Chapter 306 Glutinous Rice
mushroom?
Zhao Yeqing sat up in shock as if he was dying!
"Ahhh! Mu Xi! That Chaga!"
Mu Xi was so frightened by this that the carving knife almost pierced his hand. It took him a few seconds to realize what Zhao Yeqing said.
He said with a smile: "I told you that you would definitely forget it."
Zhao Yeqing was in tears. He had said before the summer that he would go pick the birch mushroom and he had vowed that he would never forget it.
Now that summer has passed for so long, the Chaga may have already died.
Zhao Yeqing collapsed back into the rocking chair, weakly saying, "I really want to go out and play..."
In the past, she would have wanted to tie herself to the bed during the weekends and not want to go out at all. But now, after staying at home for a long time, she really wants to go out and stretch her body.
After all, not wanting to go out and not being able to go out are not the same concept.
But it is impossible to go out now. When I wake up from a sleep, the snow on the windowsill is enough to block half of the window glass.
Every morning the snow had to be scraped off.
Now, Mu Xi also added a layer of spare straw mats used for the floor between the window and the curtains. After all, there would be no air leakage everywhere. The window glass was the coldest place, and covering it with one more layer would help increase the indoor temperature.
I can't go out, so the only thing I can think about every day at home is what to eat.
Before the Chinese New Year, the two said they would make some rice cakes in preparation. However, they later slaughtered the pig, prepared the New Year's Eve dinner, wrote couplets and pasted window flowers, and forgot about the rice cakes.
You can't make rice cakes indoors, but when Zhao Yeqing woke up this morning, he suddenly wanted to have a bite of it, and he blinked his big eyes at Mu Xi.
Mu Xi took a can of loquat canned food she had made earlier from the shelf, unscrewed the lid, took a spoon, put the food in her hand before walking out the door.
"Eat this first to satisfy your craving. The glutinous rice needs to be soaked for another day. I'll go get the glutinous rice now. The rice cakes will have to wait until tomorrow."
Zhao Yeqing looked at Mu Xi's responsive look and reflected deeply on whether he had gone a little too far. After all, making rice cakes could not be done in a warm house because it was too cold outside.
After eating half a can of canned fruit, Mu Xi brought in the washed glutinous rice and said, "Why don't we forget about the rice cakes and eat pearl meatballs instead?"
Pearl meatballs are a Hubei dish that Zhao Yeqing likes very much. The glutinous rice is washed and soaked, then made into meatballs with pork filling, and then coated with a layer of glutinous rice and steamed.
Mu Xi brought in a basin of glutinous rice, which had just been washed at the well. After walking a few steps back into the house, a thin layer of crushed ice had already frozen inside.
"Okay, then I'll bring in a piece of pork to thaw it."
Mu Xi placed the bowl of glutinous rice next to the fireplace and said, "If you want to eat something sticky, why not try glutinous rice balls or corn pulp cakes?"
Zhao Yeqing exclaimed in surprise, "Why didn't I think of that! Then let's make glutinous rice dumplings."
The method of making glutinous rice balls is simple. It only requires glutinous rice flour, starch, sugar and oil. It would be even better if you have milk. Now the cows at home have not given birth yet, so we can only use milk powder.
Traditional glutinous rice balls are the same thing as donkey rolls in some areas. The original method also uses pounded glutinous rice. However, it is cold outside now, so it is more convenient to use glutinous rice flour.
After making it, you can also dip it in soybean powder or wrap it with red bean filling.
Zhao Yeqing wanted to eat both. Soybean powder was ready-made, but red beans had to be boiled.
It would definitely taste better if you make it into a delicate red bean paste and wrap it inside, but that would be time-consuming. It would be easier to just boil the candied red beans and wrap them inside.
When there is plenty of time, Zhao Yeqing always chooses to be true to his tongue. Now that he has nothing to do, of course he would choose red bean paste.
But you have to soak it for a while before doing it.
Zhao Yeqing planned to use a pressure cooker to cook the red beans, so that the soaking time could be shortened to two hours.
By the time the red beans are soaked, the glutinous rice is also soaked.
Mu Xi was not in the house at the moment. The cows were about to give birth, so he would run to the breeding basement two or three times a day.
Zhao Yeqing put on his coat, walked to the next room, and brought in the glutinous rice flour that he had ground earlier.
The snow in the yard was knee-deep. The two of them would clear the path they were going to take every day, but it would be covered again within two hours.
Fortunately, the wind stopped after the snow fell, otherwise the snow would be blown into the eaves, and the area to be cleaned would be even wider. If it was not cleaned up, there would be no place to step when going out.
I should have brought the switch line of the yard light to the door of the house earlier. In the beginning, it was for the convenience of entering the yard to turn on the light and walking to the yard to turn on the light at night. So the switch was set in the middle as a compromise. Now it has become very troublesome to turn on the light.
Now, it would take about two minutes to walk to the switch, which is only ten meters away, and you might even slip.
The only option to get something is to use a flashlight.
Zhao Yeqing held the glutinous rice flour in one hand and a flashlight in the other, and tried to tighten his core strength in his waist and abdomen to move forward.
I was already moving very slowly, but I still almost fell.
Mu Xi just walked up and saw Zhao Yeqing staggering and almost falling. His heart instantly rose to his throat.
Fortunately, Zhao Yeqing stood firm, and Mu Xi came in less than ten seconds after he returned to the room.
"Just tell me what you need using the intercom. What are you doing outside? You almost fell."
The intercom had only been in her home for a short time, and she often forgot about it.
"I forgot, I'll definitely do it next time."
When Mu Xi saw her bring in the glutinous rice flour, he washed his hands in the basin at the door, then picked up the glutinous rice flour to make glutinous rice balls.
Zhao Yeqing started cooking the red beans when he went out to get the glutinous rice flour. It took about half an hour.
There was only one stove in the house, and glutinous rice balls had to be steamed in a pot. There was no spare stove at this time, so Zhao Yeqing stopped Mu Xi.
"Don't worry, wait until the red beans are cooked. Throw some leopard meat to them first."
After the snow, it becomes difficult for the leopards to find food. When the snow is lighter, they will go out, but when it is too heavy, they can only stay at home.
They prefer to go out rather than stay at home. Perhaps the brick wall they live in now is too narrow and too low, which makes them a little depressed.
After all, clouded leopards prefer to stay in trees in most cases.
The two of them would give them some meat or bones from time to time, sometimes ten pounds and sometimes five pounds. Anyway, there was no more, they could only ensure that they would not starve to death.
"It doesn't look like the snow is going to stop. Once we finish eating the thawed meat in the house, we'll go slaughter another pig."
There are also three leopards' dens, which also need to be repaired.
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