90s, The Cannon Fodder Wife of the Paranoid Boss is Reborn

Chapter 24 She is still angry

 The syrup used to make sugar-roasted chestnuts is best made from the sweetest maltose, and honey can also be used.

 White sugar...it's not impossible, it's just not sweet enough, but you can adjust the water-to-water ratio.

Bai Lu thought of it and said, "Classmate Xiaowei, can you help me clean the chestnuts?"

"Can."

No matter what she can make, give it all to her brother to taste, and he will definitely be happy after tasting it.

  Xiao Wei thinks this method is very feasible.

 After Bailu boiled the syrup, he discovered that there was no sand.

 The ceramic sand used in later generations had not yet been produced in the 1990s. If the stones were not selected well, it would inevitably be unclean.

If you directly add sugar to stir-fry chestnuts, all the chestnuts will stick together, and the chestnuts will turn black, burnt, and taste bitter. They are not bad and are no different from boiled ones. They will not be as soft, glutinous, sweet, and crisp as fried ones. smell.

It would be great if we could have sand with a smooth surface, not easily broken, not easily powdered, and evenly sized.

Xiao Wei heard her request and immediately said: "There is one next door. The sand used for building houses is coarse sand transported back from the sand field. When mixing cement slurry, you need to use a sieve to sift the remaining fine sand. Those large sands are generally don't want."

He came back from school and saw Xiao Dazhuang sifting sand. He looked at it curiously for a while and Xiao Dazhuang told him.

When Bai Lu heard this, the sadness on her face turned into laughter instantly: "Go and help me get some back."

Xiao Wei rolled his eyes and found that the tall figure in the dark was no longer there, perhaps going to work.

I thought about it for a while, then an idea flashed in my mind, "I haven't finished my homework. I will be detained by the teacher when I go to school later. I have to do my homework. You can go get the sand yourself."

 After saying that, he put the washed chestnuts into a small bamboo basket, drained the water, and hurried back to his room.

As a flower of the motherland, of course, studying is more important, and Bai Lu doesn’t think there is any problem.

 Pick up your feet and walk to the next door.

 Only when she arrived did she realize that the person sifting the sand was the one she wanted to turn away when she saw it.

The foundation would have to dry out tomorrow before the wall could be built. Xiao Dazhuang, who looked a little bruised, Wang Hao and Luo Shiliu, all stacked bricks outside, a dozen at a time, and moved them inside, bypassing the foundation. go.

　　Commonly known as moving bricks.

Beside the pile of red bricks, a rectangular sand screen was slanted on the ground. A man with a stern face held a shovel in his hand, pumping his arms and throwing sand at the barbed wire fence one by one.

Fine sand and large gravel separated in response.

Upon noticing her footsteps, the man stopped what he was doing and stood on the ground with his shovel, his hands crossed on the handle of the shovel, and he raised his eyes with a half-smile.

 “What do you want?”

Bai Lu didn't want to talk to him, but his brothers were watching and didn't want to embarrass him.

 “I want some big sand.” Her smile was standard and her voice was cool.

Xiao Cheng knew that she was still angry, so he raised his eyebrows helplessly and waved the shovel: "How much do you want?"

The sifted sand was of different sizes and had to be selected again. Bai Lu didn’t know how much he needed, so he pointed to the small black bucket at his feet that was specially used to hold cement slurry.

 “A barrel.”

The cement slurry bucket was only one-third the size of the water bucket, but it was filled with a large bucket of sand, which weighed at least twenty kilograms. Xiao Cheng glanced at the girl's wrist as thin as wicker.

 It felt like it would break if I pinched it, "Can you lift it?"

Bai Lu was so angry that she wanted to say no need to worry about it, but when the words came to her lips, she gritted her teeth and said, "Then just half a bucket."

 At worst, she would have to leave again.

Xiao Cheng finally filled a bucket full of sand and carried it home for her personally.

This rare and famous scene caused a group of old men carrying bricks behind to boo and whistle. Bai Lu was walking behind, but she immediately passed Xiao Cheng and walked home quickly.

Xiao Cheng glanced back.

 The big men immediately restrained themselves and moved bricks quickly!

Bai Lu returned to the yard, said "thank you" to Xiao Cheng politely, and then took the sand bucket from his hand.

Pour the large sand into a large basin filled with water, wash it carefully, pick out the ones that are too big, too small and too damaged, and put them aside on the ground, and then take them out and dump them out later.

 Sand of different sizes will cause the chestnuts to be heated unevenly during the frying process, making them easily burnt and scorched.

 Xiao Cheng stopped where he was and looked at it for a while.

Bai Lu washed the sand seriously, rubbing it with her white and thin hands over and over again, but ignored him.

 As if he had no idea that there was someone next to him.

Xiao Cheng had no choice but to pick up the sand she picked out that she didn’t want, put it back into the bucket, and carried it away.

 After a while, Bai Lu came back with a big bucket of sand. Bai Lu still politely said "thank you" to him, and then continued to wash her sand without even looking at him.

 Xiao Cheng was completely at his wits end. Washing the sand was not a heavy job and he couldn't help.

 You can only go back to the next door and continue sifting sand.

Bai Lu washed the sand and dried it before practicing the sand. The pot used for the sand practice was the one that was damaged by a brick falling from the sky. She found an old iron piece from the corner to cover the broken hole. As long as she didn't shovel the bottom of the pot hard, , barely still usable.

 Hitch the stove over high heat, heat the gravel in the pot, add a spoonful of sugar syrup, pour it in a circle, and stir-fry the gravel repeatedly so that all the gravel can be coated with sugar syrup.

 When the surface of the gravel is covered with a transparent sugar film, you can put the chestnuts in and stir-fry.

This can remove the invisible dirt and the thin layer of fluff attached to the surface of the chestnut, making the fried chestnut cleaner, shiny and smooth.

 During this period, stir-fry constantly to avoid burning the pan. When the surface of the chestnuts turns slightly yellow, change the medium-high heat to a low heat.

  Stir frying over low heat is to fry the pulp inside the chestnut. When the sand and chestnut grains are clearly distinguishable, add half a spoonful of sugar syrup and continue to stir fry until the chestnut becomes dry and the skin color turns yellowish brown or dark brown, then it is ready to be taken out of the pan.

 The newly baked chestnuts are very hot and cannot be grasped directly with hands, so Bai Lu picked one up with chopsticks.

Put it on the table, pinch it hard with your thumb and index finger through the tablecloth, and the chestnut will open in a flash.

 The golden flesh and the sweet but not greasy aroma make people’s mouths tingle just by smelling it.

Xiao Wei, who was "passing by" outside, swallowed his saliva in dismay and stared straight ahead.

She can actually fry chestnuts with sand, and the fried chestnuts are so fragrant, a smell that I have never smelled before.

 “Xiaowei, come and try it.”

Bai Lu had noticed the little guy a long time ago, holding a golden chestnut and waving to him with a smile.

  Xiao Wei feels that it is a very impolite behavior to refuse the fruits of other people's work.

 So he went in.

 All the sand and chestnuts in the pot were poured out and separated with an hourglass. The sand was placed in an old broken earthen pot and the chestnuts were placed in a bamboo dustpan. They were particularly fragrant.

Xiao Wei didn't ask for the peeled chestnut in Bai Lu's hand. He took one himself, peeled it and ate it while scalding his hands.

Chestnuts fried with sand have soft, glutinous and sweet flesh, crispy and fragrant. They are much more delicious than boiled and roasted ones!

"Is it tasty?"

Bai Lu didn't miss the little guy's micro-expressions. She could even change the little wooden face that was fixed 24 hours a day. Her craftsmanship should be pretty good.

 (End of this chapter)