"Now you know how important I am!" Lu Chuan laughed loudly.
"Yes, yes, you're right, you're the most important!" Xu Han echoed.
I don't know what happened, but when I first met Lu Chuan, he wasn't a talkative person at all. Now he's become more and more talkative!
I wonder what Lu Chuan's expression would be if he knew what Xu Han was thinking.
"I plan to go to the reed marshes tomorrow to hunt some more ducks. I'll go early tomorrow and might come back a little late," Lu Chuan said to Xu Han.
"Okay, I'll make mooncakes at home tomorrow. I think the oven is almost ready. After dinner, could you make me two lids? The holes need to be plugged."
"Okay, I'll do it for you in a bit. We have plenty of wood at home! Enough is enough."
After finishing his meal, Lu Chuan took out the wood and tools from the tool shed, drew out the appropriate size according to the dimensions, and then began to cut it out with the tools.
After cutting, it needs to be polished, otherwise it won't be smooth and will cut your hands.
Finally, attach the handle to it, and one cover is complete. Use the same method to make the next one.
Lu Chuan was making the lid, and Xu Han couldn't help much, so she started taking out the ice jelly seeds from her space and processing them.
It was almost ten o'clock when they finished, and the two of them didn't plan to do anything else, so they went to wash up and go to bed.
The next morning, Lu Chuan got up early and set off, while Xu Han got up a little later.
He went into the yard, fed the livestock first, and then began to eat his own breakfast.
After breakfast, first wash the red beans that were soaked yesterday, cook them until soft, and let them sit for a while before making red bean paste.
Then start making the mooncake crust. Take out some flour, put it in a pot and steam it until cooked. After steaming, take it out while it's still hot and place it on a cutting board to crush the dough pieces.
Sift it again to remove any small lumps, which will make the flour finer.
Take out a large basin, add an appropriate amount of cooking oil, alkaline water, honey and other ingredients, pour in the steamed flour, add some raw flour, and start kneading the dough.
When kneading dough, you can't knead it like usual. You have to press it down with your fist repeatedly until the flour is fully incorporated.
After kneading the dough, let it rest for a while.
Xu Han started making the mooncake fillings; she planned to make several different flavors today.
Let's make a five-nut one first. Put peanuts, sesame seeds, walnuts, melon seeds and other nuts that you have at home into a plate.
There weren't enough ingredients for the five-nut filling, so I just added in any nuts I could find to make up the number.
Then put the plate into the oven and bake it for a while.
This was Xu Han's first time using this oven, and she didn't know how to control the temperature or whether the food would burn, so she could only check on it several times during the process.
Thank goodness! Xu Han took it out just in time. It was only slightly overcooked, but it was still edible. It would be even more fragrant if it were cooked like this.
Chop all the filling ingredients into small pieces, mix them together, then add honey, sugar, cooking oil, and flour and mix them together. The five-nut filling is now ready.
Take out the egg yolks that you just cracked out earlier and put them back into the oven to bake until cooked.
The baked egg yolks sizzled and oozed oil, looking incredibly fragrant and tempting, making you want to take a bite right away. Take them out of the oven and set them aside.
After finishing everything, take out the red beans that were cooked in advance, mash them, add some sugar and oil, and make red bean paste.
Then I took out the jam I had made earlier from the space and used it to make snow skin mooncakes later.
The dough for snow skin mooncakes is different from the dough for baked mooncakes, so it needs to be prepared separately.
Prepare appropriate amounts of glutinous rice flour, rice flour, wheat starch, sugar, and milk, mix them well, and then steam them until cooked.
After steaming, add an appropriate amount of butter and knead into a smooth dough.
Xu Han had made the rice flour and wheat starch herself in advance, but she didn't make much, just a small amount.
Butter is always in the refrigerator, since Xu Han also likes to make cookies and pastries at home, so how could she be without these things!
After the snow skin is prepared, take out a portion, add an appropriate amount of jam to color it. There are also other colored vegetable powders in the container, which you can use to color it as well.
Take out some fruit and cheese, which we can use to wrap inside the snow skin mooncakes later.
After everything was ready, Xu Han started making mooncakes, starting with snow skin mooncakes, which don't need to be baked and can be eaten directly after they're done.
Take out the electronic scale from the space, and first divide the dough into portions and fillings. After dividing them all, set them aside for later use.
Take out a piece of glutinous rice skin, sprinkle some cooked glutinous rice flour on it, roll it into a thin sheet, put the filling inside and wrap it up, and finally use the mooncake mold in the space to unmold it.
Repeat this process until all the snow skin mooncakes are wrapped.
It was past lunchtime, but Xu Han wasn't hungry yet. She had already eaten two snow skin mooncakes. So she decided not to eat any more and continued making mooncakes.
Repeat the above steps until all the mooncakes are wrapped before Xu Han begins baking them. Because she can't control the heat well, Xu Han doesn't dare to wrap mooncakes and bake them at the same time.
There's no time to spare, I'm all too busy and flustered. I'll just wait until I've wrapped them all up, then patiently bake them slowly!
Place the wrapped mooncakes into the oven and start baking.
The first batch was a failure! The heat was too high, and they all burned. Luckily, Xu Han only put in a few, so she slowly adjusted the temperature and tried again.
The second one was also a little burnt, but it was still edible, just the color didn't look very appealing.
The third batch was a success! The color was beautiful, and it was cooked through. Xu Han decided to use the other oven as well, adjusting the temperature as before to continue baking.
It was a success, not bad at all! Having found the technique, I started baking at this pace, continuing until dusk. Xu Han then stored all the finished mooncakes into her spatial storage.
This oven is really great! It will be wonderful to bake cookies and bread when I have some free time!
It was already dark by then, and Lu Chuan had not returned. Xu Han went to the courtyard gate and saw a fire moving in their direction.
It must be Lu Chuan who has returned. Since she couldn't see him clearly, Xu Han didn't dare to go over easily. It wasn't until she heard Hei Feng's cry that Xu Han went over and stepped forward to meet Lu Chuan so she could help him carry some things.
"How come we hunted so many wild ducks today?" Xu Han looked at the stretcher Lu Chuan was dragging behind him and roughly estimated that there were about forty or fifty ducks!
"It's been a long time since I've been there. I was lucky today and had a great haul, catching a total of 54 ducks!" Lu Chuan replied happily.
"There are quite a lot. I'll marinate some when the weather gets colder in a few days and cook it as cold duck, which is also quite nice."
"Okay, I'll leave it all to you. I'll eat it no matter how you cook it."
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