Different generation married man

After hearing that what Su Mo made was sugar, Wang You couldn't even move his legs. He looked at the clear syrup in the pot expectantly. He clearly wanted to eat it, but he was sensible and didn't ask for it.

Instead, Su Mo took two chopsticks, stirred a large ball of sugar from the pot, sprinkled the sesame seeds he had prepared earlier, and handed it to Wang You,

"Try it, is it delicious? But be careful, it's still very hot."

"Thank you brother." Wang You took it in surprise, imitating Su Mo, holding two chopsticks to stir the syrup in his hands, which was very interesting.

Seeing that Xiao Wu was also looking at him eagerly, Su Mo stirred up a big ball without discrimination, and handed it to Xiao Wu, "Eat it!"

"I have it too?" Xiao Wu scratched his head in embarrassment, but still took it, stirring it in his hands.

"Everyone has it, do it yourself!" Su Mo also made a mess, and then went to Zhuo Yan with maltose.

After waiting for cold in the hand, tasted it, the taste is good.

The taste was exactly the same as in his memory, which reminded him of the past.When his parents were still alive, every Chinese New Year, his father would take him and his mother to the temple fair.

There are always all kinds of snacks at temple fairs, among which is maltose that is eaten by stirring with two small wooden sticks.

But then there was no chance to eat it again.

Su Mo took another bite of the syrup, looked up and saw Zhuo Yan sitting under the camphor tree at the stone table, and suddenly laughed.

The past cannot be traced, but the future can still be expected.

Su Mo walked up to Zhuo Yan, stuffed a half-bitten candy into Zhuo Yan's mouth, and smiled brightly, "Taste the candy I made!"

"Well, it's very sweet." Zhuo Yan has no likes or dislikes for sweets, but now he feels that the candy has been sweet to his heart.

Xiao Wu followed suit and asked Su Mo while eating the candy, "Su Xiaolang, did you buy that shop to sell this kind of candy?"

"Yes! I'm going to open a candy store in the town, and the candy I make will be sold in the store." Su Mo is still very confident in his skills.

The only sugar in this world is stone honey made from sugarcane, frost sugar, and rock sugar. The former tastes bad and has many impurities, while the latter is too expensive, and ordinary people simply cannot afford it.

"Then how much money per catty are you going to sell?" Xiao Wu asked.

Su Mo thought about it and set a price, "Twelve coins!"

Xiao Wu gasped, "So cheap?"

You must know that even the worst quality stone honey costs fifteen cents a catty, and the quality of the maltose made by Su Mo is comparable to top-grade stone honey, at least twenty cents a catty.

Zhuo Yan also looked over in surprise, and worried, "Wouldn't it be a loss if you sell it at such a low price?"

"No!" Then Su Mo analyzed it with Zhuo Yan.

Su Mo has learned that sugar cane is nearly five cents, and the juice made into stone honey only costs about four taels? Frosted sugar only costs about two taels, so the cost will be very high if calculated in this way, which is why the price of frosted sugar has always been inseparable. .

Although maltose is shaped like stone honey, its taste is much better than the stone honey here, and the main raw material is cornmeal.

Corn production is high in this world. A catty of corn costs two pennies, and half a catty of sugar can be made. Adding labor and malt, it costs only six or seven pennies at most.

After the sweet potatoes are planted in the future, he can still use sweet potatoes to make them, and the cost will be lower.

The only worry is that once this wheat candy is released, it may attract the suspicion of many sugar houses.

But it's useless to think about things that haven't happened yet, and it's impossible for him to stop because of this.

Seeing that Xiao Wu finished eating the candy, Su Mo stood up, wrapped his arms around his neck, and walked to the kitchen, "There is still work to do! Come on, let's continue making sugar."

Xiao Wu was dragged away by him, "Isn't it already finished?"

He remembered that the cornmeal that had been ground today had been used up!

"Why are you talking so much, let's go."

Back in the kitchen, Su Mo first asked Xiao Wu to use a clean cloth towel to wipe off the one-person-high wooden stake that Wang Xiao had stood in the yard two days ago.

"Wang Trousers, first put half of the maltose in the pot into a clay pot, and I will use the rest." Su Mo ordered.

"Okay." Aunt Wang came to the clay pot that had been prepared earlier, filled half a pot of maltose, and put it aside.

"Keep burning the fire, don't use too much."

"Brother, let me come!" Wang You volunteered.

"Yes, but you know how to code?" Su Mo teased him, and Wang You pouted unconvinced, "Of course I can, my mother taught me.

"Okay, this task is entrusted to you, you have to burn it well. Later, my brother will treat you to another kind of candy, which you have never eaten before. How about it?"

"Is there really any candy that you've never eaten before?" Wang You didn't believe it.

Although the production method of maltose is somewhat miraculous, in terms of taste, it is similar to stone honey, but Wang You does not believe that it can be made into sugar that has never been eaten before.

"Just wait and see!"

Su Mo directed Wang You to light the fire. While controlling the temperature, he boiled the maltose in the pot to make it drier, and fetched a clean dustpan.

Skip, spread a layer of oil paper on top.

After the maltose boiled to a certain level, Su Mo said to Aunt Wang, "Wait, boil the sugar again, then take it out and spread it on top

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Su Mo mobilized his mental strength to spread it evenly on his hands, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, he reached into the hot pot with his bare hands.Xiao Wu exclaimed, and rushed to pull him, his voice changed in fright, "Su Xiaolang, what are you doing?"

How hot is the sugar?higher than boiling water.Su Mo has thin skin and tender flesh, I'm afraid the skin will be burned off all of a sudden

Thinking of what happened to Su Mo under his nose, Xiao Wu's face turned pale, and Aunt Wang and the others were also frightened.

"No, I'm fine." Su Mo moved away, and quickly pulled a big ball of candy with both hands.

At this time, the temperature of the syrup was very high, but because of the mental isolation, Su Mo didn't feel much.

Avoiding Xiao Wu's hand, he walked out of the kitchen quickly, hung the sugar on the stake, and pulled it up quickly.

Xiao Wu didn't believe it, he stepped on his feet and walked out.

Zhuo Yan didn't know what happened, so he saw Xiao Wu walking over anxiously, and said, "Brother Zhuo, go and see Su Xiaolang quickly! He just took the candy from the pot like this. What should I do if I get burned?"

Zhuo Yan's face changed, and he asked Xiao Wu to push him over, and saw a ball of candy stretching continuously in Su Mo's hand.

Zhuo Yan stretched out his hand to pull Su Mo over.

Only then did Su Mo realize that he hadn't explained clearly to him, so he quickly controlled Tang with one hand, stretched out the other hand in front of Zhuo Yan, and shook it left and right, "Don't worry, I'm fine, look!"

The hand that was supposed to be scalded was actually intact, without even a red mark, Zhuo Yan was relieved, but his expression was not very good.

Su Mo laughed dryly with guilt, and concentrated on pulling up the candy, only to see the large ball of syrup under Su Mo's hand, stretching and deforming continuously, the original golden brown syrup gradually turned white, and became pale. silk.

Wang You watched with relish, and kept asking, "Brother, why did the candy change color?"

"Brother, is this candy delicious? Is it better than rock candy?"

and so on.

After a while, Su Mo observed the color of the sugar, and said to Xiao Wu, "Go and get the dustpan."

Xiao Wu responded, took out a clean dustpan, and spread oiled paper on it.Su Mo quickly divided the sugar in his hand into two, put one ball into the dustpan, and asked Xiao Wu to use a rolling pin to crush it into a flat circle.

The sugar in the hand continues to be pulled until it becomes silky and the volume increases.

Su Mo put the sugar on the chopping board, cut it into uniform pieces with a knife, wrapped it in sesame seeds, and put it in the dustpan.

"Okay, you're done!" Su Mo clapped his hands and was very satisfied with the finished product.

Zhuo Yan immediately came forward, took his hand and turned it over and over again, until he was sure that he was not injured? Then he was relieved, but said with a straight face, "Leave these things to the servants next time." .”

Knowing that he was upset, Su Mo hurriedly coaxed, "Okay, I won't do it next time, I'll hire someone to do it."

"Um!"

At this time, Xiao Wu took Wang You to watch the candies.

Soon the candies cooled down, but their appearance had already changed drastically.

The sugar that was taken out of the pot and let cool turned into a golden brown translucent sugar block, and after being stretched, it turned into a milky white sugar block. hole.

It doesn't look like it used to be at all.

Su Mo introduced them one by one, "This is ordinary sugar, the white one is called sesame sugar, and the one wrapped in sesame seeds is called bubble sugar. Let's all try it."

After a day, everyone has long admired Su Mo's sugar-making skills, and is also curious about what kind of sugar these are.

As soon as he heard his words, Wang You and Xiao Wu each took a piece and put it in their mouths.

The golden-brown sugar is crunchy when you eat it, and has a burnt aroma; the white tastes sticky to your teeth, but the taste is delicate; the last one, when you put it in your mouth, it crumbles into slag, and it is crispy and crispy with sesame seeds Crispy and rustling? + very delicious, it can be said that it is suitable for all ages.

Everyone was amazed, they didn't expect Tang to be able to make so many tricks, Su Xiaolang [Master] is really capable.Since we want to open a store, this bit of sugar is naturally not enough.

I don't know why, but many festivals in this world are the same as in the original world, and the Dragon Boat Festival will be in about ten days. Su Mo wanted to take this opportunity to open the store.

So while people stepped up the decoration, they brought people to make maltose at home, and bought corn in the village when they didn't have enough corn.

I made a custom-made clay pot for maltose syrup, and went to the blacksmith's shop to make a few round iron plates with small animal patterns, similar to seals, and palm-sized.

Two smooth iron boards, a wooden board with paintings of flowers, birds, fish and insects, a small red clay stove for burning joints, a lot of bits and pieces.I don't know what these are for.

Naturally, such a big movement of the Zhuo family cannot be hidden from the eyes of those who are interested.

Because of his good family background, Li Chen looked down on the people in this village, so he didn't walk around the village very much.

But if there is any trouble in the village, she may not be later than others.

During the lunch break that day, Zhao Xiangning came to the door.

She held a small basket in her hand with a few half-red peaches in it, and smiled as soon as she entered the door, "Sister-in-law Li, are you embroidering?" Li Zhen put down the embroidery frame in her hand, asked Zhao Xiangning to sit down, and said casually, "No There are things to do, just embroider and play."

Which daughter-in-law in this country embroiders, not to earn some money so as to subsidize the family, but Li Zhen just casually said it for fun, and Zhao Xiangning secretly envied her.

Thinking of the purpose of his visit, he hurriedly put the basket in his hand on the table, and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law Li, these are the peaches my boy picked on the mountain. They are crisp and sweet, so I wanted to bring you some to try."

"Thank you." Li Zhen took the basket and put it aside, "Are you done with the work in the field?"

"No way, it's just that I have a rare free time, so I just wanted to go to Mrs. Li's house." Zhao Xiangning smiled, and then pointed to the west direction, "It's your nephew's house, he's been so busy these days, I don't know what you're working on?"

Li Zhen looked at Zhao Xiangning, "What is their family busy with?"

"I don't know. I just heard that his family bought some corn from Widow Li and several other families. They closed the door and didn't know what they were doing. They covered it tightly and didn't even allow anyone to see it." Zhao Xiangning wanted to please Li Zhen wholeheartedly, knowing that she was concerned about Zhuo Yan's family, so whenever there was news, she would send it to her.