"What are you looking at? Go boil some water," Lady Zhou told Lady Zhang, then instructed Lian Xiuxiu, "Call your second and third sisters-in-law, and also Yeye and Yaya over."
Children are always filled with enthusiasm and curiosity when it comes to making buns. Lian Manman had eaten buns in her previous life but her memory of making them was fuzzy. Now, she and Xiao Qi were both curiously perched on the edge of the kang, watching Old Master Lian knead the dough.
The dough for the buns mainly used millet flour, but if only millet flour was used, the dough would become too sticky, making the buns glue to one's mouth. Therefore, a proper proportion of sorghum flour had to be added to the millet flour.