Chapter 391 - 21 The Heart Sent to the Doorstep
Since she had decided to make mooncakes, she naturally had to prepare the ingredients.
The flour was ready-made—she had kept some wheat to grind into flour for personal use, but it was not enough to make mooncakes. Lin Xiaoguai thought it over and decided to mix in some flour produced in her space, which would not only improve the taste of the mooncakes but also provide a slight health benefit.
As for the variety of mooncakes, Lin Xiaoguai hesitated, then planned to make Guangdong-style mooncakes, Suzhou-style mooncakes, coconut milk mooncakes, and French mooncakes.
She hadn’t originally planned to make Guangdong-style mooncakes because she didn’t care for them, but since people nowadays still preferred this type of mooncake, she had to compromise to meet customer demand. As for the flavors—lotus seed paste, red bean paste, fruit, char siu, and... five nuts; to make it easy for customers to choose, she had to make them all.
She planned to give Suzhou-style mooncakes to employees or keep them for her family to eat, with flavors like fresh meat, ham, red bean paste, and jujube. When making them, she would make six per jin (Chinese unit of weight), which was just enough to give one fresh meat mooncake, one ham mooncake, two red bean mooncakes, and two jujube mooncakes to employees—wrapped in beautiful parchment paper, which was both attractive and substantial. She had to make more of the fresh meat and ham mooncakes since Shen Chi and Little Niangao both loved them, and also more of the red bean mooncakes, which she and grandma liked, but not too sweet.
Coconut milk mooncake was Lin Xiaoguai’s favorite; she certainly wouldn’t miss out on that.
The last, the French mooncakes, were for her quadruplets; she only planned to make strawberry and blueberry flavors, as the others were not suitable for children.
Of course, in addition to Guangdong-style mooncakes, she also intended to sell some of the other types of mooncakes in her store, just not in the same quantity as the former.
When Jiang Xiaomei came over, Lin Xiaoguai was organizing a pile of wrapping papers and bags.
"What are these?" she asked curiously, picking up a perfectly square piece of parchment paper that was a light shade of gold, with the beautifully written "L•L•W" logo in the corner—it looked quite exquisite and elegant.
"They are the wrapping papers and bags I plan to use for packaging mooncakes," Lin Xiaoguai explained.