The cook thought about it, nodded, and said, "Okay!"

Prepare the flour first, then take out the oil and syrup, and prepare the alkaline water. The flour is the best high-quality white flour. After mixing, it needs to be left to wake up for a while.

While the noodles were waking up, the cook started making the fillings.

Before this period of time, the salted duck eggs had been boiled in the pot, the black sesame seeds had been crushed in the roller by the maid, and the winter melon was being steamed in the steamer.

After the cook had her hands free, she began to make the fillings for the bacon mooncakes.

First, you need to fry the flour. Next, you need to add some steamed winter melon and diced bacon.

These bacons are already cured, so they already have a salty flavor, and no additional seasoning is needed.

Mix the bacon, winter melon puree, and fried flour together and shape into a round ball.

As for the fruit filling, you also need to use winter melon puree.

The fruit mooncake the cook is going to make is banana flavored. Peel the banana, mash it into a puree, mix it with the winter melon puree, and add a spoonful of honey.

After doing these things, the cook kneaded the risen dough into small balls, and then rolled them into thin dough.

Add cooked flour and winter melon puree to the black sesame seeds, and knead them into a ball shape.

Now that all the fillings are ready, the cook begins to wrap all the fillings into the dough and form them into dumplings.

The last step, of course, is to place the mooncakes in the mold.

The cook picked up the mold, put a little oil on it, put the mooncake dumplings in, flattened it with her hands, and finally poured it out, and a mooncake with a pattern printed on it came out.

"Cook, why do you need to apply oil inside the mold?" Ye Xiaoxu was very puzzled.

"Miss, just apply oil so the dough won't stick to the mold." The cook said while working.

Now that the embryos of the mooncakes have been prepared, the next step is to bake the mooncakes.

When baking mooncakes, controlling the heat is the most troublesome.

But the cook was experienced. She put the mooncakes in the oven and baked them over a slow fire for half an hour, and then the mooncakes came out of the oven.

The cook held a moon cake and handed it to Ye Xiaoxu: "Miss, try it?"

Ye Xiaoxu took the mooncake and took a bite.

"How is it? Is it delicious?" Seeing Ye Xiaoxu eating seriously, the cook felt unsure.

"Well, it's delicious!" After a while, Ye Xiaoxu swallowed the last bite and said, "It smells like banana. It would be even better if there was dessert!"

The cook smiled happily and said, "As long as the lady likes it!"

Ye Xiaoxu began to learn seriously from the cook.

"Miss, just do it like the cook." The cook held a ball of dough in her hand, gently pressed her two palms together, and pressed the dough into a palm-sized pancake.

Then, put a ball of stuffing on top of the dough, and use both hands to work together to keep adding the stuffing. There is no need to fold or shape the stuffing like a steamed bun.

It doesn't take a moment to wrap the filling tightly with the dough.

"Wow, cook, how did you do it?" Ye Xiaoxu shouted excitedly when she saw the cook's neat technique.

Picking up the mooncakes made by the cook, she could only see the white dough and no fillings inside. Ye Xiaoxu was very surprised and said: "Cook, you are so good, teach me how to do it."

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The cook looked at Ye Xiaoxu's excitement, smiled and said nothing, then picked up a ball of dough, first flattened it in her hands, then added the stuffing, and finally balled it up...

Such an action was done in one go, which made Ye Xiaoxu's eyes light up. She picked up a ball of stuffing and followed suit.

"Cook, how come you are so particular about the mooncakes you make? Why are there eight kinds of molds and eight kinds of fillings? The dough that makes the mooncakes is also divided into eight parts, and each piece of dough is only filled with one kind of filling.

?" Ye Xiaoxu couldn't help but ask after seeing so many complicated things.

"Miss, if this is the case, the number of mooncakes printed out for each flavor of mooncakes will be the same. The fillings printed out from the same mold will also be the same. What kind of fillings you want to eat, just look at the mooncakes.

You can tell by looking at it, it’s very convenient.” The cook explained the reason to Ye Xiaoxu with a smile.

"Oh. So that's it!" Ye Xiaoxu nodded, but the movements of his hands still did not stop.

After several instructions, the cook saw that Ye Xiaoxu had been able to wrap the mooncakes without exposing the fillings.

She held up a wrapped mooncake embryo with a smile, picked up the corresponding mooncake mold, looked at Ye Xiaoxu, and said: "Miss, let's try making mooncakes now!"

"Okay." Ye Xiaoxu responded.

While she was talking, the cook had already flattened the mooncake in her hand slightly, then sprinkled a little flour on the surface of the mooncake and put the mooncake embryo into the mold.

Immediately afterwards, he gently pressed the dough on the surface of the mold with his hands. Then he looked at Ye Xiaoxu and smiled, snapping the mooncake mold and flipping it upside down on the table.

The sound of the mold knocking made Ye Xiaoxu startled and he looked at the cook.

When the mooncake mold was removed by the cook, the round ball of dough instantly turned into a beautiful mooncake with patterns!

Ye Xiaoxu looked at the newly formed mooncake and praised again: "Wow, cook, you are so awesome!"

Ye Xiaoxu took a mooncake mold and started making mooncakes seriously. The result was pretty good. After all, this thing didn't have much technical content.

"Cook, look, I made the mooncakes!" Ye Xiaoxu made the first mooncake. He hurriedly held the newly made mooncake in his hand, and brought the mooncake to the kitchen as if it was a treasure.

In front of my mother.

"Miss, you are so awesome. These mooncakes are so beautiful!" The cook saw that Ye Xiaoxu had a lot of white flour on her face, which made her face even more pink and tender.

The cook taught Ye Xiaoxu to sprinkle some oil on the mooncake base, then put the mooncakes into a large iron pot and bake them while frying.

After a while, when the mooncakes were almost half cooked, the cook told Ye Xiaoxu that it was time to beat an egg.

Mix the egg yolks and egg whites to make an egg yolk liquid, and use a small brush to brush it on the mooncake skin to add color and brightness to the mooncake skin.

After brushing with the egg yolk liquid, the cook put the mooncakes back into the iron pot and baked them for a while, and the kitchen was filled with a strong aroma of mooncakes.

The cook had already told Ye Xiaoxu all the details, and Ye Xiaoxu tried to make mooncakes on his own.

An hour later, the first batch of mooncakes completed by Ye Xiaoxu alone came out of the oven.

The pattern of the mooncakes made by Ye Xiaoxu should be in the style of blooming flowers and wealth, but the mooncakes made by her were somewhat different from what they were made.

Not only was the dough of the mooncake broken, but too much filling was put into the mooncake, so the pattern could no longer be distinguished.

The cook stared blankly at the several-month cakes that Ye Xiaoxu had placed on the countertop. They were staggered and looked a bit unspeakable.

Ye Xiaoxu saw the look on the cook's face that was hesitant to speak, and then looked at the mooncakes on the table, feeling a little embarrassed.

"Cook, are my mooncakes poorly made?" Ye Xiaoxu asked the cook cautiously, slightly annoyed.

"Not bad. Miss, after all, this is your first time making mooncakes, and you are already good at making them like this. Besides, cooking is actually not difficult, as long as you practice more.

Let's do this, miss. Next, you can continue to practice. I believe that as long as you keep practicing, you will be more successful next time."

Although Ye Xiaoxu's mooncakes were really ugly, the cook still comforted her.

Ye Xiaoxu nodded and started trying to make mooncakes for the second time.

Sure enough, the mooncakes this time were indeed much better than the last time.

The next step is to bake the mooncakes.

Ye Xiaoxu was worried that the mooncakes were burnt, so he took all the mooncakes out of the pot in less than half an hour.

As soon as I took out the mooncakes from the pot, a group of maids and women gathered around me.

Ye Xiaoxu felt a little embarrassed, because the mooncakes in front of her still didn't look very good. The embryos were originally good, but the baking technique this time was really a bit bad.

Looking at the black and yellow pieces, which were either undercooked or burnt, Ye Xiaoxu sighed, thought about it, and decided to continue practicing and make another one.

Relying on the experience of many failures, Ye Xiaoxu is relatively confident this time. As long as you keep an eye on the heat, I believe baking the mooncakes will not be too difficult.

Although there are many difficulties now, Ye Xiaoxu is still very happy. After all, this mooncake is for the person she loves to try.

For those who make dim sum, seeing people eating happy is a very happy thing.

Although with my status, I don’t need to do so many things. I usually reach out for clothes and open my mouth for food. These small things are all done by servants.

But I heard that no matter how delicate a woman is before she gets married, she must wash away her beauty after marriage and serve her husband well.

Even if you don't need to do things yourself, you still have to learn to do them. If you want to capture a man's mind, capturing his taste buds is the simplest and most effective way. Therefore, she now hopes to learn more about cooking.

dish.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiaoxu blushed slightly. Why did she think of serving her husband?

The cook saw Ye Xiaoxu looking at the fire seriously, and looked at Ye Xiaoxu, whose face was rosy but happy under the firelight.

"Miss, is it baked yet? The maids outside are so greedy that their mouths are watering. They are all restless, but everyone can already smell the aroma." The cook asked Ye Xiaoxu with a smile.
Chapter completed!