The God of Cooking Educated Youth in the 70s

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Chapter 69 Coffee and Desserts

People on holiday saw the combination of two people, one bird and a dung basket, and they all covered their mouths and laughed. They were not surprised. Dung is now a good thing. They all gave Captain Liao a good review. He is as good at living as Xue.

Liao Rui asked someone to help send the noisy parrot back to the agricultural reclamation group. He couldn't bring the embarrassment to his wife's family, nor to his own home. Liao Rui took Xue Miao into the West Mountain again and went around a long way to their secret base.

Putting down the basket of elephant dung, Liao Lu looked helplessly at the teasing little girl, "Tell me, what do you want to do?"

"I want to make paper." Xue Miaoying's pale face showed a clever smile.

"Make paper?"

"Yes, elephants eat the leaves of palm plants, and some also eat the fruits of palm plants, such as coconuts. There are undigested plant fibers in elephant dung, which are particularly suitable for making paper. Moreover, the process is very simple, water-saving, and does not pollute the environment." Elephant dung paper is a good income-generating project in elephant orphanages in Southeast Asian countries. In Sri Lanka, Xue Miao remembered that exquisite elephant dung paper was also given as a state gift.

She has never been to the Wild Elephant Valley, but from what Liao said about the size of the elephants there, she thought the elephant dung would pile up like a mountain. She wanted to experiment with making elephant dung paper. If it worked, she could follow the practice of Southeast Asian countries here, which would increase people's income and make people realize the value of elephants. It would be a feasible environmental protection measure.

What could Captain Liao, who doted on his wife, do? He rolled up his sleeves and worked as a laborer.

Because it was her first time, Xue Miao only used a little elephant feces and put away the rest. She found the tools from Fudeju, filtered and cleaned them first, then boiled them at high temperature to sterilize them. She used an idle food processor to grind the boiled fibers into pulp, found some rose petals, squeezed the juice to dye the pulp, and used a tool made of fine bamboo strips to sift the pulp to dehydrate it. Only a layer of pink pulp remained on the surface of the bamboo sieve. There was one last step: sun drying.

It is very simple to make this. After smelling the pulp, there is no strange smell at all, just the fragrance of roses. Xue Miao is very satisfied, "Isn't it very simple? It's not as troublesome as steaming white cakes."

Liao Rui splashed her with cool water, "You only made a piece of paper."

"More people make more. Do you think it is feasible if I put this idea into practice?" Xue Miao asked, shaking Liao Rui's arm.

Liao Rui did not answer. He asked for water to wash his hands and face. He slowly wiped his hands and face clean before looking down at Xue Miao. "You were scolded by a parrot all the way, and you did so much work. You need to be compensated."

Xue Miao made a raspberry chocolate mousse cake with the freshest raspberries two days ago and took it out to bribe someone. "Remember to brush your teeth after eating."

When the person saw the cake, his eyes lit up and he quickly finished it and passed it to Empty plate, "I haven't eaten enough."

"Are you a pig?" There was no other way, Xue Miao took out the dessert she had experimented with two days ago, ice cream made with jasmine tea and fermented glutinous rice. The light green color made her hungry. Liao Rui scooped a spoonful into his mouth. The tea fragrance mixed with a little sweet and sour wine taste, the taste was delicate and soft, and he couldn't help but sigh with satisfaction. It's so lucky to have a wife who can make delicious food.