A small breakfast shop in the street market, supporting the family and making money

"It won't break."

Leng Yan smiled and shook his head, "My family can use up all of it. Can you calculate how much it costs, old man?"

Seeing her insistence, the old man nodded doubtfully. After the money and goods were settled, Leng Su was also curious about how his niece would use so much milk.

Leng Yan smiled mysteriously, "Make a cake!"

"Egg cake?" Leng Su was puzzled.

"Oh, you'll know when I make it."

She kept the suspense, and waited until the aunt and niece were chatting and laughing, and then she bought some cherries and other fruits that were in season at the market.

After returning home, Leng Yan began to make preparations.

The stove that was previously used to bake dried apricots can now be used as an oven.

Then comes the cake base, yeast, flour, eggs, milk, sugar, oil, salt and other ingredients.

She first separated the egg whites and yolks, and then added milk, sugar and cooking oil to each and beat them.

Especially the egg whites, add sugar in three times, and beat them into fish-eye bubble shape. Gradually, lines will appear, and when you lift it up, it will show curved points. This is wet foaming, and it is fine to beat it into this state.

Without an electric egg beater, this process was very laborious. After she had beaten the egg yolks into shape, she would then mix the egg yolks and meringue in three batches, stirring them evenly like cooking.

When stirring, remember not to make circles, as that will easily defoam the egg whites and egg yolks. Just stir until the egg whites and egg yolks are evenly mixed.

Because there was no cake mold, Leng Yan used a large rectangular iron plate used for baking apricots.

Grease a steel plate and spread the batter evenly on the plate, just like making Swiss roll dough.

After the batter was evenly spread, Leng Yan picked up the iron plate and tapped it to eliminate the bubbles. Then he put the iron plate with the batter into the preheated oven for baking.

Leng Yan asked her sister-in-law to help watch the temperature, while she quickly washed and seeded the cherries and made a grainy cherry jam.

Then make the most important whipped cream, which takes some time.

Seeing that there was no one in the kitchen, Leng Yan cheated and bought some in the mall. After changing the packaging, he poured it directly into the wooden basin.

When the cake base came out of the oven, Leng Su kept exclaiming how fragrant and sweet it was. The air was filled with the sweet and fragrant aroma of bread, which was particularly pleasant.

"Hey, try it again, aunt."

Leng Yan broke off a piece of soft bread, handed it to him, and took a bite himself.

“Ah, it is indeed soft and sweet, with a strong aroma of egg and milk, and it is still so delicious.

Leng Su was shocked by the delicious taste and kept praising it.

"Delicious, delicious, this egg cake is so delicious!"

"Then wait a minute, it will taste even better when it's done."

As she spoke seductively, she trimmed the round cake base into the size of seven or eight inches.

Then add a layer of cake, a layer of cream, and a layer of cherry jam, overlapping each other. When the height is almost the same, continue to spread cream evenly on the outside of the cake base.

Because there was no cake pan, the cake could not be turned, and the tools were not suitable, Leng Yan had to turn it by himself. After working for a while, he decorated the top with a few red cherries, and finally completed the cake with a not-so-smooth surface.

"Oh my god, this is so pretty. It's so white and cherry red. I don't know what it is, but it's just so pretty!"

Desserts have a fatal attraction to most girls, and good-looking desserts are even more so.

Leng Su, who was standing by, just looked at it and smelled the sweet scent in the air, and she couldn't let it go.

Leng Qi and Leng He, who had just finished feeding the chickens, ducks and rabbits in the backyard, were attracted by this beautiful and sweet food as soon as they entered the kitchen.

"Sister, what is this? It looks so good and smells so good!"

The two little ones stared at it intently, feeling like their saliva was about to flow down.

Leng Yan explained to them with a smile. Just then, people from the shop came back from work. Leng Xun, Zhang Cuiniang, Leng Huai and Leng Cang also arrived home.

The time was just right, so we called Mr. Leng who had just returned from the fields, made a pot of honey and green apricots, and the whole family had a wonderful afternoon tea.

The whole family enjoyed the seven or eight-inch cherry cake and were so overwhelmed by its delicious and wonderful taste.

*

a few days later.

Because they were going to the Sheng Mansion to prepare a banquet, Leng Yan had to take her parents, uncle, elder brother, and younger aunt with her, so the shop was closed for a day that day.

On the day of the Sheng Mansion's birthday banquet, Leng Yan got up early with his family and baked a lot of cake bases to take to the Sheng Mansion, so as to prepare a big birthday cake.

When the group arrived outside the Sheng Mansion, it was the servant Ayang from last time who led them into the kitchen through the back door of the Sheng Mansion.

After several people stepped into the kitchen, except Leng Yan who had been there before, everyone else was amazed by the spacious kitchen.

As expected, the kitchens of rich people are all big and luxurious, and the lighting is really good.

"Miss Leng, all kinds of ingredients are on the table over here, and there is an ice cellar over there, you can help yourself to whatever you need."

While introducing the people, Ayang brought in seven or eight servants.

"These are the former cooks in the kitchen. There are handymen and vegetable cutters. If there is anything you need done, just tell them."

After Leng Yan thanked him, Ayang left the kitchen as he had other things to do.

After that, Leng Yan checked the ingredients according to the menu, and then began to instruct people to wash, cut and prepare all kinds of ingredients.

The ninth meal at a birthday banquet symbolizes longevity.

Therefore, she prepared nineteen dishes for today's birthday banquet. In addition to the Wanshou Soup, a soup with good meaning and made with soft-shelled turtle and chicken, and the Dongpo Pork, which is known as the blue sky jade, there are also roasted lamb chops.

Considering that Madam Sheng loves fish, steamed sea bass, chopped pepper fish head, fish ball soup, and squirrel mandarin fish were all arranged.

There is also a version of crab meat pot with potatoes, as well as potato chicken nuggets, crab steamed eggs, braised prawns, shredded eel with scallion oil, and so on.

Everyone was busy in the kitchen. After all the dishes were cooked and served, Leng Yan finally had some time to prepare the final big cake.

Seeing a three-layer cake taking shape bit by bit under Leng Yan's skillful hands, the maids in the kitchen were all shocked when they saw it for the first time.

"My goodness, what is this? I have lived for more than a few decades and have never seen it before!"

Leng Yan was putting the finishing touches on the cake. Upon hearing this, she explained that this was a birthday cake used for birthday banquets, and was similar to a birthday peach.

After she explained it this way, the maids immediately understood and praised her for her cleverness.

And the dishes that just came out of the pot finally made them understand why their young master did not invite the chef from the restaurant he used to invite, but insisted on inviting the cook from a snack shop on the pier.

Several maids kept praising them, and just at that moment, Ayang came into the kitchen with a middle-aged man, and they also came over curiously.

"Miss Leng, what have you done again...?"

Seeing the thing in front of him that he had never seen before, Sheng Yuxing's servant's excited voice suddenly stopped, replaced by wide eyes.

"So fragrant, so sweet, and so beautiful! What kind of food is this, Miss Leng?"