Dali Temple Small Dining Room

  Chapter 190 Mooncakes (4)

   It was not only Yu Jijiu's family who opened the mooncake gift box in advance to celebrate the "Early Mid-Autumn Festival". Seeing the beautiful mooncakes in the mooncake gift box, everyone in Jingyunhou Mansion immediately became interested.

  Because Lin Fei always brings back some evening food these days, everyone has already gotten used to waiting for the food that Lin Fei brings back with some empty stomachs.

  Although I didn’t bring evening food today, I brought mooncakes, which is not a waste of time.

   Instead of choosing mooncakes stuffed with pork meat like Mrs. Yu did, everyone's hands stretched out to Cantonese-style mooncakes with ice skin.

   Mrs. Jing Yunhou fell in love with the beautiful snow-white snow-skin mooncake at a glance. Without thinking about it, she picked a "Ruyi" mooncake and picked it up.

  Mrs. Hou couldn't put it down after looking at the beautiful Yuruyi. It's probably the nature of people when they see soft and glutinous things. Madam Hou couldn't help but squeeze it with her hands when she took it.

  At first, I thought that the ice-skinned mooncake that I had squeezed so badly would lose its original shape, but I didn't expect that after the force was released, the mooncake would gradually return to its original jade-like appearance.

  Looking at this "rebound" action, one can already guess that the tentacles in the hand are cold, and the ice skin with the fragrance of milk and glutinous rice must not only be soft and waxy, but also have a little elasticity.

   After pinching the snowy mooncake twice as a "fun" before eating, Madam Hou brought the snowy mooncake to her lips and bit it down.

The soft, glutinous and slightly elastic snowskin mooncake was bitten open, chewing on the scent of milk mixed with glutinous rice, Madam Hou looked at the goose-yellow filling and couldn't help exclaiming: "I've never seen it before. Over such stuffing!"

   "The filling is called milk yellow heart," Lin Fei heard, and said, "It's made with eggs, milk, etc."

"No wonder it tastes so rich in egg fragrance and frankincense!" Mrs. Hou sucked the cold taste of the milky yellow heart, sighed with emotion, and couldn't help saying, "I really like the filling of this milky yellow heart, if it is called The cook in the mansion is going to learn..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Fei shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this is impossible!" After speaking, Lin Fei explained to Mrs. Shanghou's gaze, "I see Master Wen making this milky yellow heart The stuffing was made from the icehouse, and the milk was used to make cream. Even so, she still said that a lot of ingredients were missing, which was not satisfactory! Such a troublesome stuffing, I’m afraid I only taste it once a year. Just get a fresh one!"

  As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Hou was immediately disappointed. Holding the snowy mooncake in her hand, she said with emotion: "It's rare to have such a satisfactory mooncake. After trying this snowy mooncake, I'm afraid I won't be able to taste anything else..."

Before she finished speaking, when she saw the filling of the "Kua Fu Chasing the Sun" Cantonese-style mooncake that Lin Fei bit into, Mrs. Hou immediately paused with emotion, and turned to look at the red bean paste filling that could be torn apart. Long strips of silky jade white stuffing, surprised: "What is this?"

Although she has never seen such a stuffing before, but for some reason, looking at the silky jade white stuffing, although Madam Hou has never tasted it, she has an inexplicable premonition: the taste of this stuffing will definitely not be inferior to hers just now." Desirable" snowskin mooncakes.

Lin Fei turned the inside of the mooncake to Mrs. Hou, and pointed it out to Madam Hou: "The filling inside is red bean paste, and the filling inside the red bean paste is called mochi. The rice cake is a little more elastic. With this, it can even reduce the sweetness of the red bean paste."

  Of course Lin Fei didn’t say so many things suddenly on a whim for no reason. Zhimu Mo Ruozi, for people like Madam Hou who love sweet mooncakes but dislike them too sweet, this red bean filling with mochi is perfect!

   Sure enough, after talking about the filling of the red bean mochi, Mrs. Hou, who had already lamented the deliciousness of the milk yellow Liuxin ice skin mooncake, stretched out her hand to the Cantonese-style mooncake of red bean mochi.

   After eating a mooncake filled with red bean and mochi filling, and touching her belly, which had no room left, Mrs. Hou said contentedly, "I like this sweet mooncake that is not sweet!"

  Wen Mingtang lamented that this mooncake is a "sweet mooncake that is not sweet". There are also Tangyuan and others who are still packing up in the public kitchen of Dali Temple and have not returned.

  Wen Mingtang heard the words and said with a smile: "That's really an extremely high evaluation!"

   As we all know, the highest evaluation of sweet pastries and snacks is "not sweet"!

  The officials of Dali Temple were all on vacation except for a few "unlucky" ones who got a lottery to be "on duty" at the Yamen of Dali Temple. But because they made moon cake gift boxes, they had to come to the public kitchen tomorrow morning.

   Regarding this, everyone has no complaints: As long as the wages are worthy of this errand, who would be lazy?

   In a flash, it was the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Obviously, there were many people who went back early yesterday to "open the moon cakes" to celebrate the "early Mid-Autumn Festival". Originally thought that the mooncake gift box could still be sold until noon, but unexpectedly, it was sold out just after opening in the morning, and the rich customers such as Yu Jijiu even waved their hands, and came again to collect a lot to send back to colleagues up.

"So... You Yu Jijiu and others have these living signs. After the festival, I can guarantee that our public kitchen's take-out business will do better!" Ji Caimai said with his abacus and winked at Wen Mingtang , "It is not impossible for you to save money and buy a small house in a few years!"

  The lantern festival didn't start until nightfall, and everyone had to finish their evening meal before coming to Dali Temple to look for Wen Mingtang. After seeing off Ji Caimai and the others, and saying hello to a few servants on duty at night, Wen Mingtang went back to the room, pulled out the incense burner from under the bed, plugged in three incense sticks, and grabbed a handful of fried incense burners. Good melon seeds, some fruits and a moon cake were placed in front of the incense burner.

   After finishing all this, when he was about to open a stack of chat books borrowed from Liu Yuan to pass the time, a voice sounded from outside the yard.

   "Is sister Mingtang here?"

  This voice... Wen Mingtang sighed after hearing this, put down the notebook in his hand, got up and walked out.

Outside the courtyard, Xun Zhou, who was carrying a box of mooncakes, saw her coming out, and hurriedly called "Sister Mingtang", then handed over the mooncakes in his hand, and said, "Sister Mingtang, the teacher is visiting friends, I Staying in Beijing alone, do you want to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together?"

  Wen Mingtang glanced at the "Din Tai Fung" mooncake gift box he handed over, felt pain for the money, paused, but still took it and thanked him, and then led Xun Zhou to the yard.

  Although men and women are not particular about the defense of men and women nowadays, Wen Mingtang opened the doors and windows after entering the house, and then served a cup of tea for Xunzhou.

Xun Zhou, who had just served the teacup, twitched the corners of his mouth when he saw the gift box of mooncakes on the table. Thinking of the obviously stagnant expression on the girl's face when she took his mooncakes earlier, he suddenly realized, and hurriedly said to Wen Mingtang: " Sister Mingtang, I can save it! The next time I buy a festival gift box for the festival, I will definitely come to the public kitchen of Dali Temple to ask first."

  Wen Mingtang glanced at the mooncake gift box he put on the table, nodded, and said, "As expected, she is a "superior talent", and she already understood her intentions without her opening her mouth!" No wonder Wen Xuance and Wang Hehui valued him so much!

   Seeing a smile appear on Wen Mingtang's face, Xun Zhou drank two sips of tea, and said again: "Sister Mingtang, what plans do you have today?"

  Looking at the lantern festival at night is known to most people in Chang'an City, and Xunzhou naturally knows it too. As for where to go during the day... Wen Mingtang thought about it, and said to Xunzhou, "I want to go to the study."

  Study? Xun Zhou, who was drinking tea, froze. Looking at the calm face of the girl in front of him, he was both ashamed and sad, and couldn't help but sigh: "Sister Mingtang really followed the teacher, and she is quite qualified in reading. If it weren't for... eh ! She must be the number one talented woman in the entire Chang'an city, why do she spend her days around this stove..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Wen Mingtang on the opposite side. The girl scratched her messy hair and said, "I want to buy a few books. Liu Yuan only has the first book, not the middle book." Ben, the story disappears half way through, it's so sad!"

  Xunzhou: "..."

  (end of this chapter)