Chapter 321 321. Sausage Bread

  Chu Family Village.

  At the door of the room, Shen Ruyue knocked on the door, "Qingzhi, the ingredients for the mooncakes are all ready as you said."

  Chu Qingzhi put down the pen in her hand, went to open the door, "Come on, let's make mooncakes."

  The location for making moon cakes is in the courtyard of the old house. A shed was built there, and five tables were placed side by side under the shed. After a while, everyone gathered around the table to make moon cakes.

   At this time, the villagers who helped pack the mooncakes were all in their positions, all women.

  Chu Qingzhi walked over and said with a smile, "I've worked hard for everyone today."

  Auntie smiled and said, "Qing Zhi, it's not hard work, it's hard work for us when we don't have work to do."

  Chu Qingzhi rambled a few words with everyone, and got to the point...

  She originally planned to make five kinds of fillings, but two of them were given to Tan Mengyang. Now she only needs to make the other three kinds, namely, red bean paste and egg yolk filling, red bean filling, and white lotus paste.

   There were six people preparing the stuffing. Under Chu Qingzhi's guidance, they quickly prepared three large pots of stuffing.

  In the filling, Chu Qingzhi didn't add much sugar, she didn't want to make the mooncake too sweet, otherwise it would cover up the taste of other ingredients, making it tasteless and greasy.

  There are ten people preparing noodles.

  This step is very critical, otherwise the mooncakes will crack and collapse, which will affect the appearance. Making mooncakes is easy to think, but it is not easy to make mooncakes. Otherwise, not everyone can make mooncakes and sell them?

  After the dough is reconciled, it is stuffing.

  Before wrapping the stuffing, it is necessary to ensure that each noodle has the same weight, and the weight of the stuffing is the same. There are ten people here who are responsible for weighing. After the noodle and stuffing are weighed, they are wrapped.

  The next step is to put the wrapped dough cake into the mold and press the pattern to make the surface of the dough cake even. The appearance directly affects people's desire to buy, which is very important.

  Put the wrapped dough cakes into the baking tray, coat the surface of the moon cakes with a layer of water, and then put them into the oven for baking.

  There is an hourglass timer here, the time for half a cup of tea, after the mooncakes are baked and set, take them out and brush with egg wash, and then re-bake for half an incense stick, there is also an hourglass timer.

  Take out the baked mooncakes and let them cool, wrap them one by one with oiled paper, and then wrap ten into a big bag, tie them up with cotton rope, and the work is done at this point.

   Each step has a dedicated person in charge, and five people are even arranged to light the oven, just like a dry assembly line.

  The aunts are very agile in their hands and feet, and it only takes half an hour to make a mooncake from scratch.

   In the first round, Chu Qingzhi taught by hand, but in the second round, there is no need. The girls in the village are all used to cooking and eating, so they learned it in one pass.

  Chu Qingzhi saw that they had done three rounds, and there was basically no problem.

   "Kisara, come and watch, just do it like this."

   "Okay, leave it to me."

  …

  Chu Qingzhi came to the kitchen. There was no one in the kitchen, so it was time for her to make use of it. Next, she had three things to do, sausage, bread, and biscuits. With an oven, making biscuits is very easy.

  She made bread first, and the yeast was bought from the wine shop, but in this era, yeast is not called yeast, but yeast.

   Another problem is butter.

  Chu Qingzhi came back from the capital before and saw a cattle farm. The cattle here are raised by the government and cannot be slaughtered. They can only be sold to farmers for farming.

   There is a very big Zhuangzi, which raises thousands of cows, some small, some big, and some cows.

  People in this era still don’t know how to drink milk. The only thing they do is to bathe the dignitaries’ female relatives, but they don’t use much, and a lot of time is wasted.

  Chu Qingzhi picked up a bargain, and bought ten barrels of milk for a tael of silver, and they sent her back.

  The milk bucket was covered with a lid, and no one knew what was inside.

  No one will mess with Chu Qingzhi's things, and they are still neatly placed in the corner of the kitchen.

  Chu Qingzhi mixed the dough to ferment, and then took out the milk to make butter.

  Boil the butter, add it to the dough and mix well, and continue to ferment.

  During this time, Chu Qingzhi was preparing to make sausages.

  The casings are bought from places that sell pork, cleaned repeatedly, the pork is chopped into pureed meat, a series of seasonings are added, the pureed meat is poured into the casings, dried, boiled in water, and then the sausage is grilled.

  It’s easy to say, and there are many steps. Chu Qingzhi worked for an hour to fill the sausage, and then dried the moisture on the surface of the sausage, which took a little time.

   Taking advantage of this time, Chu Qingzhi spread egg liquid on the risen dough, put some butter on the baking tray, and took it to the old house.

  The baking pans are custom-made iron pans from a blacksmith shop. A total of twenty-five were ordered, and one extra Chu Qingzhi planned to use for her own use.

  Wu Yaqing, who was helping to make mooncakes there, saw Chu Qingzhi coming over with an unknown dough, and couldn't help asking curiously, "Qingzhi, what is that in your hand?"

  Chu Qingzhi blinked at her mysteriously, "You'll find out in a while." She walked to the empty oven and put it in the baking tray.

  The oven improved by Chu Qingzhi is very similar to an oven. There is a fire on the bottom and a baking space on the top. There are protrusions on the left and right walls of the space.

  Wu Yaqing became even more curious, "I'll know it even if you don't tell me, it must be delicious."

   "You guessed it right." Chu Qingzhi said something cooperatively, and at the same time turned the hourglass upside down to count, "Yaqing, this is the time for half a stick of incense to be baked. You can take it out in a while, and I'll be busy with other things."

  Wu Yaqing licked her lips like a greedy cat, "Don't worry, leave it to me."

   Then she stood by the oven like a food protector, looking eagerly at the hourglass.

  Chu Qingzhi returned to the kitchen to make biscuits.

  She plans to make scallion biscuits, which are the most classic.

The method of scallion oil biscuits is very similar to that of cookies. First melt the butter, add sugar and salt and mix well, then add scallion oil, add flour and stir, knead into a smooth dough, add molds to make biscuits, and finally bake for half a stick Fragrant time will be fine.

  During this period, the bread was baked, and Wu Yaqing took out the bread immediately. The aroma and novelty of the bread immediately attracted everyone's attention.

   "It smells so good, it smells delicious."

   "Qing Zhi is too powerful, and she made a new thing with ease, does this have a name?"

   "I really want to try it!"

  Wu Yaqing carried the baking tray and ran all the way to the new house. The glutton in her stomach was already clamoring wildly, wanting to eat so much.

   Along the way, many eyes were attracted by her, watching her enter the new house all the way.

  Some children saw it and ran to see it. Of course, wanting to eat is the most real.

   "Qingzhi, it's ready." Wu Yaqing shouted excitedly.

  Chu Qingzhi was busy in the kitchen, "I'm here."

  Wu Yaqing rushed to the kitchen, "Qing Zhi, what is this called, it looks delicious."

   "This is called bread." Chu Qingzhi cut the bread into even cubes with a kitchen knife, then picked up a piece and handed it to Wu Yaqing, "Try it."

  Chu Qingzhi's bread is made from real ingredients. It smells like a strong aroma of roasted wheat. It looks golden on the outside, but fluffy on the inside. It's fluffy when you bite into it, and it's very rich and delicious.

  (end of this chapter)