Chapter 172: Homemade Fruit Jam
"Yeah, it's super delicious, just like this." Gu Xiaoyou's eyes turned into crescents as he ate.
"I'll give it a try too." Mrs. Zhou saw that Gu Xiaoyou was enjoying the food, swallowed her saliva, and spread a layer of sweet sauce on the other half of the burger.
She blew the hot air, and instead of taking a big mouthful like Gu Xiaoyou, she opened her mouth delicately and took a small bite.
Although Zhou didn't taste the meat filling in this bite, nor was he impressed by the unique taste of the egg burger, he couldn't help but praise: "This tastes really good."
"Hehe, not only does it smell good, it tastes even better," Gu Xiaoyou said with a raised eyebrow.
"Hmm..." Mr. Zhou nodded in agreement, responded vaguely, and finished the egg burger in small bites attentively.
While Zhou was eating the egg burger delicately, Gu Xiaoyou had already finished the burger in his hand.
Gu Xiaoyou took toilet paper, wiped her fingers, and said to Mrs. Zhou, "Sister Zhou, I'll make more sauce."
"Well, I'll help you after I finish eating." Mrs. Zhou responded.
"Okay." Gu Xiaoyou said, going to the kitchen area where fruits and vegetables are placed and rummaging around: "Sister Zhou, please help me peel the apples."
"Okay, do you want to add it to the sweet noodle sauce?" Zhou asked curiously, thinking it was a new way of making sweet noodle sauce.
"No, I'm going to make some jam." Gu Xiaoyou picked a few red apples and put them on the cutting board, explaining: "Egg burgers can not only be coated with sauce, but also jam."
"Jam..." When Zhou heard this, it was a new word. Fortunately, the literal meaning was easy to understand.
She didn't ask any more questions. After finishing the burger in her hand, she walked to the food table and picked up a knife to peel the apples.
Gu Xiaoyou prepared the ingredients to make sweet noodle sauce. With yesterday's experience, she made the sweet noodle sauce much more smoothly this time, and she quickly got to the final mixing process.
At the same time, Mrs. Zhou has also peeled the apple: "Xiaoyou's peel is ready."
"Oh, you remove the core and cut the apple into small dices." Gu Xiaoyou ordered, while his hands kept stirring the sauce.
When Mrs. Zhou cut all the apples into small dices, Gu Xiaoyou's sweet noodle sauce came out of the pot. After packing the sweet noodle sauce, Gu Xiaoyou took the basin and walked to Mrs. Zhou's side.
"Put all the diced apples into a basin, and I'll get the sugar." Gu Xiaoyou ran to the cupboard to get the sugar bowl, and brought the oranges over.
The diced apples were filled in the basin. Gu Xiaoyou poured in one-sixth of the amount of sugar for the apples, and then added one-third of the amount of water for the apples. Put the water and apples into the pot together, and simmered over low heat.
Gu Xiaoyou looked at the pot and asked, "Are there any other fruits in the kitchen?"
"There are also autumn pears, peaches and oranges." Zhou replied after looking through them carefully.
"Then let's make peach jam and pear jam." Gu Xiaoyou decided happily.
"Okay, I'll peel them now." Ms. Zhou already roughly understood how to make jam, so she picked a few good-looking peaches and pears, washed and peeled them separately.
At this time, the apple water in the pot was already bubbling. Gu Xiaoyou saw that the apples in the pot began to become sticky, so he began to stir it with a shovel, and from time to time he used the shovel to press the soft and rotten apples.
When it is cooked, add a little orange juice.
"Well, it tastes really good." Gu Xiaoyou scooped up a spoonful of applesauce and took a sip. The applesauce was slightly sweet and had a fruity fragrance.
"The jams made from ancient fruits that are purely natural and pollution-free are particularly delicious." Gu Xiaoyou licked her lips and stuffed all the jam from the spoon into her mouth.
At this time, Mrs. Zhou had already cut the autumn pears and peaches into cubes, put them into two basins respectively, and asked softly: "They are all cut, do you want to put sugar in them?"
"Putting sugar in peaches is similar to what I just did. Leave Qiuli to me."
"Okay." Ms. Zhou responded and handed the basin of autumn pears to Gu Xiaoyou. She followed the steps Gu Xiaoyou had just taken to prepare peach jam.
When Gu Xiaoyou got the autumn pear, he squeezed the orange juice into it, put the pear into the stew pot, used his cell phone to time the time, and started to help Zhou stew the peach jam.
When the peach jam was almost done, Gu Xiaoyou put an appropriate amount of sugar into Qiuli's stew pot.
While waiting for the Qiuli to be stewed, Gu Xiaoyou found small clay pots and put the sweet noodle sauce, peach jam, and applesauce into them.
Mrs. Zhou thought that Gu Xiaoyou wanted to take it back to her yard to eat, so she helped to pack it together. When it was ready, she said, "Leave this small can to me, and take the big can back."
"Ah, I don't want to eat this." Gu Xiaoyou quickly explained, knowing that Zhou had misunderstood.
"Who is it for?" Zhou asked curiously.
"Here, give it to a friend, and don't ask any more questions." Gu Xiaoyou said vaguely, turning around to look at the Qiuli in the stew pot.
Mrs. Zhou looked at Gu Xiaoyou busy in front of the stove in confusion, wondering if Xiaoyou had any friends who liked to eat sauce?
Fortunately, the Qiuli were almost stewed, so Zhou helped Gu Xiaoyou pour the pears from the stew pot into the frying pan, forgetting the problem.
It wasn't until the autumn pears in the pot turned a beautiful amber color that Gu Xiaoyou put out the fire and collected the juice.
"It's done, you can put it up." Gu Xiaoyou said with a smile.
"This pear jam is so pretty." Mrs. Zhou praised it and helped Gu Xiaoyou can it.
After filling the jar, Gu Xiaoyou asked Mrs. Zhou to bring a pen and paper. She wrote the name of the sauce on the paper with a pen and pasted it on the clay pot with Mrs. Zhou.
After doing all this, it was already late at night. Gu Xiaoyou looked at the time on his phone: "Sister Zhou, I'm going back to sleep. I'll come over to help tomorrow morning."
"If you sleep a little longer, I will do all the cooking and deliver it to you when I'm done." Zhou said thoughtfully.
"It's okay, the two of us can do it quickly." Gu Xiaoyou waved to Mrs. Zhou and left the courtyard.
Early the next morning, Gu Xiaoyou got up early and went to Zhou's courtyard to help make egg burgers.
The two of them cooperated tacitly, making it really fast, and Liang'er smelled the fragrance and stood guard at the kitchen door early.
Gu Xiaoyou made two and put them into bowls for Liang'er, put various sauces into small bowls, and put them on the tray together with the burgers.
"Come, let's eat at the table."
After hearing this, Liang'er followed Gu Xiaoyou to the restaurant obediently. Gu Xiaoyou taught Liang'er how to put sauce on the egg burger. Seeing that Liang'er learned how to eat it and saw that he was eating with gusto, he returned to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Zhou had already prepared seven or eight egg burgers. Seeing Gu Xiaoyou come back, she quickly asked: "Is Liang'er eating well?"
"The food is so good. I had already finished one when I came here." Gu Xiaoyou said with a smile: "I'll wrap him up with two more in oil paper later, so they can be eaten in between."
Chapter completed!