Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

Chapter 396 Fruit Candy

Time flies and it is already the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month. Xu Han has been busy every day recently, thinking of ways to make some snacks every day, waiting for Yunhua and Zhao Yunyun to come back to celebrate the New Year.

Xu Han, who always likes to be lively, is very busy every day, but she is happy and the smile on her face never stops.

Since coming here, every New Year's Day has been deserted. In the first year, there were only Xu Han and Lu Chuan, and there were not even enough people to play cards.

Later, the Taoist priest and Grandpa Zhao came, and the New Year's celebration became a little more lively. Then, when we had children, the novelty was only temporary, and the New Year's celebration was still very boring.

This year, when Xu Han heard that Yunhua and Zhao Yunyun were coming back to celebrate the New Year, she was so happy.

Just like when I was a kid and looked forward to relatives coming to visit, the whole family gathered together in a lively atmosphere, talking and laughing.

Xu Han now found the feeling of her childhood and was looking forward to their arrival every day.

Early in the morning, after Xu Han finished her breakfast, she began to count the food available in the space.

The nuts such as walnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, etc. picked some time ago have all been processed by Xu Han and placed in the space.

These are all small snacks during the Chinese New Year, and everyone can eat some wherever they go.

Xu Han not only prepared these, but also potato chips and dried sweet potatoes. In addition, there were various cakes, biscuits, bread and other things. During this period, the oven at home never stopped, baking things every day.

Xu Han also used the fruit and vegetable powder she had made before to make a lot of cookies of different colors. They looked so delicious that people were reluctant to eat them.

After taking a look, I found that the nuts and snacks were already there. There were also some in the fruit space. I could just take out some of them according to the situation. There was no need to prepare anything extra.

After thinking about it, there is still one thing missing, and that is of course candy.

Candy is something that appears almost every time there is a happy event, and it is even more indispensable in the home during the Chinese New Year.

Thinking of this, Xu Han immediately got up and went to find Lu Chuan, asking him to help make a few smaller molds, planning to try making some candies herself later.

After listening to it, Lu Chuan asked, "How big does this mold need to be? Are there any requirements?"

"A smaller one, just bigger than your thumb, can be a circle, triangle, heart, or five-pointed star. The more the better."

Lu Chuan had made these shapes before when he was making cookie molds. They are very simple and can be made in a short time.

“Don’t forget to make more, otherwise the candies won’t work without the mold to fix the shape.

Oh, and I also need some small wooden sticks to stick on the candies so I can eat them with my hands without getting them sticky.

"Okay, I get it. How about a thinner stick?"

"Sure, it just needs to be about the same thickness as wheat straw. By the way, can we use rice straw directly? Will it break easily?"

Lu Chuan thought for a moment and replied, "You can use it. It won't break unless you bend it intentionally."

Xu Han thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. Straw stalks break easily, and the two children will definitely eat them when they are done. It will be troublesome if they accidentally eat them. It is better to use a small wooden stick. It is easier to explain, and they can't bite it."

"Okay, I'll ask the Taoist priest to come over and help us, and it will be done in a short while."

"Okay, then you guys do it, I'll go prepare the ingredients."

After Xu Han finished speaking, she went into the kitchen. Since she was going to make candy, she would definitely have to make fruit-flavored candy.

Xu Han first took out the various fruits in the space, including grapes, strawberries, cherries, apricots, pomegranates and other fruits.

Then mash all the fruits directly without adding a drop of water into juice. Then filter out the juice and set it aside in a small bowl for later use.

Then take out a particularly small pot at home and place it on the brazier nearby. Add a little water into the small pot, then put half as much rock sugar as water into the pot and start heating it.

You can shake the pan occasionally during the heating process, but there is no need to stir.

After the rock sugar melts, continue heating until small bubbles start to appear, then pour the strawberry juice on the side into the pot and continue heating.

Gently shake the bottom of the pot during the heating process to try to allow the juice and rock sugar to fully blend. This will make the candy have a stronger and more even fruit flavor.

Until the sugar liquid continues to become thicker, many small bubbles will appear again.

At this time, dip the chopsticks in some syrup, and then dip them in cold water, the sugar liquid will solidify.

Xu Han tasted it and found it tasted the same as the candies she had eaten in her previous life, sour and sweet, and crispy when bitten.

However, the fruit flavor is slightly lighter. After all, they are all pure natural ingredients without any pigments or food additives. The taste is definitely not as good as the fruit candies you ate in your previous life.

Seeing this, Xu Han took the pot down, and then used a small spoon to put the candies into the mold little by little. Then he inserted the small wooden sticks into the filled candies, and then took them outside for a while to wait for the candies to take shape.

Fortunately, the temperature in winter is relatively low, so candies are easy to shape. If the temperature is so high in summer and there is no refrigerator, it may not be possible to make candies.

After making the strawberry flavor, Xu Han immediately made some other flavors.

However, as they were making the candies, there were not enough molds, so they had to put them away temporarily and wait for Lu Chuan and others to make new molds, or to remove the hair from the candies they had just made and continue using them.

Xu Han added warm water to some of the sugar liquid at the bottom of the pot and melted it, and it turned into sour and sweet syrup again, but the fruit flavor was a little lighter and not as sweet.

"Mu'er, come and try the sugar water that mother made to see if it tastes good."

Seeing this, Mu'er thought her mother had made something delicious again, and ran over happily.

I saw my mother handing me a glass of red water. I didn't know what it was, but I just picked it up and drank it.

"tasty?"

Mu'er smacked her lips when she heard that. "It tastes the same as jam water, but a little sweeter."

Lu Chuan also poured himself a cup, "I think jam water tastes better with a sweet and sour taste. This one tastes a bit bland, but this one is not bad either, suitable for daily drinking."

Xu Han also tasted it, but instantly lost interest. Too much water was added, and the taste was indeed not very good, it was bland.

"Forget it, forget it. Let's not drink it. If you want to drink it, soak some chrysanthemum in it. The taste is indeed a bit bland. Apart from a little sweetness, it's almost the same as boiled water."

Grandpa Zhao also walked in after hearing this and said with a smile, "Hahahaha, you seem to be disgusted with it. Let me try it and see what it tastes like."