Chapter 231: Flavorful Mooncakes
Hui Ya didn't have to go to the martial arts arena, this morning's time was free, sitting on the soft couch in the room, opening the door to the terrace on the second floor, letting the cool wind blow on her body, Hui Ya couldn't help but sigh, it was another year of autumn breeze.
In the autumn of last year, I was still following the Lianjia convoy into Beijing as a girl, and I was worried all day long, and it was very difficult to predict what the future would be.
By the time of today's autumn, my mother's body has fully recovered, and my brother's safety is no longer threatened, and the most important thing is that Xiao Zheng's biggest hidden danger in the family has been solved.
"It's so good" Hui Ya's face smiled slowly, Rao is this somewhat cool autumn wind, blowing on Hui Ya's face, all made Hui Ya feel refreshed. Huiya couldn't be idle and couldn't go to the martial arts arena to practice, so she simply wore neat clothes and practiced in her own Xixiangyuan.
First, he ran around the courtyard wall of Xixiangyuan, ran for twenty laps, wiped the sweat on his forehead slightly, and then continued to squat. Now half an hour's horse step is no longer a difficult thing for Hui Ya, and this half an hour's work has dispersed all the sweat that just appeared.
Huiya's little face was flushed, but she couldn't see the slightest tiredness. For Huiya, half an hour's horse walk is just a break after running. On weekdays, when Huiya is fine, she embroiders in her own room and does not rely on the soft couch, but squats on the horse step to embroider, and embroiders for more than an hour.
After squatting, he began to draw the bow, because he was afraid of being drawn by the bowstring, and Huiya did not let go of the bow directly after pulling the bow like archery. Instead, I slowly relaxed, and then pulled it away, but I felt as if it took more effort than I usually practiced.
Huiya treats people very generously, and when Huiya goes out to perform martial arts on weekdays, only the maids on duty can wait, and the other maids in the courtyard who are not on duty are not as early as Huiya, who is a young lady.
Now Huiya is tossing in the courtyard. The maids who live in the upside-down seat behind the embroidery building. They were all quarreled with. When they appeared at the door one by one in disheveled clothes, they opened their mouths wide when they saw Huiya's energetic appearance, and when they found that they were very unreasonable to the young lady like this. One by one, they hurriedly ran back to the house to wash.
Huiya was in a very good mood, and she was not annoyed when she looked at the maids like this, and returned to the embroidery building with a smile. In the past, after practicing, the grandfathers and uncles at the head of the family would eat some dim sum made by themselves. Although I didn't have to practice today, I still made dim sum. And it's still a lot. Although it was autumn, this snack could not be left for a long time, so Huiya instructed Yahuan to send the dim sum to each room. Divide it and eat it.
Thinking of dim sum, Huiya suddenly remembered that there are still some days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a good time to eat mooncakes. Because someone spied on the affairs of the Zhao Mansion, as the master, he couldn't easily get out of the courtyard. I just haven't had anything to do in the past two days, so let's make some mooncakes as snacks.
Huiya told Zheng her thoughts, and Zheng thought about it, anyway, the moon cake is not afraid of being bad after it is made, and it can also be used as a gift to give to good friends, there is no harm, so he readily agreed.
Huiya has something to do, even if she is bored in the yard, she doesn't feel bored. recruited the cook and asked her to talk carefully about what kind of moon cakes were made in Zhao's mansion in previous years, and then pondered what she was going to do.
"Back to the second lady, in previous years, the moon cakes in the house were made by the eldest lady Zhang Luo some time in advance, generally two kinds of fillings, five kernels and sugar, respectively, to make more than 100 pieces, so that the whole family can share it during the Mid-Autumn Festival or give it to each family before the festival for a festival." The kitchen lady of Moxiang Courtyard was originally returned to the big kitchen in the house, and after the Zhao family's second and third rooms moved to Beijing, they were divided into various courtyards, so the situation of the big kitchen in the house was very clear.
"There are only two kinds of fillings?" Huiya was very surprised, what fillings were used to make mooncakes in her hometown, Huiya didn't remember anymore. But during the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, I followed the convoy of Lianjia to Beijing, Rao was tired of the journey, and the moon cakes were also made under Aunt Cui's Zhang Luo, and five or six kinds of fillings were made.
"Yes, although the mooncake making method in Beijing is also fine, it is not as varied as in the south." The cook's face was a little embarrassed, but she didn't dare to say anything bad about the master's family, especially the lady in charge.
In fact, the house knows that there are four or five kinds of fillings for moon cakes, but the filling of the jujube paste bean paste next to it is not only more sugar, but also with other accessories.
"It's okay, I know a lot of recipes, you first find out the mold used to beat the moon cakes, let's make some tastes first, if the taste is good, it is more decent to give gifts during the festival." Huiya stayed by Mrs. Lian's side for a year, plus returned to Zhao's mansion and made dim sum every day, for the work of making moon cakes, she only needed a slight turn of her mind to think of many kinds of fillings.
"Go and bring the bean paste and date paste used to make dim sum, and then take some dried nuts, as well as sugar osmanthus salted duck eggs and the like, find some." Hui Ya commanded in a loud voice, and the kitchen of Moxiang Courtyard moved rapidly.
On weekdays, Hui Ya also makes dim sum here, because it was proposed by Master Zhao to let Hui Ya make dim sum and eat it after practicing martial arts in the morning, and the supply of the small kitchen in Moxiangyuan is very powerful.
Flour, sugar, and the like have long been prepared, and the beef ** red beans and red dates used for dim sum and dried fruits such as peanuts and walnuts of various colors are also complete in variety and of good quality.
After a while, all kinds of materials were presented in front of Hui Ya's eyes, and Hui Ya looked at these things, and all kinds of moon cake fillings quickly appeared in her mind.
The most common five kernels and white sugar, since they are traditional, they will continue to be done, and then there are two relatively simple and easy to make bean paste and date paste. When Huiya makes dim sum on weekdays, she likes to put jujube paste ghee and small walnut kernels in one place to make mixed fillings, as well as lotus seeds to be cored to make lotus paste filling, ham bacon and salted egg yolk and other salty fillings, but they are all good fillings for multi-flavored mooncakes.
However, in the afternoon, Huiya made eight flavors of fillings, made a few pieces of the same simple, and after leaving two pieces of each, the rest was cut into small pieces for Zheng and the maid in the yard to taste.
Everyone has different tastes, some people love sweet and some love salty, but after eating Huiya's mooncakes, they all gave a thumbs up, feeling that this mooncake is much better than in previous years. To be continued