To make steamed buns, you must first grind the wheat into flour. Zhang Ran had improved the existing stone mill last time to make tofu.

The new eight-zone diagonal stone grinding can not only be used to grind beans to make tofu, but also grind wheat into flour.

There are some Maizi Zhang Ran’s family, and the stone mill is ready-made. You can turn your ideas into reality with just a little effort.

In this case, Zhang Ran naturally couldn't help but want to try it immediately. So Zhang Ran asked Sankui for help and got most of the bag of wheat from the kitchen.

Then, with Sankui, carrying half a bag of wheat, pottery pots, wooden scoops and other utensils, we came to Zhangran's backyard together.

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The process of grinding flour and grinding beans is similar. After Zhang Ran briefly explained some things to Sankui, the two began to grind flour.

First, Zhang Ran scooped up some wheat grains with a wooden scoop and poured them into the small holes above the stone mill until the wheat grains piled into a hill on the millstone, and then stopped.

“Hey~”

Sankui rubbed his hands and grabbed Shi Mian's handle, shouted loudly, and pushed it hard.

Accompanied by the rattle of friction, the grinding disc weighing dozens of kilograms was slowly pushed.

The wheat grains enter the grinding teeth as the stone mill rotates, and are crushed under the grinding of the upper and lower grinding pieces, turning into snow-white wheat flour and slowly flowing out from the grinding gap between the two stone mills and falling into the surrounding grooves.

While using a small broom, Zhang Ran gently swept the wheat flour in the groove into the pottery basin, while paying attention to the wheat grains above the millstone, and occasionally scooped up some wheat grains with wooden scoops and added them...

"Brother Ran, are the steamed buns and noodles you mentioned really that delicious?" Sankui asked Zhang Ran expectante while pushing the mill with anticipation.

"What did I deceive you?" Zhang Ran raised his head and looked at Sankui indifferently, then continued to lower his head to sweep the wheat flour, and replied: "The steamed buns are soft and delicious, the noodles are smooth and refreshing, and full of strength. They are far more delicious than steamed cakes and bait cakes. In addition, in addition to making steamed buns and noodles, flour can also be steamed buns, dumplings, fried oil cakes, and fried mozzarella..."

"Sigh~"

Every time Zhang Ran said that, Sankui swallowed his saliva. Before Zhang Ran finished talking about all kinds of food, Sankui's saliva was almost flowing into a river.

Seeing this, Zhang Ran couldn't help laughing and said, "I said Sankui, if you want to eat the delicacies I mentioned, just push the mill quickly and try to grind the wheat early! Then I will make it for you to eat!"

"Ha, we have to make a decision!"

Sankui cheered excitedly, then rolled up his sleeves, grabbed Shimu's guard with both hands, shouted softly, and pushed hard...

Under the temptation of food, Sankui seemed to burst out with huge potential instantly. He pushed it for more than ten minutes in one breath, just like a machine equipped with a clockwork, pushing the stone mill one after another... With his efforts, piles of wheat grains were quickly ground into piles of wheat flour.

At the same time, Zhang Ran also accelerated the cleaning speed and swept the wheat flour into the pottery basin, and soon filled a whole basin.

It was not until Zhang Ran had to replace the pottery basin that the wheat flour had gone down for more than half that Sankui seemed to feel a little tired and gradually slowed down.

"Enough, enough, enough to eat several meals!" Zhang Ran saw that the wheat flour in the new pottery basin was almost full, so he quickly stopped, allowing Sankui to take a break and breathe a sigh of relief.

Zhang Ran continued to carefully clean the remaining wheat flour from the stone mill and put it into the pottery basin.

After Sankui almost recovered, the two of them returned to the front yard with a pot of wheat flour.

Seeing Zhang Ran and the others walking towards each other with a pot of snow-white wheat flour, everyone in the yard couldn't help but look curious. However, after several days of teaching, Zhang Ran had already established some prestige among the crowd, so everyone did not dare to come up and ask casually.

Zhang Ran was busy steaming buns and making noodles. He didn't pay much attention to everyone's curious eyes, and he was even more lazy to explain anything to them.

The reason why Zhang Ran grinds the wheat into wheat flour is that the wheat flour is mixed with a large amount of brown bran and flour. It needs to be screened in a basket before it can be used to steam buns or make noodles.

The method of making a basket is very simple. You only need to use bamboo strips to make a round frame and then apply a layer of gauze at the bottom.

The bamboo strips were ready-made, and I bought a lot of gauze last time when I purchased it in Xinfeng. So Zhang Ran asked Zhang Cui'er to help her make a frame together, and then used a rope to fix the fine gauze firmly at the bottom of the frame. A simple and practical basket was freshly baked.

Then, Zhang Ran held the basket in both hands and asked Sankui to slowly pour the wheat flour into the basket. At the same time, Zhang Ran kept shaking the basket body, and the snow-white flour continued to fall into the pottery pot like a waterfall. Soon the flour accumulated in the pottery pot into a small white bun.

Then, Zhang Ran poured the bran accumulated in the basket into another pottery basin next to it, and then signaled Sankui to continue pouring the wheat flour. After repeating this several times, the two bowls of wheat flour quickly sifted into snow-white flour.

Finally, after sifting the flour, Zhang Ran squatted down and twisted a little flour with his fingers and rubbed it. He found that the flour was very fine. After sifting off the bran, it was basically not much different from the flour in later generations. Then he showed a satisfied smile.

With qualified flour, the next step is to steam buns and make noodles.

Zhang Ran is still very familiar with how to steam buns and make noodles. First, Zhang Ran took the chopping board, pottery basin, clean water, etc. for later use.

After everything was ready, Zhang Ran’s first pasta trip since time traveling.

In the first step, Zhang Ran put an appropriate amount of flour into the pottery basin. In the second step, add water and dough, stir the flour and water evenly, and then knead it repeatedly to form a dough.

After kneading the dough, Zhang Ran put it into the pottery basin.

Since there is no yeast in this era, it is more difficult to steam buns, so you can only wait for the dough to ferment naturally. Therefore, in order to make the dough ferment fully, take a larger pottery pot, pour in an appropriate amount of warm water, put the pottery pot containing the dough into it, and finally cover it with a half-dry wet linen cloth and place it in a warm place, so that it can ferment naturally slowly.

In this process, you can only use warm water, not hot water, because the most suitable temperature for dough fermentation is 25~28℃. The most suitable yeast growth is the most suitable temperature. However, if the temperature exceeds 45℃, the activity of yeast will rapidly decay and reduce. If it exceeds 55℃, the yeast will die in large quantities. If it is used, it is easy to burn the yeast to death and make the dough go on all sides. Moderate warm water is beneficial to the growth of yeast and speed up the dough fermentation rate.
Chapter completed!