Chapter 550: Making cut cakes and kebabs! A beautiful night full of Northwest flavor! [Please subscribe]

Cutting cakes, which should be called marind, is a cake-like dessert delicacy that uses syrup to glue various dried fruit ingredients together.

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

"Xubao, how do you slaughter the cake and kill the customers?"

When the chopped cakes were popular in China, Shen Jiayue couldn't afford them. After 2008, Shen Guofu's business gradually started, and fewer and fewer people were selling chopped cakes in Beijing.

This greedy beautiful girl has never bought a cut cake on the street.

At that time, she heard that Chen Yan was cheated, and she was even quite curious about what the situation was like to be cheated by food.

Lin Xu said:

"It's very simple. When others ask how to sell it, the vendors who sell cake cuts usually say 10 yuan and 20 yuan. Many people heard that the price is very good, so they let people cut a little. But after cutting it, they found out that they were the ones who were not allowed to cut it. What I said is not a pound, but a pound. Isn’t this a fool?”

It’s okay to be a bit ridiculous in terms of price, but the key is that the proportion of cut cake is very high. Even if you cut a small piece by rubbing the edge, it will be at least two pounds higher.

It costs 20 yuan per ounce, and 2 pounds is 400 yuan.

Not to mention that the average salary was only one or two thousand at that time, even now, many people feel that they can't afford it.

But it’s not OK to buy it. If you don’t buy it, the other party will start sharpening the knife fiercely and forcefully buying and selling.

This is why the cake leaves a bad impression on everyone.

Lin Xu knew it because he encountered it when he was in middle school.

Unlike Shen Jiayue, Lin Xu has never suffered much since childhood, and has never stopped all kinds of snacks and snacks. He does not catch many colds for desserts.

Once after school, I saw a vendor selling cake cutters at the school gate. I originally wanted to buy something to try, but I didn't expect that a senior student would take the lead.

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

The senior student went from being proud of winning the first place to being surprised after the offer, then was frightened by the fear of being intimidated and the embarrassment of not being able to afford more than 400 yuan.

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

Fortunately, the incident happened at the entrance of the school, with teachers and school leaders coming forward, and the police patrols here, so the matter did not worsen.

After that, Lin Xu realized this street snack assassin.

It can cost hundreds or even thousands of yuan, which is simply more profitable than robbing the road.

"Well... I didn't expect that those cake cuts are so colorful and beautiful, and there is such an inside story. No wonder many netizens still deny cake cuts..."

Shen Jiayue didn't expect that Xu Bao would have such experience.

She took out a bag of badanmu from the box, opened it and sent it to her mouth to chew it, and said with a smile:

"If I meet it now, I will definitely buy some and try it. If I don't, buy that tricycle..."

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

"Don't, it's really costing 100,000 or 200,000 to cut cakes. That's so unfair. Sister Yan can 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 the small cut cake would be so expensive.

Lin Xu said:

"They set a high price, and the cake is heavier. Cutting a whole piece of cake really costs so much. It is said that there are more expensive ones, one gram per dollar. If you buy it, they will buy a decent family car directly. .”

Shen Jiayue immediately lost the idea of ​​being a sucker.

"Then I'd better learn to do it honestly... Xu Bao, do you think these Northwest people do this on purpose? Why no one cares about it?"

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

"It's not just the ones who sell cut cakes, but the same is true for Tianjin marijuana in the early years. When you ask for a price of 20 or 30, you have to buy it, and the minimum price is several hundred. Moreover, the ones who sell Tianjin marijuana have nothing to do with Tianjin. They are a group of people.

People from northern Anhui.”

As soon as he talked about this, Shen Jiayue remembered:

"I know this. I bought it with my grandma and I spent a lot of money just a little bit. As for the taste, it was just a careless one. I just felt that the mozzarella was thicker than my legs. I really wanted to know how it was made."

"Like the cake, it is also glued together with sugar. First, fry the small mozzarella, wrap it with sugar, and then glue it together to make cylindrical mozzarella. If you want to eat it, we can also make it back.

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This kind of snack is not difficult, and Lin Xu's current cooking skills can be easily handled.

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

Badanmu, pecan, pistachio, walnut kernels, peanuts, melon seed kernels, white sesame seeds, black sesame, raisins, hazelnuts, cashew nuts, pine nuts, dried figs, pitted candied dates, pitted apricots...

Basically, all the dried fruits and nuts at home were taken over by this girl.

These nuts are cooked without additional processing. Lin Xu checked them and then put them on a stainless steel pot for desserts and started to boil sugar.

In the traditional way of cutting cakes, sugar is needed to be boiled with grape juice.

Such syrup, combined with various dried fruits, is made into a Marincan that people in the northwest cannot live without during festivals.

However, grapes are not the season now. Although there are Qingwang grapes at home, Lin Xu is reluctant to use them to make the cut cakes for hundreds of dollars per pound.

Add water to the pot, first put the white sugar in, then add maltose, and cook it over high heat.

Keep stirring when boiling, which not only accelerates the melting of sugar, but also prevents the syrup from sticking to the bottom of the pot, causing the bottom of the paste to occur.

When Lin Xu was sucking, Shen Jiayue stood beside him, eating pecans and pinching a few raisins at a time, and her mouth never stopped.

I don’t know if I can learn to cut cakes, but I have eaten a lot of them now.

"Don't you two make cut cakes? Why did it taste like this?"

Chen Yuanyuan walked in and saw Shen Jiayue and Shennong tasted all the dried fruits like a hundred herbs. She thought she wanted to try the poison.

"I'm just boiling sugar, and I'll start making it after I've boiled the sugar."

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

"Thank you for your hard work, sister, you started work on the third day of the Chinese New Year, which made me feel very sorry."

Chen Yuanyuan waved her hand:

"Okay, okay, I'm working to earn money, and it's not in vain to help you. If you have the will, make more cakes. I'll take some of them tomorrow and give them to everyone to try."

This is no problem. Today, all these ingredients are made, at least fifty kilograms.

It's definitely enough for Sister Yuanyuan to bring.

Not long after, the sugar in the pot had been simmered. Lin Xu lowered the heat and continued to simmer.

You have to boil the sugar until it is brushed so that the syrup is sticky and more delicious.

After the sugar in the pot is boiled, Lin Xu poured the prepared jar of honey into the pot and continued to stir to allow the sweet fragrance of honey to blend into the syrup.

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

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

Before this stage, stir the sugar and dried fruit evenly, and try to keep all ingredients covered with syrup.

This step not only requires quickness, but also requires no fear of burning. When stir-frying, you have to turn it to the end. Only in this way can the syrup be thoroughly mixed.

Lin Xu said while busy:

"According to the way to cut cakes on the street, each ingredient should be passed in sugar and then placed layer by layer together to create a beautiful shape, but it wouldn't be so difficult to eat it ourselves."

Although his baby wants to bring back bad memories of his elder sister-in-law, Lin Xu does not want to help the evil.

Because that method is not only troublesome, but the most important thing is that it is a waste of sugar, and a spoonful of stewing is more time-saving.

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

If you make that way, it will not be cut into cakes, but the dried fruits will be turned into sand.

Mix well, Lin Xu brought a separate tray.

The so-called separate tray is a tray that can be disassembled at the bottom and around the surrounding edges. 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 dried fruits mixed evenly.

There were a lot of dried fruits, but a lot of them came out of the tray.

Shen Jiayue asked curiously:

"Do you want to change the mold again?"

Lin Xu smiled and shook his head:

"Need not."

He brought a hammer, which was a rolling pin with thick middle and thin handles at both ends. After applying a layer of grease on the surface, he rolled it on the tray with force.

Through crushing, the air between the ingredients can be discharged, the arrangement will be more dense, and the volume will naturally be reduced.

Soon, the part that emerged became flat.

Shen Jiayue took her mobile phone and took a photo of this short video and sent it to Chen Yan:

"Yan Bao, I'm learning to make cakes. I'll let Sister Yuanyuan bring some for you tomorrow. This time I won't slaughter or cheat people. You should eat more."

Chen Yan, who was shopping with Ren Jie, immediately curled her lips:

"Qin Yueyue, can I die if I don't get angry?"

She returned a contemptuous expression and stuffed her phone into her pocket angrily.

Ren Jie next to him asked curiously:

"What's wrong? His face suddenly became ugly?"

Chen Yan said angrily:
To be continued...