Chapter 245: Master’s Arrival(3)_1
She had all the seasonings needed to make five-spice peanuts and five-spice sunflower seeds in her space. All she needed to do was sneakily take them out and put them in her own seasoning jars, presenting them as part of their existing stocks at home.
Third Aunt Mu, curious upon hearing that she was planning to prepare the sunflower seeds and peanuts in a five-spice flavor, volunteered to assist her.
Cai Wei didn’t refuse. She found a small piece of clean, undyed fine cotton cloth and asked Third Aunt Mu to help sew it into a small bag. She then sewed the spices she’d previously prepared like Sichuan pepper, star anise, fennel seeds, ginger slices, and cassia bark into it.
Third Aunt Mu held a deep trust in Cai Wei. This young girl single-handedly improved their living standards at home. Whatever she said must be right, so when Cai Wei asked her to sew the cloth bag, she didn’t hesitate and started stitching.
After it was sewn, Cai Wei put the cloth bag into the pot and boiled it over high heat. Once the aroma of the spices had filled the pot, she then added the peanuts she had soaked for half the day, reduced the heat, and continued to boil. Once the peanuts had absorbed the flavors and were thoroughly cooked, she stopped the heat, scooped out the peanuts from the pot, let them drain and then poured them into another dry, heated pot for baking over a low flame.
Simultaneously, the sunflower seeds were also cleaned and boiled in the initial pot. The steps were identical to that of the peanuts. Once cooked, they were also poured into the second dry-heated pot for baking.
After they were baked, Cai Wei served the fragrant five-spice peanuts and five-spice sunflower seeds on a plate, placed them on the Kang table, and invited everyone to taste, "Come and try, how are my five-spice peanuts and five-spice sunflower seeds?"
Third Aunt Mu picked up a peanut, peeled it, put it in her mouth, chewed a few bites, and then immediately exclaimed in surprise.