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In the blink of an eye, the time has entered the middle of August (lunar calendar).

Li Anran, who is alone abroad, is in a winery in a remote area of Pana, so naturally he can't experience the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival and the reunion of people and moons. After chatting with Hu Jing, who was still in China, through the video, he simply carried camping equipment into the mountain, which was called to scatter his heart, but in fact, he wore it to the time and space of the Tang Dynasty, ready to enjoy the feeling of the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival there.

Compared with the busyness of modern time and space, Li Anran, who returned to Datang time and space, is obviously much more leisurely.

After a period of running-in, the progress of the project of Xiaoyao Villa and the Academy has entered a stable stage of development, and the relevant project leaders have also been trained. During this time, they either taught Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun the basic knowledge of Chinese pinyin and mathematics in the classroom, or took the four of them around the pleasant places near the mountain villa.

Considering that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival now, in line with the idea that it is better to be happy alone than to be happy with everyone, Li Anran immediately transferred a few craftsmen to build a row of ovens with cement and masonry in the open space outside the manor. Taking advantage of the work of building the oven, people got a lot of refined flour, boiled lard and syrup, boiled red beans and mung beans, and even asked people to mix edible alkali and water in a ratio of one to four, and prepared a lot of wooden cake molds.

"Young Master. What are you doing here? After breaking the body, Su Xiaomei, who had already replaced the original girl's headdress with a woman's hairstyle. Gently shaking the hollow sandalwood fan that has been very popular in the Tang Dynasty women's circle recently, while fanning someone's incense. He asked, looking curiously at the lively scene.

"Today is August 15, the day of reunion, so it is natural to make some moon cakes to meet the occasion, so that everyone can be happy." Li Anran, who had finished arranging the work, leaned on the rocking chair made by the carpenter, and said with a smile while enjoying the grape brew with ice fish.

"Mooncakes? Young master, what kind of cake is a mooncake? "Leaning on Xiangyun on the other side. After reaching out and picking up a strawberry and gently putting it in someone's mouth, he asked with big charming eyes.

"What kind of cake is a mooncake?" Just thinking about Li Anran, who made moon cakes, was stunned for a moment before remembering that although the Mid-Autumn Festival had existed in the early Tang Dynasty, moon cakes seemed to be a kind of festival food that came out later. He smiled and said, "This moon cake, as the name suggests, is a kind of cake that is very similar to the moon on August 15." What exactly is going on, I will know the way when I look back, and I believe you will definitely like it. ”

"Young Master. You're selling off again. Because of the break, Su Xiaomei, who was still a little green and had a charming appearance, pouted her ruddy mouth and said dissatisfiedly.

"Huh...... It's not that I sell off. And this is a moon cake that is just described in words is false after all, and only after tasting it can you know what the Tao is. Li Anran, who defended himself, looked at the pitiful expressions of the two girls. Even if he knew that he was deliberately pretending, he was still very useful in his heart. smiled at the moment: "Okay, okay, I'll show you right away." ”

Hear here. Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun's originally pitiful expressions suddenly showed happy smiles after the rain, and they smiled in unison: "Hehe...... It's still the best young master. ”

After getting along with each other during this time, especially after rolling over the sheets, the relationship between the three of them is obviously much closer than at the beginning. Especially when Li Anran used the learning machine to impart some knowledge, as well as the language and habits of modern time and space, the communication and behavior between the three of them, if it weren't for the fact that the clothes of the three were still very ancient, and they would also be restrained when there were many outsiders, almost no different from couples in modern society.

What makes Li Anran very satisfied is that although Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun have changed a lot, and occasionally they will be coquettish with themselves and do some small "games", but as ancient women, they are not less virtuous and virtuous. Especially when you are in front of people, what can be done, what can be said, what can not be done, what can not be said, and the behavior is very decent.

Seeing that he had said everything, Li Anran, who originally wanted to be lazy, had to roll up his sleeves and go into battle in person.

Zhao Qian's second mother-in-law, who was directing those cooks who had been trained through many tests, and was handling various ingredients and making preparations according to someone's requirements, hurriedly leaned over after seeing someone walk to the desk.

"Zhao Qian's, the kind of cake I'm going to make today is called moon cakes, you see how I do it first, and after you learn it, you have to teach those cooks to make it, the moon cakes that the entire villa and the academy need have to rely on you to complete, do you know the way?" Li Anran pointed to the ingredients on the board and said.

"Yes, young master." Zhao Qian, who had already been instructed before, hurriedly promised.

Considering that there are a lot of people who want to take moon cakes this time, in order to avoid problems, Li Anran nodded, and then called Su Xiaomei and Xiang to his side, and asked the two of them to stand aside with manuscript paper and pencils, so as to record the recipe and production of moon cakes.

Moon cakes are a kind of food, don't look at the variety and taste, but in fact, the method is almost the same.

In general, mooncakes are divided into three types of crusts, syrup crust, puff pastry and ice crust. As for the types of pie filling, there are many kinds of fillings, except for the common bean paste, pretzels, and lotus paste, basically everything that can be used can be used to make fillings. Of course, the premise is that you can get used to eating.

The first step is to mix the syrup, water and cooking oil in proportion, and then the fine white flour milled by the waterwheel mill is sifted through the powder sieve into the liquid that was mixed before to mix into an oil dough, and then put it next to it and cover it with wet gauze to wake up for a while.

Considering that the syrup crust could not be used immediately, Li Anran took the opportunity to make the puff pastry.

Compared to the syrup crust, the puff pastry is obviously more troublesome. Knead the water and oil skin first, and then adjust the puff pastry. After waking up for a while, wrap the puff pastry in water and oil skin like a bun. Then repeat the process of rolling out the dough, folding, rolling it out, folding it, and finally kneading the dough one by one.

At this time, the previous syrup crust has also woken up, and the kitchen electronic scale brought from modern time and space is used to divide the dough into small dough of equal weight, and after rolling it into a round crust that is slightly thicker in the middle and slightly thinner around the perimeter, the bean paste filling that is rolled into a ball is placed in the middle of the crust. After the dough is closed, it is directly stuffed into the mooncake mold bought from modern time and space in advance, and a piece of mooncake with a pattern is OK.

Puff pastry mooncakes are also different only in making the crust, everything else is the same. After the two kinds of pie crusts were ready, it was only more than half an hour, and under Li Anran's skillful hands, two kinds of moon cakes with different patterns or round balls like shrunken steamed buns were quickly lined up on the desk.

It just so happened that the oven had already been completed a lot, so I found the first one to complete and lit the fire, and when the temperature rose to about the same level, I put these mooncakes directly into the baking tray that was also brought from modern time and space, and then stuffed them into the furnace and baked.

In the process of making moon cakes, Li Anran gave instructions carefully at every step, and as long as this thing has a good grasp of the recipe and the amount of dough, there is no difficulty at all. So, by the time the first moon cake was baked, Zhao Er's mother-in-law, Zhao Qian, was already able to take the gang of cooks and girls to work skillfully on the desk.

Baked food, regardless of whether it is Chinese or Western, has one characteristic, that is, the aroma is overflowing when baked. No, after the first mooncake was baked, an enticing sweet fragrance began to waft in the open space outside the manor.

For Li Anran, who is a modern person, sweets like mooncakes are nothing at all. But for the people of Datang time and space, moon cakes, a sweet and oily food, can definitely be regarded as a supreme delicacy.

Even though Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun often open a small stove on Li Anran's side on weekdays and taste all kinds of delicious snacks from modern time and space, after eating them, they still immediately like this kind of sweet, soft, or crispy mooncakes. (To be continued......)