There are two kinds of bean paste fillings, red bean paste and mung bean paste. Just grind the bean paste into a fine powder.

However, making mooncakes with lotus seed paste and egg yolk filling is much more difficult and expensive.

Soak the dried lotus seeds until soft, remove the lotus seed core, steam them, add maltose, white sugar, and vegetable oil and mix well, grind into fine lotus seed paste, put into the pan and stir-fry until it becomes soft and solid and completely non-stick to the pan and spoon, then it is ready to be served.

When the lotus paste turns from hot to warm, knead the whole ball of lotus paste like dough until it is soft but not loose. Then you can pinch it into small round cakes, completely wrap the whole salted egg yolk, wrap it with a layer of mooncake skin, and put it into the oven.

In the early stage, Xia Mingyue tried to make mooncakes. She didn't make too many at one time. She just made a small amount and gave them to everyone to taste.

The mooncakes were taken out of the oven and left to dry. One mooncake was divided into four portions and placed on a plate on the table.

Everyone gathered around the table, taking a piece of each flavor and savoring them slowly.

Needless to say, the snow skin mooncake has a cool and soft skin, with a unique chewy texture and a unique flavor.

The mooncakes that are baked have an oily but not greasy surface, a golden color, a powdery but not dry texture, and they taste soft and glutinous yet crispy.

The flavors inside also vary due to the different fillings.

The red bean paste filling has a classic flavor, with a delicate texture, sweet aftertaste and a refreshing fragrance.

The sweet and delicious lotus seed paste is even better when paired with the lava-like salted egg yolk. It is truly sweet and slightly salty, and salty and sweet, with just the right amount of sweet and salty, and you will never get tired of eating it.

The five-nut filling, as the most common filling, was the last mooncake picked up by everyone during the taste test. Everyone hesitated for a moment before putting it in their mouths, and after looking at each other, they closed their eyes and put it in their mouths.

After all, this is the mooncake made by Madam Xia. Even if the five-nut filling is not very delicious, it should be much better than the ones outside.

Moreover, even if the taste of the five-nut mooncakes could not be saved by even the gods, and even Madam Xia could not change its unpalatable taste, they could not show the slightest disdain and had to give Madam Xia enough face and confidence!

He closed his eyes, made up his mind, stuffed the five-nut mooncake into his mouth like a pill, and prepared to swallow it with his neck stretched.

But as soon as everyone took a bite of the five-nut mooncake, they immediately felt the difference.

Not only is the mooncake skin softer, more glutinous and sweeter than the usual mooncake skins, but even the five-nut filling is not as dry as the usual five-nut mooncakes. On the contrary, it tastes softer and more glutinous because it contains just the right proportion of glutinous rice flour and maltose.

The five kernels inside are not simply piled together, but fully integrated together. When you take a bite, the mellow aroma of almonds, walnut kernels and melon seeds, the sour and sweet taste of candied winter melon and tangerine cake... all spread in your mouth in an instant, fully teasing everyone's taste buds.

Realizing that the five-nut mooncake tasted much better than they had imagined, everyone came to their senses immediately. They no longer stuffed the remaining mooncakes into their mouths hastily, but instead ate them slowly and chewed them carefully.

While eating, he praised, "This five-nut mooncake is really delicious. I would like to call it the best five-nut mooncake!"

"It's really delicious. It's the best five-nut mooncake I've ever eaten. No, to be exact, it's the best mooncake I've ever eaten!"

“The ingredients are rich and the more you eat, the more delicious it becomes. It tastes even better than mooncakes with red bean paste or lotus seed paste and egg yolk.”

“It’s so delicious that you never get tired of eating it.”

"I used to think that five-nut mooncakes were the worst to eat, but now it seems that it's not that five-nut mooncakes are bad to eat, but that we have never eaten delicious five-nut mooncakes..."

After this was said, everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

But at the same time, I feel that something is missing. That is, the delicious five-nut mooncakes must be the five-nut mooncakes made by Lady Xia!

All the mooncakes, especially the five-nut mooncakes, were recognized by everyone. Xia Mingyue gained confidence and continued to make mooncakes.

At the same time, he began to discuss the sale of mooncakes with Manager Fu.

At this time, there were still two days before Yipin Guo opened, so Manager Fu suggested that some of the mooncakes could be sold directly at the door of Yipin Guo, at the same time to attract more popularity for Yipin Guo's business.

The other part can be used as a gift when eating at Yipin Guo, which is a disguised tasting and promotes the sales of mooncakes.

Xia Mingyue very much agreed with this marketing method, so she agreed to hand the matter over to Manager Fu to plan, while she would focus on the production and packaging of mooncakes.

Xia Mingyue is already familiar with mooncake making. She only needs to follow her experience and production techniques and ensure the overall quality of the mooncakes.

As for the packaging of mooncakes, Xia Mingyue prefers to package each mooncake individually to ensure the quality and grade of the mooncakes.

The traditional way to package mooncakes and pastries is to carefully wrap them with oil paper, put a square piece of red paper on the surface, and write the name of the mooncake or pastry on it.

Xia Mingyue had to pack each mooncake individually, and in order to make them look good, she naturally had to cover each one with red paper.

In theory, this is not a difficult task, but who should write on the red paper becomes a difficult issue.

Xia Mingyue was busy making mooncakes and handling matters related to the central kitchen, so she had no free time at all. Jiang Zhuguo did have some free time, but she thought her handwriting was too poor to be used as the outer packaging for mooncakes that tasted so delicious.

"Why don't we find a teacher with beautiful handwriting to write for us?" Zhuang Cui suggested. "There are many students who write letters and copy books for others and have elegant and beautiful handwriting. We can also pay them to write for us."

Nice handwriting?
Xia Mingyue's eyes suddenly lit up, "Now that you remind me of this, I think of a suitable person."

"Who?"

"Madam Shen!" Xia Mingyue replied with a smile.

When everyone heard this, they all agreed.

Although they had not read the storybook written by Madam Shen carefully, they had glanced at it once or twice because Xia Mingyue often read storybooks, and the handwriting was indeed beautiful.

The calligraphy is graceful and neat, yet also elegant and lively. To put it more deeply, the words written by Madam Shen are worthy of the word "style".

Good-looking and durable.

It would be perfect if Madam Shen were to write these red notes.

Moreover, Madam Shen had mentioned before that she wanted Xia Mingyue to help find some work, so I think she would be willing to take on such work.

Xia Mingyue made up her mind, and after lunch she went to look for Shen Shujun at the address she had left behind.

At this time, Shen Shujun was having lunch.

Sweet potato noodles with a little bit of white flour pressed into noodles, and a little bit of wilted cabbage bought cheaply from a vegetable stall, without a single drop of oil. (End of this chapter)