70s Xiao Que Xing

Chapter 126 Making Moon Cakes

"You can also make moon cakes?" Li Zhenzhu said in surprise.

"But we don't have an oven, and the ingredients are not enough!" At this time, people eat five-nut mooncakes, and other things are easy to make up. They don't have white sugar and rock sugar, and they need an oven when baking. just do.

"Although we don't have an oven, we can use steamed ones. Although there are not enough materials, we can make simple versions, or we can use sweet potatoes and pumpkins to make mooncakes. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as there is this form. Is it?" Xie Xiaonian said with a smile.

"Okay, then let's try it tomorrow." Seeing that Xie Xiaonian was right, Li Zhenzhu wanted to try it too.

"Then what materials do we need to prepare in advance!" Liu Yifan asked.

"I'm thinking of making mooncakes with five kernels and other fillings, and we don't make mooncakes that are particularly big, we just make Cantonese-style ones, which are small and beautiful. And other specific ones What kind of stuffing, I need to go back at night to think about it, let's take some jujubes and chestnuts back, maybe we can use them. I have some flour, and I will bring it directly tomorrow, so you don't need to prepare it. "Xie Xiaonian said while starting to load the half-dried red dates on the ground.

"Then don't we prepare anything?" Li Zhenzhu asked again.

"Didn't you grow spring sweet potatoes in your private plot? You can almost eat them now. You can go dig some pieces tomorrow morning." Xie Xiaonian said after thinking about it

"Well, that's fine. I'll go digging tomorrow morning." Seeing that they also had tasks, Liu Yifan replied straightforwardly.

Although Xie Xiaonian knew how to make moon cakes, and had made a lot of them in her previous life, they were all in the presence of an oven, and she had never made moon cakes by steaming them in a pot.

So Xie Xiaonian tried to make some sugar-free mooncakes by steaming in the space at night.

After tasting it, Xie Xiaonian decided to make six kinds of fillings: five kernels, bean paste, black sesame, jujube paste, sweet potato and pumpkin.

Because the reason why they are made sugar-free is not because you are afraid of getting fat, but because they really have no sugar, so they can only be made sugar-free.

Generally speaking, although the steamed mooncakes are not as good-looking as those made in the oven, they are still a little soft when they are just out of the pan. They are more like pastries than mooncakes, but the taste is still good, and it’s just a form, so Xie Xiaonian didn't take it too seriously.

Because she was afraid that Li Zhenzhu would not have any ingredients, when Xie Xiaonian went the next morning, she not only brought flour, but also black sesame and red beans.

The next day, when Xie Xiaonian was washing pots, Father Xie said to her: "Xiao Nian, you push the bike out, I'm going to the commune today."

"Father, what are you doing at the commune!" Xie Xiaonian asked as he went back to the house and pushed his bicycle.

"It's the holiday today, and I still have meat tickets at home. I'll go to the commune to cut the meat and come back. Let's make dumplings tonight." Father Xie said happily.

After sending off Father Xie, Xie Xiaonian walked to the Educated Youth Institute, and saw that Liu Yifan had already dug up the sweet potatoes, the pumpkin was also ready, and was washing the sweet potatoes there.

And because Li Zhi has had a miscarriage for 7 days, she can get out of bed now, and is sitting in the yard having breakfast.

Seeing this, Xie Xiaonian complained secretly, this breakfast was late enough.

But Xie Xiaonian ignored her, and went directly into the kitchen with Li Zhenzhu.

Because Xie Xiaonian had already made moon cakes in the space yesterday, she directed Li Zhenzhu and Liu Yifan to do things skillfully. Of course, they kept the door closed during the whole process. The provincial Li Zhi heard the movement and came out again. .

However, a few people can block other people's sight and speak in a low voice, but they can't block the scent coming out of the room.

Because today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, no one from the Educated Youth Center went out, so the scent attracted other people to gather in the yard and look into the kitchen.

But out of face, they just waited and watched, and didn't knock on the door to ask.

When Li Zhenzhu came out to go to the toilet halfway, she was startled when she saw a group of people in the yard, thinking that they were not afraid of the heat, so they just sat in the yard.

"They may have smelled the fragrance, and they are all sitting in the yard!" Li Zhenzhu immediately said as soon as she came back.

"Then make a few more stuffed sweet potatoes later, and share one with each of them." Xie Xiaonian suggested.

"I think it's okay. We've been doing it for so long, and it's a little unreasonable not to share one with them. After all, they live in the same yard." Liu Yifan said.

"But they didn't give it to us. Lin Xiaodan made a gift a few days ago. She didn't give us a bite of so many good things. She just gave us a catty of fruit, and she always reminded me openly and secretly that she got married. Don't forget to present the gift, I don't want to give them mooncakes." Li Zhenzhu said unhappily.

"They are them, you are you, don't care about them like them, no matter how you live in the same yard, the relationship should not be too rigid." Xie Xiaonian persuaded.

"Okay, then everyone will only get one."

Because it's still hot, it's not easy to store, so Xie Xiaonian and the others made 6 of each.

Of course, I made 4 more sweet potatoes for the people in the yard.

Because Xie Xiaonian wanted to give some to the third grandma, so she took 2 of each, and kept the rest for Li Zhenzhu and the others.

After Xie Xiaonian left, Li Zhenzhu also brought out 4 mooncakes filled with sweet potato, and shared one with each of them.

Because it is made of white flour, even if each person only gets one, they have nothing to say.

After Xie Xiaonian took the mooncake out of the Educated Youth Office, she didn't go home, but went directly to the third grandma's house.

But because the third grandma went to work, Xie Xiaonian put the mooncakes directly into the pot in the third grandma's kitchen as usual.

Because Xie Xiaonian puts it in this place every time, the third grandma will know when she sees it.

Xie Xiaonian knew that the nephews of the third grandma would definitely ask the third grandma to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with them for fear of being slandered by the villagers, and the third grandma would definitely go to the house of the nephew who came to invite her first.

In order not to offend the third grandma, Xie Xiaonian gave the third grandma 12 of the 8 mooncakes she got back from Li Zhenzhu's house because her niece and daughter-in-law said she was eating her food for nothing.

She wants to take the remaining 4 back to Xie's house. After all, tomorrow will definitely not pass. Everyone in the village will know that they make mooncakes. It is better to take a few home. .

If it wasn't for the fear of being found out that the quantity was wrong and causing suspicion, Xie Xiaonian would have taken some more out of the space and used them as snacks for the third grandma.

But with these 8 mooncakes, no matter which house the third grandma goes to, the mooncakes are enough, and the third grandma can also eat a piece, taste it.

But Xie Xiaonian didn't expect that the news would spread so fast. As soon as Xie Xiaonian got home, Xie Xiaobao ran over and shouted: "Second Sister, you made mooncakes, give them to me quickly."

"How did you know that I made moon cakes?" Xie Xiaonian glanced at Wu Lihua who was hiding aside, and asked directly.

"I heard it when I was playing outside! Give it to me!"

Xie Xiaonian didn't believe Xie Xiaobao's words, she thought to herself, it seems that Wu Lihua and Li Zhi are not unconnected like Li Zhenzhu said, it's just that they have not been discovered.

But Wu Lihua has learned to be smart now, and she no longer stands out on her own, and let her son Xie Xiaobao take the lead in everything.

In fact, Xie Xiaonian was wrong. Wu Lihua and Li Zhi really have no contact recently. The reason why Wu Lihua knew about Xie Xiaonian making moon cakes was because Lin Xiaodan told her specifically. Know.

Although Xie Xiaonian knew that this matter had nothing to do with Wu Lihua, but as long as Wu Lihua didn't come out to find fault with her, she wouldn't bother to talk to Wu Lihua, so she said to Xie Xiaobao angrily: "The mooncakes are for dinner, You go and ask Dad if you want to eat now, if Dad agrees, I will give it to you right away."

Although Xie Xiaobao lives heartless all day long, he still knows that Father Xie has not treated him as well as before in recent months, and now he does not dare to mess around in front of Father Xie, so he can only say lazily : "You have to feed me that night!"

"Yeah!" Xie Xiaonian responded, and went back to the house. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and she is going to have a good rest and not go out to work.

After returning to the house, Xie Xiaonian missed her family in her previous life again. During the Mid-Autumn Festival in her previous life, she would cook various mooncakes for her family with her mother and sister-in-law, and then cook a table of good dishes at night. Get together and have a lively reunion dinner.

But now that she was alone, she suddenly felt a little sad.

In order to prevent this kind of sad emotion from spreading, Xie Xiaonian quickly took out a book of medical skills from the space, and read it.

When Li Zhi had a miscarriage last time, she suddenly realized that her medical skills were still in its infancy, so she could give the villagers a few herbs to treat a headache.

Like the third grandma's rheumatism, she still relied on the water from the space well to cure it.

If there is no space and well water, with her little medical skills, just like the original owner, she can only relieve the pain of the third grandmother, but not cure it.

Originally, Xie Xiaonian thought that if there is water in the space well, it will definitely cure all diseases, but the reality slapped her in the face, the water in the space well is not as magical as she imagined.

For chronic diseases, she may be able to slowly recuperate and heal them through space well water, but for emergencies, she is really helpless.

Before, she was only concerned about how to live her life well, and she didn't pay too much attention to the medical books in the space, that is, to read them casually when she had time.

Now that I am aware of my shortcomings, I have to make up for it. I can't waste the medical books in the space, and I can't let myself be helpless when I encounter an emergency in the future.

So Xie Xiaonian will study the medical books in the space as long as he has time recently, and at this time, he can only borrow medical books to relieve his missing of his family.

At this time, Xu Zhongjun, who was far away in the army, looked at the 1 catties of mooncakes distributed by the army in his hand, and suddenly missed Xie Xiaonian. He wondered how she spent the Mid-Autumn Festival and whether she could eat mooncakes.

Not long after Xie Xiaonian started reading medical books, he heard the bell of the bicycle. When he went to the courtyard, he saw that Father Xie had returned, and a catty of pork belly was tied to the handlebar of the bicycle with a straw rope.

At this time, Xie Xiaobao was following Father Xie's bicycle, looking at the piece of meat excitedly.

"I heard that you made mooncakes at the Educated Youth Office?" Father Xie asked about mooncakes the first thing he said after returning home.

(End of this chapter)