 142: Tofu Comes Out
Jin Zhuang handed over the money with one hand and delivered the goods with the other, and after purchasing the things that satisfied him, he didn't even accept the fur, and returned directly with paper, ink, pen, inkstone and complete sets of farm tools.
With Jin Zhuang as a foreshadowing, Gu Lan took out the soybeans much more smoothly.
Everyone thought that Gu Lan was a strange thing that they bought from Jin Zhuang, and when they saw that Gu Lan was digging quicklime and grinding beans with a grinding plate, they all came to see the excitement.
In particular, a few children in the village who have not yet reached enlightenment have pigtails on their heads, and they eat with relish with their fingers in their mouths.
Gu Lan moved out and had been soaking beans for a day, and after making sure that they were almost soaked, after breakfast, she began to grind beans in the old house.
She picked up a pot of beans by herself, and before she left the ground, Aji came over and naturally took it from her hand, "With me here, what are you still asking you to do this?" ”
Gu Lan smiled, "It's not heavy, it's okay." ”
Aggie didn't speak, and he didn't tell her to touch the pot, but poured the beans into the grinding disc, and Aji pushed the grinding, and she was responsible for sweeping the beans, and found a wooden basin underneath it, and poured some water and some beans.
After a while, the beige soy milk flowed out of the grinding plate and into the wooden barrel.
"Hey, you can really squeeze something!"
The women of the village who came to see the excitement with their children in their arms cried out in surprise, they held the children, and they did not simply look at the children, put the children aside, they still had to do the work in their hands, either rubbing the thread, or cutting the thread, and some people were cutting red silk.
Children who are not yet five years old and cannot go to private schools run around in groups, and in the spring, when they take off their heavy winter coats, the children laugh and play like little swallows.
Occasionally, men would pass by the doorway, seeing how lively it was, and poke their heads in to ask what they were doing.
Someone replied: "Lan girl is making tofu!" ”
"What is tofu?"
As soon as the word spread to the hundreds, everyone in the village soon knew that Gu Lan seemed to be making a new kind of food, called tofu.
Some people don't even want to do the work in their hands, they just want to come and see the fun.
Without him, Gu Lan's way of eating tofu is too tempting!
As soon as there were many people, someone took over the work of grinding beans for Aji, and asked Aji to rest, and Aji helped set up the firewood and wanted to boil water.
But how could those women see him as a good person doing these things, and immediately drove him away, "How can you let you do this, go to the side and accompany your daughter-in-law, it's different when you just get married, you two are tired of being together all day long." ”
When Gu Lan heard this, she glanced back, and was bumping into Aji's smiling gaze, when everyone saw it, they started to coax again.
Only children were obsessively interested in food, and pulled Gu Lan to ask her to continue: "Sister Lan, what is a tofu brain?" Tell me about it! ”
Gu Lan had no choice but to tell them: "Tofu brain, it tastes like eggs, tender and tender, sprinkle some chopped green onions, add some soy sauce and mustard, it's salty, love sweet, add some sugar water, put a few honey-soaked bayberry, if it can be chilled again, it tastes." ”
"Ouch, don't talk about it, look at this kid, it's almost dripping to the ground!"
Gu Lan looked down and saw that the child named Tiegen in the village was dripping from the corner of his mouth with a sparkling saliva.
Everyone laughed, but after the laughter, they all rose up with a sense of yearning, although they don't know what soy sauce is, but sweet tofu brain, it makes people like it when they hear it!
They have bayberry in the mountains, to June and July, when the bayberry is ripe, they have eaten bayberry, sweet and sour, eat too much will be inverted, but honey-stained bayberry, still cold!
Even adults drooled when they heard it.
"Sister Lan, when the bayberry is ripe, let's go to the mountain to pick the bayberry to make honey-stained bayberry, okay?"
Gu Lan also began to drool, sucked a little, nodded in response, the children in the mountains don't have any snacks, they usually rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and the adults don't allow them to enter the mountains, so they can only pick some wild grasses and wild fruits.
Nowadays, Xiaolongkan is different, the people in the village dare to go into the mountains, there are all kinds of edible weeds in the mountains in spring, and sometimes adults will pick some and bring them back to the children to eat.
Some people are curious, "Are the beans in the caravan outside expensive?" Can we grow our own? ”
Thinking of so many ways to eat such a good thing, the people in the village couldn't help but think carefully.
Last year, they found out that the kudzu can eat, they haven't been hungry all winter, and now they don't worry about being hungry, who doesn't want to make life better!
People are like this, their desires are not satisfied, when they are hungry, they just want to fill their stomachs, and when they are full, they want to eat well, and when they eat well, they want to eat fresh.
After a good life, I don't want to live a hard life anymore.
Gu Lan just grasped their mentality, and only then did she think about getting used to their appetites.
"Is it difficult to make tofu?"
"It's not hard."
"That's done?"
"Not yet," Gu Lan said as she asked people to put the ground and filtered bean juice into a large pot to boil, the thick white bean juice was tumbling in the pot, exuding a faint jerky smell, but the more you cooked, the thicker it became.
Skim off the foam, stir to prevent the bottom from sticking, cook until the heat is about the same, and pour in some water to cool down.
Then, Gu Lan took out a wooden bucket from the side, which was filled with quicklime water like clear water, she scooped a scoop and poured it into the pot, like a miracle, under the noses of everyone, the thick white and smooth soybean milk slowly condensed into flocculent......
"This is tofu brain," Gu Lan asked someone to bring bowls, arrange them in rows, scoop two spoonfuls into each bowl, there is no sugar or honey-stained bayberry, and there is no soy milk when it is made into a salty taste, only some salty mustard, add a little, and the hot bean curd is brought to everyone, although there is not much seasoning, but everyone eats it amazingly.
"This thing is gone as soon as it enters your mouth!"
"I haven't tasted it yet, it's gone, tsk, it tastes pretty good!"
The people in the village soon discovered that this kind of food called tofu brain can be eaten even by the elderly and children!
Gu Lan took out thirty catties of beans at one time, and all of them were grinded, and just in the molding step, there was almost not much left.
Gu Lan didn't hide her secrets, and hurriedly took out a pot of beans to continue grinding.
The people in the village were honest enough to know that it was impossible for them to eat enough, and the second time, they only scooped some for some old people and children, and everyone else watched with amazement.
This time, the ordered tofu is put into the prepared tofu frame, and the burlap is pounced on the door, and the wooden board is pressed with a heavy object, and it doesn't take long for the tofu to take shape.
Gu Lan asked people to remove the heavy object, took down the wooden board, a large square of tofu was neatly placed there, she held a knife, cut horizontally and vertically, cut neatly, she picked up a piece with her hand, and everyone who saw it had straight eyes.
It's really solid! Hey, that's amazing!