Chapter 782: Pretty face blushed (please give me monthly votes)

Author: Love to drink aged vinegar

Chapter 782: Pretty face blushed (please give me monthly votes)

Finally the woman paid and left.

Chen Nian asked curiously: "Brother Genzhu, what is this flower bun?"

Gao Genzhu looked at Chen Nian and thought for a while, and then explained: "We have to make flower buns during festivals or weddings or funerals. Some people make them themselves, and some are

It's done by someone like us.

Basically, the steamed buns and noodle shops here will take on such businesses.

But I can't tell you how to make this thing. In short, when making steamed buns, you can make various shapes, or make a very large bun, and then pinch the dough into a flower shape and put it on it.

Sometimes I would make some red dates for decoration. Of course, we can only make simpler ones here. Some people with skillful hands can pinch an old birthday star or more complex shapes."

Chen Nian thought about it and said that he had no idea just by saying this.

Gao Genzhu also saw Chen Nian’s thoughts: “You probably don’t know much about this specifically, you will know when you go back and do it.”

The flower buns that the other party asked for took a few days before they could use them, and they were not in a hurry to make them. They waited until two days later, after the business was finished at noon and the kitchen was cleaned up, Gao Genzhu arranged to ask Chen Nian to go to the north room to get the cage.

Take it out and wash it, and the cage cloth inside must be cleaned.

After entering the northern house, Chen Nian saw the particularly large steamers placed on the high place at a glance.

Clean them as required by the high columns and place them on the table in the yard for later use.

Then the Gaogen pillar began to knead.

Add a lot of flour to the plate, add some yeast, then stir them evenly, cover them directly, and set aside for later use.

Chen Nian noticed that the noodles used by Gao Genzhu were the best white noodles in the house, so he thought to himself that no wonder the charge was so high, and ten flower buns cost 100 yuan.

The noodles used are the best, and you can make seven or eight steamed buns with just one flower bun.

But after kneading the noodles, Gao Genzhu put the noodles aside and woke up.

Finally, he started to extract the juice from some of the dishes at home.

The green one is spinach, the purple one is purple potato, and the yellow one is pumpkin and cornmeal.

Then extract the juice of different colors, blend them together, and create blue and red.

Then put these colors aside and set aside.

At this time, Gao Genzhu began to process the dough again.

At this time, the surface has been initially fermented, and Gaogenzhu has started to add some warm water and knead it with his hands.

I kneaded it back and forth at least eight times, and the dough was already quite chewy.

"You have to knead the flower buns like this. Press them up well. If they are hard, they are not weak and are easy to crack, but they are soft and easily deformed." Gao Genzhu explained to Chen Nian after kneading the dough.

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Chen Nian looked at the kneaded dough and felt that it was a bit like the longevity peach he had made before. When making longevity peach, the noodles should not be too soft or too hard, otherwise they would be as easy to crack as Gao Genzhu said.

Or it is difficult to set and collapse.

After the face work was finished, Gao Genzhu called Zhang Chuanfang and Chen Nian to start pinching the shapes.

The couple had taken on many such jobs before, so they were very skilled in this job, but they had never done it before, so they can only make some simple patterns.

"Chennian, you can make flowers with your sister-in-law first, because there will be more flowers to plant at that time, so this is not difficult. Just follow the same thing as your sister-in-law."

Chen Nian nodded, and then began to pinch the flowers as Zhang Chuanfang's movements.

When the old man pinched the petals as if they were like this, and then combined the petals, the original sprinkled surface became the shape of a flower.

"Okay, Chen Nian, you really haven't made this before?" Zhang Chuanfang couldn't help but exclaim as she looked at the flowers that Chen Nian pinched out.

"No, there is no such custom over us." Chen Nian shook his head.

"Then you did it quite well. It's not easy to be able to do it like this the first time, but if you learn this, I'll teach you how to do other things."

As he said that, Zhang Chuanfang began to pinch other patterns again.

This time, the noodles need to be rolled into long strips and then combined together. Chen Nian saw that this was a chrysanthemum.

So I quickly imitated it.

But Chen Nian pinched it here and looked at the Gao Gen pillar from time to time. Compared to himself, the patterns on the Gao Gen pillar were much more complicated.

First pull out many long strips or round dough, and then assemble these parts after they are done.

Not long after, Chen Nian saw the prototype of a little lion.

After Gao Genzhu finished the prototype, he used scissors to cut out the lion's hair and hands and feet.

"This is definitely a folk artist!" Chen Nian felt extremely magical.

"Brother Genzhu, I remember you just said that you are not the best craftsmanship?"

"Yes." Gao Genzhu nodded, "We can only make some simple flowers, animals, etc. At most, it is the most complicated one.

But some powerful people can pinch out gods such as the old birthday star, Guan Gong, the God of Wealth, the Jade Emperor, and the Queen Mother."

"It's so amazing. I want to see it." Chen Nian couldn't help but say.

"Hahaha, there are opportunities. You will be able to see it when the Chinese New Year. You have a good relationship with Mr. Liu's family. Then you go to his house to have a look. That's really amazing!"

"Then I will definitely have to open my eyes when the time comes." Chen Nian said immediately.

After working like this for a whole afternoon, they also prepared the flower buns they wanted.

There are four flower-shaped flower buns in total, two little lions, one dragon and one phoenix.

"Would we just steam it in the cage or..." Chen Nian asked again.

"It's not possible to steam it now, so I have to put it in a little longer." Gao Genzhu said, and asked Chen Nian to take the prepared flower buns back into the house and put them directly on the kang, and then took out a few wooden shelves from the northern room.

Cover these flower buns inside and finally put the quilt on these shelves.

"If you put it like this, it will make the dough weaker. It will be softer when steamed, but it will be a little soft when it is just steamed. It will basically start to harden after one or two days. If you don't put it like this, put it on

It can easily crack in a few days.

After all, this is a big event at home. If it breaks apart, it would be unlucky."

Chen Nian nodded, but unexpectedly, Gao Genzhu, an honest man, was so skillful.

"Brother Genzhu, I didn't expect that there are so many things to pay attention to when making flower buns."

"Then you must be particular. People are not just about these major events, not only about frivolous things or popular things, but also about birthday banquets and holidays.

Although you see that the flower buns you get from doing things now are colorful, if you do this in other people's wealth, it will probably be beaten to death.

The most used peony flowers in the red event, but the more used chrysanthemums in the white event, and the colors and colors are different. When getting married, they are all used big red and big green, and there may be some dark green or

If the crimson red is on it, you can also use some brighter yellow red as embellishments. The main highlight is auspiciousness and wealth, and the dragon and phoenix are auspicious.

But in the idle things, they are more used for sacrifices, so the color cannot be so bright. Even if there are red, green, yellow and blue, they still need to be more plain.

Especially when making it, you have to adjust the color, otherwise the color will become darker when steamed."

Chen Nian nodded and kept all of this in his heart.

They kept it until midnight before they started to get up and prepare to steam the flower buns, after all, they would use it the next day.

It is also the most suitable time to do it at night.

Chen Nian also listened to the movement outside and got up, ready to watch the final steps.

"Be careful about steaming steamed buns, that is, you cannot put the steamed buns directly in. You have to boil the water first and then put the cage on it.

Only by layer can we steam the larger ones and the smaller ones separately. Generally, we steam the larger ones first and then the smaller ones, mainly because the larger ones are more difficult.

After steaming, seal the cage tightly, so don’t let the air come out of the middle, and then you can wait.”

"How long will it take to wait? Brother Genzhu"

"I told you how long it takes to steam it. There is no need to remember this. Isn't there any air coming out at the top when steaming? When the steaming starts to get angry, it means that the steamed bun is ready."

During this time, Chen Nian has been guarding here. Even if Gao Genzhu asked him to go back and rest, Chen Nian just shook his head because he wanted to see what the steps in the middle were.

After watching this one, he can remember it.

If there is any omission in the middle while I am resting, it would be a loss. After all, I don’t know how long it will take to wait for someone to come to customize the flower buns next time.

But I can endure the old young, but Gao Genzhu and Zhang Caifang are a little unable to endure it.

The two of them chose to guard each for a while.

Gao Genzhu guards the front in the middle of the night, and Zhang Chuanfang guards the back in the middle of the night.

Chen Nian sat in the stool and chatted with Gao Genzhu first, listening to Gao Genzhu talk about other people's flower buns and what the customs of weddings and funerals here are.

For example, when a girl gets married, the man needs to send a piece of meat to the woman's house. This is called Li Niang's meat, which means that the daughter is the meat that fell from her mother's body, and now she has a piece of meat back.

Of course, this is just a formality. If you should eat this piece of meat in the future, you still have to eat it.
To be continued...