Chapter 23: Baking Soda

A generation of heroes Xiang Zeyu and his subordinates were pierced through the heart by ten thousand arrows and died, and blood was splashed in Weiyang Palace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoBefore dawn, the floor of the palace was re-washed, the ancient palace walls were covered with a new layer of dye, everything was restored to the original, and the emperor continued to go to the early dynasty. As if nothing had happened, the calm on the surface could not hide the turbulence in the heart after all.

In Taoli Village, a small village in Guinan City, people still work at sunrise and rest at sunset. The earth-shattering event thousands of miles away seems to have no impact, and it is estimated that after knowing about it, it will only increase the capital of people's after-dinner gossip.

Xia Cao woke up early in the morning and ran into the kitchen excitedly, staring at the steamer and waiting for the buns to come out of the pot. The fire burning next to her was unbearable for her sister's unpromising appearance, and slapped her to accompany Xia Maihe to catch insects and feed chickens in the vegetable field.

"Big brother, we're back! Are the buns ready? Before she could enter the door, Natsucao stroked her hungry rumbling stomach and shouted.

Xia Maihe's IQ behind her has soared in the past few days, looking at her eldest brother pitifully, and her cute mouth only spit out: "I'm hungry." Two words, the lethality is comparable to a big channel.

The hot buns that have just come out of the cage, with a layer of misty white mist, look very tempting. Xia Cao knew that her delicate little hands were no thicker than the rough skin and flesh of the second brother, and the small bowl and chopsticks were waiting beside her in the morning.

The bun was too hot to eat, and Xia Cao took a closer look and found that the bun was not as white as it had been eaten before, with a little yellowish in the white. It's a little sturdy, and it doesn't look like Peng Song before. Xia Cao realized at this time that there was no baking soda powder in ancient times, no wonder her mother started to mix noodles last night, that is, to give the flour a night of fermentation time.

The bun is slightly cooler, and the summer grass takes a bite, which is not as delicious as imagined, and the dough is a little sour, without the soft taste of Peng. Xia Cao was a little deflated, and Baking Soda would not succeed at all with her little skills. Classmates who have studied in high school know that the chemical name of baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, and the industry can pass the Hou's alkali method. Industry requires a lot of instruments, but also high temperature and high pressure conditions, in this ancient science and technology backward can not be achieved at all, in fact, to say that this condition of the ancient refining workshop may have, but that is a place to make weapons, no one will bird her, a small peasant girl.

Xia Cao was a little sullen and ate the buns, and her movements were extremely slow. Su Shi next to him observed that something was wrong with his daughter. My daughter has always been happy about eating these days, and her appetite is excellent. Thinking that her daughter was reluctant to eat the buns, she ate slowly, swallowed the food in her mouth, comforted Xia Cao and said, "Xia Cao, why do you eat so slowly!" Don't worry, my mother still has some dough, and it's enough to wrap a basket at noon. ā€

A word woke up the dreamer, Xia Cao slapped her little head, how could she get into the dead end of baking soda? That's why flour ferments better, and it's not just baking soda. Why didn't she think of the old noodles just now, the old noodles steamed buns in her previous life were very popular. The so-called old noodles are made with fermented dough that was not used last time, and put it in the new dough to speed up the fermentation, which can also make the taste better. There is also a local method, which she learned in rural life in her previous life, which is to put koji in the dough. The koji is made from some barley and peas, and the process is relatively simple. Natsukusa didn't know if the ancient sake breweries sold koji, she could make it, but it was more troublesome.

"Mother, I'm just a little reluctant to eat, mother, why don't you wait for Daddy to come back from hunting some prey, let's make meat buns again?" After figuring it out, the first thing is to keep the dough.

Su Shi happily agreed when he saw his daughter returning to normal, Xia Maihe next to him pouted a little unhappy, but thinking that meat buns were better than vegetable buns, he didn't say anything.

"It is the fault of the father to raise or not to teach; If the teaching is not strict, the teacher is lazy. If the child does not learn, it is not appropriate; If you don't learn when you're young, what's the point of being old? ...... "Xia Qiaomu is really a qualified master, and he didn't forget to study the homework of Xia Cao and Xia Maihe brothers and sisters on the way to Lion Rock when the three brothers and sisters walked to Lion Rock.

The children I met on the road listened to their loud reading voices, and the envious expressions on their faces on the road. However, looking at the paddy fields and land under his feet, the envy on his face also faded a little, after all, having land at home is fundamental.

The three brothers and sisters easily found the place where they had dug kudzu, and as soon as Xia Cao arrived at the destination, she still sat down, her physical fitness was still quite low, and she was panting, fanning some fat cuffs, trying to cool herself down.

The two brothers skillfully took off the back basket on their bodies, took the bamboo tube to drink water to quench their thirst, and immediately entered the working state. There is a large area of kudzu, and at present, apart from their family, no one from the village has come to collect it.

The sun rose right in the middle of the sky, and they were almost done. Of course, it is clear who has more and who is less at a glance, Xia Maihe is such a strong puller, and he only has one in one hand, so there is a small mountain in front of him, as for Xia Cao, he knelt on the ground and dug and dug for a long time before he came up with one. However, for his big score behind, Maicao complained that the sun was always shining, and the land had become stronger. Every time she pulls out a kudzu, it takes her a lot of effort. But the foodie didn't want to think about how her kudzu powder would dry if it rained and rainy.

After digging the kudzu, Xia Cao thought about how to kidnap the two brothers and dig bamboo shoots. There is a large bamboo forest not far from here, and now is the season of spring bamboo shoots, and there should be many bamboo shoots popping up. However, she was afraid that there were snakes in the bamboo forest, and she did not dare to joke about the safety of her two brothers.

"Big brother, have you been to the bamboo forest over there?" Xia Cao asked, pointing in the direction of the bamboo forest.

"I've been there, the bamboo leaves of the dumplings at home during the Dragon Boat Festival are taken from there, and my father usually looks at some bamboo and comes back to make baskets." Xia Qiaomu replied patiently, secretly hoping that his sister wouldn't have any more ghost ideas, sometimes he really couldn't parry.

"Big brother, is there a snake in the bamboo forest?"

"People often come to the bamboo forest, but snakes are rare!" Xia Qiaomu thought that his bold sister was going to catch snakes recently and hurriedly denied it, but he saw that his sister's eyes glowed when she saw the flesh, and the snake also had flesh.

Knowing that there were no snakes, Xia Cao was a lot more relieved, stared at the two elder brothers who were busy framing, and said happily with leaping eyes: "Big brother, second brother, let's go dig bamboo shoots and cover it on the kudzu." ā€

Xia Maihe didn't feel anything, he tried his best to fulfill all his sister's wishes, "Well, when I'm done loading Gegen, I'll accompany you." He replied.

Xia Qiaomu on the side thought that he had talked to his sister about bamboo shoots last night, which made his sister's greed again. Anyway, it didn't take much effort to dig a few bamboo shoots, and when my sister knew that it wasn't delicious, she wouldn't toss anymore, and she didn't come up with a reason to object, so she nodded in agreement.

After no one objected, Xia Cao walked majestically and proudly towards the bamboo forest, commanding her two brothers to cut and dig the bamboo shoots she had selected. Xia Cao carefully selected the most suitable bamboo shoots for consumption, and there were only about a dozen of them, and she believed that the two brothers who had seen the delicious taste of bamboo shoots would automatically come to dig without saying it.