Boss, add food!

In the past few days, Su Xuxing found that Yuan Zhou was always facing the computer and typing on the keyboard when he was free. He thought he was preparing courseware or writing articles, but he didn't pay too much attention.

But whenever he approached Yuan Zhou, Yuan Zhou would panic and turn off what he was writing, so Su Xuxing could only see Yuan Zhou's computer desktop every time.

Su Xuxing felt that something was wrong.

"Yuan Xiaozhou!"

Su Xuxing walked behind Yuanzhou quietly, and suddenly put a plate of washed green grapes next to Yuanzhou's computer.

Yuan Zhou was taken aback as expected, and closed a file in a panic.

Su Xuxing frowned: "What are you doing?"

When asked by him, Yuan Zhou faltered and said with a blushing face, "No, I didn't do anything."

Su Xuxing rubbed his head: "Are you writing something shameful?"

Yuan Zhou still blushed and did not speak.

Su Xuxing pretended to be surprised: "Could it be that you are writing novels with colors? Are you getting fatter?"

Yuan Zhou was in a hurry, and explained in a panic: "That's not true! I'm writing a serious novel!"

Su Xuxing sneered: "What kind of novel are you writing?"

"It's nothing, I just want to practice my hands."

The articles that Yuan Zhou usually writes are all lyrical prose or travel notes, and most of them are written out of feelings.

Maybe it was the conversation with Nan Zhiyi last time that Yuan Zhou sprouted the idea of ​​trying to write a novel.

But how difficult it is to write a novel. To write a good novel, not only must the writing style be fluent, but it also poses a great challenge to the author's language description ability, logical thinking, and patience.

"Not bad, Teacher Yuan." Su Xuxing fed him a grape, "What subject are you writing about?"

"I just started and wrote casually." Yuan Zhou said to his fingers, "I may not be able to write down yet."

Su Xuxing said sternly: "This is not acceptable. If you start something, you must persevere in doing it well."

"But I still don't know what to write." Yuan Zhou expressed distress, "And it's too difficult to write well."

"You can look online at the mental journeys of internet writers."

Yuan Zhou clapped his hands: "Maybe I can ask Zhiyi?"

Su Xuxing agreed: "My teacher Yuan is so powerful. Seeing how good the articles you wrote in the past, go and ask experienced people for advice, and you will definitely be able to write famous novels."

Yuan Zhou is well aware of the huge competition of online novels, and feels that if a novel wants to become famous, it is more mysterious than saving money to pay a down payment on a house.

"Then I will practice my pen first during this time, and I will talk to Zhiyi another day."

"You have to know, as long as it's not a bad thing, I will support you no matter what you do." Su Xuxing hugged Yuanzhou from behind, "If no one reads what you write, don't be discouraged, just give it to me look!"

Yuan Zhou turned around and gave Su Xuxing a big kiss on the face, which almost distorted his face.

"Boss Su, I love you so much!"

During this period of time, everyone is busy, Yuan Zhou is busy practicing writing novels, Su Xuxing and Zhu Yi are busy taking care of the store with more and more customers, Lu Xiaoyu and his girlfriend Fang Qianqian, who just entered senior year, are busy with a lot of things, Yi Wensheng is busy with the business of the bakery, while Nan Zhiyi is busy with writing as usual.

The most successful one is Lin Daitong. This amateur artist draws illustrations in his spare time and applied for a magazine. In the end, he was spotted and signed the contract.

When it comes to this matter, Lin Daitong will hold Yuanzhou and talk non-stop.

Yuan Zhou disliked Lin Daitong and nagged all day long, but in his heart he was genuinely happy for his friend's success.

Seeing that the August and fifteenth months will soon be round, Yuan Zhou thought about bringing friends who have been busy for a long time to get together for a Mid-Autumn Festival, wouldn't it be fun?

Su Xuxing wanted to make some mooncakes, not only for eating by himself, but also for free as a dessert before meals for customers who came to eat in the store.

Su Xuxing asked Yuan Zhou what flavor he wanted to eat.

Yuan Zhou counted with his fingers: "I like to eat lotus paste mooncakes, red bean paste mooncakes, cloud leg mooncakes...the best thing is to have egg yolk inside!"

"Don't you like five-nut mooncakes?"

Yuan Zhou shook his head: "No, I used to eat it often when I was a child. My parents especially like this taste."

"I remember that the five-nut mooncakes were hacked badly a few years ago, and I thought you didn't like them too much."

"Are those people all devils? Even the mooncakes are black!" Yuan Zhou was indignant over Wuren mooncakes.

"Maybe it doesn't suit the tastes of young people nowadays, and I think it's okay." Su Xuxing said while remembering the ingredients to buy for making mooncakes, "Do you want to eat ice-skinned ones?"

"Eat! I want stuffed chestnuts!"

Su Xuxing added chestnuts, Chengfen, glutinous rice flour and sticky rice flour to the list.

Two days later, the materials Su Xuxing bought were basically ready, and he began to cook chestnuts to make mooncakes.

Yuan Zhou prepared his lessons, thinking that he would be idle anyway, so he went to help Su Xuxing.

Mooncakes are a special snack that every household eats during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In recent years, there are more and more types and flavors of mooncakes on the market, but they can’t compare to homemade ones.

When Yuan Zhou was a child, he followed his grandma to make moon cakes several times.

Because the equipment conditions at that time were not as good as they are now, it was impossible for every household to have an oven, so after my grandma made mooncakes, she always went to a place where someone specially assigned to help them bake them.

Yuan Zhou, who was still short at the time, peeked inside quietly and saw the uncle in chef uniform taking the mooncakes made by grandma into a big room and putting them in a big machine. There are delicious moon cakes to eat.

The little Yuan Zhou felt very miraculous.

Unexpectedly, now I have to make moon cakes with my "uncle" in chef uniform.

Su Xuxing took out the lotus seeds that had been soaked for several hours from the water, and after removing all the lotus hearts from the lotus seeds, he poured the boiled chestnuts into a large bowl, and then poured the lotus seeds into the rice cooker.Then pour water into it to cover the lotus seeds, and add some rock sugar.

While the rice cooker was cooking lotus seeds, Su Xuxing put the same soaked red beans into another pot and cooked them on the induction cooker.Pour in clean water and boil the red beans, then turn on a low heat and cook slowly.

Yuan Zhou helped peel the boiled chestnuts, put them into the juicer, added some water, turned on the switch of the juicer to quickly turn them into chestnut puree.

Su Xuxing poured the chestnut puree into a non-stick pan, turned on a low heat and kept stirring.Stir-fry until the water in the chestnut puree is almost gone, add some vegetable oil, and continue to stir-fry.

Vegetable oil and chestnut puree were mixed together due to stir-frying, and they were quickly fried to form a ball. Su Xuxing added some sugar and stirred it with a spatula, then handed the chestnut puree to Yuan Zhou, and let him Knead them into balls and use them as chestnut fillings for mooncakes.

Yuan Zhou kneaded the chestnut mud balls clumsily, strictly according to the size of the balls that Su Xuxing made for him as a model, and after a while, he made a lot of light yellow round balls.

At this time, the lotus seeds and red beans cooked on the rice cooker and induction cooker were soft and rotten.

Su Xuxing fished them out again, followed the steps similar to making chestnut puree, squeezed the lotus seeds and red beans into purees separately, then fried the lotus seed puree and red bean puree in turn, added sugar, and the lotus seed paste and red bean paste fillings were done.

Su Xuxing saw that Yuan Zhou's chestnut balls were made well, so he gave Yuan Zhou the lotus paste filling and bean paste filling with confidence, and after teaching him how to make the stuffing with egg yolk, he began to prepare the mooncake dough. and ice skin.

While kneading the dough, Su Xuxing explained to Yuan Zhou the difference between the two types of skin and the different methods.

The methods and materials for making dough and ice skin are quite different.Dough skin needs boiled sugar, gorgon water, cooking oil and low-precision flour, while ice skin needs milk, sugar, cooking oil, glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour and clear noodles.Therefore, ordinary noodles taste crisp, while ice skins taste tough and soft.

After the dough is ready, it can be placed directly in the refrigerator for half an hour, but the ice skin has to be steamed in a steamer for more than ten, twenty, 10 minutes.

Su Xuxing finished the two kinds of skins, and kneaded the two kinds of skins into balls larger than the trap, and then he was ready.

The subsequent steps are very simple, wrap the trap with leather, and then use the mooncake mold to print beautiful patterns.

Traditional mooncakes have to be baked in the oven once and then taken out, brushed with egg yolk and baked for a while, and the snowy mooncakes can be eaten directly after they are ready, but after being put in the refrigerator for a period of time, the snowy mooncakes become The ice-cold taste will also be particularly good.

The two different types of mooncakes made by Su Xuxing this time have three kinds of fillings. The snowy mooncakes do not have egg yolks, but they are made more, because there are more young customers in the store, and they are more inclined to eat snowy mooncakes.The three traditional mooncakes all contain egg yolk.The mooncakes made are not big, just enough to satisfy the gluttony, so that people will not be half full after eating one mooncake.

As for Yuanzhou's favorite ham mooncakes and five-nut mooncakes, Su Xuxing gave Zhu Yi to make them.

That night, Yuan Zhou and Lin Daitong went to Dongpo Restaurant after work, and were lucky enough to be the first batch of mooncake testers.

Cut eight mooncakes with different flavors into four small portions, and four people tasted them together.

The texture of the ice skin mooncakes is really good, very similar to glutinous rice cakes, it tastes cool.

The dough of traditional mooncakes is more fragrant. Mooncakes with egg yolk lotus seed paste, egg yolk bean paste, and egg yolk chestnut flavors are sweet but not greasy.

Yuan Zhou tasted the mooncakes he made himself, and was satisfied.

After tasting it, Su Xuxing was very satisfied, so he took some and sent them to Yi Wensheng and Nan Zhiyi at the West Bakery, and gave the rest as gifts to the customers who came to dine in the past few days.

After returning from the bakery, Su Xuxing carried a few more boxes in his hands, saying that they were new Mid-Autumn Festival products just launched in the bakery, and Yi Wensheng gave them to the four of them.

Yuan Zhou opened a box and looked at it, and found that it was also ice skin, but it was a fruit flavor that was more attractive to little girls. There were durian, strawberry, blueberry and mango flavors.

With moon cakes, the atmosphere of Mid-Autumn Festival is also stronger.

Because on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the local friends who live in City A will go home to celebrate the festival, so we made an appointment for a small gathering before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The author has something to say:

Although I added the label of gourmet article, I didn’t write the plot of cooking (?) that I most want to write until this chapter.

Because I haven’t made mooncakes by myself, I asked my family members how to make them in more detail, and was asked by my family members if I want to eat mooncakes (cover my face)