Farmhouse Pastoral Notes

Chapter 172 Sugar Stir-Fried Chestnuts Are Here
As the saying goes, life is endless, struggle is endless, Spring and Autumn has no big ambitions, but after time travel, she also set a small goal for herself, that is to stay one more day and earn one more day!
Today's hard work is all for future enjoyment. This is the necessary prayer before every meal in Chunqiu, which is as sacred and solemn as washing hands before eating.

Before the cooking started, her father, Yang Weibo, even ran over to ask her why she poured sand into the iron pot.

Chunqiu looked back at her father's face with a strong desire for knowledge, and really thought about it seriously, what did she say?Do you want to tell her father that this is the knowledge of physics, the principle of using medium to heat, and sand is the heat medium?Chunqiu frowned, if she said it, her father would not understand it, the gap between the two has been crossed for hundreds of years!
what!Yes, she can explain briefly, Chunqiu clenched his right hand and chiseled it on the open palm of his left hand.It's like a blocked thought suddenly burst out, "Dad, this is similar to the steamed rice at home, the sand is the same as the water in the pot." Isn't the rice made at home just sitting the pot directly in the water and steaming it? ?
"Eh? Then I know." Yang Weibo first glanced at the iron pot at home, then turned his head and said, "It's better to let the burr balls cook better. If you don't add water when steaming rice, there will be raw food in the rice."

Seems to be right, Chunqiu looked at her father and really understood, and was very happy, "That's right, that's it." Chunqiu showed her row of white teeth, which still shone a little under the sun.

After explaining the principle of frying with sand to her father, Chunqiu was ready to start. Before doing it, Chunqiu specially asked her mother for an unusable shovel to turn the sand in the pot.

The chestnuts that were grilled before have been left by Chunqiu, and they will be fried in a while. Chestnut itself is a nutritious dried fruit, which not only contains a lot of starch, but also rich in protein, fat, B vitamins, etc. Chestnut is sweet and warm in nature, which can "invigorate qi and invigorate the spleen, thicken the stomach, invigorate the kidney and strengthen tendons".

Moreover, regular sugar-fried chestnuts are fried with maltose and vegetable oil, but the maltose has not yet been released in Spring and Autumn, so after thinking about it, I can only use white sugar instead.

It’s not just putting the sand in. Although the sand dug from the river has been cleaned, it’s raw sand. You need to stir-fry the raw sand before adding chestnuts.

And the chestnuts are not poured directly. In order to ensure the taste and texture of the sugar-fried chestnuts, Chunqiu directly cut a small hole under each chestnut with a kitchen knife, which is convenient for flavor and frying.

Chunqiu first fried the sand in the pot with high heat, then poured in sugar, and then fried it with low heat. Of course, this process was done by Chunqiu instructing her father. After all, the sand weighed dozens of times, and it was only her small arms and legs. , can't move!

When her father's copy was almost done, Chunqiu directly poured the packed chestnuts into the pot, then mixed the chestnuts and sand evenly, and then fried them.

During this period, Chunqiu added an appropriate amount of brown sugar and salt, a little vegetable oil, and heated it slowly with a small fire. Chunqiu asked her father to work slowly, while standing on tiptoe to check the things in front of him, waiting for about twenty or so Minutes later, seeing that the chestnuts were roasted until they were shiny, and the cracks in the chestnuts were obvious, Chunqiu immediately asked her father to stop, put the lid on the pot, and immediately extinguished the fire without heating.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Chunqiu asked her father to open the lid of the pot, and a sweet and greasy fragrance wafted out, and the sweet and delicious sugar-fried chestnuts were officially out of the pot!
The chestnuts just out of the pot were still steaming, Chunqiu took the chopsticks aside, picked up a chestnut, took a few breaths, reached out to feel the chestnut, and put it in the palm of his hand after feeling that the chestnut was not too hot.

Chunqiu pressed both sides of the chestnut with both hands, and only heard a crisp sound, the hard shell of the chestnut was broken into two halves, exposing the tender yellow chestnut flesh inside.

Chunqiu broke apart the chestnut meat, put half of it into his mouth, and handed the other half to Yang Weibo who had been waiting for a long time.

Chunqiu chewed the chestnut in his mouth, and then swallowed it, "Father, the chestnut is a bit soft, stew it less next time." It's not as delicious as the later generations, but the taste is better than others.

After the Spring and Autumn Period is finished, all the things that can be changed have been brought up.

"Okay" Yang Weibai nodded, and then reached out and took out one with the hard shell removed, and put it in his mouth, "It's indeed a little soft, but also a little sweet." Yang Weibai felt that he put too much sugar before, so that his mouth tasted sweet .

Chunqiu glanced at her father, reached out and took out one and continued to eat. "Really? It feels okay." Chunqiu didn't realize how sweet it was, and felt that the taste was just right.

"Give mother a taste of those, and sell the rest in two days after the chestnuts are harvested," Chunqiu told Yang Weibo with a smile.

Yang Weibo only heard that Chunqiu wanted those to be sent to her mother, and his tone suddenly slowed down, "Hehe, your mother must like it." Yang Weibo thought that when Yuan Shi was young, he liked sweets the most, and when Yuan Shi was young It looks like pink petals are floating around Yang Weibai. The spring and autumn are receding all the time. The spring and autumn stains are marvelous. By the way, I can't help shaking my head and sighing. The man caught in the memory is really scary!

Mrs. Yuan was embroidering in the house. When she saw her daughter running in, Mrs. Yuan smiled and said, "Is this done?" This early in the morning, the father and daughter had been tinkering in the yard, and Mrs. Yuan naturally knew that the two of them What are you busy with?

"Well, mother, you can eat and eat." Chunqiu didn't go to the kang, but lay down on the edge of the kang and handed the hard-shelled chestnuts to Yuan Shi.

Yuan put the chestnut into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it into his stomach, and his tone suddenly became joyful, "It's very sweet."

After hearing this, Chunqiu narrowed his eyes, put some chestnuts in his hand on the edge of the kang, told her mother how to open it, then turned around and ran out the door. After a long time, the sugar on the chestnut shell should dissolve.

At night, when Hu Zi got his wish, he ate half a bag of chestnuts left by Chun Qiu.

In the following days, Spring and Autumn, they dared to harvest all the chestnuts on the chestnut tree before the chestnuts fell.

Carrying baskets on their backs every day at home has long attracted the attention of others. Many villagers don’t know why Yang Weibo would carry these useless hair cones back. Every time he asks, Yang Weibo always He laughed and said that the offal of this thing was kept as a chicken. Although the villagers didn't believe it, they still didn't ask.

Among them, of course, there are also people who watched Yang Weibo and the others pick them, but they don’t know how to peel them, and they don’t know how to make sugar-fried chestnuts. , It turned out that the chicken was really delicious, and the person who hit him by mistake also made Yang Weibo's panic come back, and the village gate didn't feel so suspicious.

In the early morning at the end of September, Chunqiu and his family got up early. Except for Huzi who went to the school, the rest of them had to go to Heishan Town, packed the chestnuts prepared in advance, brought the iron pot and stove, Yang Weibo Driving the ox cart borrowed from Daniel's house last night, carrying Yuan Shi and Chunqiu together, the family of three wandered to Heishan Town...

(End of this chapter)