Chapter 169: Making Mooncakes
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Yaya's grandmother, her slightly trembling hands, tightly held the two hundred coins in her hand, if you look closely, you will find that Yaya's grandmother's eyes are already moist. She held the 200 yuan tightly in her heart, God blessed their ancestors and grandchildren, and met a good person. Yang Yun returned home, her grandmother had already cooked dinner, and after eating, Yang Yun told Yang Yong that she would help herself make moon cakes tomorrow, Yang Yun would make some moon cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the school had just a day off for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The family heard the word moon cakes quite fresh, and Yang Xuan took the initiative to tell Yang Yun that he would help Yang Yun make moon cakes tomorrow. When Yang Yun slept at night, she lay on the bed, sighed in her heart, and unconsciously came to Zhoujia Village for more than a year, at this time last year, the family was so poor that she couldn't open the pot, Yang Yong was still in Zhou's landlord's house at that time, and this year, the people of the Yang family can finally have a successful Mid-Autumn Festival.
The next day, Yang Yun got up early and took the red beans that had been ground at home to soak in water, the materials were limited, Yang Yun thought for a long time and only thought of making red bean mooncakes and sweet potato mooncakes. Mooncakes are actually the same as making pastries, except that you have to make the mooncake crust first and then wrap the filling. Then use the mold of the moon cake to print a relatively round and large moon cake, and the moon cake mold carved by Zhou Limin last time is very beautiful.
The red beans are made in the same way as making pastries, first grind them, soak them in water, steam them and roll them into a puree, then add sugar and stir them well, and mix the red beans into red bean puree. Sweet potatoes are also peeled, steamed and then pulvered. The dough of mooncakes is more complicated, Yang Yun boils sugar into syrup, adds vegetable oil, eggs, flour and a small amount of water, and finally mixes several ingredients well. The flour should be mixed into a ball, and then set aside to ferment for a while.
Yang Xuan was like a little follower early in the morning, following Yang Yun to help Yang Yun deliver this and that.
"Sister Xiaoyun, are you at home?"
"I'm at home." Yang Yun heard someone calling her outside the courtyard gate, and hurriedly ran to open the door.
"It turned out to be Sister Xuejuan and Brother Xueyi, hurry up and sit in the house." As soon as Yang Yun opened the courtyard door, she saw Xue Juan and her brother Xue Yi standing outside the door of Yang's house. Xue Yi is quite tall, and their brother and sister look quite alike.
"My husband asked our brother and sister to bring you something for the holidays." After Kong Zhongkan returned from Jiangnan, he asked the servants in the family to call him Mr. Xue Juan and his brother Xue Yi were ordered by Kong Zhongkan to come to Yang's house to send the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts, Yang Yun just opened the courtyard door, and saw Xue Juan and her brother carrying things in their hands.
"I'm going to make some mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I'll send them to Grandpa Kong to try later." Yang Yun prepared a lot of materials for the Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes this time, and several families who were familiar with the Yang family had to send some mooncakes to them to taste during the festival.
"Sister Xiaoyun, what is a moon cake." Xue Juan heard Kong Zhongkan say it a few times, and knew that Yang Yun's cooking was delicious, and the girls were more interested in making food, Xue Juan was very curious to ask her when she heard that Yang Yun was going to make moon cakes.
"It's a cake specially eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is round."
"It's the first time I've heard that there are special cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"Sister Xuejuan, if you want, you can stay and learn, I'm talking to the filling." Yang Yun directly invited Xue Juan to stay and learn to make moon cakes.
"Okay, then big brother, go back first, I'll stay and learn how to make moon cakes with Sister Xiaoyun." The Xuejuan brothers and sisters helped Yang Yun move the things they were going to give to the Yang family to the kitchen and put them, Xueyi went home first after putting the things away, and Xuejuan stayed to learn to make mooncakes with Yang Yun.
"I can also teach you how to make fish balls today, my brother and Brother Dabao went to the river to catch fish."
"That's great, I still wonder when you will be free to teach me how to make fish balls, God bless the little master has been talking about eating fish balls several times. ”
"I've been very busy during this time, my Xiaoxuan also said several times that I want to eat fish balls, I just don't have time to do it, today is the holiday, everyone has a day off, I let my brother go to catch fish and come back to make fish balls." Yang Xuan was influenced by Kong Tianyou, and when he went to bed at night these days, he always asked Yang Yun when he could make fish balls for him to eat. Yang Yun promised him to make fish balls for him to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival today.
Yang Yong got up early in the morning, and Yang Yun asked him to call Dabao to catch fish. Yang Yun and Xuejuan went to the kitchen to make mooncakes. Yang Yun taught Xuejuan to roll the moon cake crust first, the moon cake crust and the filling Yang Yun has already been prepared, now you only need to roll the moon cake crust and wrap the filling, and then use the mold to print the moon cake out, and put it in the oven to bake.
The moon cake crust is first rolled into a circle, and then flattened in the palm, the red bean paste and sweet potato filling should also be kneaded into a round ball, the shape of the filling should be smaller than the moon cake crust, and then the moon cake crust is wrapped in the filling, and then kneaded into a large round ball, and then the moon cake is molded and printed into a round moon cake with various patterns.
"Sister Xiaoyun, where did you make these mooncake molds, it's so beautiful."
"I asked Brother Limin in the village to do it, and he learned carpentry from Master Zhou in the village, and he carved all these mooncake molds for me."
"The moon cakes printed by these molds are really delicate and beautiful, Sister Xiaoyun, I also want to find Zhou Limin to make a few molds." Xue Juan fell in love with the stencil of moon cakes at a glance.
"Brother Limin and his master went to the field to do carpenter work, I don't know when he will come back, in addition to these moon cake molds, I also have some molds for making dim sum, Sister Xuejuan If you like it, you can take some home to make snacks and moon cakes, I have a lot of molds, you pick by the way." Yang Yun asked Zhou Limin to make several stencils, and now there are dozens of stencils at home, Yang Yun found out all the stencils at home and selected them for Xuejuan. Today's Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhou Limin doesn't know if he can rush home from other places to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival.
"Sister Xiaoyun, you have so many stencils." Xue Juan saw Yang Yun dig out a bunch of stencils from home.
"Yes, Sister Xuejuan, you pick by the way." Yang Yun asked Xue Juan to pick by herself, anyway, there are a lot of these stencils, and they can't be used up. Xue Juan saw that Yang Yun was indeed very sincere and wanted to send some stencils to herself, so she selected eight patterns from the pile of stencils that Yang Yun found, four of which were stencils of dim sum.
Yang Yun and Xuejuan made a lot of mooncakes, and their grandmother helped them. Yang Xuan originally followed Yang Yun to help, but later he felt that the old round ball was quite boring, so he ran to the river to find Yang Yong and them, Yang Yong and Dabao were catching fish by the river. Yun takes the finished mooncakes to the oven at home and bakes them until golden brown.
Soon Yang Yong and the others went to the river to catch fish and came back, Yang Yun caught two relatively large grass carp from the bucket, and asked Yang Yong to remove the internal organs of the grass carp, then remove the scales and remove the fish bones, and then chop the fish meat into meat puree. After the grass carp is chopped into fish puree, Yang Yun adds seasoning to season the fish paste, and then uses a small soup spoon to scoop the fish paste out of the pot, and a round fish ball is formed. (To be continued.) )