Chapter 9 Desserts and Pastries
More than three months have passed in the blink of an eye, due to the hotel's turnover soaring, coupled with the general manager Wu Liang's hype about Chen Ang.
A few days ago, Wang Qiang also officially retired, and naturally Chen Ang became the new head chef, and added 20,000 yuan to the salary of the original head chef, and now Chen Qiang's monthly salary is more than 30,000 yuan, and the full attendance bonus is about 400,000 yuan in a year.
Now it can't be regarded as a big rich, but it can be regarded as a small rich, in this Dragon City.
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The golden autumn of October is fruitful.
On the last day of October, in the small Jinsui Hotel, several people are happily busy, this is the celebration banquet in October, after a thrilling, twists and turns, intrigue and struggle, and finally to the harvest season.
In the front hall, Liu Mei and a group of waiters were cleaning up the tables and chairs, and together with Liu Dong, they set up a huge round tabletop, found a rotating bracket, spread clean dinner cloths, and were busy placing various tableware.
In the back kitchen, the little brother Ao Le was following behind Chen Yu, staring intently at his movements, and holding a small notebook in his hand, recording the key points of the process that Chen Yu said.
"Xiaole, mung bean shortbread and red bean shortbread should be fine, and then I will talk about the authentic macaron and the modified macaron. ”
"Authentic macarons are mixed with almond flour and sugar, the best ratio is 7:3, if you use large almonds imported from the United States by Jiahe Food Company, the ratio is 6.8:3.2, if you use sweet almonds from Hainan in the south of China, that is, the goods of Brother Li's family in the Bayi Road Dried Fruit Wholesale Market, the ratio should be 7.3:2.7, this is the experience I have summed up after many trials, if you change the source of goods in the future, you may need to reallocate the ratio. You can write down this number and don't reveal it. ”
"To grind the mixture into powder, the grinder is best to use the 1000 watt low-power one in the factory, the fineness should be 200 mesh, don't choose 50 mesh, 50 mesh is too coarse, the taste is a little rough, 200 mesh taste is delicate and soft. Once the mixture is ground, set aside. This jar is ground by me in advance, and you can make your own machine in the factory, so as not to block other people's faces, and the workers can't see the specific recipe, which is safe and easy to keep secret. ”
"It is best to choose local eggs for egg whites, stirring like me, it is best to use stirring tools to process manually, of course, if you find it troublesome, if you want to use a machine, choose a slow stirring speed as much as possible, add a little Jing refining first-class white sugar from Guangxi, and stir until the egg whites are foamy. ”
"And then like this, yes, put it in this container, mix the almond flour and the egg whites together, continue to stir, the ratio of almond puree to egg whites is 6:4 is optimal, you can decide more or less by yourself. The last time I went to someone's Frenchman's house, she did just that, and the process was more complicated than I did......"
"Okay, these are stirred, and then put these pastes into the mouth of the nǎi oil piping flower, squeeze out such a large flat paste, the area depends on how big the macarons you are going to make in the future, pay attention, be sure to use imported silicone plates to put these, other tools will not work......"
Looking at the more than 20 round batter batters squeezed out of the small silicone board in front of him, Chen Yu breathed a sigh of relief, handed the tools in his hand to Aole, and said: "This batch will wait for half an hour to air dry, Xiaole, you can come, you will do the next batch!"
Ole washes his hands, puts on the pastry chef's hat and recalls the steps one by one, then from the pastry chef's hat he recalls the steps one by one, and then repeats the movements from the beginning.
After a while, Wang Qiang arrived, saw a few guys waiting boredly in the front hall, and then looked at the two busy guys in the back kitchen with their heads down, smiled, said hello to Liu Dong and a few others, and walked to the back kitchen.
"Brother Qiang!" Chen Yu said with a smile.
Wang Qiang saw Aole's concentration and admired twice, and then saw the dough on the silicone board, his eyes lit up: "Little Pleiades, the recipe for macarons has been decided?"
Chen Ang touched his chin and nodded: "Well, there are two versions. The perfect version of the high-quality materials tastes better than the imported goodie bags sold in the supermarket, and it should be similar to the freshly made at the café in French Street...... There is also a simple version of less sugar and more protein powder, the almonds are also made of domestic Hainan almonds, and the filling is the Yuanzu filling you helped provide, which is not as sweet as the authentic French macarons, which may be more in line with the Chinese taste......"
Wang Qiangqiang was overjoyed, leaned over, looked at the small dough squeezed out with a decorating tool, and exclaimed: "Xiao Ang, you are really amazing! Hahahahaha! This chef, you are doing a very good job, several times better than this old man like me. Chen Ang scratched his head embarrassedly.
"Brother, I'm also very good, I did all this!" Ao Le couldn't help but interject, and immediately amused a few people.
The first plate of macaron dough began to enter the oven, Chen Yu personally demonstrated, said: "The surface of the dough must be hard before it can enter the oven, and the oven must be preheated first, the temperature should be adjusted to 180 degrees, bake for 8 minutes, or 200 degrees, bake for 6 minutes, this specific time is about the same, Xiaole, you can watch it in the future, as long as there is a tiny jagged skirt on the edge of the small round cake." ”
Wang Qiang nodded and added in a low voice: "The data must be kept confidential!"
Ao Le rolled his eyes: "Brother, you are too fussed! In the future, this will be the factory directly producing finished products, and the franchise store will only know how to sell them! Even the processing workshop in the factory, I will not let the workers enter at will, and when the powder is provided, I will make it at home, and see who steals the technology!"
Wang Qiang patted his white hat and said angrily: "Take precautions! These are the results of Xiao Miasia's great efforts, how can you do it if you don't pay attention to secrecy! Xiao Mia trusts you so much, you must not mess things up!"
The three-layer oven is convenient, two people can not stop, make dozens of them in batches, and wait for the temperature of the first layer oven to 140 degrees and bake for 25 minutes, and the whole kitchen is already filled with the aroma of almonds.
There are a lot of people who came today, Liu Dong called a group of young ladies, and people from all walks of life.
The women were chatting and gossiping in the front hall, there were only three men busy in the kitchen, Ao Le was in charge of managing the oven and steamer, Liu Dong was in charge of the water table and playing lotus, and Chen Yu was in charge of the spoon.
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After the feast was over, everyone left happily one after another, leaving only a few core characters.
Chen Yu brought white fungus lotus seed soup to everyone and discussed the future of the hotel. However, it's good to listen to these things, these things are nothing more than the leader saying that the hotel is getting better and better, and they are all the credit of the staff, his credit or something. Use this to motivate your employees. Generally, Chen Yu went in and out of his left ear and out of his right ear, and he didn't listen to them at all.
After finishing speaking, everyone clapped happily and went back to their homes.
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