Chapter forty-four cheap meat buns
"Sanlang, bring your yellow buns quickly. I'm empty early in the morning and am waiting to eat your yellow buns." Cheng Yaojin and his group clamored for a long time, but in the end, Zhang Chao stopped and told them that they had five teams with kangs. After breakfast today, he asked the five teams with kangs to go to Chang'an City and gave them five teams with kangs.
Every family has a share, there is no need to compete for order.
This finally made these empire upstarts no longer compete.
But Cheng Yaojin didn't compete for the kang, but immediately shouted that he was hungry again and asked for yellow buns.
Li Shiji also said on the side, "Along the way, I heard Cheng Yaojin say that the yellow buns are delicious many times, so get them to compensate."
"I'll take it for you to eat it for two times." Cheng Yaojin said proudly, "I ate thirty ones in one breath last time."
"I ate thirty-one." Niu Jinda was not willing to be outdone.
What Zhangjiagou lacks the most now is yellow flour buns. Almost every household in the village is steaming steamed buns for Zhang Chao. Zhang Chao had a long agreement with each family that every time he helped steam a basket of buns, the fire and firewood they used were taken care of by each family.
Just get up early and spend some firewood and water to earn enough food without leaving home. Although it is not much, everyone is very satisfied.
Before dawn, Qi Niang took a group of women to start raising the dough that had been fermented overnight and made into buns of steamed buns, and then put them in a steamer and handed them over to each store to steam. The delivery team there also began to put the steamed buns into the insulated willow basket. Those who were far away had enough to set out first, and those who were near would finally go.
There was no wasted on the Zhang family stove, and there was also a steamer.
The Zhang family is a new stove, and you can set up three pots. In the morning, you can use the large pot to steam buns, small stoves to cook, and boil water in the back stove, without delaying it.
"Sister Zhou, bring a few baskets of freshly steamed buns."
Seeing that Zhang Chao was so polite to his servants at home, Xu Shiji was slightly surprised and smiled, "Sanlang is so polite to his servants at home, he is kind."
Zhang Chao smiled and said, "Since you have entered the Zhang family's door, you will live under the same roof from now on, and you will be a family."
Li Shiji smiled and said nothing. His family used to be rich and had thousands of servants. Not to mention that now, both father and son are the Duke of the Kingdom of Shangzhu and the General of the Right Wuhou. The court rewarded him with countless servants and servants, but now the family property and number of servants and servants are far more than that.
His family would not treat his servants like Zhang Chao. These big families have so many slaves. If there is no set of rules, it will be messed up. The rules of these families are nothing more than establishing authority. If you make a mistake, you may be whipped or even beaten to death. What you want is the effect of killing one to warn a hundred.
The steaming yellow buns were brought up.
A large willow plate filled with a plate of yellow buns, placed on the table, almost occupying the entire kang table.
"Sanlang, bring more, just a few more, not enough for me to eat alone. Why are you afraid that I will be poor?" Cheng Yaojin shouted.
Zhang Chao said hurriedly, "Uncle Cheng, don't be anxious, have some cushion first, there are other delicious foods later."
"What else can you have in the valley in the countryside? If you want to eat delicacies, I can't eat them at home? I just want to eat your yellow buns, not anything else." Cheng Yaojin shouted.
"The uncles will know later."
Zhang Chao got off the kang and tied the cloth on it.
Niu Jinda said aside, "Hey, Sanlang, you are still going to cook yourself. Don't you know that gentlemen are far away from the kitchen?"
Zhang Chao ignored them and opened the pottery bowl covered with cloth on the table beside the stove. The dough inside was fermenting, which was much expanding, but it was not twice as big as before. He checked and found that the small holes in the dough were not big enough, which means that the dough had not yet fermented.
Recover the cloth and Zhang Chao took out a piece of meat from another bowl.
When Li Shiji saw him there, he became more and more curious, "Pork?"
When Cheng Yaojin heard this, he put down the yellow steamed buns in his hand and shouted loudly, "Pork? I, Cheng, don't eat pork, it's slutty!"
Luo Shixin immediately sang a counter-topic with Cheng Yaojin, "You are a landlord, so of course you don't eat pork. When we were a poor man, we didn't eat pork twice a year. I was so happy to have pork to eat, so why don't you care whether he is sexy or not?"
"I'm sure this is not sexy, you'll know in a while."
Zhang Chao cut the pork into strips quickly, and then chopped it into meat filling. After chopping the meat filling, he brought ginger and green onion. This was what he wanted from Li Zheng’s house yesterday, and the pork was the same.
Put the cut shredded ginger and scallion into a bowl, pour boiling water, soak for a while, take out the shredded ginger and scallion, pour the ginger and scallion into the meat filling, and stir it with chopsticks while pouring it. Zhang Chao did this to remove the fishy smell of pork. At the same time, water was added to the meat filling. After steaming, the filling inside would taste tender and juicy.
After stirring well, Zhang Chao added sesame oil and salt to it.
Unfortunately, there is no oyster sauce, so light soy sauce and white sugar, otherwise it will be more flavorful.
After making the filling, Zhang Chao checked the dough again. At this time, the dough was twice as big as before, and the dough was filled with honeycomb-shaped holes, and the dough had already fermented.
Qin Qiongcheng and the five princes of Yaojin over there were already attracted by Zhang Chao's actions. They originally thought they were just steamed cakes with meat filling, but seeing that Zhang Chao had so many moves and was very good, they couldn't get through and watched while eating the buns.
"There are also good-looking people. Saburo, have you learned to cook before?"
"When I was in the mountains, my master taught me to cook, but later I cooked our meals."
Zhang Chao was talking, but his hands didn't stop.
Sprinkle a thin layer of powder on the chopping board, take out the fermented dough and place it on it, and then start kneading and pressing with both hands to fully knead and press the air inside.
After kneading the dough until the surface is smooth, put it in the pottery bowl again and cover it with wet gauze.
"What is this for?" Cheng Yaojin asked.
"Let him sit for a while, so that the surface can be relaxed and it will be easier to do it after relaxing."
After about ten minutes, Zhang Chao cut the loose dough into two parts with a knife, and then knead it into strips. Then he cut about one or two of the dosage with a knife.
Flatten the dosage and roll it into a slightly thinner dough with a rolling pin.
"It's really pretty." Cheng Yaojin said.
"Did you learn to chant scriptures in the mountains or be a cook?" Niu Jinda ate the remaining half of the steamed bun in his hand, and couldn't help but complain.
Zhang Chao is very skilled in making buns and has a very beautiful look.
"You kid really should be a cook!" Luo Shixin couldn't help but say when he saw the beautiful green beans.
The prepared green bodies cannot be steamed immediately. They must be covered with wet gauze and then left to stand on the hair. This is a very important step.
Twenty minutes later, Zhang Chao finally lifted the gauze and began to put the green body into the steamer.
Cheng Yaojin and others over there were almost impatient to wait.
"Why is it so troublesome to make a steamed cake with stuffing?"
"Don't be afraid of late for a good meal, don't scatter it in a hurry, and you can't eat hot tofu even if you are anxious." Pasta is actually more time-consuming than cooking, especially when it comes to serving noodles, which requires fermentation, and even more than once.
When making noodles with noodles, the most important thing is to master the fermentation, otherwise you will not be able to make delicious noodles at all.
The steamer had already put an appropriate amount of water in it. Zhang Chao also brushed a thin layer of oil on the steamer before putting the grown embryos in it. Cover the pot and the heat was high. After more than a moment, Zhang Chao finally smiled and said to the five dukes, "The meat is cooked."
"Meat buns? Aren't they steamed cakes with stuffing?"
"No matter whether he is a bun or a steamed cake, I have been waiting for so long. Come and take a basket over and ask my Lao Cheng to compensate me."
"Wait for a moment."
Zhang Chao waited for a few more minutes before turning on the steamer.
All five dukes stretched their necks to see what they had been waiting for the morning.
The fog rose, and after the steam dissipated, few people couldn't help but exclaimed.
"This meat bun looks good."
"Is this really something to eat?"
Zhang Chao is still very satisfied with his skills. Although this bun is not as good-looking as Su style dim sum, it is definitely a good color, fragrance and taste compared to ordinary and simple steamed cakes.
There were also buns in the Tang Dynasty, but they were generally called steamed cakes.
Li Shiji and others are all dignified princes. They have eaten all kinds of delicacies and even attended royal banquets. If Zhang Chao’s buns are made with exquisiteness, it’s nothing. But it’s surprising that you can make such a colorful, fragrant and delicious bun with just simple flour and pork.
"Reimburse."
Zhang Chao gave each person a bowl of cooked soy milk.
The buns are paired with soy milk, but they are very good. With the fried dough sticks he just fried, it is a real classic breakfast combination.
Luo Shixin first picked up a bun and took it down with one bite. It was tender and juicy, soft and delicious.
There is neither the sour taste of noodles nor the taste of pork, but only the unspeakable deliciousness.
Luo Shixin has eaten pork and knows that pork is indeed not delicious, otherwise he would not be considered a cheap meat by wealthy people. But now he tastes it completely different.
One, two, three.
After eating a big meat bun for three bites, the corners of his mouth were so oily that he immediately picked up another one and continued to eat it.
Cheng Yaojin looked at him with suspicious eyes. A small meat bun is so delicious, but it is actually very unpalatable. He deliberately pretended to be delicious just to wait for himself to be fooled?
Qin Qiong reached out and took a bun. At first, he slowly took a bite, but soon, he started to eat in big mouthfuls.
Niu Jinda couldn't help picking up one.
"Wow, it's very beautiful, delicious!" Niu Jinda still had meat stuffed in her mouth, and she kept praising her.
"It's really that delicious?"
Cheng Yaojin was still half-believing and half-doubting.
He was still hesitating, but Li Shiji had already stretched out his hand.
Li Shiji quickly joined the queue of eating meat buns in silence. Cheng Yaojin couldn't sit still and finally stretched out his hand.
Zhang Chao felt very beautiful when he saw the five princes eating the cheap meat buns so delicious. Even the princess thought it was delicious, which means that his pork buns were successful.
"You guys pay for soy milk and fried dough sticks!" Zhang Chao recommended with a smile.
"Hey, this soy milk is good."
“Wow, the fried dough sticks are even better, fragrant and crisp.”
Chapter completed!