allonlinenovel Chapter 3 Fresh Meat Buns!
Chapter 3 Fresh Meat Buns!
Three o'clock in the morning.
To secure the freshest vegetables and meat, Chen Yuan set off before dawn.
There are only three ingredients needed to make fresh meat buns: flour, fresh meat, and scallions for seasoning.
Chen Yuan followed the production method provided by the system.
He chose pork with a 3:7 fat-to-lean ratio, and instead of buying ready-made minced meat, he bought the meat and chopped it himself.
There are two reasons for doing this. First, it's uncertain whether the ground pork sold outside contains stale meat, thus passing off inferior products as high-quality ones.
Secondly, the meat minced by machine... has no soul!
Although Chen Yuan didn't understand, he still chose to accept it.
After selecting the minced meat, I bought scallions and the necessary seasonings.
In the end, I bought a total of 25 jin of flour, 15 jin of pork, and 3 jin of scallions.
There are also seasonings such as old ginger and yeast.
A total of 853 yuan was spent.
These materials should be enough to make at least 200 buns, and if there is no waste, the total cost should be between 210 and 220.
Chen Yuan asked the owner of the grain and oil store to deliver the flour to his store, while he carried the vegetables to the store.
After opening the shop door.
Not long after, the flour arrived.
Chen Yuan quickly started kneading the dough.
Before actually doing it, Chen Yuan still had some doubts about the system, but the moment his fingers touched the flour in the basin, he felt as if his body had been activated.
Without even thinking, his hands began kneading the dough.
Moreover, the ingredients needed for kneading dough, such as yeast, baking powder, sugar, and lard, can be measured very precisely, requiring no thought at all.
But kneading dough is hard work.
Chen Yuan gritted his teeth and finally managed to knead the 25 jin of dough, then placed it in a warm place to ferment.
Then he began processing the minced pork.
He held a cleaver in each hand and frantically chopped the pork into minced meat.
For a moment, he felt like a cleaver killer.
After mincing the pork, add seasonings such as minced ginger, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, and cooking oil.
Then, use your hands to keep kneading the meat to allow the seasonings to be absorbed into the pork filling.
After finishing all this, it was already 5:30.
After all, this was Chen Yuan's first time opening a shop and his first time making fresh meat buns, so he was a little unsure about the timing and proceeded a bit slowly.
He closed the shop door and hurried home.
Chen Youyou was still sleeping, sleeping soundly like a little pig.
Chen Yuan gently picked her up and carried her away along with her small schoolbag and the clothes she wore that morning.
He was really worried about leaving his child home alone.
We arrived at the store.
It's almost 6 o'clock.
Chen Yuan placed his daughter in the innermost part of the store so she could fall asleep.
The dough has now risen properly.
Chen Yuan quickly filled two steamer baskets with buns.
Twenty minutes later.
A rich, distinctive aroma of steamed buns wafted out of the shop.
It was 6:30.
Grandpa Zhang, who went out for his morning exercise, is already heading home at this time.
It was still a bit chilly on the early spring morning.
Grandpa Zhang was wearing a dark blue hat, and the breath he exhaled formed a layer of white mist.
He swung his arms vigorously as he walked.
His clenched fist slammed against his chest with each swing, making a series of thuds.
Beside him was Grandpa Xu, his morning exercise partner.
Grandpa Xu wasn't afraid of the cold, so he wore very little clothing, let alone a hat.
The two moved in perfect unison, talking as they walked.
Just as the two were getting closer to Chen Yuan's shop, Grandpa Xu suddenly sniffed.
"Hey, Lao Zhang, can you smell that? Where's that smell coming from? It smells so good! It smells a bit like steamed buns to me."
After hearing this, Grandpa Zhang also took a deep sniff of the air.
"It tastes like steamed buns."
"Whose steamed buns smell so good? Wait, when did a steamed bun shop open in our neighborhood?"
"I don't know either. I never buy steamed buns from outside. I think they're not clean. Haven't you seen what they say online? They put things like lymph node meat and rat meat in them."
As soon as Grandpa Zhang finished speaking, Grandpa Xu felt nauseous and quickly interrupted him.
"Alright, alright, stop talking, it's disgusting."
The two strolled a few more steps forward and arrived directly opposite a purely vegetarian breakfast shop.
The closer you get to the breakfast shop, the more fragrant and intense the aroma becomes.
Grandpa Xu sniffed hard and quickly locked onto his target.
"Huh? Didn't this shop run by my wife go out of business? How come it's reopened? And it smells so good, it doesn't seem like something she could make."
As soon as Grandpa Zhang saw the shop, he grabbed Grandpa Xu's arm and hurried forward, walking as if he had encountered a raging flood.
"Hurry up, hurry up! Don't stop here, quick, quick!"
Grandpa Xu loved steamed buns, and upon smelling the aroma, he seemed rooted to the spot. After being reluctantly pulled a few steps away, he shook off Grandpa Zhang's hand.
"What are you doing? I was just about to go in and buy two steamed buns."
"Come on, don't you know what that young wife is like? If we go in, she'll give us a lecture, and she'll keep going on and on."
Grandpa Zhang had clearly learned his lesson before, and said with lingering fear.
"They won't even let us eat meat, saying that eating meat is killing and committing a sin. They're acting strangely and are obviously not normal."
Just at this time.
Inside the house, Chen Yuan lifted the pot lid, and a rich aroma suddenly burst forth, surging out like a wave towards the two people outside not far away.
As soon as Grandpa Zhang smelled the aroma, his stomach rumbled loudly.
"Wow, you know what, the smell today is really strange, it smells so good!"
At that moment, Chen Yuan heard voices outside.
Suddenly, a head popped out of the shop, startling Grandpa Zhang and Grandpa Xu.
Upon seeing two people outside, Chen Yuan immediately smiled and greeted them.
"Have you two gentlemen just returned from your morning exercise?"
"I have some freshly baked, handmade pork buns at home. Would you like to buy some for breakfast?"