Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

Chapter 116 Chapter 116
Yang Dingbang came home from get off work and told Lin Lan about Ye San's confession, telling her to be careful of Liu Jinbao.

Lin Lan nodded: "Don't worry, apart from setting up a stall, I will go to the foot of the mountain to cut grass and will not go anywhere else."

"Okay, be careful yourself. If something happens and I'm not here, you can ask Xiangyang for help." Yang Dingbang said.

Lin Lan said gratefully: "Thank you Dingbang, you and Xiangyang have helped me a lot."

"You're welcome, sister-in-law." Yang Dingbang rode home with a smile.

Lin Lan never paid attention to Ye San's affairs since then. She was busy preparing the materials for making moon cakes, buying duck eggs to marinate salted duck eggs, flour, glutinous rice, white sugar, rock sugar, honey, melon seeds, sweet almonds, black and white sesame...

After soaking the glutinous rice, grind it into rice milk with a stone mill, put it in a cloth bag and hang it on the beam of the house. After dripping dry, break it into small pieces and put it on a sun-drying mat to dry.

Everything was ready, and it was the end of July. Zhou Xiaohong told Lin Lan that the supply and marketing cooperative started selling mooncakes.

Lin Lan took a look. The moon cakes filled with brown sugar cost [-] cents each and cost [-] taels of food stamps.

With everything ready, Lin Lan started to make syrup, but couldn't find lemons, so she bought green oranges that were just on the market to replace them.

Take out some of the charcoal fire in the stove, put sugar into the enamel pot, add water, stir it with chopsticks, boil it over medium heat, add green orange juice, cook slowly over low heat, it took nearly an hour, and the syrup Boil it into amber color and put it in a porcelain basin to cool it down, put it in a clay pot and store it sealed.

Wash and peel the ham, rinse it several times with clean water, soak it in water for two or three hours, then cut into thick slices and steam in a pot for 10 minutes.

After the steamed cloud legs are cooled, cut into mung bean-sized particles, add honey, mix them all, put them in a vegetable basket and marinate in a well overnight.

The next day, pour the flour needed for the stuffing into the pot and stir-fry over low heat until the flour turns yellow and exudes a faint aroma of wheat, then shovel it into a basin to cool.

Lin Lan started to make mooncake skins. Pour honey, powdered sugar, and water into a porcelain basin and mix well. Finally, sift in the flour with a fine sieve and mix well, then add lard, baking powder, and baking soda, mix well, and then sift in an appropriate amount of flour. , knead into a smooth dough, cover it with a large wooden basin to proof for half an hour, divide into appropriate amount of small dough after proofing.

Take out the marinated ham cubes, add wax gourd sugar and mix well, then add lard and powdered sugar to the ham cubes and mix well, gradually add cooked powder and mix well according to the dryness and humidity of the stuffing, and divide into appropriate doses.

Lin Yuezhen looked at her movements and felt that she was proficient as if she had been a master craftsman for decades, not at all like she was doing it for the first time.The Lin family didn't have a pastry master either. When did she learn to make these pastries, and they were so good.

Lin Lan looked up and saw that she was looking at her thoughtfully, only then realized that she was stuck, and said with a dry smile: "You know I'm gluttonous, when I was studying in the town, I pestered the master in the cafeteria to learn a few tricks. .

Youngest Yang doesn't care about me when I get married here, I went to the scrap yard to buy recipes and learn how to make them.Maybe I was born to eat handicrafts, and the cakes I make taste good. "

Lin Yuezhen laughed after hearing this, laughing that she was greedy for food since she was a child, and it became her eating skill in the end.

Lin Lan smiled and divided the proofed dough into small doughs weighing about seven cents each. After flattening, she wrapped the rubbed fillings into the mooncake skin, and slowly pushed upwards with her hands, closing the mouth tightly, and kneading After rounding, press it lightly, and a ham mooncake blank will be ready.

There are 24 mooncakes in one baking tray. After it is full, use a stamp to dip red food coloring on the mooncakes. After all four baking trays are filled and the temperature of the oven is up, Lin Lan puts the baking tray Put in broiler.

She took off the watch and handed it to Lin Yuezhen: "Sister, follow the time I marked, and take out the baking tray as soon as the time is up."

Lin Yuezhen nodded, took the watch and put the baking tray into the oven according to the time recorded by Lin Lan.When the time is up, take out the baking tray, and see the ham mooncakes in the baking tray, the skin is golden, and the appetite will be whetted when you look at it.

She happily carried the baking tray into the stove, and gestured to Lin Lan with a smile on her face: "It smells so good, looks so good."

Lin Lan looked at it and felt that it was quite successful, and said with a smile: "Let it cool down a bit, and then you can eat it."

After cooling down for a while, one person tasted a piece, and the aroma of the ham burst out after one bite. The skin was crispy and melted in the mouth. The ham filling inside was salty and sweet, and it was very delicious.

Lin Yuezhen gave Lin Lan a thumbs up. She felt that she was in her 30s, and it was the first time she ate such delicious mooncakes. She felt that Lin Lan was born to cook.

Lin Lan looked terrified: "Of course, you don't even look at who I am!"

The two made all the ham mooncakes, baked them all, wrapped the ham mooncakes in two lumps, put them into baskets, and started making egg yolk mooncakes.

After the salted egg yolk is separated, soak it in cooked vegetable oil overnight, take it out and put it in a baking tray, pour some white wine into the egg yolk to remove the fishy smell, put it in the oven and bake for a few minutes, until the bottom of the egg yolk is slightly oily, take it out and cool it for later use.

Flatten the prepared kidney bean filling, sandwich the egg yolk in the middle, knead it into a round shape and set aside.Knead the dough into long strips, cut into pieces, press flat and put the fillings in. After the filling is done, brush a little oil on the mooncake mold, put the mooncake blank into the mold and press it into shape, bake in the oven for a few minutes, then brush with egg yolk and bake. .

After making a batch of ham and egg yolk mooncakes, Lin Lan will make five kernel and red bean paste mooncakes next.

After Yang Liying came to taste it, she said that she had only bought bean paste and brown sugar fillings, and that the mooncakes made by Kua Linlan tasted better than those from the supply and marketing cooperative.

Lin Lan asked Zhao Dehai to weave a bamboo basket, packed a few packets of fermented bean curd, dried mushrooms, and mooncakes brought by Lin Yuezhen, and mailed them to Lao Chen according to the address he sent.

Within a few days, I received a package from Old Chen, which contained a letter saying that he was going back to work in a certain university, and also gave Lin Lan an address in this city, asking her to find Chen Dong there if she had anything to do.

In the afternoon, Zhou Xiaohong and Wang Zhixue divided up the freshly made mooncakes, and the three left some for Lin Lan to set up a stall.

Lin Lan brought a vegetable plate and a wooden board, and Lin Yuezhen went to the eucalyptus forest with a backpack on their backs.

Put the wooden board on the back of the folder, put a packet of moon cakes on the wooden board, and a piece of red paper wrapped in brown kraft paper, it looks festive.

Lin Lan cut up mooncakes of several flavors and put them on a plate for everyone to taste.

When Li Wu and the others saw Lin Lan setting up mooncakes, they all said that they bought them here for the holidays.

The woman who often came to buy pastry orchid beans tasted it, and said with a smile: "That's right, it tastes better than the five kernels from the supply and marketing cooperative. Give me two of the same, and take it back for them to taste before coming back."

Lin Lan said enthusiastically: "If you want to give a gift, you can make an order in advance, and I will make fresh ones for you when the time comes."

The woman nodded with a smile: "Okay, I will make an appointment in advance."

When closing the stall, Lin Lan gave Li Xiangyang the mooncakes she made in the basket to him, and said with a smile, "I added ingredients to your ham mooncakes, you are satisfied."

Li Xiangyang looked at her with a smile in his eyes: "I don't care if I lose money!"

(End of this chapter)