Chapter 61: Cantonese Carrot Cake
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Yang Yun poured two buckets of radish puree into the pot and cooked, because there were too many, it was necessary to divide it into two pots to cook, and the radish puree should be added with an appropriate amount of salt. In the process of boiling the radish puree, Yang Yun soaked the dried shiitake mushrooms in warm water and cut them into dices, and asked Yang Yong to cut the bacon into small pieces. Yang Yun is ready to make the way radish cake, Cantonese radish cake can add a lot of her favorite ingredients. The materials in Zhoujia Village are limited, and Yang Yun only finds dried shiitake mushrooms and bacon, and the radish cake made with these two materials is also quite delicious.
Yang Yun pulled out some shallots heated and cultivated in the kitchen, these shallots were cultivated with bean sprouts, but unfortunately how Yang Yun kept warm, green onions are much shorter than those planted at room temperature, of course, such shallots are also precious ingredients in winter.
Yang Yun first added lard and shallots to the pot to stir-fry, then poured diced mushrooms and bacon for stir-frying, and also added salt, sugar, soy sauce, and rice wine. After the bacon is cooked, it is removed from the pan and put on a plate.
Because her grandmother said that the radish cake for the gods should be steamed, Yang Yun prepared to steam the two cages of vegetarian radish cake first, and then steam the Cantonese radish cake last. The radish puree in the pot has been cooked, Yang Yun asked her grandfather to pour the radish puree into the washed wooden barrel, the water content of the white radish is as high as 95%, and the cooked radish puree secretes a lot of radish juice, Yang Yun squeezed out the radish juice and poured it into the basin to use.
When Yang Yun put the radish puree to cool slightly, she added glutinous rice flour to stir and flour, and a small amount of flour was added to the glutinous rice flour. Everyone knows that glutinous rice flour is very sticky and soft if cooked, not only sticking to your hands but also to the pot, adding a small amount of noodles can not only neutralize this stickiness, but also make the steamed radish cake look good and have a more three-dimensional effect. When boiling or frying, it will not cause it to stick to the pan.
When mixing glutinous rice flour, five-spice powder should be added, stirring glutinous rice flour to see the degree of dryness and wetness, and the radish juice squeezed out should be poured into the glutinous rice flour instead of water. Stir the glutinous rice batter until it is viscous and can flow slightly. Yang Yun spread a layer of washed cotton cloth under a small round bamboo steamer, and then poured the glutinous rice batter into the steamer, which was to be poured until it was seven minutes full, and the glutinous rice syrup did not ferment and swell.
Because Yang Yun added some flour, a bucket of radish puree made out two baskets of radish cakes, Yang Yun thought that Grandma Xu would be sick and couldn't steam the rice cakes, so she decided to help Dr. Xu's family, and the steamed radish cakes could be sacrificed to the gods. Yang Yun put a small steamer full of glutinous rice milk into a large steamer for steaming.
The radish cake should be steamed for at least half an hour or so to be ripe, check whether the radish cake is steamed, find a branch of radish root and insert it into the radish cake, the radish pulp dipped in the radish pulp proves that it is not cooked, if the radish cake is ripe, the radish cake is not brought out in the radish cake to prove that it is cooked.
The other two Cantonese radish cakes Yang Yun have already been blended, which are the same as the vegetarian radish cakes, except that fried shiitake mushrooms and bacon are added. Yang Yun prepared the radish cake and went to do something else.
Grandma's marinated pig water Yang Yun has also seen it, the coloring and spices are well adjusted, and I tried some small intestines, and the taste is also very good. Stewed pig's feet with red dates, grandma used a clay pot to stew on a simple small stove, which did not occupy the two large cauldrons at home, and the small stove was made by Yang Yun with the help of the master of the brick kiln.
Some people in the town have already started to sell this kind of small stove, and Yang Yun regrets that he didn't ask the master of the brick kiln for the patent fee, just like the original pliers, which have begun to be commonly used. Yang Yun kept comforting herself that this was a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, so it should be regarded as a good deed.
Yang Yun only steamed three vegetarian radish cakes in one morning. The other two Cantonese radish cakes are kept for steaming in the afternoon. At noon, the family cooked some yellow rice porridge, cut some marinated pigs into the water, and the family would have a lunch. The turnip cake can't be eaten, and the vegetarian is to be kept for the gods.
Stewed pig's feet with red dates, marinated pig's water, steamed vegetarian radish cake, after these things are cooked, Yang Yun put these things on the oven and covered it with a layer of clean cloth, which will make the oven empty just have a place to stack, and the height is also suitable, which can prevent wild cats or children from accidentally knocking over.
After eating at noon, the family went to rest, and they all got up early in the morning, plus tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve to keep the New Year, if you don't sleep at noon, you can't stand it at night.
At noon, Yang Yun got up after sleeping for an hour, took the dried fish to soak in warm water first, and left it to cook at night. In addition, Yang Yun, a second cage of Cantonese radish cake, was also put down to steam, so that grandma could help watch the fire. Yang Yun took money from home, went to the grocery store to buy big red paper, and went to Dr. Xu to ask him to help write a Spring Festival couplet. "Intensive cultivation and harvest years, diligent and thrifty housekeeping for more than a year: the four seasons are safe." Dr. Xu also praised this Spring Festival couplet, the farmer's family is not just trying to have a bumper grain harvest in a year, and the family is safe in all seasons.
Yang Yun also asked Dr. Xu to help write a few big blessing characters, and left the rest of the big red paper to Dr. Xu to write the Spring Festival couplets by himself. Yang Yun also told Dr. Xu that the family helped him steam the radish cake to sacrifice to the gods, and also prepared some meat, and sent it over together when everything was cooked in the afternoon.
Doctor Xu was very moved, and Grandma Xu was even more choked up while lying on the bed, holding Yang Yun's hand and saying a few good children. Yang Yun comforted Grandma Xu for a while, and then took the Spring Festival couplets home. Yesterday, Yang Yong and Dabao's children had already helped Dr. Xu clean up the house.
Yang Yun met Li Dabao on the way back, and seeing that he was carrying a few pieces of red paper, he knew that his family also asked Dr. Xu to help write Spring Festival couplets. Yang Yun only said hello and went home, every family is very busy today, how can they have time to chat. Yang Yun took the Spring Festival couplets home, boiled some paste with glutinous rice flour, and asked Yang Yong to paste the Spring Festival couplets, and also pasted a blessing word on several doors.
Grandpa caught two roosters from the chicken coop in the afternoon and killed, Yang Yong and Yang Xuan helped pluck the chicken feathers, and finally grandpa cleaned up the internal organs of the chickens, all of them were taken to the pot and cooked in plain water, only an appropriate amount of salt was added, because it was to be sacrificed to the gods, so no other ingredients could be added.
After a busy afternoon, I finally cooked the Cantonese radish cake and chicken, and left the big bones, and some pork, and the big bones Yang Yun threw into the pot and boiled it over slow heat, and the pork was fried and eaten when the rice was cooked at night. After finishing these things, Yang Yun cleaned the other cauldron and began to boil hot water, and today the family has to take a hot bath and change into new clothes.
Grandma helped Yang Xuan take a bath first, and Yang Yun asked her grandfather and Yang Yong to send things to Dr. Xu's house together. A basket of vegetarian radish cake, some pigs in the water, a boiled chicken, a few dried fish, a bowl of stewed pig's feet with red dates, and some raw pork, and then Yang Yun also took some red date cake and peanut candy. Yang Yun expected that Dr. Xu would not accept anything, so she asked her grandfather to come out and ensure success.
Sure enough, Grandpa, they quickly came back after sending things, but Yang Yong brought back the raw pork in his hand, and Dr. Xu said that he had already bought the raw pork, so the raw pork was sent back.
Everyone else in the family went to take a shower and change new clothes, only Yang Yun would not wash until after dinner, and Yang Yun was responsible for cooking at night, so in order not to stain the new clothes, she had to stay until the end to take a bath.