Return to the small mountain village in 1981

511-520

Chapter 511 512: It’s all good stuff. In the afternoon, Zhou Huaishan and Zhou Huaijun pushed their bicycles to the old house and brought over the dripping white cloth bag, which contained glutinous rice balls.

Zhou Huaishan came to Zhou Huai'an's house with a bag, "My youngest, the glutinous rice balls powder needs to be hung overnight."

"Yes! Take it and hang it in the room where the bacon is hung." Zhou Huaian carried the bag with him, "These glutinous rice dumpling powders weigh twenty or thirty kilograms when dried, right?"

Zhou Huaishan said with a smile: "Mom said she bought one hundred and twenty kilograms of wine rice. Together with the rice, the family will have at least thirty kilograms of glutinous rice balls."

Zhou Huaian recalled the past, "In previous years, I would eat a few glutinous rice balls on New Year's Day, but this year I'll eat them until I'm tired of them!"

"That's it!" Zhou Huaishan carried the bag and went with him to the room where the coal was stored.

The beams were hung with cured goods, including sausages, bacon, cured pig's trotters, cured chicken, cured duck, cured goose, smoked rabbit, a few old hams, cured lamb, and pig badgers.

The cured geese and cured ducks were sent by Secretary Xu’s family and Zhou Datian’s family, and some cured chickens were sent by folks from several nearby villages who came to sell truffles.

From time to time, the old man looked at the wax goods crowded together on the rafters, and smiled and said that the landlords in the past did not prepare so many.

Zhou Huaian carried the wooden ladder over, climbed up and hung the rope on the bag on the beam, "Third brother, pull up."

"I want it!" Zhou Huaishan pulled the rope and hoisted the bag, and put a basin under the bag to catch the water. He hung it up overnight and let the water drain away. Then he could make glutinous rice balls in the morning.

Zhou's mother, Yang Chunyan, Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang started making glutinous rice balls cores, starting with brown sugar cores.

First fry the peanuts, sesame seeds, and walnuts, rub off the skins, and then process the brown sugar.

The brown sugar here is the kind of sugar brick. You have to cut it into pieces first, then pound the peanuts, sesame seeds, and walnuts that have been fried in advance with a hammer. When the filling inside starts to clump, add the chopped brown sugar. Put it in and pound it together. After adding brown sugar, pound it and the thicker it becomes, until it sticks to a block.

For black sesame filling, you need to grind the fried sesame seeds with a stone mill, add sugar, chopped lard residue and lard, let it sit and solidify, and the sesame filling is ready.

Mother Zhou thought that after sending away the last batch of truffles on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhao Huifang and the others would start a fire in their own home, and asked several people to go back and get enamel jars, each of them filled a jar and went back.

In the afternoon, villagers sent some truffles one after another. After Jiang Yu and others washed them, they sent them all into the baking room.

It was rare for Zhou Huaian to go to bed early. After writing down the accounts, he took out the velvet bag from the box and sat on the edge of the bed with a smile. "Yan'er, stretch out your hand and let me put it on for you. Does it look good?"

Yang Chunyan glared at him angrily, stretched out her hand, "Hey!"

Zhou Huaian put the bracelet on her, "It looks good! My wife's skin is like mine, as white and tender as a peeled egg..."