Farmer's happy event

Chapter 24 Try Making Preserved Fruit

Chapter 24 Try Making Preserved Fruit
After lunch, Lianzi couldn't wait to make preserved apples.She was an out-and-out foodie in her previous life, and was proficient in many ways to make food, so she knew a little about the method of this preserved fruit.

To make dried fruit, it must either be dehydrated or dried.Under the current conditions, dehydration is definitely impossible, and for now, we can only try drying.

As for how to bake, this is another problem. It is definitely not possible to steam directly in the pot.

"Why don't you try steaming on the kang?" Lianzi thought about it, and then started to act.

"What are you going to do, girl?" Seeing that Lianzi had even lifted the quilt on the upper bed, Yang asked in puzzlement.

Lianzi carried the quilts to the stools that Liu Jingren had made in the morning and put them away, and said, "To make preserved fruits, try steaming them on the kang."

"What?" Mrs. Yang was a little speechless, "Just a few apples of yours can't be placed on a plate, and you still have to put them on the kang to burn?"

Lianzi stopped her hands when she heard the words, thinking about it, there are only so few apples, if they are enlarged on the kang, maybe the effect will not be good.

"Mom, do we have clay pots at home?"

Yang put the quilt that Lianzi had carried down back on the kang, and replied: "I'm letting your father fix it, and it will be ready in a few days."

"No, I have to use it now." Lianzi muttered, and ran out in the blink of an eye.

Yang shook her head helplessly: "This child, sometimes you can be whatever you think about?" But what I have to admit is that she really can be whatever she thinks about.

When Mrs. Yang saw that the kang had been paved, Lianzi came back not long after, holding a clay basin the size of a washbasin in her hand.After asking, I found out that it was borrowed from Huzi's house.

It takes a long time to make preserved fruit, and there is not enough firewood at home. Lianzi asks Yang's help to boil a pot of water and boil the apples.I took my sisters out to collect firewood.

After returning, Lianzi piled up the firewood collected in the stove, lifted the lid of the pot, and saw that the skin of the apple was wrinkled as she expected.

She took out the apples, put them aside to cool down, rolled up her sleeves, and began to tear the peels.Boil it in boiling water to make the peel easier to fall off.Fortunately, apples are easy to peel after being boiled in boiling water. For other fruits, you can only peel them with alkali.

If the skin is used to make preserved fruit, firstly it will affect the taste, and secondly, the skin is too hard to chew, so it must be removed first.

After peeling off the skin, Lianzi cut an apple into four pieces, stacked them neatly in the clay pot, and continued to add firewood to the stove.

The three elder sisters watched curiously, and Yang couldn't help asking: "How can you do it when you are a child?"

Lianzi smiled mysteriously: "Mother, have you forgotten that I have been reading all these days?" The books she read were naturally about medicinal materials, but no one in the family could read, so no one knew about them.

"Can people be taught to do this in the book?" Yang was incredulous.

"Of course, I can also teach people how to cook a lot of delicious food. I'll read more and cook them for my parents and sisters." Lianzi's face was full of smiles.

"Can you know all those characters?" Li Zi interrupted suddenly.Lianzi has only been learning characters from Su Keyan for a few days?She didn't believe that she could understand it all at once.

Lianzi rolled her eyes in her heart, forgetting about this.Then he said: "What I don't understand, Brother Keyan read it to me." Anyway, Su Keyan is not here now, and even if he was, Lizi probably wouldn't ask him if he was, even if he did, he would He will definitely cooperate, so let's push him first.

At the same time, Su Keyan was rummaging through the old bookshelves at home, looking for some books about agriculture.For some reason, Lianzi asked him to look for it last time to see if there were any books about farming.He really couldn't figure out why Lianzi suddenly became interested in this.

"Last time you said that Huzi would teach me how to read." Li Zi suddenly remembered that it was because there were a lot more delicious food than usual during the Chinese New Year, so she forgot about it.

Lianzi added a handful of firewood to the stove and said, "When he comes back from school at night, you can find him."

"Then what if he doesn't teach?" Li Zi, who was always bold, hesitated at this moment.

This is completely impossible, so Lianzi said: "If he doesn't teach, I'll beat him up for you!" She seemed to have forgotten why she came here through time travel, if it wasn't because Huzi pushed Lianzi down She hurt her head, and I'm afraid she hasn't had a chance to live again.

"Come on," Yang was a little bit dumbfounded, "How can a girl be screaming at home all day?" He walked to the stove and sat down, pushed the lotus seeds aside, took the firewood in her hand, and poured it into the stove. add.

Lianzi moved four more new benches, one for each of her sisters, and sat down by herself, watching Yang's fire.

Fortunately, this pottery pot is used for pancakes, and the bottom is relatively thick. After cooking for about half an hour, Lian Zi lifted the lid of the pot, and saw that the apple flesh, which was still hard just now, was now soft and began to wrinkle. .

"How is it?" Yang asked.

"Not yet."

Mrs. Yang continued to add firewood to the stove, and it burned for less than half an hour. He listened to Lianzi, stopped adding firewood, and did not start the pot, just waiting for the temperature to drop naturally.

It's winter now, and the temperature is dropping rapidly, but it didn't cool down completely until after dinner time.

At this time, the preserved fruit is already in shape, but it is very hard, and it does not taste sweet.

The whole family couldn't help being a little disappointed, don't waste all this effort, the preserved fruit is not made, and the firewood and apples are wasted.

"Is there a mistake in the book?" Lizi began to question Lianzi's book, or she remembered it wrong.

"That's right, I have to soften up again." Lianzi touched her belly that had already been sung, and said to Yang: "Mother, let's cook first." Wait until the meal is over and then toss slowly.

Mrs. Yang agreed and started cooking dinner.

After the family had a simple dinner, Lianzi added a small amount of water to the cauldron, placed the tray for steaming buns, poured the dried apples on top, and lit a fire in the stove to add firewood.

It was not until the water in the pot was boiled dry that the fire was stopped and the damp heat in the pot was maintained for a period of time.

After the temperature dropped completely, the previously hard dried apples became soft and resilient.Put it in your mouth and take a bite, it's sweet and sour, with a bit of toughness, it's really delicious.

Lianzi shared a piece for each of the parents and sisters to taste, and after receiving unanimous praise from the whole family, they wrapped the rest in oiled paper, and planned to take it to the town when they had time, and give Zhang Zhang a taste. If possible, make them in large batches.

"Our lotus seeds are really capable, and they are blessed." Yang couldn't help laughing and said, then gave Liu Jingren another look and said, "Let's see if your father still calls us a pit!"

Because the preserved fruit has been made, and there is another way to make money, the whole family is very happy, and they sleep very comfortably at night.

The next day was sunny again, Lianzi got up early to process the medicinal materials picked yesterday, and put them in the yard to dry.

"Father," Lianzi called out to Liu Jingren, who was squatting at the door of the main room basking in the sun, "Go and help me return the clay basin to the old lady's house, and by the way, when can we borrow their ox cart. "

Liu Jingren agreed, got up and walked out, but he still didn't want to ask others to borrow things frequently.However, in the current situation of his family, there is nothing he wants, so he can only borrow it first.When spring begins, we must be diligent, strive to manage more crops and earn more money.

At this time, Lianzi was thinking in her heart that after the sales of this batch of preserved fruits stabilized, she should be able to earn a few taels of silver at least, and it would still be possible to buy all the things needed for living at home.Soon it will be the Lantern Festival, as long as the first month is not out, it is considered a year, and the sales should be good. She is still very confident in the things she makes.

Liu Jingren came back not long after he left, and brought back the news that Lianzi wanted to hear: they could use the ox cart tomorrow.

Lianzi was excited, but at the same time worried.Nowadays, the price of fruits is very expensive for them, and they can't even eat enough, so where can they buy them in large quantities?
"For the current plan, we can only do this first, and then discuss slowly," Lianzi thought in her heart.

The night before, Yang and Liu Jingren drove Zhou Tongli's ox cart home.After feeding the cattle some fodder, they set out for the town before dawn the next day.

Although the family is separated now, there are not so many eyes to stare at, but because they are going to discuss business, Yang Shi and Liu Jingren only brought lotus seeds, and the other children stayed at home.

The snow has melted, but fortunately the road is still frozen, so it is not muddy, and we arrived at the town with ease.

I didn't make an appointment with shopkeeper Zhang this day, but the guys in the shop all recognized them, so they didn't make things difficult, and let them into the backyard directly, and then went to inform shopkeeper Zhang.

Seeing that they didn't bring any goods this time, shopkeeper Zhang decided that he was probably going to talk about preserved fruits, so he cheered up.

He was not in a hurry, let Lianzi's family sit in the room first, and ordered the waiter to serve tea.

Lianzi was not in a hurry, took a sip of tea, and said leisurely: "This tea is good to eat, it would be even better if it is eaten with something else." She then turned to Liu Jingren and Yang Shi and said: "Really? Father, mother."

Liu Jingren smiled embarrassedly, Yang Shi nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, yes."

Lianzi put down the tea bowl, opened the precious preserved apple wrapped in oil paper, and handed it to shopkeeper Zhang: "Taste it and see if it tastes good."

Shopkeeper Zhang twisted his beard and smiled, stretched out his other hand to pick up a piece from Lianzi's hand, put it in his mouth, chewed it a lot, and then said: "It's not bad to eat."

What do you mean?It is obviously delicious.Lianzi understood what shopkeeper Zhang meant. She was a businessman, she understood.

"In that case, how much do you plan to ask for?" Lianzi smiled sweetly.

Shopkeeper Zhang pondered for a moment, then said: "It seems that the peak sales season will be over now, and it will be difficult to deal with overstocking. Otherwise, I will ask for fifty catties first, forty Wen per catty."

(End of this chapter)

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