The invention relates to a method for making steamed breads, which is characterized by comprising the following steps of: (1) dough making: stirring about 70% of flour, most of water and a pasty dough prepared with a small amount of
warm water in advance in a single-shaft S-shaped or
crank type dough maker for 5-10 minutes until a dough is unsticky and has elasticity and smooth surfaces, and then putting the dough into a fermenting cylinder, wherein the temperature of the dough requires to be 30 DEG C; (2)
fermentation: covering wet cloth on the fermenting cylinder, fermenting for about 3 hours in a fermenting room at the
room temperature of 26-28 DEG C and the
relative humidity of about 75% until the size of the dough is doubled, the internal
honeycomb tissue of the dough is uniform, and the dough has an obvious sour; (3)
neutralization, i.e. secondary dough making: putting the fermented dough into the dough maker, gradually adding dissolving water containing soda to neutralize acidity generated by
fermentation; and then adding remanent dry flour and water, stirring for 10-15 minutes until the dough is ripe, wherein the soda addition is mastered based on experience, and if the soda addition is appropriate, the dough has a soda
flavor and a good mouth feel; (4) formation: accomplishing quantitative
cutting and
rounding of the dough by adopting a double-roll spiral forming
machine, and then placing in boiling drawers (
steaming baskets) for
fermentation; (5) final fermentation: finally fermenting for 15 minutes at the temperature of 40 DEG C and the
relative humidity of about 80%; (6)
steaming:
steaming in a pot in the traditional method, wherein the dough requires to be placed on the drawers (baskets) when water is boiled, and is well cooked after being steamed for 30-35 minutes on strong fire, or for 25 minutes by using boiler steam for industrial production; and (7) cooling, carrying out air-blast cooling for 5 minutes or naturally cooling and then packaging.