General, Madam Called You To Farm

Chapter 74 – Recipes (2)

“I want to eat the chestnut ones too!” A little boy said. 

-Chinese chestnuts. 

-Chestnut cakes. 

“Let’s buy, grandma will buy it for you!” An old woman said dotingly. After that, she thought of something, and asked Su Xiaoxiao, “It won’t be sold out before our turn, right?” 

Su Xiaoxiao said kindly, “I made 40 chestnut cakes today.”

20 red beans, 20 mung beans and 20 meigan cai. 

-Red bean filling

-Mung bean filling

-Meigan Cai with pork meat filling 

-A bundle of Meigan Cai (梅干菜)
A type of dry pickled chinese mustard. The pickle consists of a whole head of various varieties of chinese mustards and cabbages that has undergone an elaborate process consisting of drying, steaming, and salting. The vegetables are harvested, trimmed before the Qingming Festival, and sun-dried until limp. It is then salted or brined, kneaded until the juices are exuded, and left to ferment in large clay urns for 15 to 20 days. The vegetable is then repeatedly steamed and dried until reddish brown in color and highly fragrant.

The total of cakes she sold was 100 pieces. 

The pair of Grandmother and grandson bought the chestnut stuffing as they wished.

To make a flaky cake with chestnut filling needs good cooking skills. Don’t underestimate chestnut because it has some original sweetness, it wouldn’t taste good without adding sugar. But if you put too much sugar, the sweetness from the sugar will easily cover everything, then it wouldn’t taste much different from other sweet fillings. 

Su Xiaoxiao had it just right, perfectly retaining the aroma and sweetness of the chestnut, with a touch of flaky pastry, crispy and glutinous, a combination which was sweet but not greasy. 

“Grandma, delicious!” said the little boy.

The rest of the guests also praised her chestnut wife’s cakes. 

One hundred cakes were sold out quickly again.

Su Ergou muttered, “Jie1, I.…..”

1Jie (姐) : Older sister

He still hadn’t eaten any for the eating show2 yet!

2Eating show / mukbang : genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience.

Su Xiaoxiao couldn’t help laughing: “I have brought your share.”

There were still other things to do today. She couldn’t go back to cook at noon. So she brought food for herself and Ergou, and she also left the food she had prepared for Father Su and the others.

Su Ergou began to pick up his older sister’s back basket.

-The back basket. 

This kind of feeling… it felt a little bit of happiness, just what was going on? 

In the past, it used to be Su Ergou who always yielded for his older sister. Making people forget that he was also a child who needed to be loved too. 

Su Ergou successfully found a bowl of wife’s cakes.

-Wife’s cakes / Lao Po Ping (老婆饼)

“Jie, you eat this too.”

“I want to lose weight, you can eat.”

“Oh.”

Su Ergou stuffed the cake into his mouth.

After packing up her things, Su Xiaoxiao planned to leave.

At this moment, shopkeeper Sun walked over in a leisurely manner. 

With his hands behind his back, he looked like he was strolling casually in the garden: “Is it sold out?”

Su Xiaoxiao made sure that he was talking to herself, and hummed ‘en’ lightly, “It’s sold out.”

Shopkeeper Sun put on a fake smile and said, “You guys.….. always sell things near Jinji. Isn’t it like stealing from our business?”

Su Xiaoxiao said: “If we, two villagers, can steal a business from your Jinji’s, then isn’t your jinji’s business being too easy to steal?”

That was a slap in the face, wasn’t it?

Shopkeeper Sun coughed a few times: “I see that you are a young girl. It is not easy to make a living with your younger brother. The weather will get colder and colder, and when it snows heavily, can you still open your stall to sell things? How about this, why don’t you sell the cakes to Jinji?” 

“Oh?” Su Xiaoxiao seemed to be a little surprised while looking at him. 

Shopkeeper Sun raised his chin and said, “You sell ten wen for a piece, but I see that your cake is only worth three or two wen for a piece. Jinji will offer five wen for a piece, and it’s 200 pieces per day!”

Su Xiaoxiao pulled Su Ergou and walked away without looking back.

Shopkeeper Sun: “.…..”

Was he just ignored by a little girl? !

He was so angry that he stamped his feet with anger. 

“Six wen! Six wen is good, right?”

“Seven, seven wen! It couldn’t be more than that!”

“Alas— you can’t sell it for ten wen, right?”

They went further and further away.

Shopkeeper Sun’s heart was really determined!

“Why don’t you make a price! You can also sell the recipe!”