NOVEL NEXT Chapter 59 Yuanbao Cake
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were several autumn rains in succession.
Mao Xi wants to move all the grapes in the Savage Valley back to the space to make red wine before they go out of season, and she also wants to dig some autumn bamboo shoots.
Mu Zhiyuan and her took Dahuang to the Savage Valley again.
The two arrived at Biyoudongtian first. Huahua, the panda they hadn't seen for a long time, rushed up to Mu Zhiyuan for a hug when he saw him.
After picking the grapes, Mao Xi wandered around Biyoudongtian. She believed that where there were pandas, there must be bamboos and bamboo shoots, and sure enough, she found them.
This bamboo shoot field seems to be Huahua's foraging territory, but it has no objection to Mao Xi and Mu Zhiyuan digging here.
Mu Zhiyuan threw two roasted sweet potatoes for Huahua to eat. He sat aside and ate the roasted sweet potatoes leisurely. After eating, he sometimes rolled on the ground and sometimes leaned against the bamboo to tickle his back. He looked at the two of them. Busy digging bamboo shoots.
Half an hour later, this time the two of them dug more than 500 kilograms of bamboo shoots.
"This batch of bamboo shoots can be eaten for a long time!" Looking at the freshly dug bamboo shoots, Mao Xi was very happy at the thought of being able to pickle the bamboo shoots and sell them for snail noodles.
The two moved the bamboo shoots to the space together and were about to go down the mountain. Dahuang ran to a stone in the bamboo forest and dug up some soil.
"Dahuang, don't scare me, don't dig out any more bones to bury!" Miao Xi said this, but her curiosity still drove her to walk to Dahuang and start digging together.
After a while, Mao Xi dug out a wooden box. He took it out. The box looked like a wooden lock. Mao Xi couldn't open it, so he called Mu Zhiyuan.
"Brother Mu, please help me take a look. This box cannot be opened no matter what. There is no banknote or treasure map hidden in it!"
Mu Zhiyuan took it over, found the mechanism after a little research, and easily opened the wooden box.
"It's a letter!"
The two opened the letter. It was a type of writing they had never seen before. Mao Xi looked a bit like cuneiform writing and a bit like a painted charm. Mu Zhiyuan said he couldn't understand it either.
"Maybe Xuexue Su and Master Mi have met before. I'll ask them later."
Back in Liujiacun, Xiaodouzi and Ajiao were playing in the yard.
"Sister, the two ostrich eggs in your room are about to hatch!" Ajiao took the half-hatched ostrich eggs from Shui Xi's room to the yard and observed them with Xiaodouzi.
The legs of the two ostriches that had just hatched were still soft and they could not walk, so Mao Xi put them in separate small nests.
"Xiaodouzi, Ajiao, you go to the field to pick some sweet potato leaves and come back to feed the chickens and ducks."
Mu Zhiyuan and Mao Xi went to the chicken pen to get eggs.
The hen at home recently hatched another brood of chicks. There were more than 20 chicks, all yellow and fluffy. They were very cute. Mao Xi fed them some rice bran mixed with water.
There were two big baskets of eggs in total. As soon as Mao Xi got the eggs, he started busy preparing to make small cakes.
"Ah Shu, do you want to help?" Mu Zhiyuan has always been curious about the new butter machine in Shu Xi's space.
"Brother Mu, help me beat the cream." Shui Xi bought some milk, butter and cream for making cakes in the virtual mall.
She poured the cream into the creamer, showed Mu Zhiyuan how to whip it, and then went to beat the eggs to separate the yolks and egg whites.
She put the whipped cream first. After the creamer was cleaned, she put the egg whites into the creamer and whipped it. Then she added a small amount of sugar in three batches until the mixing head was lifted and the cream had a sharp shape.
Finally, she mixed the beaten egg whites and egg yolks evenly, then sifted in the flour until it resembled a batter, then poured in the milk, butter and salt heated over water, quickly poured into the batter, mixed evenly using cutting and mixing techniques, and poured Put it into a large bowl and bake it in your home baking kiln.
It takes another three-quarters of an hour for the "sponge cake" to be ready.
Mao Xi and Mu Zhiyuan were peeling bamboo shoots in the yard, waiting for the two little guys to come home.
"Sister, we're back!" Xiaodouzi and Ajiao ran back to the yard with necklaces made of sweet potato leaves hanging from their ears and necks.
Ajiao held a big taro in his hand, and Xiaodouzi took a handful of sweet potato leaves to feed the chickens and ducks.
"Are these taros the ones we grow at home?"
Ajiao nodded, patted the soil on the taro, and gave it to Shu Xi: "Sister, I want to eat taro."
Mao Xi asked Xiaodouzi to help peel the bamboo shoots, while he went to the kitchen, peeled the taro, steamed it, mixed cream, milk and sugar to make taro puree.
She cut the cake into a round shape with a cup, then folded it in half, and squeezed taro paste into the middle to make a Yuanbao cake.
After Ajiao and Xiaodouzi washed their hands, they rushed over and ate each bite, licking the taro paste on their hands.
The baked cake was overflowing with milky aroma, and the whole yard was fragrant, attracting Aunt Cuihua who was passing by.
"Hey! Ah Shu, you didn't go to the shop today!" Aunt Cuihua smelled the fragrance and began to look around as soon as she entered the door.
"Hello Aunt Cuihua." Mao Xi quickly put the remaining cake slices and taro paste in the kitchen and hid them.
Yuanbao had only made a few, but Xiaodouzi and Ajiao had already finished them. Aunt Cuihua only saw an empty plate.
Seeing that the yard was piled with bamboo shoot shells, Aunt Cuihua left Mao Xi's house without saying anything, muttering to herself along the way: "Strange, why do I smell the fragrance of milk and baked bread cakes."
Mu Zhiyuan laughed at the side and said: "Mao Xi, it's a good thing you harvested it quickly. If Aunt Cuihua sees it again, she will probably have to spread it out and let others learn from it like the last time she made wine!"
"Well, this time I want to sell cakes, but I have to keep it secret! But today, luckily these two little guys ate quickly."
Mao Xi made the remaining cakes and taro paste into ingot cakes, and took the two brothers and sisters back to Liuxiang Snacks in Lihua Town with Mu Zhiyuan.
She left a portion of the cake and was about to take the dug-out box to Su Xuexue and Mi Lao for advice. The two came to the store together with Nalan Jue.
Mi Lao has a craving for sweets, and as soon as she entered the store, she shouted for mooncakes: "Little girl, are there any mooncakes with lotus paste and egg yolk?"
"Yes, I just made Yuanbao cake, and I was about to go to the academy to find Xue Xue and Mr. Mi."
Mao Xi hurriedly served a plate of mooncakes and some ingot cakes.
Su Xuexue and Nalan Jue had never seen Yuanbao cake before, so they picked it up and tasted it.
"Little girl, what kind of cake is this? Why is it so soft? It has a texture as light and soft as cotton... And the taro paste in the middle is as sweet as milk!" Su Xuexue had endless aftertaste of the taro paste cake. .
Nalan Jue nodded: "Su Xuexue is right. I have never eaten this pastry. Miss Ah Shu, this recipe..."
"I can't tell you the recipe! This is the fruit that our Ah Shu has just researched!" Lou Lan'er said hurriedly at the side.
Nalan Jue shook her fan and laughed, "Hahaha! I'm just kidding, I can just study this recipe myself!"
Mao Xi lowered his head and smiled secretly, thinking to himself: "How can you make this cake without a whisk and cream!"
"Little girl, you just said you were going to the academy to find me, but what's the matter?"
Mao Xi took out the wooden box dug from Savage Valley, opened the letter inside and gave it to Su Xuexue.
"Look, scholar, this is a letter found in Savage Valley. Can you recognize the words on it?"