Traveling through farming with the system, I cooked delicious food in ancient times

A spring rain brings warmth, and after the spring rain, we are busy farming.

In the fields of the Liu family's old house, rice and vegetable seedlings grew extremely well, and mushrooms and vegetable seedlings in the greenhouse of Maoxi Space were also successfully cultivated.

Mao Xi took the time to transplant some vegetable seedlings and fruit seedlings in the space to the fields.

She planted onion seedlings in her own field, and gave fruit seedlings to Grandpa Jiang in Baiyuan Village, including passion fruit and lemons in the yard and strawberries and cherries in the greenhouse.

Today is a holiday. Mao Xi and Xiaodouzi finished their farm work in the fields, and then drove the donkey cart to Niujia Village to pick mulberries.

She brought a piece of cloth in advance to catch the mulberries. Xiaodouzi picked up the mulberries and ate them, and the corners of his mouth turned black.

Since Xiaodouzi went to the academy, Mao Xi has not often taken him out on business trips. Today, when he saw his younger brother happily picking fruits in the mountains, Mao Xi became concerned about his studies.

"Xiaodouzi, how have you been studying at the academy recently? What do you plan to do in the future?"

Xiaodouzi has a smart mind and can complete all the lessons taught by Su Xuexue, but he is very playful. After school, he will play around in Lihua Town with his classmate and friend Xiaopang, and will not return to the shop until dinner time.

"Sister, I want to be with you again in the future."

"You're still young. If you work harder, why don't you take the Tongsheng test?"

"Sister, I don't want to take the imperial examination. I want to open a shop and cook like you." Xiaodouzi was a little resistant.

Mao Xi stopped pressing. After collecting the mulberries, she took her brother to the Liu Family Fruit Cake Shop and said, "Today, you will help Grandma and Aunt Shen make cakes together. In the afternoon, you will take my little sister to fly a kite in the countryside."

Mao Xi left half of the mulberries for the fruit cake shop and asked Ah Su and Ah Tang from the shop to teach his younger brother how to make mulberry and purple sweet potato cakes.

The crust of the fruit cake is made with black rice, and the filling is made of steamed purple potatoes and mulberries. After baking, the crust is black and the filling is purple. This cake is slightly sweet and is very popular among wealthy officials.

Just kneading the dough to make puff pastry and watery crust is quite physically demanding.

Xiaodouzi was ten years old, and Mao Xi asked his younger brother to join the production, hoping that he would experience the hard work of being a cook.

Ajiao, who has been following Mr. Chen, also joined in the process of learning to knead the dough.

Mrs. Chen asked Mao Xi to buy four pictures of spring cows before returning to the shop and prepare them to be posted at home and in the shop.

The Spring Ox Picture is a New Year picture used by farmers to predict the crops and harvests in the coming year.

The main picture at the top shows a doll-like "mang god" leading a cow. There are seven-character poems on the left and right sides, and the eight diagrams are engraved in the upper corners of the picture.

Below the picture is a one-year almanac with daily taboos and agricultural encyclopedias.

On the day of the Spring Equinox, spring officials often come to the door to sing and send pictures of spring cows to ask for money. Now that she has moved to the town, there are few spring officials, but Chen still retains this habit.

Mao Xi found a shop and just bought a picture of spring cows, then she remembered the beggar Old Li Tou. He was good at divination. She didn't know if he was still setting up a stall in the ghost market for divination.

She just bought a picture of spring beef. Mao Xi posted it on the wall of Liuxiang snack kitchen, hoping that the shop's business would become more and more prosperous.

Looking at the pictures of spring cows, Mao Xi suddenly had the idea to bake cow-themed snack cookies. This is in line with the current trend: during the spring equinox, everyone will post pictures of spring cows.

He drew an outline of a cow's head and body on paper, and asked Luda to surround it with bamboo pieces to form a mold.

Next, make biscuits. Mix butter, sugar, salt, and eggs evenly, then add flour and almond flour at a ratio of 5:1. Roll them out flat, refrigerate for two quarters of an hour, use a mold to press out the beef body, and use chopsticks and a bamboo knife to carve out the biscuits. Bull’s eyes, facial features, and body lines.

If you want to make cow biscuits, you need to knead another black dough, which can be dyed with coffee liquid. Then take small pieces of black dough and embellished with yellow dough, roll them flat, and press them into shapes.

Lou Laner put the pressed biscuits into the kiln and baked them. During the baking process, the unique aroma of butter filled the shop.

Some of the cows have the word "spring" written on them, which is particularly suitable for the occasion. Mao Xi sells them with coffee.

Some are sold in bamboo tubes, priced at 13 cents per tube.

In the afternoon, Lou Laner took popcorn, peach blossom cakes and beef biscuits to the East Stage in Kaitang County to set up a stall.

Due to the great impact of the explosion, although there were no casualties, the note with "Chen Qing Qing Tian" also attracted the attention of the county magistrate Zhou Rusheng, who handled the case very efficiently. On the same day, Shopkeeper Xu paid back the monthly payment owed to the workers. money, and also beat him thirty times.

But the detonator has not yet been found.

The stage was back to its usual bustle, and Lou Laner was shouting and handing out flyers to the people as usual.

Xiaohong bought food for Miss Zhou from Liuxiang Snacks and returned to the county. Passing by the East Stage, she saw Lou Laner's stall surrounded by the lady.

She got out of the car and saw Lou Lan'er selling cow biscuits. She was very curious and asked: "Sister Lan'er, what kind of pizza do you eat with a cow's head and a cow's body?"

Lou Lan'er took a loose piece for Xiaohong to try and said, "This is the latest new product in our shop, it's called cow biscuits! It can be eaten as fruit with tea!"

Xiaohong bought three tubes in one go, and also bought three peach blossom cakes.

Seeing that the maid from the Zhou family bought it, the other ladies who were still watching at the stall followed suit and started buying too.

Lou Lan'er also handed each of them a leaflet about the shop.

Since Lou Lan'er doesn't come to Kaitang County often, she usually sets up stalls near the stage and the homeless artists off stage twice every ten days, so she doesn't pay the management fee to the Street Department.

The stage here is a very tolerant area, and the general street department does not care about it. Therefore, not only are there singers singing on the stage, but there are also people performing monkey tricks, walking on stilts, and crushing rocks on their chests under the stage. Of course, there are also many refugees and beggars.

Mao Xi asked Lou Laner to set up a small table here and sell sugar paintings and fruits.

In the past two months, she has been setting up stalls selling fruit cakes and handing out flyers here more frequently, which has made several shops selling fruit cakes and cakes in Kaitang County quite dissatisfied.

The shopkeepers of several shops went to the business association to find Mr. Zhou and asked him to find a way to drive Lou Lan'er's stall out of Kaitang County.

"President Zhou, the tribute fruit from Yuqingguan was originally made at my shop. Since I found the Liuji fruit cake, the house I originally booked has also been cancelled."

"Yes, she still sends her cook to set up stalls on the East Stage from time to time. How will we do business in the future?"

"I also heard that she will come here to open a shop in the future. How will we do business in the future? Mr. Zhou, you can't let Liu's fruit cakes come to Kaitang County!"

Chairman Zhou first appeased the bakery owners and asked them to lower the prices first and make more innovative cakes.

"Some of the prices of the fruits in your store are exaggerated. It's not like I haven't tasted them before. They're expensive and taste bad! And for so many years, they've only been sesame cakes, five-nut cakes, and peanut cakes. You don't know how to reform them? I don't think so. Some of the fruits from the Liu Family Fruit Cake were also passed down from Beidu Restaurant and Fruit Cake Shop."

"But President Zhou, our chef can't even make the 'butter cake' and egg yolk cake she made!"

"I won't let him come to Kaitang County for the time being, but you must improve the quality of the fruit cakes in your shop as soon as possible, otherwise I will be helpless."

President Zhou also wanted to help the cake shop merchants in Kaitang to suppress Mao Xi's fruit cake shop, but his beloved daughter just liked the food of Mao Xi's family.