"yes."

Zhou Guilan asked in surprise: "How do you know how this maltose is made?"

"I seemed to have taught it in an old book before, and I don't know if it can be done, so I'll try it." Qin Hao said casually.

"Which book? Why didn't I see it?"

"I forgot, I seemed to see it in the toilet. I guess I've wiped my butt."

"That's a pity."

Zhou Guilan patted her thighs: "Haozi, you are still too young, don't be tired. Tell your mother what to do later, and she will help you do it."

"Okay, then you can help me get a larger piece of gauze and cover the wheat."

He Jiawen, who was standing beside him, stared at the wheat on the dustpan, and his saliva was almost flowing down.

"When can I eat maltose?"

“Wheat sprouts for two or three days.”

He Jiawen's face collapsed immediately after hearing this: "Ah, it will take so long."

Zhou Guilan was happy: "You don't worry about being too late when the meal is ready. When it's ready, I'll ask Haozi to give you a few more pieces."

"Thank you, Aunt Zhou."

Qin Hao laughed secretly, but he didn't expect that He Jiawen was still a foodie.

In the next three days, Qin Hao sprinkled water on the wheat covered with gauze every once in a while.

By the third day, about four centimeters of tender buds had grown on the originally bare wheat.

He Jiawen quickly urged: "Wheat has sprouted, can it be used as maltose?"

He Jiali and Zhang Qiufang, who were beside him, also looked at Qin Hao with eager eyes.

The adults went to work, and there were only a few children left at home. Qin Hao patted the dust on his butt and put the Maoxuan in the house.

"It's OK."

The glutinous rice prepared in advance had been soaked for a long time, and Qin Hao put the glutinous rice into a steamer to steam.

"Don't be idle either. Wash the malt and pick out the moldy ones, otherwise the sugar that is boiled will become bitter."

When He Jiali and the other two heard this, they immediately focused on picking malt. Nowadays, they could eat malt sugar like the New Year.

After the glutinous rice was steamed, He Jiali and the others also picked all the malts, put Qin Hao's glutinous rice aside and let them cool, and then started chopping the malts with a knife.

He Jiali looked puzzled: "Why did the wheat that has finally sprouted after being chopped again?"

"There is an enzyme in malt that can convert the starch in glutinous rice into sugar. The chopping is to increase the contact area between the malt and water to facilitate saccharification."

The two sisters He Jiali were confused when they heard this. Zhang Qiufang asked curiously: "Haozi, how did you know these?"

"Reading a book."

"Why didn't I see these in the book?"

"I read less, read more. No matter what book I read, I will always gain if I read it."

"oh."

While speaking, Qin Hao had already chopped the malt, then mixed it with some cooled glutinous rice, and started to stir.

"Wow, I've already smelled the scent."

"It's quite delicious, and the glutinous rice is also delicious."

He Jiali and He Jiawen sisters almost couldn't help but give the glutinous rice a pot.

"Wait for it to ferment for a while, don't eat it secretly, otherwise there will be no maltose."

Qin Hao put the mixture of glutinous rice and malt in a wooden barrel and placed it on the stove to keep it warm.

An hour passed, two hours passed. If Qin Hao hadn't seen He Jiali's two sisters, he would have been unable to help lifting the lid.

Until the afternoon, almost six hours later, I finally heard Qin Hao say it's OK.

As a result, when he lifted the lid, He Jiawen kept his mouth shut: "The liar, there is no maltose at all."

Qin Hao was happy: "I haven't started to endure it yet, why are you anxious?"

"Sister Qiufang will make a fire for me later."

"good."

Qin Hao first wrapped the glutinous rice and malt crushed in the wooden barrel in gauze, began to squeeze out all the remaining juice inside, and then filtered the juice in the wooden barrel.

Zhang Qiufang had already made a lot of fire there and the pot was already set up.

Qin Hao poured all the juice into the pot.

"Sister Qiufang should not be too popular, just keep it."

"Um."

Qin Hao kept stirring in the pot with a spoon to prevent the pot from being pasted. As the water in the juice continued to evaporate, the juice in the pot had already turned slightly burnt yellow.

"Wow, it smells so good."

He Jiawen lay beside the stove, twitching his nose like a puppy and smelling it. He Jiali next to him was not much better.

Liu Meixin and Grandma He in the next room also smelled the fragrance.

"Is this, who is cooking candy? It smells so good."

"It should be the Qin family next door. I heard Jiali say that his family wants to make candy, but it shouldn't be off work yet, so why are you back early?"

Liu Meixin smacked her mouth a few times: "I don't know if this maltose is sweet or not."

Grandma He knew that she was greedy. After all, she was still in the confinement period and there was nothing delicious at home.

"Why don't I go back to the Qin family and ask if I can borrow a few dollars first, and wait until Changsheng and others have issued sugar tickets and buy some sugar and return it."

"Well, thank you for your hard work."

"Hi, why are the family talking about this?"

On the other hand, the maltose has been cooked successfully, and the last step is left: pulling the sugar.

In fact, if you eat it yourself, it will be fine at this point. Considering that you have to exchange maltose for things, it will definitely be more convenient to pull it into candy cubes.

The malt sugar that just came out of the pot was very hot, but for Qin Hao, this temperature was nothing.

He Jiali and the other two watched the soft malt syrup pulling down Qin Hao repeatedly, turning into hard candy strips, as if they were watching magic.

"Is that OK?"

He Jiawen couldn't wait to ask.

Qin Hao smiled: "The last step is still missing."

As he said that, he took a knife to cut the candy strips into sugar pellets.

"Give it, how about it."

He Jiawen took it and couldn't wait to put it in his mouth. His red face was filled with a happy expression, and he said vaguely.

“So sweet, delicious.”

Looking at He Jiali and Zhang Qiufang who were looking at him, Qin Hao quickly cut two pieces and gave them to them, otherwise he would have been rushing up to steal the eyes of their eyes.

After cutting all the remaining candy pieces, Qin Hao weighed them almost 2.5 kilograms.

"You guys go back and get a jar and give you candy."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! He Jiawen immediately asked in surprise: "How many can you divide it?"

"So much."

The He family gave four toothpaste skins, Zhang Qiufang only had two, and Qin Hao divided them into two piles according to the ratio.

The He Jiali sisters immediately went to the house to get the cans happily, and Zhang Qiufang did not raise any objections. She was already satisfied with the fact that she could get 9 yuan of maltose, so she could save some food for a long time.

He Jiawen, who ran home, asked his grandma for a jar.

Grandma He asked curiously: "What do you want to do with jars?"

"Put maltose, Qin Hao has cooked a lot of maltose, it's so sweet." He Jiawen replied in a slight voice.

Grandma He subconsciously looked at He Jiali and nodded when she saw her, she believed it was true.

"You can't take other people's malt sugar for nothing."

He Jiawen explained: "Grandma, it's not for nothing. We exchanged toothpaste skin."

"Toothpaste skin, are the four toothpaste skins you took a few days ago?"

"Um."

He Jiawen urged: "Grandma, hurry up, the malt will melt in a while."

Grandma He was amused: "Maltose is not so easy to melt. Give it, take it."
To be continued...