Chapter 215: Making Mooncakes
Cheng Yangyang is a modern person, what is it to her with her own hand, she quickly succeeded in convincing herself that she must not be affected by the south wind, and she should be gnawed by a pig!
The moon in the sky is getting rounder and rounder, and although the Mid-Autumn Festival is still just her obsession, she also has to find a way to have a good time.
In late September, she went to the city, and after reconciling accounts with Chen Dong, she went to buy two large bags of flour and went home to prepare to make her own mooncakes.
"Yuxiu, let's cook in the canteen these days, let's make more salted duck eggs!" Cheng Yangyang went to the duck factory to ask for two baskets of salted duck eggs and brought them to Zhuang Yuxiu.
"Cheng, Boss Cheng, you can do whatever you say!" Although Zhuang Yuxiu didn't know why she suddenly had to specify what she would cook, she agreed without asking, but who made her the boss.
"It's just these salted duck eggs, you can keep the egg yolk for me, you can use the egg whites to cook, and besides, you may have to work two days this weekend, and I have something to do. ”
Cheng Yangyang looked at her embarrassedly and said that she would make mooncakes on the weekend.
"Okay, no problem!" Zhuang Yuxiu is really Cheng Yangyang, she will promise whatever Cheng Yangyang says, don't ask much, but she will definitely complete the things that are given to her beautifully and cleanly.
In the past few days, Cheng Yangyang has been sending things to the canteen, and she asked Wang Tong to buy a few plates of pork for her when she came back from delivering the goods, and she also asked Zhuang Yuxiu to help her refine it.
Early in the morning of the weekend, the two gentlemen and children of the school went home, and only Cheng Yangyang and Wang Daqing's family were busy working in the canteen of the school.
"Boss Cheng, what are you doing here?"
As soon as Cheng Yangyang came, he asked Wang Daqing to cook the red beans, saying that they were going to be boiled thoroughly and ground into bean paste, and the remaining Zhuang Yuxiu and Daqingniang were ready to knead the dough with her.
"I'm going to make moon cakes and bean paste egg yolk filling", Cheng Yangyang clicked the ingredients, and he could do it after he had all the ingredients.
"Make cakes, then I will!" As soon as Zhuang Yuxiu heard that she was going to make cakes, she went to wash her hands without saying a word, and prepared to make them with her.
It is indeed not difficult to make cakes, the techniques are almost the same, but the materials used are different and the proportions are different.
She also has to knead, this time she does more, the three of them may not be busy all day, in short, how much can be done!
The flour was poured on a clean panel, with ground powdered sugar and lard, mixed slightly, and after mixing, Cheng Yangyang asked them to use the water and noodles that he had brought down from the mountain.
After the noodles are reconciled, they put them in a clean basin, cover them with a white cloth and let them stand for half an hour, during which they can live another pot of noodles.
Wang Daqing was cooking red beans in the kitchen, and came out from time to time to take a look at them, but every time he came out, he only saw them making noodles, and none of the cakes were made.
"Cheng girl, how do you make a lot of cakes?" Da Qing's father used the weekend to chop wood with Wang Erqing, he picked firewood and came back, and saw several pots of noodles in the canteen, he asked in surprise.
"I don't want to give it away, not much", Cheng Yangyang raised her head, she rubbed her noodles all morning, and her hands were indeed a little sore.
"That's it......" Hearing that she was going to give it away, Da Qing's father didn't say anything more.
"Brother Daqing, is the red bean paste cold?" Cheng Yangyang shouted at the back kitchen, Wang Daqing had already boiled the red beans, crushed them into sand, and then put them in a dustpan with a white cloth to dry.
Wang Daqing didn't know what she wanted, so he took out one of the dustpans, "Sister Cheng, can you see if this is possible?"
Cheng Yangyang probed the temperature of the bean paste with the back of his hand, it was already cold, "It's okay, you can put it on the table." ”
After she had reconciled the pot of noodles she was kneading now and put them in the basin, she went to get the first pot of noodles, poured the noodles on the board, rolled them out into small portions with a rolling pin, and set them aside for later use.
"Cheng girl, let's roll the noodles, you go to make the cakes, we won't", Da Qingniang also reconciled her last pot of noodles, she didn't stop for a while, and came directly to help her roll the noodles.
"That's a hard job", Cheng Yangyang gave her the position, walked opposite her, and prepared to make stuffing.
No, as soon as she was about to make a move, Wang Daqing's family looked at her curiously, and looked at Cheng Yangyang a little embarrassed.
"Actually, it's very simple," Cheng Yangyang said to them with a smile, she picked up a piece of dough and showed them it, "It's just to spread the bean paste on the dough, then put an egg yolk, and wrap it up again." ”
"As for the shape of the cake, we still need this", Cheng Yangyang took a mold that she had carved, brushed some oil in the mold to prevent sticking, "Put the wrapped cake into this mold, press it hard, and pat it again, and the cake will come out." ”
Cheng Yangyang put the first made cake in the palm of his hand to show them, and on the cake was the word "Cheng".
"Ouch, this cake is so beautiful!" Several people gathered around and praised the cake in Cheng Yangyang's hand, which was different from the cake they pressed directly by hand.
"This cake is not difficult, I will also come to help!" Wang Erqing washed his hands and came out, he saw Cheng Yangyang making cakes, and he was eager to try.
"Okay, there are many people, there is a lot of power, if it's fast, we can finish it before the evening", Cheng Yangyang wished that there were more people, and after a morning meeting, the three of them were a little powerless.
Now with Wang Erqing's help, they can do it faster, and Daqing's father felt that he couldn't do this work, so he took the initiative to go to the back kitchen to light the fire and let Wang Daqing also come to help.
Just after the lunch break, their first pot of mooncakes could be taken to the back kitchen to bake, and Cheng Yangyang stopped making mooncakes and followed him to the kitchen in person.
Under her command, the first batch of mooncakes went into the earthen oven, baked slowly over low heat, and in about thirty minutes, the first batch of mooncakes was baked.
When baking moon cakes, Cheng Yangyang stared at the whole process, the time was accurate, the baked moon cakes were golden and sweet, and the unique taste of moon cakes filled the kitchen.
"Everyone is hungry, right?" Cheng Yangyang took out a few mooncakes from the plate in the back kitchen, "Try the newly baked mooncakes!"
Wang Daqing's family and her haven't had lunch yet, and they are all waiting to taste Cheng Yangyang's cakes.
"Ouch, I can finally eat it!" Zhuang Yuxiu stopped what she was doing, washed her hands, and went to get a moon cake, the moon cake was still a little hot, and she blew it back and forth several times.
Wang Daqing and Wang Erqing are rough men, they are not afraid of being hot, they pick them up and blow them and send them to their mouths, "Well!
They thought that the things made of lard and sugar would be weird, but they tasted surprisingly delicious, "This egg yolk is amazing!"
"Yes, I understand that the essence of moon cakes is this salted egg yolk", Cheng Yangyang nodded at Wang Daqing and praised him.