1327 Bake Flatbreads in an Oven (1/2)

He took out a stone mortar and ground the grains shaken off from the spirit wheat into fine flour with pure white color. Then, he put the flour into a large blue-and-white porcelain bowl and mixed it with the Spring of Life that contained rich spirit essence.

This Fortune Flatbread of Primeval Chaos was not a dish in the God of Cooking's Menu, so Bu Fang used the best ingredients he could get his hands on right now.

After adding the Spring of Life and yeast to the flour, he began to knead it. Before long, he had turned the flour into a huge dough. Bu Fang's movements were rhythmic, and his use of every ounce of strength was just right. Kneading dough was also a skill that required proper technique.

As he kept kneading, the dough in the bowl began to rotate and became more and more glittering and translucent. It looked as if there was light shining from it. After kneading it for some time, Bu Fang patted the dough. A force burst out of it and bounced his palm back.

He took out a cup of oil, poured it into the bowl, and then continued to knead the dough. This time, his kneading movements were different.

The addition of oil turned the dough greasy, and as he kneaded it, the oil mixed with the dough and turned its color, which was as fair as a baby's skin, to yellow.

The purpose of the oil was to enhance the taste of the flatbread, so Bu Fang's choice of oil was the vegetable oil he had meticulously concocted, not animal oil.

After thoroughly mixing the oil into the dough, he set the bowl aside and waited for it to rise.

That was a long wait, so Bu Fang didn't stand in the kitchen. He wiped his hands, took a square of cloth and put it over the dough, then walked out of the kitchen with a teapot and came to the dining room. He pulled up a chair, sank back on it at the door, and looked at the clouds drifting slowly outside.

After drinking tea for a while, Bu Fang returned to the kitchen. He lit a fire in the stove, set the Black Turtle Constellation Wok on it, and poured golden oil into the wok. When the oil boiled, he added butter into it and began to stir-fry. After the butter turned into shortening, he poured it into a bowl and set it aside.

The dough expanded a little after fermentation, and the energy in it was swirling. He took out the dough, rolled it into a cake, smeared the shortening on it, and sprinkled it with crystal sugar.

The preparation of the flatbread was completed.

Then came the most important part of making the flatbread: baking. It was not easy to bake the Fortunate Flatbread. It was called the Fortunate Flatbread of Primeval Chaos, which was a long name, but the key was the Primeval Chaos. As for what it meant, it was something worth studying, and it also had a lot to do with the baking method.

A huge shadow suddenly appeared and fell to the ground with a bang. It was a huge oven. Made of clay, the oven's surface was uneven and blackened, which gave it a rustic look. It was two meters tall, a meter in diameter, and wrapped by a layer of yellow clay. Bu Fang called it a charcoal oven.

After taking out the oven, he went into the Heaven and Earth Farmland. He wandered around the Myriad Treasures Immortal Tree for a while before breaking off several of its slender branches, causing the tree to keep swaying its branches as if it was fighting him. When he was done, he quickly left the farmland and returned to the kitchen.

He put the branches in the middle of the charcoal oven, then opened his mouth to spew a white flame. The flame fell into the oven and ignited the branches of the Immortal Tree, which began to burn brightly.

After all this, Bu Fang retreated to one side.

The Fortunate Flatbread needed to be made from top-grade ingredients. Even the firewood were the branches of the Immortal Tree, which was absolutely superior-grade.

The fire burned in the oven, and the flames seemed to boil. As the branches of the Immortal Tree burned, dense smoke began to fill the air. At the same time, scorching heat clung to the oven walls, and the high temperature distorted the air inside. Bu Fang had his reason for using a charcoal oven, because only by baking the flatbread with this thing could it be regarded as an authentic flatbread.

After a long time, the branches of the Immortal Tree finally burned up. After all, Bu Fang didn't take too many branches.

With the dough in his hand, he stepped on the air and rose up to the mouth of the charcoal oven. He looked into the oven. Inside, the ashes from the branches were still giving off a high temperature, which was what he needed.

His eyes became focused, and he reached his hand into the oven to grab the flatbread. Once inside the oven, the heat seemed to melt his arm. Even with his current Nine-revolution Little Saint cultivation, he was struggling to cope with the heat. After all, it was the heat generated by the burning of the Immortal Tree branches.

With a splat, Bu Fang slapped the dough in his hand on the wall of the oven. The dough sizzled in an instant and began to cook under the hot temperature. He repeated the same action and slapped the rest of the dough to the wall. In a short time, the oven wall was covered with eighteen doughs.

It was not bad to bake eighteen doughs at one time.

Bu Fang drew his hand back. His arm was already red with the searing heat in the oven. To be honest, cooking this Fortune Flatbread really required skills.

He sat cross-legged on the ground. A stream of mental force poured out of him toward the oven, spreading into it like threads and covering the whole oven. He then began to carefully observe the changes of the doughs.

Time passed. About three hours later, the flatbreads were done.

Bu Fang opened his eyes and withdrew his mental force. The next moment, a brilliant shaft of light thrust out of the oven and shot into the sky. A rumbling sound could be heard as thunderclouds began to gather over Yellow Spring City.