Chapter 113: Testing the Waters
I saw that the dough in Yu Shu's hand was getting thinner and thinner and faster, it looked very good-looking, crystal clear, Yu Shu pinched a piece of dough and looked at it and nodded with satisfaction.
After the dough is ready, Yu Shu chops the meat into minced meat, adds minced ginger and shallots, and then puts cooking wine and other ingredients to make a filling recipe directly.
"Sister-in-law, I'll show you it now, you can help me make it like that, this skin is very thin and you have to be careful." Yu Shu said, picked up the dough and put it in the palm of her hand, gently took a little meat filling, put it on the skin, kneaded it into a beautiful little pleat, and twisted it on the top, it became the shape of xiaolongbao that can be seen everywhere in modern times.
Sister-in-law Liu nodded, making steamed buns was a craft that every woman would know in the countryside in ancient times.
Two people together, one quickly rolled the dough and one bag, the two of them cooperated, and soon made a few small steamed buns, looking at such small buns, Sister-in-law Liu suspected:
"Yu Shu, your bun is too small, who plays with such a small bun to eat?" Sister-in-law Liu thought that people were sitting on big meat buns at first, but she didn't expect people to be so small, which was really surprising.
Yu Shu smiled and said that this is xiaolongbao, such a basket of steamed buns is enough for several people to eat, and the taste is very good, no one will like it, and Sister-in-law Liu didn't say anything more when she saw this.
Because there was no matching steamer lid, Yu Shu had to ask Pei Qingrin to go to the town to find a blacksmith to make a matching iron lid, and a small opening was made in the middle, leaving a handle at the top, so that it could be covered tightly.
Put it on the newly bought stove and steam the buns layer by layer, it takes seven or eight minutes, and a drawer of steamers is steamed on the stove, and you can eat it soon.
In about seven or eight minutes, Yu Shu took out the bottom cage, and the rest continued to steam, which was the taste of the people present.
"Hmm... The skin is rough, the meat is thick, and the juice is delicious! I still want it! "Sister-in-law Liu tasted it first, which was really good, and she applauded again and again, but there were not many people who paid for one, and she was a little unsatisfied.
The Liu family and Pei Qingrin also ate it one after another, knowing that Yu Shu's steamed buns were also better than ordinary people's, but they didn't expect this little bun to be more unique and delicious.
The practice of this kind of small bun is also fresh, and the man can almost eat it one by one, so if it is delicious, you can buy it again, so it seems that it can also promote consumption, and it seems to be good.
"Yu Shu, how are you going to sell this bun?" Pei Qinglin asked, thinking that it was impossible for Yu Shu's small buns to be sold one by one, after all, it was too small for buyers to cost-effective.
Sure enough, Yu Shu said that a cage of xiaolongbao for 20 yuan was not only sold, but after paying for the xiaolongbao, Yu Shu began to knead flour again to make vegetarian buns, meat buns and steamed buns.
The rest of the things are women's hands, Pei Qinglin and Liu Sheng glanced at each other and left the stove room, leaving the two women busy, and slowly as night fell, Pei Qinglin had already lit the oil lamp inside and outside the house.
When the woman in the stove room made the steamed buns, she called out, and the man outside the house came in and took a basket of steamed buns on the stove outside. In addition to steaming the steamed buns, Yu Shu also asked them to cut a lot of palm-length thin bamboo skewers, which are used to eat xiaolongbao.
Yu Shu used the pot to put the shredded fungus into the pot, stir-fried for a while, and the spices were stir-fried, and the fragrant ones were put into the basin for later use, and it was still Yu Shu who taught how to make buns, and she was responsible for kneading the dough, and Liu's sister-in-law was responsible for making buns.
When it was late at night, Yu Shu didn't want Sister-in-law Liu and them to stay up late for herself, so she went out and asked Pei Qinglin to clean up the guest room for them to sleep in, so that they could continue to help tomorrow.
"Sister-in-law, it's not early now, just sleep on our side, I have asked Pei Qingrin to clean up the guest room, you can sleep at ease." Yu Shu said.
Sister-in-law Liu thought that the children in the family were relieved to have their mother-in-law to look at, so she agreed to stay, and Yu Shu asked the two of them to find a wash and prepare to sleep.
Rushing to make steamed buns today, Yu Shu was actually very tired, but thinking that he would have money to make tomorrow, he had all the strength, Yu Shu waited for the Liu family to take a bath before going to take a bath and sleep.
When I stole back, I saw that the light in Xiaobao's study was still on, and it was strange to say that neither Pei Qingrin nor himself had ever asked Xiaobao to study so seriously, this child seemed to be born diligent, and he would consciously study until midnight every day.
"Xiaobao, rest early late at night, you read so late every day, be careful that you don't have enough energy." Yu Shu knocked on Xiaobao's door distressedly and said.
Xiaobao nodded and said yes and packed up the books and went into the house to sleep, Yu Shu went back to her room and lay down on her own bed to sleep, and the sleepy Yu Shu soon fell asleep.
At the beginning of Yin, that is, at about three o'clock in the morning, Yu Shu was woken up by Pei Qingrin, saying that it was time to get up and prepare to go to the town to go to the stall.
"It's not dawn yet, why don't I be so sleepy so early!" Yu Shu felt that she was about to get up before she could sleep, and she heard that Pei Qinglin had to walk half an hour from Stone Village to the town, and now it was a little late to set off, and if she went to the town later, I was afraid that there would be no way to get out of the stall.
Yu Shu reluctantly woke up squinting and dressed, and asked Xu Shi to come into the house to comb his hair, and finally cleaned up his body, Yu Shu still felt so sleepy, looking at the three energetic ancient people, Yu Shu deeply doubted that the structure of these ancient people was different? Why only I look so sleepy?
Yu Shu got into the carriage and was amnesty to squint, so Yu Shu went back to sleep directly, and when she arrived in the town, she was faint and not yet bright, Yu Shu followed Pei Qingrin to find a random place to set up a stall at the gate of the town with her eyes half-open.
"Fragrant and delicious xiaolongbao, free to taste, free to taste without money, welcome to taste!" Yu Shu is going to try it today, after all, xiaolongbao is a new thing for the ancients, so it is necessary to use a free tasting method to attract customers.
Yu Shu took out a basket of steamed buns, and took out the small bamboo sticks prepared in advance for people to try, the small steamed buns are novel and taste good, and sure enough, they quickly attracted people's attention, and many people flocked to it for a while, although it was twenty wen a cage, but many people still bought it.
"Boss, how do you sell meat buns and vegetarian buns here?" Yu Shu quietly hung the written signboard on the edge of the table, so that everyone knew what they were selling!
Slowly the sun rose, Yu Shu's steamed buns were laid not far from the door, and all the people who entered and left the town were attracted by the shouting here, whether it was the novel xiaolongbao, the sweet and delicious vegetarian buns, or the big meat buns with rough skin and thick meat, or even steamed buns, all of which were snapped up by everyone.