OBS Chapter 373 Dumplings and Buns
Chapter 373 Dumplings and Buns
Zhou Mi looked at her gratefully. It was not that he was shy and didn't dare to pick up the food, but that he simply couldn't squeeze in and could only pick up some from the side.
Zhou Xing also came over with a bowl and said, "Second Aunt has scooped out some of the dishes and put them on the table. Go and pick them up when you're done."
"Hmm?" Zhou Guo turned around and saw that there were many dishes on the small kang table. He hurried over to move them and put them down beside the people. He smiled and said, "Okay, let's eat slowly here."
Zhou Xing looked outside and saw that it was getting dark. "I don't know where my brother and the others have gone. They haven't come back yet at this hour. Aren't they hungry?"
Zhou Mi gnawed on a pig's trotter and said, "Sister, don't worry. They are so old, how could they starve? If they don't come back now, they must have found food somewhere else, or they are not hungry yet."
Zhou Guo nodded. With the little guy Zhou Su around, he would never go hungry.
The three of them squatted by the fire pit and ate happily.
Everyone on the kang was eating happily and concentrating on eating.
Wang Fugui ate a piece of braised pork and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Guoguo's mother, who made this roast pork? It's really good. I've been selling meat for so many years, and I've been making roast pork for many years, but I never thought of putting something underneath. It's delicious. Can you tell me how it's made?"
Li smiled and said, "This dish was made by Guoguo. You know that girl not only loves to eat, but also has a big appetite. Each of them ate one piece of meat in a bowl. I thought it would be a pity to waste the oil from the steaming, so I thought of putting some glutinous rice underneath. I didn't expect it to taste so good. The meat was delicious, and the glutinous rice absorbed the oil and fragrance of the meat, making it even more delicious."
Chen pointed at the braised pig's trotters and said, "I think these pig's trotters are delicious. They are yellow and black. Do you add soy sauce to them?"
Li smiled and nodded, "This was also made by that girl. I cooked pork head and mutton for the New Year's Eve dinner. They are the least popular among all the dishes here. You can just try them."
"You call this bad? It's not like you haven't eaten our food before. Compared to this, isn't this food for dogs?"
"It's really strange that there are still people who call themselves dogs these days."
Everyone was stunned, and then burst into laughter.
After dinner, Zhou Gu and his friends came back, sweating profusely.
When asked, they said they hadn't eaten yet, but they weren't hungry. It was New Year's Day and they had eaten a belly full of melon seeds, snacks and glutinous rice cakes.
Everyone in the room played until late at night before going back together. Two of the three decks of leaf cards were taken away.
Zhou Su and the others couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep because they were too tired from playing.
Zhou Guo forced himself to keep his eyelids open, not letting himself fall asleep as he had to stay up all night.
Li brought the chopping board and flour, and also brought the chopped various fillings.
"Come on, wash your faces, and let's start making dumplings. Your Aunt Chen said that they always eat dumplings during the Chinese New Year, with all kinds of fillings. The most common filling is radish, but I think it's not good to just eat radish. Fortunately, we have a lot of meat at home, so I mixed some in. Come on, let's try the dumplings and see how they taste."
The drowsy crowd struggled to open their eyelids, washed their faces, and finally felt a little more energetic.
When he saw the pot full of meat filling, he suddenly came to his senses, "Second Aunt, you still call this a little bit of mixing. I see, I know that these dumplings are delicious without tasting them. Meat wrapped in dough, isn't it a meat pie?"
Everyone nodded, thinking it made sense and the meat pie was indeed delicious.
Zhou Guo said: "They are different. Meat patties are fried or baked, while dumplings are cooked directly in the pot."
“Isn’t that just wontons? Wontons are made in the same way, with meat wrapped in dough and then cooked in a pot. Wontons are delicious, so dumplings should be good too.” Everyone followed the lead obediently. The wontons were so delicious!
Li knew how to roll the dough, but he had never made dumplings like this before. Everyone else made dumplings in strange shapes, with some even having the meat exposed. Zhou Gu and a few others simply made the dumplings into meat-filled glutinous rice balls, but these were a bit ugly.
Zhou Guo laughed out loud, pointing at the ugly rice dumpling and said, "Brother, you might as well just make it into a bun. Buns look better."
Zhou Gu touched his head and said, "I don't know how to make steamed buns either."
Speaking of steamed buns, Zhou Guo felt that she would be letting herself down if she didn't make them during the Chinese New Year. She didn't know how to knead the dough, but she knew how to mix the fillings and make the buns. Although they didn't look very good, at least they looked like steamed buns.
Get up and chop the meat and prepare the stuffing yourself.
Li asked, "What are you doing? Isn't this enough for you to eat?"
"Mom, let me prepare a new pot of stuffing and we'll make dumplings." Zhou Guo replied while cutting meat. He had already cut some pork, beef and mutton, so it would be possible to make a few more kinds of stuffing.
As soon as we heard that we were going to make dumplings, everyone's enthusiasm reached an unprecedented high and even sleepiness was gone.
They all shouted excitedly, "Let's make dumplings. What do you need me to do? I'll knead the dough. Second Aunt, the dough you have is definitely not enough. I'll do it."
They have never eaten dumplings, but they have eaten steamed buns. They love to eat the steamed buns that are so fragrant and greasy that they take a bite.
People are much more enthusiastic about buns than dumplings.
In a blink of an eye, only Zhou Xing was still helping Li, and the rest had run away.
Zhou Xing smiled and said, "Second Aunt, it's okay. You don't even like to eat it. Just make fewer dumplings. If you can't finish the stuffing, you can use it to make buns."
Li looked at the stall helplessly, thinking that it was the only way to go. However, she felt that buns should indeed taste better than dumplings.
Zhou Guo chopped the meat into small pieces, and added the soaked pine mushrooms into the meat. He added some star anise water, badger oil, salt and soy sauce, and mixed them well. Just like that, the raw meat could smell fragrant, and it was indeed much more fragrant than the dumpling filling.
Everyone looked at the piece of dough in Zhou Guo's hand, which was wrapped with a large piece of meat. He turned and pinched it, and after one circle, a wrinkled bun came out of the oven.
There was a burst of exclamations in the room!
"It looks so good! So this is how buns are made!"
God has pity on them, they don’t look very good, but at least they look like steamed buns. Everyone is amazed because these steamed buns are made at home. They never thought that one day, they could actually make steamed buns at home!
Everyone followed suit, even the old man couldn't help but make his own.
Li stopped rolling out the dumpling wrappers and started rolling out the bun wrappers first.
With the efforts of the whole family, all kinds of ugly buns came out of the oven. Seeing the buns that were tilted in all directions, everyone laughed happily. Although they were ugly, they were ugly in various ways. Some looked like chickens, some looked like dogs, and some looked like white-haired, hunched-over old men...
The more Zhou Guo is wrapped, the better it looks.
Li and Zhou Xing are worthy of the fact that they have been making all kinds of steamed buns for many years. At first, they didn’t make them properly, but later on, the buns they made looked better than those sold outside.
After wrapping several kinds of fillings, we had several large sieves. Fortunately, they had many sieves. We bought so many sieves in the autumn to dry the mushrooms, and they came in handy this time.