Chapter Sixteen
After a night of fermentation, the dough was already soft.
The dough with alkaline noodles fermented was obviously softer. Although Dad and others were men, they could see it clearly. "It's really different."
Ke Shisan reached out and pressed the dough, feeling that the dough was extremely soft. He was surprised and said, "So soft."
Uncle Zhao, a father-in-law, also reached in and pressed it, and said in surprise, "It's as soft as the wife's breasts."
Everyone laughed.
Zhang Chao also tried it and was very satisfied with the fermentation effect.
"Okay, let's make steamed cakes together."
Zhang Chao only had one liter of millet powder, so he couldn't make many steamed buns. He was familiar with a few people.
First, knead the dough evenly, which is also a physical job. Ke Xiaoba quickly wrapped the dough kneading work. After the dough was kneaded, Zhang Chao divided the dough into twenty pieces.
Take a dough and flatten it, wrap it in an appropriate amount of red date filling, close it and knead it gently, and make it into a round shape.
"Current the fire and prepare to steam it in a pot."
"Can the new stove be used at home?" asked the father.
Zhang Chao checked the new stove and had already built it for a day and a night. It was almost done. He said, "Then use the new stove, just try the new stove while steaming this new steamed bun."
"I'll burn the fire." Ke Shisan hurriedly sat at the stove to burn the fire. The flint fired, and the wheat tangerines attracted the fire, and the fire was ignited smoothly.
"It's good to burn." Ke Shisan often burns fire at home, knowing that it's hard to burn at the beginning, especially in winter. But now the fire is very hot in the stove.
"Just add some fine branches to burn faster." Zhang Chao said with a smile. Generally, the stove is not well ventilated, so when it starts, you have to try to use the leaves and wheat poles to attract fire. You have to be careful and blow the air. However, this new stove does not require fire at all, and you don't need to be so careful, and it will not be easy to extinguish when burned.
There are three pots in the new stove, which is different from the old stove. There is a large iron pot on the mouth of the new stove, and there is a small iron pot at the back. The small iron pot also turns a corner to form a small seven-character head, where there is a smaller pot rack on top and there is also a small stove.
When the large stove is boiled, the large pot is heated, and the slightly smaller back pot will also be heated. In this way, when the large pot is boiled, the back pot can boil water. As for the small stove, it can heat a dish or something, or when the large stove is cooking, the small stove can also boil the rice or steam buns.
He directed Uncle Zhao and others to add water to the front and back pots, and also directed Ke Xiaoba and Ke Shisan to add fire to make fire.
The front pot was still the same big iron pot as before. It was the time to boil half a pot of water and take two cups of tea, which was about twenty minutes. But now, it only took one cup of tea to boil the water in the pot to boil.
Even the pot of water in the back pot was warmed up.
Put the steamer on a boiling water pot, and Zhang Chao asked them to continue burning the fire.
"Take two cups of tea on high fire."
Everyone was roasting around the stove, and Ke Shisan was burning the fire. He kept shouting that the stove was easy to cook, "I don't have to pay attention to it. Just raise firewood inside. Large pieces of split ingredient inside will not be wiped out at all. This stove is so easy to cook and saves much trouble."
Uncle Zhao sat aside and sighed, "It's fast, and it's also a pot of water, which saves nearly half of the time than usual."
Another Wang Shuze said, "It's not all over. Look at the pot of water in the back pot, you don't need to burn another fire. It's already started. It's amazing to boil a stove of firewood and two pots of water."
Zhang Chao smiled and walked to the front of the stove, where the kang was connected to the stove. The kang was connected to the stove, but it was separated from the stove entrance. In addition, when repairing the kang, he specially built a wall of more than three feet high between the kang stoves, so there was no need to worry too much about the oil smoke coming to the kang.
When a new cave is built in the future and there is a special kitchen, there will be no smoke.
The reed kang mat has been laid on the new stove. Zhang Chao pressed his hand on it and could feel the warmth of the mat.
Zhang Chao took off his shoes and pressed the wood on the edge of the kang to get on the kang.
"Dad, come and sit on the kang, it's so warm."
My father came over and touched the kang with his hand, and he found a wave of warmth. He took off his shoes like Zhang Chao, and sat on the kang and sat on the mat.
"hiss."
Dad took a comfortable breath. "It's so warm, so beautiful."
Uncle Zhao, Uncle Wang, Ke Xiaoba and Ke Shisan also came to compete to get on the kang. Fortunately, the kang was originally built, so it was fine to sleep for five or six people, and it was natural that it was fine to sit for seven or eight people. The six people were sitting on the kang and looked very wide, but there was no kang table on the kang yet, which was a flaw.
"Looking back, there is a short kang table on it, it's just right."
"I want it, I want it." The father nodded repeatedly.
Sitting on the warm kang is more comfortable than sitting on the stove and roasting the fire.
"It's so beautiful to sleep at night." Ke Shisan was amazed and shivered with comfort. "I'll ask my father to ask Sanlang to help me with one."
Feeling the comfort of the warm kang, the steamed buns in the pot soon became ripe.
A tempting fragrance came to my nose, and my father wiped his nose off the kang, "I'll go see the steamer, it's so cooked."
The steamer is pulled down from the top of the stove and opens.
A burst of white vapor rose.
But everyone was eager to see the steamed cakes in the cage.
Twenty yellow buns were revealed in the white steam.
“Wow, it’s so big.”
Ke Xiaoba couldn't help but exclaim. The steamed cakes were made together just now, and he watched them put into the steamer with his own eyes. Each steamed cake was as big as an ordinary one. A liter of noodles, water, and red beans and date paste made twenty steamed cakes, which were even smaller than ordinary cakes. But the steamed cakes are so big now.
"I only used half of the noodles, but it was as big as steamed."
The yellow noodles with alkaline noodles were steamed very well and very fluffy. After steaming the buns, several cracks were opened, and the red red bean and date filling inside could be seen.
Zhang Chao took the chopsticks and bowls and picked up a few of them first.
"Everyone try how it tastes like."
Ke Shisan couldn't wait the most. Before the steamed bun was cold, he had already grabbed one in his hand. He burned his left and right hands and kept sipping. Then, without waiting for the cold, he took a big bite to his mouth.
The steamed buns were very hot, but Ke Shisan didn't care, and his eyes were lit.
"Delicious, very soft, no sour, a little sweet, so delicious."
Others wanted to wait until the steamed buns were cooler, but they couldn't wait until they heard it. Even my father blew a few breaths at the steamed buns and bit a piece into his mouth.
It's still very hot, but it's really delicious in the mouth.
The taste is soft and sweet, and it really doesn't have the sour taste of ordinary steamed cakes. I have been accustomed to the sour taste of my father after eating steamed cakes for a lifetime. I only realized that steamed cakes are not sour and can be so delicious.
Zhang Chao ate one himself, and it was really delicious.
The combination of hard millet and soft millet is 73, plus the sour taste of alkaline noodles and old noodles, and alkaline noodles make the steamed buns more fluffy, making the yellow flour steamed buns completely different from the Tang Dynasty millet steamed cakes he ate yesterday.
"What are you eating, it's so delicious?"
Everyone was having a happy meal, and the sound of Keshan came from outside the door.
Ke Shan and Ke Wuyi came early in the morning, just in time for Zhang Chao and the others to eat steamed buns.
"Uncle, come here quickly. Sanlang refined a pill yesterday. After adding this pill to the noodles, the steamed pill was delicious. It was loose and soft, not sour and sweet."
Ke Shan and Ke Wu grabbed one of them, and after eating, they were also amazed.
"Dad, you said we steam more of this steamed bun and then sell it to the village and county. Do you think anyone can buy it?" Zhang Chao asked his father. He was not satisfied with just eating such delicious yellow buns. He calculated that if he wanted to build the new cave he planned, the savings at home might not be enough.
I have to find a way to open source again.
"Of course some people bought it, and they almost bit off their tongues. This is a elixir, it's so delicious." Ke Wu sighed.
"Even if you take it to Chang'an to sell it, there will be people eating it. It's so delicious." Ke Shan was also licking his lips there.
Twenty yellow buns and eight men ate them all soon.
If you buy it, someone will definitely buy it.
But Zhang Chao was also considering how to sell more and make greater benefits. Qi Niang had a noodle restaurant in the village, so it would be OK to put the yellow buns there directly to sell them, but he had seen the situation in the village. There were actually not many customers every day, and even if everyone liked them, they could not sell a large number of them.
It is also a way to sell it in Chang'an. But he hasn't sold it yet, so I don't know how to make it convenient.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Chao found a way, a way to make the most profit.
"Dad, what if we send our yellow buns to various inns and restaurants to sell them?"
"Why do others want to help us sell steamed buns?" My father is now used to Zhang Chao calling steamed buns with black rice cakes yellow rice cakes.
Zhang Chao smiled and said, "Mutual benefits. As long as our yellow flour buns have a good reputation and are famous at that time, they will help us sell yellow flour buns and increase their business. Besides, we won't let them sell them for nothing. We are working together. Every time they help us sell a yellow flour bun, how much money will we give him? Isn't this the best of both worlds?"
Ke Shiba asked in confusion, "Sanlang, our yellow bread is so delicious, and you have an exclusive secret recipe. Why do we have to ask others to help sell it and share their money? We can just sell it ourselves, and we can earn all the money by ourselves."
"Wrong." Zhang Chao shook his head.
Yellow flour buns are delicious, but they have to be sold, or if they sell them more, they make a lot of money. What money can you make by selling 100 yuan a day? What if you can sell 10,000 yuan a day?
If you want to promote your brand and increase sales, it is difficult to start from scratch by yourself. If you take a car such as restaurants and hotels, it will definitely be much easier.
Another problem is that if you do it yourself, others may be jealous and make trouble, but if they cooperate, they can also benefit, so they will not only not make trouble but also contribute.
This is also the different perspectives of Zhang Chao and Ke Shisan considering the problem.
Ke Shisan thought about making all of it himself, while Zhang Chao thought about how to make more.
"Then try it." The father thought for a while and finally said.
"Well, then let's make some more now, and then take it to the township and county and Chang'an City to promote our yellow buns to those restaurants and restaurants. As long as they are willing to help sell them, we will share the profits."
After thinking about it, Zhang Chao said again, "When we sell, we call it yellow noodles buns. When we introduce it to the store and customers, we call it yellow noodles buns. We don't call it steamed cakes."
This is brand awareness. Steamed cakes have no uniqueness at all, but if they are called yellow flour buns, it is the only one in the first place. Yellow flour buns are actually steamed cakes, but not all steamed cakes are called yellow flour buns.
Chapter completed!