"This soft-scent cake is also a specialty in our Jiangnan area. When I was a child, I was also one of the best pastries sold in our store. Especially in summer, it tastes cold and I had to eat a lot every day."

Chen Nian nodded from time to time when listening to Lu Ke’s story, but at the same time he also recorded some of the feelings she said about the soft and fragrant cake after eating it.

There is a very likely mint inside the cool silk.

It tastes soft and glutinous, which may be due to the ingredients of glutinous rice flour.

"But the best soft-scented cake is Suzhou Tuling Bridge, followed by Huqiu Gaoxishi family, and the second is Baoen Temple outside the Nanmen Gate of Nanjing. Although our family also makes it, it really can't compare to the above three companies in terms of taste. But in addition to those three, our soft-scented cake is not comparable to the small stalls on the street that can be bought anytime."

Lu Ke was quite proud when he talked about it.

"So my cousin, your craft is actually passed down from family?"

"Of course, my father Lu Wanxing was also a little famous in Nanjing."

Chen Nian suddenly felt that he had come to the right place. If he had thought the road was far away, he might have returned in vain in this dream.

"But since you want to learn this soft and fragrant cake first in Xiaonian, you have to get up early tomorrow. I started making this soft and fragrant cake earlier. Then I will teach you how to make it."

"good!"

Chen Nian nodded. It was easy for him to wake up early. Although there is no alarm clock in this world, there is a chicken.

The chickens in ancient times were the enemy of a lifetime for the old age.

After all, if the chicken really yells, it will be no matter how long it is.

But although Chen Nian doesn’t know how to make snacks now, it’s still okay to help sell them.

After observing these days, Chen Nian also found that the most people come to buy snacks in the afternoon and in the evening every day.

So this is also the busiest time in the store.

"I thought you would be a little busy when you were busy in the store, but I didn't expect that you would be so quick in your work. It seems that my sister can really save a lot of trouble in the future."

After hearing this, Chen Nian smiled and said, "Of course, the tofu I made before when I was in Yangzhou was also delicious. There are endless people coming to buy it every day. If you come late, you may not be able to buy it."

"Really? Then you will prepare the supper today."

"OK."

Chen Nian agreed immediately.

In such an event where you use food to highlight your favorable impressions, it is natural that you cannot miss it. Usually, you will be invincible when you become famous in such a thing.

Just like this, time passed by minute by minute, and guests kept coming to the door.

When the old customers saw that there was a man in the store suddenly, they wanted to joke and ask who this was, but suddenly they saw the faces of the two of them and suddenly understood: "Shopkeeper Lu, is this your brother?"

"That's right, he came from Yangzhou before, and I just called him a letter to help me a few days ago."

"What a young talent. You have to pay attention to your brother. If you don't say that you will be attracted by the lady from any day, you will be snatched away from you." The man said teasingly.

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Lu Ke was not angry at all. Instead, he smiled on his face: "That's great. As long as the lady in that family is kind-hearted, my brother can like it. So what if she asks her to take it away?"

"Haha, you can see it openly. It's so happy that he has such a sister as you!"

As he said that, the man bought snacks, exchanged a few more greetings and left.

Chen Nian couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "A handsome person is indeed joked about this kind of thing everywhere."

But not long after, two women suddenly came in front of the snack shop. One was wearing white clothes, and the other was wearing blue clothes, which looked very similar to Xiaobai and Xiaoqing. But they didn't look old, probably only fifteen or sixteen years old.

The girl in a white gauze dress had a pair of silver butterfly earrings hanging down by her ears. She used a silver hairpin to tie her black hair, and she turned into an exquisite willow leaf hairpin, pinched a magnolia and tied it up, which looked fresh and beautiful.

Light eyebrows, cherry lips are not dyed but red, and the whole body exudes the sweet fragrance of orchids. It is paired with her slightly tender face, which is very youthful and energetic, but not without the graceful and jasper color.

In comparison, the girl in green next to her was a little inferior, but she was pretty in terms of appearance.

"Miss, Miss, look at the man in Manager Lu's store!" The maid looked up and saw Chen Nian in the store, so she said with a little novelty.

"Xiao Cui, don't chew on the back." The girl called the lady said quickly, then raised her head nervously and looked at Lu Ke, afraid that the other party would blame him. After all, her maid was speaking loudly just now.

"It's okay." Lu Ke waved his hand, "Miss Su, this is my brother. I just came to the capital to help me a few days ago."

Chen Nian nodded as he looked at them.

Judging from my cousin's attitude, these two people should be regular customers of the dim sum shop.

"It's quite handsome." The maid said again.

Chen Nian found that the maids he met seemed to be of this type, talking casually and not afraid of strangers, and they all seemed to have social awesomeness.

"Indeed." Chen Nian nodded in agreement.

As a result, Chen Nian's frank attitude made the two laugh.

Originally, Miss Su just found it funny, but after all, it wasn't too frivolous with the identity of a lady in the boudoir there. Unexpectedly, the maid around her didn't know what she thought of, and kept smiling, which made her feel a little at a loss for a moment. In the end, she reached out and pinched Xiao Cui's arm, so that the other party could stop laughing.

"Shopkeeper Lu, I want a soft cake of three liang, two chunks, and five sugar cakes."

"Okay Miss Su, wait!" Lu Ke nodded, and Chen Nian began to pack and weigh it quickly behind.

Several types of snacks are prepared separately, but they are not put together, because one thing has the taste of one thing, and they should not be mixed together.

Soon after Miss Su asked Xiao Cui to pay the money, she said goodbye and turned away. Her dignified and polite appearance made Chen Nian look at her more. Of course, this was just an appreciation attitude. After all, a graceful lady is a gentleman, and it is not illegal to look at her.

Even morally, there is no problem.

Behind this shop is the yard where Lu Ke lives, which is not small, with two rooms in total, which is at least much better than the dilapidated house in Yangzhou.

Moreover, this area is good, and there is a curfew in the Daxia Dynasty at night, so there is no other sound disturbing the other side except for a few beats every other hour.

Of course chickens don't count.

Chicken is not human. Chen Nian has found out who the chicken belongs to in the past few days. He has to find an opportunity to buy the chicken.

In this way, under the constant harassment of the rooster next door in the middle of the night, Chen Nian finally opened her eyes before it was light up.

When he walked out, he saw that the yard in front had already lit up. It was obvious that his cousin had started making pastries.

"I'm here just now. I'm just about to make soft fragrant cakes. Come here and I'll tell you something." Chen Nian nodded and hurried over.

"It is not difficult to make soft cakes. The key is that they are two flours and two flavors. Jelly refers to glutinous rice flour and stem rice flour. The glutinous rice flour is soaked in glutinous rice overnight, then ground into slurry water and hung in a cloth bag, then dried with water overnight, and then grind it into powder to make glutinous rice flour. Of course, if you want to buy it, you can also buy it.

But you have to screen it so that some people will not use inferior products as good ones. If they make rice, they can also do it. However, the rice is short, wide and oval, and the texture is relatively tight after being cooked."

Chen Nian nodded: "What about their proportion?"

"Take half of two powders," Lu Ke said.

Chen Nian immediately understood that the two were 50% open, but thinking about it, the texture of the rice is harder and the glutinous rice is a little sticky.

While taking out the materials, Lu Ke talked, deliberately slowing down his movements so that Chen Nian could see clearly. Remember, because she didn't know how Chen Nian understood. Although the tofu made before Chen Nian was quite popular in Yangzhou, making tofu and making pastries is different.

"As for the two flavors, it's the taste of sugar and mint."

"The taste of sugar is not in a hurry to make it. If you want to make soft cakes, you need to clean the mint first, then take it out and put it in a stone mortar, add a small amount of water to mash it.

Then put it in gauze and filter out the juice.

Then take half of the glutinous rice flour and stem rice flour taken out in advance and put it on a plate, then add some sugar and stir...

"It is necessary to stir evenly here, otherwise the soft cake will fail." Lu Ke emphasized that the previous proportions may be easier to control, but when it comes to stirring, it is technical work, and it cannot be done by rote memorization.

After stirring for a while, the two powders were fully mixed together and the sugar was mixed in, but on the surface, there was still no difference.

"At this point, pour the mint slurry you just filtered out and continue to stir evenly until the branches and leaves of the mint are fully integrated with the two powders and become smooth and slightly brushed."

At this time, Chen Nian looked into the basin again, and saw that glutinous rice flour, stem rice flour, and the mint they just put in had all been integrated. As my cousin slowly stirred, the batter looked extremely thick now, but it didn't clump.

Just looking at its color, I can't help but feel a chill.

"This snack needs to be steamed in a pot, so before steaming, you need to pour the batter in this pot into the pot and finally put a layer of lotus leaves on it. After this, it will not only bring the coolness of mint, but also the fragrance of lotus leaves. You see, the lady from the Su family bought the most soft fragrant cakes, but the others are bought by one, but the soft fragrant cakes are weighed."

"You can steam it in the pot afterwards, but you have to remember to steam it for about one stick of incense on high heat."

Finally, when Lu Ke covered the pot and Chen Nian, he basically recorded all the steps. During Chen Nian's observation, the difficulty in the middle was to mix the two kinds of powder and sugar evenly and process the mint. The other steps were very simple.

And even if these two steps are relatively difficult, it is only relative.

"Cousin, how many soft cakes do you want to make tomorrow?"

"About two cages."

"Can I give it a try in the second cage?"

Chen Nian said so.

"Of course, have you remembered it all?" Lu Ke looked at Chen Nian with some surprise and asked.

"Absolutely, cousin, please watch it. If I did something wrong, you can remind me." Chen Nian said. Although he was almost inseparable in his heart, he still had to be more modest. After all, the skill in his hands was the same as his own appearance, and it was not something you could see at a glance.

Then Chen Nian followed the steps just now, first squeezed the mint juice, then started to mix the glutinous rice flour, stem rice flour and some white sugar. After it was completely mixed, pour the mint juice into it and stir slowly until it became thick and silky, just like the chocolate advertisement.

By this time, Chen Nian saw that the color he made was similar to what his cousin made, so he nodded with satisfaction and put it on the pot and steamed it.

"How about cousin?" Chen Nian asked.

"It's good, it seems you've got it all."

After a while, after the two soft cakes were prepared, Lu Ke still took out the cage she made, let it cool down and placed it on the chopping board, and then carefully cut it into diamond shapes with a slender cutter.

Finally, place it in the plate and cover it with a cover to isolate the air as much as possible so as not to dry it.

Chen Nian also followed suit and cut the whole piece of soft cake into diamond shapes, and the shape of the cut was more neat than Lu Ke cut.

"Xiao Nian, tell me the truth. Did you really just make tofu when you were in Yangzhou?"

Although tofu is also required to cut, and many people who have been selling tofu for many years can cut one or two liang directly with a knife for customers. The customer needs two liang, and he can cut two liang out with one knife.

From the knife skills of aged Nian, Lu Ke realized that this cousin who came to join her from afar did not seem as simple as it seemed, because the supper last night was also made by Chen Nian. At the beginning, she was just busy in front and didn't look at it. When she went to the back, she saw three very exquisite dishes on the table.

Although they are all vegetarian dishes, they look very delicious at first glance, and they taste even more delicious when you eat them.

When I was asked suddenly, Chen Nian naturally answered truthfully: "At first, I did sell tofu, but when I went to Tianning Temple to deliver tofu, I saw a monk named Wensi cut out of the tofu that was as thin as hair. So I studied with him for a while. Later, the owner of Ruyi Building there found out, so I invited me to his restaurant to make Wensi tofu soup. Later, I learned some from other chefs in the kitchen..."
Chapter completed!