Chapter 160: Nine-Layer Cake
Pei Shuo hadn't been at Sun Niang's Foot for a while, and the stomach-warming winter menus on the water sign — such as claypot rice, cross-bridge rice noodles, pork belly chicken and sesame oil chicken noodle soup — were removed out of season.
Ah Yao replaced the salty, fresh and delicious fried river shrimp with leek flowers, the scrambled eggs with toon sprouts that are very strong in season, the rice crackers as thin as rice paper but the size of a palm wrapped in radish, fungus, bean sprouts, dried tofu spring cakes, extremely light rice rolls met with special soy sauce, crispy fungus, refreshing bean sprouts, sweet radish, dried tofu with a rich taste of absorbing sauce, as well as rice fragrance, five colors and five flavors, rice roll spring cakes have become the most popular food in the store.
Since there is fried river shrimp with leek flowers, when the regular customers in the neighborhood come, they can't move to make a small wine or two, and order a plate of fried river shrimp with leek flowers as an accompaniment.
There are a lot of people chatting about alcohol, the store is a storyteller in the window, the back wall is playing chess, and all kinds of street rumors and gossip in the middle of the lobby are commonplace, holding tabloids to express their hearts.
Ah Yao came out to listen to it in her spare time, even if Pei Shuo didn't come, she also knew that the relatives of Pei Liu's family were yellow.
The streets and alleys are spreading it, saying that the girl of the Liu family saw that Pei Shuo's conduct was not right, and she did not respect her elders, which scared Mrs. Liu to the sky, and the Liu family invited a Taoist priest and a monk, and finally the girl of the Liu family promised not to marry Pei Shuo before the bed, and then she woke up.
came to report every day, and Mo Xingle, who regarded Sun Niang's foot shop as a canteen, also knew a lot: "You said that Pei Shuo's kid, I can't think about giving up the low-hanging fruit - I haven't seen the small one, but the big one is married to me on the peak, and they are sisters, so it is speculated that she must be good-looking, and now he is locked up in the ancestral hall by his father and thinks about suffering, I really don't know what he thinks." ”
Ah Yao's eyebrows moved, and when she learned that Pei Liu's two families were not close, her heart and liver beat a few beats faster, and she was overjoyed.
"I said Xiao Yaozhu, you don't have any other ideas?" Mo Xingle's tone was relaxed, and his eyes were as sharp as a falcon.
She smiled: "What can I think, I'm just a little chef, how do I know what Pei Shuo thinks in his heart." ”
It's really oil and salt that don't go in, Mo Xingle muttered.
On the first day of the first month of March, Honeysuckle brought a letter from Pei Shuo, saying that he was waiting at the entrance of the alley on the third day of the third month of March, and he would not be seen or dispersed.
The woman in the alley began to talk about where to go on the third day of the third month of March, and A-Yao knew that this day was also a festival, several royal gardens and some private gardens in the capital were open to the public on this day for the people to go out, and there were different activities in the mountains before and after the Dongshan hunting ground in the suburbs of Beijing, Hongyuan, and even the Mingjin Pond in the palace, and there were people selling food and pastries outside these places, and you could also bring your own food boxes.
She listened a little and went home, leaving some surprises for Pei Shuo to take her to see.
The day after tomorrow, when I went to Mingjin Pond, I thought of Pei Shuo's twisting and pinching, and I thought of the worried little girl like an old mother who couldn't help but come to tell the answer, A-Yao wanted to laugh, what to do.
She came to the edge of the kitchen, where there was a dazzling array of ingredients, although the quantity was not many, they could be consumed in a few days, leafy vegetables could be made into kimchi, such as yams, sand ginger, taro could be stored for a few more days, and several pots were raised with shrimp, clams and clams.
Longevity noodles are a must, A-Yao's kneading action does not stop, stretching the noodles long, but it is the first time she makes longevity noodles, paying attention to a noodle constantly, and after several failures, it is finally done, she is relieved, the noodles are left in the Sun Niang's foot shop and cooked in the pot when the time comes, and it is better to take the five-color food to the green.
A-Yao asked the proprietress for leave, and it happened that the proprietress also planned to take Dawa and Xiaobao to Hongyuan for a walk on the third day of the third day of the third lunar month, and approved her leave.
"That...... Hostess, can I borrow a key for a while, I have a friend's birthday that day...... I want to borrow the kitchen in the store. Ah Yao rubbed the corners of her clothes, a little embarrassed.
The proprietress rolled her eyes: "Man, is it the handsome young man with the snake last time?"
In this regard, A-Yao could only keep smiling.
"Okay, okay, don't ask, fair lady, gentleman. The laughter of the proprietress faded away, leaving A-Yao with a blushing face.
After finishing the work in the store, A-Yao went back and began to gradually prepare the ingredients for tomorrow's outing, making semi-finished products today, and not having to get up early in the morning tomorrow.
The new rice that has been soaked overnight is taken out and ground into white rice milk.
The green tea of this era is thick and drunk, the tea leaves are ground into the end, and the tea whisk hits the boiling water and the tea powder, so that the black glazed tea cup reverberates and rolls up thousands of piles of snow, producing thick and dense cloud feet. This green tea powder is mixed into a strong green tea to make green rice milk.
The red part is mixed with hawthorn jam and rice milk, and Yao also wants to try to use the yellow mandarin juice stored in autumn to mix in rice milk to see if it will turn orange, but the taste is ...... Ah Yao unfortunately gave up the choice, if there were mangoes, she would make them by making coconut milk mango cakes.
But through the divergent thinking of coconut water jelly, she thought of papaya, and thought of the golden gourd, which is naturally sweet and can perfectly match rice milk in terms of color and taste.
It just so happened that she had a small one in her hand, which was a fresh thing that Mo Xingle brought to her from Honglu Temple, and the vegetable burden had not yet been sold, so she had to copy a copy of the recipe to him when she turned around, and the red, golden, and green rice milk were filtered and began to make nine-layer cakes.
The steamer used to steam Sixi dumplings is used to use several layers of tofu cloth to cushion the bottom, scoop the white rice milk to the tofu cloth and shake it flat, steam a cup of tea at the time, open it and see the rice milk steamed into a cake, and then spread the green tea rice milk, golden gourd rice milk, white rice milk, and hawthorn rice milk to the top, and wait for the bottom layer to be steamed into rice cakes, so that the new rice milk can be laid, so repeat the order of rice milk, and spread a total of nine times of pulp.
Finally, after the steamed cake is cooled, the tofu cloth is removed, and the nine-layer cake with distinct colors is ready.
A-Yao cut a small piece and tasted it, fortunately she added sugar and a few drops of sesame oil to the rice milk, each layer of rice cakes can be adhered to, and it can be easily separated, green tea is not too bitter, snatching away other flavors, hawthorn is fortunately not sour, I feel like walking a tightrope after eating, if the tea is too strong, bitterness robs the sweetness of hawthorn, hawthorn is sour, pumpkin taste is not obvious, what kind of dark cuisine awaits her......
Ah Yao was excited, glad that she succeeded, she was really a genius.
What is the effect if jasmine syrup is added to the rice milk and steamed with green tea rice cakes......
The thought she just raised quickly strangled to death, jasmine green tea is suitable for making water letter cakes, osmanthus cakes or jelly, but adding rice milk is still first.
Cut the nine-layer cake into a diamond shape, put together every five into a flower shape, put a Sixi siu mai in the middle to make a stamen, and the four pockets are eggs, shredded mushrooms, fresh shrimp, and celery grains.
"Nine-layer cakes, Sixi siu mai, and lotus leaf spring cakes with 'biting spring' should be enough, what should I bring to drink?"
The next day, A-Yao held the food box and saw Pei Shuo leaning against the wall from a distance, with his fingertips wrapped around the little white snake, as if he was reasoning with it.