1, according to the instructions, the amount can be slightly more in winter.
2. Put the yeast into a bowl, add a spoonful of sugar and melt it with warm water. Pour into the flour and knead until the flour is slightly soft. Cover it with a damp cloth and put it in a warm place. When the volume becomes larger and there are a lot of small bubbles on the surface, it will be fine.
3. Cover the steamed bread with a dry towel and let it stand for 20 minutes.
4, water into the steamer, steaming 15 minutes -20 minutes.
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Steamed bread is one of the common staple foods in the family. How can steamed bread be soft and strong? The trick is as follows:
1. Mix flour with cold water in summer and warm water in winter. It is 1 ~ 2 hours earlier in winter than in summer. Be careful when adding water to the dough.
2. Knead the dough several times to make the starch and protein in the flour fully absorb water, so that the expressed gluten is sincere. Good dough should be stored at a certain temperature, 30℃ is appropriate.
3, when the noodles have risen, we must master the degree of fermentation. If the social group is already in a honeycomb shape and there are many small ones, it means that it has been fermented. The bigger the eyes of the honeycomb cube, the older the yeast is, even too much.
4, steamed buns on the cage to cook sheep, have to face. Winter is about 15 ~ 20 hours, and summer is shorter. When the steamed bread is put on the cage, the water in the pot must be turned on, and the atmosphere should be seen for 10 minutes.
5. The joint between the steamer and the pot mouth must not leak, and the leaking place must be blocked with a wet cloth. Cover the lid tightly when steaming with aluminum pot.
6. When steaming steamed bread, the pot must be heated with cold water and gradually raise the temperature, so that the steamed bread blank is evenly heated. Don't steam steamed bread with hot water or boiled water at first, because steamed bread is easy to pinch your hands.
Tips for steaming steamed bread
(1) When steaming steamed bread, if the dough looks deformed, you can dig a small pit in the middle of the dough and pour two small cups of white wine. After stopping 10 minutes, the dough will be deformed.
(2) If there is no yeast, honey can be used instead, and 15-20g honey can be added to every 500g flour. After kneading the dough, cover it with a wet cloth for 4-6 hours. The steamed bread steamed from honey dough is soft, waxy and fragrant, and the entrance is sweet.
(3) In winter, the indoor temperature is low and the dough mixing time is long. If you put some sugar in the dough during fermentation, the time for making dough can be shortened.
(4) In the fermented dough, people often put an appropriate amount of alkali to remove the sour taste. Check whether the dosage of alkali is moderate. You can cut the dough with a knife. If there are even holes in sesame seeds, it means that the amount of alkali used is appropriate.
(5) If the steamed bread turns yellow due to too much alkali, and the alkali smell is unpleasant, you can add100-160g vinegar to the steamed bread water, and then steam the steamed bread in a pot for 10- 15 minutes, so that the steamed bread turns white and has no alkali smell.
(6) When steaming steamed bread, put a little salt water in the flour to promote fermentation. Steamed bread is white.
How can steamed bread not stick to drawer cloth? Don't unload the drawer quickly after eating steamed bread. First uncover the top cover of the steamer and continue steaming for 3 ~ 5 minutes. After the top drawer of steamed bread is dried quickly, remove the drawer, turn it over on the chopping board, and take off the drawer cloth. In this way, the steamed bread neither sticks to the drawer cloth nor sticks to the chopping board. Please wait 1 minute before unloading the second drawer.