The tutorial for making the polybuns is as follows:
1. Rise the pumpkin dough. Take an appropriate amount of dough, deflate and knead into a large round bun. Roll a long thicker strip and circle it around the bun. Pinch and flatten into a basin shape. Press out the pattern.
2. Take another appropriate amount of dough, roll it into a long strip and cut it into small even doses. Take a small dosage, roll it into a three-finger strip and press it with your thumbs on both sides. Squeeze and pinch to form small dumplings. Arrange four small dumplings in a "basin".
3. Use the mold to press out the Chinese characters. Wipe a bit of water on the area where you want to stick the Chinese character. Use the mold to press out the pink flower. Wipe the opposite side of the flower with water and press it in a circle. Roll a small ball in the center and fill it in.
4. Press out small yellow and pink flowers. Fold the yellow and pink flowers over each other with a little water. Molasses for twenty minutes. Cold water on the drawer, medium-low heat steaming twenty minutes. Turn off the heat and simmer for two to three minutes. Open the lid. The beautiful pots of treasure come out of the pot.
The treasure bowl is an ancient Chinese folklore treasure. This allusion comes from Zhou Renlong's "picking lamps set different": "early Ming Shen Wansan micro time, see the fisherman holding more than a hundred frogs, will be filed graver, to buy with the acid, longitudinal in the pool. Subsequent clamor up to the day, sticking ears can not sleep, the morning to drive, see the frogs are encircled in a tile basin, the different, will return to the hand as a raincoat. Wan San wife occasionally left a silver hairpin in the basin, silver hairpin full, uncountable, to the money and silver test is also like this, by the world of financial heroes."
Ming dynasty Hongwu years when building the Jubao door, foundation subsidence repeatedly build still building not, Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang know this after making the strategist fortune-telling, said the foundation of the city wall there are monsters specializing in eating soil to eat the wall bricks, the need to be buried under the city of a Jubao basin to suppress, Zhu Yuanzhang decree to levy Shen Wansan's treasure Jubao basin and buried under the city gate, really built, the door is therefore named "Jubao Gate".