Before preparing the ingredients for fresh meat mooncakes, Li Yi first took a bag of yeast powder and a pound of all-purpose flour, planning to make some old noodles first.

When making Chinese pastry, it is often necessary to make dough.

In ancient times, there was no modern convenient yeast powder, so you could only use old noodles.

Seeing that Li Yi mixed the flour into a viscous dough as thin as batter little by little, and ate two meat buns, Wu Lei, who was still a little unsatisfied, stepped forward and asked curiously: "Do you still want to cook white Ji buns?" ”

"No, I'm doing the old face."

Li Yi casually explained while making a face.

"Old face primer?"

Wu Lei didn't understand: "What kind of thing is that?" ”

"Don't you know the old noodles? It's just an old face. ”

Zhao Jinmai had seen the old noodles, so he explained to him by analogy: "When making steamed buns, or flower rolls, it is used as yeast powder."

My grandmother had a pimple, which was given to her by her mother as a dowry, and then she lost it, and she raised another piece, which I saw when I was a child.

Later, when it became convenient to buy yeast powder, she used up the old noodles.

She regretted it, saying that yeast powder couldn't make the taste of old noodles at all. ”

"Old noodles as a dowry? Can you still raise? ”

Wu Lei was puzzled when he heard this: "Are you talking about noodles or pets?" ”

"You can be a pet bred with noodles."

Li Yi added water to the dough and explained while stirring: "Old noodles are the natural yeast used by the older generation to make noodles.

When the ancients were making the dough, they would leave a small ball of fermented noodles and put it in as a starter when making the dough next time.

Wait until the second dough is ready, set aside another ball, and continue to save it for the next time.

This dough that can be recycled is old noodles.

When the domestic food industry had not yet developed, old noodles were still very common, and now they are relatively rare.

However, there are still people who are taking care of the elderly, and some people keep it as a pet.

They mainly raised the yeast inside, fed them with flour and water, and gave them names. ”

"Huh?"

Wu Lei was shocked: "It's really a big world, there are no surprises, and there are still people who keep bacteria as pets?" ”

"Why not?"

Li Yi said with a smile: "The old noodles don't need to be walked, they don't need to shovel feces, they just need to add some noodles and water regularly."

The bred old noodles can also be used to make noodles and eat, which has a lot of benefits, right? ”

"It's fun to listen to."

Zhao Jinmai listened with interest.

Li Yi said generously: "When it's ready, I'll give you a little bit and take it to play." ”

"Good!"

Zhao Jinmai was very happy: "When I raise it, I will give it to my grandmother and surprise her." ”

Wu Lei stretched out his hands, made a gesture of holding something, and made an excited expression: "Grandma! Your dowry is back! ”

"You owe a beating, don't you?"

Zhao Jinmai was very annoyed and chased after him directly.

"I was wrong, I was wrong."

Wu Lei ran while apologizing, but was finally caught by Zhao Jinmai and beaten a few times.

Returning to Li Yi, Zhao Jinmai looked at the sticky dough in the basin and asked curiously, "Brother Yi, how did you say the first dough of old noodles was made?" In ancient times, there was no yeast powder. ”

"In ancient times, there was no yeast powder, but there were yeasts!"

Li Yi smiled: "Yeast is natural, not synthetic.

In nature, there are many natural yeasts, which are mainly attached to the fruits of fruits, grains, and flowers and leaves of some plants.

The fruit species extracted from the fruit are also called fruit fungi.

The grain is extracted from the grain.

There are also sake varieties that are fermented with koji, and yogurt varieties that are stored with lactic acid bacteria in yogurt.

The taste is different depending on the type.

Therefore, the earliest old noodles were made with grains and noodles with yeast attached. ”

"There are so many types of yeast?"

Zhao Jinmai was very surprised.

"It's not easy for the ancients."

Huang Xiaoming is also sighing: "I feel that many fermented foods are only found to be edible after the ancients tasted them." ”

"yes!"

Li Yi picked up the reconciled noodles, observed the degree of thinning, and then made a joke: "Otherwise, how can we have so many probiotics in our bodies?" ”

As he spoke, he wrapped the basin in plastic wrap and set it aside.

The warm, moist environment helps the yeast grow, and by tomorrow, the old dough will be ready to ferment.

After putting the old noodles away, Li Yi officially started to prepare the raw materials for [Fresh Meat Mooncakes].

【Fresh meat mooncakes】 belongs to Suzhou-style pastries.

Soviet-style pastries generally have two most commonly used ingredients, one is called dry puff pastry and the other is called water and oil noodles.

The skin of the [fresh meat mooncake] is a puff pastry made with dry puff pastry.

The puff pastry of the pastry naturally uses lard.

I had just made Bai Ji Bao, and I had already used up the remaining lard, so Li Yi had to boil some lard again.

He had prepared the raw materials for boiling lard.

When he killed the pig before, he kept all the lard in the pig's stomach just to boil the lard.

When he first returned to the restaurant, Li Yi had already taken out all the lard in the refrigerator.

He went to the storage room to check it, and the lard that had been frozen hard had thawed.

took out all the lard, Li Yi set up a pot, and then cut the lard.

Ten pigs have a lot of plate oil, Li Yi asked Wu Lei, Huang Xiaoming, and Zhao Jinmai to wash their hands and come over to cut the plate oil together.

Liu Yifei is responsible for peeling onions and scraping ginger skin.

Looking at the thick plate oil, Wu Lei's liver was trembling.

"Oh my God!"

He couldn't help but sigh: "With so much fat, if it grows on people, what will it become?" ”

Seeing this, Li Yi smiled and scared him: "There is a lot of oil in the meat bun you just ate." ”

“……”

Wu Lei suddenly froze, wanting to cry without tears: "You said it earlier!" I ate both! ”

"You're going to eat it yourself."

Li Yi shrugged.

"I ......"

Wu Lei had nothing to say, so he could only mumble with a sad face: "It's over, I have two more hours of practice tonight." ”

"Indulge in meals! It's okay. ”

Li Yi smiled and comforted him.

"Yes."

Wu Lei had confidence: "I don't eat like this every day, indulge it today, and I will eat less tomorrow." ”

When Zhao Jinmai heard this, he smiled and quipped: "You can really comfort yourself!" ”

Laughing and laughing, everyone was busy together, and after a while, the oil was cut into small pieces.

Li Yi added half a pot of water to the cauldron he had just taken out, and poured all the diced oil into it.

After adding the plate oil, the pan is full.

As the water temperature rises, the water in the pot gradually becomes turbid, and a layer of foam floats on the surface.

These are the blood stains and impurities in the plate oil.

Holding a frying spoon, Li Yi kept beating out the foam and adding some liquor to remove the smell.

When the foam was almost beaten, Li Yi used a large colander to take out all the diced oil and put it in a basin of warm water.

Everyone got to work together again and cleaned the diced oil.

Next, it's time to boil the lard.

1

(End of chapter)