Fertile land

This time Luo Zhi'er had a peaceful sleep at night.

In her dream, she dreamed of a woman in red, with an iron horse and a golden sword, going into battle to kill the enemy, and she was invincible.
He also dreamed of Li Sanmao, and he said: "Daughter-in-law, I miss you! I miss you so much, I miss you so much."

When I woke up in the morning, my arm was very sore. Maybe Miaomiao was not honest when sleeping at night and her body was resting on her arm.

Two days later, Luo Zhi'er prepared all the goods that needed to be delivered.

During this period, they took some time to chop the firewood they carried back last time, chopped it into a pile, and piled it near the bread kiln.

I went to a nearby field to pick up some useless straw and made a simple straw mat.

After I had some free time, I went to the mountain where there was no household head, found two thick pine trees, cut them down, and dragged them back!
Fortunately, she is very strong and it doesn’t take much effort!

Find a pen and paper and draw.

Designing the style, measuring the dimensions, all kinds of knocking took a long time.
According to the idea in his mind, he went to Carpenter Li's house to borrow some tools, picked up an ax and started working.

She made a long table, similar to the rectangular ones beside the bread kiln when Russians bake bread.

Because it is purely natural, it has a rather pastoral style.

She knew in her heart that masonry would be more durable, but it would be nice to have this long, rustic wooden table!

Her idea was to expand the garden when it was ready, and when the bread was baked, she would take it out of the bread kiln and put it here.

After cutting it, she and Miaomiao sat here to eat and drink some juice, tea, etc. It was quite comfortable.

"Mom, will grandma say anything when she comes back?"

Of course I would say, just scold her for destroying the garden and you will enjoy it!
"Just say it, let's live a good life now!"

Anyway, I can’t control that much now, and I don’t know how long it will take for Zhou to come back!
When people are in trouble, don't think too far about the future. Just encourage yourself to live well today!
They were not worthy of occupying her current mood.

After the garden was expanded, it became quite pastoral. Sitting there, my mood suddenly became brighter!
She also used the leftover wood to make two long wooden benches!
She plans to plant some flowers here when she has free time, wrap them around the fence, and use rice and grass trunks to make an awning.
That's it for now, let's keep it simple for now!
With that done, it was time to use her bread kiln the next day.

Find out the cornmeal and flour you bought in town that day and think about it.

She knows that making bread requires low-gluten flour, all-purpose flour, and high-gluten flour.

Low-gluten flour is used to make cakes, sponge cakes, tart crusts, and biscuits.

All-purpose flour is the flour we often eat, used to make dumplings, noodles, steamed buns, and steamed buns!
High-gluten flour is used to make bread and toast, which are relatively soft and easy to puff up.

Therefore, the bread she makes today must be made with high-gluten flour.

The problem is that she only has regular flour here, which is all-purpose flour.

How to turn all-purpose flour into high-gluten flour?

That is to enhance its protein content.

In fact, this protein content comes from the rice bowl flour.

So the first thing she made was rice bowl flour.

It sounds confusing, but it's actually very simple. Grain bowl flour is a fine powder made by drying gluten.

Of course she knows how to cleanse gluten.

Why does she know about this gluten powder? Or is she a foodie in modern times? She has developed baked bread and egg tarts at home more than once.

OK, first find the flour, add water, knead it into a ball, and let it rest.

This dough is used to wash gluten.

When she woke up, she started to light the fire in the bread kiln, put in pine needles and chopped wood pieces for firewood.

Miaomiao was very happy when she saw the bread kiln being used. She rolled up her sleeves and kept helping her.

The two women turned up the fire in the bread kiln, and the dough was almost awake. They added water to the wooden basin and started washing the dough.

She kept kneading the dough, and soon there was a basin of white water in the wooden basin. The dough in her hand also became a mesh, which was gluten. This is what the baked gluten that everyone eats in modern times is made of!After washing, tear the gluten into small pieces and place them on the iron plate.

Li Sanmao happened to be hunting in her family, and she bought an iron plate to hold the meat pieces when she was chopping meat. She found it and washed it, just in time to bake bread.

This time when I go to town, I must go to the blacksmith shop to order a baking pan!
Let’s deal with it like this today.
Place the shredded gluten on the bread kiln, close the door, and start baking.

Now it’s time to start making the corn flour bread.

Find corn flour, pour it with boiling water, add yeast, beat in wild eggs and stir, pour in ordinary flour, stir into floc, and knead into dough.

Place in a sunny place to ferment until doubled in size.

While the cornmeal dough is fermenting, the dry gluten crumbs are baked.

Run to the corner and grind the soybeans into fine powder with a hand grinder.

This is gluten.

Add the gluten powder to the ordinary flour according to the estimated proportion, stir evenly, and the high-gluten flour is ready.

Start adding, stirring, kneading, kneading into dough, and rising.
After fermenting the high-gluten flour in a wooden basin, she found the red beans she bought from Aunt Zhao yesterday and made red bean paste last night.

She used it to make bread pits.

Place the bean paste filling on a cutting board, sprinkle it with a little flour, and cut it into sections.

Miaomiao helped her roll it into small balls.

After the operation was completed, the corn flour dough was also fermented, and the dough fermented into a tub full, with the edges overflowing.

Roll up your sleeves and start kneading, deflate the air, knead until smooth and fine, knead into long strips, cut into small balls of the same size with a knife, and wrap the red bean paste in the same way as a bun.
Flatten and flatten with a rolling pin.

"Yes, roll the bottom up like this."

Brush with honey and egg yolk.
Next time I will buy some sesame seeds and sprinkle them on it, it will be even better.
Miaomiao was also learning to do it according to Luo Zhi'er's method, and her nose was covered with flour.

cute tight!

Make the shape, put it in the oven, and start baking
The two of them worked until the afternoon, when the first pot of baked bread was baked, and the smell of bread was fragrant.

There are long strips, arc-shaped ones with exposed bean paste, and those with bean paste filling, and toasted bread.
Miaomiao couldn't put down the bean paste bread made from cornmeal, it was very crispy when she took a bite!
It's sweet and delicious inside, and I want to take another bite after taking one bite. It's the first time I've eaten something like this, and I just can't stop.

The two put the second pot into the kiln, added some wood, and then sat down to eat bread and mix two cups of honey with water.

Lunch was also settled in the afternoon.

She told Miaomiao, "Next time, mom will make you baked egg tarts!"

"Thank you mother!"

After all the baking, it was already dark. Miaomiao fell asleep while lying on the table. She covered Miaomiao with her coat and cleaned up the dirty things on the table.

Miaomiao was still sleeping. He was afraid that she would catch a cold, so he took her back to the house and put her on the bed to sleep.

She plans to deliver the goods tomorrow and go to the market to sell the baked bread.

After cleaning up, I saw the gluten washing water in the basin on the floor. Of course I didn't waste it, so I steamed it.

After Miao Miao woke up, she made hot dough and the two of them had it for dinner.

Paired with her own fried chili oil, don't forget to eat more than you can eat.

After dinner, she packed a rectangular piece of toast, two pieces of corn bean paste bread, and a round bean paste bread.

I also put some cut dough in it, prepared the soup for cold noodles, and gave it to Aunt Zhao to let her have a taste.

Saying goodbye to Aunt Zhao, she didn't rest when she came back. She moved the mule to the river, fed it with water, and let it pull some grass by the river to eat before going back. When she went back, she added some grass to the pen, and then she and Miaomiao go to bed.

(End of this chapter)