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Chapter 106 Making a Birthday Cake

After Xue Ning teased Mu Chenghe away, she still patted her mouth gently. Why was she so bad? It scared people so much that they wouldn't dare to come next time.

She looked at her hands, her fingers were white and slender. Xue Ning realized it later and blushed again.

She quickly went to the kitchen to put the packaged cold rabbit into a basket, and went out on her bicycle.

When he arrived in town, he handed the cold rabbit in the basket to Heihu. After collecting 33 yuan, Xue Ning talked about his future plans.

She wanted to sell cakes, but Heihu didn't know what a cake was, so Xue Ning said it was a kind of pasta, which was fluffy and soft and much more delicious than steamed buns.

It is also delicious if you put some cream on it. The cake with cream can be used as a birthday cake, which is a very meaningful pastry.

Heihu immediately remembered that birthday cakes are now sold in big cities. The cakes are colorful, with writing on them and bright red and green flowers. They are so beautiful.

He had only seen it once and was reluctant to buy it. After all, a 10-inch cake cost 8 yuan. It was a high-end product and he was reluctant to eat it.

When Heihu heard what Xue Ning said, he immediately became interested and looked forward to the cake she made.

Xue Ning made an agreement with Heihu.

After Heihu left, she wandered around the black market again and bought some flour, eggs and sugar.

These are the most indispensable things for making cakes.

Xue Ning also saw three jars of wild honey on the black market and bought them all.

When she got home, she didn't immediately start making cakes.

After all, the most essential thing for making a cake is an oven. Without an oven, you cannot make a cake.

However, there is definitely no oven in this era. Xue Ning still knows this. There is no other way. She can only make a home version of the oven by herself, which can be made with mud.

I went to the ground and dug half a bucket of mud, added water to wet it, and mixed it into a thick mud.

She cleaned a clean area under the eaves and came out.

First draw a square 50 cm long and 50 cm wide on the ground.

Then we began to build it with mud along the drawn length and width, building only three sides, leaving one side as a door for storing food.

The total height is about 30 cm. If it is too high, it will collapse easily.

In order to be strong, the top part is made into an arc shape, so that it is not easy to collapse during the fire firing process.

When all the mud is built up, you will have an oven with a square bottom and an arc top.

Xue Ning lit the firewood, put it into the oven, filled it with firewood, and let the fire dry the mud to make the oven stronger.

Wait until it is fired, and then sweep away the ashes inside. In this way, the oven is ready.

Making cakes also requires the use of molds, which is also very important.

It is quite difficult to buy suitable molds in this era.

But this is not a problem for Xue Ning.

Xue Ning immediately ran into the room, took out a pen and paper, and drew several cake molds.

There are round chiffon cake models, rectangular egg cake models with a circle inside, and square models.

After drawing these models, she went to Muchenghe and showed him what she had drawn.

"Do you have any extra iron over there? Can you help me make a set of molds like this?"

Mu Chenghe took a look at the things drawn on the paper. They were very simple. He nodded, indicating that there was no problem.

The man also worked quickly. It only took half a day to prepare the things and bring them to Xue Ning.

Xue Ning received the freshly baked mold in the evening. When she saw the mold exactly like the one she drew appeared in front of her, she was so excited that she jumped up and down.

"Muchenghe, you are so awesome! You have made it all! Just wait, I will make a cake for you."

Mu Chenghe didn't know what a cake was, so he shamelessly followed it, completely forgetting the embarrassing thing the two had just experienced in the morning.

In the kitchen, Xue Ning took out all the ingredients he was going to use, weighed the ingredients and set them aside for later use.

She is going to make an eight-inch chiffon cake.

Separate the egg whites and yolks of five eggs and put them in oil-free and salt-free containers.

Add corn oil, corn starch, and pure milk to the egg yolks and stir evenly, then sift in the flour and stir until smooth and set aside.

Add sugar to the egg whites and whip quickly with chopsticks. The egg whites need to be whipped until they become silky and creamy.

This process is very torturous. There is no automatic egg beater now, so we have to manually stir continuously by hand.

In order to make the whipping process faster, Xue Ning took all the chopsticks at home, held them in a big handful, and quickly stirred the egg whites.

Her hands were like spinning tops, spinning constantly, which made Mu Chenghe's eyes dazzled.

So he reached out and took the job, "Let me fight!"

Xue Ning happened to have a sore hand, and now she has someone to do it for her. She is very happy.

Under Xue Ning's guidance, Muchenghe whipped the egg whites in less than 15 minutes.

Pour one-third of the beaten egg whites into the prepared batter, stir evenly again, then pour all the stirred ingredients into the beaten egg whites again, and stir evenly again until smooth.

Finally, pour all the prepared cake batter into the mold.

Burn the oven with firewood in advance, wait until the temperature inside rises, sweep away the ashes, put the cake batter in the mold, seal the oven with a stone slab, and bake for half an hour.

While waiting, Xue Ning began to make buttercream.

Cream frosting is made with light cream.

However, she can't buy ready-made whipped cream now, so she has to use homemade methods to make cream frosting.

Pour the milk into the pot and add lemon juice to it. Now is the season when lemons are ripe. They are available in the village.

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Keep the temperature in the pot at 60 degrees, stir quickly with a spoon, and stir until the whey separates.

Finally, use gauze to filter out the whey, pour the remaining content into a bowl, add sugar, and beat quickly again. Add an appropriate amount of sugar in three steps.

Muchenghe must have been here during the dispatching process. He is so strong and his arm muscles are so developed. It would be a waste not to help with the work.

Xue Ning commanded his targets to work as free labor without any sense of guilt.

The man is very good at work, and things that were originally difficult to whip up are like a joke in his hands, and the cream is whipped quickly.

If the whipped cream is in the form of a milky white paste and does not flow when it is turned upside down, it is considered to be well whipped.

Xue Ning dug a little with his fingers and tasted it. Although it didn't taste as good as whipped cream, it was amazing to be able to get such a delicious thing in such a difficult environment.

Xue Ning likes sweets and feels very good when she eats sweets.

She dug some more into her hand and fed it directly to Mu Chenghe. I like the group pet of the era, Xiao Jiaojiao makes the heart of a rough guy tremble. Please collect it: (https://www.xbiquge.site) The group pet of the era, Xiao Jiaojiao makes the heart tremble.
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