Baozi Xishi's Struggle

Chapter 432: La 8, Deep-fried sweet sugar twisted flowers

Shen Yu was also very happy to hear this. If he could really encourage people to eat more pork through his own efforts, it would not be a bad thing.

After dinner, Shen Yu took paper and pen to the kitchen and drew a few flower-shaped cutting knives.

There are not only five-petal peach blossoms, but also peonies with delicate lace edges and round leaves.

There are also some very childlike cartoon outlines, including some fat little chickens, ducklings, and fish.

Although the ladies have married and become mothers, they have all been little girls. Who can not love these interesting looks?

The flower-shaped cutter is used to cut soft and sticky food. After customization, it can not only cut jelly, but also can be used to cut steamed rice cakes, flower cakes, and cut fruits into shapes.

It can be used all year round without any waste.

Because it is used to cut soft food, the material requirements are not high. It does not need to be carefully forged repeatedly with good steel like a kitchen knife.

All you need to do is use a thin sheet of forged iron, bend it into the shape drawn by Shen Yu, weld the joints, and grind the cut at one end to make it sharper, and you're done.

The shuangxiang hotpot that Li customized last time went very smoothly.

Chai, the blacksmith in the blacksmith shop, was smart and dexterous. He took out the draft drawn by Shen Yu and showed it to him. After he explained it to him, he immediately understood how to do it.

The double-sided pots are welded very well and polished smoothly.

After it was done, I filled one side with water and it didn't leak at all. The price was also very reasonable.

Li was very satisfied when she went to get it, and when she came back she asked Shen Yu to hang up the menu for the shabu-shabu hotpot.

Unexpectedly, this shabu-shabu hotpot, a dish that serves two dishes in one pot, is the most popular. Some people would rather wait than order a soup base with only one flavor because the previous customers are using it.

Because of this, Li quickly ordered two more double-flavored hotpots, which he could pick up the next day.

Li looked at the drawing drawn by Shen Yu, and then took it and said, "We'll ask that blacksmith Chai to do it this time. He can do it quickly and well. Maybe we can get it in a day or two."

"This knife will come in handy during Laba Festival."

Shen Yu didn't understand what Li meant, and asked in confusion: "Mom, this skin jelly is just sold to the ladies around, and it can only be made when the weather is cold."

"Why are you in such a hurry? You have to finish it before Laba Festival."

Only then did Li remember that she had been busy these past two days and had forgotten to tell Shen Yu about the preparations for Laba Festival.

She said hurriedly: "Well, look at my memory."

"I forgot to tell you that in Anping County, neighbors not only give each other Laba porridge during Laba Festival, but ladies also give each other fried noodles, fruits and platters of side dishes."

"When we were in the countryside, there weren't so many rules. Giving each other a bowl of porridge was considered a festival, so you don't know these things."

Li paused and continued, "As your Aunt Jiang said, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Now that we have bought a property and opened a shop here, we should prepare for the New Year's holidays."

"Don't let it be bad if someone sends us something and we don't have any gifts prepared in return."

"I have asked Mrs. Liu's mother-in-law in detail about how to prepare for Laba Festival in Anping County. She prepares it this way every year. We just need to follow her and it will be OK."

Shen Yu deeply agreed with this. These days, because of selling firewood, Shen Yu had more dealings with the ladies in the neighborhood and he knew the importance of maintaining good relations with neighbors.

She quickly asked in detail what kind of fruits and side dishes would be needed, and discussed the dishes with Li and the others before packing up her paper and pen and going back to her room to rest.

In the blink of an eye, it was the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, and I received the customized flower-shaped cutting knife.

Although the road in front of the restaurant is under repair and it is difficult for large vehicles to enter and exit, many shops have simply not opened in the past few days.

But it does not prevent customers from coming to the restaurant to buy food and taste hotpot, but the number of customers is 20% less than usual.

Li and her friends had some free time now, and the store didn't need Shen Yu to do any work at all.

Li told her that she only needed to prepare the fried noodles, fruits and side dishes for tomorrow's use.

She had already prepared the ingredients for the Eight Treasure Porridge, and put it in the pot before going to bed at night, simmering it on low heat overnight, so that it would be ready to give away tomorrow.

Eight-treasure porridge and assorted side dishes only need to be given to neighbors, but more fried noodles and fruits are needed.

Not only do neighbors give gifts to each other, but also the shop owners and employees who often come to eat nearby, as well as the customers who come to the restaurant to eat that day, have to give some fried dough fruits as a token of gratitude.

Although each person only needs to give a small package, the total amount is quite a lot.

After Shen Yu had breakfast, he began to prepare fried dough sticks.

Youmianguozi is actually a kind of sweet pasta that is fried in oil. It can be made with leavened dough or hot dough.

The dough made from leavened dough is softer and sweeter, while the dough made from boiled dough is crispier.

According to what Grandma Liu said, the fried dough fruits here are all made of hot dough, and they also have a lovely name, called sugar-twisted flowers.

For Shen Yu, who has made many flower-shaped cakes, this is a quick snack that he can make with his eyes closed.

Divide the flour you need into two portions, one large and one small.

For the larger portion, blanch the dough with boiling water and knead it into dough.

For the smaller portion, crack a few eggs into it, stir evenly, then add an appropriate amount of cold water to make a slightly yellow dough.

When the hot dough is no longer hot, mix the two doughs together, knead them until smooth, and set them aside to relax slightly.

The fried dough sticks with eggs added taste sweeter.

Taking advantage of this gap, Shen Yu and Yutao lit the small stove, set up the oil pan, poured half a pot of oil and heated it.

When the dough is ready and the oil temperature is just right, Yutao will be responsible for frying it.

Divide the kneaded dough into three equal portions, add a bowl of fine powdered sugar to one of the portions and knead it evenly. This will become the sugar center of the oil-flour fruit.

According to Shen Yu's taste, it is impossible to add so much sugar, but Li said: "The Laba Festival is to be sweet. If the fruit is not sweet, how can it be called sugar twisted flowers."

Although Shen Yu didn't like sweet food, he had to do as the Romans did.

Although I thought it was too sweet, I still made up my mind and added the full bowl of powdered sugar prepared by Li.

Divide the three portions of dough into half each and roll them into thick sheets of the same size and thickness.

Then put the dough with sugar in the middle, stack the three layers together, smooth it out with your hands, and press it lightly with a rolling pin.

Then use a knife to cut it into slightly longer mahjong tile-sized small cubes, and cut another cut in the middle.

Pinch one end, twist it out from the middle cut and flip it into a twist shape, and a sweet fried noodle dough is ready.

After twisting more than a dozen, the oil temperature in the stove next to it also rose.