Chapter 94: Making Cakes
"Second Brother Chen, you have more strength, come and beat you. With this spoon, keep turning in one direction, don't stop, and wait until I shout to stop. ”
Chen Ergou thought it was easy at first, but when he fought for almost half an hour before Ye Zhenzhen shouted to stop, his forehead was already covered with large beads of sweat. In addition, he felt that his arms were a little sore and stiff, as if he was a little tired and a little out of strength.
"Isn't that going to happen every time?"
Ye Zhenzhen smiled and nodded, and as a result, the beaten egg liquid began to add boiled syrup and peanut oil to it.
These are all specially bought by her to make cakes.
The egg liquid is ready, and the next thing is to steam it in the pot, yes, it is to steam the cake.
In this era, there were already machines for baking cakes, but they were expensive and rare, except in the big cities along the coast, or in places like the capital.
Even if they have cakes for sale, they are wholesale from other places, so the price is not cheap.
So instead of baking a cake, they are steaming it.
In a large pot, put water at the bottom, put a grate on it, put a porcelain basin on top, put the prepared egg liquid in the basin, cover the pot, and start steaming.
The first time she tried to make a cake, Ye Zhenzhen didn't dare to fake her hands to others, and tried to do it little by little.
Soon, the first pot of cake was baked.
The moment the lid of the pot was lifted, several people stared at the porcelain pot in the pot without blinking.
"It's so fragrant......"
Chen Ergou sniffed and took the lead in speaking.
His daughter-in-law next to him immediately turned him around, "Can you have some interest?" Well, it's really fragrant......"
"Isn't it, incense? Comrade Xiaoye, I think your cake seems to be even more fragrant than the one you bought in the store. ”
Seeing the small half pot of egg liquid in the pot swell into an almost full pot of cake, Ye Zhenzhen hooked her lips with satisfaction.
"Second Brother Chen, our cake is more fragrant than that one because it is already cold, we are hot just out of the pot, and the taste can come out a little. Sister-in-law, please hand me the kitchen knife. ”
A whole pot of cakes is not easy to sell, so Ye Zhenzhen used a kitchen knife to cut it into cubes of about the same size, about one or two pieces.
"Well, everyone tastes how it tastes, and tell me if there is any shortcoming."
At the end, the corners were not cut into pieces, so Ye Zhenzhen simply broke it with her hands and handed it to several people.
Chen Ergou's taste buds had already opened, and he kept bubbling up and swallowing it in his stomach.
After taking the cake, I couldn't wait to stuff it in my mouth.
"Let you taste it, what can you taste so devoured? Slow down and have a good taste......"
Looking at Chen Ergou's eating appearance like the reincarnation of a demon, Chen Ergou's daughter-in-law couldn't help but glance at him.
"What to taste, I think this taste is very good, soft and fragrant, sweet, delicious, much better than steamed buns."
After eating the palm of his hand, looking at the still scattered ones in the basin, Chen Ergou hurriedly reached out and grabbed some more.
Ye Zhenzhen didn't stop him, and let him eat it openly.
Soon, the basin was clean, and Chen Ergou's daughter-in-law couldn't do anything else, so she had to help wash the basin so that Ye Zhenzhen could continue to steam the cake.
"I don't think it's too sweet, it's a little different from the taste in the store. But ours is softer than the one in the store, I've eaten the store, it's a little dry, I can't eat a few bites and I want to drink water, we won't. ”
Different from Chen Ergou's gobbling, Yang Guifeng's movements are very slow, chewing slowly, and he really tastes it.
After that, he also gave Ye Zhenzhen an opinion.
Ye Zhenzhen nodded, and added some more syrup to the egg mixture.
"Come again."
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The next day, Ye Zhenzhen got up early in the morning, packed the basket of cakes that she brought back last night, said hello to Teng Jianxiu, and happily left the village with Yang Guifeng.
"The child's father, you see that this Zhenzhen's filial piety is really good, this is far away, and he still wants to sell eggs to her mother and send them back. Look at the children in our family, when did they think about us. ”
Looking at Ye Zhenzhen's appearance of carefully carrying the basket, Teng Jianxiu felt envious of Zhang Suwen.
I raised a good girl.
Yang Huaming looked at the envy in Teng Jianxiu's eyes, and couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Don't think about it, you didn't care much when we were young, and you were too busy with things in the field all day long, so how could you have time to care about them? But Zhen Zhen is different, she was born in the city, her father had a job at that time, and her mother didn't do anything, so she took care of her alone, and that thought spent a lot more than you, her filial piety is normal, if she is not filial, then she has no conscience. ”
Besides, although their children are not as careful as Ye Zhenzhen, they didn't make trouble for them.
He doesn't have a big heart, as long as he remembers the two of them.
"You're right, huh...... Have you packed up? Let's go. ”
Day after day, all they can do is do their jobs, earn a few more jobs, and have a small family to do.
"Village chief, auntie, have you gone to the ground?"
The two of them were about to go out, when they saw Chen Ergou walking over with a basket on his back.
Chen Ergou's hand holding the rope on his back tightened, and he smiled and greeted the two first.
"yes, where are you going? Don't go to the ground today? ”
Chen Ergou smiled, "Go and catch up, village chief, I won't be working today, Su Ying went, just went out." ”
After speaking, for fear that Yang Huaming would ask him what he was doing in a hurry, he hurriedly sped up his steps and left.
Ye Zhenzhen and Yang Guifeng are still waiting for him in front.
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Because she already had the experience of selling yellow eels and snails a few times before, this time she bought a cake, and Ye Zhenzhen did not go to other places to delay time.
and Yang Guifeng led Chen Ergou and came to the black market.
The last time she was robbed of money by pickpockets, Ye Zhenzhen no longer dared to put the money in her pocket, but sewed a cloth wallet with Yang Guifeng, and sewed strips of cloth on the wallet, tied it firmly around her waist and covered it with clothes.
The three of them found a gap in the road, put down the basket and basket, and began to sell.
"Sell cakes, fragrant, sweet and cheap chicken cakes, let's come and taste them, take a look, it's not delicious, it doesn't cost money."
On the way here, Ye Zhenzhen taught Chen Ergou the words of selling.
At this time, Chen Ergou was in charge of selling, and she and Yang Guifeng lowered their heads and took out two pieces of cake and broke them into small pieces, put them on a plate, and handed them to Chen Ergou.
"What kind of chicken cake, is it the kind of chicken cake you sell in the store?"