Popular peasant wife: mountain man lacks training

Chapter 396

Seriously counting the few days at the end of the year, Geng Sang is much busier than Lu Nanchuan. After the small episode of writing Spring Festival couplets, Geng Sang has been busy packing up all kinds of little things again.

Fortunately, there were only Lu Nanchuan and Geng Sang in the family, so the preparations were not so complicated. In winter, it gets dark early, and the day passes in a flash.

The next day when I woke up and opened my eyes, it was already dawn. The breakfast was corn grits porridge made by Lu Nanchuan, stewed egg custard, and the two of them shared half of each. Radish sticks.

After breakfast, Geng Sang first asked Lu Nanchuan to take out the peanut oil from the oil jar and put it on the stove which was still warm.

Peanut oil has long been frozen into a semi-fluid in this freezing weather. It is not easy to pour it out when cooking in the afternoon. Put it behind the stove in advance, and the oil will slowly melt by itself with the residual temperature.

Geng Sang took a look at how the batter in the cauldron was doing. Last night Geng Sang deliberately lit a fire before going to bed, so the batter was ready for dough.

Divide the soft batter into two pots, Geng Sang pastes the noodles for steaming steamed buns in the afternoon first, puts them in the big pot and waits for it to rise again before kneading the dough and steaming steamed buns.

After finishing these, I started to prepare the batter for deep-fried dough sticks. If you want to fry delicious and soft fried dough sticks, the dough should neither be too soft nor too hard. While kneading the flour, I stopped when I saw that it was almost done.

Just like the previous pot of noodles, you need to wait until the dough is developed before proceeding to the next step.

Put the two pots of dough in the two pots and cover them, so that Geng Sang can free up his hands to do other things.

"Lu Nanchuan, is the stove in the sundries shed working?"

When meeting with Geng Sang earlier, Lu Nanchuan was sent to clean up the stove in the sundries shed.

The stove in the sundry shed was repaired when Lu Nanchuan used it to make paper, and when he was cooking bamboo, he didn’t expect to have his own workshop so soon, so the clay stove was not dismantled, but it hadn’t been used for a long time. Lu Nanchuan needs to tidy up the sundries.

"It works. I've packed it up and cleaned it. There's no dust left." Lu Nanchuan sprinkled water on the adobe floor of the sundry shed, and immediately felt that the shed was much cleaner.

"Alright then, go and get the clay pot, wash two bowls of red beans, and add water to boil."

Geng Sang confessed to Lu Nanchuan that she had heard from Fang that there was a custom of steaming red bean buns and jujube buns during Chinese New Year, so she thought about steaming a few to try.

While telling Lu Nanchuan to do these things, Geng Sang didn't stay idle. He cut up the lotus root slices to be fried and piled them up. He also cut up the meat to be fried in the afternoon and marinated them to make the meat tasty.

It seems that there are not many things to do, but it is really labor-intensive work to do it. After finishing all these and rolling the hemp leaves to be fried to dry on the grate, it is already noon.

Lu Nanchuan looked at the fire and saw that the red beans were already cooked, so Geng Sang and Lu Nanchuan simply drank red bean soup and had lunch with steamed buns and pickles.

After lunch, Geng Sang became even busier. The noodles for steamed buns had already been rolled out, and the noodles for fried dough sticks were about to be starched again. He only had two hands, and he was flustered and panicked before clearing the table.

"Lu Nanchuan, come and help me starch this basin of noodles. Use warm water and knead the noodles to make them firmer and softer. You starch first, and I'll take a look later."

(End of this chapter)