Chapter 20 Improving Potstickers
When she went to the kitchen, she heard the sound of the door opening next to her, and thought it was her daughter-in-law and son who got up, but she didn't pay attention to it!
Walking into the kitchen and finding the basin next to the stove, Deng Alian opened it and looked at it, the noodles had already been released, and they were thinner than the usual pancakes.
"White blind eggs and white noodles!" Deng Alian muttered while thinking about it for a while, and then mixed some mixed noodles into it, it is important to make breakfast first, and the farm tools will be packed up for the last time today, and the seeds will be sown tomorrow.
Cooking sorghum rice and cutting a bowl of pickles, the breakfast of the Xu family and even the entire Shiling Village is like this, and people with better conditions will occasionally eat a meal of white rice porridge, and boiling two eggs is already the best breakfast.
Xu Hui drank vegetable porridge and ate homemade cakes in the space in the morning, she was really not hungry, and her family kept persuading her to eat some food, don't be hungry!
"I'm waiting to eat the cake, milk, and I'll be able to bake two in a while!" Xu Hui remembered a kind of potsticker she had seen in her previous life, which was soft and firm by grinding crushed rice into powder and mixed with some white flour.
She didn't dare to think about the rice now, even if there was some space, she didn't dare to take it out, there was only a little white noodles at home, or Xu Zhiyong bought two catties after selling fish last time, Deng Alian was not willing to use it all, she kept some, and half of it was used by Xu Hui yesterday.
Xu Hui thought about using the method of cooking potstickers to make those noodles, but she was afraid that her family would not agree, so she said that she would cook a few by herself to eat.
Deng Alian looked at her granddaughter who had lost weight obviously over the past few days and hurriedly agreed, and promised to give her a part of the noodles, so that she could beat another egg and put it in it.
"No, just put some shallots and minced salt." Add some homemade seasonings and it should taste good, at least better than mixed bread and sorghum rice.
Xu Jianlin ate half a bowl of rice and ran to the firewood shed to hold firewood: "Little sister, I will spread the cake in a while, and give it to the second brother!" β
"Okay, mother, you give the second brother ten copper plates, buy half a catty of fat pork, I promise to give you half a bowl of oil after the cake is baked, and half a bowl of oil shuttle." Afraid that Zhou Xiaomei would not agree, Xu Hui pulled her sleeve and was coquettish, despising herself for being too naΓ―ve, while Xu Hui also looked forward to growing up quickly, earning money by herself, and only with silver can she do whatever she wants.
The Xu family's money is all in Deng Alian, she can't see her granddaughter disappointed and sad, so she hurriedly went back to the house and took ten copper plates and handed them to her grandson, Xu Jianlin ran out of the yard as fast as possible, lest the copper plates be a little slower and would be asked back by her mother.
After the meat was cut, Xu Hui asked her grandmother to help her cut it into slices, separate some noodles from the big basin, sprinkle with chopped green onions, crushed salt and some crushed condiments.
Dilute it with warm water to make the noodles a sticky paste, Xu Hui tied the cuffs, tied the trouser legs, washed her hands, picked up a piece of meat with a spatula, and rubbed it around the side of the pot as fast as possible.
Before Deng Alian and Zhou Xiaomei could see what was going on, Xu Hui had already taken out the meat slices from the pot, scooped some batter with a rice spoon and poured it down along the edge of the pot, and an oval-shaped pancake was formed.
After the edge of the pot was covered with cakes, Xu Hui returned to the first place with a shovel and quickly turned the pancakes over, and they could be out of the pot after turning them again.
"You taste it, it's delicious!"
Deng Alian and Zhou Xiaomei shared a pancake, Xu Zhiyong wanted to share a pancake with his youngest son, Xu Jianlin's gluttonous cat picked up one by himself and took a bite: "Whew, it's so hot, delicious, it's as fragrant as a baked cake!" β
The taste is really good, Deng Alian also wanted to open it after tasting half of the cake, spring ploughing is so busy, the work is also tired, chewing dry cakes all day long is really inappropriate, anyway, the white flour is also mixed in it, and the eggs can't be taken out, so let's make pancakes!
"Huihui, you go and get the noodles in the big basin, our family will make such pancakes with rice this spring, but this pot of noodles can't make many pancakes! Why don't you send another pot of noodles tomorrow? β
"Milk, this kind of pancake also needs to be freshly baked to be delicious, it won't be fragrant after a long time, I'm at home every day, let's burn it again if I don't eat it, how good is that!"
In the past, whenever it was time to plant and harvest the land, the Zhou family would come to pick up Xu Hui, the Zhou family had a large population, the old lady never went to the ground, and the family would leave a daughter-in-law to help cook, they would help watch Xu Hui, and wait for the planting or harvest in the autumn Xu family to bring the child back.
Do you really want to leave the child to cook at home this year, she is too young, not only Deng Alian is reluctant, Xu Zhiyong and his family can't bear it, only Xu Jianlin hopes that the little sister will stay at home to cook, because the food she cooks is better than that of her grandmother and mother.
Under Xu Hui's persuasion, Deng Alian dispelled the idea of making noodles and then baking pancakes, which were filled with two pots of pancakes, and after cooling, Deng Alian moved the pancakes to the bamboo curtain and put them in the jar.
"Milk, if my eldest brother and I are hungry, can we go to the jar and get bread to eat?" Xu Jianlin asked.
"You can't eat cakes when you're not working, why are you throwing things around, if you forget to cover the cylinder head, these cakes will dry out, and you can't eat them anymore, so ah, if you want to eat, you must ask me and your mother, if you dare to steal it yourself, see if I don't take the sole of your shoes to whip you!" Deng Alian didn't dare to let go and let the two grandsons eat by the way, these two children were growing up, but if they ate them, they didn't wait for the family to work halfway, and these pancakes would be gone!
When the old lady turned her head to face her granddaughter, her attitude took a 180-degree turn: "If Huihui is hungry, just take it, just remember to tighten the cylinder head!" β
Milk, your difference is too obvious! Xu Jianlin once again had the idea of becoming a girl, afraid that his grandmother and mother would pick up his ears, so he had to hold back his thoughts.
Tomorrow will go to work in the field, the Xu family will put out the oil lamp early to rest, Xu Hui is also ready to be the head of the army, and is still thinking about how to change tricks to help everyone improve their food.
The first day of the Xu family ploughed the land closer to home, planted soybeans, Xu Jianwen also had a holiday, in the countryside to the farm, the students would go home on vacation to help the family work, Xu Zhiyong and his family took their two sons to the ground, the family had a total of eight acres of land, and they planted it in ten days and eight days.
After the people left the field, Xu Hui begged her grandmother to take her to pick some wild vegetables, and at noon she used mixed bread and some vegetable buns, and then made artichoke soup is better than eating multigrain cakes and sorghum rice for a meal!
Deng Alian thought about it, locked the door of her house, took her granddaughter across the avenue, and went directly into the mountain Xu Hui found a lot of shepherd's cabbage in a field that had not yet laid seeds and had not turned the ground, this is a good thing, it is very delicious to make stuffing buns, it is also good to make soup, and it also has the effect of brightening the eyes and tonifying the kidneys, which can be eaten by ordinary people, and there is no taboo.
"Huihui, you don't want to dig this and eat it!" Usually the family digs home to feed pigs and chickens and ducks, and there are very few people who eat it, Deng Alian wants to take her granddaughter to the mountains for a walk, Xu Hui has already squatted there and dug it, and she doesn't want to go anymore!