The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 207 Fruit Filling

Qin Huai didn't expect that fruit filling could be wrapped into glutinous rice balls. Judging from Gong Liang's expression and tone, Qin Huai absolutely believed that the fruit filling glutinous rice balls made by Jiang Wei Jin were delicious.

But if it is filled with various fruits, it will be troublesome.

Qin Huai doesn't know how to make this kind of filling. He has just heard that fruit filling usually appears in mooncakes, but Qin Huai has never made mooncakes.

After all, selling three-piece buns and four-happiness dumplings is already the limit for a breakfast shop. If it starts selling moon cakes, Qin's Breakfast Shop can be renamed Qin's Everything Shop.

Of course the main reason is that Qin Luo doesn’t like mooncakes very much.

There was a small shop in Qiu County that made delicious five-nut mooncakes. The ingredients were authentic and the dried fruits were carefully selected. They were sweet but not greasy. Unlike most five-nut mooncakes on the market, they were sweet and greasy after one bite, and you would feel like heaven after another bite.

The owner of the small shop behind retired, and Qiu County lost its delicious five-nut mooncakes. The Qin family embraced double-yolk lotus paste again during the Mid-Autumn Festival. As the price of double-yolk lotus paste increased day by day and online shopping became popular, Qin Luo discovered the good mooncakes of Yuntiao mooncakes on the Internet, and Qin Huai changed to Yuntiao mooncakes.

Until last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Qin Congwen adhered to the old tradition and ate five-nut mooncakes on the festival day.

Zhao Rong sneered at the cheap and unpalatable five-nut mooncakes that Qin Congwen bought from somewhere, and bought the most expensive one while complaining that the double yolk lotus paste was too expensive.

Qin Luo ate a lot of Yuntiao mooncakes, from one month before the festival to one month after the festival. People who knew she was eating mooncakes thought she was just eating snacks, while those who didn't thought she was just eating snacks.

As for Qin Huai...

He tried a little of everything.

Qin Huai never understood why his parents and Luo Luo were so obsessed with buying mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Except for Qin Luo who wanted to eat as much Yuntiao mooncakes as he wanted, there was no need to buy the other mooncakes.

The food given by relatives and friends is so much that we can’t finish it all.

Before Qin Huai inherited the estate and went to Shan City to open the Yunzhong Canteen, every New Year's Day was a time for Qin's relatives to compete with each other.

Moon cakes are given on Mid-Autumn Festival, rice dumplings are given on Dragon Boat Festival, candies are given on Halloween, random gifts are given on Christmas, and blessings are given on New Year's Day. The main idea is to mix local festivals with foreign festivals. If conditions permit, Qin Huai thinks they would even want to give something on Arbor Day and April Fools' Day.

We usually give enough gifts during festivals, so that we can go to the house and enjoy a feast during the Chinese New Year, and take some things with us.

Every year, Qin Huai's family has too many mooncakes and rice dumplings to eat, so they have to send them to the welfare home. The children in the welfare home will work hard every Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival to eat mooncakes and rice dumplings.

During these two festivals, Qin Huai will change from Brother Bao Bao to the limited Brother Bing Bing and Brother Zong Zong.

Qin Huai came back to his senses from the memories of mooncakes.

He originally thought that Four-happiness Dumplings was an easy question, but unexpectedly it was an additional question.

Teacher, I haven’t learned this knowledge point.

Minced fruit filling really involves a blind spot in knowledge.

I really can’t do that.

Qin Huai didn’t even know what specific ingredients were needed for the fruit filling. He only knew that there was no fixed formula for this filling and that it was mainly composed of nuts, candied fruits and sugar. What was added depended on the chef’s recipe.

While Qin Huai was still thinking, Gong Baozhu had finished the second shepherd's purse dumpling and wanted to go back to the first bowl to scoop the sesame-filled dumpling, but the bowl was picked up by Guo Mingzhu.

"Baozhu, these dumplings are made of glutinous rice flour. If you eat too much glutinous rice at night, you will get indigestion. You should eat less, and I will eat the rest." Guo Mingzhu took the dumpling in front of her daughter.

Gong Baozhu realized that the situation was not good. She was about to cut her losses in time and pick up the other bowl. However, she found that the bowl was gone and Gong Liangdu was eating from the bowl.

Gong Baozhu:!

Her mother's move was not to steal something, but to make a feint to the east and attack in the west!

She helped her parents eat the shepherd's purse dumplings that they didn't like, and her parents got rid of her and didn't let her eat the remaining three dumplings!
Gong Baozhu shed tears of regret in her heart.

If I had known this, I would have eaten the sesame-filled one first and I could have had one more.

While Gong Baozhu was crying inwardly, Qin Huai finished his thoughts.

I can't figure it out at all.

I don't have any useful information about how to make mincemeat in my mind. I can't think of anything, so I just ask.

"Mr. Gong, do you know the specific method of making the fruit filling you mentioned just now?" Qin Huai asked seriously.

This question stumped Gong Liang deeply. He held up a spoon with a big, beautiful red bean paste-filled glutinous rice dumpling in it, but he was reluctant to open his mouth. He thought for dozens of seconds in embarrassment and shook his head.

"I don't know. I just know that I need to use winter melon candy."

"When Master Jing was making the glutinous rice balls stuffed with various fruits, he ran out of winter melon candies at home, so he borrowed all of mine."

Winter melon candy Qin Huai knows a very sweet winter melon candied fruit, so sweet that it makes you sick. Qin Huai ate it in an orphanage when he was very young. It may not be good to eat it alone, but it should be good to make fruit filling.

"Then do you know where we can buy glutinous rice balls with various fruit fillings now?" Qin Huai asked.

This question stumped Gong Liang again.

"It's basically unavailable now. Glutinous rice dumplings with various fruit fillings are just like five-nut mooncakes. Everyone thinks they taste bad and no one eats them." Gong Baozhu answered quickly, "When I was in kindergarten, the small shop at the entrance of the school still sold glutinous rice dumplings with various fruit fillings. The ones with various fruit fillings were more expensive than those with meat fillings."

"At that time, I thought the ones with fruit filling were particularly sweet and delicious. Later, when I grew up, I found that they were too sweet, so sweet that they were greasy. The ones with fruit filling were more expensive than other ones and not as delicious. After a long time, no one sold the ones with fruit filling. It's better to buy the ones with shepherd's purse or shredded radish filling, which are delicious and cheap."

"That's because the prices of candied fruits and dried fruits have gone up." Guo Mingzhu stood at the kitchen door and spoke up for the fruit filling. "To make glutinous rice balls with fruit filling, you need to use high-quality candied fruits and dried fruits, and cook them with lard. Once you cut corners and use inferior ingredients, mix the cheap lard and cheap candied fruits together in the pot and cook them, they will be sweet and greasy after they melt, just like eating fat with saccharin added. How can it be delicious?"

"The fruit-filled dumplings ordered from that restaurant you loved to eat when you were a kid were just so-so and terribly sweet. You couldn't tell that you loved sweets when you were a kid, and you always clamored to eat them after school, and you had to have two."

"You had to eat two, and when you couldn't finish half of it, you threw it to me and your dad. At that time, your dad and I turned green when we saw that extremely sweet dumpling. We drew lots at home every day to decide who would pick you up and who would pick up your brother."

Gong Baozhu: ...

Oh, this feeling of having my own mother tell me about my childhood embarrassment in front of others...

Gong Baozhu wanted to dig a hole in the floor and hide downstairs.

"But what Master Jing makes is really different!" Guo Mingzhu also began to strongly recommend Master Jing's glutinous rice balls with various fruit fillings. "When Mr. Gong celebrated his birthday that year, Master Jing cooked a bowl of glutinous rice balls for him. The taste was really unforgettable."

“Chop up the candied fruits and dried fruits and wrap them in the dumplings. When you eat them, they are warm and sweet, and not greasy at all.”

"I remember that time Master Jing cooked a big pot of glutinous rice balls with four flavors and they all looked the same without being wrapped in different shapes. We all wanted to eat the glutinous rice balls with various fruit fillings, and we ate them desperately. When we couldn't eat any more, Master Jing brought us a plate of particularly good-looking buns. I hadn't married Gong Liang at that time, and I almost rolled my eyes at his house because I was so full." Guo Mingzhu said with a smile.

"Oh? Is that true?" Gong Liang teased.

Guo Mingzhu glanced at him unhappily and said, "You're not much better. You're so tired that your eyes are rolling back. You're almost walking with the help of a wall."

After saying that, Guo Mingzhu sighed, "But I only ate it this once. Not long after Master Jing retired, he had an accident. Since then, he has not been able to cook and make exquisite snacks."

"If Master Jing were still alive, our Baozhu might have had the chance to eat the truly delicious Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls. When she was little, she wouldn't have been so useless as to insist on eating that awful one, which caused us so much trouble."

Gong Baozhu: "Mom!"

Stop talking, I want your dignity!

When Qin Huai finally returned, Guo Mingzhu stuffed two bottles of freshly squeezed juice into his hands. Gong Liang didn't find the Shan Shang Yunwu that he had been thinking about, so he felt that he couldn't give away the remaining tea, so he planned to go back to the other houses to look for it tomorrow.

When Qin Huai was taking the juice home, he saw the tea that Gong Liye had given him at noon on the entrance.

There is fog on the mountain.

Qin Huai:......

What did Gong Liye say when he gave me tea at noon? He said this was good tea he had bought some time ago.

Well, it’s also a steal if it’s something I bought from my biological father.

Qin Huai could only say that the father and son's ideas about gift-giving were very similar.

Qin Huai glanced at the dining table. Ouyang had finished his bowl of four-happiness dumplings, and his own bowl was considerately placed in the thermal box by Ouyang.

As for Ouyang himself, at this moment he was like a full seal, lying on his back on the sofa, watching videos on his mobile phone.

Qin Huai silently put the two bottles of juice on the coffee table: "Eat less at night during this period. I will practice making four-happiness dumplings every night from now on." "No problem, it's just four... hiccups... soup, I can eat it!" The seal patted his belly and said confidently.

The next morning, Qin Huai went to Huang Ji early and arrived at about the same time as Zheng Siyuan.

Zheng Siyuan had just poured the flour and was a little surprised to see Qin Huai coming so early today, but he quickly put away his surprise.

Because Zheng Siyuan was not the first one to arrive today.

Gu Li is it.

When Zheng Siyuan arrived, Gu Li's Ruyi Roll was almost done. Although Ruyi Roll is not a snack that takes a long time to make, it is still a snack, and the basic preparation time of a snack is there.

If Gu Li had almost finished making the first batch of dim sum before 8 o'clock in the morning, it meant that he had arrived at least at 1 o'clock.

Considering the speed at which Guli made snacks, he probably arrived around 6 o'clock.

Guli got off work at 9 o'clock yesterday evening. All the chefs at Huang's had gone off work, but Guli still quietly worked overtime for an hour and made the Ruyi roll again.

This super curler stunned Zheng Siyuan.

Compared with Guli, the other chefs at Zhiweiju, who probably also started preparing work around 7:, were just mediocre.

Qin Huai didn't expect that the kitchen would be so lively as soon as he arrived when he came early to discuss the fruit filling with Zheng Siyuan.

Seeing Qin Huai coming, the DNA of the chefs at Zhiweiju started moving instantly. Some did odd jobs, some made tea. Qin Huai glanced at the kitchen table and found that everyone had even prepared the ingredients for him.

If these chefs from Zhiweiju stay at Huang's for a few more months, the previous helpers at Huang's will definitely be laid off.

When Gu Li handed the teacup respectfully to Qin Huai and said, "Master Qin, have some tea," Qin Huai felt that this world was really magical.

Qin Huai did not drink tea, nor did he start making longevity noodles right away.

He didn't come so early to go to work early.

Qin Huai walked over to Zheng Siyuan and asked casually, "How's your practice of flipping the spoon going lately?"

"Not very good." Zheng Siyuan answered calmly.

As a standard plain-food chef, it would be a miracle if Zheng Siyuan could master the skill of flipping the wok effectively in such a short time.

"So do you know anything about mincemeat?"

Zheng Siyuan said it was a very abrupt turn of events, but still answered: "Yes, but not much."

“You want to make mooncakes?”

"No, I want to make four-happiness dumplings with various fruit fillings."

"Four-happiness dumplings?" Zheng Siyuan was stunned. "Luoluo wants to eat?"

Qin Huai said: "She can want to eat, but it's mainly Gong Liang who wants to eat."

Zheng Siyuan understood and said he could do nothing to help.

"I don't know how to make glutinous rice balls." Zheng Siyuan said simply and clearly, "I don't know if my father can make it, but I don't remember him making it. You should be more familiar with my father's style of making dim sum. He doesn't like dim sum like Four Happiness Glutinous Rice Balls, which are too homely and look simple."

"As for mincemeat, I don't know how to do it either."

"The recipe for fruit fillings is very varied, and you can mix dried fruits with candied fruits in any way you want. And I think the fillings for mooncakes should not be directly adapted to glutinous rice balls, because glutinous rice balls are boiled. If you have a related recipe, I think the previous recipe may not be applicable now."

"In the early years, this type of snack was made very sweet. At that time, people ate less sweets, so in a sense, the sweeter it was, the better it tasted."

"Customers nowadays usually cannot accept such sweet desserts, so you may need to make some changes to the recipe."

Zheng Siyuan gave his sincere advice.

Qin Huai also gave his sincere answer.

"I don't have a recipe."

Zheng Siyuan was stunned.

"And I can't make mincemeat either."

Zheng Siyuan was stunned again.

"To be honest, I had never made glutinous rice balls before yesterday. Last night I went home and tried making them for the first time."

Zheng Siyuan was petrified and a question mark appeared on his head.

?

"But I want to try it. Mr. Gong said that he had eaten the fruit-filled dumplings made by your master on his birthday many years ago, and he still remembers the taste."

"When I visited his home last night, his wife agreed. She said that even though she only ate it once, she still remembers the taste."

"I think there must be something good about the glutinous rice balls that two people have remembered for so many years and still miss today. They must be very delicious, worth studying, and worth making."

"Zheng Siyuan, are you interested in studying this with me?"

Zheng Siyuan didn't say anything.

He really wanted to tell Qin Huai that there was no such way to study dim sum.

There is no recipe, no direction, and not even a specific description of the taste. What can we get from such hard research?

He wanted to persuade Qin Huai to just focus on practicing one thing. His way of practicing here and there, practicing this today and that tomorrow, was a bit too wild even if it was a wild way.

But Zheng Siyuan knew that the reason he didn't say it out loud at the first time was because he was shamefully moved.

He had no interest in mincemeat at first. He just wanted to practice crepe wontons and bubble wontons to a satisfactory level, and then practice flipping for a while. He would persist for a year, and if there was no effect, he would give up and practice something else.

just now……

These dumplings sound great.

"How do we study?" Zheng Siyuan asked, "Where do we start?"

When Zheng Siyuan and Qin Huai first studied Sophora japonica steamed buns, they at least had a recipe. Now there is no recipe, how can they study it?

"I looked up the method and recipe of mincemeat on the Internet before going to bed last night."

Zheng Siyuan: "...I advise you not to believe it."

"So after I checked, I gave up and planned to come over to ask you today. You don't know, so I'll ask your dad later when he comes."

"What if my dad doesn't know?" Zheng Siyuan asked.

Qin Huai glanced at Tan Weian who was working seriously and said, "Just ask Tan Weian."

Zheng Siyuan:?
"What if he doesn't know either?"

Qin Huai sighed: "Then there is no other way. We can only ask Tan Weian to get someone, or we can exchange with Zhiweiju."

"There are so many restaurants in Zhiweiju, the chef must know about it."

Zheng Siyuan: 6
As soon as the people from Zhiweiju arrive, you should make clear arrangements for them.

"I think it's okay." Zheng Siyuan nodded. "I heard from my dad that Master Zhou from Zhiweiju makes delicious five-nut mooncakes."

"He should be good at mincemeat."

(End of this chapter)