Chapter 1423 - 556: What’s It Like Eating at the Same Table as Kids? Shen Jiayue: Can’t Get a Bite! [Subscription Request]

Chapter 1423: Chapter 556: What’s It Like Eating at the Same Table as Kids? Shen Jiayue: Can’t Get a Bite! [Subscription Request]

The salted water duck didn’t soak for long in the soup pot before Lin Xu scooped it out and placed it on the tray.

Once it cools down a bit, it can be cut into pieces, arranged on a plate, and served on the dining table for the relatives to enjoy.

At this moment, the radish cake was also already steamed.

Lin Xu took it out from the steaming cabinet, sprinkled some toasted sesame seeds on the surface, and then placed it in the fridge to cool down. Once it’s completely cooled, it can be pan-fried.

If you want to eat it straight out of the pot, it’s best to sprinkle more toppings such as cured meat, sausages, dried mushrooms, and shrimp during the steaming. That way, the taste and appearance of the radish cake will be better.

However, if you pan-fry it, doing so might actually affect its appearance.

Because for pan-frying, the radish cake needs to have a crispy and fragrant surface before being served, and adding toppings would impact the frying effect and quality.

"I used to have radish cake in the south used in soups, and it can also be stewed with vegetables. Is that kind of radish cake the same as this one?"

Shi Wenming was quite interested in this snack and had given it a try but couldn’t get the ratio of radish to glutinous rice flour right, not to mention omitting wheat flour, which resulted in a radish cake that wasn’t quite up to standard.

Lin Xu said:

"The ratio of radish to glutinous rice flour paste is different. The more glutinous rice flour, the more it can withstand cooking. The less, the softer the texture."

"Oh, is that so? What do you put in the glutinous rice flour paste? Only glutinous rice flour?"

It seems uncle really wants to learn this delicacy.

Taking advantage of not yet having to prepare the salt-fried lamb, Lin Xu carefully explained the specific powder mix ratio to Shi Wenming:

"In the paste, wheat flour accounts for twenty percent, and glutinous rice flour eighty percent... if it’s too much hassle, you can directly buy radish cake special flour, which is pre-mixed and just needs to be stirred with water."

Shi Wenming became interested upon hearing this:

"There’s such a flour mix? I’ll buy some and try it out later. Your aunt likes radish cake, so I’ll make some for her... By the way, Xiao Xu, apart from radish, what other ingredients can be used to make it?"

"You can also make taro silk cake, using the same method as radish cake."

After discussing this, Lin Xu set a large iron pot on the stove, brought over the chopped lamb, and began teaching Shi Wenming how to make salt-fried lamb.

Outside, Dundun spent some time watching the lion-headed goose in its cage, then got attracted by a colorful little ball in Moli’s hand and went to happily play with her.

Cats get distracted easily, even when they are eating. If they encounter something interesting, they will immediately abandon their food to play.

At eleven in the morning, when the duck had mostly cooled down, Lin Xu took it over and began cutting it up.

At this moment, the duck skin was still white. Lin Xu first chopped off the duck’s neck and head, then split the duck body in half down the middle.

He then divided it into upper and lower parts like cutting roasted goose, and finally chopped it into pieces.

While chopping, you have to be careful. The duck meat contains a lot of fat and moisture, especially in parts like the wing base and leg base, where it is full of juices and can easily splatter everywhere if you’re not careful.

The white duck skin was extremely oily, and the meat inside was pink with a fresh aroma, constantly seeping juices, which is the key to the deliciousness of salted water duck.

Meanwhile, the duck bones had already turned green, signaling that it was cured to the perfect degree.

After chopping the duck meat and arranging it on a plate, Lin Xu drizzled a ladle of the original soup over it, making the duck more tender and juicy, and thus more delicious.

Lin Xu chopped a total of three ducks.

After chopping and preparing the ducks, he took out the already cooled radish cake from the fridge.

Because the tray was greased beforehand and the radish cake had contracted with cooling, by flipping the tray onto the cutting board, the entire radish cake slipped out of the mold.

At this moment, the radish cake looked a bit like slightly harder jelly.

Lin Xu sliced it into diamond-shaped pieces with a cooking knife, then placed the frying pan on the stove, greased the pan’s bottom with lard, and, once it was hot, put in the radish cake to fry.

Frying with lard not only makes the radish cake taste more fragrant, but it also adds an oily and smooth texture, making it even more satisfying to eat.

Soon, the bottom turned yellow.

Using chopsticks, he flipped the radish cake pieces over and continued frying.

Once all six sides of the diamond pieces were fried, he served them on a plate as a dish.

In the dining room, guests occupied several tables. Shen Jiayue, who didn’t drink alcohol and wasn’t interested in the adults’ gossip, sat with the younger crowd like Chen Shaokang, Shi Moli, Xiao Lei, and little Xun.

Eating with the children was the best, carefree and joyful, plus she got to feel like a big sister.

Shen Jiayue smugly thought, but when the dishes arrived, she found that she was too naive and unaware of the appetites of young people still growing.

As soon as the food was served, before she could even get a second bite, the plates were practically emptied.

Little Xun was chubby and a big eater, that was expected, but Chen Shaokang, who had just drunk two bowls of porridge and ate a huge pancake with four multigrain buns for breakfast, how could he eat so fast?

And Xiao Lei, even though I asked you to eat more for your health, as a girl, can’t you eat in a more ladylike manner?

Shen Jiayue held her chopsticks but was too embarrassed to fight for food and couldn’t really eat anything substantial, reduced to the same level as Shi Moli.

Her chopsticks reached the highest, yet she grabbed the least meat.

Every time she wanted another bite, the plate was already empty.

Shen Jiayue sighed softly, finally understanding why her cousin used to look at her with disdain at dinners when they were kids, it must be the same feeling as she had now.

If you don’t fight, you won’t get to eat, but even if you fight, you can’t win.

Luckily, Shen Jiayue had someone in the kitchen. When Lin Xu brought the radish cake to the table, she pitifully expressed her disappointment at not having eaten much.