Traveling through the famine, I stockpiled supplies like crazy

"Now you know how important I am!" Lu Chuan laughed.

"Yes, yes, you are right, you are the most important!" Xu Han echoed.

I don’t know what’s going on. When I first met Lu Chuan, he was obviously not a talkative person, but now he is talking more and more!

I wonder what Lu Chuan’s expression would be if he knew what Xu Han was thinking.

"I plan to go to the reed marsh tomorrow and hunt more ducks. I'll go early tomorrow and may come back a little late." Lu Chuan said to Xu Han.

"Okay, I'll make mooncakes at home tomorrow. I think the oven is almost ready. After dinner, can you help me make two lids? The holes need to be blocked."

"Okay, I'll help you make it later. There's still a lot of wood at home! Enough."

After dinner, Lu Chuan took out the wood and tools from the tool room, drew the appropriate size according to the dimensions, and then started cutting it with the tools.

After cutting, it needs to be polished, otherwise it will not be smooth and will cut your hands.

Finally, install the handle on it and a lid is completed. Use the same method to make the next one.

Lu Chuan was making the lid on the side, and Xu Han couldn't help much, so he started taking out the ice powder seeds in the space and processing them.

After they finished, it was almost ten o'clock. The two didn't plan to do anything else, so they went to wash up and go to bed.

The next morning, Lu Chuan got up early and set off, while Xu Han got up a little later.

When he came to the yard, he fed the livestock first, and then started to eat his breakfast.

After breakfast, wash the red beans soaked yesterday, cook them and simmer them for a while, so that they can be used to make red bean paste.

Then start making the mooncake skin. Take out some flour and steam it in a pot. After steaming, take it out while it is still hot, put it on the chopping board and roll the dough into pieces.

Sift it again to remove the small lumps, so that the flour obtained will be finer.

Take out a large basin, add appropriate amount of cooking oil, alkaline water, honey and other ingredients, pour the steamed flour in, add some raw flour, and start kneading the dough.

When kneading the dough, you cannot knead it as usual. You have to press it with your fist, repeatedly, until the flour is fully blended.

After the dough is kneaded, set it aside to rise for a while.

Start making the fillings for the mooncakes. Today Xu Han plans to make a few more flavors.

Let’s make a five-nut dish first. Put peanuts, sesame seeds, walnut kernels, melon seeds and other nuts available at home into a plate.

The five-nut ingredient is insufficient, so I had to add in all the nuts that could be put in to make up the number.

Then put the dish into the newly built oven and bake it.

It was Xu Han’s first time using this oven. She didn’t know how to control the temperature and didn’t know if the food would be burnt, so she could only check on it a few more times during the process.

Fortunately, it was not bad! Xu Han took it out in time, and it was only a little over-roasted, but it was still edible, and it was more fragrant this way.

Chop all the fillings into small pieces, mix them together, then add honey, sugar, cooking oil and flour and mix together. The five-nut filling is ready.

Take out the egg yolks that you just cracked and put them into the oven to continue baking.

The baked egg yolk is sizzling and oily, and it looks very fragrant, making people can't wait to have a bite. Take it out of the oven and set it aside.

After finishing everything, take out the red beans that have just been cooked, mash them, add some sugar and oil, and make the red bean paste filling.

Then take out the jam made earlier from the space and use it to make snow skin mooncakes.

The skin for making snow skin mooncakes is different from the skin for baked mooncakes and needs to be re-prepared.

Prepare appropriate amounts of glutinous rice flour, sticky rice flour, wheat starch, sugar and milk, mix well, and steam them.

After steaming, add appropriate amount of butter and knead into a smooth dough.

Xu Han had made the glutinous rice flour and wheat starch in advance, but she didn’t make much, just a little bit.

Butter is always in the refrigerator. After all, Xu Han also likes to make cookies and snacks at home, so how can she do without these things!

After the snow skin is mixed, take out a portion and add an appropriate amount of jam to adjust the color of the snow skin. There are other colored vegetable powders in the space, so you can also adjust some of them.

Take out some fruits and cheese to wrap them in the snow skin mooncakes later.

After everything was prepared, Xu Han started to make mooncakes. She started with the snow skin mooncakes, which do not require baking and can be eaten directly after they are made.

Take out the electronic scale in the space and divide the dough and fillings first. After dividing them one by one, put them aside for later use.

Take out a piece of ice skin, sprinkle some cooked glutinous rice flour on it, roll it into a thin skin, put the filling in and wrap it up, and finally use the mooncake mold in the space to remove the film.

Repeat this process until all the snow skin mooncakes have been wrapped.

It was past lunch time, but Xu Han was not hungry and had already eaten two snowy mooncakes. She decided not to continue eating and continued making mooncakes.

Xu Han repeated the above steps until all the mooncakes were wrapped, then she started to bake them. Because she couldn't control the temperature well, Xu Han didn't dare to wrap the mooncakes and bake them at the same time.

I can’t take care of it all and I’m in a rush. So I’d better wait until I’ve wrapped everything, be patient and bake them slowly!

Put the wrapped mooncakes into the oven and start baking.

The first batch failed! The fire was too high and they were all burnt. Fortunately, Xu Han only put a few in, slowly adjusted the temperature, and tried again.

The second time it was still a little mushy, but still edible, the color just didn’t look very nice.

The third pot was a success! The color was very nice and it was cooked through. Xu Han simply used another oven and continued to bake according to the temperature just adjusted.

It was also successful, not bad! After finding the technique, he started baking according to this rhythm, and did not finish baking until it was dark. Xu Han put all the finished mooncakes into the space.

It’s great to have this oven. It will be great to make some cookies, bread, etc. when I have free time!

It was already dark at this time and Lu Chuan had not returned yet. Xu Han came to the gate of the courtyard and found a fire moving towards this side.

It should be Lu Chuan who came back. Xu Han couldn't see the person clearly and didn't dare to go over easily. Only when she heard Heifeng's cry did Xu Han walk over and move forward a little to meet Lu Chuan so that she could help him get some things.

"How come we hunted so many wild ducks today?" Xu Han saw the stretcher dragged behind Lu Chuan and roughly estimated that there were about forty or fifty ducks!

"I haven't been there for a long time. I was lucky today and had a great harvest. I caught 54 ducks in total!" Lu Chuan replied happily.

"It's quite a lot indeed. When the weather gets cold in a few days, I'll pickle some and cook and eat the cold duck. It's also very good."

"Okay, I'll leave it to you. I like it no matter how it's cooked."