Chapter 86: Jiang Mi Nian Gao

At 6:32, Qin Luo, who was stuck at the last deadline for getting up for school, ran to the canteen, grabbed a few baozi randomly, and after being stuffed with two shaobing and Crab Shell Yellow by Qin Huai, tearfully clutched her brother's love and took the bus to school.

Taking the bus to an international school, Qin Luo was also enjoying the treatment of a white flower heroine from a civilian background who had mixed into an international school in a campus novel.

At 12 o'clock, Qin Huai got off work on time, ate, and continued to play with the oven.

He had to make Jiang Mi Nian Gao in the afternoon, so he didn't have so much time to play with the oven. Qin Huai felt reluctant just thinking about it.

A batch of shaobing came out of the oven. Qin Huai followed the usual practice and gnawed on one himself first, then began to prepare the next batch.

Turning his head, he found that the new breakfast chef Chen An hadn't left yet.

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

Chen An nodded somewhat cautiously, still not leaving, and said: "That... the dim sum I made in the morning hasn't been sold out yet, I want to stay and watch the sales situation in the afternoon."

Chen An was a breakfast six-sided warrior, a basic dim sum player. The number of dim sum he could make was very limited. The best he made was waterless chicken cake, followed by honeycomb small bread, and then egg tarts, all of which were cheap, large in quantity, and affordable.

This kind of dim sum would be very popular at the entrance of an ordinary community, but it was a bit unacclimatized in the Yunzhong Canteen. After all, the grandpas and grandmas, office workers, and passersby in this area had seen the world, and mere waterless chicken cake simply couldn't capture their taste buds.

However, although Chen An was slightly lacking in dim sum, Qin Congwen and Zhao Rong were still very satisfied with him.

Although the young man's level needed improvement, his work attitude was good!

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

Qin Huai remembered Qin Congwen's evaluation of Chen An and was a bit surprised in his heart, thinking that this was more than just not slacking off, he even actively applied for overtime. What kind of work spirit was this!

"Don't have pressure, it doesn't matter if it doesn't sell, at worst you can be responsible for breakfast in the future, I'll teach you how to make donkey-rolling-donkey, this is simple," Qin Huai said thoughtfully.

Chen An nodded, cheering in his heart.

Great, he found a good reason, he could stay and eat melon and watch the fun without increasing his working hours.

He had been selling breakfast for so many years and had been a dim sum chef for a few years in between, and he had never seen diners fight over dim sum.

The dispute in the morning subsided a bit too quickly, and he didn't have time to savor it carefully.

Good to watch, love to watch, like to watch.

Even if he had to sit on a small stool and eat melon seeds, he had to watch.

Qin Huai didn't know that the new breakfast chef was someone who liked to eat melon and watch the fun. After baking the last batch of Crab Shell Yellow and shaobing, Qin Huai picked a few with good appearance and put them on a separate small plate, leaving them for Qin Luo to eat as a midnight snack when she came back from school to do her homework.

The rest were divided up by the grandpas and grandmas who had been waiting for a long time, among which was a lucky office worker. Seeing that it wasn't easy for him to come and camp out while working, the grandpas and grandmas reluctantly let him take away a Crab Shell Yellow and a shaobing by himself.

Handing the oven to An Youyou to clean, Qin Huai began to prepare to make Jiang Mi Nian Gao.

Jiang Mi Nian Gao, a dim sum that often appeared in film and television dramas, deeply loved by all the concubines, sounded very high-end but was actually very ordinary.

Jiang Mi, in fact, is glutinous rice.

In the era of low productivity, any ingredient related to rice was precious fine grain. A bowl of full white rice was a luxury that ordinary families could only hope for but not get, let alone dim sum made from glutinous rice.

Qin Huai knew how to make Jiang Mi Nian Gao also because Qin Luo loved watching palace dramas for a period of time.

The concubines in palace dramas were always talking about Jiang Mi Nian Gao, crab powder crisp, eight-treasure cake, white jade frost paste, and emerald bean cake, all of which sounded particularly high-end. Others watched palace dramas to see the scheming in the palace, while Qin Luo watched palace dramas to see what the concubines ate for their three meals a day.

These dim sum sounded very difficult by name, but they were not difficult to make in practice. Of course, it might also be because the methods Qin Huai saw on the Internet and in the "Complete Guide to Dim Sum" were not palace-style methods. After all, Jiang Mi Nian Gao was just glutinous rice nian gao wrapped in bean paste, a long strip without any styling.

Qin Huai felt that no matter how shabby the concubines in the palace were, they wouldn't eat such ugly dim sum.

Qin Luo also thought so. She once tried to get Qin Huai to put some effort into making a good-looking style for the Jiang Mi Nian Gao, and then happily received a mixed double-beating from Zhao Rong and Qin Congwen.

It's good enough to have something to eat, and you're still picking and choosing and wanting to style it. Who do you think you are? A concubine in the palace? You don't even look at your Chinese/math/physics/chemistry/history/geography/politics scores!

For Qin Luo, food that was worth a beating to eat was always worth commemorating. Although Jiang Mi Nian Gao didn't quite suit her taste, didn't look very good, and even made her stomach a bit full, it was worth commemorating.

Therefore, Qin Luo would ask to eat a meal of Jiang Mi Nian Gao every once in a while, making Qin Huai's proficiency in Jiang Mi Nian Gao far superior to white jade frost paste and crab powder crisp.

Now, Qin Huai began to make Jiang Mi Nian Gao.

The key to Jiang Mi Nian Gao is glutinous rice.

There are two types 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 refreshing and chewy taste, suitable for making staple food, such as glutinous rice, shaomai, zongzi, etc.

The long glutinous rice in the south has very high stickiness after being cooked, suitable for making nian gao, glutinous rice tangyuan, and soft and sticky dim sum.

Qin Huai didn't know this knowledge before, because he had lived in Guangdong for a long time, and when he went to the vegetable market to buy glutinous rice, he could basically only buy long glutinous rice, which was a lucky hit. As for shaomai...

To tell the truth, the steamed dumplings in the Qin family breakfast shop for so many years had always been made with long glutinous rice. I'm really sorry for the residents of Sanmalu Community.

The quality of glutinous rice directly determines the quality of Jiang Mi Nian Gao.

The quality of glutinous rice today was very good.

Making Jiang Mi Nian Gao, the steps are relatively cumbersome. It is necessary to wash the glutinous rice and soak it in cold water for at least 30 minutes, soak it thoroughly, then drain the water and steam it in a steamer over high heat for an hour.

After steaming, take it out, pour boiling water and keep stirring in one direction. After the water and rice are completely blended and mixed together, steam for another 30 minutes.

Then continue to stir, stir the glutinous rice that has formed a ball into a sticky state, and then steam.

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

These 12 hours are just an approximate time, and the specific amount depends on the feeling of the maker. Qin Huai usually steams Jiang Mi Nian Gao in the afternoon of the first day, covers it all night until the morning of the second day, and then processes it after finishing breakfast. The time is far more than 12 hours.

Luo Jun was destined not to eat Jiang Mi Nian Gao today.

He wouldn't be able to eat Crab Shell Yellow and shaobing either.

Making nian gao is definitely a physical job. After Qin Huai finished the above steps, he didn't want to do anything, just wanted to wait for the tangerine peel tea and beef soup to come out of the pot.

Every time it reached this time, the importance of Qin Luo would be highlighted.

Before, every time Qin Luo wanted to eat Jiang Mi Nian Gao, the stirring step was done by her. The child had great strength, and the glutinous rice ball stirred out was sticky and smooth, and one could tell at a glance that she had used a lot of effort.

In order to prevent Luo Jun from drinking tangerine peel tea too monotonously, Qin Huai added a piece of waterless chicken cake made by Chen An that hadn't been sold out, and received a one-star praise from Luo Jun.

Luo Jun indicated that if there was really nothing, don't add it, and don't use this kind of messy broken dim sum to fool him.

Qin Huai gnawed on the chicken cake, feeling that Luo Jun's mouth was still too picky. As a waterless chicken cake, what Chen An made was already very good.

Qin Huai gnawed on the chicken cake, took a sip of beef soup, and felt that today's beef soup was good.

Since using the small oven to practice heat control, Qin Huai felt that his control of heat had improved a lot, and he was even more handy when boiling 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 supportively, "But I think beef soup with this chicken cake is not very good, this chicken cake is a bit choking, it's better to eat it with shaobing."

Qin Huai:...

He shouldn't have asked.

Qin Huai continued to drink soup, seeing Chen An still sitting at the table outside seemingly waiting for something, and said: "Master Chen, don't worry, this chicken cake wasn't sold out this afternoon, it will be packed and sold at a special price with the rice in the evening, it won't be wasted."

"You still have to come to work tomorrow morning, I remember you live quite far away, go back to sleep early."

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

But he hadn't seen everyone fight over dim sum yet.

Qin Huai didn't make any dim sum that could be sold this afternoon, the grandpas and grandmas were very harmonious, sitting in the canteen purely chatting.

Seeing that Qin Huai had finished work and confirmed that there was no randomly dropped dim sum, they patted their butts and went home.

Chen An was a bit disappointed, but he didn't reveal it, just asked: "Master Xiao 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, I'm not sure if I'll be in the shop, what's the matter?"

"Nothing, I just want to see what dim sum you have that is popular, so I can learn and improve," Chen An said, thinking that he didn't need to find an excuse to stay tomorrow afternoon, he would find one the day after tomorrow.

He just wanted to watch the fun, why was it so difficult?

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

Tomorrow, after the Jiang Mi Nian Gao is made, send it to Luo Jun for tasting first. As long as Luo Jun, who has a picky mouth, nods and says there is no problem, then pack two jin and take it to the hospital.

Qin Huai specifically checked, Qu Jing didn't have a clinic tomorrow afternoon.

Perfect.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 87 =====