Having been punished by Yinzuo so many times, Yin'er naturally knew that he couldn't confront his sixth brother head-on. Seeing that his tone was wrong, his arrogant tone immediately softened.
"Sixth brother, I was wrong just now. Can you please forgive me this time? The Queen Mother's birthday is in two days. Every year, we usually gave her Buddhist scriptures that we copied ourselves. This year, we wanted to give her something else besides the scriptures, but we thought about it for a long time and couldn't come up with any good ideas. Now that you're back, we thought you usually have the most ideas, so we came to see you this morning."
Good heavens, if Yin'er hadn't said this, Yinzuo would have almost forgotten that the old lady's birthday was in two days. When he thought about how his brothers had carefully prepared gifts and he was the only one who would go empty-handed, Yinzuo couldn't help but feel lucky that Yinzhi and the others came today.
"The Royal Madam's birthday is in two days. It's too late to think about anything else now. Do you remember the birthday cake I made for Fourth Brother last year? It wasn't difficult to make, and it looked novel. Why don't we make a birthday cake for the Royal Madam? What do you think?"
Yinzuo's proposal was quickly unanimously approved by everyone. After all, as Yinzuo said, two days would definitely not be enough time to prepare other things. They had all tasted the birthday cake, which had a soft texture and was easy to digest, and was suitable for the Empress Dowager. Moreover, the style of the cake looked novel and unique, so it would be appropriate to make a fresh one and give it to the Empress Dowager to celebrate her birthday.
Since everyone hit it off, the next natural step was to start preparing the ingredients for making the cake. There were no ovens in the Qing Dynasty, but there were baking ovens in the palace. The imperial chefs dealt with ingredients every day, so making a cake base was naturally not a difficult task for them. What's more, they had the experience of success last time, so this step was almost done in one go.
After the cake base is made, it is time to make the most difficult step in making the cake, which is making the cream. There is actually only one ingredient needed to make the cream, and that is milk. Yinzuo also adopted the easiest way to make it nowadays, which is to pour the milk into the pot and boil it. After it cools down, take the cream skin on top, and then add butter and sugar to beat it. The simple version of buying oil is ready.
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