The Daily Life of the Daughter of a Minor Official

 Chapter 93 Delicious mooncakes

The reason why the Su family's Christmas gifts are still placed on the counter is because the outer box is so beautiful and picturesque that Mrs. Fan wants Mr. Fan to take a look.

Fan Yanjia had already tasted the sugar-roasted chestnuts, so he opened the mooncake box directly. The exquisitely made cakes were lying inside. He was appetizing just by looking at them. He took the Cantonese-style five-kernel cake first and opened it. There were walnut kernels, Almonds, melon kernels (there were no sunflower seeds at this time, and local melon kernels were used), sesame seeds, and there were neither olive kernels nor peanut kernels in the Da Yin Dynasty at this time. It was impossible to make five kernels, so Su Ruojin put in chestnuts to serve as one kernel.

Although there are four kernels, Su Ruojin still calls them five kernels. At this moment, although Fan Yanjia noticed it, he didn't notice that at such a young age, he loves sweets. After one bite, his delicious eyebrows flew up.

 “The Su family’s dim sum is delicious.”

Mrs. Fan never frowned when she saw her child's foodie appearance. This child...

Fan Yanjia saw that her mother was disgusted and quickly put the other half into her hand, "Mom, try it. It's oily but not greasy, sweet but not salty. It's both glutinous and sandy. It tastes really good. It's really delicious."

Mrs. Fan glared at her son when he praised this little pancake so much that he even ate the tribute from the officials, making him look like a poor kid from a small family who had never seen the world. It was really... I don’t even know what to say about him.

Happy as he was, he took a small bite and ate it in his mouth. The sweetness and glutinousness of the mooncake instantly slid down his teeth. The taste... was really weird.

Fan Yanjia raised her eyebrows proudly, "It's different from what we usually eat!"

There was actually something delicious that he hadn’t eaten yet. Fan Chengcan gave up as soon as he heard that, he opened his mouth and howled, "I want...I want it now..."

 Mrs. Fan and her son:…

I sniffed: "Salty, salty, what is it?" I had just finished my shift, my stomach was empty, and I was hungry. I smelled such a fragrance, and my index finger moved. I couldn't bear it, so I reached out and took out a five-nut mooncake. , opened his mouth and bit it, "It's not the fragrance, but this one is not bad either."

Master Fan was still full of taste, "Which store has new products? I will buy some tomorrow to try, especially the egg yolk cake that I didn't eat."

Fan Yanjia touched her nose guiltily and hurried away. Before she left, she did not forget to add, "Father, this is a gift from the Su family. After eating the cake, you can enjoy Master Su's paintings." He pointed to the case. The packaging box on the table turned and ran away.

 Sixteen small mooncakes, in modern times, would be half eaten and half wasted. Now, not a single one was wasted and all went into the Fan family’s belly.

Having eaten egg yolk crisps, there is nothing you don’t like. The outside is crispy and the inside is salty and the egg yolk is salty. The crispy and salty aroma is really indescribable. It can be described in two words: delicious.

Although it tasted really good, Mrs. Fan didn't want her son to be proud of it, so she deliberately didn't say whether it tasted good or not. She was just a little hungry, so after eating half of it, she felt that the taste was gone, so she reached for the egg yolk cake.

Fan Chengcan smelled the aroma. Fortunately, his calves were running fast, otherwise he wouldn't have had the mooncake. He ran over and stood on tiptoe, stretched out his chubby hands, grabbed them one by one, and chewed them happily.

When Fan Hongjia and his wife came to say good night to their parents, what they saw was that the four of them couldn’t stop eating.

Mrs. Fan was no exception. One small one was not enough. They were packed in gift boxes with eight in each box. In a blink of an eye, they were wiped out by the mother and son. When Mrs. Fan came back, she saw her son and wife eating snacks like a competition.

The food was delicious to begin with, and coupled with his ravenous hunger, Mr. Fan couldn't stop eating.

Wealthy people prefer small and exquisite things. The egg yolk cakes are not big, and men basically eat one at a time. Su Ruojin did not make the five-nut mooncakes in a large way. They are slightly larger than the egg yolk cakes, not too big, but not too small. Don't even eat two dinners.

Master Fan: ...with food and reward? With a good artistic conception, he is indeed a talent he values.

The Su family didn't know what was going on with the Fan family, but Yang Siniang and Xue Wulang had tasted the Su family's mooncakes and chestnuts, and they both ran over and stood in front of Su Ruojin and spat out a wave of rainbow farts.

"Ah Jin, the food made at your home is always better than that made elsewhere, why?" Su Ruojin could tell her that thousands of years later, with abundant ingredients and people perfecting their food, a delicious mooncake would cost more than just the dough. There are a lot of auxiliary materials added, not to mention what to put first, what to put last, and how to ferment. Can something made with such care not be delicious?

 “Are you still doing it?”

 The Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet arrived, and the festival gifts sent by the Su family have been shared and eaten by family members. She hasn't eaten enough yet!

Su Ruojin:…

 Good things certainly take effort, and she doesn’t want to do them again!

 When the Fan family’s Nanny Qin sent a generous gift in return the next day, and also politely asked to buy some mooncakes, Su Ruojin certainly would not ask for the Fan family’s money, so she agreed with a smile.

Seeing that Mrs. Su agreed, Grandma Qin went back to resume her life with a smile.

Cheng Yingzhen looked at the gift list sent by the Fan family and said, "Ajin, this is too expensive."

What Mrs. Fan gave as a gift was a fifty-year-old ginseng, which was estimated to cost dozens of taels of silver. A box of high-quality donkey-hide gelatin cost another twenty taels. There were also several colors of high-quality brocade and several styles of beaded flowers. One look at this The gifts basically took care of everyone in the Su family. The old ginseng was given to Su Yanli, the donkey-hide gelatin was given to Cheng Yingzhen, the brocade was used to make clothes for the whole family, and the pearl flowers were of course Su Ruojin's. In this way, it was a festive gift It’s almost two hundred taels.

Even if the Fan family gave gifts to other wealthy families, they would probably be of this level.

 The gift given back to the Fan family was thoughtful and valuable. Su Ruojin felt both surprised and expected.

 “Ah Jin...?”

Mrs. Fan came to report to Li during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Logically speaking, as the Su family who enjoys the real benefits of Mr. Fan, they will not suffer any loss if they give him two more food recipes. However, Mrs. Fan still slowly returns the gifts in her daily interactions. Many times, she especially deals with people of high status, favors, gifts or It's a benefit. You can't repay it immediately, which means that others are not interested in dealing with you. On the contrary, those who are not in a hurry to return the favor will get along with you for a long time. This means that they are willing to interact with you.

 This is something Su Ruojin slowly figured out in his dealings with people of high status in later generations.

Shu Tong asked, "Second Lady, since mooncakes are so delicious, why don't you make some and sell them?"

Su Ruojin shook his head, "It can't be scaled up, and you can't make much money just by doing it piecemeal."

If you want to make delicious mooncakes, you need real materials, and they cost a lot of money. Let’s wait and talk about it when we have a chance.

Cheng Yingzhen and her daughter took Mao Ya and Shu Tong to help them. They worked for three days and made almost a thousand pieces. Five to six hundred were given to the Fan family, and the rest were divided among family members, servants, Yang Siniang and others.

 In the end, there was only a little bit left over, which I kept at home for admiring the moon.

Mrs. Fan sent five or six hundred of them according to the packaging of the Su family to the people she was dealing with, and of course to the palace. Even the officials ate the delicious mooncakes made by Su Ruojin.

When Zhao Lan attended the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the palace, he noticed the moon cakes in front of the officials and his brows moved.

Santai immediately went to inquire, and soon he found out that it was a festive gift from Mrs. Fan to the palace. "I heard that the Fan family and his son thought it was delicious, so they asked the Su family to make hundreds more."

tasty? He also thought it was delicious! Zhao Lan's mouth twitched slightly.

 (End of this chapter)