Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 231 Ingredients
In the minds of two people with feelings, this may be the shortest road in the world. Along the runway paved with coal flowers, there is a curve and a straight road, and across the road is the street light of the dormitory trail of the agricultural machinery factory.

"Here we are." Jiang Shuyi said.

"But I still want to give it away."

"Farewell, you'll be on the basketball court if you go any further. My parents will see you."

"Shu Yi, let me ask you a question."

"Ah."

"Why don't you like us talking when we're alone?"

"This... I can't tell, I just like the quiet feeling." Jiang Shuyi lowered her head: "But if you don't like it, we can do it in another way."

"That's not necessary, I actually like that kind of feeling."

"Hands are warm." Jiang Shuyi took Zhou Zhi's hand out of his pocket.

"It's warmer in my heart." Zhou Zhi really could come here casually.

"You're like this again..." Jiang Shuyi wanted to run away again: "Then you come to see me first tomorrow, and we go to Xin Yi's house together?"

"Well, it must."

"Then goodbye." After Jiang Shuyi got the answer, she turned and ran towards the path under the street light.

"Goodbye, Shuyi." Zhou Zhi called out to Jiang Shuyi's back.

Back home, Zhou Zhi took out the squid and magnolia slices and distributed them. Winter bamboo shoots are not just bought, the traditional three-fresh squid is actually made with magnolia slices.

The so-called magnolia slices are actually dried slices of bamboo shoots made through special processing techniques.

This thing can only be made with moso bamboo shoots harvested from the winter solstice to the Qingming Festival of the following year.

Dig out the bamboo shoots first; shake off the sediment—do not wash them with water at this time; cut off the old bamboo shoots, put the bamboo shoots with their shells in a wooden steamer; baked inside.

Put the baked semi-finished product into a large bucket, soak it in water for about an hour, take it out, filter out the water, put it in a sulfur box and steam it for a whole day and night, and take out the finished product, which is white and crystal clear. Efficacy, easy to store.

This thing also depends on the part. The best essence is made of budding bamboo shoots before the beginning of spring. The bamboo shoots are smooth and round, yellow and white in color, tender, plump and plump, soft and fragile, shaped like pagodas and dragon horns. top grade.Therefore, it is also called "Baojian", "Golden Pagoda", and "Dragon Horn". In fact, it is basically not seen on the market.

The next level is called "Winter Pieces", which are made of winter bamboo shoots before the rain. The shape is split, the slices are flat and smooth, white in color, thick, tender, and closely spaced.

Further down the grade, there are "peach slices" and "chunhua".

Peach slices are made from bamboo shoots that have not been unearthed between the rain and the Jingzhe; spring flowers are made from spring bamboo shoots between the spring equinox and Qingming.

The most seen on the market is actually the last one - Chunhua.

The process of soaking hair is also different. If it is a spring flower, soak it in boiling water and cover the container tightly.

After ten hours, pour the magnolia slices into the pot and cook. After the water boils, boil it with a simmer for about 10 minutes. Remove the cold water and it will be ready.

What Zhou Zhi used was the treasure tip that Lao Mu got from the forest farm. The quantity is small and the price is high, and the texture is delicate, so it can no longer be treated like spring flowers, but must be soaked in cold water.

It is best to wash rice water, soak for ten hours, change the water every three hours, soak until the white stubble is not visible after cutting, it means that it has been thoroughly soaked, and then soak in warm water for half a day.

Soak the magnolia slices in rice water, and the next step is to process the squid.

The squid at home was brought by the third brother. Now that the third brother is an uncle, he has become a lot more stable. He opened a store in Manzhou. One-third of the sales are cosmetics, and the remaining two-thirds, The latest foam and lace bras and panties were blatantly hung up.

There are stockings, long tube nylon stockings of various patterns.

That facade is much smaller than Zhu Dazhang's lighting market, but the profit should not be underestimated. Even Zhou Zhi's mother and Tingting's mother are fans of the third brother. It's just that kind of underwear, and the two mothers are embarrassed to hang it on the big balcony. Only dare to secretly hang in the toilet.

Because Zhou Zhi came up with the idea, the third brother was also very grateful to the old Zhou family. Every time he came back from Guangdong, he would bring a bunch of local specialties or novelties that he didn't even know.

Those novel gadgets often hit thunder, for example, when Zhou Zhi came home one time, he saw his grandmother holding a buzzing black plastic stick against his neck and shoulders.

When Zhou Zhi came back, grandma put the stick in Zhou Zhi's neck: "Your third brother brought it back. He heard that it was called a massage stick, so he used it to show respect to me. He knew that my legs and feet were given to me by the son-in-law of Imperial Doctor Zhao." Good massage."

"Ah, this..." As a time-traveling man who has watched many movies, Zhou Zhi certainly knows the real function and curative effect of the stick in his grandmother's hand, but this thing is too advanced. Go out one, and the whole county is a sensation.

So he didn't dare to say it at all, he was afraid of being beaten to death by his mother.

Another time, the third brother gave Guan Tingting a coconut. The coconut was so big that it probably weighed more than ten kilograms.

Guan Dabin opened the coconut for Tingting, finally broke the coconut shell, and found something like brown silk inside.

Guan Tingting watched her father continue to peel the coconut, and waited until the watch turned into despair, and the coconut hadn't even been peeled.

The coconuts I got in the end were two-thirds less than the original ones, just a little more than one cup, and the taste was still bland, not even as good as the hot coconut juice made from Dongtian brand coconut flour. Guan Tingting was so angry that she burst into tears.

It was only because Zhou Zhi dug out the coconut meat from the inner shell of the coconut, mixed it with coconut milk made from coconut powder, and stewed a pigeon for Guan Tingting, and then used the coconut shell to make a bracelet for Guan Tingting, that was the cure.

However, apart from some unreliable novelties and oddities, most of the local products brought back by the third brother are quite popular with Zhou Zhi.

Among these local specialties, most of them are dried seafood that Jiachuan people don’t know how to cook at all—dried fish, dried shrimp, scallops, fish maw, squid, squid, shark’s fin...

Except for the ones that can be eaten directly, [-] to [-]% of them are not good at cooking, even a well-informed expert in catering like Tingting's mother. Comments, so they were sent to Zhou Zhi, which gave him a big advantage.

To make squid, first remove the squid head, then put water in the basin, let the dried squid submerge in the water and soak it soft first, then cut it into large pieces, and then soak it in hot water.

Usually, this process takes eight hours, but Zhou Zhi kept reducing the size of the dried squid during the process, and finally turned it into soft cubes, and kept the water temperature on a low fire in the middle, which cut the time in half.

Next, remove all the small squid cubes, and first identify the inside and outside of the squid.The wrinkled skin is the outer side, and the bone side is the inner side. When cutting, the inner side should face up, and the outer skin acts as a connection and cannot be cut.

Cut each piece of squid obliquely into diamond-shaped squares. This step is more delicate, and the force must be moderate. Cut to an appropriate depth without cutting off.

The next step is to formally soak the hair. At this time, baking soda water is used. Adjust the water temperature to about [-] degrees, then add the squid pieces and alkaline water to the thermos bottle, and close the lid.

After the squid is soaked, it will increase in size by four to five times. Now it has doubled in size, and the remaining three times of change will happen tonight.

The advantage of using a thermos bottle is that it can maintain the water temperature, greatly shorten the soaking time, and does not require so much alkali, which is also very beneficial for removing the alkali smell in the later stage.

After the two main ingredients were processed, it was already past eleven o'clock, and Zhou Zhi had enough patience in this regard.

(End of this chapter)