After Boss Liu parked the car, Ai Xiaoxia got out first and ran to Li Shaofen: "Mom, I brought home an oven. I'll tell you the details later. It's free anyway."
At this time, Boss Liu also got out of the car and said to Li Shaofen, "Mrs. Lu is so lucky. Her son is promising and her daughter-in-law is capable. We are so envious of her."
Li Shaofen recognized this as Mr. Liu, the baker from the village. Although she was just kidding, she still said politely, "Thank you for the compliment. Mr. Liu, come in and have a drink."
Boss Liu said, "No, sister-in-law. I have a lot of things to do at home. I will come and bother you again when I have the chance."
Ai Xiaoxia called Lu Jingyuan out to help lift the oven down, and then Boss Liu went back. He was also anxious to go back and try those recipes. If there was anything he couldn't do well, he would have to ask Ai Xiaoxia again. Of course, he knew that Ai Xiaoxia was the daughter-in-law of this family, so he felt relieved.
After seeing off Boss Liu, Lu Guojiu also came out. The whole family gathered around the oven with a lot of questions in their heads.
Ai Xiaoxia said to Lu Guojiu, "Dad, let's get the things in first, and then I'll tell you in detail."
Lu Jingyuan and Li Shaofen directly lifted the oven at the door, Ai Xiaoxia also hurried over to help, and although Lu Guojiu was in poor health, he also came over to help and quickly moved the oven into the house.
Ai Xiaoxia asked them to move the oven directly to the east room because there was power supply in the east room and the table and other things were all in this room, which was also convenient.
After putting it in place, she tried it out first and found that the oven worked well, and then she told everyone the origin of this thing.
Of course, these were all the excuses she had thought of beforehand: "Mom and Dad, I traded this oven with Boss Liu for a bread recipe. The recipe was written in a notebook I found once. I thought it was quite interesting, so I would flip through it when I had nothing to do. Over time, I memorized it. Later, the notebook was used to start a fire at home, but the recipes are still in my mind. I thought we could make some snacks at home and sell them at the market to make some money, but we don't have an oven, so I came up with this idea: trading the recipe."
Li Shaofen looked at Ai Xiaoxia in surprise: "So you just give me the recipe, and I'll give you something this big?"
Ai Xiaoxia smiled and said, "Mom, recipes might be worthless to ordinary people, but if they're useful to someone, they could be a fortune. Competition is fierce these days. If someone else opens a bakery, wouldn't that mean the business will be taken away if Boss Liu doesn't have a new product? But since he has the recipe for the new product, doesn't that mean he has the capital to compete?"
Lu Guojiu nodded repeatedly and said, "Xiaoxia is right. I understand this. In the early years, there were people in the village who used recipes to exchange for houses. The value of some things cannot be seen with the eyes."
Lu Jingyuan looked at Ai Xiaoxia and looked around: "Sister-in-law, are you possessed by a spirit? Why are you completely different from before?"
Li Shaofen knocked on Lu Jingyuan's back and said, "How can this child be so disrespectful and talk to your sister-in-law like that?"
Ai Xiaoxia smiled and said to Li Shaofen, "Mom, it's okay. I didn't do it well before, so I've changed a little bit, so you think I've changed a lot. By the way, let's try making some snacks. There's a market in the village the day after tomorrow. If it works, we can go to the market and see if we can sell it."
Li Shaofen nodded repeatedly. Looking at such a large oven, why would she not trust Ai Xiaoxia? So she quickly asked, "What are you preparing? If you don't have any, ask Jingyuan to buy some."
Ai Xiaoxia doesn't want to make anything too complicated for the time being. It's summer now, so she can make some mung bean pastries to relieve the heat, and some jujube paste pastries. These have different tastes, but the cost is not high and they are easy for people to accept.
She said to Li Shaofen, "Mom, you don't need to buy anything today. We have enough at home for now. Let's just try it out first. We can buy more tomorrow if it works. Can you help me soak some mung beans and red dates? We can make some mung bean paste and red date paste."
Li Shaofen was also impatient, so she went straight to do these things.
Ai Xiaoxia was not in a hurry to knead the dough. She just needed to wait until the fillings were ready before starting to cook. So she fetched some water and cleaned the oven first.
After these were done, Ai Xiaoxia asked Li Shaofen to clean the table and prepare flour, sugar and rapeseed oil.
Then she started making the date paste filling. The mung beans had to be soaked for four or five hours, so the date paste was made first.
Lu Jingyuan helped her light the fire while she cooked the date paste. Half an hour later, the dates cracked. She soaked the cooked dates in cold water, and then everyone started to remove the date pits together.
Finally, use gauze to filter the dates with the pits removed, and then you can start frying the date paste.
It just so happened that she had rock sugar at home, which works much better than white sugar. She originally wanted to just give it a try, but she didn't expect it to be so successful.
After the date paste was ready, she began to knead the dough. The essence of Chinese pastry pastries is the water-oil dough method, which Ai Xiaoxia is very good at.
She knew how to use the beam scale at home, after all, she had the original owner's memories, but she was not skilled in it, so she asked Lu Guojiu to help her weigh it.
After the oily skin and the crispy skin are prepared, cover them with a wet cloth to keep them moisturized and let them rest.
At this time, you can also divide the date paste into equal parts, divide the date paste filling, and when the dough has risen, you can start wrapping the pastries.
She was a food blogger in her previous life. In order to take photos, she paid great attention to the appearance of the pastries. She knew how to make jujube flower pastries, lotus flower pastries, and chrysanthemum flower pastries, so she made several variations of this pastry.
Seeing the beautiful pastries being wrapped one by one, the family members were surprised again. This daughter-in-law was really different from the one they knew before.
Li Shaofen also hurried over to learn and soon got the hang of it.
After wrapping the pastry, decorate it with egg yolk liquid and black sesame seeds, preheat the oven, and then start baking.
In less than ten minutes, the house was filled with fragrance. Lu Jingyuan walked around the oven, sniffing and asking Ai Xiaoxia, "Sister-in-law, did you pretend to be crazy before?"
Ai Xiaoxia discovered that her brother-in-law was a straight man who never beat around the bush and always said what he meant.
She smiled and said, "Do you believe me?"
Lu Jingyuan nodded: "I believe it, otherwise why did you act like a psychopath, asking for money every day?"
Ai Xiaoxia recalled the original owner's story, and it was indeed like that. She smiled awkwardly and said, "Wasn't I forced by my mother's family before? I had no choice."
Lu Jingyuan shook his head: "It's impossible for a person to change so much all of a sudden..."
Before he could finish, Lu Guojiu slapped Lu Jingyuan on the back: "Are you done yet?"
Lu Jingyuan was caught off guard and almost fell to the ground: "Dad, be gentle, I'm just chatting with my sister-in-law."
Lu Guojiu said, "Are you just chatting? If you don't know how to speak, just shut up for a while."
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