Reborn singer dad

Chapter 92 Maltose

I saw Aoki separated the two small wooden sticks, the maltose was not pulled into one and stuck to the small stick, and then he quickly pulled the maltose according to the figure of eight, Xiaorou opened her eyes wide and looked at Aoki, this scene made the little girl feel a little unbelievable. Same as acrobatics.

Su Wanyu was also very surprised, because she was from a good family when she was a child, and she seldom ate this kind of street snacks since she was a child.

Under Aoki's quick pull, the maltose gradually turned golden and slowly hardened. The old man looked at Aoki's skillful gesture and said, "Young students can do it."

Aoki’s method is really the traditional way of eating maltose. Long ago, maltose was eaten like this without sugar people, and then gradually evolved into sugar people, but sugar people are more ornamental than the taste of maltose itself.

And Aoki’s method can make the maltose turn golden and crispy, so that it won’t stick to the teeth. When I was young, many sugar sellers outside the school sold this kind of maltose with two wooden roots, commonly known as stir. Sugar, the price is much cheaper than sugar paintings, and sugar figurines are also much cheaper, you can eat them for 1 cents.

After the maltose turned golden, Aoki handed it to Xiaorou. The little girl looked at Aoki with the maltose emitting a light yellow light, "Dad, you are too powerful, are you doing magic?"

Aoki replied with a smile: "That's right, Dad did magic tricks and was discovered by Xiao Rou, so smart, eat quickly."

Xiaorou took a bite, and there was a crisp sound in her mouth. The expression on Xiaorou's face was very happy, and at the same time, she fed the sugar in her hand to Su Wanyu: "Mom, it's delicious, you have a bite too."

Su Wanyu bent down and took a bite. It is true that the malt candy is more like halva now, crisp and refreshing, and the first bite is not too sweet, but after a few seconds, the whole mouth will have the aroma and sweetness of malt.

"Wow, this candy is delicious." Su Wanyu said, covering her mouth.

Of course, I don’t look at who made it. In fact, the candy of the old man is very authentic. The authentic maltose is made of wheat and glutinous rice, but now there are many, especially those who learn sugar painting after learning, and feel that the cost of wheat and glutinous rice is too high. Gao will add a lot of white sugar to save costs, but this will make the maltose very sweet and thinner.

The traditional maltose is not too sweet but a bit sweet. The ancient method of brewing maltose is to soak the wheat in water and let it germinate to 3-4 cm. The malt is chopped and mixed with the glutinous rice, and then quietly Wait for the glutinous rice to grow for 4 hours, filter out the excess juice and boil it over high heat to make it thick.

Then put it in the refrigerator and the maltose will solidify into amber color, and you can eat it by heating the candy when you eat it.

Aoki also took a bite and then gave the old man a thumbs up: "The old man is very skilled."

If Aoki's guess is correct, this old man should have made it by hand, not by machine, and he didn't mix any sugar, it's so authentic.

Maltose has the effects of detoxifying and beautifying the skin, nourishing the spleen and replenishing qi, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, especially for the throat. Aoki said: "Grandpa, can you sell me a can of your maltose?"

The old man also waved his hand grandly: "No problem, but I don't have any containers here."

Aoki thought for a while and handed over the water glass he was holding. This is the boiled water that came to pick up Xiaorou's fashion today and he has finished drinking it. "Master, let's put it in this water glass."

After the old man took the water glass, he carefully filled the maltose into it, filled a full water glass and handed it to Aoki.

Aoki took the money from the wallet, the old man still waved his hand: "It's rare to meet someone who still likes this ancient way of making maltose, this glass of water is for you."

Now as the society is becoming more and more developed, no one wants to eat maltose, which was popular among children before. Children prefer to eat candy in bags, but parents think that maltose is too dirty to put on the street every day. Don't let the children eat it.Gradually, there are fewer people selling maltose, more people are making sugar paintings with maltose, and fewer people are making maltose with traditional methods like the old man.

"Then how can it be." Aoki then took out 500 yuan from his wallet. He also knew that the old man must have a bad life, otherwise, who would sell maltose in his 80s? In the end, the old man accepted it under his constant insistence money but only charged 100.

In the words of the old man: "This 100 is enough to buy a lot of maltose. Although it is handmade, it is actually very cheap. It is not like Tanghua Sugar Man, which costs 20 yuan and 10 yuan."

After bidding farewell to the old man Aoki, the three continued to stroll, Xiaorou was still sitting on Aoki's neck but there was more candy in his hand that he hadn't finished eating just now.

Although there was a lot of food to eat and play at the temple fair, and a lot to watch along the way, there was really an open-air stage outside Wuhou Temple that attracted many elderly people to watch.

I went up to watch it for a while, and it turned out that Zhuge Liang was performing Qiqi Menghuo on the stage. This excerpt is more interesting. It tells the story of Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty in the third year of Jianxing, who launched a war against Nanzhong, which is now the XSBN area of ​​​​Yunnan.

At that time, the Nanman was not recognized as a human by the Central Plains, and their lives were relatively simple. Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo, the chief of the local Nanman tribe, seven times and released him seven times.Every time Meng Huo was captured, he would ask whether he would accept it or not. Meng Huo yelled that he refused, Zhuge Liang ordered people to take him away, and then captured him in the subsequent battle.It wasn't until the seventh time that Meng Huo was really convinced, and he was no longer an enemy. At the same time, he provided many children of the barbarians for the Northern Expedition of Shu County.

This paragraph is mentioned in "Han Jin Chunqiu" quoted by Pei Songzhi in "Three Kingdoms", and "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has undergone a large number of adaptations and fictional creations.

Sichuan opera has always been very popular among young and old. Xiaorou watched Meng Huo, who was like a clown, being captured again and again by the resourceful Zhuge Liang, and Fang Zuo happily lined up her hands.

"Father, Grandpa Zhuge is very powerful."

Of course he is a great hero in our Xichuan area. If you want to say that the most respected by the people of the entire Shu area is not Liu Bei, the patriarch of the Han family, but Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han.

Aoki looked at the hard-working performers on the stage, and thought that it would be great to promote these traditional cultures. Although the scene of "Seven Captures of Menghuo" was obviously changed, it was very popular with the audience, and Aoki also saw many people around the stage. Parents are also popularizing Sichuan Opera and the history of the Three Kingdoms for their children.

After watching it for a while, I left. Aoki wanted to watch it very much, but I had to go back early to record the program tomorrow. If I wasted all my time here, I couldn’t go to other places. You must know that this temple fair is too big.

The shops around the temple fair this time basically sell traditional toys and snacks. Toys such as the face-changing dolls representing Sichuan Opera in Shu City, which can change into a face with just one click of the head, are very popular among children. .

　This can be regarded as the author's childhood, and now many masters in Libo don't do these things, and the candy is basically gone.

　　There are many sugar painters in some tourist attractions, but they are all more beautiful than delicious. I don’t know if you have eaten them. Friends can leave a message.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)