A mouthful of fried rice at a sky-high price, Old Tang apprenticed on the spot

Chapter 398
Before preparing the ingredients for fresh meat mooncakes, Li Yi brought over a bag of yeast powder and a catty of all-purpose flour, planning to make some old-fashioned noodles first.

When making Chinese pastry, it is often necessary to raise the noodles.

In ancient times, there was no modern convenient yeast powder, so old noodles could only be used.

Seeing that Li Yi mixed the flour into a sticky dough that was as thin as batter, Wu Lei, who was still a little unsatisfied after eating two meat buns, stepped forward and asked curiously, "Do you still want to bake Baiji buns?"

"No, I'm making an introduction to old faces."

Li Yi explained casually while meeting each other.

"An introduction to an old face?"

Wu Lei couldn't understand: "What is that?"

"Don't you know old noodles? It's a kind of old noodles."

Zhao Jinmai saw the old face, and explained to him with gestures: "It is used as yeast powder when making steamed buns or flower rolls.

My grandma has a pimple, which was a dowry given to her by her mother. She lost it later, and she raised another one. I saw it when I was a child.

Later, it was convenient to buy yeast powder, so she used up the dough.

She regretted it, saying that yeast powder can't make the taste of old noodles at all. "

"Old face as a dowry? Can you still raise it?"

Wu Lei was puzzled when he heard this: "Are you talking about noodles or pets?"

"You can be regarded as a pet bred with noodles."

Li Yi added water to the dough, and while stirring, he explained: "Old noodles are the natural yeast used to make dough when the older generation uses it to make pasta.

When the ancients made dough, they would leave a small ball of fermented dough, and then put it in as a leavening agent when making dough next time.

After the second dough is ready, set aside a ball and continue to use it for the next time.

This ball of dough that can be recycled is old noodles.

When the domestic food industry was not yet developed, old noodles were still very common, but they are relatively rare now.

But now there are still people who care for the elderly, and some people keep it as a pet.

They mainly keep the yeast inside, feed them flour and water, and give them names. "

"what?"

Wu Lei was shocked: "The world is so big, there are so many wonders, and there are still people who keep bacteria as pets?"

"why not?"

Li Yi said with a smile: "Old noodles don't need to be walked or shoveled shit, just add some noodles and water regularly.

The bred old noodles can also be used to make pasta, which has many benefits, right? "

"Sounds like fun."

Zhao Jinmai became interested.

Li Yi said generously, "I'll share some with you when it's finished, and take it to raise and play."

"it is good!"

Zhao Jinmai was very happy: "When I am ready, I will give it to my grandma and give her a surprise."

Wu Lei stretched out his hands, pretending to be holding something, and made an excited expression: "Grandma! Your dowry is back!"

"You deserve a beating, don't you?"

Zhao Jinmai was very annoyed and immediately chased after him.

"I was wrong, I was wrong."

Wu Lei ran while apologizing, but was finally caught by Zhao Jinmai and beat him a few times.

Back in front of Li Yi, Zhao Jinmai looked at the sticky dough in the eye basin, and asked curiously: "Brother Yi, how did you make the first ball of old noodles? There was no yeast powder in ancient times."

"There was no yeast powder in ancient times, but yeast!"

Li Yi smiled and said, "Yeast is natural, not artificial.

In nature, there are many natural yeasts, and they mainly attach to the fruits of fruits, grains of grains, and flowers and leaves of some plants.

What is extracted from the fruit is the fruit species, also called fruit fungus.

What is extracted from the grain is the grain species.

There are also types of wine that are fermented with koji, and yogurt that are grown with lactic acid bacteria in yogurt.

Different types have different tastes.

Therefore, the earliest old noodles were made with grains and noodles with yeast attached. "

"There are so many types of yeast?"

Zhao Jinmai was very surprised.

"It's not easy for the ancients."

Huang Xiaoming also sighed: "I feel that many fermented foods are only found to be edible after the ancients tasted them."

"Yes!"

Li Yi picked up the reconciled noodles, observed the consistency, and then joked: "Otherwise, how could there be so many probiotics in our body?"

With that said, he wrapped the basin with plastic wrap and put it aside.

A warm and humid environment is conducive to the growth of yeast, and by tomorrow, this group of old noodles will be fermented.

After putting away the old noodles, Li Yi officially prepared the ingredients for [Fresh Meat Mooncake].

[Fresh Meat Mooncake] belongs to the Soviet-style pastry.

Su-style pastry generally has two most commonly used raw materials, one is called dry pastry and the other is called water oil noodles.

The skin of [Fresh Meat Mooncake] is the puff pastry made of dried pastry.

The pastry pastry is naturally made of lard.

I just made Baiji buns and used up the leftover lard, so Li Yi had to boil some lard again.

He has already prepared the raw materials for boiling lard.

When he was slaughtering pigs before, he kept all the suet in the pig's belly, just to boil the lard.

When he just returned to the restaurant, Li Yi had already taken out all the suet from the refrigerator.

He went to the storage room to check, and the frozen pork suet had already thawed.

After taking out all the suet, Li Yi set up a pot, and then cut up the suet.

The ten pigs had a lot of suet, so Li Yi asked Wu Lei, Huang Xiaoming, and Zhao Jinmai to wash their hands and come over to cut the suet together.

And Liu Yifei is in charge of peeling the onions and scraping the ginger skin.

Looking at the thick suet, Wu Lei's liver trembled.

"Oh my God!"

He couldn't help sighing: "If so much fat grows on a human body, what would it look like?"

Seeing this, Li Yi smiled and threatened him: "There is a lot of oil in the meat bun you ate just now."

"..."

Wu Lei froze immediately, wanting to cry, "You said it earlier! I ate two!"

"It's yours to eat."

Li Yi shrugged.

"I……"

Wu Lei had nothing to say, so he could only mutter with a mournful face: "It's over, I have two more hours of practice tonight."

"An indulgence meal! It's okay."

Li Yi smiled and comforted him.

"Correct."

Wu Lei gained confidence: "It's not like eating like this every day. Let's indulge a bit today, and I'll eat less tomorrow."

Hearing this, Zhao Jinmai joked with a smile: "You really know how to comfort yourself!"

Talking and laughing, everyone was busy working together, and cut the suet into small pieces in a short while.

Li Yi added half a pot of water to the big pot he just took out, and poured all the chopped suet into it.

After adding the suet, the pot is full.

Turn on the fire and boil, as the water temperature rises, the water in the pot gradually becomes cloudy, and a layer of foam floats on the surface.

These are the blood stains and impurities in the suet.

Holding the frying spoon, Li Yi kept beating out the scum, and added some white wine to remove the fishy smell.

When the scum was almost beaten, Li Yi used a large colander to scoop out the suet and put it into a basin of warm water.

Everyone started working together again to clean the suet dices.

Next, you can boil lard.

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