After Black Lotus became a reborn person, he went completely crazy

Chapter 454 Steamed Buns and Fried Pancakes

The day before yesterday, she called Gui Niang and Jian Min and made all the necessary arrangements in advance.

They were asked to buy a large number of gold and silver ingots and the like, and to burn them on Jianguo's grave on the morning of New Year's Eve, to ensure that Jianguo would not lack money to spend.

According to tradition, the lights in the house should be on during the New Year holidays, so Shitou and the others should remember to help burn more incense.

The responsibility of providing food and supplies in the central hall was left to Gui Niang. She only needed to prepare an extra portion for her own family.

During the New Year holidays, the task of burning incense in the temple three times a day was assigned to Jingwazi and Shitou, who were asked to burn an extra portion for their families when they went.

Xia Ran is out of town now and can't take care of the details. For now, he can only focus on the results. As long as the intention is there, it's fine. I believe that sincerity will work.

Xia Ran soaked a lot of meat and planned to use the large meat grinder she bought a few days ago to grind some minced meat tomorrow. She didn't want to chop it slowly with a knife because it was too tiring.

There are no home-use ones, only the ones for industrial use. I just gathered together to make some extra buns and eat them directly when I need them.

Thirty years old.

After Xia Ran washed up and had breakfast, she started to get busy.

First, beat the meat filling, then cut and mix the various fillings. The dough has already risen, add an appropriate amount of baking soda and knead the dough evenly.

The first thing she made were dumplings stuffed with potatoes, pork and leeks. Before making them, she watched the meat stuffing being stir-fried until it was half-cooked before she started making them.

The main ingredients of this filling are meat and potatoes, and the leeks are just used to add flavor and color.

Xia Ran directly wrapped three large baskets of fist-sized buns and steamed them directly in the pot.

She doesn't have the patience to make those small dumplings, she is more used to making those big buns, which can make her full after eating two or three, and they have more fillings and can keep her full.

There was still some potato and meat filling left, and after Xia Ran finished wrapping it, it was enough for half a steamer. She then moved on to wrap the beef and celery filling, and she still put it in the big pot and stir-fried it. She just wanted to make the various seasonings more even and make them more flavorful.

For the steamed buns, after they start to steam, they are first steamed over high heat for 20 minutes, and then simmered over low heat for 20 minutes.

The plump white buns were steamed. Xia Ran took them all out and put them in a super large bamboo cage in the space for storage.

Xia Ran broke one open and tasted it. It tasted really good.

When you eat it, use a spoon to scoop some of the sauce made from grain vinegar, chili oil and mashed garlic into it, and the taste will be even more perfect.

As soon as Xia Ran opened the lid of the pot, Wangcai and the tabby cat started to chirp "woof woof woof" and "meow meow meow".

Xia Ran took a big bun, cut it in half, and shared it between the dog and the cat. Only then did the two little guys calm down and start guarding the buns, waiting for them to cool down.

It’s not that Wangcai isn’t impatient. He had been scalded once before, so he learned his lesson and knew that he shouldn’t eat steaming things immediately.

It seems that cats and dogs cannot eat foods with high salt content, but the villagers are not so particular. Cats and dogs eat whatever the family eats. Some families even give their dogs pot washing water to drink.

Her cats and dogs can eat meat, so what else do she want? Xia Ran just keeps raising them casually.

Xia Ran added some firewood and some cold water into the pot before she began to rub oil on the steamer and put the buns in.

When the water boils again, the three baskets of buns are ready and can be steamed directly in the pot.

Xia Ran continued to wrap the next pot. She didn't pay attention to the quantity and cut a little too much celery. Xia Ran wrapped two more trays before she finished all the filling.

Next was making mutton and green onion dumplings. Xia Ran was busy all morning and made four pots of meat dumplings, a total of twelve trays, before she used up all the stuffing.

At the end, there was still some noodles left. Xia Ran saw the red tomatoes in the space and felt it would be a waste not to cook some of them.

She wrapped another half a tray of tomato and egg buns. To be honest, this was the first time Xia Ran made buns with this filling.

Although I have never heard of buns with this kind of filling, but when I think about it, what kind of filling can’t be eaten? I might as well make some and see what the taste is.

Xia Ran used the empty half of the drawer to steam eggs.

Make more, so that when you go on a long trip and it is inconvenient to cook, you can smuggle some out for emergency use, to fill your stomach and avoid hypoglycemia.

After the buns were steamed, Xia Ran tasted them and found them delicious. They were just as delicious as she had imagined. However, she had to be careful when eating them as they would burst with juice easily.

After a simple lunch, her other portion of noodles was ready.

When making this noodle last night, I intentionally only put a tiny bit of old yeast in it, so it rose very slowly.

Xia Ran put some sugar, white wine and eggs in it, which made it taste better.

Knead the dough evenly, heat up half a pot of cooking oil, and start frying the pancakes.

If you add a lot of oil, you can put twenty oil cakes in the pan at one time and fry them slowly.

According to the saying in my hometown, when frying oil cakes, you cannot mention the word "oil", you have to say "water", otherwise the color of the oil cakes will not look good, either no color or too dark.

I don’t know whether it makes sense or not, but many ordinary people do this anyway.

Some people even put an embroidery needle into the pot. It is still unclear why they do this. They just say it is an old tradition. Their mothers or grandmothers did this, and it has been passed down from generation to generation.

If Xia Ran were to ask, shouldn’t the depth of color be the personal preference of the person who makes the pancakes?

Whatever color you like or find pleasing to the eye, just go for that color.

She likes the golden color. It is golden, festive and appetizing.

After making all the noodles, Xia Ran directly filled a jar with fried dough sticks, which was a large water jar.

Seeing that it was almost time, Xia Ran, accompanied by Wangcai and the tabby cat, put up couplets and window decorations.

Several strings of firecrackers were also set off, representing the official start of the new year.

As soon as the firecrackers went off, Wangcai and the tabby cat disappeared immediately.

Afterwards, Xia Ran used lard, chicken fat, vegetable oil, sugar, eggs, wine, etc. to make a dough and kneaded it evenly. This dough was specially used for frying fruits and fried dough twists.

The fruit needs to be shaped. If you fry it with leavened dough, it will expand out of the box when it is cooked and no shape will be left.

Therefore, it is most appropriate to use dead dough for frying.

Xia Ran blew up some of the styles that were often used in her hometown, and also made a batch of some styles that she had seen in videos in her later life.

Fortunately, the result was very good. It was fried with dead dough so it hardly expanded. It looked the same before frying as it did when it came out of the pan.

Finally, I fried a batch of fried dough twists and made two large bowls in total, enough for her to eat for a long time.

She remembered the shrimp chips she bought and fried some more to eat.

After frying the shrimp chips, she immediately put them into the space. Otherwise, when they got cold, they would be hard to chew and would not taste good. It was because it was so humid here.