GBP Chapter 288 Making Jelly
Chapter 288 Making Jelly
Because they wanted to cut all the jelly grass in this area, they did not go back for lunch.
The brothers who were supposed to carry bamboo baskets back to deliver the goat's milk fruit were asked to eat the dry food they brought directly after catching a cold.
Everyone was quick and agile, but because the wooden bridge could not push the cart, the brothers had to carry it back one trip at a time, so a lot of time was wasted.
Shen Youyou also thought about whether to just dry the jelly grass here. No one else knew the use of this grass anyway.
And everyone will really start reclaiming the land from tomorrow, and the thatch and other things will be dried here by then.
But when I think of the summer days and the baby's face, I never know when it will rain. There are plenty of thatch grasses, so they can get wet in the rain, but her jelly grass cannot get wet in the rain.
After all the agarwood was cut, it was around three o'clock in the afternoon.
Shen Youyou carried her bamboo basket on her back. Although she looked skinny and small, she was quite strong:
"Let's go back and make jelly."
Shen Erya also carried a bundle of jelly grass on her back and laughed:
"Have you forgotten that you still have to teach the girl from Tangjia Village how to make ground vegetables?"
Shen Youyou said: "No, we will do it all today."
Erya smiled and followed Shen Youyou happily. It was obvious that she didn't want to miss any of the delicious food that Shen Youyou mentioned.
The other boys and girls were also in a good mood. After all, being a little tired was nothing. They had harvested so many things today, which they could not only eat but also sell for money. Even their pace on the way back was obviously much faster.
On the way back, I met many villagers from Tangjia Village who were working in the fields. Seeing them carrying baskets of things back home, I looked at them curiously.
"It seems that they have bought all our land to the west, and there is not much money left. I saw them carrying baskets of fish grass back in half a day."
It turns out that the grass used to make jelly in Daqing was called fish yellow grass. Although the common people did not know that it could be used to make jelly,
But they know that this vegetable is edible. It is also one of the wild vegetables they often eat. It can be fried or chopped up and used as dry food.
When I saw Shen Youyou and the others carrying the jelly grass back and forth, I thought they had used all the money to buy land.
To be honest, when I first learned that this group of newcomers had bought more than 2,000 acres of land,
The people in Tangjia Village were in disbelief, but after careful calculation, each person would only get a few acres of land.
But he could take out more than four thousand taels of silver at one time, which meant he was indeed rich.
When Shen Youyou and the others arrived home, the big pot at home was boiling water and everyone was busy with their own things.
"Grandma, we're back."
Shen Youyou's voice was so loud that Old Lady Hua hurried out of the house when she heard it: "Oh, my little ancestor, what are you doing? You didn't even come back for lunch."
The old lady looked at Shen Youyou's large bamboo basket, which was full to the brim with a large bundle of grass jelly placed horizontally on it, and hurried forward to help Shen Youyou unload it.
Shen Youyou: "Grandma, I'll make you something delicious tonight."
At this time, in the small courtyard where they were temporarily staying, all the roofs, whether the main house or the side house, were covered with jelly grass.
Even the roof of the newly built shed was covered with agar-agar grass.
Shen Youyou was excited, this was the kingdom they had built today!
Li Jingshu came out of the room after finishing her work: "You must be exhausted. Hurry up and wash up and change into clean clothes. Look at these clothes sticking to your body."
"Mom, look at how much jelly grass I found."
Shen Youyou boasted about her achievements with a smile.
"I see it, I see it, how can I not see it when it's so old? What? You want to sell jelly."
Shen Youyou filled a basin of warm water and walked into the house. She didn't have time to take a shower, but she wiped herself. Her whole body was sticky.
"Yes, my jelly will definitely be popular in Fang County once it goes on the market this season. You just wait and count your money at home."
Li Jingshu: "Okay, I see you picked up a lot of ground vegetables. You want to eat jelly in the evening? Do you want to steam some dry food?"
Shen Youyou opened her clothes and wiped her neck. Anyway, the people in the room were all the sisters wiping their bodies, and the men from the Nine Clans basically would not enter these rooms.
"Leave the steaming of dry food to you, I'll take care of the rest. I also met a friend today, and he said he wanted to learn how to make ground vegetables before dinner."
Old Lady Hua, who was standing outside the door, heard the words smacking her lips twice. She swallowed the words back, saying, "You just had an argument with them and you still have the nerve to learn how to cook?"
After all, the kids who came might not be from the group of people they were arguing with.
So until now, Shen Youyou still didn't know about the quarrel. She washed herself and changed into a blue coarse cloth shorts.
She just asked her sisters to burn wood ash. There was plenty of dry grass anyway. Moreover, after burning the wood ash and soaking it in water, she had to filter it and let it settle for a while before using it, because she wanted to use the transparent alkali solution after the sedimentation.
Shen Youyou and her sisters were washing jelly grass in the yard.
Brother Erhu had already taken out the stone mortar according to her instructions, and it had to be cleaned before use.
"Let's wash more and make more today. Let's go to the county town to sell steamed cakes and jelly tomorrow."
Li Jingshu was a little worried: "We're going tomorrow?"
Shen Youyou nodded: "Well, it's okay. I'll wear men's clothes and bring more brothers with me. It will be fine. But mother, you and the aunts have to help me make pao gao in the evening, otherwise I will be too busy."
There is strength in numbers, and talking did not interfere with the work. They quickly washed the agar-agar grass to be used today clean.
Since the shack has been built and the areas for sleeping at night and activities during the day have been reasonably divided, their big cooking pots can also be set up in the yard.
They didn't use much hot water when scrubbing just now, because it was summer, and the water cups in the water bags were already very warm from being dried in the sun, so they could be used by just adding a little hot water. Some people didn't even use hot water directly.
So there was still a lot of hot water in the iron pot. Shen Youyou found the alkaline noodles she had extracted from wood ash.
Throw some alkaline noodles directly into the iron pot, then ask the sisters to pour the washed agar-agar grass into the big pot and blanch it slightly.
Alkaline noodles are also added to make the jelly greener in color.
Of course, if there was enough alkaline noodles, she wouldn't need to make alkaline water, but her mother often used her alkaline noodles to make dry food, so there was not much left, and she would have to cook more alkaline noodles later.
After the jelly grass is blanched, it is taken out and pounded in a stone mortar. Of course, you can also rub it with your hands, but she has to make a lot of it, and there is a ready-made stone mortar, so it would be a waste not to use it.
This kind of job was no big deal in the hands of a few big brothers. With a "bang bang bang!" the jelly grass turned into a paste.
As the grass was pounded continuously, the gum in the leaves and stems came out, and everyone in the yard could smell a faint fragrance.
"It smells quite nice." Fourth Aunt Xiao Yang said.
Erya said cheerfully: "Yoyo said it tastes better when eaten."
Yang chuckled, "You are more excited than anyone else when it comes to food."
Children like Shen Luming and Yuanbao stopped playing in the mud and gathered around to watch.
Even Shen Yuanbao was eager to try the crushed agar-agar grass, but was ruthlessly suppressed by Brother Dabao.
Just when Shen Youyou was about to look for gauze, Li Jingshu had already taken it out from the house.
She spread the gauze directly on the wooden basin and asked Erhu and Erzhuang to pour the sticky mucus on the gauze.
However, the gelatinous mucus is very viscous and not all of it can be filtered clean. In order to avoid waste, the gauze mouth needs to be tightened and squeezed back and forth to prevent only residues from being left in the gauze.
Apparently they had a lot of leaves, so it took more than twenty large buckets of juice just to wash the jelly.