At the beginning of the morning at 9:00 PM, Zhao Ji opened its doors and the guests who had been waiting outside rushed in.
Today, Zhao Ji’s reputation has been thoroughly established in Fengchi County. Although the snacks in the store are generally expensive, this still cannot stop foodies from buying them.
Originally, Xue Huan's main target customers were children and women, but later she discovered that it wasn't just children and women who loved snacks. There were customers of all ages, and even more men.
Of course, most male guests bought snacks to take home on behalf of their children or women at home.
Today, as the guests entered the store, they smelled a rich fragrance. The fragrance was not from any food they had eaten before, but was something they had never heard of before.
Is Zhao Ji launching new snacks?
That’s right, Zhao Ji has newly launched egg cake.
The purpose of bringing out the egg cake is to preheat the cake. Xue Huan just learned from Pei Ji's mother that his birthday will be soon, and of course he has to eat birthday cake on his birthday. But as Xue Huan, it is not easy for her to take out the cake directly, otherwise it will easily arouse suspicion.
So she planned to use the identity of Zhao Xiaoxian to teach Zhenniang and the others how to make cakes. After they learned it, they would sell it in the store. Then, when she made birthday cakes for Pei Ji, she could use the excuse that she bought them from Zhaoji.
Although she told Xue's mother and the others that she was doing business under another identity, she did not tell them the specific situation for safety reasons, so they did not know that Zhao Xiaoxian was her.
The cake is mainly made of egg cake and cream.
Xue Huan first taught Zhenniang and the others how to make egg cake.
She taught the old-fashioned egg cake method because it is relatively simple and the oven required can be replaced by a special stove. She had previously seen a video of a food blogger who modified the earthen stove and built an earthen stove that can be used as an oven.
Although the temperature cannot be controlled very precisely, you can't ask for more in this era.
She had someone build this simple oven when she hired someone to renovate the shop. After all, biscuits are a large category of snacks, and an oven is essential for making biscuits.
But it's summer now, and the main snacks in the store are ice cream and spicy strips. It's not the best time to introduce cookies, so she didn't teach Zhenniang and the others how to make them.
In fact, she had originally planned to release the cake at a different time than now, but plans can't keep up with changes now, right? In order for Pei Ji to be able to eat the cake on his birthday, she had to move the time forward.
The ingredients needed to make egg cake are low-gluten flour, eggs, honey, and white sugar. You can also prepare some raisins and white sesame seeds. The seasoning is salad oil.
Salad oil is a high-grade edible vegetable oil made from various crude vegetable oils through degumming, decolorization, deodorization (defatting) and other processing procedures.
Of course Xue Huan couldn't take it out, after all, the current oil extraction technology does not allow it. However, salad oil can be replaced with butter. She had already made a batch of butter in advance and stored it in the warehouse in the space.
The warehouse is equipped with space formations, temperature control formations and time formations, which is equivalent to an extra-large fresh-keeping warehouse, and it is the kind that can keep things fresh permanently.
This greatly solved her original food storage problem.
Now she no longer has to worry about the snacks not being able to be preserved for a long time after they are made. This way, Muzuru can let go and concentrate on making food.
She made the first jar of butter herself, but after watching Muzuru make it, she learned how to make it, so she never had to worry about running out of butter again.
As for white sugar, although the production technology of white sugar has been unlocked in this era, the price is still high, and the white sugar produced is not fine and has a yellowish color, so Xue Huan has decided to grow sugarcane and beets in large quantities in the space.
White sugar is extracted from these two plants.
She had tried making sugar by hand before. Although she no longer had some convenient machines, she had mastered another method - magic, as well as refining, talismans and formations. Maybe she could refine a magical instrument with the same function in the future.
Although she has only mastered basic formation skills at present, when her cultivation level reaches a higher level and more memories of her cultivation in her previous life are awakened, she will master these skills sooner or later.
Now, let’s plant the sugarcane and sugar beets first.
Now that the ingredients are ready, the next step is to follow the specific steps.
The first step is to put sugar, eggs and honey into a large bowl.
The second step is to use a manual whisk customized in the carpenter's shop to stir continuously until fine foam appears.
The third step is to continue stirring at a much faster speed than before, and beat the mixed egg liquid completely until the egg liquid on the stirring rod no longer drips.
To put it simply, these two steps are just stirring, stirring continuously, which does not require any technical skills. Xue Huan did not find it difficult when she used an egg beater before, but now that she stirs manually, she realizes how lucky she was to have an egg beater.
Fortunately, she has some skills now, so she can still maintain such high-speed movement.
Step 4: Add the sifted low-gluten flour to the beaten egg liquid, mix well, then add a ball of melted butter and continue mixing.
If you like raisins, you can put some in. Xue Huan didn't put them in. After all, she was teaching Zhenniang and the others, so it would be better to teach them the most basic methods first. As for what other tricks they can develop after learning, that is a matter for them to do after they learn.
And after all, it was her first time making it, and she wasn't sure if she would succeed. If she failed, wouldn't it be a waste of raisins?
It is better to add ingredients after you become proficient in making it.
Step 5: Pour the evenly stirred egg liquid into the mold.
Before this, Xue Huan had asked Xia Xue to light the oven as a preheating measure.
Step 6. Place the egg liquid in the mold and the tray into the oven to heat.
The temperature required to bake a cake is around 160 degrees Celsius. If you use an oven, you can directly adjust this temperature, but now we use firewood and earth stoves, so the temperature is not easy to control.
She estimated that she roasted it for about a quarter of an hour over a moderate fire.
The earthenware oven wasn't sealed, so the aroma would continue to emanate during the baking process. Qiu Rong took a deep breath and said, "What a nice smell! Girl, how long will it take for the cake to be ready?"
Xue Huan discovered that her sense of taste had become much more sensitive after practicing. She could now roughly judge whether the food was ready just by smelling its aroma.
At this time, the aroma of the cake has not yet reached its peak.
"We'll have to wait a while."
At some point, her nose told her that the cake was baked!
If it’s too early, the cake won’t be fully cooked; if it’s too late, the cake will be burnt. This time is neither too early nor too late, just right!
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