Yang Dingbang went home from work and told Lin Lan what Ye San had confessed, and asked her to be careful of Liu Jinbao.

Lin Lan nodded: "Don't worry, I won't go anywhere else except to set up a stall, that is, to cut cattle grass at the foot of the mountain." ”

"Okay, be careful yourself, in case something happens and I'm not there, you can ask Xiang Yang for help." Yang Dingbang said.

Lin Lan said gratefully: "Thank you Dingbang, you and Xiangyang have helped me a lot." ”

"You're welcome, sister-in-law." Yang Dingbang smiled and rode home.

Lin Lan has never paid attention to Ye San's affairs since then, she was busy preparing the materials for making moon cakes, buying duck eggs and marinated salted duck eggs, flour, glutinous rice, sugar, rock sugar, honey, melon seeds, sweet almonds, black and white sesame seeds......

After the glutinous rice bubbles, it is ground into rice milk with a stone mill, put it into a cloth bag and hung on the beam of the house, drip dry the water and break it into small pieces and put it on the drying mat to dry.

Everything was ready, and it was the end of July, and Zhou Xiaohong told Lin Lan that the supply and marketing cooperatives began to sell moon cakes.

Lin Lan took a look, and the brown sugar-filled moon cakes cost two taels of food stamps a dime, and the other prices were not cheap, so they had to queue up to buy them.

Everything was ready, Lin Lan began to boil the syrup, and when she couldn't find the lemon, she bought the green oranges that had just been put on the market to replace them.

Clip some of the charcoal fire in the stove, put the sugar into the enamel basin and add water, stir it slightly with chopsticks, add the orange juice after boiling over medium heat, boil slowly over low heat, use it for nearly an hour, boil the syrup into amber and put it in the porcelain basin to cool down, put it in a clay pot and seal it.

Wash and peel the ham, rinse it several times with water, soak it in water for two or three hours, cut it into thick slices and steam it on high heat for 20 minutes.

The steamed cloud legs are cooled and cut into mung bean-sized granules, honey is added, and they are mixed into a vegetable basket and marinated in a hanging well.

The next day, pour the flour needed for the filling into the pot, fry over low heat, fry until the flour is yellow and exudes a faint wheat fragrance, and shovel it into the basin to cool down.

Lin Lan began to make moon cake crusts, poured honey, powdered sugar, and water into a porcelain basin and stirred well, and finally sifted in the flour with a fine sieve and mixed well, then added lard and baking powder, and after baking soda, sifted in an appropriate amount of flour, kneaded into a smooth dough, covered with a large wooden basin for proofing for half an hour, and divided into an appropriate amount of small dough after proofing.

Take out the marinated ham cubes, add winter melon sugar and mix well, then add lard and powdered sugar to the ham cubes in turn and mix well, gradually add cooked powder according to the dryness and humidity of the filling, mix well, and divide into an appropriate amount of agents.

Lin Yuezhen looked at her movements and felt that her skillful appearance was like a master who had been doing it for decades, not at all like she was doing it for the first time. The Lin family doesn't have a master who makes pastries, when did she learn to make these pastries and cakes, and she still does it so well.

Lin Lan looked up and saw her looking at herself thoughtfully, only then did she realize that she was exposed, and said with a dry smile: "You know that I am greedy, and when I was studying in the town, I pestered the master of the canteen to learn both hands.

Married here, Mr. Yang didn't care about me, I went to the scrapyard to buy recipes and learn to make them. Maybe I was born to eat handicraft rice, and the pastries I make taste good. ”

Lin Yuezhen laughed after hearing this, laughing at her for being greedy since she was a child, and finally became her eating craft.

Lin Lan smiled and divided the proofing dough into small dough weighing about seven yuan, flattened the stuffing into the moon cake crust, slowly pushed it up with her hand, and finally tightened the mouth, and then gently pressed it after rounding, and a ham moon cake blank was good.

A baking tray of twenty-four moon cakes, after it is full, then use a seal dipped in red food coloring to stamp the moon cakes, and when the four baking trays are all full, the temperature of the oven has also come up, Lin Lan put the baking tray into the baking.

She took off her watch and handed it to Lin Yuezhen: "Sister, according to the time I marked, take out the baking tray as soon as the time is up." ”

Lin Yuezhen nodded, took the watch and put the baking tray into the oven according to the time recorded by Lin Lan. When the time came, I took out the baking tray, and saw the ham mooncakes in the baking tray, with golden shells, and I had a great appetite when I looked at it.

She happily carried the baking tray into the stove room, and gestured to Lin Lan with a smile: "It's so fragrant, it's so good-looking." ”

Lin Lan took a look at it, felt that it was quite successful, and said with a smile: "It's a little cooler, and you can eat it." ”

After cooling for a while, one person tasted a piece, and the aroma of the ham jumped out as soon as he bit it, the skin shell was crispy and melted in the mouth, and the ham filling inside was salty and sweet, sweet and salty and very delicious.

Lin Yuezhen gave Lin Lan a thumbs up, feeling that she was in her thirties, and it was the first time she had eaten such delicious moon cakes, and she felt that Lin Lan was born to make food.

Lin Lan looked smug: "Of course, you don't look at who I am!" ”

The two of them made all the ham moon cake blanks, baked them all, wrapped the ham moon cakes in two, put them into a basket, and began to make egg yolk moon cakes.

After the salted egg yolk is separated, soak it in cooked vegetable oil overnight, take it out and put it in a baking tray, pour some white wine to remove the smell in the egg yolk, put it in the oven and bake it for a few minutes, bake until the bottom of the egg yolk is slightly oily, take it out and cool it for later use.

Flatten the prepared kidney bean filling, sandwich the egg yolk in the middle, knead into a round shape and set aside. Roll the dough into long strips, cut it into agents, press it flat and put in the filling, brush a little oil on the moon cake mold, put the moon cake blank into the mold and press it into shape, put it in the oven and bake it for a few minutes, and then brush it with egg yolk liquid to bake.

After making a batch of two mooncakes, ham and egg yolk, Lin Lan next made five kernels and bean paste mooncakes.

After Yang Liying came to taste it, she said that she had only bought bean paste filling and brown sugar filling, and the mooncakes made by Quarin Lan tasted better than those of the supply and marketing cooperative.

Lin Lan asked Zhao Dehai to weave a bamboo basket, put the tofu milk, dried mushrooms, and moon cakes that Lin Yuezhen brought back in several envelopes, and mailed them to Lao Chen according to the address sent by Lao Chen.

Within a few days, he received a package from Lao Chen, which also contained a letter saying that he was back to work in a certain university, and gave Lin Lan an address in the city, asking her to go there to find Chen Dong if she had something.

In the afternoon, the freshly made moon cakes were divided between Zhou Xiaohong and Wang Zhixue, and the three of them left a little stall for Lin Lan.

Lin Lan brought a vegetable plate, a wooden plank, and Lin Yuezhen went to the eucalyptus forest with a clip on her back.

Put the wooden board on the back of the clip, put a sealed moon cake on the wooden board, and wrap a big red paper on the brown kraft paper, which is festive when you look at it.

Lin Lan cut several flavors of mooncakes and put them on a plate for everyone to taste.

Li Wu: When they saw Lin Lan setting up moon cakes, they all said that they had bought them for the festival.

The woman who often came to buy pastries and orchid beans tasted it and said with a smile: "Yes, it tastes better than the five kernels of the supply and marketing cooperative, so I can pack two of the same, take them back and give them a taste before they come back." ”

Lin Lan said enthusiastically: "If you want to give a gift you can book in advance, I will make a fresh one for you at that time." ”

The woman smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll come in advance when the time comes." ”

When closing the stall, Lin Lan sent him the moon cakes made for Li Xiangyang in the basket, and said with a smile: "I have added your ham moon cakes, and you are satisfied." ”

Li Xiangyang looked at her with a smile in his eyes: "I don't care if I lose money!" ”

(End of chapter)