peasant young lady

Chapter 186 Tofu Skin Buns

After the incident, Yang Dalang hugged Cheng Xia tightly from behind, let her lie quietly in his arms, and kissed her back with infinite love, Cheng Xia couldn't help trembling again, dazed Shrinking his neck, the whisper that came out was full of charm, "No more."

Yang Dalang almost gave up his helmet and armor again, but finally suppressed it with his own thoughts, "Okay, I won't come, promise me, give me a child, okay?"

Cheng Xia didn't want to scold people, because she had no energy or strength, so she could only mutter in her heart, can she decide the damn thing, Ming Dynasty didn't have contraceptive pills, and she didn't have condoms, so she just resigned herself to fate.

However, it is not true that there was no contraceptive pill in ancient times.According to Cheng Xia's knowledge, there are several types.

For example, putting musk on a woman's navel was called "belly paste" in ancient times. The famous sisters Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede in the Western Han Dynasty used this method to avoid conceiving the heir of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty.Sticking musk on the navel can end the woman's conception function, and after a long time, she will no longer be able to conceive;

Another example is the secret recipe of saffron contraception handed down from the palace according to folk records, that is to say, the juice of saffron is used to wash the woman's body and completely kill the offspring of the man who is still in a liquid state, thereby achieving the effect of contraception;

There is also a small amount of mercury, arsenic, or strychnine to prevent pregnancy. Although taking large doses can cause death, small doses can prevent pregnancy;
As for the folk recipe of soaking persimmon stalks in rice wine, Cheng Xia had heard it before and treated it as a joke.Although she is still young now, she doesn't want to torment herself to do such outrageous things. She used to watch TV dramas, and what she hated the most was taking a bowl of black concoction to abort a baby. This kind of unconscionable thing, Cheng Xia I feel that I did Zheyangju.

She had better let nature take its course. Children are angels, gifts from heaven, and they are born as soon as they are born.

After figuring it out, Cheng Xia fell asleep in an instant, and Yang Dalang struggled with her failure to respond all night, but seeing her sleeping deeply, he couldn't bear to disturb her, so he could only hold her tighter as punishment. .

When he woke up the next day, he was woken up by Eucommia outside the door. This guy knocked, kicked, and yelled again. The irritable Cheng Xia just wanted to catch him and throw him to the foot of the mountain to feed the dogs.

As if deliberately grinding Du Zhong's temper, Cheng Xia asked Yang Dalang to get up slowly, wash his face slowly, and slowly tidy up everything before opening the door. Knock on the door once, panting twice from time to time, "Are you going to open the door? If you don't open the door, I'm going to break in."

As soon as the door opened, Du Zhong immediately jumped up and hugged Yang Dalang and cried, "The heartless man has left me alone all morning."

"Go away!" Yang Dalang pushed him unceremoniously, and swept away the part touched by Du Zhong with disgust, "What are you doing here so early in the morning?"

"Early morning?" Du Zhong looked at Yang Dalang with a smile on his face, and pointed to the high sun in the sky, "Brother, it's already half noon, you two just woke up, the battle last night was fierce enough."

"It's not serious." Cheng Xia managed to get a good night's sleep yesterday, so he naturally hoped that she would sleep a little longer.

Cheng Xia listened to the two people's gags at the door, and knew it was getting late, so she went to the kitchen to look at the soybeans Yang Dalang soaked last night. Can't think of what to use for tofu.

"What's wrong?" Yang Dalang entered the door, seeing Cheng Xia sitting on a chair in a daze, he couldn't help asking.

"I wonder how these beans can be turned into soy milk."

"It's simple," Du Zhong raised his eyebrows at Cheng Xia proudly, "I remember that there is a stone mill in the yard next to Yang's house, and beans can be crushed with that."

Cheng Xia suddenly became happy, that's right, there is no soymilk machine with a millstone, the wisdom of the ancestors.Cheng Xia patted Du Zhong on the shoulder appreciatively, "In order to praise you, I'll give you a delicious meal later." After Cheng Xia finished speaking, he went out with a large pot of soybeans. Next to the Yang family, could it be Aunt Li's house?She lived for so long and didn't notice that Aunt Li's house still had a millstone.After thinking about it, Cheng Xia took some rice noodles from the kitchen, and then went down the mountain.

Cheng Xia went all the way to Yang's house, first gave Lin Xiu a small bag of rice, and then went to Aunt Li's house with a small bag of noodles.

When Aunt Li heard that Cheng Xia wanted to use a millstone, she specially brought noodles. Naturally, she couldn't be happier, and she personally cleaned the millstone that had not been used for a long time, so that it was convenient for Cheng Xia to use.

Lin Xiu followed Cheng Xia all the way, and watched her add water to the beans and put them in the millstone to push and grind them, while asking curiously, "Sister-in-law, what are you going to do?"

"Make tofu skin and tofu," Cheng Xia wiped the sweat from his forehead, and continued to push the millstone, "You can bring your mother and Xiaolong to the mountain for dinner at noon. Let's go together together."

"Okay," Lin Xiu agreed very happily, "My little girl has been missing for the past few days, and my mother is not happy. I feel better after eating some hot pot at my sister-in-law's house last time. I will tell my mother later."

Cheng Xia smiled and nodded, "By the way, I remember there are some yams in the back of the house, get me some and take them there, I'll make something delicious for Xiaolong." I did, but I didn’t pay much attention to it. I just remembered today and made Xiaolong a pineapple sauce and yam puree. Children must like this dessert.

After quickly finishing a bucket of soybean milk dregs, Cheng Xia thanked Aunt Li, and then told Lin Xiu, "Come over early, I won't come to call you."

"Sister-in-law, don't worry," Lin Xiu agreed very readily.

After returning home, Cheng Xia rubbed his sore shoulders, the bucket of soybean milk dregs was really heavy enough.

Asking Yang Dalang to bring the cage cloth, Cheng Xia filtered the foamy soy milk dregs little by little, leaving only the milky white soy milk juice, and poured out all the bean dregs.

Eucommia volunteered to make a fire to prepare the soy milk, pour the soy milk into the pot and heat it up to remove the bubbles on the surface. At this time, a thin layer of skin will form on the surface of the soy milk in the pot, which is the so-called bean skin. And it's oily.Pick up the bean curd from the middle with a long bamboo stick, carefully take it out to dry in the sun for a while, and wait until it is dry before using it.

If you want to store it for a longer time, you can pack the dried bean curd in a bag and store it in a dry and ventilated place. You can just take as much as you want in the future.

Cheng Xia made several sheets of bean curds in a row, reckoning they would be enough, so he put some brine into the remaining soy milk in the pot. The reaction will naturally form tofu.

Cheng Xia didn’t have brine. I wanted to prepare it last night, but Yang Dalang destroyed it. Fortunately, Aunt Li’s house had it. She knew she was going to make tofu, so she gave her a small bowl, which was enough.

The soy milk in the pot has started to solidify into tofu flowers. At this time, scoop all the tofu flowers into the tofu box that Yang Dalang made temporarily, cover it with gauze, and then press something heavy on it to shape it.

The tofu made by myself from soybeans, fried in a pan, will not break or fall apart. It is chewy and has a strong bean fragrance. Cheng Xia tasted it, and it is much more delicious than the modern ones.

After making the bean curd and bean curd, Cheng Xia looked at the door suspiciously, and told Lin Xiu and Mrs. Chen to come earlier, why haven't they arrived yet?

Maybe it's still early, Cheng Xia muttered in his heart, and began to prepare the fillings for the tofu skin buns.

In fact, tofu skin buns are buns made of tofu skin. The stuffing inside can be the stuffing that is usually used to make buns, but for better taste, Cheng Xia specially chose chopped enoki mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and minced pork and shrimp. A little fungus and green vegetables, and then mixed with oil, salt, ginger, onion and garlic to make delicious fillings, then make the tofu skin into the size of a bun, wrap the stuffing in the middle, and finally tie the mouth with slender green vegetable sticks, such a Tofu skin buns are ready.

Du Zhong looked around curiously, "Sister-in-law, I haven't seen a steamed stuffed bun made from tofu skin yet."

That is, Cheng Xia hummed amusedly, she still learned it from watching "Dream of Red Mansions".This tofu skin bun was a tribute in the Qing Dynasty, and it was recorded in the imperial cuisine archives of the Qing Palace. They enjoyed something that only the emperors of the Qing Dynasty could eat.

Making more than twenty at a time, Cheng Xia thought about sending a few to the Cheng family after a while, so that Mrs. Zhang, Dahua and the younger brother could try it too.

While waiting for the tofu skin buns to be steamed, Cheng Xia made mapo tofu according to the simplest method. When the tofu was done, the tofu skin buns were also steamed.Cheng Xiasheng wanted to send eight of them to the Cheng family herself. After all, she couldn't just let Mrs. Zhang eat them. If grandma Gu's and Cheng Shang didn't have them, the buns wouldn't be able to get into Mrs. Zhang's mouth, so she just gave one to each of them. Jingzhong also counted, although she hated that kid very much.

Lin Xiu and Mrs. Chen haven't come yet, Cheng Xia is a little anxious, after all, Lin Xiu promised well, if nothing happens, it's impossible not to come now.

After thinking about it, Cheng Xia felt uneasy, so she handed the plate containing eight steamed buns to Yang Dalang, "Help me deliver it to Cheng's house, I'll go back to Yang's house."

Yang Dalang nodded without saying anything.Cheng Xia took off her apron and went down the mountain with Yang Dalang. One went east and the other went west. When they arrived at Yang's house, everything was quiet. Things in the yard were scattered all over the place. Cheng Xia frowned instantly. , she ran directly into the house, there was no one there, and the house was in a mess.

Cheng Xia yelled a few times, but there was no response. On the contrary, Aunt Li, the neighbor, opened the door carefully, poked her head and looked out, and seeing that it was Cheng Xia, she hurriedly opened the door and came out through the fence and said anxiously, "Dalang Daughter-in-law, Erlang's family was taken away, and they said they wanted to use her to pay off Erlang's gambling debts."

(End of this chapter)