Chapter 522: Birthday Cake
On May 22, the weather was sunny and the temperature was pleasant.
Xiao Nianzhi got up early and started to be busy, because she still needed to prepare a birthday cake, need to beat cream, extract butter and other things, she didn't change into today's new clothes for the time being, but picked out an old one.
took Wolan and Chang Shan, and called a few other family members to go to the small kitchen in his courtyard to extract butter.
With a few people, the efficiency is still very good.
It's just that the whipping when extracting butter is indeed more wasteful.
Where did all the family members do this kind of work?
One by one, they were so tired that they were in a trance.
I can't say I'm tired, I just feel ......
The arm doesn't seem to be your own?
The rest of the place is pretty good!
Of course, Xiao Nianzhi didn't let them work in vain, and the reward they should give was not less at all.
So even if they were tired, no one complained.
I even want to beg for more opportunities like this!
After all, who doesn't like extra money?
Once the butter has been extracted, the rest of the work is relatively simple.
Except, of course, when whipping cream!
The cake embryo needs to be made, the ratio needs to be mastered, and the heat needs to be paid attention to.
Fortunately, Xiao Nianzhi had already experimented a little yesterday and knew the temper of the Feng family's baking cellar.
It's just that the baking cellar is in the big kitchen, and the follow-up work has to go there.
Fortunately, on the kitchen side, the other stoves may still be busy, but the baking cellar is temporarily empty, Xiao Nianzhi and them have no influence on each other, and no one can hinder anyone's work.
Xiao Nianzhi is busy here.
The chefs also fried the sparks, and one by one they almost threw the pots directly into the sky!
As a birthday star, the second old lady Feng actually has no real feeling.
When he stayed in the house for his birthday over the years, there were really not many.
It's a rare time, and the mood is different from before.
This year, he found his daughter, although it was only a grave, but at least knowing where his daughter belonged made his heart have a real place.
In addition to this, he also found his granddaughter.
This is a gift from his daughter to him in the world, and it is also a thought.
At this time, he was sitting in the pavilion not far from the big kitchen, looking not far away, the little girl in blue clothes was busy, and the smile on the corner of her lips couldn't be suppressed.
Xiao Nianzhi didn't need to do it most of the time, because Shelan and Chang Shan had also helped in the past, and they knew a lot of the process.
Therefore, Xiao Nianzhi commands, they can all understand it, and they also know how to arrange people.
Occasionally, Xiao Nianzhi raised his hand, revealing his white wrist, and the peachwood hand, which looked a little ordinary, would attract the attention of the servants.
However, no one is embarrassed to ask more, what is the matter with the second girl not wearing a good pearl, jade, gold and silver, and wearing such a string of peach wood.
To be honest, Xiao Nianzhi really didn't show it on purpose, only occasionally raised his hand, the wide clothes fell a few points, and the cuffs inside did not grow to the wrist, which could be extended to the wrist, just revealing the white like moonlight, and at the same time the ordinary hand.
If you look closely, you will find that the workmanship of the hand is ......
Well, it's not delicate, it's even a little rough.
That's not right, in fact, the details, you can see the heart, that is, the craftsmanship is not very good, when polishing it is with the heart, and deliberately soaked in oil, the oil is even soaked in incense, under the careful smell, you can also smell the hand on the hand, faint peach blossom fragrance.
This is Yan Xingxuan's gift to Xiao Nianzhi.
In fact, Yan Xingxuan didn't know what to send, and it was soon Xiao Nianzhi's birthday.
I didn't catch up last year, so I don't have to pay attention to it this year.
But before that, there is also a confession ceremony.
After Yan Xingxuan thought about it, he felt that his sweetheart was not short of gold and silver, or ......
Make one yourself?
However, what to do, is another question.
This matter, Yan Xingxuan has been thinking about it from his birthday to Xiao Nianzhi's recognition ceremony.
In fact, a decision has been made a long time ago, but in the end, there is no finished product that can be obtained, so I have been hesitating.
The string in Xiao Nianzhi's hand now seems to be ordinary, and the workmanship is not very good, but it is already the best one among all Yan Xingxuan's finished products!
At least, the beads are polished and rounded, and each bead and size are about the same size, and occasionally there will be some flaws, but they have also been carefully modified by Yan Xingxuan.
It's just that he learned wood carving for the first time, and the craft of carving is really not good.
At first, I wanted to carve words on it, and carved Xiao Nianzhi's name.
However, it later failed.
Until the end of the finished product came out, the name was not carved.
In the end, I could only pick two of the beads and carve bamboo leaves.
To be honest, today's handwand looks too rustic.
But Xiao Nianzhi still put it on.
She felt that it didn't matter if it looked good or not, what was important was this heart, and she received it.
For a noble son who usually only pays attention to eating, drinking and having fun, Yan Xingxuan has never been exposed to such a thing as wood carving before.
Now that I can get started and am willing to do it, it can actually be regarded as a kind of progress.
Don't expect the other party to do it in one step, that's a genius, if Yan Xingxuan has such a ability......
Well, there should be a lot of people shivering, right?
Including Yan Xingxuan himself.
Therefore, it is good to be willing to do it, and people always make progress slowly.
She put it on because she received the sincerity of the other party.
As for the more options......
I can't tell the truth about this handbag.
In addition, the weather has not been good these days, and the other party has not come, but there is no chance to say anything.
Today is another family banquet, and it is not convenient for the other party to come.
However, Yan Xingxuan had already personally come to the door early in the morning to deliver the gift.
It's just that Xiao Nianzhi has been busy, and Yan Xingxuan is not too embarrassed to disturb, so the two of them didn't see each other.
After a busy morning, lunch will be ready soon.
Although it was said to be a family banquet, there were many people in the family, so in the end, it was still eaten in the banquet living room.
Although everyone shared the meal, they didn't have a special share.
Xiao Nianzhi accompanied his grandfather at the table.
Of course, the large, particularly beautiful cake was carefully pushed forward by the minions.
For this reason, Xiao Nianzhi also deliberately modified a table temporarily, adding wheels to facilitate pushing cakes.
In fact, it is okay for the servants to carry it over, but I am afraid that they will accidentally bump into it again and fall, wouldn't it be in vain.
The cake is three-tiered, from bottom to top, from largest to smallest.
From the old birthday star holding the longevity peach, to the green Nanshan, and then to the rising bamboo, it is an excellent meaning of choice.
For this reason, Xiao Nianzhi also tried a lot in advance, and the edible pigment color is to make the cake more layered and the color more showy and obvious.
Now it seems that the effect is still very good.
The powder of longevity peach, to the green of Nanshan, and then to the thick green of bamboo.
From light to dark, there is not only the color, but also the visual experience of everyone.
Rao is Feng Ning, who has quietly seen the cake before, and when he really looks at it again at the scene, he will still feel amazing.
She thought, it has to be her cousin, just this ability, the only one in the whole capital, no one can!
Thinking of this, Feng Ning proudly raised his little head.