Changshui Village Farming Notes

Chapter 447 Mooncake (Four in One)
Master Yang has never seen a Bian Mu who is as quick and sensitive as Gong Xi Fa Cai.

Master Yang took the pheasant again and lifted it in his hand, "This guy is not light, it weighs five or six catties, and I was thinking of catching a chicken in the garden tonight to cook chestnuts." Chicken, but since there are better choices, let's use this pheasant to roast chestnuts."

Gu Kuangyun has always listened to Master Yang when it comes to eating, and there are so many foodies in Moon Bay, but Master Yang holds their "power of life and death", so it is natural that Master Yang is what he says .

Gu Kuangyun hesitated for a while, then looked at the still sluggish chicken, "Is this pheasant enough to eat? Let's kill another one!"

If there is not enough to eat, the big guys will be unable to eat, and it will be so uncomfortable.

Master Yang was also straightforward, "Okay, let's listen to the boss."

"Master Yang, don't make fun of me." Gu Kuangyun said, "Brother Long called again, saying that he was asked to make mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and someone has already urged him to ask for them."

"Hey, Fatty Wang is working part-time as a purchasing agent now." Mr. Yang said, "How many times have I been looking for Xiaoyun'er to buy things in these few months."

Because it's not that ordinary people can't get the supply of Moon Bay, and some people find it troublesome. Knowing that Fatty Wang has this relationship, there are quite a few people looking for him to buy rice, fruits, and sweet potatoes.

However, the people who buy from him are not ordinary people, they are all unavoidable characters. Mr. Yang feels that he has stolen a lot of good things from Moon Bay, so he usually treats Fatty Wang with eyes instead of eyes, and nose instead of nose.

"Moon cakes?" Master Yang agreed after pondering for a while, "Okay, those things are easy to make, just the ones with chestnut flavor and red bean paste can be delicious." After all, it is his apprentice's shop, as a master You have to reach out your hand no matter what.

"Suiyuan, it's not easy for us to do something so low-grade! How about we get something else?"

"What are you doing so fancy, old man, I like stuffed bean paste the most." At this moment, Old Yang interjected. To be honest, sometimes he looked down on this group of posturing people.

"No problem, I can make you the flavors of abalone and crayfish." Master Yang is very casual. Over the years, various new flavors of mooncakes have emerged in an endless stream. The taste of mooncakes from the chef seems to be no less than that of Dark Cuisine.

But after his improvement, these mooncakes taste good.

"I've given the mooncakes to Yang He a long time ago. When the time comes, Yun Nier, you can see his craftsmanship, and I'll just do a side job as a tutor." Master Yang said again.

"Okay." Yang He is a little good at doing white cases, and many guests in Moon Bay like his dim sum.

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After a while, everyone in Moon Bay knew that moon cakes were to be made.

"The red beans on the mountain have already matured in the past few days, and the pods are all dry. At this time, red beans are the easiest to shed when making bean paste mooncakes." Lin Shuhua said.

There is a lot of land on the mountain, so I planted some of everything. The red beans were planted together with soybeans and mung beans.

Apart from some of the soybeans and mung beans for his own use, some of them were given to his uncle. Gu Kuangyun thought it was troublesome, so he simply put them all on the online store, but within two or three days, a thousand catties of beans were sold out.

There were only a few hundred catties of red beans left, and they had originally planned to make mooncakes. Now that they heard that Fatty Wang took the initiative to ask them to buy mooncakes, they were naturally even more happy.

Speaking of selling things, this group of people are very active, especially at this moment, Lin Shuhua, Gu Jianping, and Chen Boyang, watching the statistics in the backstage of the online shop go up, they are so excited.

I didn't know how to sell things online before, but now that the online store has been open for so long, everyone has indeed seen the benefits. When it comes to making mooncakes, they are particularly enthusiastic. Who doesn't like selling for money.

In the evening, Master Yang really made roast chicken with chestnuts. The fresh chestnuts soaked up the oily soup, and the chestnut meat showed a color of oily soy sauce. Can't help but make people move their index fingers.

Master Yang used the largest casserole in Moon Bay, a full pot, and kept a small fire with fuel underneath. Although the temperature is still high during the day, it is much cooler at night, and a mouthful of hot chestnuts After eating the roast chicken, it was so hot that it made people sweat all over.

From time to time, Gu Kuangyun fed the small animals next to him some pheasant meat. After all, it was also the fruit of their labor, so we couldn't let them enjoy the fruit of labor at all.

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The next morning, Gu Kuangyun arranged for people to cut the red beans. The red bean plants and red bean pods were already semi-dried. They only needed to be exposed to the sun for a few more days before the pods were completely dried out. They only needed to be used again. Hit it hard twice with a wooden stick, and all the red beans inside will fall off.

Recently, Moon Bay has released a new dessert, red bean cake, which uses red beans that are only grown on the mountain. In the words of a tourist, it is crispy and dregs.

Because the family's demand for flour has always been relatively large, Gu Kuangyun found a supplier who has provided her with flour, syrup and butter for a long time. The quality is good, and she can use it with confidence.

In addition to moon cakes, the sugar-fried chestnuts that Gu Kuangyun had been looking forward to was also on the agenda.

Quartz sand has been fried into "cooked sand". Throw the chestnuts boiled in sugar water into an iron pan and stir fry. The sand is easy to dissipate heat after being heated, and the small sand particles can easily increase the contact area with the chestnuts, so that the chestnuts Cooks quickly and heats evenly without burning.

The big iron pot is propped up in the yard, with blazing coals underneath. As the pot body heats up, the iron sand in the pot gradually becomes hotter, and it transfers its enthusiasm to the iron sand-wrapped On the chestnuts, let the chestnuts become burnt, thoroughly infected with its enthusiasm, and the aroma of cooked chestnuts spreads far.

Congratulations first yelled "Aww", its chin raised, and its nose tried to search for the familiar smell it smelled in the air.

It confirmed again, that's right, this is the taste of the round fruit it ate before, and this taste is stronger and more mellow than before, the congratulations are almost flowing down.

Then, the animals on Moon Bay became restless and restless.

The little wild boar stood next to the big iron pot, "hummed" twice, and a pair of small bean eyes stared at Master Yang who was swinging the big shovel vigorously.

Daju stretched his lazily body, washed the cat's face with his paws, and the cat's eyes were also staring at him.

"Meow!!", what are these shit-shoveling officers doing, and why the smell is so delicious.

Master Yang was "surrounded by heroes", but he was not nervous at all. He showed his demeanor as a master. He took a sieve and sifted a few chestnuts that had been roasted into dark brown in the iron sand. After sniffing, he felt that the heat was almost ready. .

Looking at this group of little things, he casually threw a few chestnuts at his feet.

The impatient Fa Cai was the first to put the chestnut into his mouth, "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo" , but before the time was [-] seconds, Fa Cai spit out the chestnut again, and his tongue fell out of his mouth.

Seeing its frowning and annoyed look, the people around couldn't help laughing.

Fa Cai circled the chestnut twice more, although it was a little hot, but just now it took a bite, the taste inside was very sweet, even though it was hot, I still wanted to eat it.

Fa Cai leaned closer and smelled it, and felt that the heat was almost gone, so he swallowed the chestnut in one gulp, and swallowed the chestnut in his mouth after a few gulps.

"Woo!!" It tilted its head, like Zhu Bajie swallowing ginseng fruit, it lost its taste in the blink of an eye, and Fa Cai was a little distressed.

It looked at the few friends next to it, and found that they were all tasting their own chestnuts, and there was nothing left.

"Wow!!"

Fa Cai drooped his head dejectedly, looking sluggish, Gu Kuangyun looked a little sad and funny for no reason, so he quietly threw a chestnut in front of it.

Fa Cai blinked his eyes in disbelief, looked at Gu Kuangyun in surprise, and put the chestnut in his mouth with a "owwow", this time it will have a good taste.

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Invert syrup and liquid soap are used to make mooncakes, and these things can be bought directly, but Master Yang prefers to make them himself.

Invert syrup can be made by adding sugar to water and lemon juice, and liquid soap can be made from soda ash and potash.

A few pressure cookers are also needed. Chestnuts and red beans need to be steamed with water. When they are thoroughly cooked, they are taken out, wrapped in gauze, and scrubbed in a large wooden basin to wash out all the bean paste. In the end, only The next layer of red bean skin is still wrapped in gauze.

Then squeeze out the water, pour the bean paste into the pot and stir fry, add peanut oil and white sugar and stir fry continuously, and finally the bean paste is ready.

Chestnut is similar to red bean paste. The crayfish flavor and abalone flavor that Master Yang mentioned are just the meat particles in the stuffing, including their stuffing. Master Yang uses lotus seed paste. But the taste is different.

When making the crust, you need to sift flour and a little milk powder, then add invert syrup, liquid soap, and peanut oil, mix well, knead into a shiny dough and let it stand.

The rested dough is cut into small doughs one by one, and then the fillings that are divided into small balls are wrapped in them, and then they can be rolled on the mold.

The pressed mooncake can be baked in the oven. The fire should not be too high at the beginning. After baking for a while, pull it out, then brush a layer of egg yolk on the surface of the mooncake, and then send it to the oven to bake for more than ten minutes.

The finally baked mooncakes are rich in color and have a very fragrant smell, which makes people can't help but move their index fingers.

It's a pity that the crust of the freshly baked mooncakes is very hard and not suitable for consumption.

Master Yang found a few large containers and sealed them for two to three days. During this period, the mooncakes cooled slowly, and the skin of the cakes became soft and oily. This process is called "returning oil". The kind you usually eat.

During this period, they also tried to make cloud leg mooncakes and flower mooncakes.

Master Yang didn't make the taste of Yunnan before. This is the first time he tried to make cloud leg mooncakes. Although the taste is good, it seems to be not as good as the authentic taste, which is not satisfactory.

As for the flower mooncakes, the flowers are edible-grade roses provided by Meng Fangzhi. They are mixed with local ham, and the taste is good. It is a favorite of Grandma Liu and Lin Shuhua. Gu Kuangyun also prefers this innovative form. Moon cakes, it can be seen from this that this kind of flower moon cakes are more popular with women.

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After two or three days, Suiyuan received the first batch of mooncakes.

The first thing Fatty Wang did when he got the mooncakes was to tear one apart and stuff it into his mouth.

The mooncakes sold in Moon Bay are not packaged very well. It is just a small box with mooncakes inside. The outer packaging is nothing special. The ordinary transparent wrapping paper looks like a kind of Changshui Village. Exclusive, unpretentious feel.

Fatty Wang gritted his teeth, everything in Xiaoyun's house is pretty good, it's just the packaging, it's too ordinary.

The words printed on the mooncakes were the flavors of various mooncakes. He was lucky, and the first mooncake he got was abalone flavor.

From the surface, the color of the abalone mooncake is a kind of oily brown. After chewing a few times, I found that there is still abalone meat full of grains. The abalone meat is chewy and has a strong aftertaste, which is very delicious.

Master Qian also took a chestnut-flavored mooncake and took a bite, "Well, this is delicious. The chestnut flavor is very strong, and it's a little stickier than the bean paste one. It's not that sweet. I like this."

"Really," Fatty Wang said, "Then I'll try this again."

Swallowing down the half of the mooncake left in his mouth, Fatty Wang couldn't wait to pick up another one, "Well, it's really good. Brother Qian, try the crayfish again. It's spicy and strong enough."

Fatty Wang ate with a smile all over his face, and directed the workers in Suiyuan to start packing these mooncakes into packing boxes.

"Come on, you go to a few people, and pull over the packaging box that I had someone pull over from the warehouse. There are four flavors of mooncakes here, and each box contains four different flavors to form a box."

"Boss, last time our rice dumplings were bought by customers during the Dragon Boat Festival, so we must have our part in the mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival this time." A waitress asked charmingly.

"That's right, boss. We should try it this time!" Someone else echoed.

Before Fatty Wang could speak, Qian Peng waved his hand boldly, "No problem, this Mid-Autumn Festival, each employee in our garden will have two boxes of mooncakes per person. Just register and pick them up when they get off work at night." For catering, you can't treat the employees badly in terms of food.

Hearing this, cheers erupted among the employees, "The boss is so kind."

As a result, the result of such a large amount of money is that Moon Bay sent a total of more than 2000 mooncakes this time. Guangfa’s employees and a few bosses took away more than 100 boxes of mooncakes. There were not many mooncakes left. customers are booked out.

Fatty Wang hurriedly called Gu Kuangyun. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival is on October [-]th, and today is only the [-]nd. If Moon Bay makes another batch of mooncakes, it will still be in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival on the [-]th.

(End of this chapter)