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Ye Changyan lifted the quilt covering the ceramic jar, carefully opened the wooden lid, and smelled a faint milky aroma mixed with a hint of sourness.

Suddenly, I felt two heads popping out from the left and right sides, and I saw Erniu and Wulang staring into the pottery basin.

If you observe carefully, you will find that the milk in the ceramic jar has already formed stratification. It seems that the lactose in the milk has begun to decompose into lactic acid, and the casein has begun to coagulate and precipitate.

Ye Changyan asked Wulang to get a spoon and a bowl. Ye Changyan gently scooped a small spoonful on the surface. It seemed to be fermenting well. Although the room temperature was only a dozen degrees, laying straw and covering it with a quilt still had a good heat preservation effect.

"Wu Lang, do you want to try it?"

Wulang looked like a greedy cat, licked his lips and nodded.

Ye Changyan handed the bowl with a small amount of cheese to Wulang. Wulang took it with a smile and took a sip.

"How about it?"

"It's a little sour, but very smooth, tastes good, and has a very refreshing milky flavor."

"Not bad, would you like to try it with some sugar?"

Wu Lang rolled his eyes and nodded.

Ye Changyan scooped some more into Wulang's bowl, then added a spoonful of sugar.

"Stir it and taste it."

Wu Lang took a small spoon, stirred it slowly for a while, then took a sip, and an expression of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.

"Wow, sour, sweet and smooth, so delicious."

Ye Changyan followed suit and handed a bowl to Erniu. Erniu also imitated Wulang, stirring it slowly, then brought it to her mouth and took a sip.

His eyes lit up, "Brother, it's really delicious, sour, sweet, fragrant and delicate."

While listening to the brother and sister's praise, Ye Changyan continued to do the same thing, filled two bowls and handed them to Erniu and Wulang. Without Ye Changyan's instructions, the clever brother and sister took the bowls and ran to the east room.

Ye Changyan also served himself a bowl and did not add sugar at first. He took a sip and it tasted like pure yogurt. However, he was used to drinking various flavored yogurts in his previous life, so he was not used to this pure yogurt at first. So he added a spoonful of sugar, stirred it evenly, and took another sip. It tasted much more familiar.

Compared with the various flavored yogurts in the previous life, this yogurt does not contain thickeners such as gelatin, so its taste is indeed inferior, but its milky flavor is stronger, and it smells like a refreshing milky aroma mixed with a hint of lactic acid.

It seems that next time I make yogurt, I will have to add sugar to the fresh milk in advance, so that the flavor will be better.

Ye Changyan took out a ceramic jar, scooped a small amount, covered it with a lid, and prepared to use it as a starter to ferment the half bucket of fresh milk he brought back from Veterinarian Sun today. This way the fermentation would be faster.

Wulang and Erniu came out of the east room carrying bowls and saw their brother put a colander on a large ceramic basin and then put several layers of gauze in the colander.

Then use a ladle to scoop the fermented yogurt in the ceramic jar into a gauze-covered colander to filter it.

After pouring a jar of yogurt into the colander, Ye Changyan asked his sister and brother to help. The three of them closed the gauze and squeezed out as much whey as possible from the yogurt.

When the gauze was unfolded, a large piece of creamy yellow cheese was seen remaining in the gauze.

"Who's going to start a fire? I'm going to show you my skills today."

"I'll come, I'll come!"

It was rare that Wulang was eager to make a fire, so he ran to the stove to make a fire.

Ye Changyan cleaned the pot, added water into the pot, washed the purchased Qiongzhi with clean water, and put them into the pot. As the temperature in the pot rose, the Qiongzhi began to rapidly swell and then gradually melt.

Erniu, who was standing aside and watching, found it very magical, but she did not say anything and just watched quietly.

Soon the Qiongzhi completely melted in the hot pot. As Ye Changyan continued to stir, the water in the pot began to become more and more viscous. Ye Changyan scooped all the viscous liquid into the ceramic basin.

Then he scrubbed the iron pot clean, poured a small amount of oil into the pot, put the sugar into the pot, and began to boil the sugar in the pot. Stirring it constantly as time went by, he saw the sugar liquid in the pot begin to bubble. At this time, Ye Changyan put most of the cheese that he had just filtered into the pot, and poured the viscous liquid boiled with Qiongzhi in the basin into the pot.

Then he brought the small half bucket of milk that he brought back from Veterinarian Sun in the afternoon to the stove, and scooped two scoops of fresh milk into the pot.

Lift the bucket of milk aside and keep stirring the boiling solution in the pot.

As time goes by, the fragrance gradually spreads.

Wulang, who was squatting beside the stove and making a fire, stood up from time to time to check.

As Ye Changyan continued to stir, the liquid in the pot had become very viscous. Ye Changyan then spoke to Wulang.

"Wulang, you can turn off the engine first."

After the fire went out, Ye Changyan continued to stir for a while, then poured the thick liquid in the pot with a strong milky aroma onto the newly bought large chopping board, allowing the thick liquid to spread naturally on the chopping board to dry.

While Ye Changyan was cleaning the iron pot, he asked Wulang to light the fire again.

Ye Changyan placed the cleaned iron pot on the stove, and then poured all the whey that had just been filtered into the pot.

As the temperature rises, a sour smell unique to lactic acid bacteria arrives.

Soon the whey in the pot began to boil. Ye Changyan added sugar into the pot, stirred it a few times, and waited for the whey to continue boiling.

As time passed, the water gradually evaporated and the whey in the pot gradually became thicker. Ye Changyan added a large ladle of fresh milk into the pot, and added the remaining half of the cheese into the pot, and began to stir constantly.

The sauce was reduced very quickly over high heat. The originally milky white liquid in the pot became thicker and thicker, and its color gradually turned yellow until it turned brown. Ye Changyan lifted up the spatula covered with the thick liquid, and as the liquid fell, a fine wire was formed.

"Goro, you can turn off the engine now."

Ye Changyan continued to stir for a few times, then poured the thick liquid in the pot, which had already turned caramel-colored, onto the newly bought wooden mold, and used a scraper to scrape the thick liquid in the mold flat and evenly.

Grab some sesame seeds and sprinkle them sparsely on the thick liquid in the mold.

After finishing that part, he turned around, reached out and touched the milky white thick liquid on the chopping board. It had cooled down a lot, so he wiped his hands and began to rub it vigorously.

Erniu stood aside and observed carefully, secretly memorizing every step. She saw that her brother was kneading the liquid on the chopping board like dough and she watched with fascination.

After turning off the engine and washing his hands, Goro also stood by and watched attentively.

Soon, Ye Chang rolled the dough-like substance on the chopping board into several thin strips. He picked up a knife and cut the strips into evenly spaced small strips shorter than his little finger. He placed the small strips on the chopping board and waited for them to completely solidify and cool.

Wulang and Erniu stood by the chopping board like two greedy cats, touching and pressing it from time to time.

The weather grew colder at night, and soon the milky white strips on the chopping board cooled down naturally.

Ye Changyan reached out and touched it. It was hard, so he picked up one and stuffed it into Wulang's mouth. Then he handed one to Erniu and put one in his own mouth as well.

"Wow! It's delicious!"

The toffee in Wulang's mouth gradually melted. The delicate and silky taste, accompanied by the refreshing sweetness, filled his entire mouth with a rich milky aroma. It was so delicious that Wulang's eyes widened and he shouted excitedly.