When the rooster crows, it's still dark outside and it's still gray outside.
Shen Su'e picked a few relatively large eggs and put them on the table, put the rest into a package and hid them under the bed.
"Mom, what are you going to eat later?" Xiao Lingbao asked.
"Let's eat the egg pancake...Does Lingbao like sweet or salty food?"
"Sweet!" Lingbao said, "But not too sweet."
"It just so happened that your dad and eldest brother stuffed some brown sugar into the bag, as well as lard... Lingbao, shall we have brown sugar egg pancakes this morning?"
The baby girl nodded happily, "Okay, okay, the name of this cake sounds delicious! This is my first time making it."
Her mother smiled and said, "Yes, this is my first time making it. I have never added eggs to pancakes before. I have only seen people eating egg pancakes in restaurants."
After grabbing the needed ingredients, the mother and daughter went to the kitchen together.
Shen Su'e took out a basin of suitable size from the cupboard. Shen Su'e added flour and brown sugar to the basin, added water and stirred it into a paste, and finally mixed it with the eggs.
When she made the batter, Xiao Lingbao had already skillfully lit the fire, "Mom, the pot is already hot. Do you want to add lard?"
"Yeah." Shen Su'e scooped out two spoonfuls of lard with a spoon and put it into the iron pot. After the milky white lard turned into oil and water, she took a large soup ladle and scooped out a spoonful of batter and poured it evenly into the pot. inside, let the egg batter cover the bottom of the pan.
Soon, the aroma of white flour and eggs is tangy, mixed with the aroma of brown sugar.
The first person in the Shen family today was Liao Guifen. She was worried that her mother-in-law would scold her, so this time she started to get dressed not long after the rooster crowed.
But then I went to the hut and was delayed for a while.
When she walked outside the kitchen, she saw a figure walking in the kitchen. She thought it was her mother-in-law, wondering if the sun was rising in the west? Her mother-in-law could actually light a fire to cook herself?
"Mom, why did you get up so early?" Worried about being scolded by her mother-in-law, Liao Guifen explained, "I didn't get up late today. I got up right after the rooster crowed..."
Before she finished speaking, she noticed a small figure beside the stove. The person standing next to the iron pot cooking was not her mother-in-law, but her eldest aunt.
After being stunned for a moment, she said awkwardly: "It turns out to be my eldest aunt. Oops, look at the look in my eyes. I actually recognized the wrong person... Let me tell you, how could my mother get up so early to make breakfast for us? .”
After saying that, when her eldest aunt didn't answer her words, she moved closer and looked into the pot, "What are you doing today?"
"Cake." Shen Su'e simply said one word.
"Baihe Village grows wheat, right? How much was the harvest last year? It must be a lot. Won't the dividends at the end of the year also include flour?" Liao Guifen asked.
Her aunt asked back: "Why do you ask these questions?"
"No, I'm just asking... Tiegou Village also planted wheat last year, but the harvest was not good. This year they switched to rice. It's funny to say this. I have been planting wheat in the ground for a year, and I have had it rain several times. As for the fields, I helped pick up the wheat during the autumn harvest, but as a result, I didn’t even have a few bites of white flour.”
After talking a lot to herself, Liao Guifen saw that the color of the pancake in the pot was dark brown, and there was obviously something added in it, so she couldn't help but ask: "Auntie, what did you put in the batter? Why is it so fragrant? ah?"
Shen Su'e turned the egg pancake over with a spatula. Seeing her niece and nephew staring at the egg pancake, she thought that the more she concealed it, the easier it would be to attract suspicion, so she answered honestly: "I also added eggs. and brown sugar.”
"What? Eggs?" After saying this in surprise, Liao Guifen noticed the uncollected egg shells lying on the edge of the stove and was dumbfounded. "Auntie, do you put eggs in this pancake? One...two, you put them in. Three eggs?”
"Well, I have two children, and each of them happens to have an egg, so I put three." Shen Su'e's tone was extremely natural.
"You...why are you willing to eat these eggs? You can exchange them for money."
After saying that, she immediately said: "Auntie, your family is really crazy. You can even eat eggs. Oops, three eggs in total. It's almost 20 cents, right? Two cents can buy a lot of things. Already."
When she said this, her aunt had already fried the egg pancakes, "Lingbao, there's no need to light the fire. Please put out the fire quickly."
"Okay." The little baby responded obediently, scooped up the charcoal ash on the ground with a shovel, and covered it on the burning wood.
"Zhao Ping Niang, can you help me get a chopping board?"
Unexpectedly, her eldest aunt would suddenly call her. Liao Guifen came to her senses and responded quickly, "Okay..."
Finding the chopping board, she placed it next to the large iron pot.
Shen Su'e straightened the cutting board, put a whole brown sugar egg cake on the cutting board, cut it diagonally into six parts with a knife, and put it on the plate.
Smelling the aroma of brown sugar and eggs, the glutton in Liao Guifen's stomach screamed.
I thought my eldest aunt would take away the whole plate, but unexpectedly she cut one of the egg pancakes in half and said, "You can try it."
"Ah? Me?" Liao Guifen was stunned.
"I will take Lingbao and Tugen to the market later. If my elder brother and sister-in-law ask about me, please tell them."
"Okay, no problem...but for this egg pancake, I..."
Shen Su'e smiled and said: "Take it, I'll treat you to something to eat. By the way, don't tell them about the egg pancakes for now. After all, you know that eggs are rare, and I can't treat everyone to eat egg pancakes." ,so……"
"I understand, I understand."
"You can eat this cake by yourself, don't let others know," Shen Su'e thought for a moment and then said, "If Zhao Ping and Zhao Gui eat the egg cake, then De Shun and their children will definitely make a fuss as well. It’s time to eat.”
Liao Guifen frowned, as if she thought of something angry.
"Why are they making trouble? Especially Dexi! All the good things in this family are eaten by Dexi. My two sons are really pitiful, especially Zhaoping. After all, he is also the grandson of the Shen family. Who else is not? Do you care about your eldest grandson? This family is the exception. Everything delicious is given to Dexi first!"
After complaining for a while, Liao Guifen blushed and said, "Auntie, I'm so sorry that I suddenly said these things to you..."
"It's okay, I don't like that Dexi either, okay, let's not talk anymore, I'm leaving first." After saying that, Shen Su'e picked up the plate with egg pancakes.
"Okay." After watching her eldest aunt leave with Xiao Lingbao, Liao Guifen looked at the brown sugar egg cake in her hand, her mind was still a little dazed, her heartbeat accelerated involuntarily, and she was so happy that she could not speak.
Brown sugar is a rare thing, and eggs are even rarer...
Rare things plus rare things, plus white noodles, how delicious it is!
Thinking of this, Liao Guifen picked up the egg pancake and took a bite. She felt the aroma of the dough, the aroma of eggs and the sweetness of brown sugar mixed in her mouth. It was crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, and seemed to have the aroma of lard. It was indescribably delicious.
"This is so delicious!" She wanted to eat all the cakes in her hand in one go, but thinking of her two sons, she finally hid the uneaten brown sugar egg cakes and planned to let her sons taste them.