[Through] Delicious Journey

Sweetheart candy, just looking at the appearance of the fruit, it is undoubtedly candy. The outer shell is covered with a layer of sugar coating, and the size is similar to that of ordinary lollipops. The color is used to distinguish the different tastes.

As for why it is called sweetheart candy, it is because the inside of the sugar is hollow, and the sugar coating only occupies a thin layer of the whole sweetheart candy. It tastes like fudge when bitten down, and the sticky sugar water inside is the most important thing.

There are hundreds of sweetheart candy trees in the forest, and the colorful candies hanging on the branches reflect the beautiful color, such as clusters of fruits next to each other, the branches are full of branches, and the appearance of hanging down the branches is very attractive.

Today is a good day, besides Ying Cui and the others, there are also many sugar pickers under the sweetheart candy tree.

As soon as Fanmi arrived at his destination, he didn't leave. He found a place to sit down, and he didn't seem to have any intention of participating in the collection.

As usual, Chabei was full of curiosity, and his mouth was as sweet as honey, and he captured the hearts of a group of sugar picking aunts around him in a short while.

Ying Cui walked around and found that no one came to ask him for collection fees or rules. Then he remembered that, except for the specially marked planting areas, the ingredients around the town and even the entire continent are all wild. Gathering area, those with ability can get it.

However, in this era of ingredients everywhere, if they are collected for a long time, they will not be fresh, so that people will develop the concept of picking ingredients when they want to, and the ecological environment has been well protected.

He collected a lot of ingredients along the way, and Ying Cui's back basket was almost two-thirds full. He wandered around the surrounding grass for a while, and simply let these miscellaneous ingredients fill up the back basket, and then filled the empty bag behind Fanmi's back. The big backpack was replaced.

As the main ingredient of special sweets, sweetheart candy is also the signature dish when they arrive in Karil City in the future, so it is natural to eat more.

"Young man, he's a newcomer." An aunt just finished picking a bunch and wanted to take a break, so she spoke to Ying Cui when she saw Ying Cui.

The forest here is one of the sources of sugar in the town of Gumula, but because the economic benefits of sugar production are not objective, most of the people hired to pick sugar are middle-aged women who are usually acquaintances. Today there is an extra face, which is easy to notice.

"Well, hello, aunt." After Ying Cui greeted her, she began to struggle for the fruit that could never be picked in her hand.

The skin of the sweetheart candy looks as hard as candy, but when you touch it, you find that it is as flexible as animal skin, but because the inside is full of juice, it looks particularly swollen, and the place where it connects to the branches is very strong, a bit like hemp rope.

Ying Cui, who was trying it for the first time, couldn't figure out the tricks and didn't make the next one for a long time. Then she looked at those aunts who caught one accurately, and she blushed a little.

"Hey, take it easy, young man." Seeing Ying Cui's brute force, the aunt who picked up the conversation straightened her eyes. She hung the sweat towel around her neck and took it over, "The skin where the sweetheart candy is connected is very thin. Just break it hard, and then all the treasure inside will flow out."

"Look here." The aunt explained while moving, "These fruits are all three or five together, and it's best to pick them together." She folded her fingers on the main branch, and there was a crisp "pop", and the cluster of fruits all fell apart. Picked it off.

Ying Cui looked at the fruit in the basket, expressing that she had been educated, "Then how do I eat this? Together with the stalks?"

As soon as I asked this question, the aunt looked at the boy with a strange look, and immediately picked up a bunch to demonstrate - put the fruit directly into her mouth like eating a lollipop, and bite the peel under the pedicle with her teeth ,Finish.

Thus, Ying Cui realized what a stupid question she had asked.

Eat Guoliuti, this kind of thing that even a three-year-old child knows, he dared to ask it as a question without shame.

I'll go, this face will be thrown at grandma's house.

"Uh, sorry for the trouble, aunt." Ying Cui's face burned.

But soon he was attracted by the taste in his mouth.

Bitten through the sweetheart candy, there is a thick and fragrant fruit juice inside, mellow and not greasy, like sweet honey with the refreshing taste of apples.

"The pink color turns out to be apple flavor." Ying Cui's eyes lit up.

The taste of the juice is much stronger than he imagined. As the filling of sweets, it is obviously unnecessary to purify it, which can save a lot of effort.

And this chewy soft candy crust.

The special dessert he is going to make this time is inspired by Kenli's pocket glutinous rice snow cake, and now the surprise of the soft candy skin has given him a lot of ideas.

……

three days later.

The old mayor did not show up this time, and the current mayor who received Ying Cui and his party was also the chief examiner of this test.

"I know why you're here." The mayor, a rather gentle middle-aged man, said with a smile, "Let's start right away, let me show you your special sweets."

Ying Cui looked around and found that no one else was there. After a moment of hesitation, she said, "I heard that the mayor has already selected a store to recommend. Although I have confidence in my work, I would venture to say that they It would be better to be present, or to have other notaries present."

This quota comes from the back door. Even if it is just a competition for a quota, the school must take an examination of real talents in the end, but you can't let the other party lose clearly, and you don't want to be honest. If there is trouble, the store may Its reputation is ruined before it is opened.

The mayor frowned slightly, and a smile flashed in his eyes, "You are very careful." Then he glanced thoughtfully at the food box in Ying Cui's hand, "Don't worry, I still have this right, as long as you have the strength. "

Ying Cui didn't say any more, she put the food box on the table and lifted the lid.

Inside, there are five dumplings of different colors. Through the transparent outer skin, you can see the white inner core inside, and the main ingredient is noodles.

Just looking at it, I can't see what is hidden inside, and seeing the three people's confident looks, the mayor became curious.

The dumplings are not big, just stuffed in one bite.

"This, this is." The mayor murmured, his eyes widened in surprise, "Sweetheart Candy? No, no, it is reasonable to say that Sweetheart Candy can't make such a sweet and sour taste. This kind of particles, and the skin Chewy?"

"Huh, it shouldn't be a problem with the skin, it's just used to seal in the heat... so what's the chewiness?" It's warm but not hot, with a fruity fragrance in the chewing, waxy but not soft.

He couldn't describe this feeling, but after careful tasting, he discovered that the sweetheart candy juice enhanced the flavor. It was undeniable that the taste was very good, but the core inside was the layer wrapped by the skin and the stuffing.

The middle-aged man fell into deep thought, and Ying Cui looked at each other with the big and small beside him, and they all showed triumphant smiles.

Although the dumpling is small, there are holes in it. Just how to make the taste of the sugar juice stand out and not blend into the big flow, and what ingredients to use to shrink it into the dumpling, it took the three of them a lot of thought.

Oh no, to be precise, it took Ying Cui and Cha Bei a lot of thought. As for that guy Fan Mi, he only knows how to tell cold jokes to make trouble.

"How do you do it?" The mayor ate three dumplings in a row, but he couldn't tell why except the taste of different fruits. He couldn't even say anything constructive except for the deliciousness. Incredible for a [-] star food reviewer.

"Hey." Ying Cui made a fool of herself and asked, "Then the letter of recommendation?"

"I'll give it to you after stamping!" the mayor said excitedly.

Just thinking about this dessert, he even foresees what surprises will be brought to him after opening a store in the main city.

Once the development is good, not to mention my position, the sweetheart candy produced by Gumura will surely become famous, so why worry about low economic benefits?

Unexpectedly, he just gave himself such a surprise by selling his old man's face.

"Then you should give it to me first." Ying Cui shook her head and smiled wryly, "It won't be safe if it's not in my hands."

The mayor was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed and scolded, "Why, are you afraid that I will cheat you?"

Ying Cui shrugged, "Mayor, it's not that I'm being unkind. You also know that this will be the signature dish of shops in the main city in the future. Since it's a signature dish, there's no reason for you to leak out your secret recipe."

The reason why famous dishes are famous is largely because the core seasoning or ingredients of a certain taste are in the hands of a few people, and others cannot make this taste.

Now when the mayor asked, although he didn't mean it, he violated the taboo of craftsmen to a large extent.

"This." The mayor's words were blocked. He said it so straightforwardly, so it's not easy to ask again.

To be honest, he has sent out a lot of recommendation letters over the years, and it's not that he doesn't understand this truth. If it weren't for the development of Gumula Town, he really wouldn't be ashamed to ask.

"Forget it." The middle-aged man is not a narrow-minded person, he simply took out the recommendation letter with a wave of his hand, solemnly stamped his personal seal and handed it to Ying Cui, jokingly said, "Brother, when you become prosperous in the future, don't forget about the town. "

It's all about the scene, and the other party is so polite, Ying Cui will naturally not be stingy, "Definitely."

Fan Mi and Cha Bei rolled their eyes when they exchanged unnutritive words.

The food box was finally left by the mayor, and there were two dumplings inside. Ying Cui smiled slightly seeing that the other party obviously wanted to keep it for research.

After getting the letter of recommendation, I don't bother with him.

In fact, it is not a rare thing to make the dumpling skin, it is the rice cake, but the working people of this world have not yet created it, and they have taken advantage of the loophole.

In other words, somewhere in the world there is a rice cake tree or rice cake flower or something, so no one has to think about how the ingredients come from.

But according to Cui's thinking, so what if the mayor researched the method of making rice cakes, he is not only good at making rice cakes.

The wisdom of Greater China cuisine is quite broad and profound.

……

After getting the letter of recommendation, the days to come will definitely be as wide as the sea, and as the sky is as high as the birds.

On the same day, Ying Cui went home and packed up her things. She tidied up her house and moved out of the house. She was going to leave early tomorrow morning to experience the legendary sweet snack city——Ka The main city of Riel.