Chapter 308 Glutinous Rice Cake
Mu Xi was processing red beans, and when he saw Zhao Yeqing doing it, he hurriedly said, "I told you not to do it yet. It will take more than ten minutes for it to cool down. It's just right for me to finish processing the red beans."
To make red bean paste into a fine texture, it is best to use a food processor to blend the red beans. Zhao Yeqing thinks that the red bean paste with bean skin and a little graininess is also delicious, so he plans to add sugar directly and then crush it with a rolling pin.
Mu Xi followed Zhao Yeqing's instructions, took a plastic bag, and put the red beans with sugar into the bag.
After letting the air out of the bag, tie the opening tightly, place it on the table and roll it back and forth with a rolling pin.
The red beans that have been pressed in a pressure cooker are already very soft. After rolling and crushing back and forth, the red beans can be seen to turn into red bean paste.
Seeing that the red bean filling was almost ready, Zhao Yeqing poured the soybean flour in the bag into the pot, took the steamer off the stove, and fried the soybean flour again.
It had been fried originally, but I was afraid that it would not be as fragrant if left for too long. After it was put back into the wok for a while, the aroma of the soybean flour came out.
Do not stir-fry for too long, remove from the pan as soon as the aroma comes out.
The glutinous rice balls had just become warm. Zhao Yeqing reached out to touch them and found that they were no longer hot. He then grabbed the dough and kneaded it into small balls.
The small balls are placed on an empty plate nearby, half of which is used to be coated with soybean flour and the other half is used to be coated with red bean paste.
Mu Xi poured the crushed red bean filling into a bowl and placed a small spoon in the bowl to scoop up the red bean filling and put it into the glutinous rice balls.
He walked to the side, washed his hands, grabbed a small glutinous rice ball that Zhao Yeqing had already made, wrapped it in the soybean flour next to it, and handed it to Zhao Yeqing's mouth.
Zhao Yeqing opened his mouth and put the warm glutinous rice cake into his mouth. He ate it a little too quickly and was choked by the thick soybean flour coating the surface.
The yellow bean flour spurted out.
Mu Xi hurriedly poured a glass of water and handed it to her: "Eat slowly, don't be anxious, I won't snatch it from you."
After Zhao Yeqing was choked, he was reluctant to spit out the glutinous rice balls in his mouth. After his throat recovered, he chewed and swallowed them.
The glutinous rice balls are slightly sweet, sticky and wrapped in fragrant soybean flour, and they are delicious.
"The sweetness is just right! Come and try it." Zhao Yeqing nodded vigorously at Mu Xi.
Mu Xi loves sweets so he definitely wouldn’t refuse. He grabbed one covered in soybean flour and stuffed it into his mouth.
After Zhao Yeqing ate the one with soybean flour, he was even more looking forward to the one with red bean filling. He made a hole in the middle of the glutinous rice ball like making dumplings, and then stuffed the red bean filling into it.
The glutinous rice ball has good ductility. Tear open the outer glutinous rice ball little by little to wrap the red bean filling inside. The bulging red bean filling makes the outer skin of the glutinous rice ball somewhat transparent.
Zhao Yeqing got the balance right, making the inside of the wrapper very full but without any cracks on the outside.
She handed the first red bean glutinous rice dumpling to Mu Xi: "Try it."
After receiving the expected positive reviews, I enjoyed the second one myself.
Zhao Yeqing was still thinking about eating some glutinous rice later, but after eating two or three glutinous rice balls, he stopped and didn't dare to continue eating.
The glutinous rice balls made in this way will not go bad or become hard if kept for a day or two at the current temperature, so you don’t have to rush and can eat them slowly.
But this is not very suitable for the dogs at home. The dogs watched the two people eating with relish and their drools were almost falling to the ground.
Seeing that the puppies would not be able to get any food today, Mu Xi generously stuffed a piece of dried meat into each of them.
The dogs fell asleep after eating, but the three leopards were too anxious to sleep.
Now it is dark outside every day, and we can't tell the difference between day and night when we sleep. We basically go to bed when we are sleepy, and don't care what time it is.
Zhao Yeqing didn't even check the time. He took the finished blueprint and said, "Let's go build a sleeping rack for the leopards first. I'm afraid they will get depressed if we continue like this."
An unsuitable living environment can easily lead to animals becoming irritable or depressed, and their mortality rate will also increase, just like locking people in a small, cramped and depressing space for a long time.
Zhao Yeqing has long regarded Huhu and Xuebing as family members, so naturally he wants to create a better environment for them as much as possible.
If conditions permit and the two cats live at home on weekdays, she will build an extra-large leopard climbing frame for Huhu and Xuebing!
But it belongs to the forest after all, and I rarely come back to live here. There are no climbing frames left, so I can only build two higher leopard dens.
The wood was ready-made, so Mu Xi started working directly according to the dimensions drawn by Zhao Yeqing, and the shelf was quickly nailed together.
The space inside the brick wall is not small because the roofs of several rooms have to be included in it, and the floor height is not low, so it does not appear narrow after the shelves are nailed in.
Zhao Yeqing moved the nests where the clouded leopards usually slept onto the shelf. Huhu and Xuebing watched her operation and stood still. When she stood on the ladder, they patted the shelf and said, "Come up and try it."
Huhu and Xuebing understood instantly, stepped on the wall next to them, spun around and jumped onto the shelf which was more than two meters high.
The two leopards stepped on the quilt on the shelf and slowly lay down. Zhao Yeqing raised her hand to touch their heads. Huhu and Xuebing rubbed her palms, making comfortable snorting sounds.
That's satisfaction.
The other leopard had not come up yet. I didn't know whether it didn't understand or was just a little wary.
Zhao Yeqing looked at its stupid and clumsy appearance, like a piece of wood, and said, "From now on, you can be called Xiaomu."
It seems that when I watched TV dramas before, the mothers-in-law always called the person their daughter brought home "Little X", and there should be nothing wrong with calling her that.
Mu Xi was a little confused. Xiao Mu, Xiao Mu, it sounded like someone was calling him, but he didn't dare to express his opinion.
The leopard actually responded to the name. When Zhao Yeqing called "Xiao Mu", the leopard turned its head to look at her.
This made Zhao Yeqing laugh, "Okay, you come up too."
She patted the empty shelf, motioning Xiaomu to jump up. Xuebing raised his head and glanced at Xiaomu below.
Now Xiaomu understood, and he also jumped up and lay on the shelf.
There are some fences at the four corners of the shelf to prevent the cats from falling down when they fall asleep.
Zhao Yeqing wanted to spread some hay or something on the floor under the shelf, but was stopped by Mu Xi, "Now they are no longer the leopard cubs with bad sleeping postures. They are used to sleeping in the forest and won't fall so easily."
Zhao Yeqing was worried about his old mother, so every time he went to the toilet, he would check again to make sure the babies were sleeping well and hadn't fallen off.
The mood of several leopards visibly improved, and they would jump up and down and play around from time to time.
When I am in a good mood, my appetite will improve. Seeing that the meat reserves at home are running low, it is time to slaughter the pig again.
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