Chapter 42 The Taste of Happiness (Part )
After saying that, Su Liuyue first picked up a large bowl and poured 80 grams of fresh milk, 16 grams of rapeseed oil, and 22 grams of sugar into the bowl.

Measuring ingredients was the first challenge Su Liuyue faced when making pastries.

The ancient unit of weight was not gram. At the beginning, Su Liuyue could only rely on the experience she had acquired from making pastries for a long time. After countless failures, she finally figured out the conversion between Daqing's weight unit and the modern weight unit - approximately one stalk is equal to 1.5 grams, and one liang is equal to 37 grams.

After pouring all three ingredients into the bowl, Su Liuyue picked up the egg beater that the craftsman had made earlier and quickly stirred them evenly. Then he added 125 grams of sifted glutinous rice flour and quickly stirred again.

Then take out another small bowl, beat an egg in it and mix it well. Pour it carefully into the previously mixed glutinous rice flour in three batches and stir with a spatula.

Soon, the lumps of batter in the bowl turned into a very silky and sticky batter. When it was gently lifted with a spatula, it formed a perfect inverted triangle.

Su Liuyue raised the corner of her mouth with satisfaction, picked up the black sesame seeds that had been prepared on the side and poured them in, then mixed the black sesame seeds and the batter together.

When everything was ready, she picked up a piece of greaseproof paper beside her, rolled it into the shape of a piping bag, put the prepared batter into the piping bag, cut a hole at the top, and carefully squeezed out one even layer of batter after another on a baking tray covered with a piece of greaseproof paper.

Oil paper and piping bags are actually different. Compared with piping bags, oil paper is thicker and harder, and very inflexible to use. It took Su Liuyue many attempts before she finally got used to it.

After squeezing out twenty-five small dough balls on the baking tray, five horizontally and five vertically, Su Liuyue put down the wax paper, clapped her hands with satisfaction and said, "Alright, we can bake them now!"

While she was working, Ersi and Er'an were not idle either. They started a fire in the stone cellar nearby.

Controlling the temperature of the stone cellar was the second major problem Su Liuyue encountered. She knew clearly the temperature and baking time required for different pastries, but she didn't know how to control the temperature of the stone cellar, not to mention that there were no thermometers in this world. She could only rely on her own guessing.

During the past half month, studying how to adjust and control the temperature of the stone cellar was the thing that consumed the most of her time and energy. She fed all the failed products to the two guard dogs raised by the Xue family. However, in just half a month, the two dogs gained a lot of weight. When they saw her, they became extremely excited and their tails wagged as if they were about to break.

Xue Lingwan, who was standing by, was slightly stunned and asked in surprise, "Is this the end?"

She also likes to cook some snacks on weekdays. Why does her cousin's method seem so simple to her?

Just like the ginger milk that my cousin made earlier, she used the most common ingredients and the method was extremely simple, but the resulting dessert was amazing.

Su Liuyue couldn't help but chuckle and said, "It's not that the more complicated the process, the tastier the food. Similarly, sometimes the method looks very simple, but there is actually a lot of knowledge involved."

Indeed, when it comes to cooking, sometimes one more or one less step won’t do; one more or one less degree of heat won’t do either.

A truly great chef may not have fancy cooking skills, but he will definitely be able to control the portion and cooking time of each ingredient to the best of his ability.

Xue Lingwan nodded as if receiving instruction, and couldn't help but look more serious as she watched Su Liuyue's actions.

Su Liuyue glanced at her and said with a smile, "This pastry will take about a quarter of an hour to bake. During this time, let's make the second pastry. This pastry may be a bit difficult to make, so you should be mentally prepared."

Xue Lingwan looked at her in confusion, "Hard work?"

How hard can it be to make pastries?
Soon, she understood what her cousin meant by hard work.

It was more than just hard work! It was simply inhumane!

Su Liuyue first prepared four eggs and eighty grams of white sugar, beat the eggs into another clean large bowl, then used a whisk to beat the fish-eye foam, and then added the white sugar in batches and stirred quickly!
In ancient times, there were no electric egg beaters, so people had to use their hands to beat the ingredients. However, manual beating took a long time and had a low success rate. The first time Su Liuyue beat the egg, it took her a full quarter of an hour. After that, her arms were so sore that she couldn't lift them for two whole days. In other words, it was very useless.

Su Liuyue had whipped cream manually before, but her body before could not compare to her delicate body now. At least before, her hands would not be so sore like soft noodles after whipping cream.

But thanks to the exercise these days, her arm strength has increased a lot, and she can at least complete the task without changing her expression.

Xue Lingwan was watching in amazement. Su Liuyue glanced at her and asked her with a smile to help fight them off. After a few moves, Xue Lingwan surrendered with a bitter face.

Su Liuyue took it back with a smile. Xue Lingwan couldn't help shaking her sore wrist and said, "Cousin, if Man Yifang wants to sell this kind of cake, it will take a lot of time and manpower to make it, right?"

Su Liuyue said: "If it is done manually, it is indeed a bit troublesome, so I have asked my eldest cousin to help me find a craftsman to make an instrument that can assist in the beating."

Although electric egg beaters cannot be made nowadays, hand-crank egg beaters that use mechanical principles can still be made. Once they are made, beating ingredients will save a lot of time and effort!

Soon, the eggs and sugar in the bowl were beaten, and the whisk formed a cute little point when lifted up.

Su Liuyue then sifted the low-gluten flour that she had prepared earlier and poured it in, stirred it evenly, then poured it into the mold that she had asked someone to make earlier, and sprinkled white sesame seeds evenly on the surface.

Although there was no low-gluten flour in ancient times, it was very simple to make. All you needed was a steamer, put a dry cage cloth on the steamer, pour ordinary flour on the cage cloth, poke a few small holes in the flour, wrap the flour with the cage cloth, and steam it for twenty minutes.

After steaming, the flour clumps together and is crushed with a rolling pin, which is what is commonly known as low-gluten flour.

When Su Liuyue and the others were making the second kind of pastry, the first kind of pastry had already been baked, but they were too busy to pay attention to it until Su Liuyue asked Ersi and Eran to bake the second kind of pastry, then they had time to pay attention to the plate of pastries that had already been prepared.

On the baking tray, those small doughs have turned into brown, chubby little balls, each of which is only as big as a child’s palm, and is dotted with cute little black sesame seeds, which looks very tempting!
The air was already filled with a rich and sweet smell.

Su Liuyue nodded and said with satisfaction: "It was grilled quite well this time."

Seeing Xue Lingwan's extremely excited and expectant eyes, she couldn't help but smile and said, "Lingwan, come and try it and see how it tastes."

Xue Lingwan looked up at Su Liuyue and blinked, then carefully picked up one of them, put it in her mouth and took a bite.

Instantly, her eyes widened.

This... this is a taste that she has never tasted before!

This pastry has a milky flavor, the sweetness is just right, and it has a slightly chewy texture. However, once you bite it open, you’ll find that the inside and the outside are completely different!

The inside is very soft and sticky, but not completely soft. It is slightly springy. After taking a bite, you can't even bite it open completely. It is unexpectedly chewy, and the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes. You really don't want to swallow it immediately!

It is indeed a very wonderful taste that can make people feel happy.

After she swallowed the food in her mouth, she looked at Su Liuyue in surprise and said, "Cousin, what...what is this? It tastes so special!"

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