Early this morning, with nothing to do, Zhang Guifang prepared some leavened noodles to steam several pots of steamed buns. The steamed buns need to be eaten after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
This Spring Festival, each person can use their shopping voucher to buy two taels of oil, three taels of meat, and some miscellaneous items.
In addition, each household can buy five kilograms of Fuqiang powder with their shopping book.
Zhang Guifang looked at the New Year's supplies she had received. The whole family's supplies only amounted to one basket, and she felt a little headache. This year's supply was so low that it was not enough to celebrate a good New Year.
It is not easy to buy some white noodles during the Chinese New Year. Fortunately, Xiaoyu brought some white noodles back, otherwise the supply alone would not be enough to steam the steamed buns.
She had to steam several kinds of steamed buns. The white-flour steamed buns were reserved for visiting relatives to eat on the New Year's Day. The remaining multi-grain steamed buns mixed with a little white flour were eaten during the Chinese New Year. In addition, she also had to chop some cabbage and add a little pork.
Steamed buns stuffed with cabbage and pork.
We also have to make some stuffed radish vermicelli, which all the children like to eat. There are also steamed stuffed buns stuffed with mustard seeds that Zhang Yu has been looking forward to.
But after searching around the house for a long time, I still couldn't find the face.
He turned to the people warming themselves by the fire and asked, "Did any of you see where I put my face?"
"No, I didn't see it."
"I didn't see it either."
"I didn't even see it. You know that I never touch pasta. Where did you put it?" Zhao Wenzhuo can cook and his skills are pretty good, but there is only one thing that goes wrong every time he cooks it, and that is pasta, no matter what
Whether it was steamed buns, steamed buns or noodles, I never made it successfully.
Several people said they hadn't seen it, so Zhang Guifang continued to pull at the pockets where the noodles were placed, muttering: "That's weird. I remember putting them in the pockets, so how could they be gone?"
"Xiaoyu, do you still have any dignity? I remember you didn't steam buns last time?" Zhang Guifang asked with the idea of giving it a try.
"I really forgot to keep the steamed buns last time." Zhang Yu replied.
In fact, the last time he steamed the buns, he didn't use dough, but used yeast powder obtained from signing in to make the dough.
The current situation was obviously not suitable for taking out the yeast powder, because he didn't know if there was any yeast powder in this era. If there was, it would be easy to say. If not, there would be no reason.
After watching Zhang Guifang search everywhere to no avail, Zhao Xiaoping said: "Mom, stop looking for her. You've already looked for her several times."
"Forget it, I won't look for it anymore." Zhang Guifang threw the dough bag in her hand on the table and walked out angrily.
"What are you going to do?" Zhao Wenzhuo asked after him, don't go out to sulk.
"What else can I do? I'll borrow some hair from my sister-in-law in the front yard." Zhang Guifang said angrily as her husband chased her out.
"Oh, then you go, then you go." Knowing that he had misunderstood, Zhao Wenzhuo's ears turned red, and then he slowly walked backwards back into the house.
When he returned to a place where Zhang Guifang couldn't see him, he let out a deep breath. He was so frightened that he almost hit the muzzle of the gun.
Then he looked at the picture of children who were watching a good show, waved his hands, and said loudly: "What are you looking at, what are you looking at, what's there to see? Why don't you go back and do your things."
The children covered their mouths and laughed, then slipped away.
At this time, Zhang Guifang knocked on a neighbor's door in the front yard and shouted inside: "Sister-in-law, is sister-in-law at home?"
"Here, it's Guifang, come in and sit down, come in and sit down."
"Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"
"Isn't it the Chinese New Year? The new clothes were just made yesterday. Several children refused to take them off even after trying them on. I don't know where they were found again this morning. Isn't this the new clothes just made?
I just made a big hole." He held up the clothes in his hand to show her.
"Children are inevitably a little restless." Zhang Guifang advised.
After persuading me for a long time, my sister-in-law calmed down and said, "Sister, I didn't delay your business. I said too much when I was angry."
"Without my sister-in-law, I have nothing to do today. Isn't it the Chinese New Year? I'm going to make some steamed buns to visit relatives then. I searched for a long time at home but couldn't find the noodles. Maybe I forgot about the noodles last time.
You’re here, by the way, does your family still have some respect?”
"Yes, yes, yes, it's in the tank. Sit here and wait while I look for it." After saying that, he quickly got out of bed, opened the lid on the tank, turned around and said, "Aren't you cleaning the house these two days?
, I’m afraid that the ash on it will stain the food, so I just put it all in the tank.”
As he spoke, he took out half of the contents of the jar and found the noodles among the pile of things. "Let me just say, I remember putting the noodles in the jar when I was cleaning yesterday."
After saying that, he handed the noodles to Zhang Guifang. After she took the noodles, she said, "Sister-in-law, I will go and make the noodles first, and I will bring them back to you later."
"No need to worry, no need to worry, just use it. I'm going to steam it in two days. There are a bunch of naughty boys at home. I'm afraid that if I steam it too early, they'll finish it secretly for me while I'm not around."
"Sister-in-law, I'll go over first."
"Sit down for a while." My sister-in-law begged me to stay.
"No, it's not possible. I'll go back and do it quickly. I'll come back when it's done."
"Then I'll help you." After saying that, he packed his things and went out with Zhang Guifang.
"Sister-in-law, you should rest first. The father and several children are at home. They are all grown up, so we cannot let them wait for their free time. I will let them knead the dough for me later. The kids are very energetic."
"Okay, I'll definitely come another day."
After returning home, Zhang Guifang cooked several basins of noodles, then placed the basins on the kang, covered them with a cage cloth, then put a pot lid on top, and finally covered the basins with a thick quilt.
Zhang Yu had nothing to do, so he turned on the stove to boil water. After boiling the water, he guarded the stove, placed an iron plate on the stove, found a steamed bun, cut it into several slices with a knife, and baked it on it.
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In a short while, the steamed buns were baked. The baked buns were charred and brown, and the thick layer of crunch looked very attractive.
I didn't care about burning my mouth, so I picked up the steamed bun slices and put it in my mouth. I took a bite and it was so loud that my mouth was so hot that I didn't want to spit it out.
After the dough is ready, the whole family starts to work together. The men are responsible for kneading the dough. The harder the dough is kneaded, the more delicious it will be.
The women will divide the kneaded dough into equal-sized pieces and roll them into round buns.
Now my sister-in-law's house has been re-planned, and she hired a master to build a stove at the door.
As soon as you enter the house, you should see a large stove with a large pot on it, which is perfect for steaming steamed buns.
I put the prepared steamed buns into the pot. In order to steam more at once, I asked someone to borrow a steamer. I steamed two steamers in one pot and sealed them with a towel to prevent air leakage and make the steamed buns cook faster.
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As usual, the job of watching the fire belongs to Zhang Yu. He stays in front of the stove and adds a piece of firewood to it.
When I was adding firewood, I accidentally pushed my hand a little deeper, and my fingers got black.
At this time, my nose happened to be a little itchy, so I scratched it with my hand. The whole tip of my nose was covered with black ash, and several people who looked at it couldn't stop laughing.
Zhang Yu looked at everyone laughing in confusion, some of them were confused, and rubbed their heads with their hands, which caused several people to laugh even louder.
In the end, Zhang Guifang couldn't stand it anymore, so she took out a towel, dipped it in some water, and wiped him clean.
Zhang Yu likes the moment when the steamed buns just come out of the pot. When he lifts the lid, what comes out along with the water vapor is the alluring scent of the steamed buns. It is the smell of sunshine and wheat mixed together: dry, warm, and sweet.
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Even though I was half full from the steamed buns I just ate, I still couldn't help but eat three freshly steamed steamed buns.
