Stardew Valley #10: Strange Bun

Ingredients: Wheat Flour, Periwinkle, Void Mayonnaise

Item Description: What's inside?

Alright this one sounds like another proper weird combo. One things for sure, its gonna have a bun. I'm gonna go with a steamed bao dough.

We've got bread flour, a mix of yeast AND baking powder, a bit of sugar and a pinch of salt.

Then we mix in warm water, milk and cooking oil. All the liquids!

Seems to be on the dry side, but maybe thats preferable, its probably going to be a bitch to shape and stuff.

Leave it to rise for a few hours.

Now for the fillings! So, a periwinkle is actually a sea snail. Not my favourite thing to start with, but in the spirit of things im going to try for a near neighbour, another type of mollusc, cockles! I found this jar of pickled, cooked cockles, so we shouldnt have to worry about how well they'll steam inside a bread roll. Maybe.

And leaning in to the pickled seafood flavour, I thought i'd combine it with some carrot and ginger. Then for the "void mayonnaise" I thought it would be cool to mix mayo with some pickled red cabbage to give it the ominous appearance (and flavour) of an otherworldly mayo.

I used my julienne slicer and a knife to dice the carrot and ginger pretty nice. I suppose I could have just used a grater... ANYWAY then ive added some salt, pepper and an extra dollop of mayo which i probably wont regret.

Mix it all up and the filling looks like this. Its uh... its vinegary. Yeah.

OK now for the hard part probably... I dont really know what im doing AT ALL but ive crafted a greaseproof paper cone so that we can try and hold a conical shape to stuff the filling into, and hopefully end up with something roughly resembling the conical buns at the end. 

This is still a hassle but it sorta works, kinda.

We have a stuffed bun! This is more like pottery class than cooking. Then ive tried to score lines in the sides in order to see if i can get the "stripes" like on the bun's graphic.

Alright these seem close enough to me. Now they go in the steamer to cook!

Finally we want that void mayo topping. Turns out the cabbage juice immediately turns the mayo into watery liquid, so ill just incorporate some shredded cabbage and hope for the best.

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By the time I was done cooking i was starting to dread this somewhat. I don't know, all those smelly pickled things... When i bit into the bread it was sweet and pleasant, and the filling was... well it wasn't great, but not a dealbreaker. By my second bun i started to feel queasy... 

Then i got diarrhea that evening so the leftovers went in the bin.

Not exactly sure where it went so wrong but im gonna have to stop doing shit like this. It's not worth it.