After glancing at the employees who were busy wrapping the dough, Lin Zhou felt reassured and decided to start making the dry oil pastry.
Take a large stainless steel bowl, put in the lard first, then add the flour.
Then, use your hands to mix and crumble the lard and flour. The warmth of your hands will melt the lard, and it will be mixed evenly in no time.
The next step is to make the water-oil skin.
The water for the water-oil dough should be hot; that way, the flour won't develop gluten.
Find a container, put in flour first, then add sugar, then pour in hot water. Stir slightly until the flour becomes flocculent. Add lard and mix well.
Once the water-oil dough is kneaded into a ball, it will be elastic, which contrasts with the hard texture of the dry oil dough, indicating that it is ready.
Looking at the dry oil pastry and water-oil dough that he had successfully made on his first try, Lin Zhou gained a new understanding of his culinary talent.
I thought it would be a bit difficult, but I didn't expect to make it so easy as soon as I started.
Let the two doughs rest for a while.
Lin Zhou glanced at the employees who were wrapping mooncakes with great enthusiasm and felt that they were not wrapping mooncakes, but rather doing a team-building activity.
With the pastry ready, it's time to prepare the meat filling.
As he worked on it, Lin Zhou suddenly realized that making mooncakes was no different from making steamed buns.
It all involves preparing the dough and filling.
The method for making the fresh meat filling is similar to that of the previous meat bun filling.
So his hands became more and more skilled, and in no time he had prepared a bowl of fresh meat filling.
Once the dough has rested, you can start wrapping the pastry.
Lin Zhou sprinkled a layer of dry flour on the cutting board, then placed the water-oil dough on the cutting board and rolled it into a palm-sized piece of dough.
In this step, the dough doesn't need to be rolled out too big; just big enough to wrap the dry oil pastry.
Then, pinch the dry oil dough into a small ball, place it in the center of the water-oil dough, and gather the edges to wrap it up.
Roll out the wrapped dough thinly, back and forth, until it becomes a rectangular pancake. Fold it over and roll it out again, back and forth, left and right.
Then I got a big pie.
Roll up the pancake, wrapping it tightly layer by layer until it becomes a roll like a towel. Cut it into small pieces, roll them out into dumpling wrappers, and then you can wrap them.
Making fresh meat mooncakes is more like making steamed buns.
The filling is wrapped in dough, shaped into a ball, flattened into a disc, and then placed on a baking tray to bake.
The oven kept working, and tray after tray of mooncakes came out one after another.
Everyone was incredibly excited as they gathered around the freshly baked mooncakes.
"Wow, so this is what freshly baked mooncakes look like. I've never had a hot mooncake before."
"Hilarious! Aside from making them yourself, who has ever eaten hot mooncakes? They're all made, cooled, packaged, and sold."
"Is it too hot? I'd like to try a bite."
"Aren't you talking nonsense? It was just taken out. Are you going to eat it? It'll burn you to death."
After the mooncakes came out of the oven, everyone was either taking pictures or watching, and no one was in the mood to continue making mooncakes.
Only Da Dong held his ground, continuing to help Lin Zhou wrap mooncakes.
"Why don't you try the mooncakes you made yourself?"
Lin Zhou was quite happy to see everyone having such a lively time.
I get curious when I see Da Dong, who isn't interested in me.
"It'll be the same when we eat later, there's so much."
Da Dong wanted to cherish the days his boss spent in the building and cultivate a good relationship with him, hoping to be promoted directly to the position of the boss's assistant.
He was content.
Nothing else is as important as the boss!
"Yes, did you buy packaging boxes?"
"I bought them. They come in wooden boxes, bamboo boxes, and cardboard boxes."
"Okay, we'll pack them up once the mooncakes have cooled down."
"Then you can make a trip to Jiangdong City and deliver some mooncakes to me."
Lin Zhou's attention and willingness to assign him tasks were the best recognition for Da Dong, and he was so excited that his hands were shaking as he wrapped the mooncakes.
This was the first thing the boss asked him to do after he started helping out with grocery shopping.
That's a good start!
Da Dong felt that his wish might actually come true.
"Yes, boss, I guarantee I'll complete the task."
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After Da Dong finished packaging the mooncakes, in order to get to Jiangdong City quickly, he first took a taxi to the high-speed rail station and then took the high-speed rail to Jiangdong City.
Following the address given by Lin Zhou, they arrived at Villa No. 3 in the Royal Capital by taxi and handed a suitcase full of mooncakes to Butler Sun.
Butler Sun had also received a message from Lin Zhou in advance and was waiting at the gate of the villa.
Da Dong was very excited.
He was definitely the first employee to have access to the boss's private life.
He's the perfect candidate for the boss's assistant!
Butler Sun and the others were surprised that their boss, who was not in Jiangdong for the Mid-Autumn Festival, still remembered to send them mooncakes.
I'm so touched I don't know what to say.
Then they kept their own portions, sent a few boxes to the Zhang family, and then sent some to Pan Yuan; Steward Sun arranged everything.
When Da Dong returned to Ziyuan Building to report the situation to Lin Zhou, he saw that all the employees who were supposed to be resting had come to the company to get mooncakes.
Lin Zhou did a lot; two people could do it each.
"Damn, I should have kept my day off today. The people on duty are even making mooncakes with the boss. Who's envious? I'm not saying anything."
"It smells so good! I don't usually like mooncakes, but I really love this fresh meat mooncake. The crust is crispy on the outside and crunchy on the inside, and it has a great texture. I've never had a savory mooncake before. In previous years, the mooncakes my family bought were all sweet, and they were so sweet and dry that they were awful."
"Old-fashioned mooncakes are very sweet. The snow skin mooncakes nowadays are much better, but they are still far from the mooncakes made by the shop owner. I also ate mooncakes at home, and the taste difference is too great."
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