Tian Tian scooped up some red bean paste with a small spoon, blew it cool and fed it to An An.
An An obviously didn't like the taste. After eating it, she turned up her mouth and didn't want to eat anymore.
Seeing that she didn't like it, Tian Tian took a bite with a spoon and put it into her mouth. The red bean paste just out of the pot was very hot. Fortunately, Tian Tian's spoonful of red bean paste didn't have too much.
Tian Tian waited for a while for the red bean paste to cool down before swallowing it. The red bean paste she made at home had no sugar in it and had no taste at all, but it had a very strong aroma of red bean paste and a very dense texture. She could even taste the red bean particles inside. Tian Tian quite liked the taste.
"Put more sugar in it, so that you don't have to dip the sticky rice dumplings in sugar when you eat them." Tian Tian handed the bowl to Gu Zhao and said.
Gu Zhao also took a bite and asked, "Is it delicious?"
Tian Tian nodded. "It's delicious! But it's a little too sweet."
Gu Zhao nodded to show that he understood. "I haven't added sugar yet. I'll add more later. I just don't know if there is enough sugar at home?"
If you want to make the bean paste sweet, you need to add a lot of sugar, even several times more than the bean paste itself. Even now, white sugar is still an expensive thing. It is strictly controlled in the market and cannot be easily obtained on the black market.
White sugar still needs to be purchased with coupons, and Tian Tian doesn’t have that much white sugar at home.
"I just don't know if it's okay to add honey into it?" Tian Tian muttered.
"The taste will change. The taste of honey is very obvious and you can taste it at once. But after it's done, you can dip it in honey." Gu Zhao took the used bowl and went back to the kitchen.
Now we are particularly afraid that the bean paste will become sticky, so we have to stir it constantly so that it won’t stick to the bottom of the pot.
Gu Zhao searched for more than an hour, and only then was most of the moisture in the bean paste boiled out, and he could roll it into a small ball with his hands.
This is when it is done. After it is done, Gu Zhao makes a little bean paste and gives it to Tian Tian to taste. After Tian Tian finishes eating it, she smacks her lips and says, "It's not sweet enough."
"We don't have that much sugar at home. I poured all the sugar in, but it's still not sweet enough." Gu Zhao said.
"If it doesn't work, I'll buy some sugar tomorrow and add it in. Then I'll steam it the same way I do now."
Tian Tian shook her head. "No, we'll pack it up tomorrow, and we don't have any candy coupons anymore."
They have used up all their sugar coupons for this month. If they want to buy sugar, they can only wait until their units give them sugar coupons next month.
After hearing this, Gu Zhao didn't say anything. He went to the kitchen to clean up all the used things, and then came over to play with An An.
After spending less than half an hour with her, they cleaned An An, fed her some water, brushed her little teeth, and then coaxed An An to sleep.
After watching An An fall asleep, Tian Tian and the others enjoyed their own world for a while and then returned to their room.
They go to bed very early now. For example, in the rural areas where electric lights have not yet been installed, people usually go to bed when it gets dark. After all, whether it is candles or kerosene lamps, they are an extra expense. If electric lights are installed, they will be even more reluctant to use them.
Tian Tian and her friends would not wait too late to go to bed, and usually went to bed on time around eight o'clock.
The next day, Gu Zhao got off work and went home. After handing An An to Tian Tian, he started kneading dough to make sticky rice dumplings. They made two kinds of dough in total, one was glutinous rice flour, which they called glutinous rice flour, and the other was rhubarb rice flour, which looked yellow.
These two types of bread are generally used to make sticky rice dumplings.
Because the red beans they bought yesterday didn't produce much red bean paste, Gu Zhao didn't knead too much dough. After they both kneaded a small bowl of dough, Tian Tian gave An An a small dough and let An An play with it by herself while she and Gu Zhao started making sticky bean buns.
Tian Tian is very skilled at making sticky bean buns. She makes a ball of dough and flattens it in her hand. Then she pinches a small ball of bean paste and puts it into the dough. She wraps up the bean paste little by little, and finally makes a cone shape and puts it on the table, putting the white one on one side and the yellow one on the other. When they are done, they will be steamed together in the pot.
Gu Zhao had never made sticky rice dumplings before. His family had never had any of them despite his age, but his aunt would send them some. However, Gu Zhao was not only talented in cooking, he was also very talented in wrapping things.
He was quite unfamiliar with it at the first few times, but after watching Tian Tian wrap it once, he quickly mastered the technique. From then on, the dumplings he wrapped were very beautiful and neat, and the fillings were not exposed.
Tian Tian looked at her with great envy and jealousy.
The two small bowls of dough were wrapped in a short while, and there was still a small ball of red bean paste filling left. Tian Tian cut it into two halves and stuffed them into Gu Zhao and her own mouths.
The sticky rice dumplings were already being steamed and would be done very quickly.
The originally light yellow sticky rice dumplings also turned golden. Gu Zhao controlled the amount of water very well, so the steamed sticky rice dumplings did not collapse, but still maintained a firm posture.
Tian Tian couldn't wait to pick one up and put it in the bowl, drizzled a little honey on it, blew it cool and took a bite. The soft and sticky glutinous rice skin, the dense bean paste inside, and the sweet honey on the outer layer, these three are simply a perfect combination.
"Take it out and eat it first." Gu Zhao smiled when he saw Tian Tian like this, "I'm going to fry some pickled vegetables and then eat it with the sticky bean curd."
They can't just eat sticky bean buns at night, they still need some other side dishes.
Tian Tian nodded and went out with the bowl. While biting on the sticky bean bun, he looked at An An who was playing on the floor.
Now, An An no longer asks for food when she sees Tian Tian eating something. She has tried to ask Tian Tian for food before, but Tian Tian would not indulge her.
She felt that instead of hiding from An An all the time so that she could eat, it would be better to tell An An clearly from the beginning that I would not give you anything that you cannot eat now.
After a long time, An An got used to it. Whenever she saw Tian Tian eating something, she would open her mouth and take a bite. If Tian Tian didn't give her any, she would not eat it. This also saved Tian Tian a lot of trouble.
An An was still lying on the floor, playing with the dough she had made before. Now the dough had turned very dark. An An was still kneading the dough, looking like she couldn't let it go. But An An's little mouth was constantly opening and closing. She was a little hungry.
Tian Tian finished eating the bean bun and went to make milk for An An. There is no saying that milk must be made at 40 degrees, and there is no way to accurately see how hot the water is, so Tian Tian can only test the water temperature with her hand, and slightly warm is suitable.
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