Chapter Forty-Seven: The Rice Balls of the Delicious Building
Baili Zimo, who was in a good mood, returned home and moved her delicate little mill out again. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info asked Ye Mei, and learned that although the Lantern Festival here also eats rice balls, the rice balls are simple dough, cooked in a pot (not boiled into a pot of paste), dipped in sugar and sesame seeds, don't think about it, you know where it tastes.
No, you must make a few kinds of glutinous rice balls, on the one hand, to satisfy your appetite, and on the other hand, to make a small profit. "Miss, what do you want to grind, let the minions help you. "The one who spoke was the one who automatically asked his mother to ask for help, and was sent by Steward Zhang to serve the young master, Zhang Qiu, the second child of the twins. The two brothers don't open their mouths, and it's hard for others to recognize who is with whom, and the difference is big when they open their mouths, the eldest Zhang Xia speaks slowly, a little young and old, and the second Zhang Qiu likes to chatter, lively and active. (Twins are almost all like this)
Baili Zimo thought about it, there are indeed a lot of things that need to be prepared, and they really need help. She shouted to the next door: "Beans - do you still have stock in your small stone mill? Lin Dou agreed, called Wang Xinxin, and brought the stone mill with a hum, and placed it in a sunny place in the compound under the command of Baili Zimo.
Baili Zimo asked the brothers to wash and soak the glutinous rice flour first. Then the three of them sat in the warm sunshine, leisurely grinding the fried sesame seeds and peanuts into fine powder, grinding the boiled red beans into red bean paste, mixing the peeled walnuts with red dates, grinding them into walnut and jujube paste filling, sealing the jar and preserving.
Early the next morning, Baili Zimo put the soaked glutinous rice into a cloth bag and hung it in the air to make glutinous rice flour. Let Zhang Xia mix the glutinous rice flour with water and form a dough, and she herself mixes the ground sesame seeds with lard and white sugar, with a ratio of roughly 2:1:2, to make a sesame filling.
The lard is frozen outside overnight, and when the filling mixed with lard is cooked, a thick soup will flow out when you bite into it. According to this method, Zi Mo requires a soft and hard fit, not sticky, Zi Mo first showed him, knead it into long strips, and use a knife to form small pieces; knead the small pieces of glutinous rice balls into balls one by one in the palm of the hand, press a small nest on the top of the ball with your thumb, and pick an appropriate amount of sesame filling with chopsticks; gradually pinch the nest with your fingers, and then gently rub it in the palm of your hand, after wrapping, it is like the size of a hawthorn, round and small, exuding a bright white light, like a fine pearl.
Zi Mo put the wrapped rice balls into the glutinous rice flour and rolled them to prevent them from sticking together. Next, the whole people mobilized, everyone made rice balls together, and the rice balls with four fillings were placed in four shallow baskets and sold on the long table in front of the shop.
One serving of each filling is boiled for guests to taste for free and choose their favorite flavor. The skin of the soup ball is thin and smooth, white as mutton fat, the oil is shiny, it has the characteristics of fragrant, sweet, fresh, slippery and glutinous, the glutinous rice flour is soft, tough and smooth, fragrant and glutinous, bite open the skin, the oil fragrance is overflowing, glutinous but not sticky, fresh and delicious, it is amazing.
It is difficult to think that the business is not hot, and there is a familiar long queue at the entrance of the delicious building. From the afternoon of the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, there is an endless stream of customers buying rice balls. On the night of the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, until the end of the hour, all the employees of the delicious building were able to rest, Baili Zimo looked at the money box full of money, waved his hand, and made a decision to make the employees feel happy no matter how tired they were - if they work overtime, each person will be rewarded with 100 wages.
Even the two twins of Steward Zhang were not left behind, and the employees happily went home with the bonuses they had just received, sweeping away the fatigue just now. The Baili family and the Lin family are now separated, Ye Yanke recognized Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin as godfathers and godmothers, and Lin Dou and Baili Zimo became cousins.
The wall in the courtyard of the two houses has been opened, of course, it is the wall of the delicious building, meals and everything are together, the Lin family's house is three, the rooms in the delicious building have not been counted, but there are quite a lot, the old two members of the Lin family have one, Ye Mei and his wife have one, Lin Dou has one, Baili Qianxiang has one, the silent and steady Zhang Xia was assigned to wait for Qianxiang, and the same ones were also divided into knocking jade and knocking rain, living in the ear room and sub-room of Baili Qianxiang, Lin Qingnu also has one, he is also half a master with two servants to serve.
Baili Zimo was assigned to one, and Zhang Qiu rested in the ear room next to him. Now the whole family sits around a large round table, ready to share the sweet dumplings. Even the Zhang brothers were ordered to sit down together. There was a knock outside the door, and Zhang Qiu rushed to open the door.
The one who knocked on the door was a fourteen or fifteen year old with a beautiful face, and he smiled very happily: "Hello little brother, do you want to ask Hu Xiaopan's predecessor to live here?" Zhang Qiu has just been here for two days, and the cheap master who said goodbye to Baili Zimo has not met yet, and he has been very busy in the past two days, so he didn't know that there was such a person, so he replied very politely: "I'm sorry, you found the wrong place, this is not called Hu Xiaopan." ”
The little guy looked back at the carriage behind him, then looked up at the signboard of "Delicious Building", and said with a puzzled expression: "It's Delicious Building! Senior Hu wrote to say that she took the little boss of Delicious Building as an apprentice and planned to live here permanently, how could there be none?"
An elegant voice came from inside the carriage: "Xiao Ran, it's late today, let's come to see Boss Ye again tomorrow." Xiao Ran said to Zhang Qiu: "I'm sorry." He turned and walked to the carriage. At this time, Zhang Qiu poked out a cute little head behind him, blinking his big eyes and looking at the carriage that looked ordinary on the surface, but was actually wide and comfortable, and his eyes were shining, and he looked like the coachman of the Lian family.
Baili Zimo asked Han Qiu curiously, "Who are you looking for?" Zhang Qiu raised the corners of his mouth and said, "I found the wrong place, what is it called...... Hu Xiaopan's. We don't have this person, right?" "Ah, looking for an old monster?" Zhu Xueying hurriedly stepped out of the front door, took two steps, and raised his voice and said, "May I ask who is looking for my master?" Han Qiu shrunk his neck and touched his nose, it turns out that there is really such a person in the family, fortunately, the young lady came out, otherwise it would have been a big mistake.
Xingxuan heard the sound of singing like a yellow bird out of the valley in the carriage, and couldn't help but lift the window of the car to look at the place where the sound came from, only to see a little girl standing at the door of the delicious building like a doll in a New Year's painting. She was wearing a small padded jacket embroidered with a blue bird picture on the fiery red pipa placket, cotton pants with the same pattern embroidered on the hem of black piping, and a pair of big eyes that were flexible as if she could speak, looking curiously here.
At the corner of his mouth, which is always smiling, a pair of intoxicating little pear vortices...... Xingxuan stopped Xiao Ran, who was about to turn around and reply, and straightened his clothes. The coachman hurriedly opened the thick curtain, Xiao Ran took out his pedal and put it on the ground, and helped the young master's men get out of the carriage.
Baili Zimo's small mouth was slightly slanted, his eyes widened, and he sighed secretly: What a beautiful boy who is out of the world! That young man looks like he is twelve or thirteen years old, with elegant facial features, as clean as the moon, and elegant as a flower. The shallow, soft and warm lines like jade make people forget to breathe for a while.
The bright moonlight sprinkled softly on his body, glowing with crystal clear silver light. He smiled at her kindly and gently, as quiet as the moonlight, as beautiful as the moonlight, and as bright as the moonlight. The young man walked over, like an elf under the moon, and his voice was as elegant as others: "Under the 'martial arts and doctors' eldest brother Xingxuan, you ...... It's a little sister. ”
What? That sloppy, crazy, and seriously out of tune old monster actually has such a fairy-like brother...... Is there a mistake!(Isn't a little person like you like Snow Jade also her apprentice?, you're not qualified to talk about others) "Uh...... Monster ...... Master once mentioned that she had a brother who was a talented doctor who became a teacher after less than five years of study. I didn't expect the senior brother to be so ...... Young and beautiful. Zi Mo said with a smile.
Xing Xuan showed a dim smile in the moonlight, and said, "Master Xin said that he had accepted an apprentice with excellent cooking skills, and when I saw it today, I felt that the fairy boy and jade girl had descended to the earth. Baili Zimo was very happy when he heard the handsome guy praise him, and said: "The old monster is useless in other aspects, and the vision of this apprentice is still good." Senior brother hasn't had dinner yet, so come in and eat rice balls with us. Xingxuan heard her words and laughed out loud.
No wonder the master revealed his helplessness to the little junior sister between the lines of the letter, it seems that the little junior sister is really the only person in the world who gives the master a headache. Baili Zimo very enthusiastically let the fairy-like senior brother into the inner courtyard, and after introducing each other to the ceremony, the Zhang brothers consciously withdrew and entertained the little guy and the coachman brought by Xingxuan.
Baili Zimo personally poured osmanthus wine to the senior brother to stuff rice balls. Xing Xuan saw that the color of this glutinous rice ball was snow-white, crystal bright, small and exquisite, and he smelled a sweet osmanthus accompanied by the fragrance of wine, which was mouth-watering. Pick one up with a spoon, put it in your mouth and bite it down, it is sweet and smooth, fat but not greasy, glutinous but not sticky. No wonder the gourmand master is willing to nest in this small town and is reluctant to leave.