The Pretty Eldest Daughter of a Scholar's Family

Chapter 180 Mooncake ([-])

In a few days it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, and this is the first Mid-Autumn Festival that Su Yunduo has traveled here.

Although it is a pity that there is no relative by her side, Su Yunduo is not depressed, she decides to spend a good Mid-Autumn Festival in this different world.

Su Yunduo's grandmother in her previous life had a good skill in making pastries, and the mooncakes she made were even more delicious.

Every Mid-Autumn Festival, my grandma would make some mooncakes for relatives and friends. Su Yunduo has loved grandma's homemade mooncakes since she was a child.

Of course, she has also tasted the mooncakes sold in the market. The mooncakes ranging from a few yuan to more than ten or twenty yuan a piece are far less delicious than the mooncakes made by grandma.

Su Yunduo's mother can also make moon cakes, but her filling skills are not as good as Su Yunduo's grandmother.

When Su Yunduo first entered university, the Mid-Autumn Festival coincided with the National Day. The eight-day long vacation made her rush back from school to her hometown. Under the guidance of her grandmother, she learned the tricks of making mooncakes and making fillings.

Although she has never made mooncakes by herself, the tricks of making mooncakes and fillings that her grandmother taught her are clearly imprinted in her mind, as if urging her to make mooncakes in this different world like the ones in her previous life. Delicious mooncakes.

Su Yunduo bought some ingredients along the way, and started preparing when he returned to the other courtyard.

To make mooncakes, molds are indispensable. Su Yunduo drew the blueprints of the mooncake molds and wanted to find someone to make them outside. Unexpectedly, Zisu told her that there were people who were proficient in carpentry in the other courtyard, which surprised Su Yunduo.

Due to the rush of time, Su Yunduo only drew two drawings of the models, one with the words "Flowers are beautiful and the moon is full", and the other is with the pattern of "Chang'e Flying to the Moon", both of which are very suitable for the occasion.

"I wonder if it is possible to make such a model according to this size?" Although Zisu repeatedly explained that the young man in front of him has excellent carpentry skills, Su Yunduo was still a little worried, after all, tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The young manservant took the blueprint from Zisu's hand, looked at it carefully, asked Su Yunduo some questions, and finally nodded: "I happen to have the right wood there, don't worry, Miss Su, just let it go tomorrow morning." Zisu is here to get it."

Unexpectedly, things went so smoothly, Su Yunduo repeatedly apologized, which made the young servant blush with embarrassment.

With the mold in place, Su Yunduo breathed a sigh of relief, and began to calculate the amount of flour and the ingredients needed to make the stuffing.

Naturally, the ingredients she bought back along the way were not enough. After thinking about it quietly, Su Yunduo made another list of ingredients. There was nothing too rare. The big kitchen in the other courtyard was also preparing mooncakes these days. Naturally, there are a lot of these ingredients.

Su Yunduo planned to let Tietou go out to purchase, but Zisu repeatedly said that no matter what she needed, just ask Su Yunduo, and she would prepare it for her.

Facing the eager Zisu, Su Yunduo was not pretentious, and directly handed over the list to Zisu for her to prepare.

Soon all the ingredients needed to make mooncakes were delivered to the small kitchen, and the mooncake molds were delivered to Su Yunduo the next day.

Although there is only one afternoon and one night, the mooncake molds handed over are very refined and polished very smooth. Zisu is indeed a very reliable girl, no wonder Lu Jinkang sent her to serve Su Yunduo.

After lunch on August [-]th, Su Yunduo took a break, and then made mooncakes with Zisu in the small kitchen.

Su Yunduo has already learned from the mooncakes sent to her by the housekeeper that the mooncakes here are quite different from the mooncakes Su Yunduo remembered, both in appearance and taste, which are somewhat similar to ordinary pies.

Although there are no masters in the other courtyard, Su Yunduo still decided to make more mooncakes for everyone to enjoy.

What Su Yunduo didn't know was that Lu Jinkang, who brought jerky back to the mine on the eighth day of the eighth day, returned to Fucheng again this day. When he arrived at the other courtyard, it was almost the last hour. As soon as he came back, he went to the study with the housekeeper to talk. He will also go to the prefect's Mid-Autumn Festival banquet.

Su Yunduo, who didn't know that Lu Jinkang came to Fucheng again, was quickly putting the stuffed dough into the mold and pressing it into shape, while pointing Zisu to put the dough in another mold and pressing it into shape, and then gently patted the mold.

A round pancake printed with the words "Flower is good and full moon" under Su Yunduo came out of the mold, and the round pancake out of Zisu's hand was not as delicate and beautiful as Su Yunduo's, but the pattern of "Chang'e Flying to the Moon" was also very obvious. head.

Seeing that Zisu has basically mastered the skills of making mooncakes, Su Yunduo began to slowly bake the unmoulded mooncakes on a special iron plate. It is necessary to master the heat, and the time is short. After a long time, the moon cakes will be burnt.

When Jiu'er appeared in the small kitchen, the first batch of mooncakes happened to be freshly baked.

"It's just that it's better to come early than to come early. What kind of cake is this made by Miss Su?" Jiu'er's eyes brightened when he saw the food.

Zisu glanced behind Jiu'er, but didn't find Lu Jinkang's shadow, so she became more courageous, squinted at Jiu'er and said, "What kind of cake can Mid-Autumn Festival be? Of course it's moon cake! I said Jiu'er, Are you a dog?"

"Zisu, you care so much about me that you even know that I'm a dog." Jiu'er looked at Zisu with wide eyes, with inexplicable excitement on his face.

Zisu's face was blushing, but her body shivered, and then she spat on Jiu'er and cursed: "Who cares about you?! You really can't spit ivory out of your mouth! I think you are a fool, I can't even tell the good from the bad!"

Su Yunduo pursed his lips and grinned, and pointed at Jiu'er after a while and said, "No wonder his nose is so sharp! It turns out that Brother Jiu'er belongs to a dog... This is the first batch that just came out, and we haven't had time to taste it yet." , I will attract you first!"

Jiu'er doesn't know what Zisu means, but it happens that he is a dog, so if he wants to blame him, he has to blame his parents for giving birth to him in the year of the dog.

A few people laughed and talked for a while, but no one else appeared, Su Yunduo asked a little curiously: "Are you the only one who came back to Fucheng?"

Jiu'er shook his head and said with a smile: "Young master came back to attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet hosted by the magistrate, and was talking with the housekeeper in the study. I heard the housekeeper say that you make food in the small kitchen, so I came here naturally after smelling the aroma."

The magistrate holds a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet?

Isn't the most important thing at this time the rural exam?How could the magistrate hold a banquet at this time, so strange!
But soon Su Yunduo knew the whole story. It turned out that the magistrate did not participate in the Yanshan Mansion's rural examination. Naturally, the Yanshan Mansion's security magistrate's yamen was duty-bound, but most of the security during the rural examination depended on the General Military Mansion.

The prefect's mid-autumn banquet was just a small-scale banquet, almost an ordinary family banquet. As for why Lu Jinkang was invited, Jiu'er didn't explain clearly, but just vaguely passed it on.

Fortunately, Su Yunduo didn't have that much curiosity, since Jiu'er didn't say it clearly, there must be his reasons.

Seeing that Jiu'er was talking, Su Yunduo kept staring at the freshly baked mooncakes with straight eyes, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, it seems that Jiu'er's greedy behavior is hard to change!

(End of this chapter)