Reborn Farmhouse: Planting Fields, Flirting with People

Chapter 858 Chrysanthemum Appreciation Party

The Chrysanthemum Appreciation Party was scheduled for July 25th. Although it was held in the name of the old lady, Li Mingyue personally took care of all the details.

Chrysanthemum appreciation, the most important thing is naturally chrysanthemums.

Li Mingyue specially spent a lot of money to buy dozens of precious chrysanthemums from flower gardens in the suburbs of Beijing. Among them, the most precious one is named Fenghuang Zhenyu. Spread your wings.

Thousands of pots of chrysanthemums are arranged in an orderly manner in the back garden of the Anning Hou Mansion. Chrysanthemums of various colors compete with each other to form a colorful sea of ​​flowers.

Li Mingyue also drew a sketch in person, and invited skilled craftsmen to carefully craft it, using chrysanthemum as the main tone, and the collocation showed a variety of different shapes.

Unique flower baskets, dancing butterflies, lifelike peacocks...

In addition to chrysanthemums, dim sum tea is also very important.

Li Mingyue asked people to go to a shop outside to buy some snacks and come back to choose. After trying more than a dozen of them, they were not satisfied, and finally decided to make it by themselves.

Thinking that the Mid-Autumn Festival was coming soon, she made some crispy mooncakes. The fillings were filled with sweet-scented osmanthus. Fresh sweet-scented osmanthus was marinated with a little honey. Fragrance.

Freshly baked crispy sweet-scented osmanthus cake, the outer crispy belt has a burnt aroma, and the inner crispy belt has the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus, and it tastes sweet when you eat it.

It happened that Zhuangzi sent a few baskets of hawthorns over, and Li Mingyue made some hawthorn cakes. The method is also very simple. Fresh hawthorns are washed and pitted, then put into a stone mortar and mashed into mud, add water and rock sugar to cook until thick, pour Put it in a container brushed with oil, let it cool and form, pour it out and cut into pieces.

The finished hawthorn jelly is a very beautiful crimson color, it looks very appetizing, and it tastes sweet and sour, which relieves greasy and appetizing.

In addition to hawthorn cake, Li Mingyue also made hawthorn candy snowballs. Remove the stalks of the fresh hawthorn and wash them. Pour sugar and water into the pot and start cooking with the lowest fire. The thick sugar juice with bubbles, at this time, pour white vinegar, then pour in hawthorn and stir fry until the sugar juice is sandy.

The hawthorn sugar snowballs wrapped in icing sugar are made, sweet on the outside and sour on the inside, delicious and beautiful.

In addition to these small snacks, Li Mingyue also fried a few pots of caramelized melon seeds and spiced peanuts, which were not sold in Kyoto, so they were considered fresh.

As for the tea, what she prepared was honeysuckle chrysanthemum tea. As the name suggests, it is scented tea made from honeysuckle and chrysanthemums. It was paired with the glass teapot Wu Yunwan gave, which was suitable for the occasion and beautiful.

Everything is ready, and July 25 will arrive soon, and the ladies who received the post will arrive as scheduled.

The chrysanthemum viewing party was naturally held in the garden, and the tables and chairs were already set up. Three or five people sat at a table, enjoying the chrysanthemums, drinking tea and snacks, and chatting at the same time. It was very leisurely and comfortable.

The Chrysanthemum Appreciation Fair was very successful, whether it was the novelty-shaped chrysanthemums or the sweet and delicious tea snacks, they all received unanimous praise from everyone.

Even the old lady who doesn't like snacks on weekdays couldn't help but eat two pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes. If she wasn't persuaded by Madam Su, she could have eaten three pieces.

Fang Jinxiu likes to eat hawthorn candy snowballs the most. Today, two of her boudoir close friends also came, and the three little sisters sat together, eating very happily.

The little sister ate to her heart's content, and she didn't forget her younger siblings at home. While eating, she asked Fang Jinxiu, "These snacks in your family are delicious. Where did you buy them? I'll buy some later. Take it home and give it to your brothers and sisters to taste."

(End of this chapter)