While Zhuang Cui was helping, he frowned while looking at the large pieces of Guanyin soil.
Both her parents died. When she fled with others, she was starved of food along the way. In order to fill her stomach, she ate almost anything.
Guanyin soil is naturally no exception.
In order to deceive the eyes and stomach, the Guanyin soil was ground into powder, mixed with water to form a thick mud, and then the mud was made into a pancake-like shape, and was dried by the fire or placed on the Dry it under the sun, and when you eat it, you will feel as if you are eating cakes instead of clods of earth.
After eating this pancake, I no longer feel hungry. Even the next time I am hungry, I will take the initiative to eat this clay pancake in order to calm my stomach for a while.
On the road to escape, you will always be hungry.
Therefore, many times, she even looked forward to eating Guanyin soil pancakes for her next meal, so that she would not be so hungry that she would scratch her heart and liver and feel extremely uncomfortable.
This is a memory full of pain, so painful that even after Zhuang Cui and Xia Mingyue completely settled down in life, she would still have nightmares.
In the dream, she was hungry and saw many delicious foods. When she came to them happily and wanted to have a full meal, those extremely delicious foods immediately turned into mud cakes made of Guanyin soil... …
So when Zhuang Cui saw the lumps of Guanyin soil again, the sadness in his eyes almost turned into water droplets, gushing out from his eye sockets.
After a long time, he took a long breath and suppressed all the emotions that had surged up.
The collection of Guanyin soil was almost complete, so Xia Mingyue and Zhuang Cui walked back together.
After a large bamboo basket of Guanyin soil was placed in the yard, Xia Mingyue found a plane usually used for grazing silk, and ground the lumps of Guanyin soil into fine powder little by little, and then used a rolling pin to roll the Guanyin soil into fine powder. Pass it through the sieve once and twice.
The Guanyin soil treated in this way becomes as fine as flour, which can be placed in a pot and heated slowly until the Guanyin soil becomes hot and bubbling as the temperature increases.
While the Guanyin soil is being heated, Xia Mingyue mixes the dough with eggs, salt, pepper leaves, black sesame seeds, etc., kneads it into a long dough, and cuts it into half-inch thick dices.
Place the diced noodles into the bubbling Guanyin soil, stir-fry slowly with a shovel, and stir thoroughly with the shovel every time so that the diced noodles in the Guanyin soil are evenly heated.
This continues until all the small noodles become hard and brittle, and they will make a "pop" sound when touched. Then you can use a picket to fish out all the small noodles and control the Guanyin soil on them. Put it in a basket to dry for a while.
At this time, the small noodles can already be called small steamed buns, but because the skin is covered with Guanyin soil, it has become a bit gray, and its own color cannot be distinguished.
But this did not prevent the small steamed buns from exuding a subtle fragrance that penetrated the nostrils of everyone present.
"This thing smells so good." Fan Jinglan sniffed, but looking at the things in the basket that were more like small clods than small buns, she frowned and looked at Xia Mingyue, "This Is the food really edible? ”
"You'll know if you try it?" Xia Mingyue pursed her lips and smiled, then took one and handed it to Fan Jinglan.
Fan Jinglan took it, looked at the thing in her hand for a moment, and stuffed it into her mouth as if she had made great determination.
If this thing were placed anywhere else, she would definitely not eat it, but now Xia Mingyue lets her have a taste...
Then try it first. Even if she can't eat it, she admits it!
Fan Jinglan originally had this determination, but after she mustered up the courage to take a bite of the small steamed bun in her mouth, she suddenly said "Eh".
The crispy texture, full caramel aroma, and slightly salty taste make the buns taste less bland and more fragrant. After chewing them for a few bites, I swallowed the buns and felt that they were full. It still has that unique and mellow taste.
This seemingly shabby thing is actually so delicious?
Fan Jinglan was a little unsure, so she simply picked one up and ate it.
The fragrant taste in her mouth rose again, and it successfully aroused the greed in her stomach, making her unable to stop eating this "little clod".
“It’s delicious!”
Fan Jinglan suddenly felt that the door to a new world had opened, and she stuffed several more into her mouth. Instead of picking them up one by one, she started to grab a handful, and slowly enjoyed the delicious food.
Others who were originally hesitant about the steamed buns fried with Guanyin soil, saw Fan Jinglan eating so happily, so they all took some and gave it a tentative taste.
After tasting one, they all unanimously praised the steamed buns as really delicious, and then everyone transformed into "Fan Jinglan" and started grabbing handfuls.
Even Yin Lingyou couldn't help but nodded, "This steamed bun tastes good, and if you have stomachaches like this, eating some in moderation can relieve some of the pain."
"Not bad." Yin Lingyou confirmed again.
Zhuang Cui, who was most resistant to Guanyin's fried steamed buns, finally couldn't resist the temptation after seeing everyone eating it so deliciously, so she only picked one to eat.
The fragrant and rich taste spread quickly in his mouth, making Zhuang Cui couldn't help but squint his eyes.
I really didn’t expect that the steamed buns fried with Guanyin soil would have a really special taste!
Zhuang Cui sighed in her heart, and Mrs. Lu next to her also sighed, "When I was a child, I also ate this Guanyin soil. Now that my life is getting better, I didn't expect to eat this Guanyin soil again, and I thought it was fried. The steamed buns are so delicious..."
"Who can I talk to to explain this?"
"There is no need to make any excuses. In the past, you could not get anything else from eating Guanyin soil. If you eat this soil alone, it will be tasteless. Of course, life will be difficult. Seeing this Guanyin soil is like a nightmare."
In the central kitchen, Chen, who is about the same age as Lu, said, "Nowadays, I just use the Guanyin soil to fry steamed buns and eat them. The main meal is the steamed buns. Of course it is different."
"Yes." Mrs. Guo nodded, "What's more, these steamed buns are filled with white flour, eggs, and black sesame seeds, so they are different."
"It's like when I had nothing to eat before, I could only hunt rabbits and catch crabs to eat. The more I ate, the hungrier I became and the colder I got. But now, if I can eat pot-stewed rabbits and some steamed crabs, then It becomes a taste of something new..."
Yes, times have changed, things are different, and they cannot be the same.
Everyone nodded in agreement, and then sighed. (End of chapter)