He Chunxiao couldn’t help but chuckle and said:
"Uncle Ma, it seems you were quite mischievous back then, or else your master wouldn’t have flicked your forehead!"
Ma Guoqiang also laughed: "Oh! I was young back then, how could I have known so much?"
The two of them casually chatted for a bit, and in no ti, they had rolled their respective sets of 20 dough balls twice.
Seeing everyone had finished this step, Jiang Yu continued with the next steps.
He took one of the rolls that had been rolled twice, placed it on the board, and pressed down in the middle with his thumb, making the center sink and the ends lift slightly, then he folded the lifted ends toward the center and pressed it flat with his palm.
Afterward, Jiang Yu picked up the rolling pin and rolled the dough into a pastry with a thicker middle and thinner edges.
"Just make it slightly thinner in the middle, don’t over-roll it, otherwise, the wrapped Peach Blossom Pastry skin won’t be even."
He showed the rolled pastry to Ma Guoqiang and He Chunxiao and then said,
"Once the pastry is rolled, you can fill it. The technique for sealing the filling is the sa as before with the water-oil dough wrapping dough, just pinch it with the tiger’s mouth and close it upwards."
After saying this, he took a small spoon, scooped a small spoonful of peanut peach blossom sauce filling from the big bowl, rolled it into a small ball, placed it in the middle of the rolled pastry, then placed the pastry at the base of his right thumb and started closing it slowly upward.
He put the sealed pastry back on the board and gently pressed it into a flat cake shape with his palm.
At this stage, the pastry base of the Peach Blossom Pastry was done.
"This doesn’t seem too difficult, let join in too."
Lu Shuwu had not made puff pastries before, but he was quite skilled in making soup dumplings. Witnessing Jiang Yu’s entire process of making the Peach Blossom Pastry base, he imdiately understood how to make it.
He ran to the sink to wash his hands, dried them with two paper towels, then pulled over a chair to sit and began making the Peach Blossom Pastry as well.
As for Qian Liwei and Jia Zhibin, they were purely Red Chefs; not only puff pastries, they didn’t even know how to make dough, so they could only stand by and watch.
Neither of the two chefs stepped forward, so the others could only stand at the side watching, drooling. It’s true, the scarlet peach blossom rolls mixed with fragrant peanuts looked very tempting.
With four people working together, the speed was naturally not slow, but even so, the few of them were busy until past six in the evening before they finally finished making all the Peach Blossom Pastries.
Of course, by the ti they were making Peach Blossom Pastries close to five o’clock, Jiang Yu also took the ti to prepare a few dishes for the cafeteria dinner. While Peach Blossom Pastries were important, ensuring the students had dinner was even more critical, which he certainly wouldn’t neglect.
However, as soon as he finished cooking the dishes, he sat down again and continued making the Peach Blossom Pastries with Ma Guoqiang and the others.
After using up a large basin full of peanut peach blossom sauce filling to make Peach Blossom Pastries, there was a little pastry leftover. Jiang Yu didn’t waste it either; since he made i Cai Kou Rou today, he used the remaining pastry to make i Cai Kou Rou puff pastries.
But to differentiate them from the Peach Blossom Pastries, he didn’t sprinkle sesa seeds on top of the i Cai Kou Rou puff pastries.
"Let’s bake two trays first to taste how they are. If the taste is good, we can sell them at the window tomorrow morning."
Having finished making all the pastries, Jiang Yu stood up from the chair, took a long, deep breath, and said with a smile,
"We’ll just sell the Peach Blossom Pastries. The i Cai Kou Rou flavor, we’ll keep to ourselves."
"Let’s let the students have a taste of the blossoming spring!"
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