The next day, when Lin Zhou got up, he saw that Dadong had prepared all the ingredients for making moon cakes.
There are a wide variety of ingredients, including salted duck eggs, red beans, mung beans, black sesame seeds, pork, etc.
Lin Zhou just mentioned making mooncakes yesterday, but he didn't expect Dadong to buy all the ingredients so early in the morning.
The red beans and ingredients that need to be soaked have been soaked overnight.
It can be seen that he took Lin Zhou's words to heart.
"Boss, please see if these ingredients are okay. They are all fresh ingredients I bought at the vegetable market in the morning."
Dadong is indeed a certified chef, and the dishes he buys are all fresh.
Lin Zhou looked around and said there was no problem.
He hadn't thought about making mooncakes yet, but looking at these ingredients, he subconsciously started thinking about the recipe.
Red bean paste filling can be used to make Cantonese-style mooncakes, fresh meat can be used to make Soviet-style fresh meat mooncakes, and beautiful snowskin mooncakes are both simple and delicious. You can make some of them.
You can give it as a gift or eat it yourself.
Lin Zhou's pastry skills, having been making pasta for so long, precociousness makes perfect.
After cooking too many dishes, he was no longer a complete novice who had perfect cooking skills but didn't know any recipes.
It can be said that cooking skills are interoperable.
With a systematic foundation of full-level cooking skills, Lin Zhou basically has a recipe and knows how to make a dish, so the food he makes will be delicious.
With a plan in mind, he can take action.
Of course, before taking action, he first went out to have breakfast at a morning tea restaurant and then came back.
Lin Zhou didn't need help, so he asked Dadong to rest outside. He was busy listening to songs, kneading dough and frying bean paste.
Making mooncake skin is different from kneading dough. Although it looks similar, it can only be made by pressing and folding to avoid kneading the dough. I can’t imagine how chewy the dough will be when you eat a mouthful of mooncake.
Thinking like this, Lin Zhou suddenly felt like he had a picture.
There was a smile on the corners of his mouth.
In the eyes of employees passing by, this scene shows that the boss really likes cooking. When cooking, he looks relaxed and happy.
Although it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the property management still has people on duty.
Because not all companies in the building have a holiday during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The building can't be closed and everyone can have a rest.
So someone has to be on duty.
"Do you think we have a share of the mooncakes made by the boss?"
People who stay in the company on duty gather together to chat when they have nothing to do.
To be honest, since their company was bought by the boss together with Ziyuan Building, the workload was heavy when they first took over.
After all the work has been handed over and on track, everyone will be fine.
Only incidents involving tenants in the building need to be addressed.
Commonly known as property.
"I don't know. Didn't we give out Mid-Autumn Festival gifts? In addition to moon cakes and the like, we also gave each person a thousand yuan bonus. This should be made by the boss and eaten by himself."
"I think the boss should give us a little share. The boss is thin-skinned, so if we get together and act coquettishly, we will get something to eat."
"What a good boy. As expected of a man, he can grasp a man's mind accurately."
"Let's talk. I have to sign the parking space rental contract on the 23rd floor."
"OK OK, go get busy."
The remaining people had nothing to do so they made forms and sent them to all the companies in the building, sorting them out according to the dates of the lease contracts and the floors.
"Have you calculated the annual rent for this building? I can't believe it. How much does it cost?"
While sorting it out, the employees sighed with envy.
"I don't even think about whether you can read it."
"Hey, I'm just curious."
"It smells so good. Is the boss baking mooncakes?"
"No, it tastes like red bean paste, very sweet."
Yes, Lin Zhou is cooking red beans.
The method of making red bean paste is no different from the previous method of making bean paste buns.
Red beans that have been soaked overnight are boiled first, and then usually broken into pieces with a wall breaker. Half of the whole beans are left, and then poured back into the pot to continue cooking.
Cook until the water is almost dry, and the refried beans are bubbling, popping, and making a sticky sound in the pot.
Then add sugar and fry into bean paste.
The finished bean paste is sweet with the fragrance of red beans. It is the perfect filling whether it is used to make steamed buns or snacks.
Continuously fry the mung beans, red beans, and sesame fillings.
Lin Zhou wiped the sweat from his forehead.
This is really physical work.
If it is not fried into a ball and has a delicate sheen, it is not a good filling.
The proportion of ingredients, the size of the heat, and the intensity used are all very particular.
Even though Lin Zhou had better physical strength than ordinary people, he was still very tired from frying three large pots of fillings.
Once the crust and fillings are complete, the rest of the work will be easy.
Take a pot, wrap it with fillings, press it into a mold, and bake it in the oven.
Lin Zhou looked at the fillings on the counter, and at the employees outside who were taking a drink of water from time to time, and thought of a good idea.
He walked to the office area and said with a smile: "I have prepared the fillings and dough. Do you want to try making mooncakes by yourself?"
The employees' eyes lit up when they heard this.
Is there such a good thing?
"Yes, boss, I haven't made mooncakes yet!"
"Boss, you're so kind, do you really want us to do it ourselves?"
For this novel experience, if you go to some handcraft studio outside to make mooncakes, you will probably spend a lot of money.
Unexpectedly, they experienced it in the company on the Mid-Autumn Festival!
"It's very simple, just wrap the filling in the dough, press it into the mold, and bake it out."
It doesn't sound very technical.
All the employees who had nothing to do followed Lin Zhou to the kitchen.
As soon as you walk in, you can smell the sweet filling.
The rich aroma of sesame seeds and the refreshing aroma of red beans and mung beans really give you the sweet feeling of mooncakes.
Several people lined up to wash their hands, and then watched Lin Zhou make mooncakes first. The rest of the people also got busy under Dadong's help and guidance.
Lin Zhou smiled and ran to the side to make fresh meat mooncakes.
Fresh meat mooncakes are a kind of puff pastry, which is more difficult to make than Cantonese-style mooncakes.
The principle of so-called puff pastry is to wrap dry pastry with water-oil skin, and then roll it into puff pastry to make a snack.
The difficulty of this kind of pastry is that the softness and hardness of the water-oil crust and the dry pastry must be the same.
Otherwise it will fail.
If the dry pastry is hard, it will break through the watery pastry when rolling out, and it will fail.
And if the water-oil skin is too hard, it will not be able to separate the layers, which will also fail.
So be careful when making it.
It was also the first time for Lin Zhou to do it. If he was too focused, he had no time to make moon cakes, so he had to think of ways to get everyone to actively participate.
This gives everyone a sense of participation, and the mooncakes will be more delicious when they are eaten.
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