Cities: Start with street stalls

Chapter 243 Making Mooncakes
Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, Luo Fan will also start preparing moon cakes according to the original plan.

Although some good mooncakes can be bought in the market, Luo Fan feels that since he has the strength, there is no need to go out and buy them.

For some things, it is safer to make it yourself, and Luo Fan is also confident that the mooncakes made by himself will definitely taste better than outside.

Now that he had this plan, Luo Fan ordered the molds needed to make mooncakes online early on, bought some ingredients, and looked at the logistics information. It will arrive almost today.

According to Luo Fan's plan, there are three kinds of mooncakes to be made this time, one kind of mung bean mooncake, one kind of five-nut mooncake, and one kind of Liuxin ice skin mooncake.

The mung bean mooncake is Luofan's own innovation. It uses mung bean cake as the skin and mung bean paste as the filling. It is a mooncake that fits the theme of Yifan Quandoufang very well.

This mung bean mooncake is a benefit that Luo Fan intends to provide to customers, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, which can be regarded as a little care of Luo Fan.

Luo Fan directly posted a notice on the official account that on the [-]th and [-]th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, every customer who enters the store for consumption can get a mung bean mooncake presented by Luo Fan.

As for why it was these two days instead of August [-]th, one was that Luo Fan was going home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, so naturally he had to give it away in advance.

The second is that festivals like the Mid-Autumn Festival are fun to spend with family members at home, so Luo Fan will not tempt them to come here.

The five-nut mooncakes and Liuxin mooncakes are gifts that Luo Fan plans to give to relatives and friends. Counting the four only members, it can be regarded as a member benefit.

Three types of moon cakes, three types of skins, and three types of fillings. Although there are only three types of moon cakes, Luo Fan has to work hard.

In particular, none of these three mooncakes is simple, and the craftsmanship of each one can be regarded as very complicated.

The first is mung bean mooncakes. Luo Fan intends to use mung bean cake techniques to make the outer skin, and then use red bean paste as the filling.

Of course, since the bean paste is already very sweet, there is no need to add sugar to the skin of the mung bean cake, otherwise it will be too sweet to cry.

At the beginning of the production, Luo Fan first steamed the peeled and sprouted mung beans that had been soaked for a day in advance.

Stir thoroughly to stir the mung beans into a paste, then add an appropriate amount of butter to mix, pour into the pot and start to stir-fry continuously until all the water is fried.

This step is very important, which determines whether the finished mung bean cake has a delicate taste and a refreshing taste.

However, these are nothing to Luo Fan.

Sieve the fried mung bean powder several times, the mung bean cake will be more delicate, and then you can start to mold.

The difficulty of this step is how to perfectly put the prepared bean paste into the middle of the mung bean flour.

This was not a problem for Luo Fan, who was full of craftsmanship. He quickly molded the mung bean powder and bean paste together and pressed it, and got a mung bean mooncake.

Luo Fan took out a finished mung bean mooncake and looked it over. Both sides were engraved with simple patterns, with the word Yifan written on one side and the word mung bean written on the other side.

Luo Fan tried to put it in his mouth and took a bite, and instantly felt that the whole nasal cavity was filled with the fragrance of mung beans.

This mooncake as a whole belongs to the category of thin-skinned meat fillings, but it is slightly thicker than ordinary mooncakes.

The entrance is very delicate, whether it is the skin made of mung bean cake or the filling made of bean paste, it gives people a fine sandy taste.

Since there is not much sugar, this mooncake will not be very sweet, but after every bite, you can feel the unique sweetness of mung beans.

After simply packaging the finished mung bean mooncakes, Luo Fan has completed one-third of the mooncake tasks.

Next is the five-nut moon cake.

There is not much attention paid to the outer skin of the five-nut moon cake, but the key point is the production of the five-nut filling.

Five kernels refer to walnut kernels, almonds, peanut kernels, melon seeds, and sesame kernels. In ancient China, there were five moral principles of "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness", and "five kernels" happens to be homophonic to them.

Therefore, there has been a tradition of using Wuren mooncakes since ancient times, and Wuren is also the most classic kind of mooncake.

But later, in order to make a profit, the merchants cut corners and replaced five kinds of nuts with cheaper five kinds of nuts. At the same time, they also added green and red silk, which caused many people to have a very bad impression of five kernel mooncakes.

But as the saying goes, it’s not that mooncakes with five kernels are not delicious, but that you haven’t eaten delicious mooncakes with five kernels.

Luo Fan is confident that even if his five-nut mooncakes cannot get [-]% approval, they can still be liked by most people.

The production of five kernel stuffing is actually very simple. The most important point is actually the real material. Fry the five kernels mixed in an appropriate proportion, peel the skin and crush them into diced pieces, and add sugar to make the five kernel stuffing. .

Luo Fan put the prepared five-nut filling into the mooncake skin, and then pressed it into the shape of the mooncake with a mold.

Brush with a little egg wash and place in the oven for baking.

After a while, the unique fragrance of mooncakes began to emit from the oven, which smelled very attractive.

However, the baked mooncakes cannot be eaten directly, and it takes a certain period of time for the oil to return to make the outer skin softer and more delicious.

This five-nut mooncake also has two characters of one side and five kernels. It can only be wrapped in the pre-purchased packaging after the oil is returned.

The last type of Liuxin ice skin mooncakes is a mooncake that has only become popular in recent years. The most notable feature is that the Liuxin inside will have a feeling of bursting when you bite into it.

Creamy and not greasy, with a strong milk flavor, it is also a kind of mooncake suitable for all ages.

The production of ice skin is very simple, but the production of Liuxin is a bit complicated.

Moreover, the flow heart is a test of the quality of the material. If the material is not good or the material is not solid enough, it will affect the taste.

Of course, this is definitely no problem for Luo Fan.

Wrap the prepared Liuxin filling into the ice skin, and then press it with a mold.

The same simple pattern, plus a design with one side and one side, Luo Fan quickly made the Liuxin ice skin mooncake.

Luo Fan made Wuren mooncakes and Liuxin ice skin mooncakes into a simple gift box in the form of 2+2, and ordered Zhang Jinxing to mail them to four members respectively, and the rest was for his own use.

After giving a gift box to each of Chen Hua, Dong Mingxia, Wang Sanjin and others, what was left was the gift box that Luo Fan took home.

Luo Fan is not afraid of being difficult to take, and is going to take four boxes back.

Mom and dad each have a box, and my aunt also wants a box, and he and Xie Wei can share the rest of the box.

Although mooncakes are delicious, they are not suitable for eating because of the high oil and sugar content. It is actually better to taste them lightly.

As Luo Fan's apprentice, Zhang Jinxing was also the main force in making mooncakes. Luo Fan gave him two extra boxes. This time, when he returned for the Mid-Autumn Festival, he could just give it to his parents.

After the moon cakes were settled, it was almost time for business, and Luo Fan couldn't help but want to complain about why he was still so busy after he had achieved economic freedom.

(End of this chapter)