Stop pretending, I am the God of Cooking and I am showing off my cards!

Lao Huang will arrive soon, and Lin Xu is too lazy to go upstairs again.

He stood in front of the service desk and entertained Dundun while entering the system, wondering what the next special prop would be.

As the old saying goes when praising someone for being powerful, they usually say that their hands are like scales and their eyes are like rulers.

Now that I have obtained [Hand is a Scale], [Eye is a Ruler] should be done soon, right?

He clicked on the special item bar, and a line of text appeared on it:

[This page will be refreshed after 719:52:35. Pay 5,000,000 points to refresh the page immediately]

More than seven hundred hours?

He calculated silently and found that it was one month later.

Isn’t the waiting time for this refresh too long?

The last time it was refreshed in a week, it would have cost 3 million points to refresh it immediately, but this time it only takes a month to refresh, but it only requires 5 million points.

From this perspective, the discount intensity of the system is simply impressive.

It really... made me cry to death!

Lin Xu complained about the system in his heart, and started playing with Dundun in the hall with the cat stick.

Use the cat wand to guide the little guy to jump, run, dodge and move around.

When it got tired of playing, it ran to the service desk with its plump little butt stuck out, and lay down in front of the automatic pet water dispenser bought by Shen Jiayue. It stuck out its scarlet tongue and elegantly licked the water emerging from the dispenser. .

At this moment, Lao Huang drove a Jinbei for delivery and slowly parked in the parking space at the door.

Not long after, the parking space opened, and he walked into the store carrying a huge ham wrapped in plastic wrap on his left shoulder and a glass jar of bright red flower jam in his right hand.

Seeing Lin Xu here, he directly placed the ham and flower sauce on the service table.

"Brother, this is what you want. The ham was sent from southern Yunnan this morning. It's from a time-honored brand. If it doesn't taste good, you'll have to twist my head off."

Lin Xu: "..."

Next time you have to call Chef Dai and Senior Brother over and let these two "real people" study the use of your head, so as not to say such rascal words every time.

He muttered in his mind and looked at the ham.

After focusing his attention, a line of text appeared in front of his eyes:

[High-quality Xuanwei ham made with coarse salt and pig hind legs]

Tsk, it seems that you are not exaggerating.

I looked at the jar of flower jam again, and the prompt text appeared again:

[High-quality flower sauce pickled with flowers, salt, and white sugar]

Not bad, not bad. No wonder Lao Huang always puts his head on the line. This quality is really hard to say.

"My wife made this flower jam. I usually don't give it to my relatives if they want it. I got half of it for you today. The mooncakes are delicious. I'm too busy to go back during the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, so I'm counting on this mooncake to soothe my homesickness." Woolen cloth."

Lin Xu patted the ham and said with a smile:

"Then I'll start making them later. I promise not to disappoint you and sister-in-law... If I start now, I think I can do it when it gets dark. Will you take the mooncakes away when the food is delivered tomorrow, or will you pick them up at night?"

"Tonight. After I finish my work, I will take your sister-in-law here for dinner. She hasn't tasted the food here yet."

Gee, it sounds like the couple has a good relationship.

After Lao Huang finished speaking, he saw that Shu Yun and Song Tiantian were sorting out the electronic menu on the computer without paying attention, so he secretly took out a transparent sealed bag from his handbag.

Through the bag, you can see a bag full of brown and angular plant particles, which look a bit like jasmine dragon beads and other scented teas.

After taking it out, he handed it over hurriedly and lowered his voice to the lowest level:

"Brother, one pill at a time works wonders!"

When Lin Xu took it, he raised his hand and patted Lin Xu's shoulder heavily, shook his head with a little regret, and turned towards the door.

Lin Xu couldn't stand this regretful look.

Brother, please don't act like you're attending a farewell ceremony, okay?

He grabbed the moringa seeds in the bag and looked at them. He didn't think there was anything strange about them, but every middle-aged man who mentioned moringa seeds would have that "you know" expression on his face.

"What is this, boss? Jasmine Dragon Ball?"

Seeing Lin Xu's curious look, Shu Yun thought that Lao Huang had given him some good tea.

Lin Xu threw the bag and said:

"This is Moringa seeds. It is said to have the effect of nourishing the kidneys. Boss Huang mysteriously recommended it on the phone just now, so I asked for some for my senior brother."

Shu Yun, who has worked in the catering department all year round, has certainly heard of moringa seeds.

As soon as she heard that Boss Huang gave this to her boss, she gave up the idea of ​​making a cup of jasmine tea.

Lin Xu placed the moringa seeds on the service table:

"This package contains 130 grams. You can divide it up. One package contains 80 grams, and the other package contains 50 grams. The larger portion will be given to my senior brother, and the smaller portion will be given to my father-in-law."

Senior brother should be more urgent about this stuff, so give me more.

As for my father-in-law, let's share some ideas with him, so as not to complain later that good things were not left for him.

After giving the instructions, he carried the thirty-pound large ham on his shoulders and the flower jam in one hand, and went down the stairs to the kitchen.

In front of the service desk, Song Tiantian came over curiously, looked at the bag of moringa seeds and asked:

"Why didn't the boss keep it for himself? Did he forget it?"

"Whoever is weak will be used. Do you think the boss is weak?"

Shu Yun took out a small electronic scale from the counter. This was used when packaging Shaqima, but since the pastry department used an automatic sealing machine, this small scale has no effect.

Turn on the machine and put the moringa seeds on it.

It says 133 grams above.

The data I told my boss was only off by 3 grams.

Tsk, the boss is too powerful? Just weighed it twice, and the weight is actually so accurate?

"Who is using it?"

Song Tiantian muttered, and her mind unconsciously thought of the chubby young man riding a bicycle with her recently.

He is so weak that he is sweating even while riding a bicycle, so he is suitable for eating this food.

"Mr. Shu...I have a friend..."

in the kitchen.

The bowl of mapo chicken cake has been completely eaten.

Lin Xu placed a whole pipa-shaped ham on the workbench, started from the pig's trotters, and slowly peeled off the plastic wrap wrapped around it.

The surface of the pig skin is covered with mold spots and has a strong musty smell, but after removing this layer of skin, the delicious taste will be revealed.

Xuanwei is located in the northern part of southern Yunnan, with a high altitude and dry and cold air in winter.

When making ham here, only a small amount of salt is used to marinate the ham, which not only makes the meat delicious but also prevents it from spoiling.

Because there is less salt, the ham tastes very delicious. Top-quality ham can even taste fresh and sweet, which is something that other hams do not have.

Because if hams from other regions are made with the same amount of salt as Xuanwei hams, they will definitely go bad and become riddled with flies.

After tearing off the plastic wrap and scraping off the pig skin on the surface, the ruddy lean meat and white fat meat of Xuanwei ham are revealed.

The ham still maintains a soft and tender feel, not like an ingredient that has been marinated for two years.

When you cut it with a knife, it even has the texture of cutting fresh meat.

Recalling the last time the kitchen chef opened Jinhua ham and wanted to get on the saw, Lin Xu sighed softly:

"It's true that the same legs have different lives."

Wei Gan came over and clapped his hands twice, and said with a smile:

"This Xuanwei ham really deserves its reputation. If Jinhua ham were photographed like this, it would probably make my hands hurt."

The two kinds of ham are like trains running in opposite directions on the same line, with opposite usage and eating methods. Jinhua ham is suitable for long-term cooking methods such as soup and stew.

Xuanwei ham is suitable for stir-frying, steaming and stuffing. It doesn’t take too long and the delicious taste can be perfectly cooked.

This ham weighed dozens of kilograms and would definitely be too much to eat in one sitting. Lin Xu opened half of it, cut it into large pieces, cleaned it, then placed it on a tray and put it in the steaming cabinet for steaming.

If Jinhua ham is used as filling, it will need to be soaked for at least six hours.

But Xuanwei ham does not need to be soaked. It is added to the filling and tastes just right.

If it is also soaked, the filling will be sweeter, and the surprise of eating salty and fresh diced meat in the sweet filling will be lost.

After steaming, Lin Xu took some all-purpose flour and started kneading the dough.

The most representative Yunnan-style mooncake is the hard-shell mooncake. It is said to be hard-shell, but in fact it is only compared to the layered meringue mooncake.

Hard-shell mooncakes actually taste crispy.

But compared to puff pastry, it is somewhat thicker and has a slightly harder texture, so I choose all-purpose flour.

If you like to eat the kind of hard and crispy shell, then choose high-gluten flour. The higher the gluten, the harder the shell will be and the crispier it will taste.

If you choose low-gluten flour, the mooncake shell will have a low hardness and strong crispiness, and it will even taste like "the shell is made of peach cake".

Of course, although the crispiness of the crust is related to the gluten of the flour, it is not absolute.

Because the amount of lard is also crucial.

If you want it to be crispy, add more lard; if you want it to be crispy, add less lard.

Although many families have abandoned lard due to health concerns, lard is still widely used in snack making, especially in Chinese snack making.

Many dim sum have even gone down a notch without lard.

In addition to all-purpose flour and lard, the dough of flower ham mooncakes also requires honey, powdered sugar and water.

The dough has proportions. For every half kilogram of all-purpose flour, you need 25 grams of powdered sugar, 25 grams of honey, 100 grams of lard, and 60-80 grams of water.

The proportion of water is not fixed, because dough mixing is closely related to air humidity, temperature, flour humidity, etc., and the amount of water cannot be strictly fixed.

One pound of flour can make almost forty moon cakes. Lin Xu mixed more than ten pounds of flour at one time and planned to make so much today. Anyway, the big oven and the small oven were not used today, and no one had ordered roasted whole lamb or suckling pig. , can be made loosely.

Take these ingredients and knead the flour into a dough that does not stick to your hands.

With the lard, this step is quite simple.

Because the grease is lubricated, it is simpler than making a dough with just water.

After the dough is mixed, put it in a basin, seal it with plastic wrap, and then put it in the cold storage for refrigeration.

Then find a stainless steel pot that has not been used for cooking and put it on the stove. Pour the flour into it and stir-fry slowly over low heat until the flour turns slightly yellow. Take it out and spread it out to dry.

There are two kinds of flour that are inseparable from the making process of Chinese pastry, one is cooked flour and the other is pure flour.

Cooked flour is the flour that has just been fried until it is slightly yellow. This kind of flour has a strong burnt aroma and a slightly sandy texture, which is very suitable for making fillings.

As for Chengfen, it is flour with gluten completely removed.

This kind of flour has no gluten, so it has super ductility and plasticity. The reason why shrimp dumplings, one of the four kings of Cantonese tea snacks, are transparent and colorful is that they use Chengfen to make the skin.

At this time, the ham has almost been steamed. Take it out and take out the ham piece by piece to dry.

As for the steamed fat in the tray, it has a rich aroma of ham, which is perfect for stews and stir-fries.

While the ham was drying, Lin Xu took the flower sauce and started filtering it.

The so-called flower sauce is to pick the flowers that are about to bloom, wash them and dry them, put them in a jar or jar, add sugar and a pinch of salt for pickling.

This kind of candied flowers can not only be made into moon cakes, but also other snacks such as flower cakes, and can even be mixed with water to drink directly.

As the saying goes, people who live in southern Yunnan have a lot of flowers, so they choose to eat flowers.

As a northerner, Lin Xu expressed his envy.

He brought a clean basin and placed it on the workbench, with a large colander on the mouth of the basin. He then used a clean and oil-free spoon to scoop out the flower jam from the jar and put it into the colander.

When making flower paste as filling, the sugar water inside must be filtered out, otherwise the sweetness will be too strong and the taste will be greasy. Moreover, if there is too much sugar water, the sweetness will suppress the fragrance of the flowers.

As for the filtered sugar water, it will not be wasted.

Later, you can combine it with taro, water chestnuts, old pumpkin and other things to make a Cantonese-style sweet soup. This kind of soup full of flower fragrance can make the children next door roll on the floor and cry.

Put the filtered flowers into a basin, then cut the ham into dices the size of soybeans and put them in.

Stir evenly first to mix the two ingredients, then add honey, lard, cooked flour, white sugar, and maltose, and continue stirring until the filling becomes thick.

Then put it in the freezer to freeze the filling so that it won't stick to your hands when you make it later.

Half an hour later, take out the filling. The filling that was a little sticky before has been frozen, and the sticky feeling has been reduced a lot.

Lin Xu scooped out a ball of filling with his hands, rolled it into a ball, put it on the tray, and then started kneading the next one.

"Boss, why don't you use an electronic scale? Are you worried about uneven sizes?"

Ji Minghui, who came to help, saw Lin Xu operating like this, and felt as ridiculous as a professional athlete encountering a wild kid.

He has made a lot of Soviet-style dim sum in Building No. 6 and knows that weighing is a very important step in making dim sum. From the beginning of the ingredients, all the powder, sugar, oil and other ingredients to be used need to be weighed.

And in the making process.

Pastry, oil crust, filling, etc. all need to be weighed one by one to ensure uniform size.

In this way, the filling can be perfectly wrapped during packaging, and the filling can be mature and consistent when baked.

Lin Xu quickly rubbed the stuffing heart and said:

"Once you get used to it, you can control the size."

Ji Minghui didn't believe it, so he secretly weighed a few of them with an electronic scale. He found that the weights were all the same, and the error was basically about two or three grams.

Now he was really convinced.

In the past, everyone always praised the boss Hong An for his great skills and delicious cooking.

Now seeing Lin Xu's technique of quickly dividing the fillings, Ji Minghui realized that the boss's talent in Bai An should be no less than that of Hong An, or even higher than that of Hong An.

If other people want to divide the filling like this, they usually roll the filling into long strips first, then divide them evenly according to the length, and finally roll it into a ball-shaped filling.

The boss scoops out the filling directly from the basin and starts drying it, which is simply amazing.

In so many years, I have only seen Qiu Zhenhua’s uncle Qiu Minghai do this.

I didn't expect to see such a divine performance again today.

admire!

Ji Minghui looked at Lin Xu like an idol, with admiration in his eyes.

This talent is so enviable.

Continue to freeze the rolled filling. The stronger the freezing, the easier it will be when wrapping.

After Lin Xu finished making the stuffing, he brought the relaxed dough over. After kneading it again, he rolled the dough into long strips. Then he grabbed it with the tiger's mouth and quickly pulled it into individual pieces of dough.

After grabbing it, knead it quickly with your hands, and the dough will turn into small balls.

After placing it in the tray, cover it with plastic wrap again to relax.

After another half hour, the filling center was brought over. First, a ball of dough was flattened, then a filling center was placed in the middle, the dough was gathered and wrapped, and a cake base was ready.

Place the dough into a baking tray lined with baking paper and press it slightly.

Then he took the Lin Ji gourmet flower-shaped hand stamp that Geng Lele had carved last time. After washing it, he dipped it in the juice of the beetroot and stamped the stamps on the crust one by one.

Finally, preheat the oven and put these mooncakes in for baking.

After the mooncakes were baked, it was almost dinner time.

While Lin Xu was baking mooncakes, he took out his mobile phone and sent messages to his father-in-law and other relatives and friends, inviting everyone to come to the store for dinner.

There were still some chicken cakes left, and he didn't plan to sell them. He just gave them to everyone to try, and gave each of them a few mooncakes by the way.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, so we need to get into the festive atmosphere.

After sending the message, Lin Xu put his phone away and went to make mapo chicken cake.

At 5:30 in the afternoon, Chen Yan and Dou Wenjing drove their cars to the entrance of the store. After getting out of the car, they happened to run into Shen Jiayue and Zeng Xiaoqi who came from the TV station.

Several people came to the store together.

When she saw Shu Yun when she entered the door, Chen Yan felt guilty and then said with a smile:

"I didn't expect Mr. Shu to start eating tomatoes to lose weight."

Shu Yun smiled:

"I can't help it, it's just to lose weight... There are good dishes in the store this afternoon. Don't leave your stomach empty and eat more, because you may not be able to eat again next time."

When she said this, Zeng Xiaoqi, who had originally planned to share her experience in losing fat, suddenly lost her mind and was occupied with thinking about what delicious food this was.

Come upstairs.

Lin Xu, who had just oiled the chicken cakes, took the baking pan out of the oven. A large plate of Yunnan-style mooncakes looked appetizing.

Seeing these noodles, the girls couldn't take their eyes away immediately.

"Wow, what a beautiful cake!"

"Yes, it looks crispy!"

"It looks dry on the surface, there shouldn't be any grease, right?"

"Without fat, there are no calories, so feel free to eat."

"..."

Shen Baobao jumped up to Lin Xu's side, raised his hand and hugged Lin Xu's waist:

"Xubao, are these cakes a surprise for me?"

"No, I just made some flower ham mooncakes. The surprise for you hasn't been made yet."

Mooncakes are very common and cannot be considered a surprise.

The Mapo Chicken Cake, a dish that is completely unavailable on the market, is a surprise.

"Flower ham moon cake?"

When Chen Yan heard this, she immediately picked one up. It didn't feel too hot. She put it to her mouth and blew on it before taking a bite. The crispy outer shell and the filling full of floral fragrance and fat inside made her feel excited:

"Wow! Isn't this delicious? Try it, it tastes amazing!"

Zeng Xiaoqi, the most honest among them, was still thinking about losing weight. She looked at the place Chen Yan had bitten and asked hesitantly:

"Mooncakes should be very high in calories, right?"

Chen Yan said:

"It's not high, it's not high. Flowers have no calories. Fermented ham has no calories. Although flour is carbohydrate, the amount is not very large. Eat it as you go. It's not a calorie bomb."

Lin Xu wanted to laugh when he saw his sister-in-law's deceptive attitude.

If this was a crutch dealer, he would definitely be able to deceive Director Zeng.

Zeng Xiaoqi looked at Lin Xu and asked:

"Isn't this mooncake really a calorie bomb?"

Seeing her eagerness to try, Lin Xu smiled and said:

"no."

After speaking, I silently added:

"It's not a bomb, it's a nuclear bomb!"

This mooncake contains greasy lard, ham, candied flowers, as well as high-calorie ingredients such as powdered sugar, maltose, and flour.

Taken together, the heat is definitely nuclear bomb level.

Even among mooncakes, Yunnan-style mooncakes should have far fewer calories... No, the custard mooncakes to be made tomorrow are also nuclear bomb-level.

Dundun's craftsmanship is so good, he got all the two caloric bombs in the mooncake...

Just as he was sighing with emotion, Lin Xu saw that his sister-in-law had already eaten more than half of the mooncakes and was now looking into the baking pan, obviously preparing to have another one.

Looking at her eating posture, and thinking of Dundun's angry look during the lottery, Lin Xu couldn't help but have an idea pop up in his mind:

This little guy smoked two kinds of mooncake fillings with the highest calories these two times. He couldn't use these caloric bombs to retaliate against his sister-in-law, right?

If this is the case... the custard mooncakes to be made tomorrow will be a baptism of nuclear bombs for Mr. Chen. I don't know if she is ready to gain three pounds during the holidays...

"Wow, this mooncake is so delicious!"

Although this was not a surprise prepared for herself, Shen Jiayue was still very excited.

Because the taste and texture of these mooncakes are really unexpected.

The outer skin is a little hard, but crispy to the bite. As for the fillings inside, the flower sauce has a rich floral aroma, while the diced ham is salty and delicious.

The two flavors intertwine under the influence of sugar and lard, which is simply charming.

Especially the smell of flowers, closing your eyes feels like taking a flower bath.

Lin Xu said:

"This is the most representative hard-shell mooncake among Yunnan-style mooncakes. I will make some puff pastry ones later for you to try."

"Okay, thank you Xu Bao, you can take a bite too, it's so delicious."

Lin Xu took a bite and tasted it. It tasted really good. Even with so much lard, it didn't feel greasy at all. Yunnan-style mooncakes really deserved their reputation.

But the Cantonese style is also exciting.

Tomorrow morning, we will start making custard mooncakes!

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I like to eat custard mooncakes, and I also like to eat flower and ham mooncakes, but for diabetics, one bite of these two mooncakes can cause blood sugar to spike a lot, so I can only think about it... This chapter has 6100 words, please give me a monthly vote Ah brothers!