The mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls with a normal taste shattered the unnamed grandma, and also warmed Ouyang in the kitchen.
Ouyang even tasted a sense of surviving a catastrophe in this glutinous rice ball.
He was moved to tears. These days, Qin Huai’s sudden practice of making glutinous rice balls wasn’t to take his life, but because he made a historic breakthrough and needed to seize the time to practice.
Luckily, Qin Huai didn’t know the Mind Reading Technique, otherwise, he wouldn’t mind turning Ouyang’s nightmares into reality over these two days.
Now that the mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls were made to taste normal, Qin Huai decided it was time to tell Zheng Siyuan and Tan Wei’an the good news, letting all members of the mixed fruit filling research team joy together.
The next morning, Qin Huai got up early to go to Huang Ji. When he arrived at the kitchen, Tan Wei’an and Zheng Siyuan hadn’t arrived yet, and there was only Guli in the whole kitchen.
Guli was making Ruyi Rolls, currently wrapping them, and it seemed like he had been at this step for a while.
Qin Huai was a bit surprised. It was only 7 o’clock, and Guli being at this step meant he had arrived at around 6. Adding the time for preparing ingredients ahead of time, and considering Guli’s work efficiency wasn’t high, his movements were very slow...
He probably got up before 6 to prepare and set off.
If Qin Huai remembered correctly, Guli always waited till after Huang Ji finished taking orders, then practiced snacks again, clocking off after 10.
Going off work after 10, getting up before 6, man’s more hardcore than imagined, every day besides eating and sleeping, he’s just making snacks.
compared to him is considered a leisurely work mode.
Guli was also surprised to see Qin Huai so early. He looked at the just-wrapped Ruyi Roll, hesitated for a few seconds, washed his hands, and made tea for Qin Huai.
Then he walked up to Qin Huai and asked, "Master Qin, you’re here so early today, there must be something to do, is there anything I can help with?"
Qin Huai indeed needed Guli’s help.
Helping him make the mixed fruit filling.
Today Qin Huai came so early specifically to make a batch of mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls first, not a large quantity, just a dozen or so. (Too little quantity also doesn’t work well)
Once Zheng Siyuan and Tan Wei’an taste what normal mixed fruit filling glutinous rice balls are, the slightly bizarre story Qin Huai concocted will seem a bit more credible.
Guli was a very professional assistant. Although he wasn’t fast at work, his basic skills were solid, his knife skills were very good. Qin Huai asked him to chop nuts and dried fruits, and so Guli went to Tan Wei’an’s cooking station to chop, cutting them finely and meticulously, very seriously.
Qin Huai, on the other hand, was boiling sugar.
After trying for a few days, Qin Huai had already figured out the approximate amount of winter melon candy to use. An amount that looked fatal, but after making and extracting the sugar, it turned out just right in sweetness.
Sweetness was definitely there; the mixed fruit filling was originally a sweet filling, not being sweet would be defying the natural order.
After so long of making mixed fruit filling, Qin Huai had become very skilled in boiling and extracting sugar. Once Qin Huai finished his preparations, Guli also finished chopping all the dried fruits and nuts.
The entire Huang’s Kitchen was filled with the rich sweet aroma of winter melon candy.
Tan Wei’an, who had just walked to the kitchen entrance, was shocked. Was it a hallucination of his nose? How did he smell the terrifying aroma of boiling winter melon candy?
That cloying sweet smell made Tan Wei’an immediately think of the mixed fruit filling and then shivered.
Who? Who was committing such a sinful act in Huang’s Kitchen so early in the morning?
Tan Wei’an walked into the kitchen in horror, and found it was Qin Huai and his junior brother.
Tan Wei’an closed his eyes in pain.
Junior brother, why are you also aiding and abetting the evil?!
Seeing Tan Wei’an arrived, Qin Huai hurriedly called him: "Tan Wei’an, you came just in time, come over and help, help me make some glutinous rice skin."
Tan Wei’an hurriedly went over to join in the misdeed.
While kneading the glutinous rice skins, Tan Wei’an sneaked a glance at Qin Huai’s side and found that the amount of winter melon candy and lard was much more exaggerated than before. He couldn’t dare open his eyes, hoping it was his hallucination.
He couldn’t even imagine, the previous mixed fruit filling was already hard to eat, now with so much winter melon candy added, how inedible it must be.
His worries these days were indeed correct. Qin Huai’s psychological issues were led on by work stress. He used to be able to control it, but now he couldn’t anymore, preparing not to spare anyone at Huang’s early in the morning.
Halfway through kneading the glutinous rice skins, Zheng Siyuan arrived.
The sugar had already been boiled, and the aroma of winter melon candy in the kitchen had dissipated a lot. Zheng Siyuan only smelled it upon entering the kitchen. Seeing Qin Huai making mixed fruit filling, Zheng Siyuan excitedly stepped forward to see what the recipe was.
"Why use so much winter melon candy?" Zheng Siyuan frowned.
In Zheng Siyuan’s view, using so much winter melon candy was an even more heretical practice than the previous random tries.
"Because I recently got some new inspiration, and discovered that winter melon candy is actually the main ingredient of the mixed fruit filling." Qin Huai explained, "You’ll know why once it’s done and you taste it."
"Is the glutinous rice skin ready?" Qin Huai asked Tan Wei’an.
"Ready, ready." Tan Wei’an quickly handed over the glutinous rice skin, stretching his neck to carefully observe the amount of mixed fruit filling, "This is roughly enough for how many?"
"Not much, less than 20 pieces." Qin Huai said.
Zheng Siyuan didn’t stay idle, also helping to wrap the glutinous rice balls, and ultimately even helped with cooking them.
This batch of glutinous rice balls was improved by Qin Huai based on yesterday’s success.
For Qin Huai, glutinous rice balls weren’t a difficult snack, as long as the direction was right, it was like galloping towards success, the progress speed was definitely rapid.
Last night, Qin Huai managed to make ordinary glutinous rice balls with a normal taste.