What's the matter?

Ah Yao looked helplessly at the back of the maid's departure, opened the small door and looked out.

A small path connects the kitchen, a large field of lotus leaves, one or two red lotus flowers emerge in the middle, and a lonely boat is tied to the edge of the lotus pond.

Close the door and look back to count the materials, lotus, lotus seeds, chrysanthemums, jasmine......

Ah Yao exuded the message of "pitiful, helpless, and weak" in the corner, and the maid next to the cook next to her glanced at Ah Yao, and whispered to her cook as a joke: "Girl, those flowers and grass in the corner are said to be the food and drink dew of the gods, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they do not eat the fireworks in the world." ”

"Don't talk too much, focus on your business. ”

Some cooks warn and restrain their own people, and some share gossip with their own families: "I heard that there are two banquets in the house today, the young master has a literary banquet where their poems are opposed, and the girl's family has a poetry and painting meeting for the girls, and she is in charge of the six girls is an exception. ”

"I see. ”

"Don't break your mouth too much, whether it's a literary banquet or a poetry and painting meeting today, in the final analysis, it's just to find a good husband for the girl. ”

"Oh, isn't that sixth girl a loss?"

"I can invite my friends from the countryside to her small banquet and see the wealth in the world, where there is a loss. The cook covered her mouth and smiled.

“……”

She said okay, don't break her mouth, but her voice is not low at all, most of the kitchen can hear it, A-Yao naturally heard it clearly, and felt that she had taken over a hot list, but after thinking about it, she was a cook, and the main family spent a lot of money to invite her to come, so that the main family could eat happily and eat at ease, it was her business, why bother to think about what the main house had and didn't have.

The problem though......

Is it really necessary to make a lotus feast?

Just when she thought so, a maid with a round face ran into the kitchen, looked left and right, and asked the maid in the kitchen again, and determined that Ah Yao, who was in the deepest part of the kitchen, was the person she was looking for. "Excuse me, but is it the lady of the conpoy?"

Ah Yao was still sketching out the recipe in her mind, worrying about what to do, but the maid next to her woke her up, "I am, what's the matter?"

"I'm Luping next to the sixth girl, come and see what you need, girl. Lu Ping explained her intentions, and when she saw the materials in Ah Yao's hand, her heart was half cold, and she felt a burst of resentment in her heart, and her face was flushed.

How can these people treat girls like this!

Ah Yao breathed a sigh of relief, there were maids around the main family, dietary preferences and taboos, and the number of people who finally understood could tell her, she was saved from the tangled sea of suffering!"It's great that you're here, how many people are the six girls going to feast on? What don't they eat......?"

Seeing that A-Yao was in charge, Luping was somewhat relieved, paid for A-Yao's ingredients, and repeatedly begged A-Yao to do it well.

A-Yao: "When the time comes, the six girls ...... Wine or tea for your guests?"

Lu Ping: "First of all, tea, there is a link of qushui flowing on the table, and the newly brewed rice wine is used, but I don't drink too much after tasting it." ”

"Since it's a meandering water, then I'll add some elegance to you. ”

In her unexplained eyes, A-Yao asked her to stay and take care of the ingredients, and set off on a flat boat by herself, with a penny prop, and floated into the lotus pond.

The head of the boat opened the lotus leaves, and they had to bend their heads sideways, waiting for the boat to pass through, they couldn't wait to close and recover into a green lotus group, and A-Yao was hidden in the depths of the lotus leaves.

The glutinous rice paper carefully wraps one, two, or two tea leaves, and puts them into the lotus flowers that are waiting to be put into the bud, and the floral fragrance infiltrates the tea leaves, and there is a hidden lotus fragrance when brewed.

She saw that there were a few lotus leaves that were slightly larger than a palm growing nearby, and they were in good condition, so she cut off the lotus leaves for retention.

When I returned, the new ingredients had arrived.

A basket of river prawns, a mandarin fish, bracken, lettuce, bamboo shoots, eggs, dried shrimp, kelp, lotus pods, lotus seeds, tofu, and old hens.

The other cooks glanced at it and snickered secretly, don't look at the materials, there are a lot of them, the mandarin fish is not big, if you really want to talk about it, there is no dish that can support the façade, this maid adds money and adds vegetables to the table, which is like the golden jade jade they made, monkey head flying dragon, peony swallow vegetables, a product of sea cucumber, hibiscus chicken slices, Yunlin duck, Shili ginkgo biloba and other dishes that have the intention to have a head, and have a lot of face to be able to calm the table, this six girls are really miserable.

"Are these enough?" Lu Ping was worried, only to know how many there were when she sent it, and secretly hated the mother-in-law who bought it, she was insatiable, and she felt sorry for her own girl who spent all her monthly silver, and invited the cook to buy more ingredients, but she might not be able to make a decent meal.

"Enough. Ah Yao nodded, catching a glimpse of Lu Ping's distressed and depressed face, she comforted: "Don't worry, I will do my best to make your girl feel that the silver is floating and she can't hear it." ”

Luping said she had no confidence.

The six girls' small banquet was staggered with the literary banquet and the poetry and painting banquet, and it was placed in the afternoon, when the sun was twilight, and for Ah Yao, this time was too sufficient!

First of all, we will make cakes for entertaining guests, lotus cake and lotus seed cake.

Lotus mushrooms are used to make lotus cakes and lotus seed cakes.

Soaking lotus seeds in hot alkaline water can make the lotus seeds easy to cook soft, A-Yao brushes the lotus seeds with alkaline noodles, washes them white, removes the lotus core, and then soaks them in cold water for half an hour, and then steam them over high heat until they are ripe and pounded into mushrooms.

Steaming the agar until melted, pour it into a copper pot with lotus seeds, sugar and sugar osmanthus and continue to boil, skimming off the foam. Ah Yao had already folded out square molds with bay leaves, poured the boiled lotus seeds into the molds, and put them in the cool well water to wait for condensation.

The dry flour was dipped in lard and turned into a single lump dough, which was kneaded by A-Yao, and gradually melted into a large dough, and there was already a light red moist dough next to it, which was mixed and kneaded with red yeast water and lard dough, and the water and oil dough in the red area was wrapped in puff pastry, rolled into a rectangle, folded in three layers, rolled out and folded in three layers, and cut the round pie crust.

The fire on the stove is not big, she didn't forget to pay attention to the wok when kneading the dough, the temperature of the wok rises, the snow-white lard slowly melts, when the oil is not yet boiling, add sugar to boil, waft out a sweet smell, the spoon pushes a few times, the sugar melts in the oil and then adds the lotus mushroom and stir-fry, until the bubbles are reduced, and the sugar and cooked lard continue to be added during the frying process.

The taste of lard is no longer obvious, it is fused in the lotus mushroom, and it is wrapped in its oil, and the sweet and sticky lotus mushroom has a clear oily appearance.

Wrap the filling in the crust and pinch it tightly and cut it into five pieces with a knife from the top to the sides.

Remove the oil from the pan, put the raw lotus crisp in a colander and put it in the oil pan.

With a brush, the lotus crisp blooms in the oil pot, the petals are clearly layered, the outer layer is light red, the middle is white, and the inside is brown, like a lotus.

Serve on a long dark plate, garnish with leaves, and serve to guests.