Today is the day of the beginning of spring, in the past it was the beginning of spring before the Spring Festival, this year it seems to be the beginning of spring is later, and then two days will be the Lantern Festival, now it is the beginning of spring, but it seems a little unusual.

But Xinyue is really happy, after the beginning of the spring is their own banquet, although Xinyue does not go back to participate, but she thinks that there should be a small banquet today to bring herself.

When Feng'er entered the kitchen, she saw Xinyue standing in front of the noodle table, looking seriously at the lotus paste filling in the basin, a little distracted.

"What is the girl doing?" Feng'er asked.

"I used to eat a kind of fruit in Jiangfu, which is puff pastry on the outside and lotus paste on the inside, and it is wrapped in salty cakes such as taro paste and meat floss, which is very good." But the new moon just can't remember anything, that's how it was done.

"Girl, what are you going to do?" Feng'er asked

Crescent Moon nodded, "I want to try it." ”

"Girl, can you do this?" Feng'er looked at the appearance of the new moon, she was wearing a wide robe, and her sleeves were about to fall to the ground, she really didn't look like she could cook, "Girl, if you watch from the side, the slave will do it." ”

"I, I want to try" Xinyue looked at Feng'er with crooked eyes, and Feng'er sighed, "Then why don't you go and change your clothes first?" ”

"My clothes—" Crescent Moon spread her sleeves, which were not suitable for cooking, so she walked back to her room with her husband.

When I entered the room, I saw Fei'er sorting out the makeup box of the new moon, and when I saw the new moon coming in, she said, "The slave said that the girl wants to eat, so just order someone to make it." ”

"Why should I tell others that I can't do it?" As she spoke, Crescent Moon took off her robe. Put on the light clothes that Feng'er had found for her, and go back to the kitchen.

Crescent Moon had never cooked, except that when her aunt was sick, she used a small tandoor to boil medicine, and other than that, Crescent Moon felt that she had never even entered the kitchen door.

"Girl, what are you doing here?" Mama Wang was putting the casserole on the stove, and felt that the light at the door was dimmed, and she looked up to see the crescent moon standing by the door.

"I'm here to learn how to make dim sum." Crescent Moon looked at her hands, a little embarrassed.

"Good come, come on, the old slave is planning to make a few dumplings for the girl to eat." As she spoke, Mama Wang took out a cloth bag from the cabinet, and in the cloth bag was glutinous rice flour.

"But the girl said she wanted to make the shortbread with lotus paste, taro paste and meat floss filling that she could eat in Jiangfu."

"Oh, that's really unfortunate, there's no meat in the kitchen, so why don't you make some now?" Saying that, Mama Wang was a little panicked, picked up the pot on the side, and Xinyue hurriedly stopped, "I'm afraid I'm going to do it for a while, not busy." Mama is not going to make dumplings, I'm going to follow Mama to make dumplings today. ”

"Does the girl want to eat sugar water dumplings or red bean dumplings?"

"I want to have a little banquet in the afternoon, what do you think?"

"Since it's an afternoon meal, let's make sweet water dumplings, and it's good to be sweet." Mama Wang said her opinion, so Xinyue nodded, "Okay." ”

"Then let's start with osmanthus candy. Mo'er, have you washed the osmanthus? ”

"Washed, Mama" said, Mo'er took the dried osmanthus and put it in front of Mama Wang.

Mama Wang twisted a little osmanthus flower, put it on the tip of her nose and smelled it, and then put it on the tip of her nose of the crescent moon, "Girl, smell it." ”

Xinyue shrugged her nose, this osmanthus is in the autumn, from the backyard of the Marquis of Anxuan's mansion convergence, Feng'er, Fei'er and others led a yard of girls, sorted out a big bag, but in a blink of an eye, half of it has been eaten, it seems that it is not the time to eat the osmanthus again.

The taste of osmanthus is very strong, and there is a faint trace of water vapor after the water.

Xinyue said, "This flower doesn't seem to have a strong taste like what I eat." ”

"It's just that it's sun-dried, and when it's replenished, the fragrance will be restored." Mama Wang taught Xinyue from the beginning, she took a big bowl, put the osmanthus in it, and added several large spoons of sugar, Xinyue frowned, "Mama, this osmanthus nectar, isn't it all honey?" ”

Mama Wang smiled, "This honey, although it is also sweet, but the osmanthus will have a stronger fragrance after it is boiled, but the honey will have no nutrition as soon as it is heated, so I want to use sugar to marinate the fragrance of osmanthus, and finally add the same amount of honey as sugar, so that the taste is good, and there is also the fragrance of honey." ”

As she spoke, Mama Wang stretched out her hand and rubbed the rice-sized osmanthus flower, so that the fragrance in the osmanthus flower quickly emanated, and finally poured boiling water and put it aside to soak.

"Girl, try it too?" Mama Wang found a small pot, put osmanthus flowers in it, and let the new moon try it, and the new moon did the same, and soon it was the same as Mama Wang's.

Osmanthus is put aside to soak in water, and Mama Wang puts the glutinous rice flour in a wooden basin, adds hot water to the glutinous rice flour, holds chopsticks in her hand, and mixes the glutinous rice flour with water more evenly, which is making dumplings.

The new moon is watching and learning from the side, and it is really doing a good job.

When the glutinous rice dough is a little cooler, pull down a ball, wrap it with lotus paste, taro paste, red beans and other fillings, and then wrap it up, but the new moon is not very skilled, so it has to be taught by Mama Wang a little bit, hand in hand, tighten it with the tiger's mouth, and finally see a ball in the palm of the hand.

"Mama, look, this is so round" The crescent moon finally made one with her own hands, handed it to Mama Wang, and Mama Wang looked at it, and reached out and pinched a small crescent moon on the white face, "Make a mark, this is cooked, and the slave maid wants to show it to the princess and the eldest girl." ”

The princess and the eldest girl in Mama Wang's mouth are Xinyue's mother and girl, and Xinyue pulled down the dough and said to Mama Wang, "Then I will have a few more, and Mama will put it in front of my mother and aunt." ”

"Okay, good" said, Mama Wang touched her tears with her sleeve, and Xinyue smiled, "Mama, this is so good, you can't cry." ”

"Yes, yes, slaves don't cry, don't cry." As she spoke, Mama Wang continued to make the balls in her hand.

After wrapping a piece of glutinous rice balls, Xinyue looked at most of the balls on the table, and Feng'er was checking them one by one, especially where Xinyue was sitting, where they were not round, picking them up and putting them in a ball.

"That's enough, come, girl, we should make osmanthus nectar."

As long as the osmanthus is soaked in hot water, it is easy to do, Mama Wang directly poured the osmanthus into the pottery pot, first boiled it over high heat, and then served it on a small fire, slowly boiling the water into a viscous syrup, and the new moon also learned from her, but she was not skilled at first, and she did not put it on the hand towel when moving the fire, and was directly burned by the hot pot.

"Girl, slow down." Mama Wang was just a non-notice, Xinyue was injured, she picked up Xinyue's fingers in distress and looked at it, "It's okay, it's okay, it's just red." ”

"Mama, I'm fine" Crescent Moon still wanted to keep doing.

Mama Wang saw that she insisted, she really knew Xinyue too well, and with such a stubborn temper, if she wasn't allowed to do it, she wouldn't listen to herself. So, Mama Wang planned to watch her more closely, and personally put the pot of the crescent moon on a low fire.

Xinyue laughed at this time, "Thank you Mama, I will do it later, I will come to honor Mama you, Mama, you cook so deliciously, it would be a pity if there is no heir, how about you see me as your heir?" ”

After hearing this, Feng'er immediately interjected, "The girl slave is the disciple of Mama, don't you have the taste of Mama's cooking?" ”

"What you make is not as delicious as Mama's. I've been with Mama for so long, and I still haven't gotten the true biography, so I look stupid. Xinyue said to Feng'er with a smile.

Feng'er naturally didn't admit it, and pretended to be sad and said, "Girl, you really can't believe what you say, and you praise the slave maid in the morning, and the porridge is delicious." Now it is said that the slave is stupid. The slave really didn't know what to do. ”

"Where is there anything difficult to do, the master said that if you don't do it well, then do it better next time. If you say that you have done your best, and the master still has to pick faults, then you have to respond. Mama Wang said very insightfully.

"Yes, yes, follow Mama's teachings." Feng'er also replied with a smile.

"Mama, the pot is boiling, what should I do next?" Crescent asked.

"Take a wooden spoon and stir like this." Mama Wang's subordinates, hard and non-stop, stirred in the pot to make the sugar, water and osmanthus fully fused, and finally formed a honey-like texture, Xinyue learned from her, but after a while, he found that the syrup in his pot was more and more resistant, and it was in vain. Some are anti-sand.

Feng'er hurriedly said to Xinyue, "Girl, you use less strength. If you stir it too quickly, the water will evaporate quickly, and the syrup will become a sugar sand. ”

said. Feng'er added a little more water to the pot of the crescent moon, and the speed of the crescent moon slowed down, and sure enough, although there were some twists and turns, it still reached the level of Mama Wang.

Mama Wang nodded, "Yes, that's what it looks like." Now take it off the fire, set it aside to dry, put in the honey when it is almost cold, and finally marinate for an hour, and the honey osmanthus is ready. ”

"And then?" Crescent asked.

Mama Wang stopped her hand, washed her hands with water, wiped the water on her hands with a cotton cloth, and said to the new moon, "Now what we have to do is wait, although some delicacies need to be cooked over a blazing fire, and it will be integrated in a moment, but there is no way to be anxious about some foods, no matter how strong the fire is, there is no way to cook a piece of meat quickly, but you can boil the water in the pot dry and cook the meat." Only by simmering over low heat will there be a bowl of crispy meat at the end. ”

Crescent Moon nodded heartily, "Yes"

The waiting time for the honey osmanthus to be pickled was long, and although it was only an hour, the new moon still asked twice.

Before waiting for the honey osmanthus to be ready, Mama Wang first boiled a pot of porridge water with sugar lotus seeds, lilies, white fungus and red dates, etc., and then waited for the white fungus to boil out the glue, put it aside, and began to cook the dumplings just wrapped.

The dumplings are white and fat, larger than the commonly eaten rice balls, so the cooking time is longer, and finally the dumplings are in the pot, one by one floating up, like a little rabbit facing the water, only to leak out with a colander and put it in the bowl.

In a small bowl, each bowl is filled with five dumplings, and then poured with white fungus soup, and finally when it is on a plate, a large spoonful of honey osmanthus that has just been made is served.

Mama Wang looked at the new moon, "This is the osmanthus white fungus dumplings, these dumplings are made by the girl herself, and the slave maid has not broken any of them, so the girl is really ingenious, not like the first time to do it." Taste this honey osmanthus again, how does it taste? ”

Xinyue felt that although it was a bit long, it didn't seem to be too difficult, it turned out that making a snack, as long as you prepared the ingredients, mastered the heat, and dared to start again, in that case, it would definitely be done.

As soon as the bowl was served, the crescent moon hadn't even smelled the smell, and someone outside said, "Girl, General Jiang is here." ”

"He's really a guy with long legs, and he's here as soon as the delicious food comes out of the pot. Please! Xinyue put down the bowl in her hand, because she wanted to meet the guests, she had to change out of the regular clothes she was wearing, which was the respect for the guests.

Walking to the inner room, standing in front of the mirror, Xinyue looked at the mirror, only to find that her clothes were all white glutinous rice flour, as well as honey accidentally splashed, osmanthus, and a piece of white fungus that had solidified, it seemed that it had been rubbed on it for a long time.

Feng'er smiled and said, "Girl, these things on your body can also make a honey osmanthus white fungus dumpling." ”

Crescent Moon also smiled happily, "Who said it wasn't?" Bring me the clothes I just wore, it's a new robe. ”

"Yes" Feng'er took the clothes that Xinyue had just taken off from the shelf, Xinyue put it on, tidied up her hair, and walked out of the inner room, Jiang Yang stood in the hall with his hands in his hands, and when he saw Xinyue come out, he saluted.

The new moon returned the salute: "Why is General Jiang free to come to me today?" ”

"I just came out of the palace and met the Queen Mother and Her Majesty. The Queen Mother asked me to bring you something, so I brought it. As he spoke, Jiang Yang waved his hand to let the guards in, and the two guards carried it and put down a large black lacquered wooden box, Xinyue looked at the exquisite box, frowned and asked, "What is this?" ”

"It's all my aunt's jewelry, she said she couldn't keep it and couldn't wear it, and she stayed by her side, but it was only with her buried in the ground, and it was cheaper to dig graves and rob graves in the future, so she asked Xuecui to sort it out, and let me bring you a part, which she likes and cherishes very much, and some of them, wait, and I'll reward you later." Jiang Yang passed the words of the Queen Mother, and his voice was also a little turbulent. After all, it is an aunt who has loved her since she was a child, and now she has run out of oil.

"Queen Mother, didn't the Queen Mother say when she would see me?" Xinyue looked at this box a little blankly, he didn't care how many treasures were in this box, he just wanted to see the Queen Mother now.

"You also know that the Queen Mother issued an order to let you go to see her, just because she was afraid that you would be sad, which would hurt you and consume the Queen Mother. It's better to wait for the end, and you bring it to her bed."

"The Queen Mother loves me the most, she is like this, I don't serve in front of the bed, how can I still enter my filial piety? Repay the Queen Mother for her kindness to me? As he spoke, the new moon was also full of tears and red eyes.

"I'm going to see the Queen Mother today, and I'll ask for you. But she didn't let go, she just said let me take good care of you, and when she waited, she would see you. Jiang Yang stretched out his hand and patted Xinyue's shoulder, he really couldn't see Xinyue crying, but Xinyue's eyes were like wells, whenever he looked over, they were all watery.

"How is the Queen Mother today? Can I eat? Have you drunk the medicine? "The new moon can only ask about these details.

"When I went, the Queen Mother was drinking medicine, and Xuecui said that she ate a little white porridge before drinking the medicine, and felt that her mouth was sour and bitter, and she also ate a piece of honeydew melon paid tribute from the Western Regions."

"It's good to be able to eat. That's it. "The crescent moon is settled.

"Okay, let's not talk about that. I just saw you come out in a hurry. But what's the matter? Jiang Yang took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Xinyue, who came over and wiped his eyes while saying, "I cooked a dish of sugar water today, do you want to taste it?" ”