Chapter 39: Macarons (2)

Li Yichen solemnly washed his hands twice, and seriously recalled Qian Haokuan's teaching process, and then discussed with Zhou Hanying beside him about assigning tasks.

"Let's divide up and work together, you will cook the syrup, and I will make the meringue, how about it?"

"No problem, the syrup has to be boiled to 180 degrees, I know."

Zhou Hanying also wanted to win the first place once, and the group meal ticket was second, and she mainly wanted to go into the secret hut to have a look.

Li Yichen looked at Zhou Hanying worriedly and reminded: "It's 118 degrees." ”

"Oh, is that so?"

Zhou Hanying was skeptical of Li Yichen's words, but she still decided to believe him, because she had secretly observed a few times just now, and Li Yichen did listen very carefully.

Li Yichen carefully measured forty grams of egg whites, poured them into the mixing cup, picked up the stirring rod and began to beat the egg whites.

"Hit the meringue a little faster, a little faster."

Qian Haokuang opened his mouth to urge, he should have seen that the five groups had encountered this problem.

"I can do it!"

"Why are they all the same movements, but they just don't do the same?"

Li Yichen cheered for himself, but he didn't understand why he was very relaxed when he watched Qian Haokuang send the egg whites.

"I'll give it a try."

Zhou Hanying took the initiative to take the stirring rod in Li Yichen's hand and started the relay race.

"Then I'll mix almond flour with powdered sugar."

Li Yichen felt that his biggest advantage was that he was not strong, so he naturally gave the work to Zhou Hanying, but he was not idle, he began to measure the grams of almond flour and powdered sugar, and after mixing, he added egg whites and began to stir again.

When Li Yichen finished his own work and took over Zhou Hanying's work again, the two cooperated tacitly.

Wu Shiming's partner at the table next to her this time is still Zhao Wenfeng, she looked at Li Yichen from time to time as soon as she entered the door, and when she saw Li Yichen helping Zhou Hanying tie her apron, her eyes widened a little.

"Poetry ...... Poetry ...... Poetry? ”

Zhao Wenfeng struggled to beat the egg whites, feeling that it was about to take shape, so he wanted to ask Wu Shiming for credit, but he didn't get a response after calling a few times, and looked at it suspiciously.

Wu Shiming retracted her gaze at Li Yichen and said casually: "Oh, are you done?" ”

"I think that's pretty much the right thing, right?"

Zhao Wenfeng showed the mixing cup to Wu Shiming as if offering a treasure.

"Well, that's good."

Wu Shiming smiled faintly at Zhao Wenfeng.

After a few minutes, Qian Haokuang walked to each kitchen table and observed: "Everyone has done a good job, let's start the next step." ”

Qian Haokuang returned to the front and started the teaching demonstration again.

"Put the finished macaron paste into the piping bag, here please pay attention to my hands, squeeze with your right hand, use your left hand to find the right direction, the most important thing is to squeeze it regularly on the tray, squeeze it all at once, and then turn it a little and then disconnect, do you see it clearly? Now let's start practicing. ”

After Li Yichen put the macaron paste into the piping bag according to Qian Haokuang's appearance, he also began to squeeze the macaron paste on the tray.

"I'm ...... Isn't it a circle? ”

"It's not easy to break, huh?"

A lot of question marks gradually rose in Li Yichen's heart, and he could only call the teaching assistant to help.

"Keep in the center and don't move when squeezing."

The teaching assistant patiently explained the key points, handed the piping bag back to Li Yichen, and with the increase of experience, Li Yichen slowly found his senses, squeezing a tray of about twenty-eight small round balls.

After the guests had completed this step, Qian Haokuang spoke.

"Now everyone pick up the tray and come with me, put it in the oven, and bake it at 135 degrees for about 14 to 15 minutes."

Qian Haokuang brought the guests to the preheated oven and put their trays into it one by one.

"While the crust is baking, we're going to make the jam."

Zhou Hanying chose strawberry jam, Li Yichen respected her opinion, but he also wanted to taste the fruit caramel sauce, so he made another one himself, and he was idle.

"It should be successful, let's wait to choose the best one to be evaluated, and I can eat all the other defective products."

Li Yichen said to Zhou Hanying sincerely.

"I think you just want to eat ......"

Zhou Hanying looked at the fanatical Li Yichen speechlessly, remembering what happened on the first day, that day, in the end, none of those macarons were left.

Li Yichen twitched his nose: "Wow, the fragrance is out." ”

After making the jam, everyone chatted for a few minutes, and Qian Haokuang's teaching assistant pushed the trolley to put the guests' trays back on their tables.

"After the baked crust has cooled, squeeze a little jam in the middle, twist and stick together, and the macarons are done."

Qian Haokuang simply completed the final demonstration and reminded:

"This is the last step in the possible way to get a prize, as a reminder, find a shell of different sizes to pair and squeeze the jam and stick it together."

"When you're done, pick four macarons that you think look the best and put them on a tray for judging."

Li Yichen looked at the macaron shell in the tray in front of him, and felt an indescribable sense of accomplishment in his heart.

"But why doesn't the shell I make feels the same size?"

Before he had time to think deeply about this question, Li Yichen squeezed fruit caramel sauce in the middle of a macaron shell, twisted it, and put it in his mouth.

The exterior is crispy and chewy with almond paste, and the moist and soft sauce bursts in the mouth.

That's the taste!

Li Yichen was deeply moved by the macarons he made.

"I can't eat it now, I'll eat it when I'm done." Qian Haokuang suddenly stopped with a voice.

"Ahem......"

Li Yichen silently put down the second macaron, made all the other macarons, and carefully selected four macarons with Zhou Hanying that were closest to the display and put them on the tray, nervously waiting for the jury's judgment.

"Okay, everyone did a great job, next, I will taste it with the two teaching assistants and Director Wang, and choose the best set of macarons,"

Qian Haokuang picked up Wu Shiming's group of macarons first, took a small bite, and pointed to the section.

"Look at the thickness of this macaron. If it is too flat, it means that the previous stirring, mixing and extrusion techniques were not done well. ”

Qian Haokuang tasted and commented one by one, and more or less put forward a little encouragement and suggestions.

At the end of the day, the jury had a brief meeting.

Qian Haokuang stood up and announced.

"The process of making macarons is not complicated, in the final analysis, practice makes perfect, today is the first time everyone has learned to make macarons, to be honest, I am very pleased, I am very happy to see everyone's sincerity, seriousness and love for desserts."

"So we decided to add these items to the original evaluation criteria on an ad hoc basis, and finally came up with a result that everyone agreed on."

"First place is ......"

"Li Yichen, Zhou Hanying group."

"Congratulations."

"Papapapa"

Everyone looked at Li Yichen and Zhou Hanying with envy and applauded sincerely.

"Thank you, thank you."

Li Yichen and Zhou Hanying happily thanked each other.

"Certificates of completion will be issued to everyone next, and I hope you can leave a good memory at Qingsi Culinary Academy."

"Thank you, Chef!"

Everyone bowed to Qian Haokuang.