This is rural India. The farm owner is going to do it himself today to make a delicious thirst-quenching lemon juice. People brought pots of green lemons and placed them on the edge of the washing pool. Turn on the tap and the clear spring water is poured into the wash pond. People pour lemons into the pool one after another, splashing water.
Soon, green lemons filled the entire pool. With their industrious hands, the two men gently fished in the water, and the lemons in the whole pool were stirred up and flowed around. The big mother holds a colander in both hands, and the little brother holds a funnel in both hands and fishes the lemons in the water into a large iron basin. Green with yellow lemons, piled up into a hill.
The two men took a fruit knife and split each lemon in two and stacked it in another large basin. The little brother poured bucket after bucket of water into the ancestral large aluminum pot until the big aluminum pot was almost full.
At this time, the little brother poured a plate of gray-brown, rice-like things into a large aluminum pot. This thing is called the Indian snow swallow, and it is extracted from the mucus of plants. Covered with a large aluminum pot, the two began to squeeze the lemon juice by hand.
This little press machine can only squeeze half a lemon at a time. The two of them did just that, slowly squeezing a bunch of lemons out of the juice. Here, one has to admire their patience. If in our country, an electric juicer, a few minutes to squeeze the lemon out. The fine lemon juice, like small raindrops, slowly gathers into the basin.
At this time, the water in the large aluminum pot has been adsorbed by the Indian snow swallow and condensed into a paste. The little brother stirred repeatedly like these pastes and poured them into another pot. Grandma sprinkles a pinch of cumin powder into the pot and then adds a pinch of black pepper. White pepper can not be less. This is spice powder, pour in evenly. How can curry powder be less. The pot that was poured after black was white sugar. The grandmother lay on the edge of the aluminum pot and slowly stirred the liquid in the pot. Stir well and pour in the freshly squeezed lemon juice. Continue to stir slowly, with a kind face.
At this time, the Indian brother moved several pieces of soda. People pour bottles of soda into a cauldron. Soda water grunts and gurgles into it, creating piles of bubbles. All the family members gathered around at this time, because the delicious drink was about to come out of the pot. Put a few large pieces of ice as pure as jade into a large pot and the Indian-style lemon juice is completely ready. The children began to sip the first cold drink of the summer.