While Yun Yiyi was exploring the mountains, Zhang was also busy at home at the foot of the mountain.
She felt that the children were too tired from going up the mountain recently. She wondered if she could make something delicious to nourish them.
Steamed buns, dumplings, vegetable boxes, pancakes. Which one should I make?
Let’s not make pancakes for now, the kids have already eaten them for several meals.
Steamed buns are also possible, but the dough must be fermented by now. Otherwise, it will be too late. Zhang was a little undecided.
Suddenly, Zhang remembered that she hadn't eaten dumplings in a long time. It just so happened that you didn't need to leaven the dough to make dumplings. You just had to mix the dough and let it rise for a while.
Moreover, after mixing the dumpling filling, wrapping the dumplings and cooking them, no strong smell will be emitted.
However, the Yun family has big appetites. If Zhang were to make dumplings by herself, it would probably take her an entire afternoon.
After all, a little bit is not enough to make enough dumplings for the whole family.
There was another problem: what kind of filling to use for the dumplings. Zhang was a little worried.
She came to the mule carriage and suddenly smelled the scent of wild leeks. Yes, how could she have forgotten about wild leeks.
Last time, Yun Yiyi and her friends had cut a lot of wild leeks in the mountains. After she finished packing the boxes, there were still quite a few left.
Because she had already given the leeks to the villagers before, she did not give the remaining leeks away.
Because everyone in her family ate leeks, she saved the remaining leeks.
I usually add a little bit of it when I cook. Although, some of the chives are bad. Fortunately, they are in the woods, where the temperature is much lower than outside.
In addition, the temperature in the morning and evening has been low recently, so the wild leeks have been preserved.
At this time, Zhang was particularly grateful for her habit of saving things. Now, she used leeks to make dumplings.
Zhang took the chives down and started picking them.
Xie Zirui saw this and came over to help pick the chives.
He has been trained now and can pick the leeks very cleanly.
"Zi Rui, let's have dumplings tonight. Let's have the ones stuffed with chives. Do you want some?"
Xie Zirui looked excited, "Really, Auntie. I like eating dumplings. Big brother and Yiyi also like eating dumplings."
"I remember Yiyi and my elder brother particularly liked eating stuffed chives."
Zhang laughed happily, "Zi Rui, you observe so carefully."
"Yes, Auntie. I'm very grateful that you and Uncle Yun took me in. Otherwise, I wouldn't know where I'd be wandering at this moment."
"Zi Rui, don't think about unhappy things. Come to our house, and the whole family likes you very much."
When Xie Zirui heard this, his ears turned red with embarrassment.
After Zhang and Xie Zirui finished picking the leeks, she washed them and placed them in a clean basket to drain the water.
Then, she grabbed a handful of wood ear mushrooms, put them in a basin, and soaked them in water.
After finishing all that, she quickly kneaded a large bowl of dough. She thought, use up all the dough and pack some more for the children to take up the mountain tomorrow morning.
"Zi Rui, go light the fire now. I'll fry a few eggs and put them in the chive stuffing later."
"I understand, Auntie."
Xie Zirui quickly cleaned the iron pot, then lit the fire and started cooking.
Zhang hardened her heart and brought over six eggs.
Butcher Yun and Yiyi had already eaten a lot of the eggs they bought in the capital. Fortunately, the chicken raised by the Yun family laid an egg every day.
Occasionally, she would lay an egg every two days. In short, there was a balance between output and output. Otherwise, Zhang wouldn't have been willing to eat them.
Because this hen lays eggs diligently, Zhang and Yun the butcher pay more attention to it. In addition to feeding it wild vegetables, water, and cornmeal every day.
Sometimes, Yun the butcher would move the hen to another place and let it find insects to eat on its own.
However, that was only when someone was watching. Most of the time, the basket was placed over the hens.
Then, change its location after a while.
This hen is also very good. In addition to laying eggs frequently, its fur is also very bright and it looks very energetic.
Zhang waited until smoke rose from the pot, then put in half a bowl of oil. When the oil was hot, she poured in the beaten eggs.
Then she picked up the spatula and quickly flipped the eggs in the pan.
Soon, the eggs were fried. Zhang didn't even put them in the pan.
"Zi Rui, put out the fire first. Let the eggs in the pot cool down on their own so you can mix the stuffing later."
"Yes, auntie."
Xie Zirui took out all the firewood from the stove hole, put them together, then used a shovel to remove some soil and covered it.
The firewood that was still burning slowly went out.
Zhang first checked the chives and found that they were dry and ready to be cut.
So she put the chives on the chopping board and cut them into small pieces.
Finally, a large bowl was filled with chopped chives.
Zhang also chopped up the soaked black fungus and put it into the leek pot.
Next, Zhang began to knead the dough.
She cut the dough into small pieces, pressed them into balls, and finally rolled them into round dumpling wrappers.
Xie Zirui stood by and watched Zhang rolling the dumpling wrappers, finding it very interesting.
"Aunt, can I try to roll out dumpling wrappers? But I might not be able to roll them out well."
After Xie Zirui finished speaking, he looked at Zhang embarrassedly.
Zhang smiled and said, "Okay, Zirui. I'll roll one, and you watch over me."
So Zhang rolled out several more dumpling wrappers.
Xie Zirui watched from the side and thought it was quite simple.
"Zi Rui, come roll out two sheets of dumpling wrappers. Let me see."
Xie Zirui took the rolling pin, carefully rolled out a dumpling wrapper, and then looked at Zhang expectantly.
Zhang picked up the dumpling wrappers and looked at them. "Zirui, the size of the dumpling wrappers is fine. Also, when you roll the wrappers, move the hand holding the wrappers faster."
"The dumpling wrappers rolled out this way won't be easily different in thickness. But since you rolled it out like this for the first time, it's already pretty good."
Xie Zirui grinned happily, "Aunt, I will do my best."
So, Zhang watched Zirui roll out more than ten dumpling wrappers.
Zhang watched Xie Zirui's dumpling wrappers become better and better, and couldn't help but praise him, "Zirui, you're amazing."
Xie Zirui laughed happily, "Aunt, I'll roll out the dough slowly. You go and mix the filling."
"Okay, Zirui. Just maintain your current level."
After Zhang finished speaking, she picked up the clay basin and used a spatula to scoop the cooled fried eggs from the big iron pot into the leek basin.
Of course, the oil in the pot must also be added to the chives.
Zhang felt that there was not enough oil, so she added half a bowl of oil to the chives.
Then she added some fried and crushed Sichuan peppercorns.
Finally, she put some salt into the clay basin.
Then she picked up the chopsticks and began to stir the chive stuffing in the clay pot.
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