After roasting the beans, Gu Jinli immediately extinguished the fire and said to Gu Jinxiu, who was tending the kitchen fire: "Sister, where is the small cloth bag I asked you to make?"
The small cloth bag is used to hold the roasted soybeans to make the cake base.
Gu Jinxiu replied: "It's hanging behind the door of our room, you can go get it yourself."
After hearing this, Gu Jinli ran to their room and took out a bundle of the small cloth bags hanging behind the door.
The small cloth bags were only as big as a clay basin and made of two layers of coarse linen, very sturdy, able to withstand pounding.
Gu Jinli returned to the kitchen veranda, took a wooden bowl, filled a small cloth bag with the roasted broken soybeans, then tied the bag shut with a strip of coarse cloth, and placed it on the straw mat set aside for later use.
