Pastoral Tea Fragrance: The High Price Medical Concubine

Chapter 53
First knead the dough, then take the dough and roll it into a cake.

Generally speaking, the cakes are about 30 cm long and 13 cm thick.Then, take a piece of cake, put red dates densely on it, and then cover it with a cake of the same size to form a round date cake, which is the prototype of "Moon".

Next, start to decorate the "month".

The decoration is divided into two steps: the first step is to put "cloud shoulders" on the "moon", which is to make a layer of thin noodle cake with lace that is the same size as the "moon", and stick it tightly to the surface of the "moon"; Kneading decorations is to use noodles to make some mascot shapes, such as watermelons, peaches, pears, apricot flowers, chrysanthemums, rabbits, cats, pigs and dogs, etc., and red dates are often used to decorate them.In this way, one "month" is made, and finally it can be steamed in a pot.After steaming, you can see that "the jujube cake is layered with layers, and the surface is carved with thousands of petals", which is very delicate and gratifying.

Lu Jinyao doesn't know how to steam the moon, so she is responsible for making moon cakes.

Before the festival, Lu Hanfeng went to Xiangsu Zhai to queue for a whole day and bought ten catties of mooncakes.

These mooncakes were all given out as gifts for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Lu family ate two of them at Lu Hanfeng's strong request.

The business of Xiangsuzhai is booming, and it is not so easy to queue up to buy, so Lu Jinyao volunteered to make mooncakes.

She had eaten all kinds of mooncakes in her previous life and decided to try her best to make them all.

But the only problem before her is that she doesn't have an oven.

Fortunately, the twin elves helped her solve this problem, and tried her best to create an oven-like environment with spiritual magic, and then she could make mooncakes and eat them.

Lu Jinyao has already prepared traditional mooncake fillings such as red bean paste, jujube paste, and five kernels. In addition, she also prepared fruit fillings with sufficient time in the space. Although due to various constraints, fruit jam It's not very finely made, but she decided to add pieces of fruit pulp inside, which can make up for part of it.

Finally, she took out several salted duck eggs and a large piece of pork.

Looking at the pile of ingredients in front of him, Lu Jinyao reached out to a bowl of glutinous rice flour: "Well...let's start with the snowy mooncakes."

Snowy mooncakes were first introduced to the mainland from Hong Kong.The main reason for the name "snow skin moon cake" is that it is different from the traditional way of making moon cakes.All traditional mooncakes are made from syrup and are golden in color.Part of the raw material for snowy mooncakes is glutinous rice, and the mooncakes are white in appearance. After they are made, they are kept in the refrigerator and eaten later.

As for the method, it is similar to ordinary moon cakes.

First, steamed glutinous rice flour is used to make the skin, and then the filling is filled inside, and then the pattern is printed with a mold.

When Lu Jinyao's mooncakes are ready, the "moon" over there will also be steamed.

After the "Yue" is steamed, it is not immediately put on the table to eat, and then there is "Nianyue".

The so-called "remembering the moon" means holding the "steaming moon" in your hands, looking at the bright moon, and making a gesture of chanting.

Steaming the moon is the work of the housewife, and reading the moon is the work of the children. This is the annual specialty of the children.

The Lu family has four children, all of whom have to go out to read the moon.

Although Lu Boming looked like a little adult, but seeing the joyful expression on his face holding the steaming moon, it was obvious that he was looking forward to Nianyue.

As for Lu Liqun, because he was too young, Lian Susu specially made him a small steaming moon.

It was the first time Lu Jinyao knew about such an interesting custom, and she couldn't help but look forward to it.

As soon as night fell, the four children of the Lu family went out to the street with the "moon" in their hands, a small bench and a pony tie, and walked to the open space at the head of the village.

Along the way, one after another, children with smiling faces and steamed moons in their hands ran out of all the villagers' homes.

When they arrived at the open space at the head of the village, the children sat down facing the east, put the "moon" in front of them, and waited quietly for the bright moon to rise.

As soon as the bright and flawless moon appeared, the children immediately chanted in unison: "Recite the moon, recite the moon, one bucket of wheat! Recite the moon cakes, it's a good year! Recite the pancakes, mules and horses It's a big patio!"

Listening to the children's voices one after another, and being infected by the surrounding atmosphere, Lu Jinyao couldn't help but read along aloud.

It's nice to be a kid once in a while.

When the children go out to read the moon, the adults of each family clean the court at home and prepare for the moon.

Facing the southeast, the altar is set up in the court, and the incense burner, moon and moon cakes, melons, pears and peaches are placed on the altar.The bright moon hangs high, incense is lingering, and melons and fruits are fragrant. People pray under the moon for good weather and a good harvest in the coming year.

Gossip less, after a busy day, when the children come back from the moon, the delicious mooncakes are served, and the family sits in the yard, lights up wind lanterns, and eats mooncakes while admiring the moon.

Of course, good food and wine are also indispensable.

Especially during the mid-autumn season, crabs are fat and delicious, so Lu Chaodong specially bought some crabs from Laizhou Mansion to send to his younger siblings.

Lu Jinyao remembers that eating crabs was a fashion in the court of the Ming Dynasty.After the crabs are steamed with cattail bags, everyone sits around and tastes them, accompanied by wine and vinegar.After eating, drink Suye soup and wash your hands with it.

She thought about it, and did the same thing. It's a rare holiday, so it's not bad to look tall.

"Jin Yao, this sweet-scented osmanthus wine feels different from the previous ones?" Lu Bingwen took a sip and wondered.

Lu Jinyao was putting the snowskin mooncakes on the table, and said with a smile, "Father, I added mountain grapes and medlars to it."

Osmanthus wine is made from the golden osmanthus in full bloom in autumn and aged with high-quality rice wine. It is golden in color, rich in fragrance, sweet and sour, and has the effects of appetizing and refreshing, strengthening the spleen and tonifying deficiency, especially suitable for women.

The ancients believed that osmanthus is the best of all medicines, so the wine brewed with osmanthus can achieve the effect of "drinking for a thousand years".Osmanthus fragrans is warm in nature and pungent in taste. It can be taken orally in decoction, brewed in tea or soaked in wine, which can dissipate phlegm and blood stasis.

Lu Jinyao's snowy mooncakes are not big, just one for each person, and the inside is filled with assorted fruit pulp.

The snowskin mooncakes came out on one end, because they were just taken out of the refrigerator in the space, and there was still a little white gas on them.

No one had seen such fresh food before, and it immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Niece, what is this?" Lu Hanfeng couldn't take his eyes off the ice-skinned mooncake in front of him, especially feeling the coolness, and felt even more strange in his heart.

Lu Jinyao smiled and said, "This is a snowskin mooncake. I saw it in a travel book, so I tried to make it. Second uncle, please taste it quickly."

"Okay, then I'll try it."

As he spoke, Lu Hanfeng picked up a piece of snowy mooncake and put it in his mouth, took a bite, but there was no movement for a long time.

(End of this chapter)