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In the blink of an eye, time has entered mid-August (lunar calendar).

Li Anran, who was alone abroad and in a winery in a remote area of ​​Pana, naturally could not experience the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival reunion of man and moon. He chatted with Hu Jing, who was still in China, through video.

Finally, I simply carried my camping equipment and went into the mountains. It was called to take a break, but in fact I was transported to the time and space of the Tang Dynasty, where I was going to enjoy the feeling of the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival.

Compared to the busyness of modern time and space, Li Anran was obviously much more relaxed when he returned to the time and space of the Tang Dynasty.

After a period of running-in, the progress of the Xiaoyao Villa and Academy projects has entered a stable stage of development. The relevant project leaders have also been trained. Except for some overall problems, Li Anran basically no longer needs to take care of them.

. During this time, I either taught Su Xiaomei and the four masters and servants of Xiangyun basic knowledge about Chinese pinyin and mathematics in the classroom, or took the four of them around in the pleasant places near the villa.

Considering that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Anran immediately mobilized a few craftsmen to build a row of ovens with cement and bricks in the open space outside the manor. Taking advantage of the opportunity to build and bake,

After working on the furnace, they brought in a large amount of refined flour, boiled lard and syrup, cooked red beans and mung beans, and even mixed edible alkali and water in a ratio of one to four, and

Prepared a lot of wooden cake molds.

"Master, what are you doing?" Su Xiaomei, who had changed her original girl's headdress into a woman's hairstyle after losing her virginity, gently shook the hollow sandalwood fan that was recently popular among women in the Tang Dynasty.

While fanning someone, he looked at the lively scene curiously and asked.

"Today is August 15th, the day when people get together, so naturally I have to make some mooncakes to suit the occasion, so that everyone can have fun." After arranging the work, Li Anran leaned on the rocking chair made by the carpenter, while

Enjoying the grape wine with ice fish on it, he smiled.

"Mooncake? Master, what kind of mooncake is it?" Xiangyun, who was leaning on the other side, reached out to pick up a strawberry and gently put it into someone's mouth, then asked with his charming big eyes flashing.

"What are mooncakes?" Li Anran, who was just thinking about making mooncakes, was stunned for a moment before he remembered that although the Mid-Autumn Festival had already existed in the early Tang Dynasty, mooncakes seemed to be a later festival.

Food. Then he said with a smile: "Is this moon cake? As the name suggests, it is a kind of cake that is very similar to the moon on August 15th. You will know what it is exactly when you look back. I believe you will like it."

"Young master, you are showing off again." Su Xiaomei, who had lost her virginity and had a charming look on her originally green face, said dissatisfiedly, pouting her rosy mouth.

"Haha... I'm not trying to be pretentious. It's mooncakes that I just used words to describe, but they are false after all. Only after you taste them with your own mouth can you know what they are." Li Anran defended himself and looked at the two women pitifully.

He had a pensive expression. Even though he knew it was a deliberate act, he still felt very pleased with it. Then he smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I'll make it for you right away, okay?"

Hearing this, Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun's originally pitiful expressions suddenly turned into happy smiles after the rain and the sky cleared up, and they all laughed in unison: "Hee hee... the young master is the best."

After getting along for a while, especially after they had sex, the relationship between the three of them became obviously much closer than at the beginning. Especially when Li Anran used the learning machine to impart some knowledge, as well as the language of modern time and space.

In terms of habits, communication and behavior between the three of them, if it weren't for the fact that the three of them were still very ancient in their clothing and would be restrained when there were many outsiders, they would be almost no different from couples in modern society.

What makes Li Anran very satisfied is that although Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun have changed a lot, and they occasionally act coquettishly and play small "games" with him, they are still virtuous and virtuous women in ancient times. Special.

When you are in front of others, you know what you can do, what you can say, what you cannot do, what you cannot say, and your behavior is very appropriate.

Seeing that he had finished speaking, Li Anran, who originally wanted to be lazy, had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and go into battle himself.

The second wife Zhao, also known as Mrs. Zhao Qian, was directing the cooks who had been trained through many tests to handle various ingredients and make preparations according to someone's requirements. After seeing someone walk to the counter,

, and quickly leaned over.

"Ms. Zhao Qian, the cakes I want to make today are called mooncakes. You can see how I make them first. After you learn how to make them, you will have to teach the cooks how to make them. There are also mooncakes needed by the academy in the entire villa.

It's up to you to finish it, you know?" Li Anran pointed at the ingredients on the chopping board and said.

"Yes, young master." Zhao Qianshi, who had already received the order before, quickly agreed.

Considering that there were quite a few people who wanted to get the moon cakes this time, in order to avoid any problems, Li Anran nodded, then called Su Xiaomei and Xiang to his side, and asked them to stand aside with manuscript paper and pencils.

Record the recipe and production aspects of mooncakes.

Although there are many varieties of moon cakes and different tastes, the actual preparations are almost the same.

Generally speaking, mooncakes are divided into three types of crusts, syrup crust, meringue crust and ice crust. As for the types of cake fillings, there are many kinds. In addition to the common bean paste, salt and pepper, and lotus paste, basically everything can be used.

You can use them to make stuffing. Of course, the premise is that you can get used to it.

The first thing Li Anran started to make was the most common syrup-crusted mooncakes. The first step was to mix the syrup, water and cooking oil evenly in proportions, and then mix the refined white flour ground by the waterwheel mill through a sieve.

Mix the good liquid into an oily dough, then cover it with wet gauze and let it rest for a while.

Considering that the syrup crust cannot be used immediately, Li Anran took the opportunity to make the puff pastry.

Compared with syrup skin, puff pastry is obviously more troublesome. Knead the water-oil skin first, and then take out the puff pastry. After waking up for a while, wrap the puff pastry with water-oil skin like a bun. Then repeat rolling.

Form into dough, fold, roll out into dough, fold this process, and finally pull out small pieces of dough according to the portion.

At this time, the previous syrup crust has also woken up. Using the kitchen electronic scale brought from modern time and space, the dough is also divided into small doughs of equal weight. After rolling it into a round cake crust that is slightly thicker in the middle and slightly thinner around the edges,

Place the bean paste filling that has been rolled into a ball into the middle of the pie crust. After closing the dough, put it directly into the mooncake mold that you bought from Modern Time and Space and press it, and a patterned mooncake will be ready.

The puff pastry mooncakes are only different in making the crust, and are the same in other aspects. After the two crusts were ready, it only took more than half an hour. Under Li Anran's skillful hands, the table was very smooth.

There were soon rows of two types of mooncakes, either with different patterns or round balls that looked like shrunken steamed buns.

It just so happened that a lot of the ovens had been completed at this time. I found the one that was completed first and lit the fire. When the temperature rose to about the same, I put these mooncakes directly into the baking pan that was also brought from modern time and space.

and then stuffed into the furnace to bake.

In the process of making mooncakes, Li Anran gave detailed instructions for every step. In addition, as long as you master the recipe and the amount of dough, it is not difficult at all. So, when the first batch of mooncakes is baked,

By that time, Zhao Er's mother-in-law, Zhao Qianshi, was already able to lead the group of cooks to work on the counter skillfully.

Baked foods, no matter whether they are Chinese or Western, all have one characteristic, that is, they are full of aroma when baked. No, after the first batch of mooncakes is baked, a tempting sweet aroma begins to spread outside the manor.

floating in the open space.

For Li Anran, a modern person, sweets like mooncakes are nothing at all. But for the common people in the Tang Dynasty, mooncakes, a sweet and oily food, can definitely be regarded as a supreme delicacy.

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Even though Su Xiaomei and Xiangyun often opened a small stove at Li Anran's side and tasted various delicious snacks from modern time and space, after eating them, they still immediately fell in love with this kind of sweet, soft or crispy snacks.
Chapter completed!