Abnormal Gourmet Chronicle
Chapter 345 - 207 Familiar Recipe_3

Chapter 345: Chapter 207 Familiar Recipe_3

Jiang Weijin is Jiang Chengde’s son, surely he has worked as a chef or assistant chef in Taifeng Building. Because he’s not very good at making Mixed Fruit Filling, he created a Mixed Fruit Filling with a very rich recipe using ingredients he’s familiar with.

Also because he’s not very good at it, he basically doesn’t do it.

As for why people like Huang Shengli thought there was nothing wrong and found Jiang Weijin’s Mixed Fruit Filling snacks particularly delicious, it’s entirely because Jiang Weijin’s skill level is high enough. Just like Jiang Weiming, his inventive snacks are still delicious.

If the filling of the mixed fruit filling glutinous rice ball that Gong Liang wanted to eat was made like this, then Qin Huai roughly knew how to try.

Just try randomly.

Qin Huai is very good at this method of researching dishes.

Free to play, trying however he wished.

Take Four Happiness Dumplings for example, haven’t the people in Huang’s Kitchen tasted authentic Four Happiness Dumplings? Don’t they know that Qin Huai’s Four Happiness Dumplings are quite different from the real ones, yet no one objected.

Because they are delicious, and they do look like Four Happiness Dumplings.

For dishes, being tasty is paramount.

The chef who made Four Happiness Dumplings at Zhiwei Restaurant yesterday did make authentic ones, but they weren’t as tasty as Qin Huai’s.

At Huang Ji, Qin Huai’s Four Happiness Dumplings are the authentic ones.

Qin Huai had an epiphany, went back to eat, and after dinner, enthusiastically shared his ideas for test-making with Zheng Siyuan with the recipe in hand.

After Zheng Siyuan typed several question marks, he expressed that as long as Qin Huai was happy.

Since Qin Huai had decided, there must be a reason for it.

So, Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan embarked on a vigorous practice of Mixed Fruit Filling.

Huang An Yao found suppliers to deliver top-quality candied fruits and nuts according to the list, providing solid logistical support for Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan’s practice.

As for the preparation method, Qin Huai found several online.

One involved chopping some ingredients, soaking them in brandy until soft, then chopping the rest, adding in sequentially, mixing without cooking, and finally mixing into a state that could be formed into balls as filling.

Another required making syrup first by simmering winter melon candy, sugar, lard, and malt sugar, then chopping the rest of the ingredients and adding them in to make the filling.

The simplest and most straightforward one was to mix flour, sugar, oil, chopped preserved fruits, and nuts together and mix until the filling was done.

Considering Huang Shengli remembered a sugar-making step, Qin Huai leaned towards the second one, but to be safe, Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan tried all three methods.

And then unsurprisingly, failed three times.

Such a rich variety of ingredients, delightful candied fruit sweetness, immense amounts of winter melon candy, paired with lard simmered with winter melon candy.

Most crucially, this filling needed to be wrapped into glutinous rice balls and boiled.

One could imagine the disastrous taste.

Overly sweet and greasy, unlike other dishes that seek rich but not greasy flavors, Qin Huai and Zheng Siyuan’s glutinous rice balls turned out overly sweet and cloying.

Zheng Siyuan took a bite of his own cooked glutinous rice ball, and his face turned green.

Perhaps since Zheng Siyuan no longer needed to learn from his father or Huang Shengli, he hadn’t experienced such a massive failure.

Qin Huai did a great job of fixing Zheng Siyuan’s many years without a massive failure bug.

"Are you sure this method can work?" Zheng Siyuan began to question life.

"Of course." Qin Huai replied confidently, taking notes on his phone memo.

"This is our first attempt, achieving this is quite normal. Look, through today’s failure, we’ve already discovered that the amount of winter melon candy is obviously too much, the taste of dried apricots is very much overshadowed by some ingredient."

"Huang An Yao’s supplier’s olives are no good, tell him to change to a better batch tomorrow."

"When making syrup, we can be bold with the lard, we were a bit too restrained in our previous attempt."

"There’s also too little sesame, haven’t you noticed even though the glutinous rice balls are cooked, you can still taste the toasted flavor of the sesame mixed inside?"

"Too many Sunflower Seeds were added, for the third batch of glutinous rice balls, all I could taste was sunflower seed flavor."

Zheng Siyuan:... You could actually taste the sunflower seed flavor, but when he took a bite of the third batch of glutinous rice balls, he only felt like vomiting.

Zheng Siyuan found that indeed, in trying ’flip car’ dishes, he was far inferior to Qin Huai.

"Do you have any ideas?" Qin Huai asked.

Zheng Siyuan thought for a moment, raised his bowl courageously, and took a bite of the glutinous rice ball.

"I think we could ask Tan Wei’an first." Zheng Siyuan said, pointing at Tan Wei’an, who occasionally glanced their way from the cooking station with curiosity.

"While we were making the Mixed Fruit Filling, he was watching us the whole time, from his expressions and glances, I could vaguely tell that he knows how to make Mixed Fruit Filling."

Qin Huai:!

Qin Huai immediately looked at Tan Wei’an, and just when he was about to pull Tan Wei’an into their Mixed Fruit Filling trial team, Qin Huai suddenly remembered, they seemed to be missing a key member.

Where did Zheng Da go?

He was a backbone of the team, with the best culinary skills!

Though inarticulate, his culinary skills were definitely beyond question.

"Where’s your dad?" Qin Huai asked.

"Oh, him." Zheng Siyuan replied numbly, "He ran away after tasting the first glutinous rice ball."

"I guess he might have thought that we won’t yield results with this method, or he didn’t want to try this for a month, eating such awful glutinous rice balls for a month."

"If everything goes as expected, he should have gone home to think about how to make Mixed Fruit Filling."

Qin Huai:...

Is it really that bad?

Qin Huai took a bite.

It was indeed quite bad.

But experimenting with dishes is like this, starting with the most outrageous combinations and then adjusting bit by bit.

If you start testing with conservative methods, you won’t be able to find the core problem.

Qin Huai took another bite.

Hmm, couldn’t taste the Hazelnut flavor at all, such expensive nuts shouldn’t be tasteless, it must be a pairing issue.

Qin Huai took another bite.

Sorry, it’s so bad I don’t want to eat it anymore.

At that moment, Qin Huai really missed Qin Luo.

If only Luoluo were here.

Although Qin Luo’s sense of taste wasn’t as good as Qin Huai’s, Qin Luo could eat, was willing to eat, and could endure hardships.

Previously, when Qin Huai tested snacks, those initially explosively bad-tasting ones were all tasted by Qin Luo.

Basically, if Qin Luo could clearly sense something was off, that’s where things needed to change.

Qin Huai calculated the days.

Qin Luo still has 20 days before her school vacations.

Private schools indeed have late vacations.

Qin Huai sighed deeply.

"What’s wrong?" Zheng Siyuan asked, thinking that Qin Huai was disheartened by the nasty taste of his own snacks.

"Oh, nothing, just missing Luoluo a bit."

"When we previously tested snacks, Qin Luo used to taste the bad ones."

Zheng Siyuan:...

For some reason, Zheng Siyuan suddenly felt that Qin Luo also had it quite tough.

Looking at the glutinous rice balls in the bowl, Zheng Siyuan felt that all these years Luoluo must have really had a hard time.

When Qin Luo comes for winter break, her big brother will surely make her the best fresh meat mooncake.