Farmer’s Wife Has Magic Skills

Chu Family Village.

At the door of the room, Shen Ruyue knocked, "Qingzhi, the ingredients for making mooncakes are all ready according to what you said."

Chu Qingzhi put down the pen in her hand, went to open the door, "Come on, let's make mooncakes."

The location for making moon cakes is in the courtyard of the old house, where a shed was built, and five tables were placed side by side under the shed, and everyone gathered around the table to make moon cakes after a while.

At this time, the villagers who helped pack the mooncakes were all in their positions, all women.

Chu Qingzhi came over and said with a smile, "I've worked hard for everyone today."

The first aunt smiled and said, "Qingzhi, it's not hard work, it's hard work for us when we don't have work to do."

Chu Qingzhi rambled a few words with everyone, and got to the point...

She originally planned to make five kinds of stuffing, but two of them were given to Tan Mengyang. Now she only needs to make the other three kinds, namely, bean paste and egg yolk stuffing, red bean stuffing, and white lotus paste.

There were six people preparing the stuffing, and under Chu Qingzhi's guidance, they quickly prepared three large pots of stuffing.

In the filling, Chu Qingzhi didn't add much sugar, she didn't want to make the mooncake too sweet, otherwise it would cover up the taste of other ingredients, making it tasteless and greasy.

There are ten people preparing the noodles.

This step is very critical, otherwise the mooncakes will crack and collapse, which will affect the appearance. It is easy to make mooncakes, but it is not easy to make mooncakes. Otherwise, not everyone can make mooncakes and sell them?

After the dough is reconciled, it is stuffed.

Before stuffing, it is necessary to ensure that the weight of each dough is the same, and the weight of the stuffing is the same. There are ten people here who are responsible for weighing. After the dough and stuffing are weighed, they are wrapped.

The next step is to put the wrapped dough cake into the mold and press the pattern to make the surface of the dough cake even. The appearance directly affects people's desire to buy, which is very important.

Put the wrapped dough cakes into the baking tray, coat the surface of the moon cakes with a layer of water, and then put them into the oven for baking.

There is an hourglass timer here, the time for half a cup of tea, after the mooncakes are baked and set, take them out and brush with egg wash, and then re-bake for half an incense stick, there is also an hourglass timer.

Take out the baked mooncakes and let them cool, wrap them one by one with oiled paper, and then wrap ten into a big bag, tie them with cotton rope, and the work is done at this point.

Every step has a dedicated person in charge, and five people are even arranged to light the oven, just like a dry assembly line.

The aunts are very agile in their hands and feet, and it only takes half an hour to make a mooncake from scratch.

In the first round, Chu Qingzhi taught by hand, but in the second round, there is no need for it. The women in the village are used to cooking, so they learned it in one pass.

Chu Qingzhi saw that they had done three rounds, and there was basically no problem.

"Jiyue, come and watch, just do it like this."

"Okay, leave it to me."

...

Chu Qingzhi came to the kitchen. There was no one in the kitchen right now, so it was just for her to make use of it. Next, she had three things to do, sausage, bread, and biscuits. With an oven, making biscuits would be very easy.

She made bread first, and the yeast was bought from the wine shop, but in this era, yeast is not called yeast, but yeast.

Another piece of the puzzle is the butter.

Chu Qingzhi came back from the capital before and saw a farm that raises cattle. The cattle here are raised by the government and cannot be slaughtered. They can only be sold to farmers for farming.

There is a big Zhuangzi, in which there are thousands of cows, some small, some big, and some cows.

People in this era still don't know how to drink milk. The only thing they do is to bathe the dignitaries' family members, but they don't use much, and a lot of time is wasted.

Chu Qingzhi picked up a bargain and bought ten barrels of milk for one tael of silver, and he was sent back to her.

The milk pail was covered, and no one knew what was in it.

No one will mess with Chu Qingzhi's things, and they are still neatly placed in the corner of the kitchen.

Chu Qingzhi mixed the dough to ferment, and then took out the milk to make butter.

The butter is boiled out, added to the dough and mixed well, and continued to ferment.

During this time, Chu Qingzhi was preparing to make sausages.

The casings are bought from places that sell pork, cleaned repeatedly, the pork is chopped into pureed meat, a series of seasonings are added, the pureed meat is poured into the casings, dried, boiled in water, and then the sausages are grilled.

It's simple to say, and there are quite a few steps. Chu Qingzhi worked for an hour to fill the sausage, and then dried the moisture on the surface of the sausage, which took a little time.

Taking advantage of this time, Chu Qingzhi spread egg liquid on the risen dough, put some butter on the baking tray, and took it to the old house.

The baking pan was an iron pan custom-made at a blacksmith shop. A total of twenty-five were ordered, and there was an extra one that Chu Qingzhi planned to use for home use.

Wu Yaqing, who was helping to make mooncakes there, saw Chu Qingzhi coming over with an unknown dough, and couldn't help asking curiously, "Qingzhi, what is that in your hand?"

Chu Qingzhi blinked at her mysteriously, "You'll know in a while." She walked to the empty oven and put it in the baking tray.

The oven improved by Chu Qingzhi is very similar to an oven, with a fire on the bottom and a baking space on the top. There are protrusions on the left and right walls of the space, and the baking tray is placed in the middle of the baking space.

Wu Yaqing became even more curious, "I'll know it even if you don't tell me, it must be delicious."

"You guessed it right." Chu Qingzhi said something cooperatively, and at the same time turned the hourglass upside down to count, "Yaqing, this is the time for half a stick of incense to be roasted. You can take it out in a while. I'm going to do other things."

Wu Yaqing licked her lips like a greedy cat, "Don't worry, leave it to me."

Then she stood by the oven like a food protector, looking eagerly at the hourglass.

Chu Qingzhi went back to the kitchen to make biscuits.

She is going to make scallion biscuits, which are the most classic.

The method of scallion oil biscuits is very similar to that of cookies. First, melt the butter, add sugar and salt and mix well, then add scallion oil, add flour and stir, knead into a smooth dough, add molds to make biscuits, and finally bake for half a stick Fragrant time will be fine.

During this period, the bread was baked, and Wu Yaqing took out the bread immediately, and the aroma and novelty of the bread immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"It smells so good, it smells delicious."

"Qing Zhi is too powerful, and she made another new thing with ease, does this have a name?"

"I really want to try it!"

Wu Yaqing carried the baking tray and ran all the way to the new house, the glutton in her stomach was already clamoring wildly, wanting to eat so much.

Along the way, many eyes were attracted by her and watched her enter the new house.

When some children saw it, they quickly ran to see it. Of course, wanting to eat is the most real thing.

"Qingzhi, it's ready." Wu Yaqing shouted excitedly.

Chu Qingzhi was busy in the kitchen, "I'm here."

Wu Yaqing rushed to the kitchen, "Qing Zhi, what is this called, it looks delicious."

"This is called bread." Chu Qingzhi cut the bread into even cubes with a kitchen knife, then picked up a piece and handed it to Wu Yaqing, "Try it."

Chu Qingzhi's bread is real, it smells like a strong aroma of roasted wheat, it looks golden on the outside, fluffy on the inside, it's soft when you bite into it, and it's very flavorful, especially delicious.