Chapter 20 Mung Bean Cake and Mung Bean Pancake
"Mom, put so much sugar and oil."
When Chen Sufen saw Tong Huaqiong pouring sugar and oil into the mung bean paste, she smacked her lips in pain.
“If you want delicious dim sum, you have to be generous with the ingredients,” said Tong Huaqiong.
Although sugar and oil are not rare commodities for ordinary people in this era, not every family is willing to eat them.
In addition, unlike later generations where materials are abundant, people no longer have to work hard in the fields every day and suffer from high blood sugar, high blood sugar and high cholesterol if they are not careful. People here don’t get scared when talking about sugar and oil. Sugar and oil are good things for the people here.
Cakes and pastries can only attract people if they are made with a lot of sugar and oil.
Tong Huaqiong thought that in later generations, people would have to reduce the sugar content in milk tea, so the popular pastries must be non-sweet.
Here, if the cakes and pastries are not sweet, people will be accused of being unscrupulous merchants, and their way of making money will be cut off.
Tong Huaqiong spent all the money she earned from selling biscuits during the day on sugar.
Although there was no mold, Tong Huaqiong had a pair of skillful hands and soon an exquisite mung bean cake came out.
Chen Sufen and Gu Taohua stood around watching.
"Mom's cooking skills are better than the master chef in the pastry shop in town." Gu Taohua praised.
I never thought that I had such a good skill.
Why didn’t you use it before?
"The mung bean cakes made by grandma are so beautiful." Maner exclaimed along with her aunt.
"This is the only way." Tong Huaqiong was still a little dissatisfied. The style was too simple.
"If there were molds, we could make more designs and it would be more attractive." Tong Huaqiong said with a hint of regret.
But there was no rush. She would first accumulate the initial capital. Once she had enough money, she would go to the provincial capital. She believed that there were many craftsmen of this era with special skills, and she would definitely be able to find the mold she wanted.
If she can’t find it, she’ll draw a picture and ask a craftsman to make it custom.
"My eldest sister's porcelain shop does have grinding tools."
Chen Sufen mentioned Gu Baishuang as soon as she was happy, and then looked at Tong Huaqiong anxiously.
She knew that her mother-in-law didn't like her eldest sister-in-law, and her eldest sister-in-law didn't like Tong Huaqiong either. The two of them had quarreled in front of her father-in-law's mourning hall, and now they had even severed their relationship.
Tong Huaqiong didn't mind Chen Sufen mentioning Gu Baishuang at all. Instead, she smiled and said, "If your elder sister is willing to do business with us, I would also like to buy her molds."
While Tong Huaqiong was making mung bean cakes, Chen Sufen made some dry biscuits.
Chen Sufen was clever and deft, and she learned it after Tong Huaqiong taught her twice the day before. In addition, she was honest and honest, so she added more sesame seeds according to her mother-in-law's requirements and sprinkled the melted syrup on both sides of the dry biscuits.
Soon a basket of yellow biscuits came out of the oven.
Gu Taohua couldn't control her hands when she smelled the fragrance and was about to take it.
"Each of you eat one."
Tong Huaqiong did not scold Gu Taohua this time. Gu Taohua had also worked very hard with her in the past few days. Although she sometimes made mistakes by ordering Chen Sufen to do work and snatching food from Maner, overall this evil bamboo had a tendency to grow straight.
She also couldn't immediately straighten out the lazy and greedy Gu Taohua.
Haste makes waste.
With Tong Huaqiong's permission, Gu Taohua picked up the dry biscuit and ate it without caring about the heat. While eating, she did not forget to pass a piece to Tong Huaqiong who was busy.
Tong Huaqiong took it and ate it!
Chen Sufen and Maner also started eating.
"Maner, go to bed after you finish eating." Tong Huaqiong said.
Growing children should not stay up late.
Tong Huaqiong finished eating the dry biscuits and opened the butter dough in the kneading basin.
She planned to use the remaining mung bean paste to bake mung bean cakes, and the butter dough was the key ingredient for making the cake crust.
"Taohua, you should go to bed too. Your sister-in-law and I will be watching over you. You have to go to town with me tomorrow morning."
Tong Huaqiong sent Gu Taohua to bed.
It’s not that she loves her daughter more than her daughter-in-law, but mainly because Gu Taohua’s fire-making skills are not good enough, and she is afraid that the mung bean cake will fall into Gu Taohua’s hands.
It would be better to let her go to sleep and get enough rest. We still rely on Gu Taohua to work as a laborer and carry the basket tomorrow.
Gu Taohua nodded, took a piece of mung bean cake and quickly ran out of the stove.
Chen Sufen replaced Gu Taohua and sat in front of the stove to make a fire, while Tong Huaqiong started to make mung bean cakes.
Mung bean cake is more complicated than mung bean cake.
To make mung bean cake, you just need to boil the mung bean paste and shape it. Mung bean pancake needs to be wrapped with puff pastry and baked.
Every step must be taken carefully.
Especially when baking, if you can’t control the heat, you can’t make delicious mung bean cakes.
Now that she doesn’t have that much money, Tong Huaqiong can’t accept failure and has to throw away the materials and start over.
Therefore, she made it very carefully, and after making a pot, she carefully observed the heat.
There are no thermometers in this era, so we can only rely on experience.
Fortunately, Chen Sufen had experience in cooking and controlling the heat, which helped her a lot.
"Sufen, you've worked hard. I won't let you work for nothing. I'll give you a share of the money when we make money." Tong Huaqiong said as he put the mung bean cakes into a large iron pot.
Chen Sufen quickly shook her head after hearing this and said, "We are all family, so money is not a big deal."
The mother-in-law will stop bullying her, the second wife's couple will stop ordering her around, the brother-in-law will not have any bad intentions, and the sister-in-law will get along well with her. Man'er will not be bullied in this family.
She was satisfied.
She didn't dare to expect more!
Tong Huaqiong chuckled and shook her head. Chen Sufen was simply the ancient version of Baozi.
No wonder the original owner Tong Da Jiao bullied her to death!
"You don't have the final say, I have the final say." Tong Huaqiong acted like a mother-in-law.
Given Chen Sufen's personality, Tong Huaqiong has to have the final say.
"There's something I forgot to tell you. A few days ago, I went to the Zheng family to break off an engagement. After selling steamed buns at the dock, I went to look for Dahan, but he wasn't there. My coworkers said he went to work for a wealthy family in the city, and when he comes home next time, they won't let him run around outside, and it's the same as asking him to work at home."
Tong Huaqiong's move to let Gu Dahan stay at home was a great joy to Chen Sufen.
From now on, their family of three can be together, and she no longer has to worry about the man outside every day.
Because I was afraid of failure and breaking the ingredients, I only baked one batch of mung bean cakes.
Tong Huaqiong estimated that the time was about right and started to take the food out of the pot.
As soon as the pot was opened, the fragrance wafted out. Tong Huaqiong took a deep breath and carefully shoveled out the mung bean cake.
After shoveling all the mung bean cakes into the frame, Tong Huaqiong took out one, broke it in half, took half for herself and gave the other half to Chen Sufen.
It is fragrant but not pungent, sweet but not greasy, and crispy.
Tong Huaqiong couldn't help but give herself a thumbs up. She didn't expect that she could make such delicious mung bean cakes under such conditions in ancient times.
If she could still wear it, she might become a new generation of food internet celebrity by shooting food videos.
The Wang Gang of the baking industry is here!
"How does it taste?" Tong Huaqiong asked while breathing in the hot steam of the mung bean cake.
"good to eat."
Chen Sufen originally wanted to leave some for Maner, but the mung bean cake was so damn delicious that she couldn't help but eat it.
This was the most delicious mung bean cake she had ever eaten, even better than the cakes her mother-in-law brought from Pingchuan County last time.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law smiled at each other. The mung bean cake was a success. They could just wait for it to become a hit in the town tomorrow.
What Tong Huaqiong didn't know was that many people in Qinghe Bay were awakened by the fragrance wafting from the Gu family. They all sniffed their noses to find the source of the fragrance, and some children were even crying because of the smell.
Tong Huaqiong and Chen Sufen cleaned up the stove and brought the pastries they had made tonight into their room.
She was afraid that Gu Dashu and his wife would become unruly and would not eat him up secretly.
Lying on the bed, rubbing his sore arms, Tong Huaqiong was still thinking about how to use the materials of this era to develop more delicious pastries.
“It would be more appealing if it was added with butter and various dried fruits.”
“It would be nice to have these materials.”
Tong Huaqiong fell into a deep sleep while muttering to herself.