Chapter 48 Making Dumplings
After Su Mo returned home, she put her things away and did her usual accounting.
Today, Lu Changzheng took 50 yuan with him. He spent 53.59 yuan at the supply and marketing cooperative, 8.8 yuan on phone calls, and 13.8 yuan on the black market, a total of 126.19 yuan. Today,
she made 58 yuan from selling apples, so now she has 2009.44 yuan left.
Fortunately, the account has not shrunk much.
After accounting, Su Mo went to the living room again, scooped out a few large bowls of white flour, took out the cornmeal she brought from the educated youth point, scooped out two bowls of flour and mixed them together, and began to knead the flour.
The cornmeal was borrowed from the brigade before. After eating it at the educated youth point for more than half a month, there was not much left, and it was estimated to be only about three or four pounds.
After the dough was kneaded, Su Mo covered it and let it wake up for a while.
Then, she took out some rice noodles from the space and soaked them first. Then she took out a handful of leeks, some fresh cabbages, and some carrots, went to the well to fetch water, and washed them.
After washing, Su Mo thought about it, and went to the west room to grab a handful of mushrooms and soaked them.
She was going to chop the 2 pounds of meat she bought today, mix it with these vegetables, and make some buns. She would not boil the pork fat now, and wait until the team slaughtered the pigs and distributed the meat. By then, everyone will eat meat, and no matter how fragrant her boiled pork fat is, others will not say anything.
Otherwise, her family eats meat every day, which will arouse jealousy.
Steamed buns are different. They don’t have much fragrance. She puts them in the space as soon as they are steamed. She can take them out and eat them whenever she wants. She can eat meat every day without being missed. She
can also send some to the three old people every now and then. Although her supernatural power cannot cure diseases, it is good for the human body to eat things that induce labor for a long time because they contain vitality.
The vegetables in her space were induced when her supernatural power reached the sixth level in the end of the world, and the vitality contained in them is stronger. For Lu Boying's body, although it cannot be cured, it can still relieve some of the pain.
The old man has not much time left, and she will try her best to be filial to Lu Changzheng and let the old man live a better life in his last days.
After Su Mo chopped the meat, she felt that it was still a little too little, so she took out a can of luncheon meat, scooped out the meat, cut it into small cubes and put it away.
Then, Su Mo cut the washed chives into small pieces and put them into an enamel basin. She also cut the carrots into small pieces for later use. Su Mo
first added the edible fine salt she brought from the end of the world to the chives, and mixed it evenly with chopsticks. She also added some edible alkali to prevent the chives from changing color. After mixing evenly, she added an appropriate amount of peanut oil to prevent the water in the chives from being lost, and the color of the chives would also be more emerald green. Then
she added diced carrots and diced luncheon meat. She also grabbed a handful of soaked vermicelli, chopped it up, poured some soy sauce on it, and mixed it, and then poured it into the stuffing.
Then she started to season the food. She first added a spoonful of salt, an appropriate amount of five-spice powder, a little pepper, a little sugar, an appropriate amount of chicken essence, a little oyster sauce, and a little sesame oil. She used chopsticks to mix them thoroughly and dissolve the seasoning. Then a large pot of fragrant chive vermicelli and diced meat stuffing was ready.
Although there were more vegetables and less meat, it was already very good in this era.
After the stuffing was prepared, Su Mo took out a part of the dough that had been left to rise, rolled it into long strips, and then divided it into small portions. Then she started to roll out the bun wrappers and make the buns.
The buns she made were all thin-skinned and large-stuffed. She only made more than fifty buns with nearly an enamel basin of stuffing, which was just enough for two steamers.
The steamers were prepared in the new house long ago, there were three in total.
Su Mo put water in a pot and steamed the steamed buns with leek vermicelli and meat stuffing. Then she continued to cut the cabbage, divided half of the chopped meat stuffing over, mixed the stuffing in the same way as before, and continued to make steamed buns with cabbage and minced meat.
After 20 minutes, the steamed leek buns were also steamed. Su Mo emptied the transparent storage box for clothes, rinsed it with water and wiped it dry, picked the leek buns out of the steamer, put them in the storage box, and stored them in the space.
Su Mo hadn't eaten much all day and was hungry. After the steaming, she tasted one herself. It was especially delicious and fragrant.
After picking up the leek buns, Su Mo steamed the cabbage and minced meat buns, also filling two steamers.
However, the kneaded dough was used up, so Su Mo kneaded the dough again. While the dough was resting, she washed and chopped the mushrooms, mixed them with the remaining minced meat and vermicelli, and made a mushroom, vermicelli and minced meat filling. She
also filled two drawers with a little bit of dough left, so Su Mo put it away and used it next time.
After picking up the buns with cabbage filling, Su Mo steamed the ones with mushroom filling.
She made three kinds of fillings, a total of more than 150 buns, and it was estimated that she used five or six pounds of white flour, and the remaining two or three pounds of corn flour were all used up.
But so many buns, it was enough for her to eat for a while.
At this time, it was already evening. Su Mo took a bowl, picked up three leek stuffed buns, and then took a piece of the remaining cabbage, put it in a bamboo basket, and went to Lu's house.
When Su Mo arrived, Li Yue'e was preparing to cook.
"Mom, I made some leek buns for you to try. I also bought some cabbage today, but I forgot to give it to you just now, so I brought one for you as well."
Li Yue'e took the bamboo basket and said in surprise, "You can also make buns?"
This third brother's wife, it doesn't look like she can cook? Although the third brother said that his wife's cooking was delicious, she thought that was just to comfort her.
"Yes, I used to cook at home." Su Mo nodded. Although the original owner could not cook, she cooked for herself every day in the end times. Li
Yue'e looked down. Not to mention, the buns were well-wrapped and quite big. As for how they tasted, she would have to taste them to know.
"They are well-wrapped." Li Yue'e praised. "Oh, your cabbage is good, very juicy. Where did you buy it?"
Li Yue'e did not say that she did not want to buy vegetables. When the third son of her family got married, all the land was dug up. She had to go to the people she knew in the village to exchange vegetables. The third son's wife was not familiar with the people in the village. If she did not go out to buy, where would she get vegetables?
"I bought it from the county supply and marketing cooperative." Su Mo said.
"The things in the supply and marketing cooperative in this county are better than those in our commune." Li Yue'e said, "If you have finished eating the vegetables, tell mother and I will take you to the village to exchange them. You don't have to go to the city to buy them. What a trouble."
"Okay, thank you, mother."
Li Yue'e waved her hand, "We are family, so we shouldn't have different opinions."
Li Yue'e took a bowl and exchanged the buns for it, then handed the basket back to Su Mo and said, "You should go back quickly, mother is going to cook. Eat the buns while they are hot, don't let them get cold."
Su Mo nodded, took the basket and went back.
Li Yue'e saw that the buns were quite big and there were still some steamed bread left for lunch, so she decided not to make anything else. She warmed up the steamed bread and buns and fried the cabbage that Su Mo had given her. That was all she would have for dinner.
Li Yue'e had just finished frying the cabbage when Liu Yuzhi and Lu Guihua came back from work.
Li Yue'e went to the room and took out four apples, shouting, "The first and second apples are from the third family. Two apples for each of you. They said they would share them with everyone to taste."
Liu Yuzhi looked at the big, red apples, took them and said with a smile, "Thank you so much, third sister-in-law. These apples look delicious."
Lu Guihua took them and said, "Third sister-in-law has a good life. She eats such good apples as she pleases."
Li Yue'e paused, "Do you want them? If not, give them to us old people. We give you things without you saying a word."
When she cut the apples for her father in the afternoon, she also ate a piece. It was really fragrant, crispy, sweet, and delicious.
"Why don't you want them? The two boys at home must eat them." Lu Guihua took the apples and hurried back to her room to put them away.
During dinner, Lu Qing'an was surprised to see buns on the table: "Did you make buns today?"
"No, the third daughter-in-law sent them to her, and she made them herself." Li Yue'e said, "They also sent apples and cabbage. The cabbage on the table was given by her."
Lu Qing'an felt that his third daughter-in-law was really a mystery. He thought she came to avoid disaster because of something going on at home, but she turned out to be familiar with Secretary Geng. She looks like a delicate lady, and she can even cook.
However, she is a good and filial child. She has been married for only a few days, but she has sent a lot of things. Yesterday it was chicken soup, and today it is buns and apples.
After helping Lu Boying out and sitting down, the three of them began to eat.
Lu Qing'an took a bun and broke it open, and immediately a fragrance came to his nose. The leeks are green, dotted with orange-yellow carrot cubes, and there are also sauce-colored transparent vermicelli and a little bit of diced meat. Just looking at it makes people salivate.
Lu Qingan quickly took a big bite. The taste was absolutely amazing. He had never eaten such a delicious bun. It was even better than the buns with big meat fillings.
"Dad, Yue'e, hurry up and eat. This bun is especially delicious." Lu Qingan said.
Li Yue'e also took a bite, and her eyes lit up instantly. Don't say it, the third brother's skill in making buns is really good.