The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 86: Rice Cake
At 6:32, Qin Luo, who was stuck at the last minute to get up for school, ran to the cafeteria, grabbed a few buns at random, and then Qin Huai stuffed him with two sesame cakes and crab shell yellow. With tears in his eyes, he rushed to the bus to school with his brother's love in his heart.

Taking the bus to go to the international school, Qin Luo is living the same treatment as the innocent heroine in campus novels who comes from a common family but sneaks into an international school.

At 12 o'clock, Qin Huai got off work on time, had a meal, and then continued to play with the stove.

I have to make glutinous rice cakes in the afternoon, so I won’t have much time to play with the stove. Qin Huai feels reluctant just thinking about it.

A batch of sesame cakes came out of the oven. Qin Huai, as usual, ate one himself and then started preparing the next batch.

When I turned around, I found that the new breakfast chef Chen An had not left yet.

"Master Chen, you get off work at 12 o'clock." Qin Huai thought that it was Chen An's first day at work and he didn't dare to leave because he didn't know the time to get off work, so he reminded him.

Chen An nodded somewhat stiffly, still not leaving, and said: "Well... the snacks I made this morning have not been sold out yet, I want to keep them to see how they sell in the afternoon."

Chen An is a breakfast hexagonal warrior and a basic dim sum player. The number of dim sum he can make is very limited. The best one he makes is waterless egg cake, followed by honeycomb bread, and then egg tarts, all of which are cheap, large in quantity and affordable.

This kind of snack would be very popular at the entrance of an ordinary community, but it is not suitable for Yunzhong Canteen. After all, the elderly, office workers and passers-by in this area have seen the world, and a mere waterless egg cake cannot capture their taste buds at all.

Although Chen An was slightly lacking in snacks, Qin Congwen and Zhao Rong were still very satisfied with him.

Although the young man's skills need to be improved, his work attitude is good!

He worked so hard that he didn't stop for the whole morning and didn't slack off at all.

Qin Huai thought of Qin Congwen's evaluation of Chen An and was a little surprised. He thought to himself that not only did he not slack off, he even took the initiative to apply for overtime. What kind of work spirit is this!
"Don't feel stressed. It doesn't matter if you can't sell it. At worst, you can be responsible for breakfast in the future. I'll teach you how to make donkey rolls. It's easy." Qin Huai said considerately.

Chen An nodded and cheered inwardly.

Great, I found a good reason. I can stay and watch the fun without having to work any more hours.

He has been selling breakfast for so many years and worked as a dim sum chef for a few years, but he has never seen diners fighting over dim sum.

The dispute in the morning died down a little too quickly, and he didn't have time to savor it.

Good looking, love watching, enjoy watching.

Even if you move a small stool to eat melon seeds, you have to watch it.

Qin Huai didn't know that the new breakfast chef was a person who liked to watch the fun. After baking the last batch of crab shell roe and sesame cakes, Qin Huai picked out a few good-looking ones and put them in a separate small plate, leaving them for Qin Luo to have as a midnight snack when he came back from school to do his homework.

The rest were divided up by the uncles and aunts who had been waiting for a long time, including a lucky office worker. The uncles and aunts saw that it was not easy for him to come and wait during work, so they reluctantly let him take a crab shell roe and a sesame cake.

Qin Huai handed the stove to An Youyou to clean and began to prepare to make glutinous rice cake.

Glutinous rice rice cake is a dish that often appears in film and television dramas and is loved by concubines in various palaces. It sounds high-end but is actually a very common snack.

Jiangmi is actually glutinous rice.

In the era of low productivity, any food related to rice was a precious fine grain. A bowl of white rice was a luxury that ordinary people could only dream of, not to mention desserts made of glutinous rice.

Qin Huai knew how to make glutinous rice cake because Qin Luo loved watching palace dramas for a while.

In palace dramas, the empresses often eat glutinous rice cakes, crab powder cakes, eight-treasure cakes, white jade cream, and jade bean cakes. Others watch palace dramas to see the intrigues in the palace, but Qin Luo watches palace dramas to see what the empress eats for three meals a day.

These snacks sound very difficult to make, but they are not difficult to make. Of course, it is also possible that the method Qin Huai saw on the Internet and in the snack encyclopedia is not a palace method. After all, the glutinous rice cake is just glutinous rice cake wrapped in red bean paste, a long strip without any shape.

Qin Huai felt that no matter how poor the queen in the palace was, she would not eat such ugly snacks.

Qin Luo also thought so. She once tried to get Qin Huai to spend some time to make the glutinous rice cake into a nice shape, and then happily got a mixed doubles match between Zhao Rong and Qin Congwen.

It's good enough to have something to eat, but you're still picky and want to shape it. Who do you think you are? A queen in the palace? Don't you even look at your scores in Chinese/math/physics/chemistry/history/geography/politics!

For Qin Luo, eating food that she was beaten for was always memorable. Although the glutinous rice cake was not very suitable for her appetite, it did not look very good, and it even made her stomach a little bloated, it was worth remembering.

Therefore, Qin Luo would ask for a meal of glutinous rice cake every once in a while, which made Qin Huai much more proficient in making glutinous rice cake than white jade cream and crab roe crisps.

Now, Qinhuai starts making glutinous rice cake.

The key to glutinous rice cake is the glutinous rice.

There are two kinds of glutinous rice, long glutinous rice grows in the south, and round glutinous rice grows in the north.

According to the description of glutinous rice in the tutorial sent by Huang Shengli, the round glutinous rice in the north has a smoother texture and is chewier, making it suitable as a staple food, such as glutinous rice, steamed buns, and rice dumplings.

The long glutinous rice in the south has a very high viscosity after being cooked, and is suitable for making rice cakes, glutinous rice dumplings, and soft and sticky snacks.

Qin Huai didn't have this knowledge before, because he had been living in Guangdong Province. He could only buy long glutinous rice at the market. He got lucky by accident. As for Shaomai...

To be honest, the steamed dumplings at Qin's Breakfast Shop have been made with long glutinous rice for many years, which is really unfair to the residents of Sanmalu Community.

The quality of glutinous rice directly determines the quality of glutinous rice rice cake.

The quality of glutinous rice today is very good.

Making glutinous rice cakes requires a lot of steps. You need to wash the glutinous rice and soak it in cold water for at least 30 minutes to fully soak it. Then drain the water and steam it in a steamer over high heat for one hour.

After steaming, take it out, pour boiling water on it and stir continuously in one direction. Wait until the water and rice are thoroughly blended together, then steam for another 30 minutes.

Then continue stirring to turn the glutinous rice into a sticky state and then steam it.

After steaming, cover with a damp cloth and wait for 12 hours.

These 12 hours are just an approximate time and the exact time depends on the maker's feeling. Qinhuai glutinous rice rice cakes are usually steamed in the afternoon of the previous day, covered all night and processed after breakfast the next morning, which takes much more than 12 hours.

Luo Jun is destined not to be able to eat glutinous rice cake today.

You can’t eat crab shell yellow and sesame cakes either.

Making rice cakes is definitely a strenuous job. After completing the above steps, Qin Huai didn't want to do anything else. He just wanted to wait for the tangerine peel tea and beef soup to come out of the pot.

Every time this happens, Qin Luo’s importance is highlighted.

Every time Qin Luo wanted to eat glutinous rice cakes, she was the one who did the stirring steps. The child was very strong, and the glutinous rice dough she stirred was sticky and smooth, and you could tell at a glance that she had put a lot of effort into it.

In order to prevent Luo Jun from having too much boredom from drinking tangerine peel tea alone, Qin Huai gave him a piece of unsold waterless egg cake made by Chen An, which earned Luo Jun a one-star rating.

Luo Jun said that if there was really nothing else, then don't add any more, and don't try to fool him with such messy snacks.

Qin Huai was chewing on the egg cake and felt that Luo Jun was still too picky about food. As a waterless egg cake, Chen An's was already very good.

Qin Huai nibbled on the egg cake and took a sip of the beef soup. He thought today's beef soup was delicious.

Ever since he started practicing the heat on a small stove, Qin Huai felt that his control over the heat had improved a lot, and he was now more adept at cooking soup.

"Ouyang, what do you think of today's beef soup?" Qin Huai asked standing at the window.

"Not bad, delicious." Ouyang gave a thumbs up, "But I think beef soup doesn't go well with this egg cake. This egg cake is a bit choking. It's better with sesame seed cake."

Qin Huai:......

There was no need for him to ask.

Qin Huai continued to drink his soup. Seeing Chen An still sitting at the table outside, seemingly waiting for something, he said, "Master Chen, don't worry. If the egg cakes are not sold out this afternoon, they will be packaged with the meal and sold at a special price in the evening. They won't be wasted."

"You have to come to work tomorrow morning. I remember your home is quite far away, so go back to bed early."

Chen An knew that he had to go back to sleep.

But he hadn't seen anyone quarrelling over snacks yet.

Qinhuai didn't make any snacks to sell this afternoon. The old men and women were all very harmonious and just sat in the cafeteria chatting.

After seeing Qin Huai finish work and making sure there were no randomly dropped snacks, he patted his butt and went home.

Chen An was a little disappointed, but he didn't show it. He just asked, "Master Qin, do you have any extra dim sum for sale tomorrow afternoon?"

"Tomorrow afternoon?" Qin Huai thought for a moment, "I might have to go to the hospital tomorrow afternoon, so I may not be in the store. What's wrong?"

"It's okay. I just want to see what kind of your snacks are popular so I can learn and improve." Chen Ando said, thinking that he didn't need to find an excuse to stay tomorrow afternoon, he could try the day after tomorrow.

He just wants to watch the fun, why is it so difficult?

Qin Huai was deeply moved and gave Chen An a thumbs up in his heart.

Tomorrow, the glutinous rice cake will be ready and sent to Luo Jun for tasting. As long as Luo Jun, who is picky about food, nods and says it's okay, then I will pack two kilograms of it and bring it to the hospital.

Qin Huai specifically checked and found out that Qu Jing would not have an outpatient clinic tomorrow afternoon.

perfect.

(End of this chapter)