Chapter 120: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival
"Finally, they're gone."
After sending off Gilbert and others, all ten guests breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
Although the four of Gilbert and the others only lived in Seablue Star for two days, the pressure on the ten guests was not small, because their appetite was really too big!
When these four people were working to build the pavilion, ten of them were also busy running around, hunting, processing and processing ingredients, and it was hard work for these big eaters to enjoy themselves. In the end, they didn't bother to cook for Gilbert and the others, so they simply cooked all the prey they caught into barbecue. Fortunately, these foodies are not picky, as long as they are delicious.
Eat well, sleep well, and have beautiful scenery to see on Seablue Star. In just two days, Gilbert and the others were overwhelmed. Be sensible, knowing that there are a lot of affairs waiting for him to go back to deal with, and I'm afraid he will have to wait for a few more days. When they left, they kept thinking about the barbecue, and planned to talk to Cheng Ji about the export of live poultry in person.
As soon as the Ruters left, the program team withdrew all the kitchen utensils and intelligent robots that had been provided to them before. The action can be said to be quite fast, and they will not let them take any advantage.
Without the bluffing Rute people, Ruan Tang and the others finally calmed down. They completed the not-too-strict tasks of the program group every day, and made various delicacies in different ways to satisfy the tastes of the audience. The days passed very quickly .
Until the night of this day, Ruan Tang looked up at the sky and found that the moon in the sky was extraordinarily round, but it was much smaller than what he saw on the earth. Only then did he suddenly feel that it was already the middle of the month, and counting the days, it was quite close to the Mid-Autumn Festival on Earth.
"Shall we make mooncakes?" Ruan Tang said to He Yunchen.
"Okay." Although he doesn't know what mooncakes are, as long as Ruan Tang likes them, He Yunchen will naturally not have any opinions.
Ruan Tang contacted the program team and wanted flour and an oven. Of course, the program team wanted to ask about his intentions. When they heard that he was making mooncakes, the program team members became excited.
Anyone who has studied the history of the ancient earth knows that their ancestors had the custom of celebrating traditional festivals, and each festival has some representative traditional snacks. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the very important festivals, and every family has the habit of eating mooncakes on that day.
Mooncakes symbolize reunion. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family sits around and eats mooncakes, which means family reunion.
The Blue Star Empire has fought for thousands of years, and it has been a long time since there was such a concept as a holiday. Now that it has finally entered a period of peaceful development, these traditional festivals that represent historical inheritance should also be revived.
So the program team agreed to Ruan Tang's request very simply, and also tried their best to get a few blurry pictures of mooncakes, which should be taken from some books and videos. They are not very real, but they are still a reference After all, the method of making moon cakes has been lost for thousands of years, even if Ruan Tang wants to restore moon cakes, he has to slowly grope.
Ruan Tang asked the program team for some red beans, sugar, and milk powder. He was going to make the most classic Cantonese-style mooncakes with red bean paste and lotus paste flavors. It happened that Seablue Star had lotus flowers. Since there are lotus flowers, of course there are lotus seeds. Lotus paste is the most convenient thing. Of course, in order to cater to the tastes of audiences who don't like sweets very much, he will also make some fresh meat meringue mooncakes.
The other guests also quickly learned from the program group that Ruan Tang was going to make mooncakes, so they all gathered in their camp, wanting to help Ruan Tang.
In fact, making mooncakes is not difficult for Ruan Tang. Not only does he know how to make mooncakes, but he has also made them himself. But after all, this is a secret he can't reveal, so he can only accept everyone's kindness and ask them to help him make the production together. The more people there are, the more lively it will be.
Soon after the program team delivered all the things he needed, everyone started to get busy under Ruan Tang's arrangement.
Kneading noodles, grinding bean paste, chopping stuffing, even He Yunchen and the soldiers were arranged to make mooncake molds according to the pictures provided by the program team.
[Ajun 5456: Tangtang actually makes mooncakes!]
[Mo Wen: It's really awesome! Unexpectedly, we have the opportunity to eat traditional food thousands of years ago!]
[Xuanyuan Zilong: Tangtang, I love you, I want to give birth to a monkey for you!]
The audience was equally excited, all looking forward to the birth of mooncakes.
The production of mooncakes is actually very particular. Both the production of the outer skin and the matching of the filling must be strictly controlled. If they were to figure it out by themselves, they would have to fail many times before they could figure out the correct way to make mooncakes, but now with Ruan Tang's guidance, they quickly found their way.
First, the flour should be sifted to allow air to enter the flour, so that the dough will be soft and elastic. When kneading the dough, water cannot be added all at once, it must be added several times, so that the kneaded dough will be both elastic and maintain humidity.
Cantonese-style mooncakes are characterized by their thin, soft skin and rich sweetness, so it is necessary to add oil when kneading the dough, so that the skin of the mooncake can maintain better ductility and not appear dry.
As for the filling, whether it is bean paste or lotus paste, it must be ground very finely.
If these points are done well, basically there will be no major problems. The rest of the production method is to simply wrap the stuffing. After wrapping, press it with a mooncake mold.
But the characteristics of Suzhou-style fresh meat mooncakes are completely different from Cantonese-style mooncakes. Its skin is crispy and pink, and the fillings are salty and juicy, so Ruan Tang decided to make it himself.
He added water and lard to flour, kneaded it to make water oil noodles, and then made pastry with flour and lard. Roll the water-oil noodles into a rectangle, wrap them in the pastry and fold and roll them out repeatedly to form a multi-layered effect. After 30 minutes of waking up, cut the dough into equal-sized pieces. Roll the jiaozi into a thin skin, just like making buns, wrap the prepared fresh meat stuffing, close the mouth and gently flatten it with your hands, then put it in the oven. The stuffing of the fresh meat is selected from the front leg of the pig, so that it is fat and thin, and the taste will be more moist.
It didn't take long for two kinds of mooncakes to be made successively, and they were neatly placed on the table, looking very attractive.
"Okay, let's try it together." Ruan Tang greeted everyone to taste it together.
The two kinds of mooncakes are completely different. Cantonese-style mooncakes look smoother and more detailed. With the help of moulds, they are the same size and have exquisite patterns on the surface. Although fresh meat mooncakes are not as delicate as Cantonese-style mooncakes, their outer skins are golden. It is crispy, but it is very soft at first glance, you can faintly see the meat filling inside, and you can smell the tangy fragrance.
[Cold-blooded Youyue: Oh my god! I love fresh meat mooncakes! How can it be so delicious?]
[Mo Rilan: Aww, that sweet mooncake is also super delicious, the filling inside is so delicate, and it's not too sweet, the taste is super good!]
[K. Mianzi: Beg the mall to launch a mooncake set!]
[Hand over the dried fish meow: begging Tangtang to open a shop... QAQ]
There are two kinds of mooncakes, one sweet and one salty, each with its own taste.
As far as Ruan Tang himself is concerned, he prefers fresh meat mooncakes, because that is the unique taste of his hometown. The hot fresh meat mooncakes are just out of the oven, the skin is soft, and you can see the plump gravy slowly seeping into it when you bite into it. The delicious taste fills the whole mouth, and the feeling is very wonderful.
But girls obviously prefer Cantonese-style mooncakes that are sweet but not greasy. The fillings inside are all made by themselves, so delicate and soft that Zha Panpan and Wu Shasha couldn't stop eating.
"Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone." Ruan Tang smiled brightly in the direction of the camera.
He is good-looking himself, and now he is smiling at the camera, which is even more fascinating.
[YUI: Awwhhhhh! I smiled at me, I smiled at me!]
[Baomu can't hold it: Tangtang, I want to give birth to a monkey for you!]
[Little Transparent Ming: Woohoo, I want to take a screenshot of this smile and save it for the rest of my life!]
Ruan Tang and the others made quite a lot of mooncakes, and they couldn't finish them all, so they packed them up and gave them to the program group, asking them to share a point, and if they had more, they would go to the lottery draw, so that the audience could have a chance to taste it for themselves to the taste of moon cakes.