Chapter 550: Making cakes and kebabs! A wonderful night full of northwest flavor! [Please subscribe]

Cut cake, which should be called malan to be exact, is a cake-like dessert that uses syrup to bind various dried fruit ingredients together.

This delicious snack from the northwest frontier has once become a tool for criminals in the mainland to blackmail and rip off customers, and has been protested and disliked by many people.

"Xubao, how do you cut cakes and slaughter customers?"

When cut cakes became popular in China, Shen Jiayue couldn't afford them. After 2008, Shen Guofu's business gradually started, and there were fewer and fewer cut cakes in Beijing.

As a result, this greedy beauty has never bought cut cakes on the street.

At that time, she heard that Chen Yan had been cheated, and she was even curious about what it would be like to be cheated by food.

Lin Xu said:

"It's very simple. When people ask how to sell it, the vendors who sell cut cakes usually say ten yuan or twenty or something. When many people hear that the price is quite good, they ask people to cut a little bit. Only after they cut it do they realize that the price is very good. The one or twenty he said was not a pound, but one tael. Isn’t this just a scam?”

It's okay to say that the price is fake. The key is that the proportion of cut cakes is very high. Even if you cut a small piece on the side, it will weigh at least two kilograms.

It costs twenty yuan per tael, and two pounds is four hundred yuan.

Not to mention that the per capita salary at that time was only one or two thousand, even now, many people feel that they cannot afford it.

But it’s not enough if you don’t buy it. If you don’t buy it, the other party will start to sharpen the knife viciously, buying and selling by force.

This is why cutting cakes leaves a bad impression on everyone.

The reason why Lin Xu knows this is because he met it when he was in middle school.

Unlike Shen Jiayue, Lin Xu has never been wronged since she was a child, has eaten all kinds of snacks, and is not particularly interested in desserts.

Once after school, I saw a vendor selling cut cakes at the school gate. I originally wanted to buy something to try, but I didn't expect that a senior student beat me to it.

Then he witnessed the whole process of cutting cakes and killing customers.

The senior student went from being proud of winning the first prize, to being surprised after receiving the quotation, to the fear of being intimidated and the embarrassment of not being able to come up with more than 400 yuan.

The mood changes are obvious and the expressions are vivid and rich.

Fortunately, the incident occurred at the gate of the school. Teachers and school leaders came forward, and the police patrolled the area, so the matter did not deteriorate further.

After that, Lin Xu finally recognized this assassin street snack.

It can easily cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars, which is more profitable than robbery.

"Hmm... I didn't expect those colorful and beautiful cut cakes to have such an inside story. No wonder many netizens are still criticizing the cut cakes..."

Shen Jiayue didn't expect that her Xubao would have such an experience.

She took out a pack of almonds from the box, opened it, put it in her mouth, chewed it, and said with a smile:

"If I encounter it now, I will definitely buy some to try. If it doesn't work, I will buy that tricycle..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Xu couldn't help but said:

"Don't, you actually have to spend one or two hundred thousand to eat the cake. It's so unjust. Sister Yan will probably make fun of you for the rest of her life."

"One or two hundred thousand?"

Shen Jiayue was frightened by this number.

I never expected that a small cut cake would be so expensive.

Lin Xu said:

"The price is high, and the cut cake is relatively heavy. A whole cut cake does cost so much. It is said that there are even more expensive ones, one dollar per gram. If you buy it, you will buy a decent family car."

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Shen Jiayue immediately gave up the thought of being taken advantage of.

"Then I'd better learn to do it honestly...Xubao, do you think these Northwest people do this on purpose? Why doesn't anyone care?"

Lin Xu took out the sugar, maltose and honey and said with a smile:

"It's not just the sellers of cut cakes. This was also the case with Tianjin hemp flowers in the early years. If you ask for a price of twenty or thirty, you can buy it at least several hundred. Moreover, the people selling Tianjin hemp flowers have nothing to do with Tianjin. They are a group of people.

People from northern Anhui."

As soon as Shen Jiayue said this, she thought about it:

"I know this. I bought it from my grandma, and it cost a lot of money just for a little bit. As for the taste, it's just so-so. I just think those twists are thicker than my legs. I really want to know how they are made."

"It's the same as cutting cakes. They are also glued together with sugar. First fry the small twists, coat them in sugar, and then glue them together to make cylindrical cannabis flowers. If you want to eat them, we can make them later.

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This kind of snack is not very difficult, Lin Xu can easily handle it with his current cooking skills.

While chatting, he began to play with the ingredients that Shen Jiayue brought from the restaurant.

Almonds, pecans, pistachios, walnut kernels, peanuts, melon seeds, white sesame seeds, black sesame seeds, raisins, hazelnuts, cashew nuts, pine nuts, dried figs, pitted candied dates, pitted dried apricots...
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Basically, this girl took all the dried fruits and nuts at home.

These nuts are all cooked and do not require additional processing. Lin Xu checked them over, then set up a stainless steel pot for making desserts and began to boil sugar.

In the traditional method of cutting cakes, grape juice is used to boil sugar.

This kind of syrup is paired with various dried fruits to make a malan candy that Northwest people cannot live without during the holidays.

However, grapes are not in season now. Although there are Qingwang grapes at home, Lin Xuzhen is reluctant to use them to make cakes at hundreds of yuan per pound.

Add water to the pot, put the white sugar first, then the maltose, and simmer over high heat.

Stir continuously while boiling. This will not only speed up the melting of the sugar, but also prevent the syrup from sticking to the bottom of the pot, causing a sticky bottom.

While Lin Xu was sleeping, Shen Jiayue stood beside him, eating a pecan and pinching a few raisins, his mouth never stopping.

Lin Xu didn't know if he could learn to cut cakes, but he was eating a lot these days.

"Aren't you two making cakes? Why are you leaving them here to eat?"

Chen Yuanyuan walked in and saw Shen Jiayue and Shen Nong tasting all the dried fruits like a hundred herbs, thinking they were trying poison.

"We are boiling the sugar. Once the sugar is boiled, we will start cooking."

After Lin Xu finished speaking, he said to Chen Yuanyuan:

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"Thank you for your hard work, sister. You started working on the third day of the new year, which makes me feel very sad."

Chen Yuanyuan waved her hand:

"Okay, okay, I work to earn money, and my help is not free. If you are willing, you can make more cakes and cut them. I will bring some over tomorrow for everyone to try."

That's no problem. To make all these ingredients today will cost at least fifty kilograms.

It’s definitely enough for Sister Yuanyuan to bring.

Not long after, the sugar in the pot had boiled. Lin Xu turned down the heat and continued to boil.

The sugar needs to be boiled to a stringy state so that the syrup is sticky enough and more delicious.

After the sugar in the pot is boiled, Lin Xu pours the prepared jar of honey into the pot and continues to stir to let the sweet aroma of the honey blend into the syrup.

Stir evenly, turn off the heat on the stove, then pour all the dried fruits and nuts into the pot, and stir quickly.

Without continued heating, the syrup will quickly become sticky and thick.

Before this stage, stir the sugar and dried fruits evenly so that the surface of all ingredients is covered with syrup.

This step not only requires quickness, but also requires not being afraid of burning. When stir-frying, you must turn it to the bottom every time. Only in this way will the syrup be thoroughly mixed.

Lin Xu said while busy:

"According to the method of cutting cakes on the street, each ingredient should be soaked in sugar separately, and then put together layer by layer to create a beautiful shape. But if we eat it ourselves, it won't be so laborious."
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Although his baby wants to bring back bad memories of his sister-in-law, Lin Xu doesn't want to help him.

Because that method is not only troublesome, but most importantly, it wastes sugar, and it saves time and effort to cook it in one spoonful.

All the syrup is hanging on the surface of the ingredients. At the same time, the syrup in the pot is constantly pulling strings while stirring, so you can stop, because if you continue to stir, the sugar may become sandy.

That way, it’s not cake cutting, but dry fruits turned into sand.

Mix well and Lin Xu brings a separate tray.

The so-called detachable tray is a tray whose bottom and surrounding edges can be detached. It can be used to make tofu, shaqima and other delicacies that need to be fixed.

Spread peanut oil on the inside of the tray, and then pour all the mixed dried fruits into it.

There were a lot of dried fruits, and a lot of them popped out from the top of the tray.

Shen Jiayue asked curiously:

"Do you want to change the mold?"

Lin Xu smiled and shook his head:
To be continued...