Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and Li Yun thinks of mooncakes.
She drew a large oven based on the oven she had made in her previous life.
After handing the blueprint to Lu Shao, he went to the grocery store in Southeast Town to buy ingredients for mooncakes.
The mooncakes made by ancient people were very simple, just a sugar cake called reunion cake.
The mooncakes Li Yun wants to make include those with red bean paste, five-nut paste, egg yolk paste and cantaloupe paste.
The grocery store was short of many items, so Li Yun bought them on Haoduoduo.
When he got home, Lu Shao had already cut the oven.
Li Yun asked someone to light the fire and keep the temperature constant while she went to make the mooncake filling.
The first thing to make is the red bean paste filling, which is bought from Haoduoduo. It is relatively simple. After making the mooncakes, put them into the preheated oven. After the mooncakes are baked for half a quarter of an hour, Li Yun takes them out, applies a layer of egg yolk on them, and puts them back into the oven and bakes them for a quarter of an hour.
When the time came, Li Yun took out the mooncakes and called his parents-in-law and Shangguan Feiyun to come over and try them.
"Dad, Mom, Shangguan Feiyun, come over and try the mooncakes."
"Here we are, Yun'er (from the old family)." Chen Mo and Qin Lanlan said.
The two smelled the fragrance early in the morning and came over as soon as Li Yun called them.
Chen Mo and Qin Lanlan looked at the mooncakes that looked good, but their shape was different from theirs. The mooncakes they made were big and thick, while this one was thin, tall and thick. They didn't know how to eat it.
"Dad, Mom, this is called mooncake, come and eat it!" Li Yun saw that Chen Mo and Qin Lanlan were just looking at the mooncakes and not eating them, so he urged them to eat the mooncakes.
Chen Mo and Qin Lanlan still refused to take action. Li Yun was helpless and had to cut it into four small pieces with a knife. He gave one piece to Chen Mo and one to Qin Lanlan respectively and put it into their hands.
Li Yun picked up a piece, put it in his mouth, took a small bite, and chewed it slowly.
Well, this is the taste. I really miss the Mid-Autumn Festival in my previous life. I wonder how her children and parents are doing.
"It smells so good! What delicious food did Madam Li make?" Shangguan Feiyun was watching a movie in the cinema. He didn't hear Li Yun calling him, but he smelled the fragrance and his stomach started to growl, so he had to go downstairs to find something to eat.
"Mooncake, come down and try it." Shangguan Feiyun interrupted Li Yun's thoughts, saw him coming downstairs, and asked him to eat mooncake.
"Mooncake, what kind of mooncake smells so good? Let me try it." Shangguan Feiyun came to Li Yun, picked up a small piece of mooncake, put it in his mouth and started eating.
"Wow! So delicious, is it made by Madam Li? I have never eaten it before. The shape does not look like the reunion cakes from the Jin Dynasty." Shangguan Feiyun fell deeply in love with the red bean paste mooncakes because they were sweet but not greasy, oily but not sticky, and had a faint milky aroma in the aftertaste.
He has never liked sweet food, but since he met Li Yun, his taste has changed. He now likes whatever she likes. This is love.
After trying it, Chen Mo and Qin Lanlan also fell in love with red bean paste mooncakes.
Finally, he cut two more mooncakes, kept two, and distributed the rest to the servants.
Li Yun ate red bean paste mooncakes and began to teach the cooks how to make mooncakes. When Dabao and the others came back from school, the five-nut mooncakes, egg yolk mooncakes and Hami melon mooncakes were also ready.
"Dabao, Erbao, Sanbao, Xiaohua, go wash your hands, I'll get you some mooncakes." Li Yun said to Dabao, his three siblings, and Xiaohua who were just getting out of school.
"Mom, what is mooncake?" Dabao asked Li Yun.
He has never eaten mooncakes since he was a child, and neither have Erbao and Sanbao.
"Mooncakes are reunion cakes and are only available during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Wash your hands first and I'll go get the mooncakes." Li Yun said to Dabao and his two siblings.
"Yes, mother (aunt)." Dabao and his two siblings and Xiaohua said.
Dabao took his younger brother and sister to wash their hands, and Li Yun also went to get mooncakes.
Take one of each kind, cut them into four small pieces, and wait for Dabao and the others to come over to eat mooncakes.
Dabao helped his younger siblings wash their hands, and then brought them over to eat mooncakes.
"Dabao, Erbao, Sanbao, Xiaohua, this is a red bean paste mooncake. Each of you take one and try it." Li Yun saw them coming back and pointed at the red bean paste mooncakes and said to Dabao and the others.
"Okay, Mom, let's try it." Dabao said. Then he helped Erbao, Sanbao and Xiaohua get a piece and handed it to them before he took his own piece and put it in his mouth.
"Wow! Mom, the red bean paste mooncakes are so delicious." Dabao tried it and fell in love with the taste. It was sticky and sweet, and really delicious.
"Hmm." Erbao, Sanbao and Xiaohua were busy eating and only uttered the word "hmm" to indicate that they liked it too.
"Eat slowly and be careful when swallowing." Li Yun saw Dabao and the others wolfing down their food and was afraid that the bean paste would stick to their throats.
"Mom, do you have any more red bean paste mooncakes? I want to eat more." Sanbao asked Li Yun after finishing the mooncake in his hand.
Hasn't she had enough?
Mooncakes are so delicious. I have never eaten them before. I am so lucky to have a mother. Not only does she have a big house to live in, but she can also eat delicious food. I am so happy.
Today, many of her female classmates envy her and ask her mother if she still wants a daughter. They want to be her mother's daughter so that they can eat delicious food and live in a big house.
She doesn't want them to be her mother's daughters, and she doesn't want to share her mother with them. As a result, they say she is stingy and don't want to play with her anymore. Why does she not want to play with them?
"We're out of red bean paste cakes. You can try five-nut cakes. You'll like them after you've tried them." Li Yun said to Sanbao.
"Mom is so nice. She even gave me five-nut cakes." Sanbao put his arm around his mother's thigh with the hand that had taken the mooncake and said coquettishly.
"Sanbao, take your dirty hands away. They have soiled your mother's skirt." Li Yun took away Sanbao's chubby and dirty hands, wiped them clean with a rag, and then picked up a piece of five-nut mooncake and gave it to her.
"Sanbao, try this and see if it tastes good." Li Yun said to Sanbao.
"Mom, this five-nut mooncake is also delicious, fragrant and sweet, but it's a bit hard and hurts Sanbao's teeth." Sanbao said to Li Yun after eating the five-nut mooncake.
"I'm sorry! Mommy forgot you are a child. Five-nut mooncakes are made of nuts, which are a bit hard on the teeth and not suitable for very young children." Batam wood and walnuts are indeed a bit hard, and some children may have teeth problems when eating them.
"No, mother, we just need to chew it slowly before swallowing it. The five-nut mooncakes are really fragrant and delicious. Dabao likes them." Maybe it's because Dabao is bigger, so it's not so difficult for him to chew.
"Okay, chew it slowly before swallowing it." Seeing that Dabao liked it, Li Yun let them continue to eat the five-nut mooncakes and did not throw it away.
After Dabao and his friends finished eating the five-nut mooncakes, they also tried an egg yolk mooncake and a Hami melon mooncake. They all liked them very much, especially the Hami melon mooncake, which was sweet. Mom said that it was made of fruit and would not cause sore throat if eaten.
Dabao and his friends tried four kinds of mooncakes and were so full that they couldn't eat dinner at all.
At dinner, Li Yun did not force them to eat, but just asked the four of them to run around the village to aid digestion.
After dinner, everyone accompanied Dabao and the other three for a walk in the village. They didn't go home until they finished the walk, then took a shower and went to bed.
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