Chapter 20 Maltose
When Zhang Chengchuan returned to the town, Liu Guiying and Zhang Chengyu also talked about a lot of topics. At noon, she didn't plan to have dinner with her daughter. When she saw her son coming back, she would follow him home.
When Zhang Chengchuan and Liu Guiying entered the city, Chen Xiayue was also preparing to try whether she could use a processing workshop to process wheat into maltose, and then she would use maltose to boil glutinous jam.
Sugar is not only sugarcane, beets, etc., which is not? Maltose is also very good. Chen Xiayue used the farm's processing workshop to make wheat into maltose.
Chen Xiayue also knows that it is better to use white sugar to make jam, but isn’t white sugar difficult to buy now? Her farm has not yet unlocked the crop like sugarcane, so she can only use maltose to make it.
When the rest of the Zhang family were not at home, Chen Xiayue made maltose with the farm processing workshop, peeled the fragrant fruit and marinated it for a while. After the marination was made into flavor, she put it in the pot and boiled it into sauce.
Fortunately, there is a lemon tree in the village. Chen Xiayue picked two lemons before and came back to add a little lemon juice when cooking jam, which can play a preservative role.
Chen Xiayue spent almost 20 to 30 kilograms of jam for a whole morning, and the remaining fruits were kept for fresh food.
I don’t know if the flavor of fragrant fruit is similar to that of pears, and it has the same effect as that of pears to moisten the lungs and relieve coughs. After all, Qiu pear cream, rock sugar and snow pear are still very famous and have very good effects.
It’s autumn now, and I don’t know if I will cough after the weather is cold. After having this sweet fruit jam, I don’t know if I can relieve cough like Qiu pear paste and rock sugar pear.
After boiling all the jam, Chen Xiayue looked at the pot and was a little stunned. How should she explain where she got the candy to make jam?
Forget it, the rest of the Zhang family are not at home very much. When the evening is over, she will say that she will make jam by herself in the afternoon, saying that the candy was bought by Zhang Chengchuan when she asked Zhang Chengchuan to go to the county.
Although there are loopholes in this explanation, Chen Xiayue has no choice but to do whatever she wants. Zhang Chengchuan will help her get rid of her lies.
Of course, Chen Xiayue could not send all the 20 or 30 kilograms of jam to Zhang Chengyue and the others, and at least ten kilograms had to be kept at home to eat.
After boiling the jam and putting it in a clay pot, Chen Xiayue started cooking, but today she did not cook brown rice porridge, but corn porridge.
Her farm still has a lot of corn planted now. She uses the processing workshop to process it into corn flour and corn slags. Corn flour can be made into steamed buns, and corn steamed buns and flour are mixed together to make other pasta, while corn slags can be cooked into porridge.
After Chen Xiayue cooked the porridge, she added a lot of water, and then ignored it. She went out to prepare to take a look at the vines of fragrant fruit that Zhang Chengchuan cut back yesterday, and processed it and planted it well.
It is also good to grow a fragrant fruit at home. After all, the yield of fragrant fruit is quite high and the taste is also very good. It will be much more convenient to eat it after planting one.
Chen Xiayue found a place in the yard to dig it, then cut a long fragrant fruit vine in half, and then planted it in the pit he dug out.
When Chen Xiayue was growing fragrant fruits in the yard, Zhang Chengchuan and his son came back. As soon as they came back, Zhang Chengchuan saw his wife squatting next to the house and planting something.
"Xia Yue, I'm back!" Zhang Chengchuan shouted.
"Are you back?" Chen Xiayue raised her head when she heard the sound, and then saw Zhang Chengchuan and covered the soil and stood up.
"Didn't you go out today?" Zhang Chengchuan looked at her, then looked at the seedlings of fragrant fruits she had planted, feeling a little sorry for her to be so stuffy.
"Aren't you not familiar with the village yet? When will I go out to play when I get familiar with it?" Chen Xiayue said with a smile.
In fact, she likes living a life like this. Although she doesn’t have a mobile phone or computer now, doesn’t she have a farm system? This way she can pass the time.
Moreover, it is true that she is not familiar with Yunhe brigade. Few people know each other, who should she ask for when she goes out to play? What are she talking about? She is not used to it.
"That's right, but don't be bored in the future, find more people to play with." Zhang Chengchuan was also worried that his wife would get sick if she was bored in such a state of being bored. Originally, her health would be bad. What if she continued to be bored in such a state of being bad for her health?
"The autumn harvest is almost over recently. Let's talk about it after the autumn harvest." Chen Xiayue smiled and said. She should be busy lately. She should not go out to find someone to play, otherwise it would delay her work?
Zhang Chengchuan didn't say anything, and he really has no time lately.
"Actually, if you can follow..." Zhang Chengchuan looked at the direction south, where the troops were stationed and had family members.
Because some of the family members of the army have no jobs, they don’t have that much trouble except for the family’s affairs and the need to clean up the little land they have cultivated. If their wives can play with them, they can pass the time.
However, there are nearly ten miles away from the family area, and those families rarely come out, so Zhang Chengchuan just thought about it.
Moreover, some families were not willing to contact them, the local country people, so he just thought about it and didn't take it seriously.
"What did you cook today?" Liu Guiying, who put the flour she brought back from her son in the house, asked after coming out, and she smelled the sweet smell.
"I cooked some corn porridge and had some corn porridge at noon." Chen Xiayue smiled. In this era, Chen Xiayue could not prepare big fish and meat for them every time. It would be nice to eat it casually to fill their stomachs.
Liu Guiying didn't say anything, and it wasn't until noon, and it took some time to get started in the afternoon, so she continued to see what needed to be done at home.
Chen Xiayue pulled Zhang Chengchuan over and said to him secretly, "I have prepared the jam, but there was not so much sugar at home before, so I'm not very easy to explain."
"Then how did your candy come from?" Zhang Chengchuan said curiously.
"It is maltose made of wheat. The maltose I made from the processing workshop on the farm is very sweet and delicious." Chen Xiayue said.
"Maltose? Wheat can also be used as sugar?" Zhang Chengchuan, as a pure southerner, really doesn't know that wheat can be used as sugar. Even if he has heard of maltose, he has no idea that it is made of wheat.
It’s not surprising that he doesn’t grow wheat in the south.
"Well, I made a lot of maltose, and after boiling the jam, the maltose was not used up." Chen Xiayue said.
"It's okay, you can keep the candy whenever you want." Zhang Chengchuan rubbed her head and said, "The jam is ready. I'll go to the county again tomorrow and send the jam."
"Will you go tomorrow?"
"If you have a little later, you will have to harvest in the autumn. The autumn harvest is very busy and you don't have time to take a leave to go out." Zhang Chengchuan said.
"That's OK." Chen Xiayue had no objection.
Chapter completed!