Seventy-year-old book: The villain Zaizai’s best mother

The eighth day of October is the birthdays of Da Zhuang and Miaomiao. Xia Mingshuang wanted to make them a cream birthday cake, so she started preparing it two days in advance.

If in modern times she could spend a day making a three-layered, large and exquisite cake, it would be unique, absolutely beautiful and delicious.

Unfortunately, there is currently insufficient material.

If she had enough whole milk, she could try to refine the butter and make a birthday cake with butter cream, but the texture would be very thick and greasy. Unfortunately, even if she was greasy, she couldn't do it. Without butter, there wouldn't be that much. Milk.

If she had gelatine, then a pound of whole milk would be enough for her to make a thinner whipping cream, but unfortunately she didn't.

Although she knew that gelatine was made from fish bones, swim bladders, etc., she didn't have the conditions to cook it. Even if she could cook it, there was no way to use it directly. Thinking about it, she knew how much fishy smell she would produce, which would make her feel uncomfortable. How else to eat it in the cream?

It's not worth it to go through all that trouble for a birthday cake.

There are currently no cake desserts decorated with light cream in China, at least not in Fang Rong’s department store.

According to Xia Mingshuang's understanding, most people didn't start eating cream cakes until their 80s. The first thing they ate was actually egg white cream cake. However, egg white cream is not easy to preserve and is not easy to plasticize. Later it was replaced by margarine. The second generation margarine has a special taste. Poor, it was later replaced by vegetable cream.

Xia Mingshuang decided to make egg white cream cakes for the children.

In fact, the reason why the chicken cake she made before was so delicious is because she separated the egg whites and yolks and made the egg whites wet and foamy. The chicken cakes have the delicate softness of chiffon cakes and are particularly delicious.

It’s just that it’s very laborious to beat the egg whites.

I didn’t realize that Wang Jinling didn’t have the time to be petty now. Just whipping out egg whites every day was enough for her.

Xia Mingshuang didn't teach Wang Jinling how to beat wet foam to dry foam, so Wang Jinling hasn't made a single dry foam yet. After all, beating egg whites is too tiring. Stop when the standard is reached, and basically won’t beat it more.

To make egg cream cake, you need to beat it for a long time until it becomes dry and foamy, so that it can be decorated and spread without melting.

It's cold now and it's not easy to melt.

However, meringue needs a lot of sugar as a stabilizer, and it will be very sweet. It is enough to eat it once or twice a year.

Xia Ming asked Fang Rong to buy two kilograms of soft white sugar. In the past, granulated sugar was used, which was not as easy to whip as soft white sugar.

She wants to make the cake at home, so we can make it together early on the eighth day of October.

She had taken some time off to celebrate her child's birthday at home on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.

On the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, she rode home with her little Zaizai. Miaomiao and her children were already at home.

Miaomiao was cutting cabbage for cooking, and Zhao Juying brought them water. Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang didn't go out to play, but looked around a wooden box to guess what was inside.

Seeing Xia Mingshuang come back, Miao Miao told her, "Mom, that uncle from the county town brought you a box in his car, saying that my father asked someone to bring it back."

Xiaobai should be called Bai Jianning. He is the one who picks up Gu Yunshan almost every time. Whether he is the driver from the county train station or the county committee, Xia Mingshuang is not sure.

Bai Jianning was very busy at work, so she put down the wooden box and drove away.

Xia Mingshuang asked Da Zhuang to come over with a small ax and open the nails to see what was inside.

Da Zhuang couldn't hold himself back for a long time. If he wasn't afraid that Xia Mingshuang would say something about him, he would have wanted to break it up.

With a bang, the wooden box was opened, and it was wrapped in layers of oilcloth and stuffed with newspapers.

Xia Mingshuang took out the small bundle first, but it was a bit heavy.

She untied the rope and opened it layer by layer, finally revealing what was inside.

Xia Mingshuang was shocked when he saw what was inside!

Gu Yunshan actually gave her a manual egg beater!

A very common small household appliance in modern times, a small appliance that she had never seen before in this era, Gu Yunshan actually made it for her!

Why is it said that Gu Yunshan made it? Because this is clearly not a production product, and there are traces of welding on it.

Except that it is larger and several times heavier than a modern egg beater, it is basically the same.

However, the material is not a modern alloy, but solid steel.

It's really... quite heavy to hold.

It's a pity that there is no electricity at home and we can't use it. We can take it to the supply and marketing cooperative later.

Weighing the egg beater, Xia Mingshuang thought for a moment. In the days since Gu Yunshan came back, she seemed to have told him about the egg beater?

He had only been at home for two days, dealing with the mess between Zhang Lezi and Lao Gu's family, and also went to the third sister's house and her parents' house. The rest of the time he was at home either helping her with grinding or washing clothes and doing housework. Anyway, he was not idle.

In addition to braised pork sausage, she also made chicken cakes, and she also asked him to help beat the egg whites.

It's quite tiring to do it with your hands, it can really break your wrist, but Gu Yunshan doesn't mind it at all.

It was at that time that she said in an expectant tone, "It would be great if there was a small machine for whipping egg whites. It can be done by plugging it in or using a hand-cranked cord and buzzing it. It only takes a few minutes."

At that time, Gu Yunshan lowered his head to pass the egg whites and said nothing. She thought he didn't hear.

Unexpectedly, he not only heard it, but also took it to heart.

Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang had already opened another, larger package. When they saw a pile of parts inside, they were confused, "What is this?"

Next to it were handwritten instructions given by Gu Yunshan, drawing assembly and disassembly diagrams and telling them what the principles were.

It can be cranked by hand and can even be connected to a foot pedal, so you can also use a foot pedal.

Xia Mingshuang: "..." How big is a hand-operated and foot-operated egg beater? Thinking of the peelers I once knew, there are hand-cranked versions, as big as a coffee machine. You can put an apple on it and peel it.

In order to train the two boys, she said: "I entrust you two to help me assemble it. Don't make a mistake. It will be troublesome to dismantle it later."

As long as the machinery requires hand cranking and pedaling, it basically has visible large and small gears, instead of just a small motor like electric ones.

This is not troublesome. After all, Gu Yunshan has already assembled the parts that must be assembled and cannot be disassembled. The other parts that can be disassembled are the blades and the tray that need to be cleaned.

This is a big guy, the materials used are quite solid, and it feels as tall as a little Zaizai.

Whether it is hand cranked or pedaled, it feels very labor-saving, because one gear drives the other two, just like a speed-shifting bicycle. When the outside is turned around, the inside is already buzzing.

Xia Mingshuang was delighted to see it.

Gu Yunshan, you are great! Thanks!

Xia Mingshuang got up early the next morning, eager to try the new tool.

Well, not just her, Da Zhuang, Miao Miao, Er Zhuang, and even Xiao Zaizai all got up early. They also wanted to see the big thing that dad brought back to mom and see how it works!