Chapter 155: Xiao Nian
After bidding farewell to Aunt Ge, Li Qin began to be busy with his own young years. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoOf course, the main thing is to make dumplings.
Dumplings are a very luxurious food for northerners, not because of how laborious it is to wrap them, but because flour is hard to come by. There are many kinds of wheat in the north, but there are more bud rice. The yield of bud rice is higher than that of wheat, and after pushing and grinding, whether it is a large dumpling, a small dumpling, or corn flour, there are various kinds of food to make, the method is simple, and there is a lot of choice. Comparatively speaking, flour making pastry is more time-consuming and consumes a lot of money. Therefore, since the bud rice, everyone rarely grows wheat, and flour has become more and more luxurious. Therefore, dumplings can generally only be eaten during the New Year's holidays, and everyone rarely makes them.
Dumplings pay attention to many pleats and look good, and the most important thing is not to show the filling. Such delicate work is not required to be done by ordinary men. So Yu Fei never makes dumplings. But he can chop stuffing. Anyway, he has a lot of strength, but he has helped Li Qin a lot.
Li Qin taught him to cut the mutton into small pieces, and then use a kitchen knife to chop it into minced meat. Here, Li Qin prepared the rice wine, soy sauce, sesame oil, and salt, and chopped the green onion and ginger.
After the mutton filling was chopped, Li Qin asked him to put them in the clay pot, and she put all the prepared seasonings into it, and let Yu Fei take the chopsticks and whip them in one direction.
It's also a hard job. First, there is too much stuffing, and it is not easy to whip. Second, the speed should be more uniform, so that the meat quality will be more elastic.
Taking advantage of this, Li Qin took another clay pot and noodles. Fortunately, there were a lot of white noodles left by the Yang family before, Li Qin rotated with chopsticks, while adding warm water to the clay pot, little by little, the noodles in the clay pot were stirred into flocculent, and then rubbed with his hands, and after a while, the noodles were very smooth.
The dough made of dumplings will be more delicious if it is harder, and because Li Qin uses warm water and noodles, he doesn't need to wake up, just wipe the table clean, sprinkle thin noodles, take out the dough, and knead it on the table.
When the dough was fully contaminated with the thin dough and it was not easy to stick to the table after letting go, Li Qin divided the dough into three small doughs, and then took one of the doughs and continued to knead it. After the small dough also achieved the effect of large dough, Li Qin dug a hole in the middle of the dough, and then used dexterity to make the hole wider and wider, and slowly the dough became a large dough ring. Continuing to knead, the dough ring became thinner, and Li Qin broke away from the middle one by one, forming a thick noodle that often became thick.
Yu Fei looked at Li Qin's skillful appearance, and couldn't intervene at all, and hurriedly circled around like the two lynxes. However, the lynx is hungry for the smell of mutton, and he cares too much about her and wants to share it with her.
Li Qin smiled, "You'll be able to help right away!"
Li Qin rolled the thick noodles into a round shape, then held the noodles in one hand, and slightly pressed the irregular cut dough with the other hand, and neatly pulled up the agent.
Li Qin's agent strength is very good, each agent will not be lengthened or deformed because of the softness of the dough, all of them are neat sections, the same size. Li Qin grabbed the next one, pressed it on the thin noodles on the table, one by one, and soon laid out a large piece.
After all the kneading was finished, Li Qin knocked them all down with both hands, making these small agents become relatively round small dough, and at this time, he took out another one and pressed it to become a round small dough.
Yu Fei saw the magic, and hurriedly reached out to help Li Qin, with his help, he quickly turned all the small dough into small dough.
Then Li Qin took out a rolling pin, pinched the upper end of the small dough cake with one hand, and held the rolling pin to roll out the lower end of the small dough cake with the other hand.
Yu Fei discovered a new gadget again, and watched Li Qin's movements getting faster and faster, and the dumpling skin in front of him became thicker and thicker, so he was even more eager to try.
Li Qin saw that she had almost enough to wrap it for a while, so he handed him the rolling pin and asked him to learn how to roll it. Pick up the dumpling wrapper and wrap the dumplings.
Li Qin made dumplings very quickly, one pleat at a time, and there were five even folds on each dumpling, and even the size and direction of the pleats were not bad at all, and in a blink of an eye, six or seven were wrapped.
But Yu Fei's side was not so smooth. His hands with bows, arrows, and iron guns are very easy to hold today, but they are not obedient today, either they have a piece of the dough cake off the top, or the rolling pin below is too strong, and the dough cake has not waited for a circle, and it has already gone out of shape and cannot be remedied. After wasting three or four dough cakes, Li Qin made six or seven dumplings, but he still couldn't roll out a dumpling skin!
Seeing his claws stretched out towards the fifth bread again, Li Qin hurriedly said, "Come, I'll teach you!"
So, Li Qin took the rolling pin, took the dough cake, slowed down his movements, and showed him little by little.
Yu Fei nodded, tried again, and sure enough, it was much better than before, and now he can roll out quadrilaterals, while they were all triangles before.
Li Qin smiled and encouraged him, "Very good! You are making progress so fast! I didn't learn so fast when I was learning!"
Yu Fei was encouraged, and he was more motivated, although the rolling was not very good, but thanks to Li Qin's good craftsmanship, he was able to turn decay into magic, even with a quadrangular dumpling skin, it could achieve a similar effect as a round dumpling skin.
With Yu Fei's help, Li Qin's dumplings were wrapped faster and faster, and after a while, the curtain was changed. Li Qin took out the door and froze, so he came back to fight for the second dough.
In the end, dumplings are still a time-consuming thing to make, and by the time they have finished wrapping all the dumplings, it has been an hour and a half later. It's cold, and at this time, the dumplings with the first curtain have been completely frozen.
With dumplings, there have to be other dishes. Yu Fei packed up one chicken and one rabbit from the lynx, chopped the pieces, and Li Qin added mushrooms and stewed them. plus stewed sauerkraut vermicelli, a shredded sour radish fried meat, a cold cabbage heart, and four dishes, that is, the New Year.
However, before eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the most important thing is to apply honey to the mouth of the stove king. The two of you, you and me, both think it's very interesting.
After coating the honey, he took out three of the boiled white and chubby dumplings, put them in front of the stove lord first, and then cleaned up the table.
When the table was cleaned up, the two tore off the portrait of the king of the stove and put it at the bottom of the pot to burn. In this way, it indicates that the Lord of the Stove has ascended to heaven.
After smearing honey and offering dumplings, Li Qin believes that their lives will get better and better!