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Chapter 147 The Lion's Head Walnut

On one side, Watanabe Cunyi was bragging about his monstrous abilities, while Wu Guoliang on the other end was gently kneading the dough with his right hand.

Watanabe Village glanced at him from the corner of his eye, and his smile grew stronger. He pretended to ask with concern: "Wusang, do you need someone to help you knead the dough?" Regardless of whether the pastry is Chinese or Western, this link of kneading dough is very important. Importantly, the dough is tight and loose, and the taste is loose and rotten, all in this pushing and kneading process.

Wu Guoliang didn't raise his head, and continued to move his hands: "You should worry more about your wagashi, I see that your yams don't seem to be steamed yet."

The main material of wagashi is mainly kidney bean paste, but there are also many improvements, such as bracken pancake, yokan, etc. Watanabe Village is the leader of wagashi. It seems that the traditional kidney bean paste has a single taste, so it uses potatoes. taro.But once the ingredients are changed, the test of the producer will be increased. In Wu Guoliang's opinion, the wagashi made by Watanabe Village will not taste very good.

Watanabe Village thought that he couldn't eat grapes and said that grapes were sour. These three thousand years were made with the most perfect material ratio. How many times, there was never a single miss.Wu Guoliang was afraid that he was going to lose, so he wanted to show off his prestige.

He curled his lips, snorted nonchalantly, and turned his head away from paying attention to him.

But when he looked back, he missed the most exciting scene. Wu Guoliang switched his left and right hands, the basin was transferred to his right hand, and his left hand secretly worked hard to knead the dough vigorously.

In the eyes of Chinese people, kneading dough is also very particular.Kneading is light, kneading is heavy, and the highest flexibility of flour can be exerted between relaxation.In the dough in his hand, butter and soft white sugar are added. Naturally, it needs to be lightly stirred first, then eggs are added to make it stick together, and cocoa powder is added, which is excellent.

Then the low-gluten flour was added and kneaded slowly and evenly, which is why he changed his left hand.Although the right hand can move, it still doesn't have much strength. This is also his regret all these years, after all, it is not complete.

The filling is made of walnuts, peanuts, cashews, melon seeds and almonds. This is a relatively complicated and very traditional filling since the Chinese people developed pastry techniques. Honey is added to make the nuts stick together. Together, roll into small balls.

At this time, the camera also focused on his hand, and the cameraman exclaimed: "Master Wu, you can make this ball really round." It is not difficult for Watanabe Cunyi to make a ball. The ones used by Guoliang are granulated nuts. In this comparison, people with a discerning eye can tell which one is better.

The people in the kitchen held their mouths and secretly laughed in their hearts. This old fellow Watanabe is actually not as good as the handicapped with a crippled right hand.

Watanabe Cunyi was also a little embarrassed. He also saw the stuffing balls made by Wu Guoliang, all of which were of the same size, and they were as round as pearls and jade on a clean white plate.

He was a little unwilling to be robbed of the limelight by Wu Guoliang, and said sourly: "It's just stuffing." He didn't know what Wu Guoliang wanted to do, and he couldn't see any clues yet.

What Wu Guoliang wants to do is something that people in Beijing especially like, big walnuts with paper skins.

People in the capital began to love walnuts in the Qing Dynasty when three treasures were popular in the hands of Lord Belle: Wenwan walnuts, hand-twisted gourds and eighteen bodhi seeds.There is another old saying: If you keep walnuts in your hands, you will live past eighty-nine. If you are mad at the old emperor, even the king of Hades will not let you go!

For the people in the capital, walnuts are not only food, but also playthings. From the nobles to the poor, touching a lion's head in their hands, and eating a plate in their spare time, this is the leisure time of the old capital people.

Press the chocolate-colored dough into a round shape, wrap the five-nut filling in it, slowly squeeze it into the middle with the tiger's mouth, and then make thin and long sharp strips, just like the seam in the walnut.Wu Guoliang took out a peculiar clip-shaped metal object, and clamped it bit by bit along the midline.

After a while, a dough walnut that is exactly the same as a real walnut is formed. If you look closely at the grains in it, it also has unique growth lines like a real walnut, linking each other to form a complete figure.

"Master Wu, didn't this pattern be made casually?" The camera focused on Wu Guoliang's hand movements again, and there was a voice-over outside the camera.

Wu Guoliang ticked the corner of his mouth, and put the dough in his hand in front of the camera: "Of course not, all the lines follow the growth path of walnuts. Later, you can find a real walnut to compare and see if it is right. Same."

After the paper-skinned walnuts are ready, they need to be baked in the oven. Now Watanabe Village is excited, pointing at Wu Guoliang and yelling: "Didn't you say that you can make cold tea? Do you Huaxia only know how to make hot pastries?"

"Don't yell here like a clown." Wu Guoliang adjusted the oven time and sneered, "Your wagashi can be eaten raw? Besides, I said eat it when it's hot?"

As soon as Watanabe Village was pissed off by him, he sat aside and started to sulk, looking at Wu Guoliang with resentment in his eyes, this person's mouth is still as poisonous as before.

As time went by, there was a burst of aroma from the oven, mixed with flour and nuts, and the sweetness of powdered sugar, which made everyone look forward to the paper-skinned walnuts.

"Ding—" The oven finished working, and the red light went out.Wu Guoliang put on his gloves and took out the baking tray from inside.The baked walnuts appear harder on the outside, and when pinched by hand, they also feel hard to the touch. When they are pulled apart along the middle seam, there is a khaki-yellow nut filling inside, just like real walnut kernels.

"Ah Jian, make tea."

"Okay!" Yu Jian got the order, asked the waiter for the tea set, took out the green tea cakes from the collection, and still used the Tang Dynasty's tea making method, going through the process one by one.

"To make a splash!" Watanabe Cunyi said, and ordered his assistant to take out the high-quality tea brought from the Neon Kingdom, and went to battle himself, using the exaggerated neon tea ceremony technique, to brew several cups of orange-yellow tea .

The tasting session was moved to the hall, and I don't know how Wang Song summoned people in a short time. When Watanabe saw it, his lungs were about to explode, and he gave Wang Song a hard look.

He actually found five people, but Watanabe Cunyi only made a three-thousand-year-old, how could it be enough for so many people?
"It's not fair." He said through gritted teeth, "I only have one Sanqian, and it's not wholesale. How can it be enjoyed by so many people?" operate.

"That's easy, let's choose someone to be the judge." Wu Guoliang glanced around, nodded his chin slightly, and nodded, "Let's just sit at the old man at the end."

Jin Changguo smiled slightly, stood up from his chair, clasped his fists to everyone, and introduced himself: "I am Jin Changguo, and I was the vice president of Capital University at the time." His eyes scanned the two people carrying the plates, and his smile deepened.

Watanabe Village moved his eyes, and breathed a sigh of relief: "It turns out to be President Jin, who has known his name for a long time." It is said that this Chinese literati is the most pedantic, and he is also known for his fairness. Presumably this Jin Changguo is also the same. Or the principal of Capital University, you can't play with the school's reputation, right?
Thinking of this, his confidence increased a hundredfold, and he said provocatively to Wu Guoliang: "Wu Sang, it's time to slip, whether it's a donkey or a horse. Don't let me down!"

Wu Guoliang glanced at him expressionlessly: "I will also give you the same words."

(End of this chapter)