Chapter 46 The forty-fifth hidden mooncake mold

In Tianming Temple, the person in charge of cooking is Master Zhiheng.Objectively speaking, Master Zhiheng's cooking skills are very unstable. When he is in a good state, his cooking skills can compete with any chef or housewife who is recognized as capable in a small restaurant in the town. The dishes here are often unflattering in taste and appearance. It's just that although Master's craftsmanship has its ups and downs, there are indeed many varieties that he can cook. Sometimes, while everyone is eating, Master will introduce us to the allusions of the dishes of the day.According to the incomplete records of Jiechen, the dishes master cooked at least involved the local dishes of more than a dozen provinces across the country.Of course, because Jie Chen has never gone out, it is impossible to judge whether the taste of Master's dishes is authentic.Sometimes, Jie Chen wonders why there are so many local dishes in different provinces, and the tastes are not too different, but Jie Chen has never had the nerve to ask this question.

In addition to cooking, Master will also cook some pasta and snacks.Ordinary ones such as steamed buns, steamed buns, and noodle cakes are of course not a problem. In addition, Master will also make some festive foods, such as zongzi, moon cakes and the like. According to everyone's comments, the mooncakes that Master makes are the best. The homemade fillings are neither sweet nor greasy, and they are no worse than those sold in the food stores in the town.If we must talk about flaws, the mooncakes made by Master are not very good-looking. They are as flat as ordinary noodle cakes, without the patterns and characters of those mooncakes in the store.

However, the master said that making patterns on mooncakes is not a job with too much technical content, as long as there are good molds, it can be made exquisitely.The master said that he used to have a whole set of exquisitely carved molds, but unfortunately he could not find them. The sculptors of this set of molds are definitely better than any mooncake mold sculptors in the town. Speaking of moon cake molds, everyone is also very interested.Of course, everyone’s concerns are not the same. Jie Chen and Jie Chen are curious about how exquisite the mooncake molds are, while Jie Chi and Jie Chen hope to find this set of molds as soon as possible, so that when Master makes moon cakes in the future, Different patterns can be used to distinguish different fillings.

The idea of ​​the two juniors, Jie Anger and Jie Pride also agree.Junior Brother Jie Ao optimistically estimated that maybe after finding the mold, the two junior brothers would no longer have to force themselves to eat one more because they ate the wrong stuffing.Of course, Jie Chen felt that Junior Brother Jie Ao might be a bit too optimistic. In the past few days, according to the clues provided by the master, Jie Chen and Jie Ao, with the encouragement of Jie Zhi and Jie Chen, searched the places where the mold might be placed, but they didn't even see the shadow of the mold. According to Jie Chen's judgment, the master must have misremembered the location of the molds, because a whole set of mooncake molds, at least a large bag, cannot be easily stuffed anywhere like a rolling pin, a spatula and the like.

Jie Chen even felt that it might have been mistakenly cleaned up as garbage when cleaning up the sundries a few years ago. It was Junior Brother Jiechen who finally found the mooncake molds. While rummaging around on the floor of the utility room, he found the box containing the molds.Jie Chen had seen this box before, but he ignored it because there were some items piled on it. Jie Chen cleaned the mooncake mold carefully, because it has been hidden in the box for a long time, and the appearance of the mold has not been damaged. At the suggestion of Jie Chi and Jie Chen, Master Zhi Heng specially made moon cakes to test the quality of the molds.

That night, Jie Chen was eating the fragrant mooncakes with exquisite patterns, and suddenly remembered this set of mooncake molds.Jie Chen feels that the set of mooncake molds that have been sleeping in the utility room for more than ten years has always belonged to everyone, but it has not played any role before being taken out for use. It can even be said that this set of mooncake molds still has No, it's the same for everyone. In fact, many things in life are similar to this, just like the family, friendship, and love that we think we have. If we think that we put them somewhere, it is the so-called possession, which is actually biased.Because if you don't touch it and manage it, it will be in a state of nothingness like a mooncake mold.The only difference is that they will not be hidden somewhere forever like mooncake molds waiting for you to find. One day, when you think of the treasures you put in the utility room, you may really not find them.