Chapter 253 Eating Mooncakes
"Grandma Tong, I understand. I will learn to figure out the recipe like you."
Liu Xiuxiu nodded.
It’s not Liu Xiuxiu’s fault that she doesn’t dare to figure out the recipe. Her mother, Mrs. Hu, always nags in her ear, saying that she has already owed a huge favor to Tong Huaqiong by being able to come to Taohua Dessert to learn the craft.
As a helper, she only needs to follow the instructions in the bakery steadily.
Don't cross the line.
For example, he could think of a recipe himself so as not to arouse Tong Huaqiong's concerns.
Tong Huaqiong liked Liu Xiuxiu's cleverness, so she smiled and said, "Is it because your mother always teaches you that she is worried that if you figure out the recipe, I will get suspicious and think that you have secretly learned the skill and want to go out and work on your own?"
Liu Xiuxiu smiled embarrassedly.
Even though Tong Huaqiong doesn't go to the shop very often now, she is always online in managing the shop, and nothing that happens in the shop escapes her eyes.
Liu Yue'e's sister-in-law, Mrs. Hu, shared the same idea as most shop assistants of that era. They believed that secretly trying to learn the boss's craft was disloyal to the shop. Not only the shop assistants had such an idea, but many shop owners had it even more so.
He even went so far as to suppress his fellows.
Tong Huaqiong didn't think so.
The development of a pastry shop depends not only on recipes, but also on marketing and management.
Even if someone in the shop takes the recipe of Taohua Dessert and goes out on his own, Tong Huaqiong is confident that Taohua Dessert will not decline or fail to develop.
Tong Huaqiong said to Liu Xiuxiu, "Since I've let you learn the craft in my shop, I'm not afraid of you leaving. If you learn well and go out on your own in the future, I'll applaud you. There are so many businesses in the world, and our Yanguan Town can't always have only Taohua Dessert. Sooner or later, there will be competitors. I'm not afraid of this competitor, whether it's someone in the shop or someone else."
"You are now a baker in my shop, so you must do your job well, which is to come up with more recipes for my shop so that I can make more money. This is the way to repay Taohua Desserts. Instead of being cautious and not daring to do this or that."
Liu Xiuxiu felt relieved after hearing what Tong Huaqiong said.
She can now focus on studying recipes and refining her craft with confidence.
"I'll listen to you. I will learn the skills well and figure out the recipe to make money for our Peach Blossom Dessert." Liu Xiuxiu said.
Liu Xiuxiu has a simple mind. She thinks that since Tong Huaqiong encouraged her to come up with a recipe, she should come up with a recipe to make money for Taohua Desserts.
Even if she becomes a master in the future, she will not go out on her own.
During her time at Taohua Desserts, she discovered that mastering a skill was not enough to open a shop.
If it were that simple, why didn't the chefs at Sushiyuan go out on their own after Sushiyuan closed down but instead stayed at Taohua Desserts, given their superb skills and the ability to make all kinds of pastries?
To be a master chef you just need to refine your skills.
When opening a shop, you need to consider sales, management of employees, and income...
Compared to running a shop, she prefers to stay in the bakery and work on pastries.
Soon the first batch of mooncakes were baked out.
The mooncakes baked in this batch are made with double yolk and lotus seed paste.
As soon as the stove was opened, the fragrance overflowed.
The workers who were building a house for He Chao and Boss Qian on the wasteland next door almost dropped the bricks in their hands when they smelled the fragrance.
The entire Qinghe Bay was filled with a sweet fragrance.
Tong Huaqiong put the baked mooncakes into the steamed bun basket.
Mooncakes are not at their best when they are freshly baked. They need to be greased for two or three days before they are delicious.
But the aroma is so tempting, who can resist not eating it?
Man'er Yaozu and Liu Yanhong did not go out to play with their friends today, but waited in the yard to eat mooncakes.
As soon as the mooncakes came out, the three children couldn't help but try to grab some, but were slapped back by Tong Huaqiong.
"Be careful of the heat, wait a while before eating." Tong Huaqiong said, and then instructed Chen Sufen to bake the next batch.
After cooling down a little, Tong Huaqiong picked up the mooncakes and gave one to each person.
"good to eat."
"Grandma's mooncakes are better than those from the capital."
Liu Yanhong grumbled while eating, and Tong Huaqiong was worried because the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching and no one came to pick up the child.
Does County Magistrate Liu treat this place as a boarding school?
“The oil from the egg yolk melts into the lotus paste. It is fragrant and sweet, and not greasy at all.” Liu Xiuxiu took a bite and said after tasting it carefully.
Chen Sufen nodded aside.
The two of them would taste cakes every day in the bakery, and their eyes would only light up if the cakes were particularly amazing. Judging from their expressions, the mooncakes had an amazing taste.
Tong Huaqiong feels that Taohua Dessert’s mooncakes are like rice dumplings, and have once again become a popular product in Yanguan Town.
Then the lava mooncakes, ham mooncakes, five-nut mooncakes and red bean paste mooncakes were all baked.
Everyone tried every flavor.
Liu Xiuxiu thinks that the Yunnan ham mooncakes taste the best, Chen Sufen thinks that the lotus seed paste and egg yolk mooncakes taste the best, and Tong Huaqiong's favorite is the simple five-nut mooncake.
Everyone has different tastes, which means that these mooncakes have corresponding audiences.
“I always ate five-nut mooncakes before, but I think Grandma Tong’s five-nut mooncakes taste better than any I ate before.” Liu Xiuxiu said after eating the five-nut mooncakes.
Tong Huaqiong laughed and said, "Don't you even look at the materials we use?"
In order to create the delicious five-nut mooncakes in Tong Huaqiong's mind, Tong Huaqiong did a lot of work in advance.
Tong Huaqiong ordered Gu Dashu to go to Pingchuan County to buy the best quality raw melon seeds, peanuts, walnuts and other nuts. After buying them, he removed the ones of poor quality, washed them, dried them, and then fried them in a big pot at home.
Then they organized the young and clean wives in the village to peel the shells and make several large basins full of fragrant nuts.
How could such carefully crafted five-nut mooncakes not be delicious?
This batch of mooncakes made at home will be taken to the shop for the baking masters to taste.
After all, the baking masters in the shop have only eaten five-nut mooncakes and red bean paste mooncakes, and have never eaten other mooncakes. They must eat them to understand the requirements of the recipe and then bake out the quality that can be sold.
Tong Huaqiong gave the mooncake recipe to Chen Sufen.
Chen Sufen then taught it to the baking masters in the shop.
Tong Huaqiong is waiting for these delicious and fresh mooncakes to make Taohua desserts popular again.
As Tong Huaqiong expected, Taohua Dessert’s mooncakes triggered a new buying craze as soon as they were launched.
In the past, when Yanguan Town celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, the five-nut mooncakes from Sushiyuan were a must-have when visiting relatives and friends.
Now it has been replaced by Peach Blossom Dessert’s mooncakes.
Unlike Sushiyuan, Taohua Dessert’s mooncakes are more diverse and more selective.
As for many retro lovers who miss Sushiyuan’s five-nut mooncakes, after eating Taohua Dessert’s five-nut mooncakes, they silently gave Taohua Dessert a thumbs up in their hearts.
In addition to the great success of the mooncakes, what made Tong Huaqiong even happier was that a pig in the pigsty was about to be born.
When it comes to pigs leaving the pen, Tong Huaqiong is both happy and worried.
What made her happy was that she could finally show off her meat buns, braised pork, pork elbows, and braised pork chops. But what worried her was that this pig was raised by Maner by collecting pig grass, and even though the pig went to the pig farm in the temple, Maner still went to bring it pig grass every day.
Tong Huaqiong was afraid that if she killed it, she would not be able to explain to Maner.
But if it is not slaughtered, its merits cannot be realized.
As the seed player in Tong Huaqiong's pig farming business, this pig was the first to be castrated. Now it is the strongest and fattest and most suitable for slaughter in autumn.
Its release will lay the foundation for the initial success of Tong Huaqiong's breeding business.