It seems that I am still too full [travel]

After the beginning of winter, it feels like the days have grown feet, so I came to Xiaoxue in a short time.Although the weather is wet and cold, winter clothes are needed, but Le County is located on the southeast coast, and it is not yet the time for frost and snow.

Fuzhou is not too far away from Zhejiang. Song Shou's family, who just moved to the academy, are quite accustomed to the climate in Le County. However, adults adapt well, which doesn't mean children are the same.Mrs. Song had two sons and two daughters, and they became two good characters. The two daughters were married, and the eldest son Song Zan was married. Cang's family consists of his wife and youngest son, Song Yan.

As an old and young child, her parents naturally love her. At first, Mrs. Song was worried that the child was still young, maybe seven years old, and that she might not be able to adapt to a strange place, so she paid attention to the child's emotions on weekdays. Gradually, Mrs. Song found that , her worries seemed a little overdone. Not only did her children not suffer and lose weight, but they seemed to be a little fat...

On this day, when Song Shou didn't need to teach, he found his youngest son Song Zhen to teach him calligraphy.The Song family is a scholarly family. It goes without saying that children from the Song family have to study poetry and calligraphy since they were young. Song Yan is also a child prodigy. He has shown extraordinary talent in calligraphy at a young age. As his father, Song Shou carefully guides him , although Song Fen was still young, he practiced calligraphy diligently every day.

Song Shou read the copybooks he had practiced in the past few days, pointed out several areas for improvement, and boasted: "Pin'er is doing very well. Write the copybook on time, study hard, this award! What do you want for me?" Song Shou proposed the reward, firstly because the child did a good job, and secondly to appease the young son who left his hometown and followed him here.

The young boy who had just arrived at Song Shou's lap combed his hair. Hearing his father's praise, he put his chubby little hands behind him and said with some trepidation: "Then as a reward, can I apply for the box of snacks sent by brother Xie?" ?”

Song Shou was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect his youngest son to ask for such a reward. It seems that after eating the pastry made by Mr. Xie himself yesterday, his youngest son never forgot it.He immediately laughed, patted the child's head, and felt that the child was cute, and said: "Of course, but in the future, you must call Mr. Xie Mr. Xie, and you must not mess up your seniority."

Song Yan nodded obediently, and waited for the servants to bring the cakes. The father and son put aside their studies and exams, sipping tea together, and slowly tasting the delicious box of cakes.After a while, the servants came to report that a visitor came to visit. This kind of situation has been happening from time to time since the news of Song Shou teaching Dongcang. With Song Shou's reputation as the most famous article in the world, there are many visitors. endlessly.

Song Shou had to let the child study hard by himself, and went out to entertain guests.What Song Shou didn't know was that after he left, his family, Song Yan, waved to the servant who was waiting close by, skillfully took out his pocket money bag, and told him to run errands, to go to the college to buy milk tea at Litang, and watch He is proficient in ordering food, it seems that he is already a frequent visitor of Qingli Hall, no wonder Mrs. Song feels that her child is good at today's body shape...

As soon as winter comes, the field work has stopped, and when we are thankful, we become more and more tired, hiding at home with the stove reading a book or tossing for food.These books are the only ones borrowed from Qianxi Pavilion, and they are all unofficial histories. Xie Shi read them as novels, which are more interesting than the classics and history collections, and spent a lot of time in winter hiding in Yanju.

The collection of books in Qianxi Pavilion is the private collection of Mr. Lianxi, who was newly hired by the academy. Generally speaking, Xie Shi only had a relationship with a great Confucianist, and he would not take the liberty to borrow it even if he was curious.However, for some reason, this Mr. Song has a good impression of Xie Shi. When Xie Shi had nothing to do and went to listen to his "lecture", he was accosted. He has collected a lot of books of this type. If he is interested, he can go to the library to borrow books.

He was kindly invited, and Xie Shi would not refuse his kindness, so he went happily, and found a lot of good books.Hearing that there was a young son in Mr. Song's accompanying family, who was only seven years old, so he sent a box of pastries made by himself as a courtesy, which contained all the snacks that young children like to eat.

This pastry gift box is a new winter product launched by Xie Shi Research and Bazhen Pavilion. Xie Meiren's four-view pastry is mainly used to cool and relieve the heat. Although it is still popular with customers after winter, it is not in season. Xiang Cenyu, the shopkeeper of Bazhen Pavilion After several times of feedback, when Cen Yu was discussing the cement workshop cooperation plan with Xie Shi, he mentioned it casually and asked him if he would launch a new food.

Cen Yu is now busy with sugar mills, salt mills, and cement mills, so he doesn't care much about the "small" profits of pastries. After all, compared to pastries, other things in Bazhen Pavilion are the "treasure bowls that make money every day" "However, after all, the pastries in Bazhen Pavilion are supplied by the back kitchen of the canteen in charge of Xie Shi, so Cen Yu naturally wanted to ask Xie Shi for his opinion.

Xie Shi had nothing to do, so he agreed and hid in the mansion to study pastries.Xie Shi didn't do much research on pastry and other foods in the past, but it happened that Han Ji got dozens of recipes for court dim sum from somewhere recently, and knowing that Xie Shi was interested in these, he sent someone to send them to him.Xie Shi looked through it, and was very interested. He picked more than ten kinds of pastry recipes from them, slowly engraved them, and then adjusted the recipes according to his taste and preferences.

Since it is a pastry launched in winter, Xie Shi thought, why not make a large fruit box that can be used during the Chinese New Year, so that it can be used for entertaining guests or giving gifts to friends.The outer shell of the fruit box is an octagonal elm red lacquer box, with gold lacquer painted with various shapes of eight-sided beasts, and a simple seal character "Zhen" in the middle to show that it was produced by Bazhen Pavilion. extraordinary.

Open the lacquer box, there are two layers inside, a total of sixteen snacks are placed, it can be said that it is a jade food from the top, and there is no beauty in it.The most commonly seen inside are various kinds of candied fruit, such as icing sugar and lotus seeds made of icing Yufenger, which is a dessert produced in the previous dynasty. Although it is not as popular as before, it can still be seen in major restaurants.The three candied fruit next to it are emerald green and white candied winter melon sticks, carmine red candied dates, and sweet and sour candied pomelo peel.

Winter is the season when pomelo is on the market. In addition to eating pomelo fruit, drinking pomelo tea, and lighting pomelo lamps, in order not to waste the pomelo skin, you can also peel off the inner flesh, wash the remaining yellow skin, add white sugar and boil it. The sugar can be dried into candied pomelo peel, also known as pomelo peel sugar.The taste is sour, sweet and fresh. Xie Shi experimented with the recipe for a few days without restraint. He didn't know how much he ate, and almost made his teeth sore. After Han Ji knew about it, he laughed for a long time.

In addition, there are various bean cakes such as soybean cakes, kidney bean cakes, pea yellows, and mung bean yellows. Each piece is four inches square, and it melts in the mouth.When Xie Shi made it, he specially sieved the bean paste very finely, so the taste is soft without the slightest graininess.The fillings of bean cakes not only include traditional bean paste fillings and jujube paste fillings, but Xie Shi also specially made salty egg yolk fillings. Surprisingly, compared with the other two fillings, salted egg yolk fillings have won unanimous praise from everyone. , all of which are Junpin.

Speaking of which, the highlight of the fruit box is various dairy products, such as milk pastry, pine nut cheese, end-tea soufflé, mandarin duck milk roll, buttered abalone, pastry puffs and some fried snacks. , Just looking at it makes people salivate.The production of dairy products needs to be refrigerated, so you have to wait until the freezing winter to make them. Although there is no shortage of ice cubes during thank you, it is in accordance with the weather to toss these milk cakes at this time.

The milk pastry is stuffed with jujube paste. The half-inch thick milk skin is wrapped into the filling, and then the shape is printed out with a wooden mold engraved with blessings, fortune and longevity. It is like chewing snow, sweet and plump; Heavy stuffing, one side is rolled with hawthorn stuffing, and the other side is rolled with sesame and white sugar stuffing, not only delicious, but also very beautiful!

Although the name of the buttered abalone snack is unclear, it is actually a small cream snack in the shape of a thread. This thing is now a common fancy snack for rich and noble people to entertain guests in the Jiangnan area. It can be said to be the ancient version of the "explosive style". "Snacks.Xie Shi learned the recipe in the book and made it once. He was not satisfied, and then improved the method according to the taste of modern cream. The finished product was sipped in the mouth, and it melted without sipping, and it turned into a thick syrup in an instant. Sliding into the mouth, the milky fragrance overflows.

Since it took a lot of effort to make butter to make buttered abalone, Chef Xie simply made puff pastry puffs based on the principle of saving effort and combining styles.Although he generally knew how to make puffs, Xie Shi, who had never made puffs, overturned his car once. However, perhaps his talent in cooking is as full as farming. After summing up his experience, the second experiment was successful. Crispy, hollow and silky inside, it is definitely a perfect puff pastry!

As soon as this winter pastry box was launched, it was warmly welcomed by the wives of various families. They all said that it is worthy of Bazhen Pavilion, and this is the most exquisite tea break that they have ever had in their life. In those few days, there was a long queue outside, all of them were servants or stewards sent by various families to buy winter cakes and fruit boxes. Because it was winter, the cakes could last for about half a month, so many families even bought them for ten It's an interesting talk about "stocking up" at the beginning of the box.

Xie Shi was very surprised. As far as he knew, the price of the profiteer Cen Yu was not low. How did these people do it like a big sale in a supermarket.

As the end of the new year approaches, the taste of the new year will become stronger. Even though the outside world is not peaceful now, and heroes from all over the country are rising, but under the control of Han Ji, the lives of the people in Le County are getting better and better except for some rascals who steal and cheat It is booming, so not only the countryside, but also many temple fairs are held in the city, and they are very lively.

On this day, the annual large-scale temple fair in the county was held. Xie Shi, who was "hibernating" at home, was urged by Xie Ju to go out of the house, bring Wang Jia, and prepare to join in the excitement of the ancients.