Chang’an Small Restaurant

     Butler Zhou knocked on the door of the snack shop.

    Shen Shaoguang looked up and saw an old man of about fifty years old, with a kind-hearted appearance, followed by two young servants. Shen Shaoguang said with a smile: "My father, please come in. Is my father drinking or buying something?"

    Butler Zhou smiled and said, "Little lady, my master wants to order some Mid-Autumn cakes."

    Shen Shaoguang is busy serving new dishes and decorating these days, and he doesn't realize that time flies so fast, and it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival soon. He made a lot of money selling flower cakes on July 7th, so Shen Shaoguang would not miss the opportunity to sell moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

    It is said to be "moon cake", in fact, this dynasty does not have such a name. At this time, on August 15th, people also reunited with their families, climbed high to admire the moon, drank and composed poems, but the Mid-Autumn Festival had not yet developed into a moon cake festival. I don't know.

    Shen Shaoguang was nostalgic, and made baked mooncakes and snowskin mooncakes according to the appearance of later generations of mooncakes. The mooncake fillings were bean paste, jujube puree, sweet-scented osmanthus, black sesame, salted egg yolk, and the descendants were all The five kernels of the net black.

    Shen Shaoguang has been a "five kernel black" since he was a child. He is most tired of eating five kernel moon cakes with green and red silk. He feels that the ancestors built this thing to prevent children from celebrating the festival. Dark dishes that are dark before dawn.

    When I was in junior high school, I ate the five kernel moon cakes made by my classmates. My god, it's not that the five kernels are not delicious, it's that I haven't eaten anything delicious! The sweetness is moderate, pine nuts, walnuts, and peanuts are crispy and fragrant, not choking, not choking, no oily smell, and the key, no green and red silk.

    I read the Red House later, and saw the "Internally made moon cake with melon kernel oil and pine pulp", I guess it is probably a five kernel moon cake made according to the recipe of the imperial kitchen. Mother Jia, who has been rich all her life, doesn't dislike it, it should be delicious - there is no blue or red silk after thinking about it.

    I didn't have the opportunity to do it myself in the past life, so of course I will do it now.

    In fact, these five kernels are also simple to make. Shen Shaoguang analyzed that the five kernels mooncakes eaten in the previous life were not delicious, mainly because the fillings were not fine, or even not fresh, especially some were sold on the display After a few days, how can you not lose your appetite?

    Shen Shaoguang paid special attention to the selection of ingredients. He went to the dried fruit store in Xishi City to choose the best pine nuts, walnuts, almonds, sesame seeds, and chestnuts, and then had them grind them into fine powder. It's as simple as coming back, adding sugar, adding lard, wrapping the skin, moulding it, and baking it in the oven. After baking, I tasted a piece of it myself, and felt that it was not bad, but it was amazing, but it was not.

    I tried changing the ice skin again, but the same stuffing, the taste turned out to be several layers! Yuan Zicai's so-called "sweet but not greasy, loose but not stagnant" is like this, right? Is that what it is?

    Shen Shaoguang was satisfied with the five kernels and other fillings, and was determined to make a big profit by relying on moon cakes. Because of the Qixi flower cake in front, many repeat customers came to place an order this time without waiting for Shen Shaoguang to advertise.

    Shen Shaoguang didn't know which house Butler Zhou was the servant of, so he just asked with a smile, "How much do I want to order? What kind of order?" Different, it seems that there are more categories.

    Butler Zhou hasn't done these little things for a long time. I really don't know how a small shop can have so many varieties of cakes, but Butler Zhou is an old man. After thinking about it for a while, he smiled. : "Except for your own food, just buy this 'Splendid Reunion Box'. You need to bake the skin, otherwise it will be bad if you send it to someone else's house. Our home..."

    Butler Zhou pondered for a while, "I still want this soft and tender ice skin, and a box of all kinds of stuffing. The wife of the family has bad teeth and likes to eat soft ones. The patterns are nothing. The lord of the family doesn't pay attention to this."

    Shen Shaoguang nodded, it seems that the owner is filial and easy to talk, so the old servant only considers the taste of the old lady when he buys things, but for the holidays... Shen Shaoguang still suggested, "Our shop is new A set of moon fortune cakes are specially made for the Mid-Autumn Festival night banquet of high-profile families, maybe the husband and wife of the family like it?"

    "Each piece of cake has an old poem on it, and the back is the sign of the lottery. It's just a game, and everyone will be entertained at the banquet." Shen Shaoguang opened a piece to show him.

      Everyday is dull, not like young people, it is time to have fun.

    Shen Shaoguang added with a smile, and asked when he wrote the guest's name, "Excuse me, old man, what do you call the master?"

    "It's Lin Shaoyin's Mansion."

    Shen Shaoguang raised his eyebrows, smiled, lowered his head and wrote down, "Okay."

    Butler Zhou didn't know why Alang asked for the pastries from this shop by name. He thought it was delicious, and the jade tip noodles from this shop were quite liked by the lady - even if she had a bad stomach.

    Back to the house, butler Zhou went to the study to tell the master.

    Lin Yan nodded and said hard, and said nothing more.

     Butler Zhou exited, but Liu Chang, the attendant standing behind Lin Yan, was thinking.

    Liu Chang goes out with his master every day. He always felt that his Alang was not ordinary to this little lady of Shen Ji. If nothing else, he said that he should go to Fangmen to buy pancakes first. Alang bought them and didn't eat them...

    Two days ago, Alang passed by Shenji restaurant and asked to buy orchid beans and lion heads. Alang rarely eats out, how did he know what this store sells?

    Just saw the little lady "wisdom and rogue" and went out to tell Alang, Alang immediately asked to find Fang Ding, the car did not leave, but was waiting by the roadside. What is this little thing about?

    After examining the two rogues, I knew that they had something to do with Yunlai Winery, and Yunlai Winery was the business of King Zhao.

    Liu Chang feels that there is something going on here! Something is wrong!

    The author has something to say:  The game lottery moon cake is inspired by the dream of the Red Chamber.