How to steam a flower bun

How to steam a flower bun?

This is a skill that only a skillful daughter-in-law would know

The raw materials for making flower buns are mainly white flour, and there are other auxiliary materials such as beans, jujubes, rice, and pepper, etc.; the tools needed for making them are very common scissors, comb, and chopper, etc.; and the techniques for making them are cutting, kneading, pinching, pulling, picking, pressing, rubbing, dialing, and pressing, etc. In addition to being edible, flower buns also have a strong ornamental character. In addition to edible buns, but also has a strong ornamental, the production of flower buns decorated, sometimes with rice, beans and other pasted into, and sometimes colored with food coloring into.

Flower decorations have rich connotations, bright colors, and a variety of shapes, rough and vivid, exaggerated variants, birds, animals, flowers, birds, fish and insects, historical figures, folklore, can be turned into a lifelike artistic form, expressing the ancestors' worship, the blessings of the elders and the longing for a better life, which is the people's wish to send a way.

Flower bun of the year

Raw materials: flour, water, yeast powder, red dates;

Making process:

1, mix the water and yeast powder, if the room temperature is low, you can use warm water to mix and yeast powder;

2, pour into the flour. The ratio of flour, water and yeast is 10:5:1, that is, the amount of water is generally half of the flour, and the yeast is to be 1/10 of the flour. due to the different absorbency of flour, it is recommended to reserve some of the water, and then add a little bit of it to the flour as needed;

3, use chopsticks to mix the flour with the water and mix it into a fluffy consistency;

4, then put it into the kneading bowl and mix it with the flour and water. p>4, and then put into the kneading heat straight kneading until smooth, kneading time must be hard, the surface of the kneading good, steamed out of the steamed bun is delicious;

5, with a fermentation method, so kneading the dough directly after the whole type. Take a larger piece of dough, knead it and then roll it into a long cylinder, making the ends a little thinner;

10, flatten one end of it with your hand;

11, cut it in the middle with a knife;

12, use the back of a knife or a fork to press out the pattern, and that's the tail of the fish;

13, pinch it with your hand in the place where the tail connects the fish and the fish's body, so that the tail of the fish bends naturally.

14, with the hand on the back of the fish to pinch out the fish spine;

15, and then to deal with the head of the fish, with a knife in the head of the fish at about 2CM to press out the prints, with two red beans as the eyes of the fish, a chopstick to poke out the mouth of the fish;

16, and then use the tip of the fruit knife in the fish scales of the prints;

17, the two small fish is ready;

18, there is still a small dough left, divided into two, kneaded and rolled into an oval, flattened a little on both sides with your hands, with a fork to press out the lines;

19, pinch up on both sides, the formation of a Yuanbao look;

20, the two fish and the two Yuanbao in the base of the previous good; padded with greaseproof paper, put in the pot to stand and rise for 30-40 minutes. minutes, the length of time depends on the temperature of the waking environment, you can put warm water in the bottom of the pot to increase the temperature and humidity in the pot, the fermentation time will be shortened; fermentation time to pay attention to the observation, this flower buns are not suitable for over-fermentation, over-fermentation after the modeling will be affected;

21, after the fermentation is complete, the fire steamed, the water boiled steam for about 25 minutes or so, the years The flower bun is ready. The color is not rich enough, but after learning how to make it, you can freely change the color of the fish and Yuanbao, and if you want to make it yellow, you can make it yellow by kneading it with pumpkin puree.

The production of this flower bun is not complicated, usually steamed buns can try their hands.