Chapter 241: Cantonese bean paste mooncakes
Although Yin Susu didn't speak, Yin Xing felt that an indescribable sense of oppression made him more and more nervous, and his body began to sweat. It's not that he doesn't know how thin the gifts he gave are, not to mention the festival gifts that a few fox friends inadvertently broke out, when he was in his adoptive father's house, the rich landowners in the countryside came and went more than that.
But let him spend a lot of money, he is not willing, in addition to being particularly willing to spend money on himself, he is more stingy with others, and he feels that he spends too much.
"The sheep you gave is quite energetic. Sanyang Kaitai is also auspicious. Mid-Autumn Festival, are you coming here for dinner? ”
After being silent for a while, Yin Susu finally spoke, in a light tone, without accusation, and even with a shallow smile.
"The third prince asked me to go to his house for dinner." Yin Xing whispered, "So my sister won't come here." ”
"That's it, it's the prince after all." Yin Susu smiled and had a very gentle attitude.
But Yin Xing was even more nervous, without him, because he didn't know what trick Yin Susu would make next, whether it would be a big turn.
"How have you been reading lately?" Unexpectedly, Yin Susu let go of the matter of the ritual, but began to ask about other things, and his tone was still very gentle.
"Good read." He said cautiously.
"Is it good to have a poetry party all day long? Still taking Sister Qinglou with you? I heard that it was an oiran, and the kind of twenty taels that could be used for one night. Yin Susu sneered, "Look at the gifts you gave and the things you did, do you look like a big man?!" Don't lose the face of our Yin family. ”
"Sister, don't be too angry, that Oiran. I also fancy my talent, and ordinary rich businessmen don't go downstairs, which doesn't mean that my talent is very good. Yin Xing carefully explained. She only took me ten taels. ”
Yin Susu simply laughed angrily, if it weren't for her surname Yin and her own brother, she really didn't want to care. If there is another younger brother surnamed Yin, she has so many things, and she won't care how this kid tosses.
But scarcity is expensive, after all, this is his only younger brother of the same father. If you don't look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, for the sake of your deceased relatives, you can't watch this kid fall. But now discipline him. I really can't spare time, and between revenge and this brother who is not close, of course, revenge is more important. Or should I find someone to discipline him?
In Yin Xing's uneasy eyes. Yin Susu pondered for a while. Fang Dao, "Next year, the emperor's fiftieth birthday, there should be Jinshi Enke, are you sure?" ”
"This, there are so many people who have been admitted to the Jinshi, I-" Yin Xing was of course not sure.
"You can't even rely on a jinshi, don't say that you are the son of Yin Wancheng. I'll give you this year. It doesn't matter if you're unorthodox or you're spending a lot of time. As long as you are admitted to the Jinshi, I will not blame the past, if you can't pass the exam, don't blame your sister and me! Yin Susu sneered, flicked his sleeves and left, "Of course, the Jinshi didn't pass the exam, and I didn't want a penny of compensation." I'll put my words here first, and you can think about it yourself! ”
She left, leaving Yin Xing in a cold sweat, I don't know why, although Yin Susu didn't explain how to discipline herself, but when she sneered, she was more nervous and afraid than when she faced the saint.
"Young Master, you also asked Young Master Sun to go to Cuiyi Building in the evening, are you still going?" The little guy who followed him whispered, "If you want to go, you have to hurry up now, and if you don't go, you can't go back." ”
"Go, why don't you go?" Yin Xing stomped his feet, raised his face and said, "My sister also said that as long as I am admitted to the Jinshi, she will not care how I toss, with my talent, I can't get into a Jinshi?" ”
"Master Jinshi is so easy to be?" The little guy was quite blind, and muttered quietly.
"What did you say?" Yin Xing was about to get angry, he had just eaten Yin Susu's reprimand, and he was just unhappy in his heart, and he wanted to find someone to vent his anger.
The little guy hurriedly remedied, "Although the master of the jinshi is not good, the young master's ability to take the jinshi test must be more than enough." ”
Yin Xingfang eased his face, took the little servant away, and went to the appointment of Young Master Sun's Cui Yi Building. The situation on his side had already been reported to Yin Susu, but it was also expected by her, so she didn't even raise her eyelids, but asked about Lin Yu and the others.
"Scarlet Xiaoyu, they said they went to the Zhenyuan Marquis Mansion, did they come back?"
"Not yet, Miss Qingqing and Miss Yu are back, but Childe seems to have met a friend and was called to drink." Chunwei replied, thinking about it and saying again. "Miss won't go out at night, right?"
"It's not out of the air, the layout is almost the same, and there haven't been any big things lately, so I can take a breath." Yin Susu has been exhausted these days, and he is already extremely tired. "By the way, Ming'er is the day of the wedding of the Seventh Prince, and I still have to go once."
Compared with Yin Su, Lin Yu and Qingqing are much more relaxed. After Qingqing came back, she began to sort out her experience in blending fragrance in the recent period. The economy was more prosperous, and she also had the money to buy more expensive spices for concoction, although this period of time was not long, but she blended more than a dozen kinds of precious incense recipes handed down by the Wen family. Among them, there was a successful and an unsuccessful, and there were many lessons learned.
As soon as Lin Yu came back, he changed out of the beautiful and hazy purple Luo skirt like a hookah, and instead changed into a cool thin cotton dress to the kitchen.
"The red bean paste filling I said I was going to prepare, have you made it?"
For the first time, Lin Yu still chose the most common moon cake filled with red bean paste. Of course, she has a lot of hands now, and she doesn't have to do everything herself. At least the more basic work of preparing the bean paste filling is done by the people in the kitchen. The ancients also often made some dim sum with red bean paste filling, so Lin Yu only needs to talk about the different places a little, and he doesn't have to worry about it.
"It's already been done, and it's being put over there." The cook in Yin Susu's kitchen smiled happily, "According to your instructions, it is cooked and carefully sifted." ”
Lin Yu took a closer look at it and tasted it again, and sure enough, it was made according to his own requirements, and the sweetness and fineness were very up to standard. Next is the moon cake crust, the first time I tried to make it, Lin Yu chose Cantonese moon cakes.
According to her experience of trying to make mooncakes for the first time in her previous life, Cantonese mooncakes are actually easier to make than puff pastry mooncakes, and the success rate is higher. Divide the dough and filling into portions in a ratio of 3:7, then start to wrap the filling and roll round printing, layer egg wash on the surface, and put it in the oven.
It's just that there is no advanced oven for baking moon cakes at present, and it is a troublesome thing to manually control the temperature and time, and there is no transparent high-temperature glass door to observe the situation of moon cakes, so you can only cross the river by feeling the stones.
Lin Yu and the people in the kitchen prepared a total of 136 months of cakes, tried for an afternoon, only a small half was successful, and the other half was baked. Of course, it's not that you can't eat it, but the taste is much worse. Fortunately, if you have a good grasp of the time and temperature of baking, if you want to mass produce in the future, as long as you fix the size and number, although it is inevitable that it will occasionally be roasted, it will not be bad.
After a busy afternoon, looking at the fifty-six golden mooncakes, Lin Yu still had a sense of accomplishment.
"It's finally done, let's try it."
Seeing that everyone was still a little cramped, she took the lead, broke open one that was already cold, tasted it, felt satisfied, and half-narrowed her eyes. Although Cantonese mooncakes are not as good as puff pastry mooncakes, when they are just baked, the mooncake crust is a little hard, so it is best to leave them for two days and wait for them to soften and return to oil.
However, both the taste of the mooncake crust and the taste of the bean paste are very good, especially the bean paste is delicate and soft, the taste is warm, and it melts in the mouth, so it will not feel dull or too sweet, it is simply a wonderful taste.
Although mooncakes are mostly only used as seasonal food in later generations, and she doesn't eat much on a vegetarian day, she hasn't eaten them for more than a year now, and she misses them a little. So a very large mooncake was eaten by her in a few bites.
Seeing that she quickly ate a whole mooncake, her expression was still very happy, and others also began to taste it.
"It's really delicious." The cook who helped tasted it, her expression also changed, and she ate half a moon cake in three or two bites, and then she had time to praise. "It's much better than the starch sugar stuffing we are used to."
"Miss Yu, you shouldn't be the reincarnation of the Heavenly Kitchen God Lady, how can you make so many delicious things?" Another cook also laughed
"Don't talk nonsense, I'm just delicious, so I always want to make food." Lin Yu said with a smile.
"These sixteen mooncakes were left for everyone, and everyone was busy all afternoon. I'll take these six, eat them myself, and give them to Sister Qingqing to taste by the way. The remaining thirty, when Sister Su Su and Xiaobai come back, send a few to them, and let the rest be left raw, it will be more delicious when it softens. ”
Several cooks responded, and Lin Yu put six golden moon cakes with peonies printed on them into a fine white porcelain plate, and then put them into a mahogany food box, ready to take them away.
"Miss Yu, let's hold it for you." The cook laughed. "There's still some way to go from here, don't tire you out."
"How can you be tired, this thing doesn't sink." Lin Yu said with a smile, "It's about to start, although you don't need to cook today, but you will have to be busy for a while when you pack up the boxes." ”
"Then thank you Miss Yu for your thoughtfulness." Seeing that Lin Yu's attitude was quite resolute, the two of them gave up.
Now the sky has darkened slightly, and it is indeed about to start eating, although cooking is usually in the big kitchen over there, because of helping Lin Yu today, I didn't cook, but they are indispensable for them to start with the boxing and delivering food.
Watching Lin Yu go away with the food box, the two cooks divided eight moon cakes, put away the other moon cakes, and prepared to take them to family and friends to eat.
"If you want to say that this Miss Yu has a really good temperament, she speaks with a smile." A cook sighed, "Childe is also a good character, both of them are good-looking, good matches, if only they could really become a couple." ”
"It's the last time the young master was lucky, he pointed out three and four paintings, so I don't hate it, I haven't become a serious master of Lan Yuan." The other complained, "It would be nice if Bai Gongzi was our lady's own brother." (To be continued.) )
PS: Thank you Jiangnan Bishui 88 classmates for the pink ticket