132|Fine-Knit Strategy 3
This is the legendary rhombus cake.
The water chestnut flour processed from the old water chestnut is white and sweet, and the taste is smooth. Rice chestnut flour mixed with flour to make cake (water chestnut flour accounts for about 1/3), plus osmanthus, sugar, dried fruits, etc. steamed, it becomes different kinds of diamond flour cake.
It is a water chestnut shelled, ground into the end, mixed with glutinous rice flour and sugar, and steamed -- but this dim sum in Mrs. Li's hand is mixed with golden-red honey cake and rose-red petals, and the sugar juice poured on the outside does not look like a mortal thing, but like a medicinal herb.
"The dim sum is a rhombus flour cake, the ingredients should be kumquat honey sauce and honey-stained roses, and the sugar juice poured on the outside should be honey-refined Sichuan shellfish loquat paste." Molly said calmly and lightly, and suddenly smiled gently, "Third aunt, I am from a low background, I only know some food, but I don't even recognize a single big character, and some of the third aunt and several aunts will be affected in the future." ”
Even eliminate and fight, turn provocation into a show of weakness, and retreat into advance, no one can be offended, but he has not suffered a loss -- this is a fact that he has a bad background, there is no need to be angry, and there is no need to use words to block others, and it is better to be good on all sides than to offend people everywhere.
Sure enough, as soon as Molly finished speaking, the other two Mrs. Li shouted one after another: "Naturally, I want to take care of you, don't see you, the third child is really rude-"
The old woman who sat on Li smiled and said with a slight bow: "Xiao San just loves to be naughty, okay, the bride and Liulang should be tired, tell them to go back and rest." Come back for dinner. ”
The leader spoke, and the others were not good at entanglement, and Mrs. Li glanced at the small cup in her hand stupidly, and pouted and went to the side.
Molly breathed a sigh of relief, and after pulling Qu Jin out, she slowly walked towards their official residence under the guidance of the old lady holding the gift list.
Passing through the chic and elegant garden, and over the small white marble bridge, is their current residence.
Although the "historical" environment of the dream-making space is the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the characters also borrow the shadows of some celebrities from the Sui and Tang dynasties, in fact, their rooms have beds and chairs, and people do not sit on the ground, but invariably use stools.
Molly was relieved.
It's great not to have to sit on your knees! Otherwise, I don't know what kind of ghost the legs will go.
I didn't even drink saliva when I entered the door, and a big girl came to report with a smile: several ladies were very surprised that the bride recognized the rhombus cake at once, thinking that the bride must be extraordinary, so when eating tea and enjoying the autumn camellia in the afternoon, I wanted to ask the bride to make a fine snack.
This kind of unsolicited order, Molly really can't seriously refuse.
And it can't be used as an excuse for "the initial recovery of the disease".
So Molly decisively agreed, and made an appointment to bring snacks to the garden in an hour and a half.
What she plans to make is a cake for a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren.
Tong guò knocked on the side of the maid and the mother-in-law, and it can be known that these ladies have sons-in-law, but Zixi is always an undefeated topic in the traditional classics, and no woman will think that she has more sisters-in-law - grasp this degree well, and she can mediate among the noblewomen with ease.
The hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren cake made by Molly was taken from a product that spent money on the cake of hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren.
The shape is a shortbread with a round outer circle and a square inside, and the skin is crispy.
And the filling inside is very particular, which she figured out by herself, and it is not comparable to the recipes of others.
The first layer of filling is crispy oil walnuts, and that's fine.
The second layer of filling is the secret beef jerky, which is made with the juice of the abalone boiled as the sauce, and its umami is brushed on the thinly sliced fresh beef, and left to dry in a cool place for half an hour, until no soup has dripped before it can be filled into the cake.
The third layer of filling is a thin layer of water and sugar seasoned with pomegranate juice, which is also the most difficult layer, and if the crust is broken, the soup will leak.
Thankfully, Molly was skilled, and after an hour, the first batch of fine snacks was finally baked.
Even if she has experienced several layers of food strategies, after making this qiē, there is a thin layer of fine sweat on her body.
Because the two can only be regarded as guest houses and do not have their own small kitchen, they borrowed Mrs. Li's own kitchen to make snacks.
As soon as it comes out of the oven, there is no special aroma, just the skin is golden and crispy, and it looks small and cute, only the size of a pigeon's egg.
During Molly's work, Qu Gongzi has been silently following her, doing his best to help her hand a tool or wipe her sweat or something.
Good boys are rewarded—so as soon as Molly had the snack out of the oven, she took a piece and brought it to his mouth.
Qu Gongzi smiled, took a sip of snacks with her fingers that were still stained with flour, and swallowed it vigorously.
The crust itself is only slightly fragrant, but the style of the filling is very strange - the crispy walnuts bring abundant saliva, and the beef jerky is fresh and salty with the rich flavor of abalone, and when the teeth bite off the cake, the third layer of sticky and pomegranate soup flows between the mouth and tongue.
The sweet, the salty, and the fresh, are so distinct, but they are perfectly matched together, just like a beauty who has taken off her veil, if you increase one point, you will lose one point, and you will be thin...... Impeccable!
Qu Jincun kept sucking saliva, reluctant to let go of Molly's fingers, and then she pinched her tongue mischievously.
"Still want to eat, don't you?" She smiled softly and ordered him word by word, "Then bring this first snack and send it to my grandmother, and I will carry it with my own hands and hand it to my grandmother - can you remember?" When the time comes, my grandmother will definitely let you eat enough. ”
Gongzi Qu let go of his lips in surprise, she actually let him go to see Old Lady Li by himself?
Aren't you afraid that this idiot will do something wrong or be embarrassed?
However, Molly ignored his astonishment, in fact, Qu Gongzi's expression alternated between confusion and stunned all the time, and she didn't bother to analyze the inner world of a person with zero memory.
Sent away Qu Gongzi, who took one step and turned back three times, the second dim sum was also ready, it was perfect, and none of them were exposed.
Molly was so proud that she went back with a snack to change her clothes and dress up, and then went to enjoy the garden with her own hands.
No more, no less, exactly at the agreed point in time.
However, I saw that in the garden where many precious autumn camellias were planted, several noble ladies were sitting on a bearded stool covered with fur, and they were drinking tea around a low table.
As soon as Molly's snack was on the table, it immediately caught the eyes of several people.
I saw that the small cake surface was printed with the pattern of hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren, and the color was golden and lovely, small and exquisite, and it was not ordinary when it looked like.
Mrs. Li took the lead in putting one of them in her mouth, and after only two bites, she held her cheeks in her hand intoxicated—do not doubt that she did not have a toothache, she was intoxicated.
"It's so fresh!" At this time, Second Mrs. Li also ate a piece, and as soon as she swallowed it, she couldn't wait to pick up the second piece, and said with emotion, "Since marrying in Chang'an, I haven't eaten such a delicious snack for a long time." ”
Mrs. Li didn't speak, but looking at her look, she should still be tasting the rich layers of the hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren.
"We've never eaten this before," Mrs. Li took a sip of tea with emotion, and then asked Molly, "What's your name?" ”
Molly replied respectfully: "It is a cake for hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren." ”
Several noble ladies were obviously quite satisfied with this name, and even Little Madam Li, who was trying her best to show a critical look, couldn't help but show a yearning and contemplative expression.
Hundreds of sons and thousands of grandchildren, who doesn't want to, who doesn't love?
The reason why this little lady Li deliberately made things difficult for Molly on the big day was that she also had her own careful thoughts.
She inquired that Mrs. Li felt sorry for her only grandson in her heart, and when she heard that his family was ruined, she fainted and died, and now as soon as she comes back, she will give money and land.
Mrs. Li's husband and son are all well-known lords, and they often fight in the north and south, and I don't know how many good things have been caught...... The magnificence of her hands is beyond the imagination of any noblewoman.
Mrs. Li's own family consumption is large, so she wants to get some money from Qu Gongzi's side - she is ready to let her distant niece marry Qu Gongzi so that she can divide his family property.
Who knew that Mrs. Li was so decisive, and before her grandson entered the door, she wantonly arranged a marriage for him, and the bride was just a maidservant.
Mrs. Li's angry nose was crooked.
- If the lowly servant of a small family took the great reward of Old Madam Li, how could he share it with others?
That's why she had to make a bad deal with Molly's background, who knew that people were generous, so she admitted that her background was not good, neither cried nor showed panic, but bluntly said that she was good at cooking......
Mrs. Li, who is also good at cooking, is even more unhappy.
Now eating the strange and abnormal hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren, how much she enjoys her mouth and belly, how tired Mrs. Li is in her heart.
However, in front of Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li, she didn't show anything.
Molly took the expressions of several people in her eyes one by one, and after looking at it, she only didn't pay attention to Mrs. Li's convulsive expression, and silently poured tea and water for several elders, very careful.
Just when most of the snacks were gone, at the end of the corridor, a person ran and jumped, followed by a group of mothers-in-law and maids, and came straight to Molly.
The posture was so lively that several ladies who were eating tea stopped their cups and looked curiously at the end of the corridor.
――It's a big child-like Qu Gongzi.
I saw that his steps were hurried, his eyes were only staring at Molly standing in the pavilion, and his expression was no longer Gujing Wubo, but was infected with a layer of anxiety and unease.
"Look, Rokuro is looking for you." Mrs. Li smiled softly, and then said softly to Molly, "Li Niang should also go to find him, you newlyweds Yan'er, it's not good to wait here, go, go." ”
Molly held her breath, her face immediately turned red, she lowered her head shyly, and whispered: "Dare not obey your fate." ”
Then he walked backwards and left the pavilion respectfully and generously.
Over there, Qu Gongzi had already walked halfway through the corridor, and Molly was afraid that the child would rush straight to several aunts and make some trouble, so she also quickened her pace, and finally stopped him not too close to the pavilion.
When the two were a few steps away, Molly lowered her face, and Qu Gongzi, who had been looking at her, naturally stopped, opened her eyes wide, and looked at her innocently and blankly.
"Don't pretend to be pathetic!" Molly hurriedly walked to his side, grabbed his hand as if affectionately, but actually pinched his palm with her nails - Qu Jincun almost screamed out of his strength.
Gongzi Qu lowered his head and silently followed the bride, and the servant women who had been chasing out of Mrs. Li's yard behind him were all greatly relieved.