Chapter 81: Choosing a Farming Match (31)

The filling of red bean paste is very simple, and the most indispensable multigrain in this area is red beans.

Instead, mustard has become a problem.

There are many kinds of pickles in the vegetable cellar of the large kitchen, but there are no mustards.

Xu Yin used a sauerkraut stalk that was not too sour, cut it into cubes and made a makeshift alternative to the mustard.

Catch up with the Ming Dynasty and let Zhuangzi plant a batch of mustard greens, pickle a few more jars of mustard in the coming year, and when it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can make as many mustard mooncakes as you want.

After teaching her grandmother and maid to make Suzhou-style mooncakes, Xu Yin began to boil lychees in sugar water by herself.

If there is no ice, put it in a basket and hang it in a cool deep well to chill it, and drink it as refreshing as it is in your mouth.

"How? Isn't lychee worse than fresh? Xu Yin gave Yan Kejin a bowl.

It will take a while for the mooncake to be baked, so first bring him a bowl of lychees in sugar water.

Yan Kejin heard that it was made of sugar water, purely to save face for the princess, but after taking a sip......

He paused slightly, nodded approvingly, and drank the rest of the bowl.

"Not bad!"

Xu Yin was happy.

Even King Jinnan, who is not interested in desserts, likes this taste, not to mention those who are loyal lovers of desserts.

She believes that people who like canned fruit are definitely not a minority.

As long as the canned iron can keep up, canned fruit can definitely become the main product of Nanban, selling well all over Yanhua, and may even go abroad and be sold at home and abroad.

"Don't worry, the drawings drawn by the princess have been handed over to the ironsmith workshop, and as soon as the finished product comes out, Yan Qi will send it to you for a look. Make sure it's what you want, and then mass produce. ”

Xu Yin was very satisfied with his efficiency, and just as the first furnace of moon cakes was baked, she borrowed flowers and offered Buddha to give him one: "Try it!" ”

"Salty?"

He seemed to smell the flavor of the meat.

"There's also red bean paste, but it's still baking. This stove is made of fresh meat with mustard, and you will love it. ”

Yan Kejin tasted one and immediately said, "Is there anything else?" Tomorrow the king will go to the mine and will not come back at noon. ”

In other words, give him a few more ovens to take away.

Xu Yin couldn't help laughing: "There are many more, tomorrow morning, I will let the autumn frost bake more, this is not as delicious as freshly baked when it is cold." If you don't bake it well when you leave, send someone to bring it to you before noon, and you will definitely eat fresh. ”

Yan Kejin nodded with satisfaction.

"There is Princess Lao, just let the big kitchen learn to do it in the future, the princess will work too hard by herself."

Xu Yin shook her head: "It's not hard. ”

That's how life is fun.

Yan Kejin looked at her deeply: "This king will be distressed." ”

Xu Yin: "......"

I didn't see you eat less.

The next day, the baking kiln continued to start, in addition to the mustard moon cakes named by the prince, a batch of bean paste moon cakes was also baked, and sent to the royal guard detachment stationed in the mine.

The guards are blessed again, waiting for the prince to reward them with moon cakes to eat.

"It seems that it is good to show your face in front of the princess more, this morning I went to pick up the princess, Mama Feng next to the princess, saw me, and took the initiative to stuff a pack of freshly baked mooncakes for me, fragrant and crispy, really delicious!"

"You have good stuff to eat! Let you run a few more times to the palace, not for you to swallow alone! ”

"That's it! What about mooncakes? Hand it over! We haven't eaten yet! ”

"I've eaten them all!"

"Then spit it out!"

"......" a bunch of beasts!

Yan Kejin listened to the hairy boy who was babbling outside, and almost went to the ring for the moon cakes, raised her eyebrows, and moved her eyes to the moon cakes on the small table.

His princess did what she said and baked him a batch of mustard and fresh meat mooncakes, as well as a batch of mooncakes filled with honey bean paste.

Originally, he didn't like to eat sweet, and the princess also asked someone to bring a message and asked him to share some with his subordinates, but he looked at the sweet mooncake shaped like a heart...... Could it be that the princess is expressing her affection for herself in this way?

At noon that day, King Jinnan didn't let the kitchen deliver food, just with tea, he ate all the love brand mooncakes sent by the princess, and he was reluctant to reward his subordinates, and he was still full of satiety when he returned home in the evening.

The guard who waited outside for a long time and didn't wait for the moon cakes: "......"

simply pulled out the kid who ate alone and beat him up.

Yan Eighteen: "......" He is too miserable!

If Xu Yin knew, she thought it was necessary to support her forehead, and the shape was different, wouldn't it be convenient for everyone to identify.

She didn't plan to turn off the fire for a while after opening the kiln, and seeing that there were so many bananas in the house that they were about to rot, she took the maid to cut the bananas into thin slices and bake them on a baking sheet brushed with oil, and the dried bananas were as crisp as biscuits.

"Delicious! It's so delicious! ”

The maids and servants couldn't stop eating.

Xu Yin asked people to send some to the housekeeper in the house.

After the imperial kitchen was busy with the work at hand, he was pulling the butler to taste tea, and saw that the princess had made a small snack, which was still made of golden bow bananas that were piled up to rot, and tasted a piece out of curiosity...... Not! Crispy and refreshing! His eyes lit up instantly, and he immediately rushed to Xu's mansion, wondering how to do it.

Seeing that the process is so simple, he praised the princess for her ingenuity.

"I didn't expect the oven to work like this!"

The chef slapped his thigh, as if opening the door to a new world.

"The roasted golden bow banana is not only crispy and delicious, but also durable! Wonderful! That's a wonderful move! ”

Xu Yin couldn't help laughing: "In fact, it's not just golden bow bananas, many fruits and some vegetables can be roasted and eaten like this, and the taste is very different from fresh, so it's a snack." ”

Talking and talking...... Hey? It seems that he has found a way to get rich again.

Dried fruits and vegetables!

However, this way to make money is put aside for a while, and the top priority is to make canned food first.

Compared with dried fruits and vegetables, people in this era must prefer canned fruits with thick flesh and rich sugar water.

The days passed quietly in a very hopeful busyness.

In a blink of an eye, it is the most desirable harvest season of the year.

This year, the wind and rain in the Nanban area are smooth, and the crops in the fields are growing well and the harvest is naturally good.

Coupled with the new manure method disclosed by Xu Yin, the yield per mu of rice has nearly doubled.

With high-yield rice seeds, the output of hundreds of acres of first-class fertile land is about to quadruple.

And that's not all.

When it was the turn of the sweet potatoes and potatoes to be harvested, one acre of mountainous land, which was far less fertile than the first-class fertile land, actually produced more than 20 stone sweet potatoes and more than 30 stone potatoes, and they were stunned by a group of tenant farmers.

Only Xu Yin, looking at the output that was far less than that of later generations, shook her head slightly.

She thought that the potatoes could have a yield of 4,000 catties per mu, but in the end they were still too big.

"I didn't expect the yield per mu of this jaund to be so high, princess, what is this? Can it really be eaten as a meal like a sweet potato? ”

"Yes!"

Xu Yin asked people to pick a basket of potatoes with smooth skin and a large solid weight.

Take some peeled and shredded and stir-fry as vegetables, then take some cut into hob pieces and stew with meat, and put the rest in a steamer to steam in water.

At noon at the farm, Xu Yin led everyone to taste a potato feast.

After a meal, everyone, except Xu Yin, had their eyes full of fire.

This not very good-looking but delicious and high-yielding jaundice is simply a divine gift from God, and it can easily grow more than 30 stones per mu without picking the ground or taking care of it carefully.

Got it? Will you still go hungry in the future?