Dashan Orchard 1988

Chapter 42 Little Wild Garlic and Little Head Mushroom (Fourth update)
Making buns is quite troublesome.

With the help of his younger sister, Li Muyang was able to do things quickly on his own, but it had already been half an hour since he had sorted out all the materials.

"Come on, how about a taste?"

He scooped half a spoonful of bun filling and fed it to his sister's mouth.

Like a puppy, Li Xiangqin swallowed the stuffing in one mouthful, tasted it and was very satisfied.

"fragrant."

A simple word can already explain a lot of things.

"I just want it to smell good. It's wrapped in meat. Go wash your hands and help me make the buns."

"Very good."

Soon, the brother and sister began to make the buns.

Making steamed buns is a craft, and it's more than just wrapping up the fillings.

Whether the buns are good-looking or not can be seen from the pleats.

The more uniform the pleats and the clearer the edges and corners, the more skillful the person making the buns is. If all the edges of the buns collapse after being cooked, it would be a bit embarrassing and difficult to hold.

Li Muyang's noodles are fermented with buckwheat, and some new noodles are added to the white noodles, so the noodles are harder to use and more difficult to knead. He was a little uncomfortable with it at first.

After all, I haven’t made buns with this kind of dough in many years.

On the contrary, Li Xiangqin was very fast. She was responsible for rolling out the dough for Li Muyang, and she quickly placed a stack in front of him.

Seeing that Li Muyang was a little late, she sneered: "Brother, your speed has slowed down today."

"Exquisite workmanship comes from fine work."

Li Muyang found an excuse to forcefully pass.

There was nothing he could do about the slowdown. After his life improved, he hadn't eaten soba noodles for a long time, let alone made them into buckwheat buns.

"You kneaded too much dough, right? How long will it last?"

"It's not much. I'll give it to the eldest brother after I finish it. The second brother and his family will give some to each other. There are 5 people in the family, so maybe 10. We have to eat the rest by ourselves. We need to steam at least [-] or [-] pieces."

"Oh, are you giving it to big brother?"

Li Xiangqin stuck out her tongue.

"Don't talk about people behind their backs. It's not easy for me, and my sister-in-law is very nice. Don't just see people's shortcomings. Everyone has shortcomings..."

"I didn't. If they were all like you, Fifth Brother, I wouldn't say anything."

"I told you not to say anything, but you still say it!"

Li Muyang lightly glared at his sister, "Don't talk nonsense. It's not easy for the eldest brother and sister-in-law. There are several children in the family to take care of. It's up to the eldest brother to make money alone. He has done everything he should do. Remember not to do it in the future." Talking behind people's backs."

"Oh."

Li Xiangqin still listened to Li Muyang's words and stuck out her tongue.

"By the way, you are back now. When the buns are delivered in the evening, come with me. Everyone is here. The eldest brother and the second brother don't know. When the time comes, they will not only talk about you, but also me."

"I do not."

Li Xiangqin shook his head, "I don't know how to tell my eldest brother and my second brother yet. I'll think about it later."

"If you can avoid the first grade of junior high school, can you avoid the fifteenth grade?"

"Who is hiding? I'll take it easy first. I don't know what to do yet. Didn't you say that if my brothers found out, they might rush over and beat Liu Xiaogang up?"

"Too."

Li Muyang thought about it and felt that what his sister said made sense, so he didn't insist.

Seeing that Li Xiangqin had finished rolling out the dough, he asked her to make the buns. He ran out to take care of the pheasant he got at noon.

When I came back just now, I found a few small mushrooms and some small wild garlic in Shanpang. When I came back, I threw them under the tree and forgot about them.

After processing the pheasant, I thought, why not make a soup with pheasant, mushrooms and wild garlic.It's definitely delicious and a great supplement.

There are many wild mushrooms on the mountains here, but most of them are inedible and poisonous.

If Li Muyang hadn't lived under the mountain for many years, he would naturally have no experience.

What he picked today was the wild mushroom Microcephalus, which tasted particularly delicious, a bit like shiitake mushrooms.

So some people also call it wild mushroom.

Microcephalus mushrooms are very small, and the bacterial plate on them is about the same size as shiitake mushrooms. The color is also very similar, but it is lighter than shiitake mushrooms.

The mountain people nearby often pick the small head mushrooms and dry them in the sun. They can be cooked and eaten in winter. They are eaten just like shiitake mushrooms and can be soaked in water for a while.

Also, because of its delicious taste, it is often used as a special side dish, cooked with various meats or made into soups.

The application is quite wide.

Small wild garlic, also called chives, is a common wild vegetable in the mountains.

The leaves look a bit like green onions when they are young, but the garlic buds underneath look a bit like garlic when they are young.

Small wild garlic often appears suddenly after the rain. When it emerges, there is a large handful. The taste is slightly spicy, closer to the taste of red onions.

Li Muyang didn't know if it was available elsewhere. Anyway, the nearby mountain people liked to eat small wild garlic, and it had many uses.

For example, scrambled eggs, making dumplings, etc.

When his wife was alive in the previous life, she especially liked to use wild garlic to make Li Muyang's favorite sour soup noodles.

The sourness of vinegar and the special aroma of wild garlic make the noodles sour and slightly spicy, paired with the long noodles hand-rolled by my wife...

After taking a sip, the taste can only be described as beautiful.

After finishing all the small head mushrooms and small wild garlic, Li Xiangqin also finished making the steamed buns over there.

He chopped up the pheasant and put it in the back pot to stew slowly.

The pot table in Longdong is divided into large and small pots. The big pot in the front is generally used for cooking noodles, steaming steamed buns, stir-frying, etc.

Because the fire is under the cauldron, the temperature of the cauldron will be higher.

As for the small pot, it is an auxiliary to the big pot.

For example, while the big pot is steaming steamed buns, the small pot can cook some porridge, or make some egg soup, etc.

If it is winter, the vegetables fried in the big pot will easily become cold, so you can also temporarily put them in the back pot to keep them warm.

However, because there is no heat source under the back pot, but when the chimney takes away the hot smoke, it will draw the flame under the back pot, so the temperature of the back pot is not as good as that of the large pot. It is okay to cook things at low heat, but not stir-fry at high temperature.

Between the big pot and the back pot, people will put a plug-in plate when building the pot platform. If the temperature of the back pot needs to be higher, all the plug-in plates will be pulled out. If the back pot is only for heat preservation, some plug-in plates will be inserted. As long as As long as it doesn't affect the chimney smoking.

"You go and see if Mom is awake. I can just work here alone."

Li Muyang saw that the buns had been steamed into the pot, and the pheasant and mushroom soup in the back pot had also been cooked. All that was left was to light a fire under the pot and quickly evaporate the steam.

There is no need for Li Xiangqin to help anymore.

"Do you want me to help you light the fire?"

"No, it's very smoky here. Your clothes are dirty and you don't have to change them later... By the way, when I came back today, I didn't ask what happened to you and didn't buy any change of clothes. I'll wait a moment. I’ll let you go and have a look next time we meet.”

"That's good. Brother, you still love me."

Li Xiangqin said with a smile.

"Silly girl, I am your brother. If I don't take care of you, who will take care of you? Go ahead."

After Li Muyang finished speaking, he watched his sister jump out of the threshold and run away.

A smile couldn't help showing on the corner of his mouth.

This girl really doesn't look like an adult, she's so difficult to deal with!
(End of this chapter)