Chapter 47: Immortal Brew

"Central Building 19th Floor order, 17 cups of hand-shaken lemon tea!"

"Blue Sky Building C order, 9 cups of hand-shaken lemon tea."

"Still Blue Sky Building C order, 11 cups of hand-shaken lemon tea."

"Blue Sky Building A, 8... one cup is for the 1st-floor security guard, a total of 8 cups of hand-shaken lemon tea."

"Central......"

In the quiet afternoon, looking at one order after another posted, Qin Luo was almost pounding sparks out of the lemons.

Qin Luo: No, have people in big cities never drunk hand-shaken lemon tea???

If conditions didn't forbid it, Qin Luo would have loved to use the big basin she used to soak mung beans to pound them.

While working frantically, Qin Luo looked around with a look of help.

Mom and Dad weren't there; they had gone back to sleep.

Huang Xi wasn't there; she had gone back to rest.

An Youyou wasn't there; she had gone to deliver takeout.

The rest... the rest of the waiter sisters weren't there either; except for one left to record orders, they had all gone to deliver takeout.

As for her brother......

Qin Huai was in the warehouse pondering the video tutorial for locust flower buns.

Qin Luo actually suspected in her heart whether her brother was just finding an excuse to be lazy and play on his phone in the warehouse, but she didn't dare say it. Because those locust flower buns sounded delicious, and if her brother really made them, she had to be the first to eat them.

Qin Luo, who had become a heartless hand-shaken lemon person, felt for the first time that working was really tiring.

It would be better to go clean the toilet.

"Yo, why is there no one today? Is Qin Huai still here? I just heard from a colleague at the neighborhood committee that today's new product, hand-shaken lemon tea, is particularly delicious. We're so close, so we won't order and make you deliver; I'm here on behalf of our neighborhood committee to buy 9 cups." Ouyang walked into the cafeteria holding a bottle of iced black tea.

As soon as Qin Luo saw Ouyang, it was like seeing a savior, and she shouted loudly: "Brother Yang! Brother Yang, come help me make a few cups of lemon tea!"

Ouyang:? Wasn't I here to consume? How did I become an employee?

Three minutes later, Ouyang put on the Cloud Cafeteria kitchen uniform and joined the ranks of hand-shaking lemon tea.

Qin Huai had studied the locust flower bun tutorial carefully again, and was stunned when he came out of the warehouse.

When did Ouyang get hired?

After thinking for a second, Qin Huai felt there was no need to think, and walked into the kitchen: "Give me a cup, less ice, full sugar, with duck shit fragrance tea base."

Ouyang: I %*@#*!

Qin Huai returned to the cooking station and began his first attempt.

With the lesson of the fermented rice buns, Qin Huai tried his best not to change any steps when making the more difficult locust flower buns, and the raw materials were also as identical as possible.

Gray flour, buckwheat flour, locust honey, cold water.

Yes, locust flower buns need to be mixed with cold water.

Under normal circumstances, dough is mixed with warm water, so the dough is suitable for the vast majority of flour foods. When Qin Huai made buckwheat buns, he would first scald the buckwheat flour slightly with boiling water because buckwheat flour itself is very difficult to knead into a dough; after scalding, the dough is softer and easier to shape.

And mixing dough with cold water—Qin Huai only used cold water when making dumpling wrappers; he basically used warm water with a lower temperature for buns.

It can be said that locust flower buns take a very unusual path starting from the dough mixing step.

However, it's hot now, so using cold water should be fine.

Qin Huai followed the appearance in the video tutorial, mixed the gray flour and buckwheat flour in an 8:2 ratio, and added a small amount of honey.

The amount of honey added must be small, which was the second key point Qin Huai grasped when watching the video tutorial.

As for the technique of mixing the dough, to be honest, Qin Huai didn't study it very clearly.

Jiang Chengde's process of kneading dough was very casual, giving people the feeling that in a Xianxia world, a senior expert was showing sword techniques to new disciples. He just waved his sword casually in the void and sheathed it. The mountain opposite was split in two.

Then the senior expert asked the disciples kindly: "How are the moves? Did you understand?"

Disciples: 0.0

Now Qin Huai was that disciple.

Qin Huai could only knead the dough based on his previous experience making buckwheat buns.

Buckwheat flour mixed into flour dough is relatively difficult to knead into shape; you can't give the dough a gentle spa like in Qin Wan's fermented rice bun video tutorial; you have to use force.

Kneading dough and javelin throwing are the same in a sense; both can work miracles with great force.

Qin Huai kneaded the dough with force.

Hmm, this feeling......

It's no different from making buckwheat buns before.

After the dough is formed, it's fermentation.

Locust flower bun fermentation requires a sufficiently warm environment. Qin Huai followed the appearance in the video tutorial, soaked a damp cloth in hot water, placed it for a period of time, and covered the dough to wait for fermentation.

The fermentation time for locust flower buns is much longer than for ordinary buns, and there is no room for observation. During this time, Qin Huai wasn't idle; he kneaded some normal buckwheat dough to practice his hands and continued to make buckwheat buns.

Chen Huihui's quest hadn't been completed yet.

Grandma Ding's ears also needed him to guard.

Finally, after finishing a batch of lunch break orders, Ouyang, who was sitting on a small stool in the kitchen for the first time drinking the hand-shaken lemon tea he had made himself, said:......

"Did Luo Luo, why do I feel like your brother was like a robot stuck when he was kneading the dough just now, stuttering?" Ouyang complained mercilessly. "Remember to tell your brother, 37 cups of hand-shaken lemon tea were made by me today; the commission must be calculated for me."

Qin Luo nodded to indicate she remembered and asked: "Then Brother Yang, are you coming to make it in the afternoon?"

Ouyang: "...... Is there a possibility that I have to go to work in the afternoon?"

Qin Luo thought for a while: "Can you make it in the office? I'll let Sister Youyou go get it."

Ouyang: Do I have to do this part-time job today?

Qin Luo: Brother Yang is very energetic when making lemon tea, even more energetic than himself. Delicious (i_i)

Ouyang still had more than ten minutes before work. Qin Luo felt that Ouyang had worked hard helping her make hand-shaken lemon tea, so she took out precious mung bean cakes that had been refrigerated for at least three days and didn't know if they could still be eaten from the freezer to share with her coworker.

The two ate while watching Qin Huai make buns, as a side dish.

"Did Luo Luo, is the first dough your brother kneaded a bit different? I see the ones behind are all fermented, but that one hasn't moved. Did your brother forget?" Ouyang not only ate mung bean cakes but also commented on Qin Huai's cooking.

"No way, usually only my dad does this kind of thing." Qin Luo indicated it was impossible. "My grandma said, my brother has his reasons for doing everything; we just wait to eat."

"But why are there so many people buying hand-shaken lemon tea today? I thought there were quite a few milk tea shops nearby. There are plenty of shops selling hand-shaken lemon tea, this tea." Ouyang took a big gulp of the lemon tea he had made himself, but he couldn't say the lemon tea he made wasn't delicious. "It's not that delicious either."

"Don't know." Qin Luo shook her head. "The shop is having an event today; you get herbal tea if you eat here. Five-Flower Tea, Tangerine Peel Tea, and Seven-Herb Dampness-Removing Tea are all free; only hand-shaken lemon tea isn't free and has to be bought."

"I don't know why, but those three kinds of herbal tea at noon only gave away half a pot, but lemon tea sold like crazy. At noon, not only was I making it, but the two stir-fry chefs were also making it, and Sister Youyou and the others were all making it."

"After eating, there were fewer orders, but I don't know why there were suddenly a lot of delivery orders again just now, and they were all added by people who ordered takeout at noon." Speaking of which, Qin Luo glanced at the herbal tea that hadn't been finished. "Brother Yang, do you want to drink herbal tea? My mom said Seven-Herb Dampness-Removing Tea is particularly good for the body in the summer!"

Ouyang hadn't drunk herbal tea before and didn't think much about it, so he nodded: "Then I have to taste it."

Qin Luo went to pour herbal tea for Ouyang.

Ouyang took a big gulp.

Ouyang urgently took a sip of hand-shaken lemon tea.

Family members, hand-shaken lemon tea is simply immortal brew!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 48 =====