Husband, Have Dinner

How can this be done?

A Yao looked helplessly at the back of the maid's departure, opened the small door and looked out.

A small road connects to the kitchen, a large field of lotus leaves, one or two bright red lotus flowers appear in the middle, and a solitary boat is tied to the side of the lotus pond.

Close the door and count the materials, lotus, lotus seed, chrysanthemum, jasmine...

A Yao exuded a message of "poor, helpless, and weak" in the corner. The maid beside the cook girl glanced at A Yao and whispered to her cook as a joke, "Girl, those flowers and grass in the corner," It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s the food of the gods, not to eat the fireworks."

"Don't talk too much, focus on what you are doing."

Some cooks warned to restrain their own people, and some shared gossip with their own people. "I heard that there are two banquets in the mansion today. The young master has a literary banquet with their poetry and composition, and the girl’s house has a poetry and painting meeting for girls. , And she was in charge of Six Girls with another exception. I heard that Six Girls had been raised in the country before, and she was only brought back recently. Naturally, she is not as noble as other girls."

"So that's the case."

"Don't talk too much, whether today's literary meeting or poetry and painting meeting, after all, it is to find a good son-in-law for the girl."

"Oh, didn't that six girl lose?"

"I can invite my country friends to participate in her small banquet, and see where the world is rich and rich, and where there are losses." The chef said with a smile covering her mouth.

"..."

She said yes, don’t break her mouth, but her voice is not low at all. You can hear it in most of the kitchen. A-Yao naturally hears it clearly and feels like she is taking over a hot list, but when she thinks about it, she is just a cook, Lord The family paid a big price to invite her to let the master’s family eat happily and rest assured, it is her own business, why bother to think that the master’s back house has nothing.

But the problem is...

Is it possible to make a lotus banquet?

Just when she thought so, a round-faced maid ran into the kitchen, looked around, and then asked the maid in the kitchen to make sure that A Yao, who was in the deepest part of the kitchen, was the person she was looking for. "Excuse me, but the scallop chef?"

A Yao was still drawing the recipe in her mind, worrying about what to do. The maid next to her woke her up, "I am, what's the matter?"

"I am Lu Ping next to Girl Six, come to see what you need." Lu Ping explained her intentions. Yu Guang glanced at the material on A Yao's hand. Her heart was cold, her heart felt angry and her face was suffocated. It's red and red.

How can these people treat girls like this!

Ayao breathed a sigh of relief. There was a maid next to the master's house, and her diet was taboo. Finally, someone who understood her could tell her that she was saved from the entangled sea of ​​bitterness! "It's great for you to come, how many people will the six girls entertain? What do they not eat..."

Seeing that A Yao was in charge, Lv Ping was relieved to some extent, and paid for A Yao to add ingredients, repeatedly begging A Yao to do well.

A Yao "At that time, six girls... will they use wine or tea to entertain the guests?"

Lvping "First, tea, there is a stage of water flow on the banquet, and the newly brewed rice wine is used, but I just tasted it and didn't drink too much."

"Since it is a curvy stream, then I will add some elegance to you."

Lvping hurry back, and brought the tea. In the eyes of her unknown reason, Ayao asked her to leave and take care of the ingredients, set off on a leaf boat on her own, and floated into the lotus pond.

When the boat head moved away from the lotus leaf, they had to bend their heads to the side. When the boat passed through, they couldn't wait to close together and recover into a lush lotus group, and A Yao was hidden in the depths of the lotus leaf.

The glutinous rice paper carefully wraps one or two tea leaves, and puts them into the budding lotus. The fragrance of the tea is soaked in the tea leaves, and there is a lotus scent after brewing.

She saw that there were several lotus leaves that were slightly larger than a palm growing nearby, and they were in good condition, so she cut out the lotus leaves and kept them for use.

When I returned, the newly added ingredients had already arrived.

A basket of river prawns, a mandarin fish, bracken, brasenia, bamboo shoots, eggs, dried shrimps, kelp, lotus, lotus seeds, tofu, and old hen.

The other chefs glanced at them and secretly smirked. Don’t look at the material, there are a lot of them. The mandarin fish is not big, and there is no dish that can support the appearance. This girl can only add money and add food. It’s like they do. The golden jade, hericium flying dragon, peony agar-agar, a sea cucumber, hibiscus chicken slices, Yunlin duck, poetry ginkgo, etc. Since they are deliberate, they are very face-to-face and can be used for the table, this six girls live by It's really miserable.

"Is this enough?" Lv Ping was worried, and she only found out how much it was when she sent it. The woman who hated the purchase was insatiable and insatiable, and she was distressed that her girl had spent her monthly bills. She invited the cook and bought more ingredients, but it was possible. Can't make decent noodles.

"Enough." A Yao nodded and saw Lu Ping's distressed and low face. She comforted her, "Don't worry, I will do my best to prevent your girl from feeling that the silver rush is still inaudible."

Lu Ping expressed no confidence.

The small banquet of the Six Girls is staggered from the literary banquet and the poetry and painting banquet. It is placed in the afternoon, when the sun sets in the mountains. For A Yao, this time is too much!

First, make the pastries for the guests, the lotus cake and lotus seed cake.

Lotus paste is needed to make lotus cake and lotus seed cake.

Soaking lotus seeds in hot alkaline water can make the lotus seeds easier to boil. Ayao scrubs the lotus seeds with the alkaline surface to make them white. Remove the lotus cores and soak in cold water for half an hour, then steam them on high heat until they are cooked and pounded into purees.

Steam the agar until it melts, then pour it into a copper pot with the lotus seed paste, sugar, and sweet-scented osmanthus. A Yao had already folded square molds with bay leaves, and poured the boiled lotus seed velvet into the molds, and put them in the cool well water to wait for it to condense.

The dry flour was soaked in lard and turned into individual lumps, which were kneaded by Ayao, and gradually melted into a large dough, and there was already a light red moist dough next to it, which was made with red yeast water and lard dough. After mixing and kneading, the red zone water-oil dough wraps the shortbread dough, rolls it out into a rectangle, folds three layers, rolls out and folds three layers, and cuts out the round pastry crust.

The fire on the stove is not strong. She does not forget to pay attention to the wok when kneading the dough. The temperature of the wok rises and the snow-white lard slowly melts. When the oil is not boiling, add sugar and cook, giving off a sweet smell. Spoon After pushing it several times, the sugar melts in the oil and then adds the lotus mushroom and stir fry until the bubbles are reduced. During the frying process, the sugar and cooked lard are still added.

The taste of lard is no longer obvious. It is fused into the lotus mushroom, and the lotus mushroom is wrapped with its fat. The sweet and sticky silk lotus mushroom is shiny and shiny on the outside.

Wrap the filling into the pie crust and squeeze it tightly. Use a knife to cut into five pieces from the top to the surroundings.

Pick up the frying pan, put the raw lotus pastry in a colander, and put it in the frying pan.

With a brush, the lotus cake is in full bloom in the oil pan, the petals are layered, the outer layer is light red, the middle is white, and the inside is brown, shaped like a lotus.

Served in dark long plates, decorated with leaves can be taken to serve guests.