Chapter 791: Preparing for a Birthday

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Hearing this, Qian Junbaojun's face changed slightly, smiled bitterly, and stood up.

Looks like I'm going to be busy for a while.

Ye Qing took the two servants to the "Helu Snow" ice shop, and as soon as Dong Ling's sharp eyes saw Ye Qing get out of the carriage, he immediately drove forward with a smile and bent down to give a salute.

"Young lady, are you here, can you have lunch?"

Ye Qing smiled.

"Not yet, I'll go back and eat with my father-in-law later."

After speaking, she glanced at it and saw that the business in the store was okay, and eating shaved ice or drinking a glass of ice water in this weather was really comfortable.

After a while, Dongyun and Ju Xiang also came over, and when they saw Ye Qing coming, both of them were very happy.

After a while, Ye Qing was already sitting on a chair and eating plum sauce shaved ice.

Since she ate late for breakfast, it didn't matter if she had some cold drinks at this time.

A few pedestrians walked in sweating profusely and shouted, "Shopkeeper, what are you selling?" โ€

Dongyun immediately greeted him and said enthusiastically: "We sell all kinds of fruit shaved ice, as well as iced milk tea and all kinds of snacks. โ€

The people looked at the guests in the nearby seats eating the shaved ice poured with various juices and fruits, and asked, "How much is the shaved ice?" What is milk tea? โ€

Dong Yun said with a smile: "A bowl of mixed fruit shaved ice is fifteen wen, milk tea is made of sweet buffalo milk and black tea with ice, and flour balls or taro balls are added to it, and a cup of ice milk tea only costs twelve wen." โ€

"Here's a mixed fruit shaved ice." Immediately, a big man shouted.

"Okay, do you want anything else? We also have fruit shaved ice here for only 10 cents.

There are melons, raisins, red beans and walnuts, which flavor do you want? I still want a cup of milk tea, with taro balls and pink balls. Dongyun asked, arranging seats for them.

"Is there any watermelon?" A big man asked.

Dong Yun immediately nodded and said, "Watermelon, there are some, there are." Coincidentally, I just arrived a few watermelons today, and they are all used well water. Wait a minute, I'll do it for you right away. โ€

Moments later, shaved ice with various pulp drizzled with juice and milkshakes was placed in front of them.

The men looked at it carefully, and then scooped a spoonful with a small spoon and put it in their mouths, their eyes widening.

"It's so icy, it's so sweet!"

"It's delicious!"

"Give me a bite of your bowl of raisins, and I'll dig you a spoonful of melon."

Seeing that they loved to eat, Dong Yun showed a few white teeth and walked to Ye Qing's side with a smile.

First stared at Ye Qing for a while, and found that she was wearing a skirt painted with butterflies and daffodils in lake blue today.

He only wore a simple bun on his head, and wore a set of gold and pearl jewelry, and his face was not powdered, but his skin was ruddy, delicate and shiny, not much inferior to the pearl.

Her eyebrows are thick and dark, but they are very delicately cultivated, thicker than everyone's favorite willow leaf curved eyebrows, which looks a little heroic, but it also shows that Ye Qing's clear big eyes are more and more deep and bright, and the grid is provocative.

The most important thing is that after not seeing the young lady for a few days, Dongyun found that she had lost a lot.

Looking at Ye Qing at this time, you will feel that in addition to being slightly blessed, her whole person is still beautiful and bright.

Waiting for Ye Qing to put down the spoon, he slowly asked, "Young lady, I heard that our house is going to give porridge today, and Young Master Bao has already gone over to be busy?" โ€

Ye Qing nodded and said, "Well, I'm just here to get an ice appraisal, fill some ice points, and take some ice crystals to go over." โ€

"Then slave, go and get ready immediately." Dong Ling behind him immediately said.

Ye Qing pointed to the two stout servants behind him and said, "Dongling, you take them with you, and let them put Bingjian on the carriage at that time." โ€

"Yes."

Ye Qing's eyes turned to Dong Yun, and his expression was correct and asked, "These days, have you encountered anything difficult in the store?" โ€

Dongyun shook his head and said, "No, everything is fine. There are a lot of guests, and the big guys are also very attentive.

However, there are many people who want to ask us about the secret method of making ice. There were also some people who wanted to find the young lady and ask for cooperation, but they were all rejected by the money housekeeper. โ€

Ye Qing curled the corners of his lips and smiled, "Well, it's okay." Then I will rest assured, you continue to manage this store, and tell the housekeeper if you lack anything. When the summer is over, I'll come back to the store and teach you how to make hot drinks for the winter. โ€

"Okay." Dongyun smiled and agreed.

A quarter of an hour later, Ye Qing left the ice shop and took ten large watermelons with him.

In fact, watermelon was not a native variety of China at the earliest, but an alien species introduced from Africa.

Su Dongpo, a great writer and food expert, also has a soft spot for eating watermelon, and he wrote a very interesting couplet, which is "Sitting in the south and facing north to eat watermelon, and throwing the skin to the east".

The next link is "Thinking before thinking and looking back at "Left Biography", and the book is turned to the right. This couplet writes the chic and hearty taste of eating melons.

It is said that the last emperor of the previous dynasty had set up a "watermelon banquet" in the Yuanhe Hall of the imperial city, feasted the ministers, and invited the literati to help the fun, chanted poems, and the outstanding guests would also reward ten watermelons.

In the fifteenth year of the founding of the Daewoo Dynasty, the founding queen of Daewoo let watermelons be planted everywhere in the country, and the status and price of watermelons were reduced.

But the taste of this ancient watermelon is actually not as good as the popular melon here, and in terms of taste, moisture and sweetness, the watermelon grown in the water and soil of Chongyang Town is not as good as the watermelon from the northwest.

However, regardless of whether these watermelons can taste better than the high-sweetness watermelons of later generations, they are the same in quenching thirst.

When Ye Qing arrived at the West City Gate, he found that there was a long queue in the porridge shed of the Qian Mansion.

Many people are still clamoring for more money for porridge, and they will give them an extra spoonful of spicy cabbage and spicy radish.

This scene was expected by Ye Qing, and she felt that she should be able to take Junbao back to the house for lunch.

Sure enough, in less than half an hour, the sixteen buckets of white porridge that Qian Shanbo had prepared were finished.

The people who were still unsatisfied saw that there were still many spicy cabbages and spicy radish, and they asked for another spoonful.

Seeing that the big guy liked it so much, Qian Duoduo asked Ye Qing for his opinion, and asked people to finish the spicy cabbage and spicy radish.

Moreover, the ten stones of rice brought today have also been polished, and as a result, the porridge shed of Qianfu is the earliest one of all the porridge sheds in the West City Gate today.

But even if they came back early, it was almost half past one at noon, and Ye Qing and Qian Junbao had finished lunch in the mansion.

After taking a lunch break for an hour, Ye Qing went to the kitchen to prepare cakes and various snacks.

The maids also came to the kitchen to help her, and they were all full of energy, because the lady said that their money had tripled today, and the cooks could each receive a red envelope.

Can they not work hard?

Ye Xi went out to invite his uncles over for dinner, and in the evening his brother-in-law's birthday, Ye Qing wanted to cook a lot of delicious food.

At this time, the Qian Mansion is more lively than the festival from top to bottom, and it is almost full of lights.

It was too hot in the kitchen, so Ye Qing gave an order, and asked the servant to move the pancake pan, as well as the iron pot and oven for the pancakes, to the shade of the trees and the corner of the wall.

After a while, Ye Qing asked people to build a simple stove made of three bricks, and a large iron pot more than one meter long was also set up, ready for the cook to cook the big pot dishes.

There are a total of seventy-six people in the mansion, plus some relatives of the Ye family, as well as Ye Wenshan's friends, and there will be twelve tables of banquets today.

Although there are no modern ovens, it is easy to make a cake that looks like it as long as you have the ingredients to make the cake.

There are many types of cakes, such as chiffon cakes, sponge cakes, cotton cakes, pound cakes, etc.

Chiffon cake is soft and delicate, and it is one of the most popular eats.

But there is a cake that tastes better, softer, and has a more delicate texture than chiffon cake, and has a melt-in-your-mouth feeling.

After eating it, you will feel that no other cake can compare to it, and this is it - cotton cake.

It is not difficult to make this cake, add a small amount of clear oil to a large pot and heat it over low heat until it boils slightly.

Remove from heat immediately, add the sifted flour and stir quickly to form a smooth, scalding dough and place in another basin to cool for later use.

Beat the egg yolk and a few whole eggs into the mixing basin, pour in the milk and mix well, add the mixed egg yolk liquid to the freshly blanched flour paste twice, and add another time after each mix.

Then drip the lemon juice into the egg whites and use a simple whisk brush made of bamboo to make a coarse bubble clockwise.

Add the sugar to the egg white three times, beat until there is a small hook, take one-third of the beaten meringue into the egg yolk paste, and cut it with a spatula and mix evenly.

Then pour back into the remaining meringue and mix well in the same way.

Pour the cake batter into a rectangular baking tray lined with oiled paper and shake the baking tray on the table to make the large bubbles in the cake batter come out.

Then put it on the oven that has been heated, bake it slowly for about half an hour, and bake the cake without turning it upside down, just let it cool and slice it.

After a while, everyone who helped was given a palm-sized cake, and after a while, everyone's face was filled with happy and sweet smiles.

For those who have never eaten cake before, the deliciousness of the cake is enough to keep them coming back for a lifetime.

After all the cotton cakes on one baking tray were eaten, Ye Qing asked them to make three more baking trays to prepare for eating in the evening.

Using the same method, Ye Qing made sixteen-inch and twelve-inch round cake molds.

Then she started making cream.

Beat the egg whites into small bubbles with a small layer on them, add a little salt, a few drops of white vinegar and sugar, and continue to beat the egg whites.

When it is a little thick, it feels like the egg white is like the foam of bath gel, add a spoonful of sugar, and continue to beat.

After beating for about a quarter of an hour, try to pick up the beaten egg whites, and if the egg whites can stand up, the cream is already beaten.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Qing found a hurry of oily paper, this oily paper is very tough, rolled into a triangular tube, and packed the cream in it.

Then cut a small flower opening in the pointed mouth part, which can be used as a piping tube for squeezing cream.

Just when Ye Qing was seriously making cake decorations, all the maids and cooks who were helping here watched Ye Qing's actions as if they had discovered a new world.

When the double layer of cream cake appeared in their eyes, their eyes were as big as eggs, and they secreted a lot of saliva in their mouths, and they swallowed saliva from time to time.

The cook Zhao Lihua rubbed her eyes and said, "Madam, is this what you said about cream cake?" It's really beautiful! โ€

The flowers made of white cream are beautiful and elegant, and they are attractive to look at!

"It must be delicious!" A little girl licked the corners of her mouth and said.

An older servant woman said excitedly: "Needless to say, the taste of the cake in it alone is indescribably delicious, and if it weren't for the heat, I would have been able to eat dinner without having to eat it just now." โ€

"Then Mrs. will let you eat so much."

"Don't be afraid, I've learned how to make cakes, and next time as long as my wife asks me to make cakes, I'll definitely be able to eat enough."

Ye Qing looked at the cake he made, nodded with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Rosin, you follow me to help me open the door, I want to put the cake in the cool room." โ€

There is a cool house in Qianfu, the house is surrounded by a pond, and there is a small water wheel behind the house, which can pump water to the flat roof, so that the water flow slowly through the entire roof, so that the temperature in the house can be kept at about 25ยฐC for a long time.

In addition, after Ye Qing asked people to put more than a dozen large iron buckets of ice cubes into it, the temperature inside was even lower, and some fresh vegetables and fruits could be stored at ordinary times, so that they would not spoil for three or five days.

The cake was ready, and a large number of guests came to the outer courtyard, basically the Ye family.

However, Ye Qing heard that Qian Junbao's master had also arrived, and Qian Junbao was cooking tea in Cuizhuju to entertain him.

Ye Qing was still very curious about Qian Junbao's master, but he was not in a hurry to meet him now.

She thought of what Qian Junbao had said, that his master liked to eat Dingsheng cake and lotus cake, and decided to make these two snacks for his master first.

While preparing the dim sum ingredients, she remembered to make two more chicken dishes for his master.

So, she quickly asked people to prepare a few tender chickens weighing three catties.

When it comes to boiled chicken, the first dish that comes to her mind is her favorite white-cut chicken.

The white-cut chicken skin is smooth and smooth, light and delicious, and with the secret dipping water, it is really delicious.

Legend has it that once upon a time, there was a scholar who studied hard in his early years to find an official and a half-job, but in the end, because he couldn't stand the darkness of officialdom, he abandoned the official farming.

He is philanthropic, bold and educated, and is deeply supported by the villagers.

The farmer lives in poverty, is over half a hundred years old, and has no children under his knees. This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival came again, he discussed with his wife, and decided to kill a hen, one to pray for the early birth of a noble son, and the other to fight the tooth sacrifice.

The wife had just stripped and washed the hens and brought them into the kitchen, when suddenly someone was crying outside the window. It turned out that children were greedy to play with lanterns and cause fires.

It was a crisp autumn season, and some villagers' wealth was about to turn to ashes. Without saying a word, the farmer picked up a bucket and rushed out, and his wife went with him to put out the fire.

With the joint efforts of the villagers, the fire was quickly brought under control and finally extinguished. When the farmer came home, the stove was out and the water in the pot was lukewarm.

It turned out that the wife was in a hurry, only adding firewood to the stove, forgetting to put the condiments and cover the pot. And the bare chicken in the pot was scalded by hot water!

So, white chops came to eat.

After the big guy ate it, he found that it was very delicious, so it was passed down.

The great gourmand Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List" called the white-cut chicken white-sliced chicken, saying that it is a very famous home-cooked dish in Liangguang, and it is an indispensable dish in the rural red and white ceremonies.

There are dozens of chicken dishes listed on the list, which are used for steaming, cannoning, simmering, marinating, and badness, but the first place listed is white slice chicken, saying that it has the "taste of Taitang Yuan wine".

Later, in the kitchen world, there are more than 200 kinds of chicken dishes, and the most common one is the white-cut chicken, which is original and original, the skin is refreshing and the meat is smooth, and it is suitable for both large and small feasts, which is favored by everyone.

Make white-cut chicken, one heavy selection of chicken, two times boiled chicken, and three flavors.

It is better to use fine bone farm chicken, if you can find three yellow chickens, it is better, the color is white with oily yellow, with the fragrance of scallion oil.