Chapter 82 As a fine female matchmaker chooses to farm (31)

  The filling of red bean paste is very simple, and the most indispensable grain here is red bean.

   Instead, mustard became a problem.

   There are many kinds of pickled vegetables in the vegetable cellar of the big kitchen, but there is no mustard.

  Xu Yin made do with diced sauerkraut stalks, which are not so sour, instead of pickled mustard.

  Come to the Ming Dynasty to let Zhuangzi grow batches of mustard greens, pickle a few jars of mustard greens in the coming year, and in the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can make as many mustard green mooncakes as you want.

  After teaching the mothers and maids to make Soviet-style mooncakes, Xu Yin began to boil lychees in syrup by herself.

   If there is no ice, put it in a basket and hang it in a cool deep well to freeze it, and drink it as refreshing as it is in your mouth.

   "How is it? Is the lychee taste as good as fresh?" Xu Yin served Yan Kejin a bowl.

  The mooncakes will not be baked for a while, so give him a bowl of lychees in syrup first.

  Yan Kejin heard that it was made of sugar water, purely to save face for the princess, but after taking a sip...

  He paused slightly, nodded in approval, and drank the rest of the bowl in one gulp.

"good!"

  Xu Yin is happy.

  Even King Jinnan, who doesn't like desserts, likes this taste, let alone those loyal lovers of desserts.

  She believes that there are definitely not a few people who like canned fruit.

  As long as tin cans can keep up, canned fruit will definitely become the main product of Nanban, selling well in all parts of Yanhua, and even going abroad and being sold overseas.

   "Don't worry, the drawings drawn by the princess have already been delivered to the iron workshop. Once the finished product comes out, Yan Qi will send it to you for review. Make sure it is what you want, and then mass-produce it."

  Xu Yin was very satisfied with his efficiency. Just in time, the first batch of mooncakes was baked, and she borrowed flowers to offer him one: "Try it!"

   "Salty?"

  He seemed to smell the freshness of meat.

   "There's also red bean paste, but it's still roasting. This one is mustard greens and fresh meat. I'm sure you'll like it."

  Yan Kejin tasted one, and immediately said: "Is there any more? I'm going to the mine tomorrow, and I won't be back at noon."

  Implicit in the words, give him a few more ovens to take away.

Xu Yin suppressed a smile: "There are many more. I will ask Qiushuang to bake more tomorrow morning. This one is not as delicious as freshly baked ones. If you don't bake it when you leave, send someone to deliver it to you before noon. You eat fresh."

  Yan Kejin nodded in satisfaction.

   "Thank you, Princess, let the big kitchen learn how to do it in the future. It would be too hard for the princess to do it herself."

  Xu Yin shook her head: "It's not hard."

  Life is fun in this way.

  Yan Kejin took a deep look at her: "This king will feel distressed."

  Xu Yin: "..."

  Eat but I don’t see you eat less.

  The next day, the kiln continued to activate. In addition to the mustard mooncakes ordered by the prince, a batch of red bean paste mooncakes were baked and sent to the royal guards stationed in the mine.

  The guards are enjoying their food again, waiting for the prince to reward them with mooncakes.

"It seems that it is beneficial to show your face in front of the princess more often. I went to pick up the prince this morning. Mother Feng who was next to the princess saw me and took the initiative to stuff me with a bag of freshly baked mooncakes. It was delicious and crispy. It's delicious!"

   "You guys have good things to yourself! I asked you to go to the palace a few more times, not to let you take it all to yourself!"

   "Exactly! Where's the mooncake? Hand it over! We haven't eaten yet!"

   "I ate them all!"

   "Then spit it out!"

   "..." A bunch of beasts!

  Yan Kejin listened to the bratty kid outside who almost went to the arena for a few mooncakes, raised his eyebrows, and moved his eyes to the mooncakes on the table.

  His princess did what she said, and baked a batch of mustard and fresh meat mooncakes for him, and another batch of mooncakes filled with honey bean paste.

Originally, he didn't like sweet mooncakes, so the princess also asked someone to send some to his subordinates, but he saw that the sweet mooncakes were shaped like a heart... Could it be that the princess used this to express her affection for him? ?

  At noon this day, King Jinnan didn't ask the kitchen to bring food, but just ate up the love brand mooncakes sent by the princess with tea, and he was reluctant to give any of them to his subordinates.

  The guard who waited outside for a long time but didn't get the mooncake: "..."

   He simply pulled out the boy who ate alone and beat him up.

  Yan Shiba: "..." He is too miserable!

  If Xu Yin knew, she would have to support her forehead. The shape is different, so it is easy for everyone to identify.

After she turned on the kiln, she didn't plan to turn off the fire for the time being. Seeing that there were so many bananas in the house that they were about to rot, she took the maid to cut the bananas into thin slices and bake them on a baking tray brushed with oil. The dried bananas were crispy. Like a cookie.

   "Delicious! So delicious!"

  The maids and servants couldn't stop eating.

  Xu Yin sent some to the housekeeper in the mansion.

  The imperial chef was busy with the work at hand, and was holding the butler to taste tea. Seeing that the princess made another snack, it was made of golden bow bananas piled up to rot, and tasted a piece out of curiosity... Ugh! Crispy and refreshing! His eyes lit up instantly, and he rushed to Xu's mansion immediately, wanting to know how to do it.

   Seeing that the process is so simple, I praised the princess for her ingenuity.

   "I never thought the oven could be used like this!"

   Yu Chu slapped his thigh, as if opening the door to a new world.

   "The baked golden bow banana is not only crispy and delicious, but also durable! Wonderful! This is really wonderful!"

  Xu Yin couldn't help laughing: "Actually, not only golden bow bananas, but also many fruits and some vegetables can be roasted and eaten in this way. The taste is quite different from fresh ones. It can be regarded as a snack."

   Talking and talking...huh? Looks like he has found another way to get rich.

  Dried fruits and vegetables!

  However, this way of making money is put aside for a while, and the top priority is to make the canned food first.

   Compared with dried fruit and vegetables, people in this era must prefer canned fruit with thick flesh and rich sugar water.

  The days passed quietly in the busyness of great expectations.

   In the blink of an eye, the most longed-for harvest season of the year has arrived.

  This year, the weather in Nanban area is good, the crops in the fields are growing well, and the harvest is naturally good.

  Combined with Xu Yin's publicized new fertilization method, the yield of rice per mu has nearly doubled.

  Wangfu Zhuangzi, which uses high-yielding rice seeds, has almost quadrupled the yield of hundreds of acres of first-class good farmland.

  Happy things don't stop there.

  When it was the turn of sweet potatoes and potatoes to be harvested, twenty stones of sweet potatoes and more than thirty stones of potatoes grew out of an acre of mountainous land that was far less fertile than first-class fertile land, and the tenant farmers were stunned.

  Only Xu Yin shook her head slightly, seeing that the output was far less than that of later generations.

  She thought potatoes could yield 4,000 catties per mu, but in the end it was too much.

   "I didn't expect the yield of this yellow bump to be so high, Wangfei, what is this? Can it really be eaten like a sweet potato?"

"able!"

  Xu Yin asked someone to pick out a basket of smooth-skinned, large and heavy potatoes.

  Take some peeled and shredded and fry as vegetables, then take some cut into hob pieces and stew with the meat, and put the rest in a steamer and steam them over water.

   At the farm at noon, Xu Yin led everyone to a potato feast.

   After the meal, everyone except Xu Yin had fiery eyes.

  This not-so-good-looking but delicious and high-yield yellow pimple is simply a god-given gift from the gods. It doesn’t need to pick the ground and take care of it, and it can easily grow more than 30 stones per mu.

   Got it? Will I still be hungry in the future?

  (end of this chapter)