Chapter 26 Lye Water and Steamed Buns

After saying goodbye to Karen, Chen Xiao strolled down the street, and when he passed the grocery store, he smelled the smell of bread coming out of the oven. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He saw the grocery store lady taking out a large stack of brown bread and selling it on the shelves.

However, the brown bread does not look very good, it tastes dry and hard, and the taste is even worse, if it is not for the filling of the stomach and the price is cheap, it is strange that someone can buy this thing.

He bought two pieces of brown bread and nibbled on them as he walked. "It's so unpalatable. He muttered, remembering the buns and bread he had eaten before. Thinking about it, he felt that the black bread in his mouth was getting worse and worse.

He turned back, asked the grocery store proprietor about her brown bread practices, and then bought some wheat flour, eggs, and salt.

He went back to his big house, called Alan and Wendy, and took the lead in cleaning up the kitchen.

"Master, are you hungry?" Alan opened his big bright eyes and looked at Chen Xiao with a flutter. They were busy for a long time, and they also felt hungry.

Chen Xiao smiled, took out a black bread, and said, "What do you think of this kind of black bread?"

"It's not tasty, but it's full and cheap. Wendy said that she had eaten too much of this brown bread and now she didn't want to eat it.

"This brown bread is rye flour that is directly kneaded into dough and baked, which is naturally not delicious. Chen Xiao smiled mysteriously, "Now I'll teach you how to make a delicious bread." ”

In the village of Rodri, triticale is cultivated a lot, as it is a staple food because of its high nutrients and abundant yields. In his world, triticale was a rare variety, with high nutritional value and high nourishment, which was incomparable to ordinary wheat, and people rated it very highly.

No wonder the people here are strong and well-developed, and they have grown up at a young age. Chen Xiao looked at Alan and Wendy, who had beautiful faces, and couldn't help but sigh.

"What's so good about bread. I want to eat meat~" Alan pursed his lips, not expecting Chen Xiao's bread. Now they also have money, and they can eat meat every day until they vomit. Thinking of this, Alan felt his mouth water.

"I promise it's the best bread you've ever eaten. ”

As he spoke, Chen Xiao began to instruct them to knead the dough and beat the eggs.

He's a big man, but he can't go to the kitchen, to put it bluntly, he's just a lazy man who can say that he can't do it.

In the meantime, he asked for a pile of wood ashes from Sap. The guy's calciner has been burning firewood and charcoal, and the wood ash in it is very rich in potassium carbonate, and when combined with rainwater, it can be used to make trona water.

After Chen Xiao filtered out the alkaline water, he dipped some of it with his fingertips and tasted it, and couldn't help nodding secretly. In this world, people still don't know what baking soda and baking powder are, and few people know what lye water is used for.

Due to the limited conditions, Chen Xiao only has homemade alkaline water. This alkaline water has a bitter and sweet taste, which is very different from commercially manufactured alkaline water.

When Allen saw Chen Xiao licking the water boiled with wood ashes, he immediately fell into a bunker.

"Master, what are you doing here? This water cannot be drunk. "There was some wood ash floating on the water, which was yellowish. It looks so disgusting.

Chen Xiao smiled: "This is a good thing. He scooped out a little bit and added it to the dough and said, "Knead the dough and let it sit for a while." Let's steam the buns again. ”

"Buns, don't you mean bread?" Alan looked confused, "What is this bun?"

"Well, buns are buns, and they're better than bread. That's because the oven isn't ready yet, and we'll make bread when Calus is ready. Chen Xiao said stubbornly.

After more than half an hour, the dough had been finished, so Chen Xiao instructed Alan and Wendy to grab the dough out of small dough one by one, and then add sliced meat and some shredded fresh mushrooms to the dough, and then wrap it.

After all the ingredients were ready, Chen Xiao began to steam the buns. This is the first time he has commanded someone else to make steamed buns, so he is naturally looking forward to it.

What's even more strange is that he uses rye flour to make buns, and I don't know if it will be successful or how it tastes.

The steaming time of the steamed buns was about 20-25 minutes, and when he was bored, Chen Xiao took out his pocket watch and studied it. The chronograph of this pocket watch has long since stopped, and only the compass in the corner moves.

Chen Xiao found that the workmanship of the pocket watch was very fine, and the shell could not see any gaps and screw caps at all, and it was as round as a whole. The metal shell has many scratches, as if telling the vicissitudes of life it has experienced.

He looked at the hour hand of the pocket watch and became fascinated......

"Let me out...... Let me out......" Ruo Ruwu's voice echoed in Chen Xiao's heart, he suddenly came to his senses, and looked around, there was only Alan and Wendy in the kitchen, and there was no one else.

Could it be that the voice just now was an illusion? Chen Xiao shook his head, and suddenly yawned, feeling very tired. He hasn't rested well these days, so it's no wonder he's not tired.

"Master, are the buns ready?" Allen walked over and hugged Chen Xiao's arm, shaking and shaking, the chest that was beginning to take shape pressed against Chen Xiao's arm, and there was a strange ecstasy.

Chen Xiao's face flushed, as a dead house squatting at home, he had never been in love, he had never had this kind of experience.

"Don't call me master anymore. It made my bones soft. Chen Xiao looked happy.

Allen's face flushed, and he quickly let go of his arm, and said with a grin: "What is that called the master?" She is at the age of the rainy season in the flower season, and her love is beginning to bloom, plus Chen Xiao's appearance is not bad, she is young and golden, although she is not handsome and chic, but she also has good facial features and a dignified appearance.

If he can get Chen Xiao's favor and become Chen Xiao's woman, it will also be a good choice for Allen.

Wendy also had the same idea, and now seeing Alan so active, she was naturally not far behind, showing a cute and cute smile, and said, "Master, don't you like us to call you master?"

Chen Xiao secretly shouted in his heart: "It's too late." These two goblins ......"

"Sir...... Call me sir. Chen Xiao pretended to be majestic and straightened up, as far as his thin body was concerned, it was difficult to say that his strength was comparable to that of Allen.

"Yes, sir. Alan and Wendy smiled strangely and bowed. This sentence made Chen Xiao feel excited, and his feathers and bumps all stood up.

"It feels good. That's it. Chen Xiao smiled, "You go and take out the buns." "As a master, you naturally have to be commanding, otherwise you will let yourself do everything, wouldn't you lose your identity.

He paid for it.

After the bun was taken out, it was steaming, and a fragrance entered the nose, and Alan and Wendy couldn't help but sigh: "It's so fragrant." The aroma of the banana of the triticale and the meaty aroma of the bun made the three people present move their index fingers.

"Taste it. Chen Xiao picked up the bun and broke it open and tasted it slowly. Alan and Wendy couldn't care about the heat, and they were already taking a bite of it, and they were addicted to it.

"The buns are fluffy and melt in the mouth, and the meat and shiitake mushrooms inside are tender and juicy, and they are really delicious. Wendy was holding the bun in her mouth and found it delicious until she cried.

"Master, you're amazing. Will also make such buns. Alan slapped his ass and snorted and ate another one. These fist-sized buns, she can't eat ten of them.

"Of course. So it was decided. When the shop is built, we will sell steamed buns. Chen Xiao bit down on the soft and delicious bun. This rye bun is really good.

"Sir, I have to eat ten of these buns every day. I am willing to eat until I vomit. Alan exclaimed excitedly.

Wendy's slender eyes, with a shrewd glintle, had imagined that when the bun was launched, it would take the entire village of Rodri by storm.

"Who of you knows where there is saline-alkali land?" Chen Xiao asked suddenly. The production of lye in steamed buns is a big problem. If you boil water with wood ash to make alkali every time, it will be too troublesome, and there are too many impurities, which will affect the taste.

"Saline?" the two looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Then where did your salt come from?" Chen Xiao asked unwillingly.

Alan suddenly realized: "This place is close to the sea, and the salt is produced from the salt pans by the sea. Chen Xiao couldn't help patting his head, but he forgot about it.

The source of alkaline water is solved. Then as long as the store is built, his buns will be able to go on the market.