Chapter 42 Making Candy
The kudzu powder has been made, the new house has been built, and there is a hidden place to cover it, so Pomegranate is ready to start making candies.
She went to the market early yesterday morning to buy the sugar and oranges she needed.
This morning, Pomegranate was busy working in the backyard of her new house.
The reason why it is in the backyard is because their new house has not yet had a fire. According to the rules, they cannot light a fire in the new house. On the contrary, in the backyard, there is a door blocking the wall next to the back door. If you can't see it, it doesn't count as lighting a fire in the house, so it's not serious.
She can't afford a big fire, just a small stove is enough.
Worrying about money, my daughter’s business, which she has been busy with for a long time, is finally starting to take shape and she can no longer schedule it. After all, even if the money is not enough, you can still borrow money, but whether the business can be completed, then But it will be a major event that can affect their family's future.
At that moment, the seven members of the family gathered around Pomegranate, waiting for Pomegranate to tell them what to do.
Pomegranate has a charter in her heart and makes arrangements in an orderly manner: "Brother Zhang, eldest sister and mother, the three of you are responsible for peeling out these two baskets of oranges."
"Brother Zhang and Second brother, you two are responsible for crushing the kudzu root powder with a rolling pin and rolling it into a fine powder. The finer the better, you have to pass it through this fine sieve. If you can pass it through this fine sieve, this powder is considered the best. ! ”
"Dad and I are responsible for grinding the white sugar with a rolling pin, and also grinding it into fine powder. The finer the better!"
Pomegranate made arrangements, the tasks were clear and in place, and once the words were spoken, the family workshop became a busy job. got up.
For a time, the room in the backyard of the new home was full of busy activities, warm and harmonious.
Among the three tasks, peeling the oranges is the fastest. After carefully rolling out the pomegranate to get less than half a bowl of white sugar powder, all the oranges in the two large baskets were peeled out.
Pomegranate then taught the Song family to put the peeled oranges in clean gauze, squeeze them with a clean wooden pound, squeeze out the orange juice, and filter it with gauze, so that there would be no trace of the orange pulp. .
After all the orange juice has been squeezed out, a lot of kudzu powder has been ground, and there is a lot of powdered sugar, the pomegranate is ready to be cooked in a pot.
What she wants to do is QQ candy that will only be available in future generations.
The required materials are very simple, arrowroot powder, sugar powder, orange juice, pure natural without any additives.
Of course, any fruit juice is acceptable, but in this season, oranges are plentiful and the cheapest. Considering the cost, oranges are naturally the best, and the yellow color produced by oranges is also very eye-catching. of.
For these three raw materials, in addition to the fact that the white sugar powder must not have a grainy feel, the same goes for the kudzu powder. In addition, the most important thing is the proportion.
Make the first pot of pomegranate first, according to the ratio of arrowroot: powdered sugar: orange juice - 3:1:4.
First put about 6 taels of kudzu root powder and 2 taels of powdered sugar in a bowl, then pour in 8 taels of orange juice, then stir, stir evenly, then use a spoon to scoop it into the mold one by one. .
Of course the molds were made by Li Jihe. According to Pomegranate, the carvings are all in the shape of small animals. He has good carpentry skills and can carve such small things with his eyes closed.
Then put it on the earth stove built against the wall in the backyard, put it into the steamer in the pot and steam it for more than a quarter of an hour.
After steaming, take all the molds out of the pot and set them aside to let them cool down naturally. After they cool down, remove them from the molds and you will get small animal-shaped transparent shapes. Pomegranate picked up one of the candies with his hands and pinched it. It was a little soft, but after letting go, the pinched position would rebound.
Success!
The pomegranate smiled immediately, but he tasted one first. After making sure that its taste met his expectations, he breathed a sigh of relief.
In a blink of an eye, she saw her family members looking at her eagerly, especially Brother Zhang, who looked eager, so she quickly took one and handed it to him, "Try, the candy made by the second sister! ”
Then he took one for everyone else. Li Jihe and Mrs. Song were holding a small bunny candy, looking left and right. They were surprised at every glance and couldn't bear to eat it.
Li Rongzhang got a little tiger candy and couldn't put it down. "Second sister, is this really candy? It's so beautiful! I can't bear to eat it!"
Three Li Xiangli also did it. He nodded hurriedly.
Pomegranate couldn't help but laugh, "We have been working hard for so long to make the candy. This is the first pot, why don't we try it ourselves first? Try it quickly and see if my candy tastes good? Can you sell it? Money? "
After Pomegranate said this, everyone thought, yes, they have to sell the candy, why don't they taste it first?
As for whether they can sell it for money, they haven’t tasted it yet, but they all thought to themselves that just by looking at the candy, if they saw it at the market, their pockets would also be rich. , you must definitely buy it and try it without hesitation!
Several people fed the candy into their mouths almost at the same time, with a little caution. They did not dare to exert force after entering the mouth. They let the candy lie on the bed of their tongues, spreading a sweet taste to the base of the tongue.
"You have to chew it! Only by chewing it can you know how good my candy is!" Pomegranate was very amused when she saw that they were reluctant to chew it.
A few people started chewing slowly. After chewing, their eyes widened.
“This candy doesn’t stick to your teeth!”
“It’s not hard, it’s soft, and it’s chewy and chewy!”
"The more you chew it, the sweeter it becomes! It makes you want to eat it again!"
One piece is about the size of a thumb, and when you really chew it, it disappears after a few times. Several people are giving feedback seriously, kid Li Rongzhang His little eyes almost fell on the candy in the bowl, and he felt deeply that this was wrong, so he hurriedly forced himself to look away, even pinching it My own leg meat, I muttered in my mouth: "You can't eat it. You have to sell it for money."
Pomegranate couldn't help laughing, and she was also satisfied that she had conquered her family by making this candy. Several people said it was good. Well, then if you sell this candy, it will make a lot of money. Even if it is sold very well, there will definitely be people who will buy it, and they will not leave empty-handed.
She reached out and took another candy for each of her family members, but this time everyone waved their hands in unison and refused to eat any more. They all said the same thing, keep the money for selling!
Pomegranate couldn't persuade her, so she had to give up. Then she mixed a new bowl of sugar paste, put it in the mold, and put it in the pot.
The whole day's work finally stopped when all the juice from the two baskets of oranges was used up.
On this day, a total of eight pots were steamed, and one hundred and fifty candies were obtained from each pot, making a total of one thousand two hundred candies. They are packaged in clean oil paper and come in two types, one containing twenty pills and the other containing ten pills.
In this way, a total of forty packages of twenty pills were packaged, and thirty-five packages of ten pills were packaged.
Then there are forty-three loose pomegranates left without packaging. These are for the guests to taste.
Even if the appearance of candy is attractive, some people still have to taste it before deciding whether to buy it or not.
After a lot of work, all the candies were packed, and it was time to discuss selling them early tomorrow morning.
"As I said, we will go to different places tomorrow, one to Dafengji and the other to Huangkou Town. We will sell at both ends. Even if the business at one end is not good and the other end is good, it is not a loss. What do you think? How is it?”
Although Pomegranate is confident that she will not lose money on her QQ candy, she still has to imagine the worst outcome before successfully selling it. People should not have their expectations too high. Only then can you have room for yourself.
(End of this chapter)