Liu Wan sprinkled a pinch of kumquat sugar on top of the brown sugar rice milk, and the golden kumquat candy shone like stars in the night sky.

Cover the steamer and steam on high heat for 15 minutes.

After 15 minutes, Liu Wan took out the hot steamer, at this time the sugar cake was still soft, and it would solidify into lumps when it cooled.

Then Liu Wan began to make bowl cakes again.

Bowl cake is a delicacy made by steaming fermented sweet rice milk in a special small bowl, and is named because it is bowl-shaped when it comes out of the pot.

The bowl cake does not have the meaty aroma of steamed buns, nor the crispiness of fried dough sticks, but only the simple appearance and honest "smile", as well as the fragrance of rice and the sweetness of the silk.

Bowl cake is a kind of food often prepared for worship, and it is also a must-have cake during the New Year, which occupies a deep place in the hearts of the locals, no wonder Wang loves to eat bowl cakes.

Liu Wan used boiling water to dissolve the sugar, cooled it, poured it into the sticky rice flour, and stirred well.

The stirred rice milk can be lifted with chopsticks to form a line and fall down.

Add yeast powder, stir well, cover with plastic wrap and ferment at room temperature for about three hours.

After fermented rice milk, a lot of small bubbles can be clearly seen on the surface, add baking powder, stir evenly, and pack it in a special small bowl prepared, about five or six minutes full, cover the lid, and the second hair for about half an hour, at this time the rice milk expands to seven points full.

At this time, put it on high heat and steam.

The secret is to never lift the lid for the first 15 minutes! The lid can be pressed down to make the air pressure greater and more impulsive.

After 15 minutes, you can quickly open the lid and cover it again to let the steam run away, and put the lid aside to avoid letting the water vapor drip onto the bowl cake.

At this time, quickly open the lid and you can remove from the pot.

Liu Wan's steamed bowl cakes bloomed one by one, exuding a sweet and sour smell, success!

While waiting for the rice milk to ferment in the bowl cake, Liu Wan began to make Qingming kueh and radish kueh.

The crust of radish kueh and Qingming kueh is the same, both are made of rice milk and motherwort, and they are blue-green.

The difference is that the filling of radish kueh and Qingming kueh is different, the filling of radish kueh is shredded radish, and the filling of Qingming kueh is more casual.

Radish kueh has a special cake print, when wrapping the filling, first put the radish kueh powder skin on the cake print, the cake mark is engraved with the texture of blessing, longevity and so on, the crust of the radish kueh will be branded with the texture of blessing and longevity, which is also one of the necessities of worship.

Liu Wan consulted the children for their opinions and knew that they wanted to eat these two kinds of kueh the most, so she made them.

These jobs require everyone's cooperation, some people chop the stuffing, some people cut the shredded radish, and chop the meat.

The hot water on the big pot stove was constantly steaming, and the whole family chatted while doing things, and the atmosphere was very good.

Busy until about three o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Wan finally made Qingming kueh, radish kueh, bowl cake, brown sugar cake, etc.

After finishing the matter, Liu Wan picked up some of these pastries, put them in a single-layer lacquer basket, and sent them to Wang Laohan personally.

As soon as Wang Laohan saw Liu Wan, he hurriedly greeted him and said:

"The third family, are you here, have you eaten?"

Liu Wan said that she had just eaten it: "Dad, this is the cake and kueh we steamed today, how about you try it?" ”

Wang Laohan nodded slightly and said, "You have a heart." ”

Before, Wang Laohan was worried that his son would die, and Liu Wan would run back to her parents' house regardless of it and throw a mess away, but she didn't expect Liu Wan to carry it without saying a word, which made him look down on Liu Wan, the daughter-in-law.

Liu Wan saw that the eldest and second family were not there, so she took the opportunity to say:

"Dad, I have something to discuss with you."

"You say."

Wang Laohan knocked on the dry tobacco stick in his hand and knocked out the smoke foam inside, and Liu Wan noticed this detail.

Every time she came, Wang Laohan knew that she didn't like the smell of smoke, so even if she was smoking, she would pinch out the cigarette, which made Liu Wan feel very useful.

From this detail, it shows that Wang Laohan is quite literate.

Liu Wan smiled and said:

"Dad, Jing'er is getting older, I want to kiss him."

"Oh, do you have a crush on anyone's girl?" Wang Laohan said, "When the child is older, it's time to say goodbye." ”

"I look good at the orchid girl of Xie Tietou's family, she is honest and capable."

Liu Wan said, it must not be said that Wang Jing and Orchid have a private relationship, and spreading it will damage Orchid's reputation.

Wang Laohan immediately expressed his support.

The daughter-in-law has the ability to marry her grandson, and Wang Laohan is too late to be happy, how can he object?

In this way, it can be regarded as Liu Wan's respect for her elders, and she and Wang Laohan chatted a few words before leaving.

When she got home, Liu Wan didn't stop immediately, and also picked up some cakes and cakes and went to Xie Tietou's house.

Last time she caught a tiger, Xie Tietou helped her family a lot, and now Liu Wan treats their family as friends, and she often sends delicious food to their house.

"Aunt Liu, you're here, come into the house and sit,"

Xie Lanhua was feeding the chickens at the door of her house, and when she saw Liu Wan, she hurriedly took the initiative to greet her.

Somehow, Xie Lanhua's face was slightly red.

Liu Wan looked at her very satisfied.

Every time Liu Wan comes over, Xie Lanhua is helping the family do things, going up the mountain to farm, doing everything, what a good girl.

Liu Wan inevitably looked at Xie Lanhua with her mother-in-law's eyes and a sense of substitution.

"Well, today we steamed some cakes and kueh and sent them to you to taste." Liu Wan said.

"Thank you, Aunt Liu." Xie Lanhua hurriedly took the lacquer basket and took it to the house to change into a pot.

When Xie Lanhua saw Liu Wan, her expression was very shy.

Seeing that Liu Wan had brought these delicacies, Zhao quickly took a packet of mushrooms, stuffed them in her hand, and said:

"Aunt Liu, this is the matsutake mushroom I dug in the mountains last time, it's dried, it's not much, boil the bone broth and put it, it's sweet."

"Then thank you, alas, I have to be busy with the New Year in the past two days, and I don't have time to break bamboo shoots." Liu Wan said with a little pity, "It's old if you don't break bamboo shoots." ”

If you don't break the bamboo shoots now, you will have to wait for the next year.

And most importantly, Liu Wan didn't want to waste the free food that could be collected and stored.

"Are you free in a moment? Why don't we break it down again? Zhao's heart moved, and when Liu Wan said it, he was also moved to think about it.

"Okay, then I'll go home and get the bamboo basket." Liu Wan said.

"What's back, I have the bamboo basket and the shovel." Zhao said, "It's a lot of time to come and go." ”

Liu Wan was made an appointment by the Zhao family, and she really went up the mountain to break bamboo shoots immediately.

Fortunately, they didn't go far, and after an hour and half a basket, the two of them went down the mountain.

When she got home, Liu Wan was still in time to make dinner.

Today's dinner is very simple, Liu Wan fried a braised pig scalp, a braised large intestine, and fried a fried wheat cabbage.

Because there is a lot of meat, Liu Wan took out the sour and hot cabbage pickled last time, cut it into thin strips, and stir-fried it in an oil pan to relieve greasyness, which is quite popular with everyone.

Seeing the hot and sour cabbage, Liu Wan remembered a dish that everyone liked: sauerkraut fish.

She told Wang Xiao to go to the market tomorrow to buy a few big live fish and come back, at least seven or eight catties, she wanted to make sauerkraut fish.