The Food Guide of the little lucky girl

132 Making Mooncakes

After all the materials for the mooncakes are in place.

　　Song Yue started to get busy. The first thing she had to do was to soak all the ingredients for the filling, then prepare the crust, and finally make the filling for the mooncakes.

　　The crust of Su-style mooncakes is not difficult to make.

　　First, the dough is made with medium-gluten flour, salt, butter and water, and then the shortbread is made. The shortbread is made of low-gluten flour and butter. Divide them into two steps. First, mix and knead the dough, and then mix and knead the shortbread.

　　In this way, you will have two ingredients, the dough and the pastry, ready for use. Both need to be kept awake for half an hour.

　　I was going to put it in the refrigerator, but there is none here and I’m afraid the temperature will be too high in the summer.

　　Song Yue covered them each with a dense round dustpan, threw some ice cubes in and covered them together, so that the temperature would be lower.

　　The next step is to prepare various fillings.

　　The red beans and mung beans have already been soaked in advance, so you can just steam them all.

　　The flowers are cleaned and pickled.

　　Finally, mix all the sugar together.

　　Then make the outer skin of the snow meringue, the ingredients are glutinous rice flour, corn starch, pure milk, butter and white sugar.

　　Song Yue took it step by step slowly, and An Jin came over to help. Seeing how complicated and tedious these steps were, he couldn't help but think that his own girl was so patient.

　　And because she has to do business during the day, she only makes mooncakes after dark.

　　An Jin was so tired that she yawned and said with tears in her eyes: "It's too hard for you, girl. If I had known earlier, I would have bought mooncakes. There's no need to be so tired."

　　Song Yue was mixing glutinous rice flour, corn starch and milk. She smiled and looked at him when she heard him say, "How can I make delicious mooncakes if I don't make them myself? My mooncakes are different. I guarantee you'll want to eat more after eating them."

　　As she spoke, she sifted the mixed batter into a large basin, and after the water in the pot boiled, she steamed it over medium-high heat for about a cup of tea, which is actually only about fifteen minutes, until the glutinous rice paste is fully cooked.

　　Song Yue watched An Jin begin to doze off, and felt sorry for him. "If you're tired, just let Chun Shan accompany me. You go to sleep now. You have to get up early tomorrow."

　　That's how stalls work.

　　Before, they could use the Wu family’s incident to shut down their stall for seven days. That was intentional to stir up hatred and let greedy people blame their resentment on the Wu family.

　　After opening the stall again, Song Yue never stopped. After all, business cannot be done intermittently; it must be done continuously to last long.

　　An Jin was extremely tired, but seeing how hard Song Yue worked, how could he have the nerve to rest alone?

　　He immediately pinched his thigh and said with a grin, "No, I'm accompanying the girl. She didn't even complain about being tired, so how could I complain about being tired?"

　　Song Yue also has to get up early tomorrow, but she is fine, she doesn't need that much sleep. An Jin is a teenager and lacks sleep, so she said, "You go ahead, you don't have to accompany me, I have Chunshan. Besides, if you go to sleep, you can get up early tomorrow to help me pick up and order the goods, and I can sleep a little longer. Isn't it good for us to take turns to rest like this?"