Chapter 239 Lightning Speed
Wheel puffs are a dessert made by cutting a baked puff in the middle and filling it with cream filling. They are shaped like a donut.
This thing is a foreign dessert. Its original name was not a wheel, but named after a local place.
It is called "Wheel Puff" in domestic translation because the original place name is a well-known venue for bicycle competitions in the country.
In addition, the origin of this puff seems to be closely related to bicycle racing, and the shape of this puff is just like a bicycle wheel, so it is called "wheel puff" when translated.
Yes, it's quite honest and elegant to a certain extent.
What she took was a more traditional flavor, filled with custard sauce and hazelnut chocolate cream, and garnished with some almond slices and almond particles.
A thin layer of powdered sugar is sprinkled on the surface to cover up the dark brown color of the puff itself.
This kind of puff must be eaten freshly baked. The body of the puff is still hot, the surface is crispy, and the inside is filled with slightly cool cream. After one bite, the balance between taste and temperature is perfect.
It was inconvenient to hold the whole thing and eat it. She always felt a little preoccupied with one thing and not the other. If she bit one end, the other end would squeeze out or something would fall off.
So, she found a shiny table knife and thought about cutting it in half, or even into thirds or quarters.
I found a small and thick hand-held wooden cutting board and carefully cut it in half. I originally planned to eat it just like that, but the wheel puffs looked so delicate that it was not a problem to just put them on the cutting board.
So, she fiddled with it again and turned out a large round plate, a flat white porcelain plate, decorated with some patterns that looked like sprinkled ink dots. It was very simple.
She then pretended to hold the puffs with her knife and hands, moved them to the plate and arranged them lightly.
Then I hurriedly arranged a simple background, took a few photos with my camera, and then I was satisfied.
Fortunately, it didn't get cold for a while. She put on the plastic gloves again, held the cut half, brought it to her mouth and took a careful bite.
The outer skin made a crisp and heart-stirring sound, and the thick triple-flavored cream sauce inside immediately entered the mouth. For a while, the nose was filled with the mellow taste of chocolate and hazelnut.
After chewing a few more mouthfuls, the flavor of custard sauce slowly added in, mixed together, and the texture of nuts added to complete the enjoyment of this bite.
This wheel puff is quite big. Although the fillings inside are all flowing cream and sauce, so the overall size is not high, the whole puff is bigger than the palm of your hand.
She drank the toffee sea salt latte and finished the whole puff pastry - mainly eating, the hazelnut cream itself had a bitter and mellow aroma, and the chocolate she chose was not sweet.
In addition, the texture of the puff itself and the creamy sauce make it not easy to get tired of chewing together, so I didn’t drink too much in a large cup of latte, and there was still a lot left after eating.
She smacked her lips and went to the space to fish out an eclair.
She personally feels that there is not much difference between eclairs and wheel puffs. They are both baked and crispy puffs with cream fillings in the middle.
But one is in the shape of a hollow round wheel, and the other is in the shape of a long finger.
She has heard two theories about why the eclairs are called this. One is that when the eclairs are first baked, they have lightning-like cracks on them. They are named this way because of their appearance;
Another one said that because this thing is so delicious, as long as you take one bite, you will finish it as fast as lightning, so it was named lightning.
When she heard it at the time, she found the second statement particularly interesting, and based on the stereotypes of people in that country, it seemed to make sense.
——Of course, this knowledge about desserts is not something she has studied specifically, but she came across a self-media video account that specializes in desserts.
The blogger who created this account is the one who specializes in studying these things. Each video will introduce some professional knowledge, but it is not boring and the explanation is very easy to understand. She watched a lot of it without realizing it.
Because what I am drinking is Toffee Sea Salt Latte, and what I just had is custard sauce and hazelnut chocolate cream. They are all relatively sweet and mellow, in other words, they are easy to get tired of.
So for the eclair she planned to end her breakfast with, she chose the one with fruit cream filling.
I replaced it with a long plate, and the surface was deliberately uneven, with some small bumps and undulations, and the surrounding shape was not a regular rectangle, giving it a crude, handmade feel.
Put the eclairs on top and it will look more colorful than the wheel just now.
Sandwiched in the middle are white cream and fruit pieces. At first glance, you can see blueberries, kiwis and strawberries; there is a strip of patterned cream on top, and some chopped pistachios are sprinkled on top.
She looked at the strip of cream on top, which was not too much. It was white and green and looked very beautiful.
If it were any other dessert, she would naturally think it was matcha cream, but when it was placed on top of this eclair and chopped pistachios were added, she knew the green one was pistachio cream.
——In a country where eclairs, including eclairs, are popular, matcha is an uncommon dessert ingredient, and the more popular one is pistachio flavor, which is not widely known in the country.
Pinch it up and take a bite, your eyes will light up.
She originally thought that nutty cream and fruit did not go well together, but now that she tasted it, she realized that was not the case.
The pistachio cream is spread on the surface and is first greeted by the taste buds, but the amount is not large, so when you taste the sweet and sour fruit inside, the pistachio flavor is no longer so strong.
Biting open and looking at the filling inside, she found that not only was there fresh fruit, there was also a strip of berry jam hidden in the middle of the cream.
The amounts of all the ingredients are controlled just right. The pistachios won't compete with the fruits, the jam won't be too sweet, and the cream won't be too much to be greasy, but it can take on all the ingredients just right.
She literally ate this éclair at lightning speed.
After finishing her sweet breakfast with satisfaction, she connected to the projector, found several home video accounts, and started looking at the interior decoration.
Yes, she plans to start building her own living area in the space.
There are not many areas for people to move around in the space now. The only fixed area is the bathroom, but it is not decorated much. It is just randomly covered with wallpaper and flooring to simply separate it.
There is also an area for exercise and fitness, including equipment area, dance area and aerial yoga area.
Other areas are temporarily designated when entering the space to "enjoy the scenery" and are not considered fixed.
She hadn't done it before because she didn't need it for the time being and she lived quite comfortably in the rented cabin.
But now, having given up on clearing the windows and losing sight of the outside world, without knowing how high the snow would rise, she felt it was time to properly start building.