Chapter 82: Making Tofu
"Your brother and I were talking about his troubles when he was a child. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Du Yue replied with a smile.
"Oh, Sister Yue, you like to listen to my brother's troubles when he was a child, I remember a lot, or I'll tell you everything." Yuan Ping said with a grin.
"Let's talk, I'm leaving." Yuan Qing saw that his sister was here, and he couldn't be alone with Du Yue, so he didn't want to stay here.
Du Yue and Yuan Ping chatted for a while, and then stopped talking. Du Yue was going to find Liu Lin's so that she could tell her about making tofu tomorrow, and she would have to give lessons to the students tomorrow morning, and some things would definitely have to be handled by Liu Lin's, and she had to explain it first.
Early the next morning, when the genius was slightly bright, Du Yue and they got up. Du Yue went to see the soybeans soaked yesterday, the soybeans began to soak yesterday evening, to this point in time, the soybeans have been soaked twice as large as the original, Du Yue saw that the soybeans were soaked quite well, opened it and looked at it, there was no bad one, it should be yesterday when the soybeans were soaked, Aunt Liu picked out the bad ones.
Seeing that the time was not early, Du Yue decided to hurry up and grind the soy milk, otherwise she would not have time to help make tofu after a while. Du Yue carried a pot of soaked soybeans, Yuan Qing helped carry a bucket of water, and Liu Lin followed behind, and went to the stone mill in the village to grind soy milk. The grinding disc is also very expensive, no one in the village buys it alone, they all buy one together, and it is placed in the center of the village.
Du Yue and a few people came to the grinding plate, there was no one, the grinding plate has been used for a long time, no one used it, and it was relatively dirty, but fortunately, when he first came, he asked Yuan Qing to bring a bucket of water over, and now he is just using this bucket of water to clean the grinding plate.
Du Yue scooped the scoop of water, and Liu Lin took the brush he brought from home, brushed all the grinding discs, and then flushed the rest of the water into the grinding discs. The grinding disc was washed and cleaned, and it was ready to grind the soy milk, Du Yue put the bucket where the soy milk flowed out, and began to scoop the soybeans and water together to the entrance of the grinding disc. Turning the grinding disc was a laborious matter, and Yuan Qing took it without hesitation. Yuan Qing kept turning the grinding plate, Du Yue scooped soybeans from time to time, the two cooperated very well, Liu Lin didn't need to help, so she went back first, she planned to go back and make breakfast first, and after a while, Du Yue and the two of them could go back to eat after grinding the soy milk. Du Yue just planned to make some and take it to the restaurant for trial sale, and she didn't plan to do more, so she let Liu Lin soak two catties of soybeans, so the two of them finished grinding those soybeans after a while.
Yuan Qing carried a bucket full of soybean milk, Du Yue carried the pot that originally contained soybeans, and the two of them rushed all the way home, they all had to hurry up, and when it was time to go, both of them had to go to the school. When I got home, Liu Lin had already cooked the porridge and was preparing to order sauerkraut or something to make the side dishes of the porridge.
Du Yue took the gauze prepared yesterday, Yuan Qing helped scoop the soy milk into the gauze, Du Yue squeezed out the soy milk, this step is very important, if there is okara in the soy milk, the tofu will not be good, so Du Yue is very careful about this step and filtered the soy milk twice. After the soy milk is filtered, Du Yue is ready to cook the soy milk, Liu Lin is helping to light the fire, after the soy milk is boiled, Du Yue uses a spoon to remove the foam on the surface of the soy milk.
"Auntie, it's a small fire." Du Yue said while scooping up foam.
"Okay." Liu Lin hurriedly withdrew some of the firewood inside, the fire suddenly became smaller, and the soy milk kept boiling. Du Yue estimated that the soy milk should be cooked thoroughly, and asked Liu Lin to remove all the fire.
"Let's leave it here to cool down for a while, and we'll get it after breakfast." Du Yue said that she had to hurry up, and now it was only half an hour before the time for class. Du Yue hurriedly finished breakfast, saw that the soy milk was almost cold, poured the vinegar into the spoon little by little, evenly sprinkled it on the boiled soy milk, and then gently stirred it with a spoon in one direction.
It didn't take long for the soy milk to begin to appear flocculent sediment, and it had already been shared with the water, and it looked like a tofu flower, so I quickly brought the tofu rack prepared yesterday. Du Yue spread a piece of fine gauze in the tofu rack, used a spoon to put all these into the shelf, and then found a heavy object and pressed the tofu on.
"Auntie, remember how to do it." When Du Yue was doing it just now, she asked Aunt Liu to remember it.
"Well, it looks pretty simple, I've memorized all the steps, and now I just have to do it myself." Liu Lin said.
"Well, just remember. After pressing for an hour, remember to remove the contents on it, the tofu will be too old after pressing it for a long time. Du Yue instructed, she has to hurry to the school, the tofu must not be pressed until she comes back from school, then the tofu will be too old, Du Yue still likes tender tofu, so this matter can only be explained to Liu Lin's.
"Don't worry, I'll take it out when the time is up." Liu Lin said. After Du Yue gave Liu Lin's instructions, she hurried to the school, now it is only a quarter of an hour away from the class time, there must be many students waiting at the door, usually Du Yue arrives very early, and this morning was delayed by the matter of making tofu.
Du Yue was teaching in the school in the morning, thinking about making tofu, as soon as it was time to get out of school, she couldn't wait to get the students out of school, Du Yue and Yuan Qing hurried home. Du Yue wanted to know how the tofu she made in the morning was, although she confessed that Liu Lin's time was up to take off the tofu pressing, but she still wanted to know if the tofu she made this time would be the same as when she made it before.
Back at home, Liu Lin and Yuan Ping happened to be cooking, and Du Yue and they came back just in time to eat. But Du Yue wanted to see her tofu first, and she didn't bother to eat lunch.
"Yue'er, don't worry, when the time comes, I'll take away the stuff that presses the tofu, you can see now if this tofu is like this." Liu Lin looked at Du Yue's impatient appearance and hurriedly spoke.
Du Yue came over, carefully lifted the gauze that was still covered with tofu, and a burst of bean fragrance wafted out, Du Yue gently pressed it with her hand, it was quite tender, yes, that's it. Ancient pure green things are different, even the tofu made feels much more fragrant, but I don't know how it tastes, Du Yue took a knife, gently cut off a piece of tofu, and prepared to make a tofu to eat at noon. (To be continued.) )