Chapter 14: Making Cakes
Blacksmith Sun looked at Xiao Yue holding the strange iron shell and couldn't help but smile a little curiously and asked, "Wuda, what are you doing here?" Doesn't look like you've ever seen anything like this? ”
Xiao Yue said lightly: "My lady remembered to make a new cooking cake, let me make one of these things for her to play with." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Blacksmith Sun wanted to ask again, but Xiao Yue had already slapped the deposit that had been negotiated before in Blacksmith Sun's hand and strode away.
He hurried back home, and Han Mei was already a little anxious to wait. She now really understands the fragility of the smallholder economy, which her history teacher talked about when she was in school. This Nima is really too fragile, so fragile that it is indescribable. The livelihood of their family, but if there is a little mistake, it means that the family is ruined.
Seeing Xiao Yue walking in with something, Han Mei hurriedly caught up. The white noodles that Xiao Yue had ground before had also been fermented, and it was just the eggs and red dates that Xiao Yue bought.
"Where's the preserved fruit?" Han Mei flipped through the contents of Xiao Yue's coat.
Xiao Yue poured a big mouthful of water: "I only saw frozen persimmons on the market, but I didn't see preserved fruits." ”
Han Mei's eyes lit up and she hurriedly said, "You said that there are no preserved fruits on the market?" That's great, when I make someday, we can sell it together. ”
Xiao Yue nodded, and sat tired and watched Han Mei tinker with those things.
"Your idea is good, we can open a decent dim sum shop first, and sell some small snacks that people have never seen in this era."
It is estimated that the word snack aroused Han Mei's infinite reverie and said with a smile: "Let's first open a unique pastry shop in Yanggu County, the name is Yuemei Cake Shop, and take the names of you and me together." Then let's open a national chain, go out of Yanggu County, go to the capital, follow the sea ship out of the Great Song Dynasty, and go to the world! It's exciting to think about! ”
"Ahem, cough," Xiao Yue coughed, "You're thinking too much, I'm just worried, can you grasp the heat and don't bake it!" That's all we have. ”
Han Mei patted her chest and smiled, "I'm an expert in baking, no problem." ”
"Oh?" Xiao Yue raised his eyebrows, "Why do I feel a little worried?" ”
Han Mei pouted and walked to the back kitchen, Xiao Yue was a top student before, he was very good at all kinds of mechanical physics, and he liked to make some novel gadgets and inventions since he was a child.
At this time, she walked into the back kitchen designed by Xiao Yue and saw that all kinds of baking molds were carved out of wood by Xiao Yue himself, which looked like that.
After the time of the two pillars of incense, Han Mei and Xiao Yue held their breath and waited quietly for the last batch of chicken cakes in the oven.
Even Xiao Yue was a little nervous, if something went wrong with this last pot, they would lose all their money and owe more than 100 yuan to the fourth uncle and Brother Yun later.
Han Mei praised Haikou before, but now her heart is beating like a drum, and her scalp is about to explode.
"Is the time accurate? I've set the heat for you this time, so can you remember how long it took to bake a cake? Xiao Yue said in a deep voice.
Han Mei also oozed a little bead of sweat on her forehead, and then gritted her teeth and said: "It's out, if this pot is messed up again, I will go to borrow a loan shark, and if it doesn't work, I will pay for it!" ”
"Bastard! Don't you dare?!! Xiao Yue's eyes suddenly oozed a little bit of coldness and froze Han Mei fiercely, she hurriedly waited for a while, gritted her teeth and walked to the oven, time has never been so difficult as now.
"Take it out!" Xiao Yue also gritted his teeth a little, "It's a big deal, I'll pay for it!" ”
"You're beautiful!" Han Mei scolded angrily, took a deep breath and turned on the special oven, took out the iron tray inside, and immediately laughed when he looked at it.
"It's done!"
Xiao Yue hurriedly helped Han Mei put the egg date cake on the table and cut the egg date cake on this plate into pieces.
Han Mei sighed: "It's really not good for the ingredients, otherwise the color and fragrance must be even better than this, if only there were dates." ”
Xiao Yue hurriedly said: "Write down the dates, we can also make this in the future." ”
"Come, take your food box and let's put it in the heat, and now take it out and sell it, it will definitely look super good."
Xiao Yue looked at the soft and fragrant egg and jujube cake in front of him, and couldn't help but secretly admire that Han Mei was actually quite reliable.
"Don't be busy selling, pack it!"
Xiao Yue thought about it for a while, turned around and took the straw paper from the previous Wuda Cooking Cake, and cut it into a well-proportioned square piece of paper with scissors, and each small piece of paper was cut out by him at the edge.
Looking at Xiao Yue's concentrating on doing handiwork, Han Mei smiled slightly, and it was difficult for him to squat here with a top engineering dynamics high-level student squatting here to cut paper pieces.
Xiao Yue wrapped the small pieces of cake cut by Han Mei in straw paper, which looked a little simple and beautiful.
"Sell twenty copper plates a piece!" Xiao Yue said in a deep voice. 、
"What? This doesn't fit, right? Han Mei was stunned, "A thick steamed bun is only a copper plate!" You're twenty copper plates for such a small piece? ”
Xiao Yue said coldly: "What do you understand? This is called hunger marketing, this is the first cake of Da Song, have others eaten it? How do you make money after you practice your work so low for the first time? ”
Han Mei nodded hurriedly, if Xiao Yue is the second in terms of treacherous and cunning, no one dares to call him the first in this world.
Xiao Yue said slowly: "After a while, you will cut the corners of the remaining cake into smaller pieces, and insert them with the small toothpick I carved for you before, and make it look like you can taste it for free." I'll carry my burden to the front of Qingfeng Building to sell in a while. People who can afford to eat a few taels of silver dishes in Qingfeng Lou are not bad for money. ”
Han Mei thinks that this is a real businessman, no wonder Xiao Yue's parents are so successful in business, sometimes not to mention, this business is really about talent.
Han Mei and Xiao Yue prepared the cake, Han Mei was not at ease, and carefully covered the two food boxes that Xiao Yue was holding with a layer of oiled paper, and then pushed open the door and watched Xiao Yue disappear into the wind and snow.
Han Mei is actually absolutely confident in the cake she makes, and twenty copper plates are not expensive to think about now.
She extinguished the fire in the back kitchen, and then cleaned the simple oven but hid it, if her business is developed in the future, this oven is definitely a secret weapon that cannot be known to those people outside.
Even if Blacksmith Sun knew, he probably wouldn't be able to remember how this oven was made? Xiao Yue had a mind before, that is, he handed over each part of the oven to the three blacksmith shops in Yanggu County to make it separately, and each blacksmith only knew how to beat the parts in it, and then Xiao Yue assembled these parts together.