"Ice cream? It can't be frozen in those plastic molds that cost a few dollars, right?"
Ji Yang looked at Xia Yu with suspicion.
"Oh, you even know this!"
Xia Yu was a little surprised. When he was a child, he didn't have money to buy ice cream every day, so he made it himself using that kind of mold. But the temperature was not high enough and the recipe was not right, so no matter what he made, it didn't taste like the ones he bought.
He didn't expect that someone like Ji Yang would know about this little gadget that only ordinary people could get.
"Don't you know that? We weren't born rich. We ate it when we were little, but I don't want to recall that childhood at all."
Ji Yangyi said honestly that not all the things in his memory were delicious. There were also some things that he was tired of eating and never wanted to eat again in his life.
"I don't want to either, but just follow me."
People have a compensatory mentality. The more they lack something when they are young, the more they will engage in retaliatory consumption when they grow up.
There is also a reason why Xia Yu built a small dairy factory on the farm.
"here it is?"
Following Xia Yu into a spacious room, Ji Yang saw machines everywhere.
"This is Sherlock's milk factory. Although it's a little small, it can't compare to other people's chocolate factories."
Xia Yu made a foreign joke, the chocolate factory refers to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", a very good children's book.
When he read it as a child, he wished he could have his own snack factory like Charlie. Unexpectedly, after many years, he achieved this goal with the help of the system.
"Then you are really awesome!"
Ji Yang couldn't help but say.
"Let me see what's in here: sterilization equipment, ice cream machines, popsicle machines, filling machines, butter production lines. Damn, you even have a temperature-controlled cheese fermentation room. This is even more fashionable than a temperature-controlled wine cabinet or a constant-humidity tomato room!"
The cheese fermentation room was added later. Because Xia Yu cooked more Western food for a while, he wanted to try making it himself. Now it is very successful, and the shelves inside are full of fermenting cheese.
"It's alright, I just messed around with it myself, but only the first batch of cheddar cheese is ripe. Want to take a piece back?"
After several months of maturation in the fermentation room, the first batch of cheddar cheese is ready to eat. However, due to lack of time, the taste is sweet. If you want a stronger taste, you have to wait for one or two years.
"Cheese and red wine go together; the more you drink, the better. I won't be polite then."
It is Ji Yang's good habit to take responsibility for his mistakes, but this thing is really rare. Not many of his friends are as good at playing it as Xia Yu.
"Then let's make ice cream!"
Xia Yu was a little impatient, after all, the last time he had ice cream was in the summer.
"Okay, I'll help!"
Ji Yang couldn't help with slaughtering and skinning the sheep, but he could still help with making desserts.
The two took out five 1L boxes of milk from the freezer, all of which had been sterilized and bottled by Uncle Tai in the morning.
At this time, Dahua is in the peak period of milk production. A small portion of the fresh milk that Sanhua cannot finish will be bottled into paper cartons, and the rest will be made into butter, cream, and cheese. In short, no milk will be wasted.
Beat the eggs, add sugar and cornstarch, mix in the sweetened milk and mix until it becomes thick.
These steps sound complicated, but Xia Yu has become familiar with them after doing them a few times. He doesn't even need to weigh many ingredients. He is the most precise human scale and just goes by his feeling.
Seeing Xia Yu so sophisticated and confident, Ji Yang couldn't help but complain in his heart, this guy must have grown up eating weights!
In short, by half past ten, Xia Yu had already started the ice cream machine, and the three flavors of ice cream, original, strawberry, and pineapple, began to freeze quickly.
"How about it?"
Xia Yu asked as he handed Ji Yang a pineapple-flavored ice cream.
"He looks okay, but not as handsome as Xue Zhonggao."
Ji Yang was talking about a popular ice cream that usually sells for 15 yuan a stick and looks very good.
"Don't worry, it's not as delicious as mine, nor as expensive. Xia Ji had a limited edition in August, and they sold for 100 yuan each, and they were sold out."
There are many people in Shanghai who are not short of money. Many people think that one hundred yuan is a great value, but Xia Yu is also not short of money. He just wants to give back to old customers and does not expect to make money from this.
"Really? Let me try it."
Ji Yang took a bite as he spoke. The coolness that penetrated his heart spread from his mouth along his esophagus to his whole body, followed by the extreme density and rich sweetness.
"Wow, this ice cream is delicious."
Unable to resist taking another bite, Ji Yang spoke vaguely with his mouth frozen.
"It's delicious, it's delicious!"
Xia Yu picked up an original flavor one and took a bite.
Well, he still likes the pure milky flavor of the original flavor.
While eating the ice cream, the two of them put the remaining ice cream into the paper sealing machine. He prefers this kind of packaging with a sense of age, and now retro is synonymous with high-end. In short, it is very classy.
After everything was packed and thrown into the freezer next to them, the two of them carried the remaining ice cream into the ice and snow world outside, and the artistic conception came back.
"Old Xia, are we brothers?"
Ji Yang suddenly said to Xia Yu, he knew something was wrong as soon as he heard it.
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
"Yes, so are you paying for all the ice cream this summer, brother?"
Hey, I thought it was a big deal, just ordering ice cream, he just held the big flowery XX and sucked it directly, and Xia Yu didn't stop him.
"No problem, I'll have someone deliver it to your door when the time comes."
After making an agreement between brothers, the two of them finished the last bite of ice cream.
Looking up at the time, they saw it was almost eleven o'clock, so they started walking back, all the way to the big kitchen.
Lunch was simple. I caught a fish from the pond and braised it, cut a piece of bacon and stir-fried it, and added two stir-fried seasonal vegetables to make a simple lunch.
The highlight of the day will be in the evening. A truly good pot of soup requires a long time to cook, and the same goes for the meat.
Not only did the meat need to be drained of acid, but Uncle Tai and his wife had already washed all the mutton offal and were ready to take it back for Xia Yu to cook a pot of spicy mutton offal.
Like cows, sheep are full of treasures that make people unable to stop eating them and drooling.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Xia Yu put several pounds of mutton with the right balance of fat and lean meat into the mutton bone broth. The meat would be taken out and cut into thin slices after it was cooked.
"Old Xia, is the soup ready?"
After waiting for a whole day, seeing that it was almost dark, Ji Yang became anxious.
But he doesn't know that the long wait is the best seasoning for delicious food, because after going through untold hardships and taking that bite, you will get the ultimate satisfaction.
"Why are you in such a hurry? I've been waiting for almost a year, and you've only been here for a few minutes."
Although he said this, Xia Yu still opened the lid of the pot.
The milky white soup slowly boiled, and the unique aroma of mutton instantly spread.
"See, it's fine now!"
First, Xia Yu used a colander to scoop out the mutton, then used a soup spoon to push away the codonopsis and wolfberry floating on the soup surface and scooped out a large bowl of mutton soup.
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