Leisurely ancient daily life

Chapter 61: Immortal Grass

Afterwards, the two ate some iced mung bean soup, chatted for a while, leisurely extended an olive branch to Mrs. Liu, and told her that she wanted to make an iced drink.

Mrs. Liu is not a fool, on the contrary she is very shrewd, the only shortcoming is that she has a quick temper and is easily impulsive. Apart from these, she is naturally a little daughter-in-law who is careful and budgetary. After thinking for a while, she smiled gratefully and agreed.

Afterwards, You Ran asked Liu Shi to ask Uncle Lin's youngest son, Stinky, to discuss with his good friend Mu Mu, and made two wooden boxes drawn by her.

Liu Shi went up the mountain with her, and they were going to dig some herbs for making herbal tea, but Youran deliberately wanted to find a kind of herbal medicine.

The two of them stopped and went in the mountains and dug up a lot of herbs, most of which Youran didn't know, but the only one they knew was Houttuynia cordata, also called zheergen, which is a good thing.

However, the best time for picking is spring and winter, when the Zheer roots are the most tender and can be eaten as a vegetable. The Zheer roots are a bit old now, but they are not bad for making herbal tea.

Although You Ran didn't know the rest of the herbs, she also followed Liu's advice and learned to identify them earnestly.

The two of them were talking and occasionally stopped to pick, but it wasn't too tiring.

But she still didn't see the herbal medicine that You Ran wanted, and finally she could only ask Liu's on the side: "Sister-in-law Erliu, is there a stream in our mountain?"

"Of course there are. Is there a stream in this mountain?" Liu Shi straightened up, threw the herbs in her hand into the back basket, and asked amusedly.

"What? Want to go? Let's go, my sister-in-law will take you to play for a while." Liu Shi mistakenly thought that Youran was bored with this boring picking, and wanted to play for a while, she couldn't help laughing, she was still a child at heart.

"Okay, let's go, let's go." You Ran urged happily.

That thing often grows in the grass on the sandy ground or by the mountain stream, but I haven't seen it here so far, so I can only go to the stream to try my luck.

Mrs. Liu glanced at her with a smile, and then led her, and the two approached the stream while picking.

After another cup of tea, the two of them appeared by the stream. Mrs. Liu put down the basket, washed her hands, and washed her face with a handful of water. She just wanted to greet Youran, but she saw her when she looked up. Leisurely was squatting in the brush beside her and pulling her hand.

The leaves are opposite, more shrunken, slightly flexible, not easy to break, oblong or oval, with small serrations on the edge, sparse and long hairs on both sides, square stems, covered with gray-brown long hairs, brown or black in appearance, There are grooves.

That's right! !This is fairy grass, the raw material used to make grass jelly! !

Youran exploded with joy, quickly collected it, the appearance is the same, but I have to go back and test it to know.

"But what are you doing?" The puzzled Liu came over and asked.

"Good stuff! But I can't confirm it yet. I'll have to wait until I go back and try it out. Sister-in-law, hurry up and help me." Leisurely looked at Liu's peach blossom eyes, full of excitement.

"Hey." Seeing this, Mrs. Liu hurriedly responded, and hurried over to help her pick. This girl has always had an idea, and she wanted to come to the stream because of this thing, right?So listen to her right.

In the end, there were a lot of herbs in the two people's back baskets, and they both held a large bundle of fairy grass in their hands. There are many things by the stream, and there are quite a few, so they may not be enough.

When I got home, it was already past noon, so I deliberately chose a path to avoid people.

After putting down the things, he leisurely and simply cooked, and didn't let Liu Shi go back, leaving her to eat.

Liu Shi thought that what You Ran said was right and the business was important, so she agreed.

After the two of them had lunch, Liu asked You Ran to do her work, while she cleaned the dishes and began to pack the herbs, preparing to wash them and dry them in the sun.

After thinking about it leisurely, she agreed.

Fresh fairy grass can also be made into jelly jelly, but the color is bright green, but the taste is more herbal fragrance.

The grass jelly made from dried fairy grass is the most common black color.

Youran first filled the cauldron with half a pot of water and boiled it, then took some rice out of the rice tank, washed the rice, and only washed it once, because I will need rice soup later, so I want it to be thicker.

After cooking the porridge, I leisurely took some fairy grass and washed it. This kind of grass itself also contains gelatin, so you can't rub it hard, and you don't need to wash it too many times, otherwise the gelatin will be lost in vain , resulting in the inability to make grass jelly.

So you just need to gently wash off its dirt.

Cut the washed cayenne grass a little bit, it doesn’t need to be too finely chopped, this step is convenient to boil out the gelatin for a while.

Then add it to a large pot and boil it over high heat, this step takes a little longer, after leisurely cooking it, go back to the backyard to help Mrs. Liu organize the herbs.

The two of them were chatting and doing their work, because they were looking after the kitchen, Leisurely had to run to the front yard from time to time, in the end Liu Sheng simply refused to let her come to the backyard to help, and let her mind her own business at ease.

Only then did Youran stop running on both sides, and concentrated on making jelly jelly.

Stir the sticky jelly jelly in the big pot, then filter out the rice soup, steam the rest of the rice, and eat it as a meal at night.

I also found a clean coarse cloth and a washed wooden barrel, which I will use to filter the grass jelly pulp later.

When it was about the same time, Liu Shi had already finished the work at hand, so You Ran asked her to follow along.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Liu shied away: "How can this be done, you can't let others know your secret recipe casually, you have to keep it carefully."

Leisurely said: "Is my sister-in-law willing to let me suffer alone?" In addition to her pretending to be aggrieved, with sweat on her forehead, Liu's heart softened.

"If I know it, I know it. I will keep it safe and not tell others. You should also pay attention. If this thing is made, the prescription will be very expensive. Don't let it out without a word." Liu took out the handkerchief The son wiped her sweat for her, and persuaded her earnestly.

Youran naturally promised repeatedly that it would not happen, so she smiled and walked into the kitchen holding Liu's arm.

She can still trust Liu Shi.

The boiled jelly jelly, although it looks a bit disgusting when it looks green and sticky, but it tastes very fragrant.

Filter it, remove the rotten leaves, and leave a green slurry, add rice soup and stir well, then pour it into a large pot and continue to boil until it becomes thick.

Then pour it out of the wooden basin, wait for an hour, after it solidifies, cut it into small pieces and add sugar water to eat!

After making it that night, Youran ate several bowls with Liu Shi. The weather is really too hot, eating such a bowl of iced grass jelly is simply not too pleasant.

When Liu Shi left, Leisurely asked her to take some back, and he sent some to Shen Xia, naturally he also received her praise.

(End of this chapter)