Chapter 273 261: The popular youngest
Zhou Xiaoqian and her two sisters came running over with a few melons in their hands. "The melons are here. They're so sweet, as sweet as honey!"
"Auntie, try it!" Yang Chunyan took a piece, peeled off the pumpkin skin and took a big bite. "It's really sweet!"
Zhou Xiaowen picked up one and handed it to Zhao Huifang, "Mom, there are three nests!"
Seeing that she was still holding a bunch of radish pods in her hand, Zhao Huifang hurriedly said, "You can't eat radish beans. They're poisonous."
The roots of the wild gourd are rich in starch, sugar and protein. They are sweet and thirst-quenching when eaten raw, and they taste good when fried.
Large pieces of water melon can also be made into water kudzu powder, which has the effect of cooling and removing heat.
The seeds, stems and leaves of the wild gourd contain a toxin called rotenone, which is not edible to humans or animals, but can be made into pesticides to prevent and control insects, especially the larvae of the cabbage butterfly, the diamondback moth and aphids.
Zhou Xiaowen pinched the bean pods and said, "I won't eat them. Sister Xiaoqian said to throw some in the woods above, and we'll have wild gourds to eat next year."
Li Qiuyue smiled and said, "There are still so many wild melons in the sorghum field. Can you eat them all?"
"The ones grown in the fields are not as delicious as this!" Zhou Xiaoqian took a big bite, "Delicious, delicious!"
Yang Chunyan warned: "Eat less. Eating too much will cool your stomach."
"Yeah!" Zhou Xiaoqian swallowed the earthen melon, "Let's go to the earthen kiln."
Zhang Xiuxiang nodded, "Go ahead! Keep an eye on Ieyasu and don't let him go play over by the pond!"
"Got it!" The two sisters went around to the woods, buried the wild melon pods under a tree and then ran away.
Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law picked all the lantern fruits that could be picked on the hillside, dug a basket of lantern grass, and walked back down the mountain.
When they arrived at the wasteland, they saw Zhou Huaian and Zhou Huaishan plowing the fields, so they went straight home without saying hello to them.
Zhou's mother was collecting bean stalks in the yard. When she saw the men coming back, she said, "The cold water is in the bucket, and the lime water is ready."
"Let's get the ice powder seeds out first."
Zhou Xiaolin ran over when she saw Li Qiuyue, "Mom, I want to find my sister."
"Your sister is playing in the wasteland. She will be back soon."
Mother Zhou waved at her and said, "Come, grandma will take you to see your father plowing the fields."
She wanted to see how fast the tractor she bought for more than a thousand dollars could plow the field.
"Oh!" Zhou Xiaolin immediately let go of Li Qiuyue and ran towards Zhou's mother.
The sisters-in-law put down their backpacks, took out winnowing baskets, sat together, and shook the brown seeds inside the lantern fruit into the winnowing baskets.
After collecting about four or five taels of ice powder seeds, Yang Chunyan went into the house, found gauze, sewed a bag, put the ice powder seeds in the bag, rinsed them, put them into the cold boiled water in the bucket, immersed the gauze bag in the bucket, and rubbed it repeatedly with both hands.
The ice jelly seeds will produce glue after being rubbed in water. During the rubbing process, Yang Chunyan felt that the gauze bag became thicker and thicker. The glue inside became more and more with the movement of her hands, and the sticky liquid seeped out of the gauze bag.
After more than ten minutes, the boiled water in the bucket became viscous, with some fine bubbles.
Yang Chunyan rubbed the gauze bag vigorously until all the gelatin contained in the ice jelly seeds in the bag was squeezed out. Then she changed the gauze bag and filtered the pectin in the bucket into a porcelain basin to filter out the impurities that had escaped.
Take a bowl and scoop a proper amount of lime water into the filtered pectin. Stir clockwise from the bottom of the porcelain basin while pouring the lime water until you feel obvious resistance.
The ice jelly in the bowl begins to solidify like jelly. Leave the porcelain bowl aside and wait for the pectin inside to solidify completely. The crystal clear and chewy ice jelly is ready.
Yang Chunyan washed the gauze bag and walked to the steps. Zhao Huifang looked at her and smiled, "Only you have the leisure to make these foods for the kids."
"I promised them, so I can't go back on my word!"
"So they like to ask you and the youngest for food."
"Jia Ming and his friends didn't get along well with the youngest one before, but now when he sees his father, he treats him better than his old man."
"That's right. The youngest one is very popular now. Every time he goes to Ning'an, even my Xiaolin is looking forward to his return."
The sisters-in-law were chatting, and it didn't take long for them to get all the lantern fruit seeds out of the urea bag. By the time they washed the lantern grass and hung it up to dry, the ice jelly in the porcelain basin had solidified.
Yang Chunyan looked at the pure natural handmade ice jelly in the bucket. It was slightly yellow in color and had some bubbles in it. It was completely different from the ice jelly that Xiaoqian bought in her previous life, which was made by mixing ice jelly powder and was colorless and transparent like jelly.
She hasn't eaten handmade ice jelly for a long time, and she has forgotten the taste of pure natural handmade ice jelly.
He couldn't wait to take out the brown sugar water from the cupboard, and took out four bowls, and then took out the jar of fermented glutinous rice from under the cupboard.
The pot on the stove is filled with stewed Tremella soup, which is stewed over low heat until it becomes clear and thick. There are also some red dates in it, which makes you hungry just by looking at it.
Yang Chunyan scooped a lump of ice jelly into a bowl with a spoon, crushed it into small pieces with the spoon, added a spoonful of brown sugar, two spoonfuls of fermented glutinous rice, and a spoonful of cooled white fungus soup.
She picked up a bowl, ate with a spoon and walked out, "The ice jelly is ready, come and help!"
Li Qiuyue came forward to take a look and said, "It tastes good just by looking at it. My mouth is watering."
Yang Chunyan slurped up another mouthful and said proudly, "It tastes absolutely delicious. I can sell it on the street for ten cents a bowl!"
She took a few bites of the smooth and chewy ice jelly and felt that the ice jelly made from the ice jelly packets bought from the supermarket was different from the one she made herself, which was like drinking natural honey water and saccharin mixed with water.
Compared to ice jelly with a variety of condiments, she thinks the taste of brown sugar, fermented glutinous rice and white fungus is the best.
"Brown sugar, white fungus, and fermented glutinous rice. I think it's no problem to sell them for ten cents a bowl!" After seeing this, Zhang Xiuxiang and Zhao Huifang also got up and walked towards the kitchen.
After a while, the sisters-in-law sat around the small square table and ate two bowls of ice jelly in one go before they felt satisfied.
"Delicious!" Li Qiuyue wiped her mouth with a handkerchief. "On such a hot day, eating a bowl of ice jelly is such a treat! If we lived in Ning'an, we could bring two tables and a few straw stools to set up a stall on the street to sell ice jelly. It would definitely sell well!"
Zhao Huifang nodded, "Yes, it's more convenient to sell things in the city."
"Third sister-in-law is doing well now, she has become a businesswoman!"
"I can only talk, but when I ask you to do something, you have to do it."
Zhang Xiuxiang leaned back in the bamboo chair with satisfaction, "Chunyan, I think when they all come back, two porcelain bowls of ice jelly may not be enough!"
Yang Chunyan thought of the people at home, "There is still some lime water, I will go and knead some ice powder."
Zhao Huifang stood up and said, "I'll knead it. You and my second sister-in-law can take a basin of ice jelly to Grandpa and the old man."
"Okay, let's take one pot and leave the rest for the kids."
(End of this chapter)
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