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Chapter 217 Dessert suitable for showing off skills - colorful horseshoe cake!Excellent Class Stew Sweepstakes! 【Ask monthly ticket】

Lin Xu originally wanted to "test" Guo Xinghai again, but felt that it was inappropriate to always catch a sheep and pluck the wool, so he took out his mobile phone and searched for the method of horseshoe cake.

Anyway, the difficulty of reward tasks is quite low.

As long as Shen Baobao is satisfied, he can pass.

After searching the simple version of the tutorial, he found that it is really not difficult to make this stuff. Just beat the fresh horseshoe into juice and filter it, then boil it with sugar and pour it into a mold to cool.

The finished product is similar to jelly, if some fresh broken horseshoes are added, the effect will be better.

And if you want to show off your skills, you can divide the prepared horseshoe juice into two parts, add coconut milk to one part, and keep the other part as it is.

Then put the mold in a steamer, pour a layer of slurry and steam for two to three minutes, then pour another slurry on top, and steam for another two to three minutes.

What is steamed in this way is a layer of transparent and white layer of horseshoe cake.

Although the taste is not much improved.

But the appearance will be doubled.

After reading it, Lin Xu immediately took the box of horseshoes brought by his uncle and prepared to make them.

If the horseshoe cake is made at this time, it can be refrigerated after the meal, and then cut into pieces and placed on the table, it will be the dessert after the meal.

But today is grandma's [-]th birthday, and all relatives in my hometown are here.

If you want to make it, you can’t simply pour it into a mold and wait for it to solidify. This method is too challenging, and it is easy to be mistaken by relatives for pork skin jelly.

It would be a joke if any relative brought it to drink.

Lin Xu intends to use layered steaming to improve the appearance of horseshoe cake and make thousand-layer horseshoe cake.

Horseshoe powder is actually the most suitable for making horseshoe cake.

That is to say, the white slurry that is made into a paste and filtered and then precipitated. After drying, it is horseshoe powder.

The horseshoe cake made with horseshoe powder has a more delicate taste and is more thoroughly solidified.

But right now there are only fresh horseshoes, so we can only use fresh horseshoes.

Peel the horseshoe, then cut into small pieces and place in a food processor.

The amount of horseshoe cake to be used today is relatively large, so Lin Xu directly used half of the horseshoe. The more the amount, the less intimidating it will be to operate.

Add a little water to the cooking machine, then turn on the machine to stir, and beat the horseshoe into a paste.

After beating, pour it into the basin, and then continue beating.

After all the horseshoes are battered, filter them twice with gauze. The taste of the horseshoe cake will be more delicate.

And the filtered residue does not need to be thrown away. Put it into the cooking machine, add water and re-beat it several times, and then filter it again, so that the horseshoe juice in the residue can be squeezed out as much as possible.

After the horseshoe juice is prepared, it is time to boil it.

Lin Xu found a box of coconut milk from the gifts brought by relatives, opened it and took two bottles over.

Just when I was about to start, I suddenly felt that the traditional method of making horseshoe cake with a layer of transparent water chestnut paste and a layer of white coconut milk paste was a bit ordinary and not amazing enough.

For such an important occasion, if you want to impress your relatives and make grandma happy at the same time, you have to find a way to use your brain in color.

Try to make it more beautiful.

But how can we make it more beautiful?

When he saw mangoes in the gift, he thought of a possibility, how about adding some mango juice to make it bright yellow?
But not just yellow.

There should be some cherry juice added for a bright red color.

If this is the case, there should be purple made from purple potato juice.

Following this line of thought, Lin Xu suddenly slapped his head:
"Then just make it into a colorful horseshoe cake. It looks better and tastes better."

After deciding to make seven colors, he quickly made up ingredients of seven colors.

Red is enhanced by red cherries; orange is replaced by carrot juice; yellow is handed over to mango juice; green is simply made of matcha powder; green is made of cucumber juice; , to Thanos... oh no, to Purple Potato.

After all the ingredients of color are done.

Thinking that the distinction between the colorful colors is not obvious, Lin Xu decided to use the white of coconut milk to separate them.

In this way, the colorful colors are clearer, and the white coconut milk can also make the water chestnut cake look more upscale.

Next, he put a small milk pot for dessert on the stove, poured a large bowl of filtered horseshoe juice into the pot, then put a handful of rock sugar in it, and started to boil it over low heat.

This step was originally to add borneol sugar, which is common in Cantonese sugar water.

But the rock sugar will be stained with a layer of yellow color.

In order to make the coconut milk more beautiful, Lin Xu replaced it with rock sugar.

After boiling, the unique fresh and fresh taste of horseshoe soon floated in the pot, and the soup became slightly viscous.

This is the reason why the starch in the horseshoe works.

After boiling for a while, when the soup in the pot turned into a slightly viscous transparent liquid, Lin Xu opened two boxes of coconut milk and poured it in.

The transparent slurry in the pot suddenly turned the color of milk.

After simmering for a while, Lin Xu turned off the heat and poured out the milky white slurry after confirming that the water chestnut pulp and coconut milk were completely integrated.

This kind of pulp is called cooked pulp in the production of horseshoe cake.

Corresponding to it is raw pulp, that is, horseshoe juice that has not been boiled.

When making horseshoe cake, the cooked pulp is responsible for shaping, and the raw pulp is responsible for enhancing the fresh taste of the horseshoe. When the two kinds of slurry are mixed together, the horseshoe cake made is more delicious.

After pouring out all the cooked pulp, Lin Xu scooped a spoonful of raw pulp into it, and quickly stirred it evenly with a spoon.

When making thousand-layer horseshoe cake, the raw pulp should not be poured too much, otherwise it will affect the solidification effect of the horseshoe cake.

Stir well.

Lin Xu began to boil the colorful syrup with the squeezed juices and ingredients.

After everything was done, he put the steamer on the stove, and then took several sets of molds suitable for steaming desserts, cleaned them, wiped them dry, and then applied a layer of grease to facilitate demoulding.

When ready, start steaming.

After the water in the steamer is boiled, pour a layer of white coconut milk on the bottom of the mold.

Then put it in a steamer and steam for two to three minutes.

When it was taken out again, the coconut milk had solidified. Lin Xu scooped a spoonful of horseshoe pulp made from purple sweet potato juice into it, and continued to steam it in the steamer.

Then steam a layer of coconut milk.

After the coconut milk is done, it's time for the blue horseshoe pulp made from blueberries.

By analogy, after layers of slurry are poured into the mold, the finished horseshoe slurry has just been used up.

"Son, what are you doing with so many colorful pastes? Are you going to surprise your grandma?"

Chen Meijuan looked curious, feeling that her son was mysterious.

"Didn't my uncle give away a box of horseshoes just now? I thought about making some horseshoe cakes for everyone to try, but ordinary horseshoe cakes can't show your son's craftsmanship, so I made colorful horseshoe cakes."

Colorful horseshoe cake?
Chen Meijuan looked around at the seven colors of slurry at the bottom of the bowl, and couldn't help but praise:

"Such horseshoe cake can be made, my son is amazing."

"It's my mother's good genes."

Lin Xu flattered his mother a little, and then took out the mold from the steamer and put it in the freezer to speed up the cooling.

At this moment, the horseshoe cake is too sticky and soft to eat. Only when the temperature drops, will it solidify and solidify, and the texture will become like jelly.

It's past eleven o'clock in the morning.

Relatives are all here.

After Lin Xu went out to greet them, he started cooking.

Spread the marinated fish head with fried red millet chili sauce and green chili chili sauce, then take out the marinated eel, put the head in the middle, put the body on the plate, and make it into a standard panlong shape .

Then stuff the rice field eel and fish head into the steamer and start steaming.

Then he got busy with other dishes.

Soon.

Plates of dishes were delivered upstairs.

"Grandma, this dish is called white jade lotus root. It is the designated dish of Diaoyutai for entertaining foreign guests. Last time Xu Bao participated in the internal competition of Diaoyutai, he won the championship with this dish."

"Ouch, then I have to try it."

In the restaurant on the second floor, Mrs. Lin wearing a birthday hat happily tasted the white jade lotus root, and couldn't help giving a thumbs up:
"It's delicious. It's crispy and crispy. It tastes good. You should try it quickly. My grandson's handicraft is really good."

Hearing the old lady's praise, everyone raised their chopsticks and began to taste.

Then they were all overwhelmed by the crisp taste of lotus root:

"Our little Xu is amazing!"

"I didn't even realize it was made of lotus root."

"It's amazing. This skill is worthy of being graduated from Central Finance and Economics. The culinary skills are really high."

"In the future, our family, Xiaoxun, is also going to report to Central Finance and Economics, and then he will be the head chef for Xiaoxu."

"Our family's Shaokang also reported."

"And Jasmine, female chefs are becoming popular now..."

Baby Shen listened to the relatives' discussions dumbfounded.

The reputation of the alma mater has been affected!

Not long after, the steamed silver shreds were brought up.

"Grandma, this is steamed silver shreds with powder, which is steamed with shredded radish. Chairman Liu who came last time said that this is a lost dish recorded in ancient books, and it was reproduced by Xu Bao."

Mrs. Lin was even happier when she heard it, and immediately picked up a chopstick and tasted it.

The soft and waxy texture coupled with the faint garlic aroma made her fall in love with it immediately:

"It's delicious, it's delicious! I didn't expect that my old bones could eat such good food. It's all thanks to my grandson."

Relatives tasted it and were amazed.

In terms of practice, this dish is not much different from homemade steamed radish shreds.

But the texture and taste in the mouth can throw the steamed shredded radish out for a few blocks. After eating, I can't help but wonder, can the big radish that can be seen everywhere in the countryside really be so delicious?
Then, dishes such as sweet and sour pork tenderloin, braised prawns in oil, and rock sugar elbows were brought to the table one after another.

Every dish can wow relatives.

And when Lin Xu came in with the white-robed shrimp specially prepared for Mrs. Lin, everyone was even a little tired.

The thinking in my mind has changed from whether it is delicious to how delicious this dish is.

"Grandma, when I was young, I always heard you talk about the dish of white robe shrimp. This time I learned it from others in the capital. You can try it and see if it tastes exactly the same as the one you remember."

Mrs. Lin said with a smile:
"You don't need to taste it at all, it must be delicious made by my grandson."

She tasted it, and it was crisp, fresh but not bland, and the umami, salty, and aroma were all just right.

Baby Shen was a little surprised.

I don't know when my own Xubao learned this dish.

"During this competition, I learned from Huo Yifan."

After talking to Baby Shen, Lin Xu went back to the kitchen and brought up the prepared lotus root.

After pouring the soup, he looked at Shen Jiayue who was eager to try beside his grandma and said:

"Snap your fingers, baby."

"Good!"

How can I, Shen Jiayue, be left out of this kind of limelight?
She walked over, gestured in a pretentious manner, and then snapped her fingers, and the flower buds in the pot of clear soup burst into bloom immediately.

These relatives couldn't watch the video online, and more than once.

But when I saw it at the scene, shock was still written all over my face.

Mrs. Lin couldn't care less about eating right now, she patted the place reserved next to her and said:
"My dear grandson must be exhausted. Hurry up and sit down and eat. Don't cook the leftovers. You can't finish them anyway."

Lin Xu said:

"There are only two dishes left, and I will start eating as soon as I bring them up."

He goes back to the kitchen.

Take out the big fish head and rice field eel from the steamer.

The fish head was poured with hot lard, and Uncle Shi Wenming carried it upstairs.

And the rest of the rice field eel, you have to toss a little more.

Lin Xu picked out the onion and ginger inside with chopsticks, and then poured out the steamed soup.

These soups are too fishy to be eaten.

Then drizzle a little steamed fish with soy sauce, then put finely sliced ​​green onion, ginger and red pepper on it, burn a little lard and pour it over, and this rice field eel version of panlong eel in soy sauce is ready.

When it was brought to the dining table, the relatives praised it one after another:
"I didn't expect eels to do this. I'll try it later."

"Then let Xiaoxu talk about how to do it, otherwise it will definitely be fishy when we steam it."

"Yes, yes, Xiao Xu, teach us later."

"Let's learn about civilization. If you learn how to serve new things in restaurants, you will make money."

"Learn, definitely learn. During this period of time, I have regarded myself as Xiaoxu's apprentice. I will learn every dish he cooks, and I will sell it in the restaurant for money after I learn it."

"..."

Lin Xu sat beside Mrs. Lin, took a mouthful of eel meat and put it in his mouth.

Well, the skin of the fish is smooth, and the eel meat inside is delicious, with a hint of black bean sauce.

And because the spine has been cut, it is very convenient to pick up a piece of meat and pull it lightly when eating.

This dish is not bad.

If you have the opportunity to upgrade, you can make a new one in the restaurant.

But this is an eel dish after all. If you want to eat eel in the future, you still have to find a way to go to Diaoyutai No. [-] Building to find Chief Chef Qiu to learn how to cook eel.

I heard that Master Su Cai can use eel to cook one hundred and eight different dishes, which is simply enviable.

And the Cantonese cuisine that Guo Xinghai has studied all day is also very good. It is said that an excellent Cantonese chef can use chicken to cook [-] different dishes.

Relatively speaking, it is simple to teach yourself.

It will only offend one hundred and eight colleagues who are not the same...

When eating almost.

Lin Xu went to the kitchen and cooked a small bowl of hand-rolled noodles for grandma.

To celebrate your birthday, you have to eat noodles.

After the old lady finished eating with a smile, Big Bolin Hongjun and father Lin Hongqi came over with a big three-layer cake.

It's time to eat the cake.

This is the favorite part of the little ones.

The adults continued to drink and chat, and occasionally praised Lin Xu's craftsmanship.

"My dear grandson, I'm full. Your craftsmanship is really good. Grandma has lived for seventy years. This year is the happiest birthday I've ever had. Thanks to my hard work, my dear grandson."

"This is what I should do. Wait for grandma. I still have some snacks. I'll bring them to you."

and also?

A look of distress flashed in Old Madam Lin's eyes.

This child has been busy in the kitchen all morning, how much food has he prepared?

If I had known it, it wouldn't be such a troublesome thing. Wouldn't it be nice to steam some steamed buns and boil some big pot dishes? It was because of this meal that the two boys from the Chen family agreed to marry Meijuan.

Come to the kitchen.

Lin Xu brought out the molds from the freezer.

The temperature has dropped completely, and it is even cool to the touch, just right for dessert.

He opened the lid and turned the mold upside down on the chopping board.

Tap twice lightly, then slowly remove the mold.

A whole piece of horseshoe cake that was solidified like a rainbow appeared in front of his eyes.

"Damn! It's so beautiful!"

Lin Xu sighed in his heart.

He knew it would be beautiful, but he didn't expect it to be so beautiful.

The colorful colors are uniform and the thickness is the same. Each color is separated by white, which not only looks neat, but also gives people a very high-grade feeling.

Pat lightly with the hand, trembling.

It's like a big ball of jelly is stuck here.

After expressing his emotions, Lin Xu took a kitchen knife and evenly cut the large piece of horseshoe cake into diamond-shaped pieces with more attractive appearance and visual impact.

Cut and place on a plate.

Then I took it to the restaurant upstairs.

Just entering the door, no matter the children who are grabbing cakes to eat, or the adults who are drinking or chatting, they all unconsciously look at the door.

To be exact, he looked at the plate in Lin Xu's hand at the door.

The uniform diamond-shaped blocks are distributed with colorful colors, and each color is mixed with milk-like milky white, which is absolutely stunning.

After putting it on the table.

Lin Xu smiled and said:

"Grandma, here is the colorful horseshoe cake I made for you, try it."

Even though I know that my good grandson will bring me new surprises.

But Mrs. Lin was still attracted by the beautiful horseshoe cake.

Beautiful!
It's so beautiful!

"My dear grandson's skill, no wonder he was hired as a dietary consultant for Diaoyutai. I'm not willing to eat it."

Picking up a piece of trembling horseshoe cake, Mrs. Lin seemed to be admiring the exquisite porcelain in the museum. She didn't take a bite until relatives urged her to gently put it into her mouth.

"Well, it's delicious. Each layer seems to have a different taste. It's so delicious."

When the old lady praised it, other people gathered around and squeezed a piece, but instead of tasting it, they took a photo with their mobile phone.

After the filming, it was sent to the mouth to chew and taste slowly.

While eating, he admired Lin Xu's craftsmanship.

Seeing that the relatives were already eating, Lin Xu took a piece and handed it to Baby Shen who was still taking pictures:
"Didn't I promise to make horseshoe cake for you on the day of the Diaoyutai competition, and today I finally fulfilled the promise...Try it quickly and see if you like the taste."

like!

I like it so much!
There were so many people at the moment, Shen Baobao didn't have the nerve to throw himself into Lin Xu's arms.

But in my heart, I was already so excited that I was looking forward to the dark, so that I could hug Xu Bao unscrupulously and kiss him fiercely.

Huh... calm down.

Baby Shen took a deep breath, and drove away the disturbing thoughts in his mind, then took the horseshoe cake handed over, brought it to his mouth and tasted it.

She immediately widened her eyes:

"Grandma is right, each layer has its own taste, it's so delicious!"

The girl just finished speaking.

A system prompt sounded in Lin Xu's mind:

"The host has the courage to practice, complete the reward task [horseshoe cake], and win a prize draw for excellent stew."

"Because the host creatively made the colorful horseshoe cake with outstanding appearance, the excellent-level stew prize draw has been upgraded to an excellent-level prize draw. Congratulations to the host!"

what?
What about such a good thing?

Lin Xu was overjoyed for a while, never thought that the reward task could be upgraded.

It seems that if you encounter this kind of task again in the future, you will have to go all out!

He looked around, and everyone was admiring the appearance and taste of the horseshoe cake, only Dundun was lying bored in front of the cat bowl in the corner, waiting to eat the meat.

Ouch, my son is starving.

He quickly picked up a piece of eel meat and put it in the prickly cat bowl. The little guy sniffed it, then rubbed his head against Lin Xu, then lowered his head and began to eat seriously.

Lin Xu squatted aside, and after it finished eating, he picked up some mutton for it.

Dundun ate again.

While eating, he hummed happily.

Apparently, today's meat was a joy to eat.

When the little guy was almost finished eating, Lin Xu hugged it in his arms.

After teasing and playing for a while, I said silently in my heart:
"lottery!"

The inside of the draw tray is visualized in the mind.

Start the draw.

Not long after, a system notification sounded in my mind:

"Congratulations to the host for obtaining an excellent stewed dish—tomato stewed beef brisket!"

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