Chapter 23 Five Kernel Filling Mooncakes

Butler Zhou knocked on the door of the snack shop.

Shen Shaoguang looked up and saw that it was an old man of about fifty years old, with a kind-hearted appearance, followed by two young servants. Shen Shaoguang said with a smile: "My father, please come in. Is my father drinking or buying something?"

Butler Zhou smiled and said, "Little lady, my master wants to order some Mid-Autumn cakes."

Shen Shaoguang was busy serving new dishes and decorating these days, and he didn't realize that the time passed quickly, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming soon. He made a lot of money selling flower cakes on July 7th, so Shen Shaoguang would not miss the opportunity to sell moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Said to be "moon cake", in fact, this dynasty did not have this name. At this time, on August 15th, people also reunited with their families, climbed high to admire the moon, drank and composed poems, but the Mid-Autumn Festival had not yet developed into a moon cake festival. I don't know.

Shen Shaoguang was nostalgic, and made baked mooncakes and snowskin mooncakes according to the appearance of later generations of mooncakes. The mooncake fillings were bean paste, jujube paste, sweet-scented osmanthus, black sesame, salted egg yolk, and Wuren whose descendants were hacked by the whole network.

Shen Shaoguang has been a "five kernel black" since he was a child. He hates eating five kernel moon cakes with green and red silk. He thinks that the ancestors made this thing to prevent children from having a good holiday. It is a dark dish that is darker than before dawn. what.

Until I was in junior high school, I ate the five kernel moon cakes made by my classmates. My god, it's not that the five kernels are not delicious, it's that I haven't eaten anything delicious! The sweetness is moderate, pine nuts, walnuts, and peanuts are crispy and fragrant, not choking, not choking, no oily smell, and the key, no green and red silk.

Later, when I read the Red Chamber, I saw the "Mooncake with Melon Kernel Oil and Pine Flesh" inside, and I guessed that it was probably a five-nut mooncake made according to the recipe of the imperial kitchen. Mother Jia, who has been rich all her life, doesn't dislike it, it should be delicious - there is no blue or red silk after thinking about it.

Later, after seeing the food list of Yuan Mei, the master of the big eater, Shen Shaoguang completely lost his heart to dislike Wuren moon cakes, and could only wait to try two pieces.

I didn't have the opportunity to do it myself in the past life, so I will do it now.

In fact, these five kernels are also simple to make. Shen Shaoguang analyzed that the five kernels mooncakes eaten in the previous life were not delicious, mainly because the fillings were not fine, or even not fresh, especially when some of them were sold for several days, how could they taste good? Unbeaten appetite?

Shen Shaoguang paid special attention to the selection of ingredients. He went to the dried fruit store in Xishi City to choose the best pine nuts, walnuts, almonds, sesame seeds, and chestnuts, and then had them grind them into fine powder. It's as simple as coming back, adding sugar, adding lard, wrapping the skin, moulding it, and baking it in the oven. After baking, I tasted a piece of it myself, and felt that it was not bad, but I was shocked, but it was not.

I tried to change the ice skin again, but the same stuffing, the taste turned out to be several layers! Yuan Zicai's so-called "sweet but not greasy, loose but not stagnant" is like this, right? Is that what it is?

Shen Shaoguang was satisfied with Wuren and other stuffings, and he calculated that he would make another big profit by relying on moon cakes. Because of the Qixi flower cake in front, many repeat customers came to place an order this time without waiting for Shen Shaoguang to advertise.

Shen Shaoguang didn't know which house Butler Zhou was a servant of, so he just asked with a smile, "How much do I want to order? What kind of order?" He pointed to the samples and introduced various flavors and colors. Because of the different prints, there were more categories. .

Butler Zhou hasn't done these trivial things for a long time. I really don't know that a small shop has so many varieties of cakes, but Butler Zhou is an old man, so he just thought about it for a while, and then smiled: "Except for my own food, Just buy the 'Splendid Reunion Box' for the rest. You need to bake the skins, or send it to someone else and it will be bad. Our own..."

Butler Zhou pondered for a while, "I still want this soft and tender snow skin. All kinds of stuffing need a box. The wife of the family has bad teeth and likes to eat soft ones. The pattern is nothing, and the husband of the family does not pay attention to this."

Shen Shaoguang nodded, it seems that the owner is filial and easy to talk, so this old servant only considers the taste of the old lady when he buys things, but for the holidays... Shen Shaoguang still suggested, "This shop has a new set of moon sign cakes, specially designed for them. It was made for the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet for a big family, maybe the lord and wife of the family like it?"

"Each piece of cake has an old poem on it, and the back is a sign-off, but it's just a game, and everyone will be entertained at the banquet." Shen Shaoguang opened a piece and showed it to him.

Zhou Guanjia's old servant, who has read a few books and asked a few questions, is really auspicious, and then smiled: "This is interesting, so I will come with a box." Young people, it's time to have fun.

Shen Shaoguang added with a smile, and when he wrote the guest's name, he asked, "Excuse me, old man, what do you call the master?"

"It's Lin Shaoyin's mansion."

Shen Shaoguang raised his eyebrows, smiled, and lowered his head to write down, "Okay."

Butler Zhou didn't know why A Lang asked for the pastries from this shop by name. He thought that it was delicious, and the jade-pointed noodles from this shop were quite liked by Mrs. - even if she had a bad stomach that time.

Back in the mansion, Butler Zhou went to the study to tell the master.

Lin Yan nodded and said hard, and said nothing more.

Butler Zhou withdrew, but Liu Chang, the attendant standing behind Lin Yan, was thinking.

Liu Chang follows his master out every day. He always felt that his Alang was not ordinary to this little lady of Shen Ji. If nothing else, he said that he should go to Fangmen to buy pancakes first. Alang bought them and didn't eat them...

Besides, two days ago, Alang passed by the Shenji restaurant and asked to buy orchid beans and lion heads. Alang rarely eats out. How did he know what this store sells?

Just saw the little lady "wisdom and rascal" and went out to tell Alang, Alang immediately asked to find Fang Ding, and the car did not leave, but was waiting by the roadside.What is this little thing about?

After examining the two scoundrels, and knowing that they have something to do with Yunlai Winery, which is the business of King Zhao, Alang asked Butler Zhou to order the Mid-Autumn Festival cakes with great fanfare...

Liu Chang felt that there was something going on here!Something is wrong!

The author has something to say: the game lottery moon cake is inspired by the flower lottery in Dream of the Red Chamber.