Free Days in Siheyuan

Chapter 41 Steamed Bread
Early in the morning, Zhang Guifang was ready to make some dough for steaming a few pots of steamed buns. The steamed buns needed to be eaten after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

During the Spring Festival this year, each person can purchase two taels of oil, three taels of meat, and some miscellaneous things with the shopping voucher.

In addition, with the shopping book, each household can also buy five catties of Fuqiang powder.

Zhang Guifang looked at the New Year's supply that she had brought back. The family's food was only a basket together, and she felt a little headache. This year's supply is very small, and it is not enough to have a good year.

It is not easy to buy some white noodles during Chinese New Year, but fortunately Xiaoyu brought some white noodles back, otherwise the supply alone would not be enough for steaming steamed buns.

She wants to steam several kinds of steamed buns. The white-faced steamed buns are reserved for relatives who are away to eat on the day of the Chinese New Year. The rest of the Chinese New Year’s food is mixed with a little white-faced corn bread. In addition, some cabbage is chopped and a little pork is added. Steamed buns filled with cabbage and pork.

I have to make some radish and vermicelli stuffing, which all the children like to eat.There are also steamed buns filled with potherb mustard that Zhang Yu has been looking forward to.

But after poking around at home for a long time, I couldn't find any face.

He turned to the few people who were warming up by the fire and asked, "Where did any of you see 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 craftsmanship is pretty good, but there is only one thing that goes wrong every time he cooks, and that is pasta. Be it steamed buns, steamed buns or noodles, none of them have been successfully made.

Seeing that several people said they didn't see it, Zhang Guifang continued to pull the pockets where the noodles were stored, muttering: "That's weird, I remember putting them in the pockets of noodles, why didn't they disappear?"

"Xiaoyu, do you still have some face? I remember you didn't steam the buns last time?" Zhang Guifang asked with the idea of ​​trying it out.

"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 noodles, but the noodles made with yeast powder obtained at the check-in.

The current situation is obviously not suitable for taking out the yeast powder, because he doesn't know if there is any yeast powder in this era.

After seeing Zhang Guifang poking around to no avail, Zhao Xiaoping said, "Mom, don't look for it anymore, you have searched for it several times."

"Forget it, don't look for it anymore." Zhang Guifang threw the noodle bag in her hand on the table, and went out angrily.

"What are you going to do?" Zhao Wenzhuo chased after him and asked, don't go out and get sulking.

"What else can I do? I'll borrow my face from my sister-in-law in the front yard." Zhang Guifang looked at her husband who was chasing him and said angrily.

"Oh, then you go, then you go." Knowing that he had misunderstood, Zhao Wenzhuo's ears turned red, and then he walked back into the house slowly.

When he returned to a place where Zhang Guifang could not see, he let out a deep breath, which scared him to death and almost hit him with a gun.

Then he looked at a picture of children watching a good show, waved his hands, and said loudly: "What are you looking at, what are you looking at, what is there to see? Why don't you hurry back and do your business."

The children covered their mouths and smiled, then slipped away.

At this time, Zhang Guifang knocked on the door of a neighbor in the front yard and shouted inside: "Sister-in-law, is sister-in-law at home?"

"Yes, 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? I just made new clothes yesterday. After trying them on, a few children refused to take them off. I don't know where I went again this morning. This is not the new clothes I just made Just made a big hole." He held up the clothes in his hand and showed her.

"My child, it's inevitable that I'm a little restless." Zhang Guifang persuaded.

After persuasion for a long time, the sister-in-law calmed down and said: "Sister, I didn't delay your business, I just talked a lot 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 steam some steamed buns and go to relatives at that time. I searched for a long time at home but couldn't find any noodles. Maybe it was because I forgot to make noodles last time. I stayed, by the way, do you still have face in your family?"

"Yes, yes, it's in the tank, you sit here and wait, I'll look for it." After saying that, he quickly got out of bed, opened the lid pressed on the tank, turned his head and said, "Aren't you cleaning these two days?" , I’m afraid that the ash on the top will make the food dirty, so I put it all in the tank.”

While talking, he took out half of the contents of the tank, and found the dough among a pile of things, "Let me just say, I remember putting the dough in the tank when I was cleaning last night."

As she spoke, she handed the dough to Zhang Guifang, and she took it and said, "Then sister-in-law, I'll make the dough first, and I'll send it back to you later."

"Don't worry, don't worry, you can use it as long as you need it. My family plans to steam it in two days. There are a bunch of naughty boys at home. I'm afraid it's too early to steam it. They will finish it for me secretly while I'm not around."

"Sister-in-law, I'll go first."

"Let's sit down a little longer." The sister-in-law insisted.

"No, no, I'll go back and get it done quickly, and come back when I'm done."

"Then I'll help you." As he said that, he was about to pack his things and go out with Zhang Guifang.

"Sister-in-law, you should rest first. The father and several children are at home. They are all grown up. We can't let them all wait for a free meal. Let them knead the dough for me later, boys are energetic."

"That's fine, I must come some other day."

After returning home, Zhang Guifang cooked several pots of noodles, then put the basins on the kang, covered the surface with a piece of cage cloth, then covered the pot lid, and finally covered the pots with a thick quilt.

But Zhang Yu was fine, so he turned on the stove to boil water. After the water was boiled, he guarded the stove, put an iron plate on top of the stove, found a steamed bun, cut it into several pieces with a knife, and put it on it to bake. .

After a while, the steamed buns were baked, and the baked steamed buns were browned and browned, with a thick layer of Gaba, which looked very attractive.

He didn't care about burning his mouth, picked up a piece of steamed bun and put it in his mouth, took a bite, it was so hot that his mouth was so hot, he couldn't bear to spit it out.

After the noodles are ready, the whole family starts to go to battle. The man is responsible for kneading the noodles. The harder the noodles are kneaded, the better the taste.

The women, on the other hand, divide the kneaded dough into equal-sized balls and knead them into round steamed buns.

Now the sister-in-law's house has been re-planned, and a master was found to build a stove near the door.

As soon as you enter the house, you should be able to see a big stove with a big pot on it, which is just right for steaming steamed buns.

Put the finished steamed buns into the pot. In order to steam more at one time, I borrowed a steamer from someone, steamed two baskets in one pot, and sealed them with towels to prevent air leakage, so that the steamed buns can be cooked faster. .

As usual, the work of watching the fire was assigned to Zhang Yu. He stood in front of the stove and added a piece of firewood to it after a while.

When adding firewood, I accidentally pushed my hand a little deeper, and my fingers got black.

At this time, the nose was itchy, so I scratched it with my hand, and the tip of the nose was covered with black ash, and the people watching couldn't stop laughing.

And Zhang Yu looked at everyone laughing in a daze, a little confused, and rubbed his head with his hands, which caused several people to laugh even louder.

In the end, Zhang Guifang couldn't stand it any longer, took out a towel, dipped it in some water, and wiped him clean.

And Zhang Yu likes the moment when the steamed buns just come out of the pot, when the lid is lifted, what comes out along with the water vapor is the tempting scent of steamed buns.It's the smell of sunshine and wheat: dry, warm and sweet.

Even though I was already half full from the sliced ​​steamed buns just now, I couldn't help but eat three freshly steamed big steamed buns.

　Thank you little angels for your recommendation tickets and monthly tickets, thank you for your rewards, thank you very much.

　　Because there are too many people, all the lists have not been sorted out, and all the lists will be released in the next few days.

　　Thanks again!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)