Traveling through 70, reborn officers with various pets

For this New Year’s Goods Festival, Ou Ruoxing contributed several snacks that are essential for southern festivals. They are simple to make and can be kept in good condition.

Among them are sugar rings, fried rice crackers, and jiaozi. Since it was my first time and I didn’t prepare the materials in advance, I could only go to as many places as possible to purchase more materials.

Nowadays, sugar and oil are precious things. Most families are reluctant to spend so much money on making food. If they are available for sale and not very expensive, most people are willing to buy some.

Ou Ruoxing listed a long list of materials. The oil can be rapeseed oil, soybean oil, peanut oil, as long as it is edible oil. The sugar is mainly white sugar. After all, the output of brown sugar is very low and in short supply.

There are also glutinous rice flour, flour, rice, sesame, peanuts, eggs, etc.

After the soldier in charge of purchasing supplies in the logistics department received the list, he felt relieved when he saw that most of the ingredients were ordinary food.

Fortunately, there were no hard-to-buy materials, otherwise I would be in trouble.

Of course, if you want to make these snacks, rolling pins and pancake molds are essential tools.

A rolling pin is easy to make, as any carpenter can make it. However, the pie mold is different. Ou Ruoxing drew several grand sample drawings, including "blessing", "auspiciousness", "longevity", "happiness", "luck" and "wealth", which are matched with different patterns and look very festive.

The logistics department took the blueprint and looked at it, and they were instantly delighted. "Comrade Ou, you are so thoughtful and the drawing is so good. I like it. The cakes made from it will definitely sell well."

"Thank you for the compliment. Please arrange for someone to make it as soon as possible. Thank you for your hard work!"

No one dares to neglect the task of generating income for the troops and their families.

Dozens of sets of molds were made in just one day.

Because the large pot needed to make fried snacks is not easy to buy, the logistics department also contributed the canteen's spare pot.

Firewood and the like were brought back by the rookies in the training base during their training in the back mountain.

Steamers, winnowing baskets and the like were also exchanged by people arranged by the Women's Federation in nearby villages.

The peanuts bought by the Logistics Department were all in shells, so many elderly people and older children were arranged to shell the peanuts.

The key to making fried rice cakes is frying the rice, so before making it, several people are arranged to fry the rice. The rice is fried until it turns golden and tastes delicious.

"Oh my God! Is this the rice we usually eat? Why is it so fragrant? With this fragrance, I can eat two big bowls of it without any side dishes." An auntie exclaimed while frying.

"Hey! You greedy guy, you can talk but don't eat secretly." Another auntie spoke up.

"You are such a jerk. You don't even allow me to say it. I didn't say I wanted to cheat."

"Haha, you know what. If I put this out for sale, I'm sure someone will buy it, just for the delicious smell. If it doesn't sell well, I'll twist my head off."

Several aunties were frying rice in full swing, with laughter ringing in the air. The half-grown children who were helping to light the fire were smelling the aroma and slurping rice while making sure the stove kept burning.

The aroma of fried rice kept going into my nose, it was so hard to resist!

The fried rice is put into a winnowing basket and placed outside to cool, and then strong people are assigned to grind it into fried rice noodles.

After the peanuts are peeled, fry them until crispy, remove the peanut skins, and use a rolling pin to crush them into peanut crumbs for later use.

Also fry the sesame seeds until fragrant and set aside.

As the leader, Ou Ruoxing guided everyone in completing each step and also demonstrated how to start making semi-finished products.

"When we make sugar rings, we can't just sprinkle sugar into the glutinous rice flour. We need to melt the sugar water and mix it with the flour. We need to control the sweetness. It can't be too sweet, or it won't taste good."

After cooking a pot of sugar water and letting it cool down a bit, Ou Ruoxing asked everyone to bring a bowl over, and gave each person a mouthful of the sugar water, asking them to taste it. "Come on, everyone, try it. This is the sweetness level. Remember it."

"Hey, this sugar water tastes so good!"

"Yeah, normally we wouldn't be willing to drink sugar water, Comrade Ou is such a good guy!"

Ou Ruoxing felt a little sad after hearing this. Everyone was suffering so much. Just drinking this sip of sugar water made her feel happy. Alas...

"Come on, everyone, watch carefully. When we make sugar rings, if we want them to be crispy, we can't use all raw glutinous rice flour. We need to add fried glutinous rice flour in proportion, and then use the cooked sugar water and flour to knead into a smooth dough. Then cut it into large pieces, and use a rolling pin to roll out long wide dough sheets, fold them in half and cut them with a kitchen knife. Finally, pinch all the places that need to be glued together..."

While demonstrating, Ou Ruoxing explained each step in detail, and finally made beautiful sugar rings.

"Wow, so beautiful!"

Everyone stared at the two looks that Ou Ruoxing made, each beautiful in its own way.

Oh my god! If I take this out to sell, it will definitely sell. Just for the good looks, I will buy some to take home.

Everyone looked on in amazement and were very excited, as if they could see small amounts of money flying towards them.