On one side, Watanabe Murichi was bragging about his monstrous skills, while on the other side, Wu Guoliang was gently kneading the dough with his right hand.
Watanabe glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, and his smile grew stronger. He pretended to be concerned and asked: "Wusang, do you need someone to help you knead the dough?" Whether pastries are Chinese or Western, this aspect of kneading the dough is crucial.
Importantly, whether the dough becomes tight or loose, and whether it tastes loose or rotten, all depends on this process of pushing and kneading.
Wu Guoliang didn't even raise his head, but continued what he was doing: "You'd better worry more about your wagashi. I see that your potato yams are not steamed yet."
Most of the ingredients for wagashi are kidney bean puree, but there are also many improvements, such as warabi cake skin, yokan, etc. Watanabe Murichi is a leader in wagashi. He probably felt that traditional kidney bean puree has a single taste, so he used potato.
Taro. But once the ingredients are changed, the test for the maker is increased. In Wu Guoliang's opinion, the wagashi made by Watanabe Murichi will not taste very good.
Watanabe Murichi felt that he couldn't eat the grapes and said that the grapes were sour. These three thousand years old were made with the most perfect ingredients. He had never failed to do so many times. Wu Guoliang was afraid that he wanted to do it.
Even if you lose, you have to show off your prestige.
He curled his lips, hummed nonchalantly, and turned his head to stop paying attention to him.
But just by turning around, he missed the most exciting scene. Wu Guoliang exchanged his left and right hands, and the basin was transferred to his right hand. His left hand secretly exerted force and began to knead the dough vigorously.
In the eyes of the Chinese people, kneading dough is also very particular. Knead lightly and knead hard. Only when the flour is relaxed can the highest flexibility of the flour be exerted. Butter and white sugar were added to the dough in his hand. Naturally, it must be kneaded first.
Stir lightly, then add eggs to bind them together, add cocoa powder, great.
Then he added low-gluten flour and slowly kneaded it evenly. This is why he switched to his left hand. Although his right hand could move, it never had much strength. This was also his regret over the years. After all, it was not complete.
Already.
The filling is a five-nut filling made from walnuts, peanuts, cashews, melon seeds and almonds. This is a relatively complex and extremely traditional filling since the Chinese developed pastry techniques. Honey is added to bind the crushed nuts together.
Put them together and shape into a small ball.
At this time, the camera also focused on his hands, and the cameraman exclaimed: "Master Wu, you can make this ball really round." It is not difficult for Watanabe Murichi to make a round ball. He uses shiny dough, but Wu
What Guoliang uses is granular crushed nuts. From this comparison, anyone with a discerning eye can naturally tell which one is higher and which one is lower.
The people in the kitchen held back their mouths and laughed secretly in their hearts. This old guy Watanabe was not as good as the disabled man with a missing right hand.
Watanabe Murichi was also a little embarrassed. He also saw the stuffing balls made by Wu Guoliang. They were all the same size and were as round as pearls on a white plate.
He was a little unwilling to be upstaged by Wu Guoliang, and said sourly: "It's just stuffing." He didn't know what Wu Guoliang wanted to do, and there was no clue yet.
What Wu Guoliang wants to make is something that people in the capital particularly like, large paper-skinned walnuts.
The love of walnuts among people in the capital dates back to the Qing Dynasty. The three popular treasures in the hands of Mr. Beile are: Wenwan walnuts, hand-twisted gourds and Bodhi eighteen seeds. There is an old saying: If you never leave your hand with walnuts, you will live for more than eighty-nine years.
The dead emperor is so old that even the King of Hell cannot tell him to leave!
For people in the capital, walnuts are not only food, but also playthings. From the royal family to the poor, walnuts can touch a lion's head in their hands and plate them in their spare time. This is the leisure time of the old capital people.
Press the chocolate-colored dough into a round shape, wrap the five-nut filling in it, and slowly squeeze it into the middle with the tiger's mouth, and then make thin and long sharp strips, like the slit in the middle of the walnut. Wu Guoliang took out a strange-shaped
Use a clip-like metal object to clamp it bit by bit along the center line.
After a short time, a dough walnut that was exactly the same as a real walnut was formed. If you look closely at the lines, you will see that it also has unique growth lines like a real walnut, linking each other to form a complete figure.
"Master Wu, these lines were not made randomly, were they?" The camera focused on Wu Guoliang's hand movements again, and there was a voice-over outside the camera.
Wu Guoliang curled up his lips and put the dough in his hand in front of the camera: "Of course not, all the lines follow the growth path of walnuts. You can compare it with a real walnut later to see if it is the same."
Same."
After the paper-skinned walnuts are ready, they have to be baked in the oven. Now Watanabe Village got excited and pointed at Wu Guoliang and shouted: "Didn't we agree to make cold tea? Do you Chinese people only know how to make hot pastries?"
"Don't scream like a clown here." Wu Guoliang adjusted the oven time and sneered, "Can your wagashi be eaten raw? Besides, did I say eat it when it's hot?"
Watanabe Murasaki was so angry at his rebuke that he sat aside and began to sulk, looking at Wu Guoliang with eyes full of resentment. This man's mouth was still as poisonous as before.
As time went by, bursts of aroma came from the oven, mixed with flour, nuts, and the sweetness of powdered sugar, making everyone look forward to more paper-skinned walnuts.
"Ding——" The oven finished working and the red light went out. Wu Guoliang put on his gloves and took out the baking sheet. The roasted walnuts looked harder on the outside. When pinched with his hands, they also felt hard to the touch, along the middle seam.
When you open it, you will find an earthy-yellow nut filling inside, just like real walnut kernels.
"Jian, make tea."
"Okay!" Yu Jian got the order, asked the waiter for a tea set, took out the treasured green tea cake, and continued the process step by step using the Tang Dynasty's tea making technique.
"Grandstand!" Watanabe Murichi said, and also ordered his assistant to take out the fine tea brought from the Neon Country, and went to the battle himself, using the exaggerated Neon Tea Ceremony technique to brew several cups of orange-yellow tea.
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The tasting session was moved to the hall, and I don't know how Wang Song managed to gather people in such a short time. When Watanabe saw it, his lungs almost exploded, and he glared at Wang Song fiercely.
He actually found five people, but Watanabe Muraichi just made a three-thousand-year-old, how could he share it with so many people?
"That's not fair." He gritted his teeth and said, "I only have one Sanqiansui, and it's not wholesale. How can it be enjoyed by so many people?" He also implicitly hinted that Wu Guoliang's walnuts had no technical content and were sold in a mass-market manner.
operate.
"This is easy to handle, let's choose one person to be the judge." Wu Guoliang glanced around, nodded slightly, and nodded to one person, "Let's just sit at the end of the old man."
Jin Jangguo smiled slightly, stood up from his chair, hugged everyone, and introduced himself: "I am Jin Jangguo, the then vice president of Kyungseong University." His eyes glanced at the two people holding the plates, and his smile deepened.
Watanabe Village's eyeballs moved and he breathed a sigh of relief: "It turns out to be Principal Jin, whose name I have admired for a long time." It is said that this Chinese scholar is the most pedantic and is famous for his fairness. Presumably this is also the case for Jin Changguo.
Or the president of Jingcheng University? You can't play with the reputation of the school, right?
Thinking of this, his confidence increased a hundred times, and he said provocatively to Wu Guoliang: "Wu Sang, you are a donkey and a horse, it's time to run away. Don't let me down!"
Wu Guoliang glanced at him expressionlessly: "If you say the same thing, I'll give it to you too."