small farmer

Chapter 110 Crystal Jelly
in the afternoon
Since the guests are leaving

Zhang Feng made dinner early
After the meal, the cute little girl Jiajia still reluctantly left with her parents; Zhang Lin's two classmates, Li Wei and Xiao Xue, also left.

And old classmate Liu Yiyi hurried back to deal with her own business, as for the two old people who continued to stay at Zhang Feng's house, they planned to stay here for a few more days.

Zhang Feng personally sent everyone to the entrance of the village. Because Liu Yiyi and Yang Guang both drove their own cars, two of Zhang Lin's classmates got in Liu Yiyi's car and drove to the county together. They stood under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village and watched them off. After leaving with the two cars, Zhang Feng turned around and returned home.

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time flies

In the blink of an eye, it was noon the next day.
At this time, the weather was extremely hot, and Zhang Feng, who was lying in the yard, had a sudden whim, and planned to make crystal jelly to let everyone relieve the heat.
So Zhang Feng went to the nearby mountains to pick fake physalis, a herb native to Peru, which is now distributed in many places in Southwest China.

Pseudophysalis is the main material for making crystal jelly. To be precise, its seeds (ice seeds) can be made into crystal jelly. This kind of plant is found on the nearby mountains, so Zhang Feng took a bag and went to the nearby On the mountain, pick the fruit of false physalis.

"Crazy brother, what are you doing?" A group of hairy children in the village saw Zhang Feng and ran over curiously and asked.

"Hey! It's you, Da Mao! I'm picking the fruit of crystal jelly." Everyone in the local area is used to calling fake physalis jelly. If you want to talk about fake physalis, these children may not know it.

"Oh! Crazy brother, you are going to make crystal jelly, how about we pick it for you?" The little guys swallowed when they heard that Crazy brother was going to make crystal jelly, thinking about eating crystal jelly on such a hot day, How refreshing that is.

"Okay, you guys help me pick them, and then I'll treat you to crystal jelly." Of course Zhang Feng knew what these greedy cats were planning, and said to them with a smile.

"Yeah!" "Brother Madman, you are so kind!" Five or six monkeys immediately cheered happily. The thought of the cool crystal jelly made everyone excited.

With the help of these leather monkeys, Zhang Feng's big bag was full in about half an hour. Zhang Feng reckoned and thought it was enough, so he stopped the enthusiastic leather monkeys and took everyone on the road. go home.

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"Brother, are you going to make crystal jelly?" Seeing Zhang Feng coming back with a big bag of fake physalis, Zhang Lin was overjoyed. It is really a pleasure to eat cold crystal jelly on such a hot day.

"That's right, Zhang Lin bring me out the dish basin."

"Understood bro!"

Zhang Lin immediately got into the kitchen, Zhang Feng was not idle, but went into the house to find a piece of gauze, and then went to the utility room to get some quicklime, preparing to make clarified lime water, because these things are used to make crystal jelly Indispensable.

After preparing these things, Zhang Feng mobilized the group of leather monkeys to help peel the fruit of the fake physalis and take out its seeds, that is, ice seeds, because this is what is used to make crystal jelly.

This process is relatively troublesome and the workload is the largest. Zhang Feng is very fortunate that he called such a group of brats, otherwise two or three people would have to work for a long time.

Because they wanted to eat crystal jelly, the bear children worked extra hard. After half an hour of hard work, they finally made all the ice seeds.

However, Zhang Feng's clarified lime water is also ready at this time, and Zhang Feng pours the clarified lime water into a clean large bowl, which will be used later when making jelly.

"Okay, it's finally time to start." Zhang Feng clapped his hands and called the Kaipi monkeys to start making crystal jelly,

The method of making crystal jelly is not difficult. First, put ice seeds into a cloth bag made of gauze, and then tie the mouth of the gauze.Put the gauze bag wrapped with ice seeds into a basin of clear water.

Then, like washing clothes, rub repeatedly to make the viscous liquid flow into the water in large quantities, and stop until there is no mucus or a large amount of foam is produced.

Then slowly pour the clarified lime water into the water basin just now, and stir clockwise in the basin with the other hand while pouring, until the hand clearly feels that the ice powder starts to solidify and thicken, then stop pouring.

"How long will the lunatic be stirring!" the little ones seemed impatiently asking.

"Hehe, it will be ready soon." Zhang Feng already felt that the crystal jelly in the water was about to take shape.Then Zhang Feng put the crystal jelly in the refrigerator to freeze.

"Crazy brother, why did you put it in the refrigerator?" The little ones became anxious, thinking that Zhang Feng didn't intend to feed them, so they hid it in the refrigerator.

"Hehe, if you don't put it in the refrigerator, how can the crystal jelly be cold?" Zhang Feng said with a smile.

"Oh!" The little guys waited patiently after hearing what Zhang Feng said.After about 10 minutes like this, Zhang Feng opened the refrigerator and saw that the crystal jelly in the basin had been completely formed.

Zhang Feng carried out the crystal jelly. Zhang Lin had already prepared a small bowl and spoon. The little guy couldn't wait, so he gathered around the basin containing the crystal jelly, swallowing silently.

Scoop out the crystal jelly, add brown sugar, sesame, peanuts, honey, etc., and a bowl of natural crystal jelly is ready. This is not something that is made with chemicals on the market.

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"Crazy brother, Da Mao was almost stung by a bee today!" After eating the crystal powder, Xiao Shitou said like Zhang Feng.

"How did Da Mao provoke the bees?" Zhang Feng knew that bees generally would not take the initiative to attack humans, and would only attack when they were frightened.

"Isn't it all your fault? If you hadn't pushed me, would I have almost hit a honeycomb?" Hearing what Xiao Shitou said, the honest Da Mao also got anxious and said angrily.

"I was not careful..." Little Shitou whispered.

"What, Da Mao, where did you find the bees?" Zhang Feng's eyes lit up when he heard that there were bee nests. Wild honey is a good thing, and you can't buy it in the market at all.

"It's in the back mountain where we often pick wild mountain bubbles." Hearing what Da Mao said, Zhang Feng secretly memorized the location and planned to go and see it by himself later.

But Zhang Feng didn't show his face. Harvesting wild honey is a dangerous thing. Zhang Feng must not dare to let these bear children know, let alone take them there. , so Zhang Feng is going to go quietly when no one is around.

After dismissing the group of monkeys, Zhang Feng immediately started to prepare. At first, Zhang Feng only wanted to get some wild honey, but then Zhang Feng thought, he might as well move the beehive to his backyard, so that the family can often eat authentic honey.

So Zhang Feng hurriedly made a beehive, took a full set of equipment for burning hornet's nests, and quietly entered the mountain.When he came to the back mountain, Zhang Feng found the wild beehive at the place Da Mao said.

The wild honeycomb is not big, about the size of a basketball, and the golden honey inside exudes a strong fragrance. Seeing such an alluring honey, Zhang Feng smiled.

Then he put on the equipment, fully armed, and carefully transferred the hive directly into the beehive. He felt the vibration of the hive, and the bees inside flew out buzzing. There is no way to start.

After covering the beehive and waiting for about ten minutes, the frantic bees finally calmed down, and then Zhang Feng walked home with a box of bees in his arms.

Fortunately, it was noon at this time, the heat wave was rolling in the air, and there was no one on the road. Zhang Feng successfully transferred the bees to his home. Finally, Zhang Feng put the bees in the corner of the backyard. This place is usually inaccessible, so it is very suitable for Keep bees.

The bees moved back home at that time, but unfortunately it was not so easy to get honey. In order not to affect the growth of honey, Zhang Feng only went to the largest hive to get out.

Put the honey into the Shau Kei with a clean vegetable bowl underneath, then slowly crush the honeycomb, and then wait quietly for the honey to leak into the vegetable bowl.

But at this time, the honey was still mixed with many broken honeycombs, so it could not be eaten directly. It needed to be filtered again with fine gauze, so that the impurities in the honey could be filtered out, and then Zhang Feng put the filtered honey into a jar. The honey extraction work is finally done.

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