1. Add yeast to the flour, and pour fine sugar in a small bowl
2. Stir and melt the sugar with warm water and leave it to not be hot
3. Slowly pour the sugar water not higher than 40 degrees into the flour, stir it into cotton wool with chopsticks
4. Remove the chopsticks, knead the flour into a smooth dough, cover it with a damp cloth and leave it in a warm place or in the oven to ferment
5. Ferment to about twice the size
6. Wash and drain the small red dates in Shanxi
7. Add a little dry flour to the fermented dough to fully exhaust and knead it to its original size
8. Roll the dough into thin strips
9. Roll a circle around the red dates and squeeze it tightly
10. Do many in turn
11. Put it in a steamer with a non-stick mat, and put it in a pattern. Cover the pot and place it on the steamer, fill the steamer with half a pot of water, and let it rise for about 15 minutes. Bring to a boil and continue to steam for 15 minutes.
12. After turning off the heat, the steamed buns were dull for about 3 minutes and then the lid was opened.
Tips:The dates used don't need to be too big, they are small and exquisite and delicious. The new style of steamed buns can be placed at will and made into other patterns.
