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Chapter 1143 Maltose

"correct."

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

"I think there was an old book that taught this before, but I don't know if it will work. I'll give it a try." Qin Hao said nonsense.

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

"I forgot. I think I saw it in the toilet. I guess he's already wiped his butt."

"Well, that's a shame."

Zhou Guilan patted her thigh and said, "Haozi, you are still too young. Don't get tired. Tell me what to do next and I will help you."

"Okay, then help me get a bigger piece of gauze to cover these wheat."

He Jiawen, who was standing by, stared at the wheat in the winnowing basket and his saliva was almost flowing.

"When can we have maltose?"

"It takes two or three days for wheat to germinate."

He Jiawen's face immediately fell when he heard this: "Ah, it will take so long."

Zhou Guilan was happy: "Good food is never too late. When it's ready, I'll ask Haozi to give you a few more pieces."

"Thank you, Aunt Zhou."

Qin Hao laughed secretly, he didn't expect that He Jiawen was such 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, tender shoots about four centimeters long had grown on the originally bare wheat.

He Jiawen hurriedly urged: "The wheat has sprouted, can we make maltose now?"

He Jiali and Zhang Qiufang on the side were also looking at Qin Hao eagerly.

The adults all went to work, leaving only a few children at home. Qin Hao dusted off the dust on his butt and put the Selected Works of Mao Zedong into the house.

"Okay."

The glutinous rice prepared in advance had been soaked for half a day, and Qin Hao put the glutinous rice in the steamer.

"You guys should also wash the malt and pick out the moldy ones, otherwise the sugar you make will be bitter."

When He Jiali and the other two heard this, they immediately concentrated on picking the malt. These days, being able to eat malt sugar is like celebrating the New Year.

After the glutinous rice was steamed, He Jiali and the others picked out all the malt. Qin Hao put the glutinous rice aside to cool, and then began to chop the malt with a knife.

He Jiali was puzzled: "Why do we have to chop up the wheat that has finally sprouted?"

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

He Jiali and her sister were confused. Zhang Qiufang asked curiously, "Haozi, how do you know all this?"

"Reading."

“Why haven’t I seen these in the book?”

"If you read less, read more. No matter what book it is, as long as you read it carefully, you will always gain something."

"Oh."

As he spoke, Qin Hao had already chopped the malt into pieces, mixed it with the cooled glutinous rice, and began to stir it.

"Wow, I can smell the aroma already."

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

Sisters He Jiali and He Jiawen almost couldn't help but eat the whole pot of glutinous rice.

"Wait for it to ferment for a while, and don't try to eat it, or you'll have no maltose to eat."

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, then two hours passed. If Qin Hao hadn't been looking at the two sisters He Jiali, he would have been unable to resist lifting the lid.

It was not until the afternoon, almost six hours later, that I finally heard Qin Hao say it was okay.

As a result, when the lid was opened, He Jiawen held his mouth and said, "Liar, there is no maltose at all."

Qin Hao was happy: "It hasn't started yet, why are you in such a hurry?"

"Sister Qiufang, please light a fire for me later."

"it is good."

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

Over there, Zhang Qiufang had already started the fire and had the pot set up.

Qin Hao poured all the juice into the pot.

"Sister Qiufang, don't get too angry. Just keep it down."

"Ah."

Qin Hao kept stirring the pot with a spoon to prevent it from sticking. As the water in the juice continued to evaporate, the juice in the pot had turned slightly brown.

"Wow, it smells so good."

He Jiawen was lying beside the stove, sniffing like a puppy, and He Jiali beside him was not much better.

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

"Whose family is making candy? It smells so good."

"It should be the Qin family next door. I heard Jiali say that his family was going to make candy a few days ago. But they should not have finished get off work yet. Why did they come back early?"

Liu Meixin smacked her lips a few times and said, "I wonder if this maltose is sweet or not."

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

"How about I go to the Qin family and ask if I can borrow a few dollars first, and then buy some sugar and return it to them after Changsheng and the others issue the sugar coupons."

"Well, thank you for your hard work, Mom."

"Hey, why are you talking about this as a family?"

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

In fact, if you are going to eat it yourself, it is enough to stop at this step. Considering that you still need to exchange maltose for other things, it is definitely more convenient to pull it into sugar cubes.

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

He Jiali and the other two watched as the soft malt syrup turned into hard candy bars under Qin Hao's repeated pulling, as if they were watching a magic trick.

"Is it okay?"

He Jiawen asked impatiently.

Qin Hao smiled and said, "There is only one last step left."

As he said this, he took a knife and cut the candy bar into sugar grains.

"Here, try it and see how it tastes."

He Jiawen took it and couldn't wait to put it in his mouth. Immediately, his rosy little face was filled with a happy expression and he spoke incoherently.

"So sweet and delicious."

Looking at He Jiali and Zhang Qiufang who were looking at him eagerly, Qin Hao quickly cut two pieces and gave them one each, otherwise looking at their eyes they would have seemed as if they wanted to pounce on him and snatch it away.

After cutting all the remaining candies, Qin Hao weighed them and found they weighed about 2.5 kilograms.

"Go back and get a jar and I'll give you some candy."

He Jiawen immediately asked in surprise: "How much can I get?"

"That's a lot."

The He family gave four toothpaste tubes, Zhang Qiufang got two, and Qin Hao divided them into two piles according to the proportion.

The He Jiali sisters immediately went home happily to get the jars, and Zhang Qiufang did not raise any objections. She was already very satisfied with being able to get 9 pieces of malt sugar, and if she saved it, it would last her for a long time.

He Jiawen ran back home and asked his grandmother for the jar.

Grandma He asked curiously, "What do you want the jar for?"

"It's malt sugar. Qin Hao made a lot of malt sugar. It's so sweet." He Jiawen answered in a baby voice.

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

"You can't just take someone's maltose for free."

He Jiawen explained: "Grandma, it's not for free, we exchanged it for toothpaste tubes."

"The toothpaste tubes, the four toothpaste tubes you took away a few days ago?"

"Ah."

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

Grandma He laughed: "How can maltose melt so easily? Here, take it."

"Oh, go get some maltose."

He Jiawen skipped all the way to the next door, and Zhou Guilan happened to be off work.

"Why is Jiawen so happy?"

"Auntie Zhou, let me fill the maltose."

Zhou Guilan followed him to the kitchen and found that Qin Hao had already boiled the malt sugar.

"Mom, I've just made some maltose. Try it."

Without waiting for Zhou Guilan to refuse, Qin Hao had already stuffed a piece of maltose into her mouth.

A rich sweet taste spread in her mouth, and Zhou Guilan was surprised and moved.

Qin Hao filled He Jiawen's jar with maltose and reminded him, "Don't put it in a place with too high temperature, it will melt easily."

"Yeah." He Jiawen nodded like a chick pecking at rice, holding the jar in both hands, cherishing it very much.

"Sister Qiufang, this is yours." Qin Hao added another piece into the jar to make a total of ten.

Zhang Qiufang rubbed her hands: "Then I won't be polite."

"Without your toothpaste tubes, I can't make maltose. This is called mutual assistance and win-win. No need to be polite."

As soon as Qin Hao finished speaking, he heard He Jiawen say in a baby voice: "From now on, all the toothpaste tubes in our house will be kept for you."

"Haha, this girl."

Zhou Guilan was so amused that she burst out laughing.

He Jiawen went home carrying the jar, and as soon as she entered the door, Grandma He waved to her.

"Grandma, look, there is so much maltose." He Jiawen picked up the jar like a treasure.

Grandma He was surprised: "You exchanged these for four toothpaste tubes? So many?"

"Well, our family has four, and Sister Qiufang has two, so our family has more than theirs." He Jiawen said proudly.

Grandma He frowned. In her simple opinion, four toothpaste tubes were only worth eight cents, and eight cents could not buy so much malt sugar. This was obviously taking advantage of others.

Just as Grandma He was thinking about how to repay this favor, Liu Meixin, who was in confinement after her baby, called He Jiawen into the room.

"Mom, look at all that maltose."

Liu Meixin asked curiously, "Where did it come from?"

"Qin Hao gave it to us. We exchanged it for four toothpaste tubes. It's a good deal, right? And you still say I'm stupid." He Jiawen said angrily with a pout.

Liu Meixin swallowed her saliva and said, "Brother, give Mom a piece to try too."

"Oh." He Jiawen picked out the largest piece and handed it to Liu Meixin.

Although the sweetness of maltose is only about 40% of that of white sugar, it was already a precious thing in the 60s. Liu Meixin held the maltose in her mouth, not wanting to bite it with her teeth, and just waited quietly for it to melt in her mouth.

"Jia Wen, leave this jar with me. You are too young and it will be troublesome if you drop it."

He Jiawen subconsciously guarded the jar tightly.

"This kid, you're afraid that mom will steal some for you. Besides, you don't even think about whose toothpaste tube that is. Without the toothpaste tube, what can you use to exchange for so much maltose?"

He Jiawen had no choice but to hand the jar to Liu Meixin reluctantly, while giving her some reassuring instructions.

"Mom, don't eat too much. My sister and I are going to save it for the New Year."

"Girl, mom can't eat a few of your maltose anymore, get out quickly, I want to feed your sister."

He Jiawen pouted and walked out of the room, looking back every few steps. He Jiali glared at her and said, "There was also my share in there, why did you hand it over?"

"But...Mom..." He Jiawen's mouth pouted and she was about to cry out.

He Jiali said disdainfully: "It's useless, you just know how to cry."

Grandma He glared at He Jiali and said, "Why do you say that about your sister?"

Then he went to comfort He Jiawen.

When He Changsheng got off work, he found that the atmosphere at home was not right, so he looked at his mother.

"Mom, did something happen at home?"

Grandma He told He Changsheng the situation, and He Changsheng went to the inner room, opened the jar and saw that there was indeed a lot of malt sugar.

"When did the Qin family acquire this skill? The maltose they made is really good."

“It’s quite sweet.”

He Changsheng said tactfully: "At least leave some for the child. Jiawen is crying."

"Humph, I'm in confinement now, so what's wrong with eating some maltose? If you have the ability, get me some brown sugar."

He Changsheng was helpless: "I am also trying to find a solution. The main thing is that all our sugar coupons have been returned..."

Nowadays, most families are reluctant to eat scarce goods like sugar, and they save them for use in times of emergency. If a family is short of it, they borrow from other families and return it later.

Liu Meixin borrowed all the money last time when she was in confinement after giving birth, and she just paid it back recently. Now the third child has come, and she really can’t get any more.

"At least you have to give the child two pieces to satisfy his craving. Besides, if it weren't for the child, you wouldn't be able to eat this maltose."

Liu Mei Xin then reluctantly picked out two pieces for He Changsheng.

He Changsheng shook his head and took the candy out to coax his daughter. He Jiawen was easy to coax and stopped crying immediately after the candy entered her mouth.

He Jiali was not satisfied: "There are so many in the jar, just give me one piece."

"All the delicious food at home is given to her. It's not fair."

He Changsheng patted his eldest daughter on the back and comforted her softly, "Your mother just gave birth to a child and needs to supplement her nutrition."

"You are the eldest sister in the family, so you should set a good example and respect your elders. I'll save some delicious food for you later."

He Jiawen interrupted immediately, "I want one too."

"Okay, you two are all little greedy cats, and you are one too." He Changsheng was both angry and amused.

At the same time, Qin Hongxia's get off work class was also surprised when they saw the full jar of maltose.

"Did Haozi really do this himself?"

"Otherwise, we could have bought it. How could we have so many candy coupons?"

Qin Hongqi was amazed: "When did Haozi learn how to make maltose?"

"He said he studied hard." Zhou Guilan said with emotion, "You were right to let Haozi go to school early. He is so smart, he must be a good student."

"Look, I told you, I don't know who was so distressed about paying a year's tuition before."

"A blind cat has caught a dead mouse. Why are you showing off? Get ready to eat."

"okay."

While eating, Qin Hao suddenly said.

"Dad, Mom, the production cost of this maltose is mainly wheat and glutinous rice. The cost is quite low. We can use it to exchange for some things."

Zhou Guilan and Qin Hongqi's faces changed drastically when they heard this: "Son, please don't do this. This is speculation."

"Selling it is definitely not an option, but we can exchange things with people privately without charging money, so if we are careful it should be fine."