【Chapter 798】 Mooncake Making (Ask for Subscription!) )
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is on September 19, because Nini still has to go to kindergarten, and Xiao Feng's family has just come to the 'Dream Ranch' from China, so they decided to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival in the United States and wait until the Spring Festival to return to Ginkgo Village.
The total number of young cowboys from China and the staff of the breeding farm in the ranch exceeded 110, plus Xiao Feng's family, it was natural to have a lively holiday.
Therefore, coming together this morning, Xiao Feng's family, together with Ma Wanli and others, took action to make various preparations for tonight's grand dinner.
Xiao Feng specially called Ms. O'Reilly to ask for leave for Nini, and the little one can relax at home today.
No, the little one had just finished breakfast and took his brother to the stable to scrub the two ponies, and then rode around the lawn near the castle. Now, the riding skills of the two little ones have improved greatly, and Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao can rest assured that they can ride their own horses without accompanying them at any time.
Because the grass in the pasture is basically more than one meter, and the two little ones ride into the pasture on a pony, that is, they can't find anyone. Therefore they were warned not to enter the pasture, but to play on the lawn near the castle.
Of course, Xiao Feng was actually not worried about the safety of the two dolls, after all, Baiyun Heitu was their best bodyguard, and there were little golden eagles in the sky for aerial reconnaissance.
For children's education, Xiao Feng and Xu Mengyao are more inclined to the independent personality education of the United States, the so-called pampering and doting are basically invisible, and now it seems that the situation is not bad!
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Helena is not a city with a large number of Chinese people such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, and the Chinese supermarket is pitifully small, so naturally there is no dazzling array of mooncakes for sale.
Yesterday, when Xiao Feng's family went to Walmart to purchase, they found that there were only a few varieties of mooncakes in the supermarket, and the taste was extremely poor.
Xiao Feng's family, who are accustomed to eating delicious food, naturally looked down on the ordinary goods produced by these mechanical assembly lines, and decided to make zuò mooncakes in the ranch by themselves. It can be regarded as the atmosphere of the festival.
Xiao Feng remembers that when he was a child during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mrs. Xiao would make a lot of mooncakes, which was incomparable to the mooncakes bought in the supermarket outside when he grew up.
It's also funny to say, over the years, the packaging of moon cakes sold in supermarkets has become more and more luxurious, and sometimes luxury goods such as gold cups and silver chopsticks are even added, and the moon cakes eaten have become foils.
In the face of the market economy. Many things have gone bad!
Therefore, after returning to Ginkgo Village to start a business, Xiao Feng would work with the old lady every year to make all kinds of delicious mooncakes, which has formed a tradition of the Xiao family.
When he came to the United States, this tradition was not broken, and Xiao Feng decided to make his own zuò mooncakes!
Xiao Feng, who has watched the old lady and Xiao Jinhao make zuò moon cakes since he was a child, has been exposed to it, and his craftsmanship is naturally not bad. Recently, he has been studying Western cuisine with Dukase, and he has a deeper understanding of how to make noodles!
This time, Xiao Feng also wanted to try to add some elements of Western meals to the mooncake making zuò to see if he could make some tricks. If it is successful, the restaurant in the future will be able to add a signature dim sum, which is also good.
After breakfast, Xiao Feng began to knead the dough in order to ensure the deliciousness of the mooncakes. Xiao Feng gave up the convenience of the electric kneading machine, and chose to knead the dough by hand!
More than 130 people are employed throughout the ranch. In addition, he wanted to give some moon cakes to the surrounding neighbors, Xiao Feng decided to make zuò 500 moon cakes, according to the calculation of 50 grams of flour per moon cake crust, Xiao Feng had to knead at least 50 catties of flour!
That's a lot of work!
However, for Xiao Feng, who had been training for many years and had cultivated the 'Qi Refining Technique', this was not too difficult.
When Xiao Feng was kneading the dough. Xu Mengyao also took a special photo and put his two arms and the muscles under the tight T-shirt on the scarf, which immediately aroused heated discussions among many fans.
In recent years, the Mid-Autumn Festival has also begun to be included in the ranks of statutory holidays, and many people who rest on this day are accustomed to brushing their necks. Therefore, I soon saw the picture of Xiao Feng kneading dough and making zuò moon cakes in the United States.
Making your own zuò moon cakes is undoubtedly an unusually distant thing for people nowadays!
It is precisely because of this that Xiao Feng made zuò mooncakes in a foreign country, which resonated with many elderly fans, and everyone left messages on the scarf page, which eventually evolved into various good memories of childhood.
For many post-70s/80s, the various delicacies of childhood may not be as delicious as those bought in the supermarket now, but they represent the memory of that era, which is the most important thing.
In addition to homemade mooncakes, many delicacies such as rice cakes, zongzi, glutinous rice balls, and glutinous rice cakes that can be made at home occupy an extremely important position in people's memories.
In addition, wrapping snacks such as sour plum powder, fruit dan peel, sunflower seeds, sour radish, sour plum, etc., also awakens many people's memories of childhood.
Soon, because of the photos of Xiao Feng making zuò moon cakes, many post-70s/80s generations discussed their childhood life, and it became extremely lively on the Internet for a while.
Even, CCTV, which has now begun to introduce the concept of the Internet, has also initiated a discussion on childhood memories in the live news, from the Internet to traditional media, it seems to have formed a craze about childhood!
This is also a manifestation of Xiao Feng's huge influence, if it is replaced by ordinary people, fans will not buy it, and websites and TV stations will not follow suit.
After all, Xiao Feng's 60 million bib fans are all loyal and highly loyal, and every time Xiao Feng's bib is updated, it can cause a huge sensation.
A few days ago, Xiao Feng updated the photos of the Asian carp flooding in the 'Dream Lake' on his neck, which contributed to the imminent release of a new tourist route. Now, Wang Hongqi and Yang Yuanhang have reached a preliminary consensus, and the two will arrive at the 'Dream Ranch' in three days to further implement the details of the cooperation.
Of course, in addition to discussing various memories of childhood, many female fans are discussing Xiao Feng's figure, and saliva is almost flooded on the scarf fan page.
This year is the era of looking at faces!
Xiao Feng is handsome, and after being in a high position, he naturally has a powerful aura on his body, not to mention that Xiao Feng is completely different from other super-rich people, because he has eight-pack abs!
In the process of kneading the dough. The large muscles on Xiao Feng's arms and the eight-pack abs revealed through the tight T-shirt directly made the hearts of the women on the Internet sway!
These female fans claimed that they were willing to be Xiao Feng's aunt and wife, and Nini and Yu'er as their mothers, claiming to be Xiao Feng's queen. Palace. Fan group'!
For these female fans, they can only see Xiao Feng from time to time. In fact, it's a pity, if Xiao Feng can often appear on TV shows, how good would it be?
However, everyone knows in their hearts that this is just a luxury!
Now that Xiao Feng's net worth is more than 10 billion US dollars, it is estimated that no TV station can afford to invite Xiao Feng to participate in a TV reality show.
At the beginning, the "Where Are You Going, Dad" program was a good personal relationship between Xiao Feng and Teacher He and others on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was because of the sponsorship contract of "Jinghu Milk" that Xiao Feng's TV screen Virgo contributed to "Where Are You Going, Dad"!
Now. Looking at the domestic TV stations, no TV station can show great courage and sufficient reasons to impress Xiao Feng to participate in the new program!
According to the analysis of industry insiders, money has become a secondary factor to be able to impress Xiao Feng to participate in TV shows, and the key is to impress Xiao Feng!
Many female fans often leave messages on Xiao Feng's scarf page, hoping that Xiao Feng will appear in domestic TV reality shows again. It's just that now it seems that there is no possibility of realizing this demand for the time being!
Fifty pounds of flour are all kneaded by hand. Even Xiao Feng is full of strength and amazing body, but in the end, he is tired enough. The T-shirt on my body is almost soaked!
After putting the dough in the cauldron and starting to wake up, Xiao Feng went to the room to change his clothes, and when he came back, he continued to prepare various ingredients with his parents and Aunt Maria.
The crab roe comes from the 'Jinghu hairy crab', a few days ago Xiao Dazhitong guò air express sent a batch, calculated that the cost of the express is even more expensive than the hairy crab itself, but in order to be able to eat the pure taste of hometown. This cost is nothing to the Xiao family.
The ham is naturally made of the top Xiao family ham that has been aged for 6 years, and the ham mooncakes made with it will make the old beauties who have rarely eaten mooncakes swallow their tongues.
As for various ingredients such as bean paste, lotus paste, and five kernels, they are all organic ingredients that Xiao Feng bought in supermarkets in the United States, and then used the traditional craftsmanship of the Xiao family to concoct them, and the taste is completely expected.
After a simple Western-style lunch at noon. The dough is almost awake, all the ingredients are ready, and the main event is ready!
Ma Wanli, Xiao Dasong, Xiao Dabai and others brought the Chinese cowboys who were on their turn today to help, and even Old Bob followed with great interest!
Since Xiao Feng took charge of the 'Dream Ranch', Old Bob has seen a lot of Chinese food, and heard that 'moon cakes' are a very important holiday food in China, just like a roast turkey at Christmas, so he naturally wants to come over to see the boss's zuò making process.
You know, two days ago, Old Bob was invited to have dinner at Xiao's house, and the spicy and fragrant 'chopped pepper fish head' left a deep impression on him.
Old Bob, who rarely eats 'Asian carp', never imagined that those Asian carp that didn't look good would become so delicious after using the Chinese cooking method zuò?!
Have you heard that this is just a home-cooked meal in China, could it be that Chinese people live in a paradise of food?
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After a while, under the maple tree in front of the 'Maple Leaf Castle', a long oak dining table of more than 6 meters was filled with dough and various ingredients, and the mooncake making zuò of 'Dream Ranch' entered a critical stage.
Compared with other delicacies, the key to the deliciousness of mooncakes lies in the preparation of dough and the pretreatment of various ingredients.
This time, Xiao Feng's moon cakes are mainly Cantonese moon cakes and Yunnan moon cakes, which are also half of the four major moon cake genres in China, and are deeply loved by Chinese people!
Xue Lihua took Xu Mengyao to start rolling the dough, under the hands of the two, the round dough was quickly formed, and Xiao Dasong and others, who were sitting at the bottom of them, began to wrap moon cakes, and then put them in the mold!
These molds were made by Xiao Jinyang in his free time during this time, but they are all good materials for diamond wood, and after carving the pattern, you can give the moon cake more cultural atmosphere.
Brush a layer of clear oil in the mold, flatten it and quietly knock it on the table, and the round moon cake with exquisite patterns will be presented in front of people's eyes.
Xiao Feng began to brush these semi-finished mooncakes with egg whites, clear oil, etc., and arrange them neatly on the tray, and after a while, they can be put into the oven to bake!
The baking process is also a key factor in the deliciousness of moon cakes, so Xiao Feng must monitor the whole process, and there can be no mistakes!
"Dad, when will the mooncakes be good?" The little guy Yu'er looked at a lot of delicious food, and her saliva almost flowed out.
"Brother, the mooncakes must be baked before they can be eaten!" Nini took her brother's hand, and explained to her brother that these mooncakes were not edible.
For Yu'er, who is only more than two years old, he doesn't have much memory of mooncakes, after all, he doesn't remember much last year, but Nini has witnessed the grand occasion of making zuò mooncakes every year at home in recent years.
Xiao Feng pinched Yu'er's face with his flour-stained hand, and said with a smile: "Let Brother Da Song ask you to make moon cakes, and eat the moon cakes you will make yourself later!" ”
Xiao Feng remembers that when he was a child, he was asked by the old lady to make his own moon cakes, so he naturally passed on this tradition and let the children participate.
When he was a child, the Mid-Autumn Festival left a very deep and beautiful memory for Xiao Feng every year, and Xiao Feng hoped that this beauty could be extended to his children.
Xiao Feng saw that the discussion on the scarf was quite enthusiastic, and he also had a lot of sense of participation, and constantly took advantage of the gap in making zuò moon cakes to take some on-site photos and send them to the scarf.
Nowadays, the Inspur scarf has become an important platform for Xiao Feng to expand his personal influence and increase the popularity of the 'Ginkgo Foundation'.
Since fans like to watch Xiao Feng's daily life and some very special scenes, Xiao Feng naturally has to consider it at his discretion, and he has taken a lot of wonderful pictures.
Whenever a tray is full, Xiao Feng and Xiao Jinyang work together to put them in the oven, set the temperature and time, and then wait patiently for the delicious food to come out.
Although the total number of mooncakes reached 500, but the strength of the number of people, with the joint efforts of everyone, before dusk, the mooncakes were finally completed, and the air began to be filled with the aroma of mooncakes.
The mooncakes that were first put into the oven were almost ready, and through the glass of the oven, the golden mooncakes looked even more brilliant under the action of the oven lamp.
The two little ones looked at the oven with their eyes in amazement, and their saliva almost flowed down! (To be continued......)
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