The journey of giving birth to a son

Chapter 44

The aroma gradually wafted out of the oven, and Jiang Shiyi had a smile on his face, thinking that this cake embryo should not be difficult to make.

However, when the cake came out of the oven, Jiang Shiyi's smile disappeared instantly.

The lump in front of me is really nothing like the cake except that the ingredients are somewhat similar. The whole cake is densely pressed together. Although it is not unpalatable, it is far from fluffy, soft and sweet. Far.

It’s so difficult to bake a cake, let alone make butter.

"It's delicious!" After making several defective products in a row, only Yue Ya thought it was delicious, and the others hid away as soon as they saw it.

Jiang Shiyi was not discouraged and experimented again and again.

Extracting butter and beating egg whites and cream manually is definitely an inhumane job. There is no electric egg beater, so it all depends on your own hands. Jiang Shiyi and Shen Yunniang kept stirring, and their arms felt sore even when they slept. Place is put.

Both mother and daughter smiled bitterly, "Otherwise, just don't do it!" Shen Yunniang suggested.

"No!" Jiang Shiyi shook his head. Only when the cake is ready can his dessert shop be said to be half successful.

Mrs. Wu walked into the kitchen, saw mother and daughter beating egg whites, and was about to go out.

In this era, craftsmanship is a unique skill and is generally not spread among the public. Mrs. Wu is very conscious about it.

"Sister Wu, can you help me?"

For several days, Jiang Shiyi felt that his arm was almost broken, and it was too much to bear.

When Mrs. Wu heard that the shopkeeper asked her to do something, she agreed.

Relatively speaking, Yue Ya's physical strength is not good, Lin Wanniang is impatient, and Mrs. Wu's physical strength is better and patient.

According to Jiang Shiyi's instructions, Mrs. Wu had to beat the egg whites into a white solid that could stand upright. But even if Mrs. Wu was patient and strong, beating the egg whites was like running for five kilometers, panting and hearty.

Jiang Shiyi looked at the baked cake and was discouraged, "Forget it, let's talk about it tomorrow!"

It was dark at night, and the lights in the kitchen were like beans.

The restaurant that had been noisy all day returned to silence, but Mrs. Wu was still beating egg whites diligently.

Separate the egg whites and egg yolks, beat the egg yolks, then add oil, sugar, and milk, mix and beat, then sift in the flour, continue to beat, then add the egg whites in batches, continue to beat, put into the mold, and place Oven, Mrs. Wu counts the time without blinking.

The next morning, Jiang Shiyi came to the store early and said, "Little shopkeeper, do you think this will work?"

Mrs. Wu took out the cake, and Jiang Shiyi was stunned. It was soft, moist, and smelled of cake aroma.

This is what he imagined. "Thank you, Sister Wu." Jiang Shiyi was very surprised.

"You're welcome, little shopkeeper, this is what I should do, and you have helped me do so much." Mrs. Wu said very sincerely.

"Don't call me little shopkeeper from now on. Just call me by my name like my mother."

The cake embryo was finally made, and all that was left was to make butter. In view of the limitations of this era, Jiang Shiyi made four colors of butter.

If you take the beet juice, it will be bright red. If you put less beet juice, it will be pink.

Then add matcha powder and you will have a light green cake.

Pumpkin powder will naturally turn yellow when made.

As for purple, just use purple sweet potato starch.

There are not many colors, just four kinds of red, yellow, purple and green, but it is enough.

Jiang Shiyi took Mrs. Wu's whipped cream, put it into the piping bag he made, cut a slit at the front, and tried to squeeze out the first cream piping flower in the Yan Kingdom.

Failing to make good tools, Jiang Shiyi's decorating skills were limited, and the decorating skills could only be considered average. To put it bluntly, there was no technical content. But even so, Yue Ya and Lin Wan Niang opened their eyes wide and exclaimed in exclamation.

In the evening, Jiang Shiyi brought the finished cake to the table and cut it in front of everyone's expectant eyes.

I saw that there was a layer of cream sandwiched between the layers of light yellow cake, and there were five or six colors of jam condensed in between, cherry red, mango yellow, mulberry purple... it was really beautiful.

"Wow! Wow" everyone's eyes widened, and there was a white plate placed in front of everyone.

"Sister, I want to eat, hurry up." Jiang Hui clapped his hands.

Today is Shen Yunniang's birthday, and Jiang Shiyi asked Zhao Tiechui to cook a table of dishes to celebrate. Shen Yunniang looked at her daughter with tears in her eyes.

At this moment, Lu Zhan and Liu Jun walked in.

Speaking of this, Lu Zhan didn't help Jiang Shiyi. Every night, Liu Jun patrolled this area, and the two of them came to eat every day. People around him saw that there was someone behind this restaurant. , and no one dared to make trouble.

"This is..." Liu Jun scratched his head in embarrassment, "We saw that the lights were still on and wanted to come over and have a bowl of noodles."

"There are no noodles today." Jiang Shiyi moved two chairs for them to sit down and cut a large piece of cake for each of them.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't know today was my aunt's birthday, so I didn't bring any gifts." Lu Zhan said apologetically.

Shen Yunniang smiled and said, "We are just a family gathering together. Since you are here, come and have a meal with us!"

"Brother, eat!" Jiang Hui handed Lu Zhan a small fork made of wood.

Lu Zhan smiled and put the cake into his mouth. It was sweet and soft and delicate in the mouth.

"It's delicious." Lu Zhan ate the cake, and everyone started eating it too, chatting and laughing freely, and it was very lively for a while.

When Shen Yunniang saw these two people, she felt a little uncomfortable. Lu Zhan also felt it. After eating the cake, he said that he still wanted to patrol and walked out.

Shen Yunniang felt that it was better to arrange a marriage for her daughter as soon as possible!

Jiang Shiyi was very satisfied with Lady Wu's performance this time. Lady Wu was a person who could endure hardships and loved learning. As long as Lady Wu wanted to learn, Jiang Shiyi would teach her.

"Sister Wu, if you want to learn how to make cakes, I will teach you. If you want to learn other things, you can do it, such as accounting, literacy, etc., as long as it is not during working hours."

"Can I really do this? I'm stupid!" Mrs. Wu said, lowering her head.

Jiang Shiyi nodded, "As long as you are willing to learn, you will definitely learn it."

Mrs. Wu was very happy after hearing this. When she was a child, her family was poor and she had no chance to read, let alone do accounts.

Mrs. Wu went to please Lin Wanniang and wanted Lin Wanniang to teach her some words.

That night, Jiang Shiyi taught her how to make a dish of hot and sour noodles. Madam Wu knew that Lin Wanniang liked spicy food, so she made a bowl for Lin Wanniang to eat, and by the way, she showed Lin Wanniang the Chinese characters she had learned these days. .

Lin Wanniang was reading the script. Mrs. Wu asked too many questions, and Lin Wanniang became a little impatient.

Jiang Shiyi saw this and called Mrs. Wu over and said to Shen Yunniang, "Mom, come and teach Sister Wu how to write!"

Shen Yunniang taught Wu Niangzi how to write.

Shen Yunniang was very patient, and she gave careful instructions. Yue Ya watched from the side, feeling envious in her heart. Lin Wanniang taught Wu Lady how to read a few days ago, and she wanted to learn it too, but Lin Wanniang ignored her.

"I also want to learn to write my own name." Yue Ya said carefully.

"Okay!" Jiang Shiyi took out some pieces of paper and began to teach Yue Ya to write names. Lin Wan's mother raised her head and watched them talking and laughing together, feeling very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)