Running with the ball in the lean years, the evil mother-in-law and the whole family regretted it

Chapter 184 Mung Bean Sugar Water
When Bai Taotao passed by the alley and no one was around, she bought a twenty-pound bag of mung beans from the mall.

Then he walked towards Bai's yard with the bun in one hand and the mung beans on his shoulder.

When she returned to Bai's courtyard, Mrs. Bai Zhou was preparing to make breakfast.

"Mom, don't make breakfast. I brought you buns made by my uncle." Bai Taotao said, handing the big bun to Mrs. Bai Zhou.

Bai Zhou did not take the bun, but immediately took the small sack from Bai Taotao's shoulder, and then asked with a puzzled look on her face: "What did you bring here again?"

Bai Taotao: "I was in a hurry when I came back last time, and I forgot to bring you some mung beans. These are the mung beans that Youyi specially sent back."

In the North, mung beans, soybeans, and lotus seeds are actually available, but lotus seeds are tributes, and people outside basically can't eat them.

Unless the emperor rewards you.

Mung beans are a rare item. At this time, mung beans have not yet been classified as food. Therefore, if you want to grow mung beans in the North, you must first obtain approval before you can grow them.

This thing is quite expensive, it seems to cost seventy or eighty cents per catty. Last year during the famine, it sold for one hundred and twenty cents per catty.

Bai Taotao was a bit dumbfounded: "Cooking mung bean sugar water is actually the same as making porridge. The mung beans just bloom. We don't have to wait until the rice blooms to make porridge. The water is also similar to porridge." "

After breakfast, when Bai Taotao started to boil sugar water, the three sisters-in-law stood aside and followed suit.

Saying that, the aunts and sisters walked into the house.

Zhu Xiaomei: "Then wouldn't it be difficult for us women to have these mung beans in our hands?"

Bai Taotao: "I'm not very good at it either."

Bai Taotao first trimmed some mung beans and soaked them in cold water. After soaking for a while and then boiling them, they would bloom easily.

Bai Taotao: "I can't make mung bean cake, but I can cook mung bean syrup. But if you want to eat mung bean cake, I think it's safer to spend some money to buy it. It will save you from wasting such precious mung beans if you fail to make them." "

As for soybeans, they don't need approval like mung beans. Otherwise, Baitaotao wouldn't dare to open this tofu shop easily.

What's more, most of them will be purchased by imperial merchants and sent to Beijing and the palace.

Xu Daya was stunned, "I, I can't, then can you?"

Mung beans are generally used to make pastries. For some large families who can get approval, the mung beans grown in Zhuangzi are reserved in advance by special pastry shops. It is rare for mung beans to appear in major grain stores. After all, they are grown in Not enough for pastry shops to grab.

Xu Daya: "Then, then, then this mung bean... By the way, can my little sister do it?"

Zhu Xiaomei shook her head: "That thing used to be so expensive that I couldn't even think about it. Later, I only bought it from pastry shops and ate it. How could I make it myself?"

If soybeans are as hard to find and expensive as mung beans, then what sky-high price must she sell for the tofu she makes to avoid losing money! !
So for such precious mung beans, Xu Daya was surprised when he heard this: "Mung beans!! Why did you bring so many to us? What about you?"

Bai Taotao: "Don't worry, of course I still have it."

Xu Daya looked happy: "Then I'll make some, and I'll make some mung bean cakes later."

Zhu Xiaomei on the side asked: "Sister-in-law, can you do it?"

Can mung beans be boiled into sugar water?
Bai Taotao: "Of course it can. It can make cakes, and it can also boil sugar water. I will cook some for you to try in a while. It just so happens that the weather is so hot that it can relieve the heat and reduce the heat."

Xu Daya: "Then today we will be blessed again."

Bai Taotao said as she put the mung beans into a round pot, put it on the fire and started cooking.

When it's almost done, check to see if the mung beans have bloomed, then remove from the heat, open the lid and let cool.

After Bai Taotao cooked the mung bean syrup, the three sisters-in-law said in unison: "It turns out that cooking mung bean syrup is so easy." Bai Taotao said: "The last step is just to add an appropriate amount of rock sugar. Then let it cool down and chill it with well water. It tastes better."

Wang Xiaohua: "I'm in confinement, and it's cold. Doesn't that mean I don't have a share anymore?"

Bai Taotao: "Then you can drink some while it's hot, but you'll be fine if you drink less."

Wang Xiaohua: "Then I'll have a bowl now."

Xu Daya: "I'll have a bowl too."

Bai Taotao: "Then let's all have a bowl."

Then the whole family drank a bowl of hot mung bean syrup and sweated all over.

But he didn't drink Baichuan's. Instead, he let it cool down and chilled it with well water.

When he drank it after finishing lunch, he took a sip, it was cool and refreshing, and he felt that the heat in his body caused by cooking was instantly reduced.

"It tastes better when it's iced. It's ice cold, and it's especially antipyretic."

Wang Xiaohua looked at Bai Chuan's expression of enjoyment and said, "Where did you get the iced mung bean syrup?"

Bai Chuan explained: "You just drank your portion, and I chilled mine with well water alone. After cooking, it will be ice cold."

Xu Daya tried the mung bean syrup in the large porcelain vat that was still chilling. Because of the large amount, it only cooled down, not ice at all.

Bai Taotao looked at her sisters-in-law wanting to drink the cold mung bean syrup, so she said, "You guys wait for me for a while, I'll go out and I'll be back soon."

After saying that, Bai Taotao ran outside the house.

After a while she came back with a small cloth bag.

"Sister-in-law, please replace the water in this basin with well water. This water is already hot."

Although Xu Daya didn't understand what Bai Taotao wanted to do, she still followed Bai Taotao's request.

Take out the porcelain jar and pour the warm water in the basin into another basin. This warm water can be used to wash the dishes for a while.

Then she fetched well water and put it into the basin.

Bai Taotao took a pair of chopsticks, then put the porcelain vat of mung bean sugar water into the basin of well water, "Sister-in-law, please hold the vat of mung bean sugar water in place and don't knock it over."

"Sister-in-law, help me stir the water in this basin, and I'll add things to it."

Zhu Xiaomei held up the jar, Xu Daya started stirring, and Baitaotao added saltpeter to the water in the basin.

When the saltpeter slowly reaches a certain amount, the water in the basin quickly begins to cool down, and then the original water finally condenses into ice.

"Okay, sister-in-law, there's no need to stir, it will solidify in a while." Bai Taotao finished adding all the saltpeter in a small bag, and the basin of water turned into a basin of ice.

The whole family's eyes widened in shock after watching the water turn into ice.

"Little sister, what are you..." Bai Chuan couldn't believe his eyes, and he reached out to touch it. It was indeed ice, and then he realized.

Bai Taotao: "Shh~~~"

"I discovered this by accident. This thing can cool down when it comes into contact with water, but if you want it to condense into ice, you must add a sufficient amount. However, this ice is not edible, but it can be used to chill food."