Zaohua Steamed Bun

Zaohua Steamed Bun

Overview

Looking at Tip of the Tongue 2, I saw the jujube steamed buns made, which reminded me of the jujube steamed buns my dad used to give us when I was a kid. My four sisters are all girls. Girls ate very little when they were young, and each of them would break a little bit of steamed buns. In order to coax us to eat more, dad always steams some fancy steamed buns. Dad knows a lot of tricks and always makes them very small, coaxing each of us to eat one. This type of jujube steamed bun is also one of their patterns. I often watched my father make it when I was a child, so I remember several patterns. It brought back memories, so I started making this steamed bun myself. To be honest, even before I ate it, it brought back endless memories of my dad, and I couldn’t help but shed tears.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. First mix homemade rice wine and water, add 300 grams of flour and mix into a batter, then ferment at room temperature until the volume increases to more than 2 times and there are obvious bubbles

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 1

  2. Add the remaining flour to the fermented batter, knead it into a smooth dough, and continue to ferment at room temperature until the inside of the dough becomes honeycomb-shaped.

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 2

  3. Knead the fermented dough thoroughly until it is round and smooth, then divide into portions

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 3

  4. Take a piece of dough and roll it into a long strip, then make it look curled

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 4

  5. Take a piece of dough and roll it into a long strip, then make it look curled

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 5

  6. Use chopsticks to clamp into a flower shape

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 6

  7. You can also make it smaller

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 7

  8. Clip them together to make small flowers

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 8

  9. You can also roll it up in the opposite direction and pinch it in the middle with chopsticks. I forgot to take a picture of the pinched part

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 9

  10. Cut the outermost circle so that it looks like a flower.

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 10

  11. After everything is done, cover it with a cloth and let it sit for 15 minutes

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 11

  12. Put in the basket and steam over high heat for 25 minutes.

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 12

  13. I have made several styles of steamed jujube steamed buns, but they are not as beautiful as what my dad makes, and they are not as varied as his old man’s

    Zaohua Steamed Bun step 13