Steamer

We bought our steamer in early August when our Tatung rice cooker was still on Pacific ocean. Well, we can make rice with pot, but it is easier to make it with rice cooker or steamer. That's why we bought our steamer. It is a 2-layer steamer, so we can make rice and steamed vegetable in the same time.

In late August, our wonderful rice cooker came and we start to use it but not steamer to make rice. After ignoring the steamer for a while, we decided to make steamed buns or steamed buns with milk+sugar+butter or chocolate stuffing. Then the steamer has become very useful.

In the beginning, kneading dough was a tough job for us. It stuck on our hands and we could not get it off. Kneading dough also made our hands sour. But after making steamed buns in the weekend for 3 weeks, I think we are good on it now.

Here is the simple receipt again:
Steamed buns:
3 cups of flour (ps. it is rice cup, about 160 mL)
1/3 cup of sugar
1 Tsp yeast
-> mix roughly by chopsticks
-> add 1 cup of water slowly and keep mixing
-> Knead dough until not sticky on hand
-> rise 1-2 hours inside microwave (ps. it depends on the room temperature)
-> use some flour on hand and the dough to knead the dough again
-> separate to 8 pieces (ps. we can put anything we like in to make steamed bun with stuffing or simply make steamed bun)
-> steam 15-20 minutes with our steamer

Milk+sugar+butter stuffing:
We use milk powder to do it. Please remember to check where it or its ingredients originated. Do not buy anything with melamine if you want to live longer and healthier. There are huge animal feed recalls in 2007 and milk products scandal in 2008. Well, I think everybody knows what's happened. The ratio of milk powder:sugar:butter is 2:1:1. But I think that we should use a little bit less butter. For 8 steamed buns with stuffing, it will be:
4 TBSP milk powder
2 or less TBSP sugar
2 or less TBSP butter