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Chapter 110 Black Cookies
There was no other way. The cake couldn't be made yet as she was still missing some ingredients, so she just baked a batch of cookies to try first.
The kiln was built outside the kitchen. Su Qiuyi bought enough firewood and also prepared a lot of charcoal.
Although she couldn't explain it, she didn't want to shiver into bed every day and then be unable to sleep because of the cold.
It was noon at that time, but the whole family gathered in the small courtyard.
Although my aunt and uncle were busy and couldn't come, my cousins also came.
Everyone looked at the kiln eagerly.
Because Su Qiuyi’s first pot of finished product is about to come out.
Although it was not the cake base she had planned at the beginning, she was still looking forward to it.
The first time she made cookies after getting an oven, she was very successful. However, this time she used a kiln, and the temperature and heat were a big challenge.
Even Chu Mingxiao, who had been busy since getting the explosives, came out and looked at the kiln with great anticipation.
Su Qiuyi gradually became nervous, and waited until she felt it was almost time. Then she rubbed her hands and went forward to open the kiln.
A...burnt smell came out.
It's not at all the milky flavor that I expected.
Su Qiuyi was dumbfounded, looking at the black biscuits, which had no color, fragrance or taste at all...
"This... is the cookie you mentioned?"
When everyone was too embarrassed to ask, Chu Mingxiao pointed at the small pieces of charcoal-like things and asked while holding back his smile.
Su Qiuyi turned around and looked at the curious eyes of the crowd who wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. He said without admitting defeat, "Everyone has a first time. You wait! I can do it after a few more tries!"
Said yes, started cleaning up the waste and started firing again.
Yang Ruxue and Su Mingyue hurried to help.
Although people felt sorry for the expensive things like flour, sugar and milk, no one said anything.
He let Su Qiuyi do whatever she wanted and also helped her do it.
The girls continued to make cookies. After waiting for the whole morning, Su Laosan brought his nephew Yang Ruchuan back to the village.
He is now the head of the village. Even though his brother-in-law is always following him to the new house, he still has a lot of things to do.
Chu Mingxiao didn't have much time to watch Su Qiuyi's troubles.
He is now busy planning to wipe out the Qingheshan bandits.
How can we suppress the bandits and get the food and fodder out safely at the same time?
In order to control the temperature of the kiln, Su Qiuyi wasted three batches of biscuits. Finally, he succeeded in baking the biscuits with rich milk flavor, sweetness and crispiness before dark.
But in order to save a little, mainly to save butter, she didn't bake much in the next few ovens.
The baked cake only weighs about one pound, so in such a large kiln, what is wasted is the firewood.
But wasting firewood is better than wasting butter, and butter is really hard to get.
When she found a plate and brought the milk-flavored cookies to the table, everyone who had originally not had high expectations for her research and were already enjoying their delicious dinner looked up.
Because the taste was so delicious, everyone couldn't help but reach out to taste it.
"Hmm... so delicious, right? Big sis, so this is what the milk-flavored biscuits you were talking about taste like! This is so delicious!"
The first person who couldn't help but praise him was Su Wenxing, the little foodie from the Su family.
Relying on her small size, she was the first to take some biscuits when her elder sister came in and eat them.
This bite made her unable to stop, she had never eaten anything so sweet.
Su Qiuyi nodded and looked at the others with unbearable pride.
"Sister, these milk-flavored biscuits are really delicious, so delicious!" Looking at Su Mingyue, the latter immediately nodded vigorously.
Su Qiuyi looked at his father.
Su Laosan thought of the black stuff in the oven at noon, and looked at the crispy, sweet biscuits in his hand with a rich milky flavor. He had to admit that the biscuits he had successfully made were indeed delicious.
Su Qiuyi expected that his father and two sisters would find the food delicious.
She could even imagine that if her cousins were there, they would nod their heads and say it was delicious just like her two younger sisters.
She mainly looked at Chu Mingxiao.
This gentleman is the prince of Kyoto. He must have access to a lot of delicious food. She couldn't guess whether he would find it delicious.
After all, if her cookies were in modern times, they would just be an ordinary item and nothing surprising.
Although this is ancient times, Kyoto is the capital of the Celestial Empire, so there must be plenty of good things.
Chu Mingxiao nodded solemnly, "Delicious! This is the most delicious dessert I have ever eaten!"
We have to admit that this evaluation is already very high.
Chu Mingxiao represents not just himself, but the entire capital city behind him. Maybe if her cookies are taken to the capital city, they can also gain a place.
Her confidence began to surge.
After dinner, I started studying the kiln again.
For the next few days, the three sisters just hung around the kiln.
Su Qiuyi took her second sister to bake cookies. Su Mingyue's talent was really amazing. After teaching her several times and helping her bake a few batches, she was able to control it herself.
But the butter was limited, and in two days, the three sisters worked so hard without a break that they only managed to bake 20 kilograms of milk-flavored biscuits.
The butter was gone and the milk was in short supply.
Su Qiuyi took her sister and began to teach her how to make butter with milk.
She really admired her sister's learning ability. She learned it after just one teaching.
She made her cookies by herself without any recipe.
However, the ingredients I prepared have become a strict recipe.
In order to avoid making cookies with different tastes, Su Qiuyi carefully wrote down the proportions of the ingredients he had mixed.
That is, use milk to knead the dough, and add sugar, butter, cream and eggs.
Su Mingyue was illiterate, but she memorized the recipe by heart.
She didn't think about anything else but helping her sister as much as possible. She didn't want to be a useless person.
Ever since she saw the other side of her mother, she gradually became stronger and no longer cried at every turn.
It’s been a long time since my sister called me a crybaby.
The three sisters mastered all the steps of making cookies in three days, but they had to stop production because of a shortage of butter.
In the evening, Chu Mingxiao brought good news.
He asked his men to collect eight cows with calves, which were in the lactation period.
However, seeing that there was no space in the yard and no fodder for the cows, he went straight to Su Qiuyi to ask what to do.
Su Qiuyi jumped for joy and asked her father to take Chu Mingxiao's men back to the new house.
There's only some work left to do inside the house now, and the barn is finished.
Eight cows and eight calves fit neatly in the cowshed.
"Dad, these cows still need someone to take care of them and milk them every day. Who is the most suitable person to ask for this?"
The cows were settled, but taking care of them became a problem.
Her father was busy with carpentry work every day and had to take care of the entire village. He had no time to take care of the cows, and she herself had even less time.
Somewhat worried.
As soon as the words fell, Su Xiaofang's voice rang out.
"Yiyi, just leave this matter to your aunt, I will take care of it for you!"
As he spoke, he came towards the father and daughter.
Her brother's family was too busy to spare time, so her nieces and nieces found a way to make a living, selling biscuits and raising cows and milking them, and only she could help. It was hard work, but she was happy as life became more hopeful.