Chapter 320: Defeat

In a bustling corner of the city, there is a dessert shop called "Sweet Secret".

This small shop, with its unique decoration and exquisite desserts, has become a sweet paradise in the hearts of local residents and tourists.

Enter the store.

The first thing that catches your eye is the warm lights and soft sofas.

The walls are hung with murals with soft colors, depicting all kinds of sweet food and dreamy scenes, as if people are in a sweet dream.

The music in the store is soft and soothing, adding a touch of tranquility and comfort to this space.

Dessert table.

There are a wide variety of desserts on it.

From classic French macarons to creative matcha mousse, each one is so exquisite that people can't take their eyes off it.

The desserts are harmoniously matched in color and in various shapes, like works of art, and people are conquered by their beauty before tasting them.

At the same time, there is a small reading area in the corner! There are all kinds of books and magazines about desserts here, so that diners can immerse themselves in the ocean of knowledge while enjoying desserts.

…

At this moment, it is night.

Just when Kobayashi Ryodan was defeated by Caiba Chaoyang, this dessert shop was also playing out the story of the Ten Greats of Totsuki fighting against the late-night cook!

Western cakes are Western-style pastries and cakes from Western countries.

Generally speaking, flour, oil, eggs, sugar, dairy products, etc. are the main raw materials, supplemented by various additives, etc.

It is made according to a specific process and is an important part of Western cuisine.

The range is very wide, including shortbread, pie, tart, cookies, biscuits, puffs, jelly, mousse, etc.

It is even interesting that although there are many types, they do not have a certain shape, pattern and size. They can be mass-produced by machines, or they can be made by hand with the creativity and technology of the chef to make various novel small cakes.

And standing opposite the late-night cook Bani Haier is a boy who often holds a teddy bear.

Although she is already a third-year student in the senior department, she looks petite, quiet, and not very talkative.

Hmm!

Just from the appearance.

She always gives people a sense of surprise.

This makes Banilhare very suspicious. Is this kind of person with such a small body really the fourth seat of the current Ten Elites of Totsuki?

…

"I don't know why you Totsuki students would take the initiative to find fault at this critical moment?"

"But I will never let you go easily in this cooking duel!"

Banilhare said with a firm look.

"Hmm!"

"Stop talking nonsense."

Aki Kubo Momo, however, hugged the teddy bear tightly, and her tone seemed a little impatient.

After that, she turned back to the cooking table and started to make the dessert dishes she is best at!

The ingredients prepared are quite common: butter, powdered sugar, granulated sugar, salt, eggs, milk, milk powder, low-gluten flour, almond powder, vanilla extract...

In addition to these common ingredients, there are also some tools, measuring spoons, electric egg beaters, rubber scrapers, piping nozzles, piping bags, heart-shaped round molds, and ovens.

In fact.

In terms of dessert cooking.

Akane Kubo Momo, who has a high level of attainment, usually uses these ingredients and tools very skillfully.

She put the clean water into the freezer of the refrigerator for a while in advance, freezing it into ice water, and then took out the ice water and cream to prepare. Cream cannot be frozen in the freezer, but should be placed in the refrigerator. This is a common sense in making desserts.

Akane Kubo Momo took the lead, and her skillful movements shocked everyone at the beginning.

Pour the cream into a clean container, add white sugar, and even add a few milliliters of rum to enhance the taste of the cream.

This is a distilled liquor produced with sugarcane molasses as raw material.

It will make the aroma of the cream more fragrant and rich.

Place the container of cream in ice water, and use an electric whisk to beat the sugar at a low speed for about a few dozen seconds.

Then, Akane Kubo Momo turned the whisk to high speed and stirred until you could see very clear lines.

Then continue stirring while observing, and finally be able to lift and pull out a sharp angle that will not fall. At this time, the cream is very delicate and finished.

"The speed is so fast..."

"Is this the power of the Ten Elites of Totsuki?"

"I didn't expect that Akane Kubo Momo, who is the fourth seat, could make this simple cream in about 1 minute."

"Moreover, the aroma of the cream is so fragrant and rich!"

"It's really eye-opening!"

"So that's it. The role of rum is to enhance the aroma of the cream. It's amazing. This technique is really amazing."

The exciting cooking duel has just passed for more than a minute, and all the staff of the dessert shop, including the experienced dessert chefs, are stunned!

Especially her cream making, which makes people can't help but marvel.

...

On the other side.

Bani Haier seemed to be surprised by Tao's performance.

However, she quickly calmed down, and after sorting out her emotions, she immediately started to cook.

The first thing to consider is the ingredients for the dessert: all-purpose flour, ghee, low-gluten flour, barbecued pork, sesame, powdered sugar, water, barbecued pork sauce, egg yolk.

Then, preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Mix all-purpose flour, powdered sugar, 4 tablespoons of ghee and water into a dough, and mix low-gluten flour and 5 tablespoons of ghee into a dough.

Because her special ability is [violent cooking], she uses sadistic techniques to stimulate the deliciousness of the food.

Therefore.

Her dough kneading skills are simply insane.

Kneading, beating, and even pulling, tossing the dough with such force, coupled with smooth movement skills and magical speed, suddenly made the originally boiling dessert shop fall into silence.

Everyone was so surprised.

…

Honey BBQ Pork Crispy.

This is the most popular pastry among Cantonese snacks in China.

The outer layer is golden and crispy, and the inside is full of fragrant and sweet barbecued pork fillings, which is very delicious.

The method of cooking pork with a fork on the fire is:

Barbecue pork!

Because the barbecued pork is cooked directly over an open fire, the lean tenderloin will appear dry.

Therefore, on this basis, Bani Haier changed the tenderloin to semi-fat and lean meat and spread caramel on the surface.

In this way, during the barbecue process, the decomposed fat and caramel can relieve the fire without drying out, and have a sweet aroma.

fragrant.

sweet.

fresh.

Even a little dry, but still a little salty.

If you use the phrase "a salty aroma with a slight sweetness, the meat is lean but not chewy" to describe Bani Haier's barbecued pork, that would be the most suitable!

Then cut the barbecued pork into small pieces, thicken it with flour to make the barbecued pork honey filling and set aside.

Add flour, eggs, sugar, lard and an appropriate amount of water and knead into a smooth dough, roll it out thinly, fold it back and forth three times to form large thin slices, and then cut it into thin square pieces.

Put about 1 tablespoon of filling on each piece of pastry, spread some egg yolk on the pastry, then roll up the pastry and wrap it up.

Press the puff pastry on both sides, seal it, then apply egg yolk liquid and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Place the barbecued pork puff pastry on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven for about 25 minutes or until golden and crispy. Serve.

The method is simple.

However, the taste of this honey barbecued pork cake is not simple.

You know, this dessert snack evolved from the banquet items in the Manchu and Han banquets.

In other words, barbecued pork is cooked in different ways in various parts of China. To make honey-glazed barbecued pork and pastry dough, slice the barbecued pork into slices, put it into the pastry and bake until done.

Produced, sweet and crispy, sweet but not greasy.

"What kind of dessert is this?"

"Honey barbecued pork cake?"

"It's actually a dessert with barbecued pork wrapped in meringue?"

"Then, let's eat and see."

Surprise, but also a bit of expectation.

Finally, the judges who were responsible for reviewing the cooking showdown picked up a small piece of honey-glazed barbecued pork cake and tasted it carefully.

It melts in your mouth, has a crispy outer skin, and is sweet but not greasy. This is the feeling you get immediately after taking a bite.

However, the incredible thing is behind.

The barbecued pork is made from plum blossom meat. After grilling, the fat shreds will be melted, making the meat more fragrant and tender but not greasy. As you continue to bite, the meat juice inside will burst out.

The unexpected impact shocked the judges on the spot!

Their minds couldn't help but fall into a short-circuit state.

It is sweet and fresh with the taste of barbecued pork, and the biggest highlight is that the texture also has the crispness of barbecued pork.

Whether it is sight, smell, taste, or feeling, it can subvert the inherent image of this dish time and time again.

"This... is such an amazing dessert!"

"I didn't expect that the taste of meat can permeate the desserts and snacks. It's amazing, it's amazing."

"Although the taste is complex and delicious, when you chew it carefully, you can still feel that the barbecued pork is completely melted, making the meat more fragrant and tender but not greasy."

"Not only that."

"The puff pastry is made from a mixture of low-gluten flour and milk powder. It's delicious and crispy."

"Even after it cools down, the texture loses some, but it still retains its delicious taste."

“It’s truly an unprecedented dessert!”

Almost all the reviewers shouted.

Immediately, they ate hungrily, fearing that such a delicious dish would be snatched away by others.

Looking at the reactions of these people, Bani Haier couldn't help but smile slightly. What she wanted was to deprive these people of all their sense of taste. All these reviewers could think about was this honey-glazed barbecued pork puff pastry dish.

As long as we grasp this point deeply, even if the opponent is the current fourth seat in Yuanyue, so what?

Just use brutal means to make extremely delicious dishes.

So.

She will definitely win this game!

…

Just when Bani Haier fell into silence.

Suddenly, there was a delicate hand behind his back, carefully tugging at the corner of his clothes.

Holding a stuffed animal, the petite and often taciturn Akanekubo Momo blinked with watery eyes and stared blankly at Bani Haier in front of her: "Can I taste your honey barbecued pork crispy dish? ?”

It can be seen that Akane Kubo, who strives to pursue the "cute" element, became excited because of Bani Haier's honey barbecued pork crispy dish!

Her cheeks were flushed and she looked very eager.

After all, she specializes in desserts, mainly cakes and pastries. In this year's school festival high platform area, Akekubo Momo won the first place in sales.

Naturally, we know very well that the so-called honey barbecued pork cake is actually a common dessert from Chinese cuisine.

Seeing these judges eating so drunkenly, Akane Kubo was inevitably moved!

Although speak.

She is not as greedy as Kobayashi Ryo.

But seeing such a delicious dessert but not being able to taste it must have made her feel very uncomfortable.

So, she blinked her eyes and kept staring at Bani Haier.

Bani Haier, who is also a girl, was stunned for a long time on the spot, and finally she could only say: "Okay, there are a few more here!"

"Thanks."

Hearing this, Akane Kubotao's eyes lit up.

Immediately, when she took the honey barbecued pork cake from Bani Haier's hand with excitement on her face, she couldn't wait to take a bite.

"Wow, delicious."

The little mouth pouted slightly, and the explosive fragrance was always lingering in Akanekubo Momo's mouth.

It is said to know oneself and the enemy. Judging from Bani Haier's Honey Barbecued Pork Cake, Akanekubo Momo knew that the cookies she had not yet taken out were already lost.

She felt helpless when she remembered that she had underestimated the late-night cook just now.

yes!

Even I lost.

As for the top ten heroes such as Kobayashi Ryodan, Nino Kuni Ningning, Kuga Teruki, etc., it is naturally difficult for them to have a chance of winning.

"Hey, I don't think I can compare to Bani Haier."

"So... I will give up in advance in this cooking competition with the late-night chef."

As soon as these words came out, the entire dessert shop fell silent.

…

Sweet and Sour Pork.

A representative work of the cuisine!

There are different opinions about the origin of this dish.

The view that most people agree with is that during the war in the Central Plains in ancient times, a group of Henan people came to Guangdong from the Central Plains and settled in the current Meizhou area, becoming Hakkas!

During the Chinese New Year, the Hakka people still retain the "crispy meat" made by their ancestors during the Chinese New Year in Henan, which is a food made of cut pork belly wrapped in flour and fried with fragrant aroma.

However, when the Hakka people made it, they added a little improvement.

Cut the pork belly into pieces, coat in flour and fry until fragrant, then fry in a pan until it turns into sugar.

Then put the pieces of crispy meat into the melted syrup in the pot while it's hot and roll them into balls, then turn off the heat, sprinkle with sesame seeds, and let the syrup solidify.

The result was a plate of meatballs covered in syrup on the outside, crispy on the inside, and soft, glutinous and sweet on the third layer.

Because when making this kind of meatballs, you have to roll the fried meatballs vigorously to evenly coat them with syrup, so people began to call this kind of meat "豱辘肉".

Later, when this earthy and rustic Hakka cuisine spread to the provincial capital.

Cantonese cuisine chefs continue to improve this.

They first thought of mixing western tomato juice and lemon juice with syrup to create a sweet and sour taste, which would be more delicious than purely sweet pork belly.

Therefore, after years of improvement and development, the famous sweet and sour pork dish was born and has been passed down to this day!

"oh?"

"The eighth seat of the Ten Elites."

"As far as I know, it seems to be good at spicy Sichuan cuisine, right?"

In a Chinese restaurant, Donkama, who is also a late-night cook, took a look at the sweet and sour pork I made and said in surprise. (End of chapter)