Chapter 173: Tofu (14.5 thousand extra addition due to Yun Qi's recommendation)

Bai Shanbao interjected, "Her family's stewed yams are delicious, and so is the chicken."

Clearly, he had eaten at someone else's home before.

After having a meal at the Bai family, Manbao even brought back a plate of silken tofu.

Junior Ms.Qian and the others were seeing such a thing for the first time and gathered around curiously, "What's this?"

Old Zhou, who knew a bit more, chuckled, "This must be tofu, made from soybeans, I hear."

"Yes, yes, tofu indeed, it's really tasty when boiled." Manbao recited the boiling method Ms.Liu had told her, leaving it to her sister-in-law to figure out.

Touching her little belly, Manbao said, "I ate a lot of tofu for dinner today, so I won't have any more. Sister-in-law, once you learn how to make tofu, we can eat it every day."

Being made from beans, and in the rural homes, beans were cheaper than wheat; at least everyone consistently found wheat meals tastier than bean meals, not to mention the flour ground from wheat.