Free Web NovelChapter 1076: Chapter 441: Yueyue, Are You Treating Me Like Pavlov’s Dog? Old Sun Is Awesome!
Then he picked up the rolling pin and slowly rolled out the mung bean paste.
After completing this step, he lifted the white cloth and used a long dessert knife to scrape evenly over the mung bean paste, ensuring uniform thickness.
Then he trimmed the four edges to turn the mung bean paste into a rectangular sheet.
With this step done, it’s time to spread the red bean paste in the middle.
The traditional method is to squeeze a line of red bean paste on each side of the mung bean paste, then roll them toward the center, shaping it like a pig’s nose, and that’s it.
However, today’s mung bean paste was too much, too wide, making it impossible to roll into that shape, so Lin Xu simply spread a layer over the mung bean paste with a spatula.
Spreading done, he lifted the white cloth and folded it towards the center.
Once the mung bean paste was rolled up, he pressed it to make the roll firm.
Then he continued rolling forward until it formed the shape of a flower roll.
And thus, the mung bean roll was complete.
As Lin Xu was about to cut it with a kitchen knife, Qi Siliang next to him asked: freewebnøvel.com
"Can you also roll it up with a sushi mat?"
Lin Xu nodded:
"Yes, you can, but you need to lay down a layer of cling film, otherwise this mung bean paste will scatter along the bamboo mat."
He picked up the dessert knife and started cutting from the left.
Once cut, he placed them on a plate.
The system prompt sounded in his mind again.
Completed a red bean paste dessert, at the same time completed a Beijing snack.
Now, if he makes another Beijing snack, this task will be complete.
It’s quite simple, he mixed some lard with low-gluten flour, then rolled it into a dough, wrapped red bean paste in it, shaped it like a door nail meat pie, and placed it in the oven for low-temperature baking.
When the outer crispy crust was done, a classic Yanjing snack, the red bean cake, was completed.
"The host has made ten Beijing snacks within the specified time, completing the side mission [Beijing Snacks], earning a Perfect Level lottery draw for lost Beijing snacks. Would you like to draw now?"
Haha, didn’t expect to finish so quickly.
But the drawing isn’t urgent. Yesterday, the system set up some kind of points task to fool me, so now I have to get some revenge.
And the reason for revenge is, of course, Dundun.
Gotta wait for the little guy to be in a good mood before drawing, to maximize the exploitation of the system.
The whole morning, Lin Xu was in the kitchen making various snacks, such as yellow rice red bean cake, sticky bean bun, yellow rice dumplings, red bean pastry, red bean sesame balls, etc., until the trial task was completed.
When it was time for lunch, Lin Xu saw that Shen Jiayue and Chen Yan weren’t eating, each holding a cup of autumn pear paste water, sipping it slowly. He curiously asked:
"Why aren’t you eating? Not to your taste?"
Today’s lunch at the store was mutton stew noodles made by Ma Zhiqiang and Niu Chuan together.
They simmered the mutton into a thick broth and used this broth to cook the dough made through three proofs and three kneads, served it in a bowl, added another scoop of mutton soup, and topped with shredded tofu, slices of mutton, squid strands, quail eggs, chopped green onions, cilantro, and mutton oil chili.
Mix well and take a big bite, the rich soup, the smooth noodles, combined with the fresh and spicy flavor, simply make people dream of returning to the Central Plains.
Shen Jiayue, looking defeated, said:
"I can’t eat... just now, I was busy grabbing those snacks you made with Yan Bao, and then... I’m stuffed, it’s all Yan Bao’s fault, had to snatch them away as if we’re escaping famine."
Chen Yan, on the other hand, felt innocent: freewebnovёl.ƈom
"I was just tasting; you kept grabbing mine. Everyone knows I’m a competitive person, so..."
Tsk tsk, truly worthy of being sisters.
This habitual blame-shifting and greedy nature are practically cut from the same mold.
It’s a pity I’m not a movie screenwriter, otherwise, I’d definitely write a script for ’The Silly Sisters’ and film it to bring a bit of life to the dwindling comedy films.
Chen Yan took a small sip of the autumn pear paste water, the sweetness was really satisfying.
Sadly, she couldn’t drink too much, or she might risk bloating.
Ah, the consequence of being greedy!
However, even though she was already too full to eat, Chen Yan was still thinking about food:
"Brother-in-law, what are you planning to cook this afternoon? I can use my side account to reply, help you gain some popularity."
Lin Xu didn’t hide it:
"Cherry meat, Sichuan-style cherry meat, sweet and salty, rich in flavor, perfect to go with meals or alcohol... but you two better not eat right now, most of the snacks made in the morning are hard to digest, eating meat might be too much for your stomach."
Upon hearing it’s cherry meat, Shen Jiayue perked up:
"No need, no need, I’ll rest for a bit and then play tennis with Yan Bao. After playing, we can just have a bowl of rice with cherry meat, delightful... what do you think, Yan Bao? Is this arrangement okay?"
"Indeed, our sisterly hearts think alike; I was just about to go exercise."
Lin Xu helplessly took a bite of the stew noodles, who would have thought that the reason pushing two lazy people to exercise diligently was actually high-calorie food...
This might be the only pair on the tennis court striving to exercise just to enjoy the food.
After discussing these, he began talking about business:
"What do you think, which of the snacks eaten this morning would be suitable to launch anew in the store?"
Not mentioning donkey roll, just considering its Perfect Level, it definitely has to be launched in the store, but launching only donkey roll is too monotonous, better to have something else to pair with it.
Worried everyone might be limited by filling options, Lin Xu said:
"We can adjust the fillings like jujube paste, green bean paste, white lotus paste, all are fine."
After broadening the options, Shen Jiayue, Chen Yan, and Shu Yun started whispering softly.
