Shokugeki: Start with an izakaya, making everyone cry

Chapter 6: Thousand-layer cake, really a 1000-layer cake!
After the dough is done.

The next focus is the fillings for the puff pastry!
Put the minced pork into a clean ceramic bowl, then add the minced ginger, minced chives, pepper powder, sugar, cooking wine, edible salt and other seasonings in sequence, then stir evenly.

you could put it that way.

Thousand layer cake, it’s so simple!
There is no need for too high-end ingredients, just the flour, pork, chopped green onions, etc. that you see every day are enough!
Finally, a ghee needs to be made.

The function of ghee is to pour it on the surface of the pie crust and the meat filling after the puff pastry is completed, adding a bit of flavor and crispiness!
Zhang Fan continued to take a small bowl, put 10g of flour, then a little salt to taste, and finally added lard.

The reason why lard is used instead of other vegetable oils is that lard itself is good for shortening, so it is very good to use ghee to make this shortening!
After adding lard.

Using chopsticks, stir evenly.

Finally, prepare the filling and ghee and set aside.

Of course, it is also possible to put ghee directly into the fillings, but Zhang Fan did not do that!
……

"very good."

"Next, it's time to witness a miracle!"

Zhang Fan has finished all this work.

He closed his eyes tightly again and began to adjust his breathing rate.

After he calmed down completely, he began to fold the dough with a diameter of more than 3 meters!
There are usually two ways to make cakes, either by folding, just like folding a quilt, layer by layer. The more you fold, the more layers you will make!And in this way of stacking, the shapes of the finished products are different.

such as:

There are round ones!

There are rectangular ones!
There are square ones too!

Therefore, the advantage is that this shape can be stacked in your own way.

As for.

Another way is to make it into a circular shape.

It is not stacked layer by layer, but after spreading the filling, start rolling from one side of the dough, rolling it from one end to that end, and then closing the two ends after rolling.

Finally, roll the dough from one end of the noodles into a round shape, then use the rolling pin again to roll it into a pancake shape!

Obviously, Zhang Fan used the first method.

After making the cake, you can bake it in the pan. First, after the pan is heated, add an appropriate amount of cooking oil!

When the oil temperature is about 6% hot, put in the prepared pancakes, then keep frying over medium-low heat until both sides are golden brown!

In this way, the thousand-layer cake that seems simple to make but is very complicated is completed!
……

Look closely.

Freshly baked puff pastry.

It still has a very high temperature and exudes a strong aroma of cake all the time!

Although this kind of Thousand Layer Pancake contains chopped green onion, the dark stuff on the outside looks like black sesame seeds. It is difficult to attract the appetite of diners just from its simple appearance!
However, Ringtong Kobayashi, who knew that this was Zhang Fan's cooking style, was full of expectations!

"I……"

"Can I eat now?"

after the remainder.

Swallowed.

Xiaolin Gentian couldn't wait, his eyes left the Thousand Layer Cake, and then looked up at Zhang Fan.

"Ok!"

"of course can."

Zhang Fan just nodded.

After getting Zhang Fan's consent, Xiaolin Ringtong excitedly picked up a small layer cake.

However, the moment she touched the Thousand Layer Cake with both hands, her watery eyes widened, filled with a sense of disbelief!

"hiss!"

"This...this feeling!"

"Am I right? How come the crust of this kind of thousand-layer cake is so thin!"

"You can guess."

"How many layers of crust did I use for the puff pastry?"

Seeing the unbelievable Kobayashi Gentian, Zhang Fan seemed to be able to predict this scene, so he asked in a mysterious manner. "Could it be."

"Yes...it's the 100th floor!"

"No, no, no, if such a thin pie crust is stacked to a height that can barely be held by both hands, at least... at least there must be more than 500 layers of pie crust!"

Hearing this, Kobayashi Ringtong began to stare at the thousand-layer cake in his hand.

After pondering for a while, she came up with an answer that she thought was very pertinent!
"Thousand-layer cake!"

"I make layer cakes!"

After hearing this, Zhang Fan shook his head, smiled, and said again.

"what?"

"1000th floor!"

"You...you actually used 1000 layers of pie crust to make thousand-feuille cake!"

Confuse!

Stunned!

Go crazy!

And finally...numbness!
Kobayashi Ringtong's mood kept changing just because of the thousand-layer cake in front of him.

But no matter what, the thousand-layer cake Zhang Fan made this time simply subverted her knowledge and understanding of some dishes.

After all, every type of puff pastry you see outside doesn’t really require 1000 layers of pie crust!
The so-called Thousand Layers is just a name!
You know, the thickness of a piece of A4 paper is 0.104 mm. If it is stacked to 1000 layers, the thickness will be 10.4 cm!

And only by making the pie crust as thin as paper, no, because the meat filling is also added, its thickness must be several times, or even dozens of times, thinner than A4 paper, in order to make the Thousand Layers in front of you. cake!
In other words.

In this world, there are no chefs at all.

I would be crazy enough to use 1000 layers of pie crust to make a layered cake that can be held with both hands.

But the Zhang Fan in front of him not only had this crazy idea, but more importantly, he actually did it!
……

"In theory."

"I use the layered crust principle, that is, dip some butter in the middle of each thin layer of crust and cut it!"

"In this way, the butter inside will slowly melt during the heating process."

"The water in it will generate steam, and the gradually rising strength of this steam will be used to spread each thin layer of pie crust to form a layered thin structure!"

"Then."

"If you were better at math."

"You should be able to understand that I used the duplication method."

"After each folding, roll it out and fold it again... so that the number of layers of dough can grow exponentially on a cubic scale."

"of course."

"Initial dough!"

“There is no butter on the top and bottom, so every time you fold it the next time, the two layers of pie crust will merge into one!”

"Anyway."

"When you first fold it."

“其层数，就是3乘3等于9，再减去2的7层！”

“而第二次折叠，其层数则又是7乘3等于21，再减去2的19层！”

"at last."

"It's the 6th fold."

“最终的层数，就会是487乘3等于1464，然后减去2的1459层！”

Kobayashi Gentian: (⊙o⊙)
Ah!
This is a mathematical calculation problem.

It was difficult for her to figure it out for a while, but the last 1459 layers, she, Xiaolin Ringtong, could clearly hear it!

Be nice!

This is too outrageous, right?
This kind of thousand-layer cake, the number of layers of cake required is not exactly 1000 layers, but...

1459 floors!
(End of this chapter)