The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 291 Carrot Cake

"Is this...lemon tea?"

Qin Huai looked at the big bucket of lemon tea that An Youyou brought back and fell silent.

First of all, this bucket of lemon tea is very big, and it can be seen that Ouyang really treats him as a good friend.

Under normal circumstances, a one-liter bucket of milk tea is already considered a super large bucket. Ouyang’s bucket is estimated to be 1.5 liters.

The ingredients in the milk tea bucket are also very rich.

Lemon slices that were cut and then mashed, fresh strawberries that were cut and then mashed, fresh blueberries that were mashed but the flesh was visible and sank to the bottom, and large chunks of mango flesh.

The color of milk tea is also rich.

At the bottom is blue blueberry pulp, and at the top is the same thick coconut milk as the raw coconut latte. The lemon tea in the middle is a very strange color, an indescribable brown.

In art, a variety of colors can be created by mixing the three colors of red, yellow and blue in different proportions.

In this cup of hand-made lemon tea, Ouyang added strawberry jam, mango jam and freshly mashed blueberry jam.

Red, yellow and blue.

The final color made Qin Huai realize that Ouyang had no talent for art.

On New Year’s Eve, Ouyang’s relatives drank these hand-made lemon teas. Ouyang’s grandfather even drank two big cups?
Grandpa Ouyang, you dote on this grandson too much, almost spoiling him.

Under normal circumstances, if someone handed Qin Huai a drink like this, Qin Huai would think someone was plotting to murder him and would throw the drink away without hesitation.

But for a drink as abstract as this, Qinhuai must try it.

Qin Huai took a deep breath, picked up the hand-made lemon tea with an intimidating attitude, and took a small sip.

Very complex flavor.

The sweet taste of strawberry jam and mango jam mixed together, the rich coconut flavor of thick coconut milk, and the delicious coconut taste of a well-known brand of coconut milk that is hard to hide even if it is mixed with so many strange things.

Also, the refreshing lemon flavor that the hand-beaten lemon tea should have now tastes a bit bitter.

There's even bobo in this milk tea.

Qin Huai chewed silently for twice, swallowed the bubble tea, and handed the milk tea to An Youyou.

"Put this cup of Ouyang's special hand-made lemon tea in the freezer separately."

"When he comes, I want to see him drink this bucket of lemon tea with my own eyes."

Ouyang, you dare to murder me, die!

Yue, it’s really hard to drink.
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Ignoring the minor incident of nausea caused by the hand-made lemon tea, Qin Huai spent the entire morning making snacks.

At first, they made four-happiness dumplings, and when the quantity was almost enough, they started to make three-ding buns. There was no need to make too many three-ding buns. Qin Huai knew very well how much impact four-happiness dumplings would have on ordinary diners who had never eaten A-grade dim sum. Today was the main stage of four-happiness dumplings, and three-ding buns were just a supporting role.

Qin Huai makes Sanding Bao mainly to test how good the master-level stuffing is. The stuffing of Sanding Bao is difficult to make, and one can directly see the level of stuffing.

It would be even better if it was the season for crabs. Among the many snacks in Qinhuai Hui, crab roe steamed buns are the best in terms of filling.

When Qin Huai thought of crab roe steamed buns, he thought of the double crab buns that Uncle Wang wanted to eat.

Double crab buns are also a snack that requires a lot of stuffing. It is more difficult to mix the stuffing than crab roe steamed buns, but it is also more flexible than crab roe steamed buns.

There are two recipes for double crab buns. They can be made with fresh crab roe or crab roe sauce. It is a great snack that can be made all year round.

Uncle Wang gave the recipe to Qin Huai, but Master Qin was very busy before and couldn't spare the time. In addition, Uncle Wang's condition was not serious (it could even be said that there was no disease at all), so Qin Huai never studied the recipe and only glanced at it a few times.

But it doesn’t matter, Master Qin will be free soon.

After Han Youxin's birthday on March 3th, Qin Huai will complete Chen Gong's side quest and take down the first side quest of this monster who he meets the least and doesn't chat with much. Then Qin Huai can start researching the double crab bag.

It just so happens that Zheng Siyuan will come to Yunzhong Canteen on March 3st, and Qin Huai can also grab Zheng Siyuan to study together.

When the time comes, Qin Huai will definitely give Uncle Wang a surprise! .
Chef Qin is making radish cake, preparing a surprise for Wang Gensheng.

Radish cake, a very simple and homely dessert.

This dessert is really homely, with simple ingredients, simple materials, and simple preparation methods. You can find a lot of recipes on the Internet, all of which are similar, and there are no obvious problems. As long as you have normal cooking skills and your own judgment, the final product is edible.

People who often make radish cake know that radish cake tastes best when it is freshly fried.

The essence of radish cake is rice flour + chopped white radish, and then add a series of ingredients such as chopped shrimp and mushrooms according to the taste of the maker. It is best to stir-fry these ingredients first, then mix them with rice flour to make rice cakes, and steam them in a pot to shape them. According to your taste, you can eat them after steaming them, or cut them into small pieces after steaming them and fry them in a pot.

Qin Luo likes to eat it fried.

Brush some oil in the pan and fry the radish cake until both sides are slightly yellow. The outer layer is crispy and fragrant, and the aroma of the rice flour is fully fried. The filling inside is still soft, and the radish is not dry, but juicy, and you can taste the rich radish flavor.

If Qin Luo wants to eat it, Qin Huai will add some chopped bacon or ham when preparing the stuffing, so that it will taste more delicious with the meat flavor when fried.

The salty and fresh meat flavor is paired with the fresh mushrooms and dried shrimps, and combined with the fragrant rice milk and juicy white radish.

It is simply the dream of people who love meat and white radish.

Qin Luo was not at home this afternoon, so Qin Huai prepared the filling very simply to save trouble, without adding any diced meat.

"Before, Luoluo was still in elementary school, and I was still in school. When Luoluo got tired of the buns my father made in the morning, my mother would fry her radish cake if she had time." Qin Huai chatted with the people around him while flipping the radish cake in the pot.

"To make radish cake, you can make it very simple. Just use a grater to grate the radish into fine fluff. If the mushroom cubes are not cut well, you can put them into a blender and blend them again after all the ingredients are processed."

"Preparing rice flour is also easier than kneading dough. Just add water to the rice flour and stir it constantly with chopsticks."

"Not to mention that radishes are cheap and low-cost. If you make a big pot at home, it won't cost much."

"When Luoluo was in elementary school, there was a snack bar in front of their school that sold fried radish cakes. They were very cheap, and you could buy three for one dollar. Luoluo would go there every day after school to buy some. During that time, my dad would give her one dollar every day when she went to school so that she could buy radish cakes."

"Later, it seemed that because it was not clean or something, several students in the school got sick from eating it and their parents started making a fuss. Luoluo has never gotten sick from eating it, but my mom was worried so she learned how to make it at home for Luoluo."

"I didn't know how to make carrot cake originally, but one weekend my parents were not at home, so they gave me 30 yuan and asked me to take Luoluo to eat fast food next door."

"Originally, we planned to go to the market to buy two tomatoes to make tomato scrambled eggs, and split the remaining money in half. But before we left, I happened to see the white radish my mother bought the day before in the kitchen. My vegetable cooking was not very good, but the dim sum I made was OK."

"After discussing with Luoluo, we decided to take a gamble and try making radish cake. Unexpectedly, radish cake is so simple that it didn't take even a single turn to make it in the Dim Sum Encyclopedia. And it's pretty delicious."

"From then on, whenever my parents had to go out and give Luoluo and me money, we would make carrot cake for both of us. Later, when we got tired of it, we would gamble on fried tomato and scrambled eggs."

After saying that, Qin Huai took out the fried radish cakes from the pot one by one, put a new batch in to fry, and handed the large plate to An Youyou: "Try it."

An Youyou loves trying food the most. After hearing what Qin Huai said, she happily took the plate, picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of radish cake and put it in her mouth.

"Hmm!" An Youyou made a sound of liking it, "It's delicious. I've never eaten carrot cake before. I didn't expect it to be so delicious."

When Chen An heard An Youyou's evaluation of the radish cake, he didn't hesitate to eat it. There was no need to be shy in front of the boss, so he picked up a piece with chopsticks to taste it.

After chewing twice, Chen An opened his eyes wide in surprise.

An Youyou was not deliberately trying to flatter her boss, this radish cake was really delicious.

As a very homely, popular, simple and cheap snack, it is difficult to make radish cake taste bad, but it is also difficult to make it particularly delicious.

Because the ingredients are very simple, the radish is juicy but also bland. The biggest advantage of making radish into radish cake is that it can eliminate some of the spiciness of the radish.

This spicy taste was described by a girl in Qin Huai's high school class. She said that radish tastes very spicy when eaten raw, and there is still a little bit of spicy taste when cooked. Qin Huai himself doesn't quite understand it. In his opinion, this is the taste of radish.

But for people who don’t like white radish, radish cake can indeed eliminate some of the taste of white radish that they don’t like.

Fried foods are the favorite of many children.

Chen An thinks that the reason why Qinhuai’s radish cake is so delicious is that it embodies the flavor to the greatest extent.

It has a great texture, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

It tastes great. The simple combination of mushrooms, dried shrimps, radishes and rice noodles is actually the simplest version of the taste of the mountains and the sea.

It looks great too. The radish cake is cut into small square pieces and fried until it turns slightly yellow. The base color is a beautiful milky white, and it smells like rice flour.

This radish cake looks ordinary but actually beats 99.99% of the ones on the market. Chen An thinks it’s not a bad idea to sell it at the school gate at a sky-high price of one yuan per piece.

Children must love it. After all, which child can resist eating a piece of carrot cake at the school gate after school, which is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a strong rice aroma and a relatively light but delicious taste?

Chen An didn't say anything, just ate in silence.

Some people didn't eat, but just flattered silently.

Pei Xing felt that he had lost this morning.

Although he had prepared to go to work early to take the lead, and was proficient in making tea, he recommended himself to win the heart of Master Xiao Qin, and was the first dim sum chef to receive Master Xiao Qin's guidance on kneading dough.

But he still lost.

Lost to Li Hua, a flatterer with good knife skills.

When Li Hua was receiving instructions from Master Qin on how to prepare the stuffing, all he said were his own words.

Moreover, Pei Xing felt that Master Qin's advice on mixing the filling was more skillful, more meaningful, more professional, and more comfortable than that on kneading the dough.

It was a wrong decision. Pei Xing didn't expect that Qin Huai went to Huang's for further study for a few months, and what he learned was actually how to prepare stuffing.

Pei Xing also saw the four-happiness dumplings and three-diced buns made by Qin Huai today. As a professional chef, Pei Xing saw Qin Huai's amazing and terrifying progress in just a few months.

He has improved in kneading the dough, mixing the stuffing, using his fingers, and even his knife skills seem to have improved - his knife-holding posture and vegetable-cutting movements are very professional, and you can tell at a glance that he has been instructed by an expert.

Pei Xing wanted to improve too much.

Pei Xing stared at the radish cake on the plate that An Youyou was holding, holding the chopsticks in his hand but not picking up any. He thought about what Qin Huai had said during the chat just now.

Got it!

"Master Xiao Qin, actually I also learned how to make radish cake with my mother when I was a child." Pei Xing said with a smile, and his smile was very humble, like Little Pei's apprentice.

Qin Huai was flipping the radish cake. When he heard Pei Xing say that, he immediately became interested and asked, "Really? Is your recipe the same as mine?"

Pei Xing silently picked up a piece of radish cake, but didn't eat it. He said, "Almost the same. My mother likes to add sausages. She said it tastes better when fried this way."

"But when I first started learning, I couldn't compare to you, Master Qin. The first time I made it, the batter was too thin, and it didn't hold its shape when I steamed it, so it fell apart."

“It took two or three repetitions of practice before I succeeded.”

"Yes, Master Qin. I think I have a feeling for the skillful force you taught me to use when kneading dough this morning. Do you have time after lunch? Can you help me see if I got the feeling right?"

Qin Huai didn't think much about it and nodded: "Of course I have time. In fact, it's my fault for not expressing it accurately enough. I really can't explain this feeling. I can find it with more practice."

"You have expressed it very clearly. It is because I am not smart enough and my level is not high enough that I have not figured it out."

After saying that, Pei Xing took a bite of the radish cake and showed a surprised expression: "This radish cake... I am so lucky to have you as my sister!"

Li Hua: ???
No, this is flattery?

This seemingly subtle but actually direct flattery, this exaggerated acting, this exaggerated tone.

Pei Xing, don’t say from now on that you are from Zhiweiju. We don’t have actors as bad as you in Zhiweiju!

Also, what you just said is the word I was thinking of!
Li Hua couldn't think of any new words for a while, so he could only grit his teeth in his heart, picked up a piece of radish cake and ate it silently, waiting for a new opportunity and looking for a chance to make a comeback in the afternoon.

Qin Huai continued to fry the radish cake.

At this time, some people might be curious, aren't Li Hua, Pei Xing, An Youyou and Chen An at work? Why are they all gathered by Qinhuai to watch him fry radish cakes?

Yes, they are indeed not working at this time.

It is already 11:51. Companies in the office buildings near the Yunzhong Canteen basically get off work at 12 noon. In just a dozen minutes, hungry office workers will rush into the Yunzhong Canteen to eat lunch.

In fact, some guests who arrived earlier are already eating in the cafeteria.

Let’s eat the four-happiness dumplings.

At this time, the breakfast chef and the dim sum chef are not working, this is their meal time. Making dim sum is a continuous and long job, and there is a buffer time between finishing a batch. Pei Xing and Li Hua are very good at timing this.

Four people surrounded Qin Huai. First, they knew Qin Huai very well and knew that Qin Huai loved to chat. Second, they wanted to flatter their boss.

Pei Xing and Li Hua really wanted to flatter him.

Chen An would see whether he could take pictures depending on the situation. If not, it would be good to just stand to the side and watch closely and learn something.

If you really can't learn it, it would be great to show off in front of your boss.

An Youyou simply wanted to eat carrot cake and show off her reputation in front of her boss to see if she could get some work to help her get a promotion and a raise in the future.

An Youyou's intuition told her that the lemon tea she bought from Xiaoou's Handmade Lemon Tea Shop in the morning seemed to be a not-so-serious work mistake.

Four people, each with their own ideas, gathered together.

Qin Huai’s idea was completely different. He was used to it.

This was the case when he was at Huang Ji. When Qin Huai was working, Dong Shi would sneak over to chat with him after he finished his work. The apprentices at Zhiweiju were also very good at finding opportunities to take advantage of opportunities. They would not disturb Qin Huai when he was very busy, but would rush up with snacks to ask questions when Qin Huai was not that busy and even had enough time to chat.

Qin Huai glanced at the time.

It's 11:52.

Qin Huai came to the cafeteria to work at 3 o'clock in the morning. He has been working for more than eight hours now, interspersed with slacking off, chatting and eating snacks. It's time to take a break.

Qin Huai took a look at the steamed radish cake.

Especially many.

He made radish cakes with all the radishes that An Youyou cut this morning.

Radish cake is quick to make and the quantity is large. If it is not fried, it can compete with donkey rolls in terms of quantity.

"Youyou, can you fry something?" Qin Huai asked.

An Youyou was still eating the last piece of radish cake on the plate. When she heard Qin Huai ask this, she quickly said, "Yes!"

"You can fry the remaining carrot cakes. What time do you get off work today?"

Qin Huai really didn’t know when An Youyou got off work. An Youyou often worked overtime for money.

She can even sleep after get off work and go to work again when she wakes up, without any entertainment in between. She is a slave among slaves.

"I can finish frying and then go home!" An Youyou said loudly.

Qin Huai smiled and said, "Don't be too tired. You came so early today. If you are tired, go back and rest early."

"After you fry it well, the radish cake will be yours."

"Starting tomorrow, carrot cake will also be on the menu and sold at all three meals."

Qin Huai planned to take a short break after lunch and then have an online class with Cao Guixiang via video call, cut radishes for two hours and then go home to sleep and rest.

Adjust your work and rest schedule and go to work later tomorrow.

Of course, before taking a break, Qin Huai would definitely bring Ouyang to the store and make Ouyang drink the cup of strange hand-made lemon tea that he specially mixed in front of him.

An Youyou's eyes lit up when she heard Qin Huai say this.

If that's the case, then she got a promotion!
I was promoted from a helper to a radish cake maker.

Now that I've been promoted, a salary increase is definitely not far away.

Great!
"Okay, Master Qin, I will definitely fry it well, leave it to me!"

Looking at An Youyou's excited expression without any act, Li Hua and Pei Xing looked at each other and read the same words in each other's eyes.

Damn, that was a mistake.

Here's a real sycophant.

(End of this chapter)