Chapter 13 Stir-Fried Osmanthus and Candied Chestnuts
Chapter 13 Stir-fried Chestnuts with Osmanthus Sugar
But before it comes out of my eyes,
He immediately wiped it out, looked at Jiang Ci sincerely and said: "Sister-in-law, you are so good to me, I will also be good to you. From now on, if you ask me to go east, I will never go west. If you ask me to go south, I will never go north!"
"Tch! You're a sycophant!"
As soon as Shen Yunhe finished speaking, Shen Shuan muttered angrily.
She immediately got a "chestnut buckle" from Shen Yunhe, which made Shen Shuan grimace in pain.
"If you don't flatter me, then don't eat the food cooked by your sister-in-law!"
"Why shouldn't I eat? This disaster has brought so many disasters to our family, what's wrong with me taking some benefits?" Shen Shuan said confidently,
"Sister-in-law, look at him! Don't let him eat the food you cooked!"
"You said you won't let me eat, so why don't you let me eat? If you don't let me eat, how can I have the strength to go up the mountain and climb trees to pick chestnuts? Just a little bit!"
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There was a lot of excitement outside the yard, but Qian Guixiang had already eaten a few bites at the dinner table, then returned to the back room with rice, vegetables and a bowl of turtledove soup to feed Jiang Dashan.
"Have you told Xiaoci not to let her go into the mountains?" Lying on the shabby old bed was a strong man with a strong body but a somewhat gray face.
"I said it, but I don't know if Xiaoci heard it." Qian Guixiang lowered her head and fed the turtle dove soup carefully one mouthful at a time.
"Xiao Ci is a capable person, but it's too dangerous in the mountains. Even an adult man can't survive when he encounters a ferocious beast, let alone a woman, Xiao Ci! Alas, it's all my fault that I broke my leg after falling off the cliff. Get kicked out, Guixiang, follow me, you will suffer!"
"Da Shan, don't say this! As long as I'm with you, no matter how hard life is, I feel it's sweet. Our children are also very sensible. As long as our family is together, no matter how hard life is, we can get through it."
"Yes! As long as our family is together~"
There was silence in the room, leaving only the sound of the feeding spoon hitting the wall of the bowl.
Although Shen Dashan remained silent, he secretly made up his mind to go hunting in the mountains by himself when his legs were no longer so swollen in two days.
His old bones will die when they die, but before he dies, he must hunt more prey for the family, and at least cure his mother-in-law's body and his son's blindness.
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Jiang Ci, who had just eaten here and felt full of strength, and the two Shen brothers and sisters came to the chestnut forest on the mountain together.
This chestnut forest is located halfway up the mountain, exactly where Jiang Ci picked honey last time.
The bark is dark gray, with irregular deep cracks and longitudinal grooves. There are many yellow-gray round barks on the tree. There are green and vibrant hairy chestnuts with spikes of different lengths hanging on the tree. The growth is extremely gratifying.
"Wow, sister-in-law, these are really hairy chestnuts. Mom said that these hairy chestnuts can ward off hunger. With these hairy chestnut trees, we won't be hungry all winter." Shen Yunhe was happy. Jumping three feet high,
"Don't think about winter for now. Let's live a good life now. Little Yunduo, when picking up chestnuts, be careful to remove the layer of thorns on the outside, so that we can fit more chestnuts in our baskets."
Jiang Ci touched Shen Yunhe's head,
Seeing Mao Lizi, who had fallen on the ground, rolling up his sleeves and getting ready for a big fight,
"Misfortune, what you said is simple. The thorn balls are so piercing. If you don't have a suitable tool, you can easily hurt your hands!" Although Shen Shuan was pleasantly surprised when he saw a chestnut tree, he still subconsciously reacted to Jiang Ci's words. retorted,
Jiang Ci didn't talk nonsense, picked up a chestnut with two wooden sticks and put it at his feet: "Watch it!"
I saw Jiang Ci pressing one side of the chestnut with one foot, and stepping on the other side of the chestnut with the other foot. As soon as he exerted force, the chestnut ball immediately cracked, and the head of the chestnut inside was exposed. A hairy chestnut ball. There are three hairy chestnuts inside,
"Sister-in-law, you are so awesome!" Shen Yunhe was shocked and dumbfounded.
In previous years, when they brought the chestnuts back, it would take them a long time to get rid of the chestnut thorns!
Seeing how easily Jiang Ci peeled off the chestnuts and stabbed them into the balls, Shen Shuan snorted and turned away. He found a longer trunk and started to peel off the chestnuts.
Jiang Ci was on a previous mission, and once she had to rely on the chestnuts in the mountain forest for seven whole days, so she was very skilled at peeling chestnuts and stabbing balls.
Although Shen Yunhe is not very old, he often works in the Shen family, so he is relatively efficient at work. Except that peeling the chestnut balls was a little slow at first, but later he became like a duck to water.
When the two of them weren't paying attention, Jiang Ci secretly moved a basket of chestnut balls into the space! Otherwise, he wouldn't have gotten back many chestnuts, but he would have spent all his time on the road.
When the three of them went back, they passed by the river and picked up a lot of sand and pebbles together.
And while picking up pebbles by the river, Jiang Ci also discovered an osmanthus tree following the sweet fragrance. The three of them also picked a lot of osmanthus flowers and went back, just in time to prepare "fried chestnuts with osmanthus sugar".
Return home with a full load,
Jiang Ci poured out part of the chestnuts in the basket and washed them twice in a pottery basin with a few openings. Then he added some salt and soaked the chestnuts for 20 minutes to wash off the fluff on the chestnuts.
Then make a cross with the chestnut knife, heat the iron pan, pour in the fine sand, and at the same time pour in the drained chestnuts and stir-fry slowly to slowly release the sand that was previously stuck to the chestnut shells.
Slowly add a spoonful of sugar and honey, and sprinkle evenly. After the sugar is added, the sugar will caramelize, and the caramel aroma will overflow. Stir the ginger more and more quickly, and insert a spatula from the bottom of the pot to ensure that the caramel does not rise. Sticky to the bottom of the pan.
Stir-fry until the sand is no longer sticky, take the pot, sprinkle in the sweet-scented osmanthus freshly picked from the mountain, cover and simmer for a while to ensure that the chestnuts are ripe and the caramel aroma can penetrate into the chestnuts, then remove the chestnuts from the pot Use chopsticks to pick it out.
"The chestnuts roasted with sweet-scented osmanthus are here, try it, try it!"
He brought the fried sugar-roasted chestnuts to the table and stared at several people expectantly.
Shen Yunhe took the first one and peeled off the skin of the chestnut, revealing the golden flesh inside, which looked soft and firm.
After taking a bite, Shen Yunhe's eyes suddenly narrowed like two small crescents. Surprise and satisfaction immediately flew to his eyebrows: "Sister-in-law, how come everything you eat is so delicious? This is the best I have ever eaten. Something!”
Qian Guixiang followed closely behind and took a bite of chestnuts. A touch of joy suddenly appeared on her face: "Xiao Ci, your hands are so skillful. I have been cooking for more than 30 years and I can't even compare to you!"
Seeing that he was just one person away from getting unanimous praise, Jiang Ci bumped Shen Shuan with his elbow: "This is what we are going to sell tomorrow. Don't you, a small business owner, try it?"
"Who... who is the little boss?" Shen Shuan's face turned red.
But he still took out a chestnut from the pottery pot, stuffed it in his mouth, and reluctantly replied after a while: "It's not bad!"
However, after answering, he grabbed a handful of chestnuts from the pottery pot and ran to Shen Dashan's house as if he was running away.
Before a few people could tease him, an old but energetic voice came from outside the door?
"Guixiang, has your eldest daughter-in-law come back from the mountain?"