Reborn in the 80s: Everyone Falls For Me-Chapter 40 - 39 The Right Steps

Having tasted Xu Niannian’s pumpkin pastries before, Zhiqiang knew the flavor and couldn’t help but drool at the scent.

Truthfully, Xu Niannian wasn’t fond of sweets like pastries, including those she made in her past life, she was just willing to eat them, but never craved them like this.

Niannian scooped out two and gave one to Zhiqiang.

After just one bite, I realized it tasted even better than before, and the pleasure it brought made me involuntarily squint my eyes in satisfaction.

It was simply too delicious.

Zhiqiang couldn’t resist saying, “Sister, these taste better than the ones you made during the day.”

“Right?” I licked my finger with a smile and replied cheerfully, “I think so too.”

The reason I snuck out to cook late at night was to check the second recipe.

After finishing, I found an excuse to sneak off to my room with the pumpkin pastries and secretly entered my secret space.

However, to my disappointment, it still wasn’t up to standard.

I refused to believe it, I just couldn’t accept that I couldn’t make it right.

Sometimes, when Xu Niannian’s stubbornness kicked in, no one could hold her back.

So I ran back to the kitchen and started the second attempt.

This time, I was even more meticulous than before, especially in carving the decorative patterns, making them more exquisite and paying attention to the shapes.

Zhiqiang had thought that after finishing one batch, which had more than sixty pieces, it would be enough, but he didn’t expect me to continue.

He immediately realized that his sister was much more diligent than he imagined.

Seeing Zhiqiang’s eyelids fighting to stay open, Niannian told him to go back and rest.

He really couldn’t hold on any longer; the most he could do here was to peel the pumpkin skin.

He simply peeled all the pumpkin skin at once and sliced the pumpkin before going to rest.

In the kitchen, only Xu Niannian was left, making it even more convenient for her to move in and out of her space.

Without Zhiqiang by my side, Niannian worked even more efficiently.

This time, I paid special attention to details.

I even used stream water to steam the pumpkin slices.

I didn’t even know how long I had been busy.

Failing time after time only fueled my determination.

I couldn’t believe that all my efforts wouldn’t meet the standards; that would be a slap in the face for me as a chef and a gourmet.

This time I couldn’t afford to maintain a chef’s dignity, continually tasting and adjusting as I cooked.

After careful tasting, I indeed discovered some problems with the details.

The dough wasn’t kneaded finely enough.

Finally, I don’t know which batch it was, but when I tasted a pastry that finally had no issues, I rushed it into my space nonstop.

Excited, I waited by the stream with widened eyes.

I watched as the pumpkin pastries sat on the surface of the stream water.

After a second, two seconds, there was still no reaction.

My smiling face stiffened.

This doesn’t make sense.

Why isn’t it successful?

Could the recipe be wrong?

Xu Niannian had only looked at the recipe once, because she had a particularly good memory, especially when it came to recalling the methods of making gourmet dishes.

So, she remembered it after just one glance.

Could it be that there was a problem with the recipe?

Unable to resist, she pulled out the recipe to check it over again.

After a careful comparison, Xu Niannian’s brows furrowed.

She had checked it once before, and there was no mistake, and there was no mistake this time either.

Where, then, was the problem?

Xu Niannian couldn’t help but lower her head in thought.

As she bowed her head, she just happened to see the smallest line of text at the bottom of the recipe.

The font of this line was smaller than all the others.

She had to lean in close to see it clearly.

Xu Niannian leaned in and, when she saw what the words were, she was thrown into disarray.

It turned out that all this time, she had been missing a step.

No wonder it had never met the standard.

The step she had missed was to inject stream water into the shaped cakes.

The method of injecting the stream water was also explained above, she just needed to make a hole on top of the cake and pour it in.

That hole was right at the center of the floral pattern on top of the cake.

Back in the kitchen, Xu Niannian made a new batch following the complete steps.

This time, she injected stream water into all of them.

After they were steamed, Xu Niannian couldn’t wait to try a bite.

At one bite, a liquid pumpkin filling flowed out of the cake, the smooth texture and refreshing fragrance was so delightful it made Xu Niannian’s mouth unable to close.

Delicious, simply too delicious, Xu Niannian involuntarily squinted her eyes in enjoyment.

No wonder the previous ones had never qualified, the taste was simply too far off.

The previous pumpkin cakes, though they too oozed liquid when bitten into, did not have the smoothness and fragrance of these ones.

The taste was so wonderful that Xu Niannian didn’t want to use the vulgar name “pumpkin cake” anymore, indeed there was reason in calling it Liuyue Su.

She skipped to the space with her new creation; this time, it was a success.

Xu Niannian was so excited she almost plunged into the stream, but fortunately, she steadied herself in time.

Now that she had succeeded, it meant the second recipe should be available, what could it be?

Xu Niannian couldn’t help thinking it would be great if it was a main dish.

Compared to pastries, she preferred main dishes.

Eagerly, she opened the Gourmet Food Manual, and the second recipe came into view.

The name was Butter Sauce, what the heck?

After reading through the steps carefully, Xu Niannian understood that it was just a type of sauce that could be mixed with rice or noodles.

Xu Niannian’s eyes suddenly brightened, it was like being sent a pillow when feeling sleepy.

She was planning to open her own shop, and with this Butter Sauce, paired with her culinary skills, it would be like a tiger growing wings.

But right now, the most important thing was the initial capital.

She didn’t have much money left on her, only about 20 yuan.

She needed to hurry and sell something to make some capital.

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She wasn’t in a hurry to make the Butter Sauce, as it was almost dawn and she hadn’t slept all night, feeling a bit lethargic.

She hadn’t noticed it while busy making things, but now that she came back to her senses, she felt like her eyelids were fighting each other.

But she was about to go to the county to sell things, and she had made so many Liuyue Sus that were still untended to.

Thinking of the magic of the stream water, Xu Niannian couldn’t help but draw a bucket of water to heat up and have a body wash.

As Xu Niannian thought, although the stream water could only remove impurities from food, it didn’t change her outer body.

But after washing with stream water, she felt clear-headed and refreshed, completely free from her previous fatigue.