The next day, when Lin Zhou got up, he saw that Da Dong had prepared all the ingredients for making mooncakes.
The ingredients are plentiful, including salted duck eggs, red beans, mung beans, black sesame seeds, pork, and more.
Lin Zhou only mentioned making mooncakes yesterday, but Da Dong bought all the ingredients early this morning.
The red beans and other ingredients that need to be soaked have already been soaked overnight.
It is clear that he took Lin Zhou's words to heart.
"Boss, please take a look at these ingredients. They are all fresh ingredients that I bought at the market this morning."
Da Dong, as expected of someone with a chef's certificate, bought very fresh vegetables.
Lin Zhou looked around and said there was no problem.
He hadn't decided what kind of mooncakes to make yet, but looking at the ingredients, he subconsciously started thinking about recipes.
Red bean paste filling can be used to make Cantonese-style mooncakes, while fresh meat filling can be used to make Suzhou-style fresh meat mooncakes. There are also beautiful snow skin mooncakes. They are simple and delicious, and you can make some of them.
It can be given as a gift or eaten by yourself.
Lin Zhou's pastry-making skills have matured quickly over time; he's become quite adept at it.
Having cooked many dishes, he was no longer the complete novice who had maxed-out culinary skills but knew nothing about recipes.
Culinary skills can be said to be interconnected.
With a systematic, max-level cooking skill as a foundation, Lin Zhou basically has recipes and knows how to make a dish, so the food he makes will never be bad.
Once he has a plan in mind, he can start doing it.
Of course, before taking action, he went out to a dim sum restaurant for breakfast and only started doing so after returning.
Lin Zhou didn't need any help, so he told Da Dong to go outside and rest. He then listened to music while kneading dough and frying bean paste, keeping himself very busy.
Making mooncake crust is different from kneading dough. Although they look similar, you can only make it by pressing and folding to avoid kneading it too much and developing gluten. I can't imagine what it would taste like to eat a mooncake with a chewy crust.
Thinking this way, Lin Zhou suddenly felt like he could see the scene.
A slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
To the passing employees, this scene made them think that their boss really enjoyed cooking; when he was cooking, he looked relaxed and happy.
Although it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the property management still needs to have people on duty.
Because not all the companies in the building are closed for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The building can't just close its doors and let everyone rest.
So someone still needs to be on duty.
"Do you think the mooncakes the boss makes include any for us?"
Those who stayed at the company on duty would gather together to chat when they had nothing else to do.
To be honest, their company had a heavy workload when they first took over after the boss bought it along with the Ziyuan Building.
Once all the work was handed over and things were back on track, everyone had nothing much to do.
We only need to address incidents that occur to tenants within the building.
Commonly known as property management.
"I don't know. Didn't they give out Mid-Autumn Festival gifts? Besides mooncakes and such, they also gave everyone a 1,000 yuan bonus. I guess the boss made these for himself."
"I think the boss will share some with us. He's shy, so if we just go up to him and beg him, we'll get some to eat."
"Good lad, you're a real man, you've got a good grasp of men's thoughts."
"You guys talk, I need to go and sign the parking space rental contract on the 23rd floor."
"OK, OK, go ahead and get busy."
The remaining people, having nothing else to do, made spreadsheets and compiled them for all the companies in the building, according to the dates of their lease agreements and the floors listed.
"By the way, has the finance department calculated how much the annual rent for this building is? I can't believe it, how much is that?"
As they tidied up, the employees sighed with envy.
"Do you even think about whether the compiled version is something you'd be able to read?"
"Hey, I was just curious."
"It smells so good! Is the owner baking mooncakes?"
"No, it tastes like red bean paste, very sweet."
Yes, Lin Zhou is cooking red beans.
The method for making red bean paste is no different from the method for making red bean buns.
Soak the red beans overnight, bring them to a boil, then usually use a high-speed blender to crush them, leaving half of the beans whole, and pour them back into the pot to continue cooking.
Cook until the water is almost gone, the bean paste in the pot is bubbling and popping, making a sticky sound.
Then add sugar and stir-fry to make red bean paste.
The finished red bean paste is sweet with a hint of red bean fragrance, making it a perfect filling for steamed buns or pastries.
Stir-fry mung beans, red beans, and sesame paste in succession.
Lin Zhou wiped the sweat from his forehead.
This is really hard work.
If the filling isn't scrambled into a ball and has a delicate sheen, it's not a good filling.
The proportions of ingredients, the heat level, and the pressure applied are all very important.
Even though Lin Zhou had better physical strength than the average person, he was still quite tired after frying three large pots of filling.
Once the dough and filling are ready, the rest of the work is simple.
Take a dough ball, wrap the filling inside, press it into the mold, and then bake it in the oven.
Lin Zhou looked at the fillings on the counter, then at the employees outside who were occasionally taking a peek while getting a drink of water, and came up with a good idea.
He walked into the office area and said with a smile, "I've prepared the fillings and dough. Would you like to try making mooncakes yourselves?"
The employees' eyes lit up immediately upon hearing this.
Is this for real?
"Yes, yes, boss! I've never made mooncakes before!"
"Boss, you're so kind. Are you really letting us do it ourselves?"
This novel experience would probably cost a lot of money to make mooncakes at some craft workshops.
Unexpectedly, they actually experienced it at the company on the Mid-Autumn Festival!
"It's very simple. Just take the dough, wrap the filling, press it into the mold, and bake it."
It does sound like it doesn't involve much technology.
The employees who had nothing else to do followed Lin Zhou to the kitchen.
As soon as you enter, you can smell the sweet aroma of the filling.
The rich aroma of sesame, along with the delicate fragrance of red and mung beans, truly evokes the sweet and delicious feeling of mooncakes.
Several people lined up to wash their hands, and then watched Lin Zhou make a mooncake. With Da Dong's help and guidance, the others also got busy.
Lin Zhou smiled and went to the side to make fresh meat mooncakes.
Fresh meat mooncakes are a type of flaky pastry, and they are more difficult to make than Cantonese-style mooncakes.
The principle behind puff pastry is to wrap dry oil dough with water-oil dough, and then roll it out into a flaky pastry.
The challenge of this type of pastry lies in requiring the water-oil dough and the dry oil pastry to have the same consistency.
Otherwise, it will fail.
If the dry oil dough is too hard, it will puncture the water-oil dough when rolling it out, resulting in failure.
However, if the skin is too hard due to water and oil, the layers cannot be distinguished, resulting in the same failure.
Therefore, you must be careful when making it.
Lin Zhou was doing this for the first time, and he was so focused that he didn't have time to wrap the mooncakes. So he could only try to get everyone involved.
This makes everyone feel involved, and the mooncakes will taste even better when they are eaten.
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