There are two types of bean paste fillings, namely red bean paste and mung bean paste. You only need to grind the bean paste finely.
Mooncakes filled with lotus paste and egg yolk are much more difficult and expensive to make.
Soak the dried lotus seeds until soft, remove the lotus seed cores, steam them in a pot, add maltose, white sugar, and vegetable oil, mix well, grind them into a fine lotus seed paste, stir-fry slowly in the pot until soft It is ready to serve when it is solid and completely non-stick to the pan and spoon.
When the lotus paste changes from hot to warm, knead the whole lotus paste like kneading dough until the lotus paste filling is soft but not loose. Then you can knead it into a small round cake and put the whole lotus paste into it. Wrap the egg yolk completely, then wrap it with a layer of mooncake skin and put it in the oven.
In the early stage, I was trying to make mooncakes. Xia Mingyue didn’t make too many at once. She just made a small amount first and gave them to everyone to have a taste.
Take the mooncakes out of the oven, let them dry, divide them into four portions, put them on a plate and put them on the table.
Everyone gathered around the table, taking a piece of each flavor and savoring it slowly.
Not to mention the snow skin mooncakes, the skin is cool and soft, with a unique chewy texture, giving it a unique taste.
As for those baked mooncakes, the skin of the mooncakes is oily but not greasy, the color is golden, the texture is pink but not dry, and they taste soft and waxy but have a crispy fragrance.
The inside also has different flavors due to different fillings.
The bean paste filling has a classic taste, delicate texture, sweet aftertaste and full fragrance.
The sweetness and deliciousness of the lotus paste filling is even better when paired with the quicksand salted egg yolk. It is truly sweet and slightly salty, salty and sweet, with the right balance of sweet and salty, and you will never get tired of eating it.
Five-nut filling, as the most common filling, became the last mooncake that everyone picked up when they tasted it. They all hesitated for a moment when entering the mouth, and after looking at each other, Close your eyes and put it in your mouth.
After all, this is the mooncake made by Mrs. Xia. Even the five-nut filling, which is not very tasty, should be much more delicious than the ones outside.
And even if the taste of the five-nut mooncakes is indescribable, and even Lady Xia can’t change its unpleasant taste, they can’t show any disdain. They must give Lady Xia enough face and confidence!
When everyone closed their eyes and raised their minds, they stuffed the piece of five-nut mooncake into their mouths like a pill, ready to hold their necks and swallow it.
As soon as the five-nut mooncake was eaten, everyone immediately felt the difference.
The skin of the mooncake is softer, waxier and sweeter than the skin of ordinary mooncakes. Even the five-nut filling is not as dry as the ordinary five-nut mooncakes. Instead, it is because of the added Due to the perfect proportion of ingredients such as glutinous rice flour and maltose, it tastes a little softer and glutinous.
The five kernels inside are not just simply piled up, but fully blended together. After one bite, you can experience the mellow aroma of almonds, walnut kernels and melon seeds, the sweet and sour taste of candied winter melon and orange cake...all in one It instantly spreads in the mouth, fully teasing everyone's taste buds.
Realing that the five-nut mooncake tasted much better than expected, everyone suddenly came back to their senses. The remaining mooncakes no longer stuffed them into their mouths like swallowing dates, but carefully Eat slowly.
While eating, I was full of praise, "This five-nut mooncake is so delicious. I would call it the best five-nut mooncake!"
"It is indeed delicious. It is the best I have ever eaten. Wuren mooncake, no, to be exact, it is the most delicious mooncake I have ever eaten!”
“The ingredients are sufficient and the more you eat, the more delicious it becomes. It actually tastes better than mooncakes with bean paste and lotus paste and egg yolk. It’s delicious.”
“It’s delicious and you won’t get tired of eating it.”
“I thought the five-nut mooncake was the most unpalatable before, but now it seems that it’s not the five-nut mooncake that’s unpalatable, it’s us. I’ve never had delicious five-nut mooncakes...”
After saying this, everyone nodded like they were pounding garlic, expressing their agreement.
But at the same time, I felt that a sentence was missing. That is the delicious five-nut mooncake, definitely the five-nut mooncake made by Mrs. Xia!
All the mooncakes, especially the five-nut mooncakes, were recognized by everyone. Xia Mingyue became more confident and began to continue making mooncakes.
At the same time, he began to discuss the sale of mooncakes with Guanshi Fu.
At this time, there were still two days before Yipinguo's opening, so Guanshi Fu suggested that part of the mooncakes could be sold directly at the door of Yipinguo, and at the same time, it would gain more popularity for Yipinguo's business.
The other part can be used as a gift when eating at Yipinguo, which can be regarded as a disguised tasting, thereby promoting the sales of mooncakes.
Xia Mingyue agreed very much with this marketing method, and agreed to leave the matter to Manager Fu to plan, while she focused on the production and packaging of mooncakes.
Xia Mingyue is already familiar with making mooncakes. She only needs to follow her experience and production techniques while ensuring the overall quality of the mooncakes.
As for the packaging of mooncakes, Xia Mingyue prefers to package each cake individually to ensure the quality and grade of the mooncakes.
The traditional way to package mooncakes and pastries is to carefully wrap them in oil paper, put a square red paper on the surface, and write the names of the mooncakes or pastries.
Xia Mingyue wants to package each mooncake individually. In order to look good, it is natural to attach a red paper note to each one.
Normally, this is not a difficult task, but who will write on the red paper has become a difficult problem.
Xia Mingyue is busy making mooncakes and dealing with matters related to the central kitchen, so she has no time at all. Jiang Zhuguo can have some time here, but she thinks that her handwriting is poor and cannot be used as a flavor. Such wonderful moon cake outer packaging is used.
"Why don't we find a gentleman with good-looking handwriting to write it?" Zhuang Cui suggested, "There are many students outside who write letters and copy books for others who write dignified and good-looking words. They can also give money. Let them write it.”
Does the writing look good?
Xia Mingyue's eyes suddenly lit up, "As soon as you reminded me like this, I thought of a suitable person."
"Who?"
"Ms. Shen!" Xia Mingyue answered with a smile.
When everyone heard this, they all agreed very much.
Although they had not read the storybook written by Mrs. Shen carefully, they had glanced at it once or twice because Xia Mingyue often read the storybook. The handwriting was indeed beautiful.
Juan is beautiful and neat, but also has a sense of elegance and agility. Speaking more deeply, the words written by Mrs. Shen can bear the word "character".
Good-looking and durable.
It would be perfect for Mrs. Shen to write these red paper notes.
And Mrs. Shen also mentioned before that Xia Mingyue could help introduce some jobs, and she thought she would be willing to take on such jobs.
Xia Mingyue made up her mind, and after lunch, she went to look for Shen Shujun at the address Shen Shujun had left earlier.
At this time, Shen Shujun was having lunch.
The sweet potato noodles are paired with a little bit of pressed white flour, and a little wilted baby cabbage bought cheaply from a vegetable stall, without any starch. (End of this chapter)