Chapter 319 Butter Cookies
The body's temperature drops, and supplementing sugar can better maintain the body's heat supply.
It also provides emotional value.
Now, in addition to eating and drinking at home, the two of them have to spend an hour every day exercising.
It’s not that Zhao Yeqing is afraid of getting fat, it’s just that exercise can help prevent the occurrence of winter depression and provide calories to ensure physical fitness.
After drinking the milk, she felt her body warmed up from the inside out, and she stood up and jumped up and down on the spot.
While jumping around, he poked his head out from behind the curtain to see if Mu Xi had finished cutting his hair.
Mu Xi had just finished cutting the last section. "I'm done. I'll take down the curtains first."
At the current temperature, the curtains with gaps no longer provide much insulation, so Mu Xi took them down. Now the temperature between the front and back of the room is not much different, and only the area near the fireplace feels warm.
The two of them worked together to nail the curtains to the ceiling. The ceiling was made of red bricks and cement, and was reinforced with wooden beams. If they had to nail it, it would be best to nail it to the wooden beams, but the beams were close to the fireplace, and if they nailed it there, the space would be a little small.
Zhao Yeqing thought it was nothing, "Just nail it on the beam. It will be warmer in a smaller space."
The canvas was very heavy, and a nail had to be hammered in at short intervals to keep it propped up. After the two men had nailed the canvas curtain, they were thinking of increasing the fire to try out its warmth-keeping effect.
"Bang!"
The glass next to the fireplace suddenly shattered and broke, with glass shards falling all over the floor, scaring the dogs that were warming themselves by the fire so much that they all raised their heads.
"Let me do it, you don't have gloves."
Mu Xi stopped Zhao Yeqing who was about to step forward and asked her to get a broom for him.
Clean up the glass shards on the ground, and also clean up the glass shards stuck on the floor mat.
Zhao Yeqing walked to the window. When the cold air from outside rushed in, it was a puff of white smoke, just like the white mist when you open the freezer section of a refrigerator in the summer.
The glass was shattered so completely that nothing remained on the window frame.
"It must be too cold. This single layer of glass can't withstand it."
When it first started snowing, they said they would wait until the snow stopped before replacing the windows in the tourist area. The windows there are made of three layers of thick glass, so this situation will definitely not happen.
But then it got dark and I didn't have time to do it.
The two had just finished dealing with the curtains and were thinking that they could finally get some warmth, but now there was a hole in the window and they had to continue repairing it.
Since there was no spare glass, the two of them simply cut off a piece of thick canvas. It was waterproof anyway, so it wouldn't be afraid of rain or snow, and it wouldn't freeze and crack.
Zhao Yeqing also took a piece of unprocessed wool felt and canvas, sewed them together and nailed them on, which can provide some warmth.
Anyway, the lack of a window does not affect the lighting.
Don’t deal with the other windows until they are broken. Put the remaining canvas in the house for easy access.
There were no gaps for air to escape, and the temperature in this small sealed space gradually rose after a while.
Finally it stabilized at five degrees above zero.
Zhao Yeqing was already very satisfied with this temperature.
"It's not bad. With our half-baked heating equipment, it's already very difficult to keep the temperature above zero."
Mu Xi also breathed a sigh of relief. He originally thought that winter would only last for April or May at most, but he didn't expect that it has been more than four months and the temperature is still dropping. The insulation facilities are not perfect and the sun has not come out yet.
He could feel that Zhao Yeqing was becoming increasingly depressed at home, and he was most likely to get sick in such a situation.
Women are more emotional and more sensitive than men. Winter depression is also called seasonal affective disorder, and the incidence rate in women is much higher than in men.
I improved the warming facilities today and I could feel that her mood was obviously higher than in the previous few days.
Zhao Yeqing took off his heavy coat and finally felt a little more relaxed when he was in the house. Now when they went out, they wore three layers of clothes inside and three layers outside, which added up to seven or eight layers. Even the socks on their feet had to be worn in two or three layers.
The shoes are also covered with a non-slip animal leather cover on the original basis, so that the feet will not be frostbitten when standing in the snow.
When the floor heating warms up again, the dog no longer needs to huddle around the fire and can go back to its own nest.
Otherwise, every time I need to use the stove to cook, it is inconvenient for the dog to lie by the fire while cooking, and I can't drive him away.
Xiaohua's tail hair was almost burned off by the fire.
Today's floor heating was installed, and she drank another glass of sweet milk. She felt in a good mood and thought that sweets were indeed useful, so she wondered whether she should make some snacks.
Now there was no way to go out and use the homemade oven, so Zhao Yeqing asked Mu Xi to take out the oven from the pile of small appliances collected from the tourist area.
I never used it before to save electricity, but now it’s not a waste of electricity to use it occasionally during special periods.
She was too lazy to bother, so she just planned to make some cookies.
The small cookies are very easy to make, no kneading or fermentation is required.
Just mix flour, milk, butter, eggs, sugar and other ingredients together, put them in a plastic bag, cut a hole in the plastic bag and use it as a piping bag.
Just squeeze the batter into lumps on a tray and bake in the oven.
Except for the rather troublesome step of whipping the butter, everything else is very simple.
He didn't bring the egg beater. Last time, when there was no egg beater at home, Mu Xi beat the eggs by hand, and it was the same this time.
Zhao Yeqing also took out the coffee powder he brought back from Meishan. He also found a lot of coffee powder in the trunk of the convoy. He took out two bags and mixed them with the batter to make some coffee-flavored cookies.
Two plates of cookies were put into the oven with plenty of butter. Soon a rich buttery aroma wafted from the oven. The aroma was so strong that it was a bit intoxicating. The two even opened the curtain to let in some fresh air.
After what seemed to be a ding sound, Zhao Yeqing quickly pulled out the plug.
Opening the oven door, Mu Xi took out two baking trays wrapped in thick towels.
The original cookies are golden yellow, and the coffee-flavored cookies are gray-brown. Cookies are delicious whether they are cold or hot, but they have a stronger aroma when they are hot.
It was too hot to hold in the hands now, so Zhao Yeqing took a pair of chopsticks and gently poked the cookies a few times to make them fall completely off the baking tray.
Pick it up and blow on it before putting it into your mouth.
The cookies are so crispy that they crumble into pieces. You don't even need to chew them; they can crumble into pieces just by touching them with your lips.
The biscuits melt in your mouth, followed by the aroma of milk and butter, accompanied by a sweet taste, spreading in your mouth.
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