Food in the Song Dynasty: My System Connects Mountains and Seas

Chapter 147

However, this matter still cast some shadows on her. Now, whenever she thinks of the shimmering water of Jinming Lake, she feels a suffocating coldness.

Shaking her head and getting rid of the images in her mind, Wen Shu turned and went into the kitchen, cleaned her hands, put on an apron, and started kneading dough to make snacks.

I played as much as I could yesterday. Although there were some accidents later, I have played it after all, so I should do some serious business today.

The Royal Garden opens on the first day of March every year until the eighth day of April. This period of nearly one and a half months is a good time for many vendors to make money.Wen Shu also wants to take advantage of this shareholder style this year to make a good fortune, and also take advantage of this to practice his craft.

She made hibiscus jujube mud cake a few times, and she was tired of it so far, so she changed it today and planned to make "Smile"

Xiaodier is a very popular dessert nowadays, and it is also a must-have candied pastry for Qixi Festival.

It's not difficult to make, just mix sucrose, eggs and honey thoroughly, and mix them into fresh milk, then knead the adjusted juice and flour evenly, and put it aside to wake up until it swells.

After the dough is fully proofed, move it to the chopping board, knead it smooth, cut it into small pieces, put it into the carved round face mold and press it into shape, then take it out and steam or fry it.

This dim sum was learned from Cook Ji in a private school in the early years, and I tried it twice before, but it was just made, and it was always lacking in taste and appearance.

This time I went to Cangzhou with Ms. Lu, and I was lucky enough to taste the smiles made by Mrs. Wang a few times. Suddenly, she was so lucky that she found the reason for her shortcomings, and she tried to improve when she returned to Tokyo.

Sure enough, after some research, the ones made this time are much better than before, both in terms of taste and flower shape. Although they are still not as exquisite as Chef Wang, they still look the same.

Because it was early today, she had reconciled and woke up before the dough went to bed yesterday, and now that it was uncovered, the yellow dough was just right.

In order to look better, when kneading the dough yesterday, she deliberately added some steamed pumpkin puree. At this time, the yellow-orange-orange dough was already high.

Take the risen dough out of the basin and put it on the chopping board to knead repeatedly. When the surface of the dough is shiny and does not stick to your hands, pull it into long strips and cut into palm-sized noodles.

Put the dough into the round face mold on the side and press it into shape. Wen Shu took a thin skewer and carefully outlined the beauty's eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth on the dough.

After all these are done, the last touch is to use fresh fruits and vegetables to cut into small pieces, point two smiles (dimples) on both sides of the cheeks, and then steam them in a pot, so as to live up to the name of smiles.

There is no particularity to the fruits and vegetables for the smile, and they can be taken at will, so Wen Shu picked up the wild shepherd's purse that was picked outside the city yesterday, picked up the stem, washed it, cut it into small pieces, and pressed it on the cheeks of the dough.

Gently picked up the embellished smiling face dough one by one into the steamer, and then Wen Shu took some time to make some shepherd's purse cakes while watching the fire.

A quarter of an hour later, the steamer started to smoke, and at the same time, a sweet fragrance came from inside. Wen Shu took a rag and opened the steamer, only to see the yellow smiling face inside, like the rising sun in the morning, bright and dazzling.

She picked out one with chopsticks and tasted it, and couldn't help nodding, "It's sweet with some frankincense, soft and soft, not bad, it's better than the last two times, it should be sold."

Talking to herself, she ate the remaining dimples while turning over the shepherd's purse pancakes that were being fried in the pan.

At the beginning of the morning, after picking up the two prepared foods into a clean bamboo basket, Wen Shu went back to his room and changed into a goose yellow spring shirt, with a simple bun on his head and two green ribbons for lining.Looking from a distance, it looks like tender yellow wildflowers blooming in the fields in spring, fresh and full of vitality.

After a simple dress up, she greeted Father Wen, and she carried a basket to the outside of the courtyard one by one. After turning to Xizi Street and meeting Wang Ling, the two of them gave another five Wen each to ride on the donkey passing by. The car went to Qionglin Garden in the west of the city.

That's right, this time it's Qionglin Garden.

Because of yesterday's incident, Wen Shu still has some shadows about Jin Mingchi at the moment, subconsciously she doesn't want to go there, besides, the smile she made today may be more popular with rich ladies.

Qionglin Garden is not far from the west side of Jinming Pool, and there are many strange flowers and rocks in the garden. It is the time when peach blossoms and crabapples compete for spring. Looking from a distance, the peach blossoms are like brocades, and the green willows are like smoke.

A group of young ladies in bright or elegant clothes are playing among the flowers and drinking tea, feeling very comfortable.

Wen Shu and Wang Ling looked at each other, hurried over, and opened their mouths to shout, "The smiles in the world are like butterflies, and a touch of them in the bushes is fresher. People are not as delicate as flowers, but bonuses are as good as people." (This sentence is original)

The clear voice was sent into the forest by the breeze, and the playful little ladies looked over curiously when they heard the sound, and seeing that it was a little lady carrying a basket, a little lady in red immediately understood, and asked with a smile: "Little girl!" The lady sells a smile?"

"Exactly." Wen Shu responded with a smile.At the bottom of my heart, I am complacent about my impromptu idea and the idea of ​​shouting poems.

Sure enough, for these young ladies from rich families, poetry is more to their liking.

"What's the selling price?" the forest man asked.

"Twenty yuan a piece, four yuan a piece."

The little lady in red felt that it was a bit expensive, but at this time of year, the price of food sold in the garden was to % higher than usual.

Feeling the hunger coming from her stomach, the little lady in red nodded helplessly: "Come and get a copy."

"Okay." Wen Shu hastily put down the bamboo basket at hand, took out oiled paper and gave her some snacks.

The little lady in red was afraid that Wen Shu would not pick it up for her, so she walked over with the peach branch in her hand, but she couldn't help being a little surprised when she saw the neat yellow smiles in the blue bamboo basket: "Why is this color?"

Wen Shu smiled and raised her head and said, "I added some pumpkin puree to it, it will taste sweeter, sister, try it." She handed over the wrapped pastry.

The little lady in red stretched out her hand to take it, and then took a bite in half-belief, but the next moment she felt that the twenty cents was well spent.

She glanced at Wen Shu secretly, feeling a little surprised in her heart. She didn't expect that this ordinary-looking little lady has a good handicraft. She was just there to fill her stomach and didn't expect too much from the taste. At this moment, she was slightly pleasantly surprised. .

You know, the hawkers wandering around in the park at this time, in order to sell more, not only the price is higher, but the taste is to % worse than usual, this little lady is a little different.

"It's really delicious, worth the price." The little lady in red praised it.

Hearing this, the young ladies around surrounded them curiously, and those who felt hungry would also pay for a portion.

Wen Shu only made three cages this time, and the total amount was only 60 yuan. The number of copies was worth 25 copies, and five copies were sold this time.

On the next journey, because of her ingenious new poems and the eye-catching and bright colors of pastries, she attracted many young ladies to ask her questions, and many of them were sold in twos and threes, just the shepherd's purse she brought with her. Half of the cakes were also sold.

Half an hour later, there were only two Xiaoji'er left in the basket, and only five shepherd's purse cakes left. Seeing this, Wang Ling took Wen Shu to go with her to pick flowers in the forest.

When she came to Qionglin Garden this time, Wang Ling did not bring her rouge box, but just carried two baskets like Wen Shu, the difference was that her basket was empty, in order to come to Taolin to pick up petals, so that she could take them later. Wash and dry at home.

In the future, whether it is making rouge or making mouth fat pills, it can be used.

Although Wen Shu has no interest in making rouge, peach petals are also of great use to her, because they can be used to make pastries or decorate pastries, so she picks them very carefully.

After picking it up for about half an hour, the top layer of the piece was cleaned up, and the basket was almost half full. The two of them were about to find another place with a lot of fallen flowers, when they came walking not far away. A scholar-like person.

　Regarding the poems in the article, most of them are famous works, not original!Hereby explain!

　　For example, "Linjin Gorgeous Flowers and Thousand Trees" at the beginning of the last chapter is the masterpiece of Wang Anshi, a great man in the Northern Song Dynasty, and he used it because it was suitable for the occasion.

　　However, the poem read by Wen Shu in this chapter: "The smiles on the face of the world are like butterflies" was a sudden twitch of my brain, and I wrote it casually.

　　It's original, but it may not be nutritious, and there is no rhyme, so let's have fun watching it.

　　Finally, I declare again: If there are no specially marked poems in the article, they are all famous works.I can't write poetry, I'm just a porter of poetry
　　
　
(End of this chapter)