I don't know if there are such customs in the north for the New Year.
In our hometown of Heze, near the New Year, we want to steam steamed buns and flower cakes and fried goods. Our family will always steam with my grandmother's house and my uncle's house, my mother mixes the stuffing, my uncle kneads the noodles, my grandmother and aunt wrap the buns, my father is responsible for burning the pot and pulling the bellows, and the children are not troublesome, even if they help.
The bun is particularly delicious, it is a stuffing fried with red and white radish, vermicelli, tofu, pork, bean sprouts, etc., which is particularly delicious to eat, but the most amazing thing is the flower cake. There is also a place called "jujube flower bun", our hometown is said to be flower cake, a noodle with chopsticks, a clean comb plus red dates, in the hands of adults a turn a pinch, the shape will come out, especially beautiful.
Many friends in the steamed jujube flower steamed easy to collapse and deformation is serious, not soft and bright white, today will teach you a few tricks, by the way to share with you how to steamed jujube cake looks good and bright white.
<h1>New Year's date flower bun</h1>
Ingredients: 400 g of gluten flour (ordinary household flour), 4 g of yeast powder, 10 g of sugar, 200 g of warm water, 10 g of lard, dates to taste
make:
1: Pour the yeast powder and sugar into warm water, stir well enough, let the sugar melt and set aside.
z2, after stirring well, directly use yeast water and noodles on the line, taking into account the different brands of flour for each household, and the noodles when a small amount of yeast water is added many times, we increase or decrease appropriate amounts.
3: Stir into dough and add lard, knead into dough. The dough has little water content, so if it is not smooth at first, cover it with plastic wrap and let it sit for 5 minutes, and then knead it again. Here the dough must be kneaded in place and kneaded well.
4: Move the dough to the panel and roll into long strips, under the agent.
5: Roll the dough into long strips, three into a group, and then pinch the two ends of the strip together, and stuff a red date into each end.
6, with chopsticks to pinch the middle squeeze, so that the pattern will roughly come out, spare.
7: Roll out two more round cakes, fold them together and divide them into 4 parts, fold the two dough pieces together, pay attention to the misalignment, and pinch the bottom end together.
8, then put the prepared petals in the middle of the two dates, use chopsticks to sort out the shape, and finally stuff a red date in the middle.
9. After all the embryos are ready, put them in the steaming drawer and wake up to 1.5 times the size. Then bring to a boil on high heat and steam for 20 minutes, then turn off the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
The jujube bun in this way is not only beautiful, but also the whole is bright white, very soft, not deformed and not collapsed, even if it is cold, it will not harden.