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Chapter 140 Do you want a one-time buyout?

Cheng Xia was taken aback, "What is Aunt Han so anxious about?"

Cheng Xia asked so bluntly, Wang Hanxiao felt embarrassed. Seeing that Cheng Xia was still carrying a basket on his back, he hurriedly took it off for her. A basket of candied winter melon was not easy.

Cheng Xia smiled gratefully, "Aunt Han, you can just tell me if you have anything to do. If I need to do something, as long as I can help, then I will definitely do it."

"Oh, it's not urgent, just," Wang Hanxiao took Cheng Xia's hand and sat on the chair, "You're a bit busy these days, and there are a lot of people visiting our pharmacy, and many children want to eat wax gourd Candied fruit, many parents even specifically asked me if they could sell some candied fruit to them.”

Wang Hanxiao said it tactfully, but Cheng Xia immediately understood what she meant, "Aunt Han, do you want to buy my recipe for candied winter melon? This way you can make as many as you want."

"Yes, yes," Wang Hanxiao couldn't wait to finish, seeing Cheng Xia's little eyes that see through everything, suddenly stepped forward and pinched her delicate and fair face, "You, why are you always so smart, I just started , you know what I'm going to say, what a clever ghost."

Cheng Xia begged for mercy and looked at Wang Hanxiao, "Aunt Han, I'm really busy these days, because the rose sauce I made is ready, and I want to focus on the rose sauce, so I leave it to the candied winter melon. There is really not much time, if Aunt Han has such an idea, I will naturally cooperate."

"Rose sauce?" Wang Hanxiao asked curiously. She had heard of roses, but had never heard of rose sauce. "Is this the delicacy you once said you wanted to show me?"

Cheng Xia smiled mysteriously, said something to Aunt Han, and then walked out of the room and took out a white porcelain altar of rose sauce from the big flower basket outside. She took the first few bottles of rose sauce pickled today, just to come The county market sold it to try out the market, so I happened to show it to Aunt Han first.

Cheng Xia handed the rose sauce to Aunt Han, and watched her open the lid of the porcelain vase. Immediately, a strong fragrance came to her nostrils. Wang Hanxiao couldn't help but take two more breaths, feeling that the stale air in her body was purified. average.

"It smells so good," Wang Hanxiao couldn't help but said, she carefully looked at the rose sauce in the small porcelain jar, the color was bright, it really looked like a rose, it looked really beautiful.

"The rose itself has a very strong fragrance, and after being marinated for such a long time, it naturally condenses all the fragrance in this small porcelain jar," Cheng Xia said, taking a cup from the table, and looking for He scooped up a spoonful and put it into the cup, then poured boiled water into the cup. In an instant, the rose petals were scattered and spread evenly in the cup. The water in the cup instantly turned red, the color of brown sugar.

Cheng Xia blew the air slightly and handed it to Wang Hanxiao, "Aunt Han, try it."

Wang Hanxiao looked at the ruddy liquid and took a sip without any hesitation, then nodded in satisfaction, "It's fragrant and sweet, and it feels warm in my stomach after drinking it."

Cheng Xia smiled contentedly, this is natural, rose sauce is a warm thing, it can soothe the liver and refresh the spleen, and it is very effective in dispelling the congestion in the abdomen. "Aunt Han, it's best for women to eat this stuff, because rose sauce not only has medicinal value, but if you eat it often, not to mention the smell in your mouth or out of your breath, it will emit fragrance all over your body, and it can maintain a woman's appearance , prevent aging, that is, even our skin can be kept hydrated."

"So powerful?" Wang Hanxiao drank a few more sips as soon as he heard it. He really felt the warmth in his stomach. Although the effect could not be seen, it was really comfortable, and the whole body felt entangled by the aroma.

"Of course," Cheng Xia said affirmatively, "When have I ever lied to Aunt Han? Besides, this rose sauce can not only be soaked in water to drink, but also eaten."

"Eat? Eat roses?" Wang Hanxiao thought it was inconceivable.

"Look, Aunt Han." Cheng Xia put a spoonful of rose sauce into her mouth, sipped it carefully, and then continued to explain, "Aunt Han, if this rose sauce is mixed with milk, It is much more delicious than soaking in water. When eating, put some rose sauce in the steamed buns, it will taste even more delicious. Not to mention the simplest ones, one of the staple foods in our herbal cuisine workshop is rose ice porridge , but there was no rose sauce before, so I can only use roses for decoration. If you use rose sauce, the delicacy will definitely be improved several levels. There are also flower cakes made with rose sauce, which are simply memorable. After eating one, you will come back again Can't stop."

After hearing what Cheng Xia said, Wang Hanxiao suddenly couldn't wait, "Xiao Xia, I want to try what you said now, do you want to try it?"

"Okay." Cheng Xia took the jar of rose sauce and followed Aunt Han to the direction of the herbal cuisine workshop. It's already past the breakfast time, so the herbal cuisine workshop is not busy. Cheng Xia put the rose sauce next to the stove, and when she turned around, she saw Aunt Han holding the glass of water soaked in rose sauce, drinking with relish.

Cheng Xia soaked glutinous rice and rice in a ratio of one to one, and after soaking, boiled it in a pot to look like porridge. It's not too hot yet, so things like ice cubes are still very rare, Cheng Xia also It's useless, just use cold water to cool the porridge across the water, feel that the temperature is right, then scoop two spoonfuls of rose sauce into it and mix well, put some fresh mint leaves on top and the The honey red beans, after a little decoration, were served in front of Wang Hanxiao.

"Aunt Han, it stands to reason that ice cubes should be added to this rose ice porridge, but there are no ice cubes right now, so I can only make it simple. But when I add ice cubes in summer, it will really cool off the heat and beautify the skin. It’s a good staple meal option.”

Wang Hanxiao stared intently at the brightly colored rose rice in front of him. The mint and red beans dotted on it really complemented each other, making people want to eat it at a glance.

Cheng Xia smiled, "Aunt Han, eat first, I'll try to make flower cakes, it may take a little longer, if you have something to do, just do it first."

"No, no, no," Wang Hanxiao took a sip and quickly waved his hand, "You do what you want, and I'll just stay here and watch you, and I won't go anywhere."

Cheng Xia wants to continue making flower cakes. In fact, in Cheng Xia's opinion, making flower cakes, including making moon cakes, is the same process, but the fillings are different.There are still two months before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th. Cheng Xia plans to make some mooncakes while making flower cakes, so that Aunt Han can try them first.

Lard is needed to make flower cakes, but there is no such thing in the kitchen right now, Wang Hanxiao immediately sent Xiao Wu to the butcher to buy it.Seeing that Xiao Wu turned around and ran away, Cheng Xia quickly stopped him and said, "Brother Xiao Wu, please ask the master to carefully extract lard from pork, and bring it back when it turns into a white or light yellow solid, oily But no."

Seeing that Xiao Wu left in response, Cheng Xia took advantage of this time to prepare flour, white sugar and the like. To make flower cakes and moon cakes, you need to use water oil skin and pastry, which is what we usually call puff pastry, copy them out Crispy and fragrant, you can have endless aftertaste after every bite.

I bought lard, Cheng Xia first made a water-oil skin, mixed [-] grams of flour, [-] grams of sugar, [-] grams of water, and [-] grams of lard and kneaded it into a dough shape , and then put it aside to wake up for a while.

To make the pastry, just knead with 160 grams of flour and [-] grams of lard and let it stand.

After standing for a while, reconcile the water-oil skin and the pastry skin separately, and form dough balls of uniform size, then cover the dough with a cloth for steaming buns, and let the dough relax for a while.

When the relaxation is complete, make the balls of water and oil skin into bun skins, wrap the small balls of pastry and close the mouth to form a dough, then use a rolling pin to roll it into a ox tongue shape, then roll it up and roll it again, and wait for more than a dozen. After rolling out, cover the cloth again and relax for a while.

It takes about half an hour to relax in the middle, Cheng Xia decided to use this spare time to adjust the stuffing.There is pork in the kitchen, Cheng Xia chopped the pork, added green onions and some pickled sauerkraut, and continued to chop, this is pork sauerkraut stuffing.

Cheng Xia wanted to laugh while doing it, and wondered if Aunt Han would accept the taste after tasting it.

Cheng Xia chuckled twice, seeing that the pork sauerkraut stuffing was ready, he poured all the rose sauce into the cloth, squeezed out all the juice in the rose sauce, and then pressed it gently with his hands a few times to let the juice drain completely. Dried rose sauce can be used as a filling to make flower cakes.

After the water and oil skins are loosened, Cheng Xia rolls them into dough skins, then wraps them in a portion of rose sauce that has been divided into portions, and pinches them tightly with the mouth facing down. Knead the dough into a slightly round shape with uniform thickness with the palm of your hand. up.Six servings of flower cakes were made, and Cheng Xia used the remaining six doughs to wrap pork sauerkraut. Follow the same steps to make them into moon cakes.

There were no ovens in ancient times. Cheng Xia once heard from his father that there were things like ovens in ancient times. Now there are no kitchens in the Herbal Food Workshop, but it is easy for ordinary households to find them.

The chef, who had been watching Cheng Xia's movements, slapped his forehead happily when he heard what Cheng Xia wanted, "I know where it is.

There is a separate yard behind the medicinal food workshop, and there is a very flat and large frying pan in the yard. Cheng Xia is delighted, and this is what he wants.Put all the flower cakes and fresh meat moon cakes in it, and then the chef held a tall pot lid with charcoal fire on it and put it on the pot. This is the ancient "oven". there is.

Cheng Xia has always wanted to try the ancient method of baking cakes. After all, there were too few desserts in ancient times, and she didn't even want to eat some cakes. Now that she has discovered this thing, she will definitely not waste resources.

The cook is very nice, and he told her that she couldn't control the strength of this thing, and asked Cheng Xia to watch, and she could instruct him if she needed anything.

It will take about 10 minutes to bake, Cheng Xia decided to wait in the backyard.As a result, Xiao Wu came over and said that the shopkeeper was looking for her. Cheng Xia smiled and said to the tall and thin chef, "Please help me to watch, I will be back in a while."

The chef naturally agreed.Cheng Xia followed Xiao Wu to the Medicinal Food Workshop, and saw Aunt Han and the shopkeeper waiting for her. Wang Hanxiao waved her to sit next to him, and then said, "Xiao Xia, Liang Zhong wants to tell you about buying winter melons." About the candied fruit recipe."

(End of this chapter)