Chapter 141: Making the Cake
After saying the reward, Li Chengqian looked at the egg beater and the piping table again.
Especially the egg beater, a countertop, a bamboo pipe on the top is connected to the egg beater, and two pedals below, what is the structure inside Li Chengqian doesn't know, but as long as he steps on the pedal below, the egg beater above will rotate at high speed.
After asking Mo Cheng and them to teach some palace maids to use ovens and egg beaters, Li Chengqian personally sent Mo Cheng and them away, which made Mo Cheng and other Mo family children very grateful.
After sending Mo Cheng away, Li Chengqian came to the newly arranged pastry room and began to get busy after dressing up.
What he is going to make today is chiffon cake, and the reason why he makes chiffon cake is because it is a cake that does not require leavening agents such as baking powder.
The process of making is also very simple, Li Chengqian first found a 9-inch mold for baking cakes, and then took out two smaller clay pots, separated 4 eggs, egg whites and egg yolks, and put them into the prepared clay pots.
Put the clay pot with egg whites and let the palace maid add the syrup and a little white vinegar in three parts, and beat it with a whisk until it foams.
Li Chengqian himself picked up a bamboo-woven fine leaky sieve, sifted the flour into a clay pot filled with egg yolk, prepared the milk to be heated and cooled before adding it to it, and after cooking oil, after stirring them well, he took the egg whites that had been beaten, put them into the egg yolk paste in turn, stirred evenly, and then poured them into a waterless and oil-free clean mold, and then after shaking bubbles on the board, put them in the oven, and bake them at 230 °C for 15 minutes.
After Li Chengqian put the finished cake batter in the oven, he stared at the hourglass boredly and waited.
It is worth mentioning that in order to make a good cake, Li Chengqian not only asked Mo Cheng to make the oven and mold, but also specially asked Mo Cheng to make the hourglass, and also made it into 1 minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes respectively, which could have been made larger, but the accuracy was not good, and even the accuracy of 15 minutes was not good.
When it was baked for 10 minutes, Li Chengqian asked the palace maid to remove the heat and put an iron lid on the cake that had been fluffy, it was best to have tin foil, but for now, people didn't even know what tin was, let alone tin foil.
After that, there was a period of waiting, and when the time was up, Li Chengqian hurriedly asked people to take out the cake with a wet rag, remove the lid, and put the cake upside down on the board with the mold, waiting for it to cool.
At this time, Xiao Yi'er, who was tired of playing with brown sugar water and decoloring, ran in.
"Brother, what are you doing, it's so fragrant, what kind of delicious food" As soon as Xiao Yi'er entered the door, she smelled a fragrant smell and immediately looked around.
"Xiao Yi'er, wait a minute, the cake is not good, wait for it to cool, my brother will see if it is done, if it is done, my brother will make a beautiful cake for Xiao Yi'er" Seeing Xiao Yi'er looking for it, and seeing the cake on the board, he reached out to take it, so frightened that Li Chengqian hurriedly hugged her away and said to her.
The moment of waiting is always so difficult, after waiting for more than 10 minutes with the palace maids and brothers and sisters, Li Chengqian reversed the mold with excitement.
However, when he saw the cake that had collapsed inside, Li Chengqian was depressed, although he thought that he would fail the first time, but he really failed, and he was still very unhappy.
But Xiao Yi'er and those palace maids didn't think so, looking at the golden cake in the mold and the fragrance, all of them swallowed.
Looking at the chiffon cake in front of him, although Li Chengqian was very depressed, he said that it was a failure, but in fact, in addition to not being able to spread cream, there was no problem in eating it.
So after Li Chengqian cut a large piece of Xiao Yi'er, who was already looking forward to it, he asked those palace maids to eat the rest.
"Brother, give it to me, Xiao Yi'er wants to eat" When Li Chengqian put the cake on a plate and brought it to Xiao Yi'er, she jumped there happily.
"This little girl, when she saw the cake, it was the same as when she ate the cake for the first time in her previous life, but it was a finished product, and this was a failed product plus a semi-finished product" Looking at Xiao Yi'er's excited appearance, Li Chengqian thought secretly.
After Xiao Yi'er took a bite, the little girl looked happy, "Brother, this cake is delicious, fragrant, and soft, why did my brother say that it failed, Xiao Yi'er likes to eat it very much, and my brother will eat it too."
Li Chengqian did not choose to answer Xiao Yi'er's question, but when he accompanied Xiao Yi'er to eat cake, he was thinking about why he failed.
After Xiao Yi'er finished eating, Li Chengqian did it a few more times, but none of them were successful, and they all collapsed more or less, but this also made Li Chengqian find the reason, that is, the airtightness of the oven is still a little poor, and the temperature is not concentrated.
And in order to solve this problem, Li Chengqian lit all the fires in the oven and shortened the time to bake a few, because I don't know the baking time, the first few were experiments, and the last Li Chengqian found the right time, and sure enough, the chiffon cake that came out this time did not collapse at all, not even the cracks that might appear on the top, which made Li Chengqian so happy.
Seeing that the cake blank was already there, Li Chengqian asked the palace maid to whip the prepared cream, and this time the cream was very smooth, and it was formed in one go.
But looking at the whipped cream, Li Chengqian made a mistake again, he was a scum when he pitied the flowers or something, although he was scum when he pitied the flowers, but smoothed the cream for the cake blank, Li Chengqian was still no problem, after the cake was smeared with cream, he made a piping bag made of silk on it, and after the cake was made of a circle of lace, after putting some dried fruit in it, a beautiful cake was made.
Looking at the finished cake, everyone stared blankly, unable to believe that this cake was made by them together.
"Brother, it's so fragrant, I know, you're taking Xiao Yi'er to make something delicious again, I'll see what it is this time" And just when Li Chengqian wanted to cut the finished cake for Xiao Yi'er to eat, their snack goods broke in.
"Brother, what is this, it's so beautiful, this ......" Looking at the snow-white cake, Lizhi asked in a daze, and wanted to ask.
"Why are you asking so much, take it with a spoon and eat it little by little, and let the eldest sister come in too" Seeing that Li Zhen still wanted to ask, Li Chengqian quickly cut a piece of cake and put it on the plate, and handed it to Li Qian.
Sure enough, looking at the unknown things handed over by his brother, as a foodie, he immediately lost his voice, scooped a piece with a saucer and put it in his mouth, and then wanted to run outside, while running, he also underestimated "What is this yellow and yellow, sweet, fragrant, and this white is also delicious, it is also sweet, and it is so silky"