Chapter 129: Cat Ears
Is it done? Or don't do it? After breakfast, Chun Tao sat in the stove room staring at the flour in a daze.
Lamei came in to add hot water, and saw Chun Tao sitting on a small stool. He tiptoed up behind her, slapped her left shoulder hard, and jumped to her right. "Why?"
"Surprise me!" Chun Tao looked to the left and saw that there was no one, and heard the voice on the right quickly turned. Covering his chest and rubbing it again, he was kicked by Zhao Yang yesterday and is still hurting.
"What are you thinking?"
"I'm wondering if I should do it, if I can't do it, if I can't sell it, what should I do?"
"If you really don't know what to do, why don't you try it first, and we can try it ourselves. It's better than you're here in a daze! ”
"Also, I shouldn't do something like wasting time in a daze." Chun Tao frowned slightly.
Lamei has already filled the water, "Then I'll go in, call me if you need help." Also, don't frown. ”
"Hmm!" Lamei left the stove, but Chun Tao got up and started to act. Whether you do it or not, it's definitely wrong to sit still.
Chun Tao already had an idea in her heart, she wanted to make cat ears, twist flowers and Jiang rice noodles, all made of flour and fried, which are most suitable for winter, and they are not easy to spoil.
Twist was done by a volunteer in an orphanage when I was a child, and I was not impressed. I have made cat ears and Jiangmi noodles and spring peaches by myself, but now I don't have glutinous rice flour and maltose in my hands, so I can only make cat ears first.
Chun Tao didn't buy much flour, and he didn't dare to use it more, so he filled a small bowl and divided it into two portions.
Add eggs, salt, sugar, water and a little oil, and the dough will rise for a stick of incense. The other flour was added in the same way, except that the water was replaced with brown sugar water, which stained the dough with color.
After the dough has risen, roll it out thinly, after rolling out the white dough is placed underneath, the red dough is stacked on top of it, brush a little water in the middle to prevent them from parting, and then roll it up again.
The spring peach rolls are very slow, and try hard to make the dough firm, otherwise it will fall apart when it is fried, and it will not look good. After rolling it, Chun Tao put it in a basin and took it outside the house to freeze it naturally, about half an hour.
But it must be successful! Otherwise, the flour will be wasted. Chun Tao looked at the rolled dough and was a little worried.
After finishing the things in the stove room, Chun Tao has nothing to do. She can't do this kind of thing like sewing and embroidery, and she doesn't want to do it, so she plans to accompany her family to read and write.
Chun Tao took the hot water and opened Zhou Kuiruo's door. "What do you think?"
"It's okay, although I don't have much time, but I don't have anything to do now, my mind is on books, and I don't feel that there is little time."
"I brought you hot water, the tea I made for you in the morning should have been cold!"
"While it's still hot, I've finished drinking. Have you started making pastries? ”
"How do you know?" Chun Tao was pouring hot water into the teapot, looking up in surprise at Zhou Kuiruo and forgetting that he was still pouring water.
Zhou Kuiruo noticed it, and when the water was about to overflow, he raised Chun Tao's wrist in time. "Be careful when you do things, and beware of hurting yourself."
"Oh!" Chun Tao put down the pot in his hand.
"Your cuffs are all flour, how could I not know?"
Chun Tao looked down at her cuffs, and before she had time to do it herself, Zhou Kuiruo had already patted it gently. "How's my mother doing?"
"I look good during the day, but I don't know how to sleep at night."
Zhou Kuiruo finished patting the flour, raised his head, and stared at Chun Tao. "You have blue hair right now, and you haven't slept well at night?"
"You're not much better." Chun Tao ignored Zhou Kuiruo's concern, what is the use of caring, but it can't solve the problem, and it can't make her feel good.
"You're in the same mood, but you're more tired than me, and I can't help you with anything."
"Actually, no. Sometimes I feel... I feel that with you, there is at least someone to rely on. ”
"That's true." Zhou Kuiruo was overjoyed, covering his mouth for a while, patting his head for a while, and laughing nonstop.
"You... Are you okay! Seeing Zhou Kuiruo's almost crazy behavior, Chun Tao's face couldn't help twitching, and the calmness on his face was about to be unmaintainable.
"Hehe~ No... It's okay, I'm just happy, it turns out that I am someone you can rely on. I always thought... Always thought I was just a tool for you to escape from that home. ”
Chun Tao chuckled and once again struck Zhou Kuiruo's heart. "At first it was, and now it's not."
Seeing Zhou Kuiruo take a few steps forward, Chun Tao stood up from the chair with a "pong~" and hid behind it. "Don't come here, stand."
Chun Tao's chest still hurts now, she doesn't want to be strangled by Zhou Kuiruo again, so as not to suffocate internal injuries.
Zhou Kuiruo could only give up, and smiled at Chun Tao and sat back in his place, but he read the book for a while, and he was about to stare at Chun Tao.
"I'm gone, stay here, you can't read in peace."
"I'm fine, you didn't bother me." Chun Tao pretended to be deaf, took away the kettle, closed the door, locked it, and did it in one go, making Zhou Kuiruo itch his teeth.
"Why did I agree to let you lock me in the first place?" Zhou Kuiruo flicked his sleeves, turned around and went back to read.
Chun Tao went to Aunt Zhou's room again, chatted with the two, helped thread the needle, and estimated that the time was almost up, so Chun Tao called Lamei to go to the stove room together.
"You can help me make a fire! The fire should not be too big, nor too small. ”
Lamei took the firewood and looked embarrassed, "This is not too big, not too small, how to get it?" ”
"This..."Chun Tao has only been burning for more than half a year, and she won't be able to master the fire." As long as it's not too big. ”
"Good!" Lamei began to burn the fire, and Chun Tao took the frozen dough in and began to cut it into thin slices.
At first, I only lost a few spring peaches, and slowly tried the oil temperature. "How? Should the fire be bigger or smaller? ”
"Let's smoke some more firewood!" Chun Tao looked at the fried finished product, it was overfried, and no matter how high the oil temperature was, the rest would be finished.
Spring peaches waited for the oil to cool for a while before starting again, this time the heat was just right, the finished product was crispy and golden, but it was still not as delicious as the modern ones sold outside.
After all the fried, Chun Tao let Lamei increase the fire again and re-fried it with a large fire. "What do you think?"
"It's delicious, crunchy, and it's quite time-saving to eat in winter, similar to melon seeds. But isn't the taste lighter, not sweet! ”
"I'm going to make salty, I'm going to get the powder." The pretzel powder that Chun Tao made before was hidden in a small jar, because there was still a layer of oiled paper wrapped on the outside, so even if the jar was broken, it was still preserved.
Chun Tao sprinkled the salt and pepper powder. "Try it again."
"Hmm~ It's much better to eat it now than just now, not only has the feeling of peppercorns, but also the fragrance of sesame seeds, salty and sweet are mixed together, just right."
"That's good, I'm still worried!"
"You can do it now! It turns out that you can. ”
This is what I have done before, I have watched the twist once, and I am not impressed, but I can't say this. Chun Tao stared at the cat's ears and began to wander again.
"Chun Tao, what are you thinking again?" Lamei gave her a nudge before she came to her senses.
"No, did you just ask me something?"
"I'm asking you what's your name?"
"Cat ears."
"Cat ears? Is it because it's kind of like a cat's ears? It's a strange name of yours. ”
This is the name I chose, and it was given by your ancestors. "It's time to eat, let's cook!"
"Hmmm! Then you put your things away, and I'll go to the cellar to get vegetables. ”