I started a senior citizen university after being unemployed, and I became the favorite of my uncles

Chapter 206 Cranberry Cookies

When it comes to baking classes, everyone is extremely enthusiastic about signing up.

When Lin Qinglan was developing the curriculum for the parent-child class, her main consideration was interactivity and fun, so she suggested adding cooking or baking classes.

Chef Wu happened to be in the office showing her the menu for next month and volunteered to teach the baking class.

Chef Wu slammed the table in excitement and said, "Principal Lin, you are my soulmate. My first choice was to be a pastry chef, but I was forced to study cooking halfway through."

Thanks to Chef Wu's initiative, the problem of finding a teacher was successfully solved, and the baking class became the first parent-child class to be confirmed to open.

Lin Qinglan also attended the first class. She thought she had good hands-on skills and making cookies and bread should be no problem for her.

The children participated enthusiastically and she saw many familiar faces.

Aunt Zhong and her daughter Cai Yunyun.

Aunt Xu and her daughter Qingqing.

Uncle Wang and Little Wang, as well as Uncle Zhao and Aunt Li's family, led by Little Zhao.

"Hello, everyone. We are all acquaintances, so I won't introduce myself." Chef Wu stood from the stove to the podium fully armed.

"Today we are going to learn how to bake cookies."

"Cookies are simple. Let's first learn about the ingredients."

"I say one ingredient, and everyone takes one from the counter."

"The first one is 75 grams of butter, cut into a piece about this size." Chef Wu held up the bowl of butter and walked around the classroom.

"After cutting, set the butter aside to soften. Let's use the electronic scale in front of you to weigh 55 grams of powdered sugar."

As Chef Wu spoke, he confidently took out the powdered sugar from the cooking table, poured it casually, and placed it on the electronic scale. He found that it was neither too much nor too little, which was very cool.

The students in the audience performed differently.

There are those who are accurate and rigorous.

Coder Xiao Wang took a measuring spoon and calculated carefully, "One flat spoon is 10 grams, and 55 grams is about 5 and a half spoons."

"Dad, get me a pair of chopsticks."

Uncle Wang was a little sleepy. He usually slept on his stomach during Mr. Yu’s physics class, and slept sitting up during the baking class.

Uncle Wang fully supports Xiao Wang's baking class. For him, it is just a change of place to sleep. He doesn't bring anything with him but a mouth, waiting for his son to taste the food when it's ready.

"I don't need to measure it by spoonful. If it's too much, I'll eat more. If it's too little, I'll eat less."

Uncle Wang watched Xiao Wang carefully wipe away the excess powdered sugar with chopsticks, accurate to the point of a flat spoonful.

"You're taking too long to make it, one spoonful at a time. It'll be dark by the time you're done. I'll take the night shift here and sleep."

"Don't talk, just wait for the food." Xiao Wang didn't plan to count on Uncle Wang.

Aunt Xu and Qingqing at the next table worked together much more smoothly.

Aunt Xu obediently put the bowl on the electronic scale and added food little by little.

Qingqing encouraged beside her, her emotional value at the highest level: "Mom, you are awesome. Even the way you pour the sugar powder is so elegant."

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Chef Wu walked around and waited until everyone was almost done before moving on to the next step.

"Use the same method to weigh another 155 grams of flour."

"After weighing the flour, let's get to know a new tool - the egg white separator."

“It is generally recommended to use whole eggs when making cookies, which means adding the whole egg.”

"We only use egg whites here, and we'll use egg yolks to make another dessert later. You can replace it with whole eggs when you make it at home."

Lin Qinglan successfully used the egg white separator to remove the egg yolk. "It's quite simple."

Xiao Zhao from next door gave me an envious look.

He started at the same time as Lin Qinglan, using the same eggs and separator. Not only did his egg yolk not separate, it rolled into the bowl along with the egg white.

"What's the principle behind this? Why can Principal Kobayashi do it but I can't?"

Uncle Wang left Little Wang behind to watch, craning his neck to answer: "I know the Pythagorean theorem!"

"The egg white hooked the yolk's butt and ran away with it."

Xiao Wang pulled Uncle Wang back and said, "Don't make trouble."

Now that Uncle Wang is gone, Uncle Zhao is here to make matters worse.

He said sourly, "Even an egg white separator can't stop the egg yolk and egg white from being together, so why are you stopping me from sitting with your mother?"

Since there are three people in their family, Xiao Zhao sat between his parents, which made Uncle Zhao unhappy.

Aunt Li was so disgusted that she asked the father and son to move aside, "You two are so slow, it's just sharing an egg. Let me do it."

Aunt Li cracked an egg skillfully and separated the egg yolk in the eggshell without using a separator.

On the other side, Aunt Zhong's group was entirely led by Aunt Zhong, and Cai Yunyun had no chance to take action the entire time.

Aunt Zhong had already mixed the egg liquid and went to help Aunt Xu beat the eggs.

Master Wu turned to their group and gave them a thumbs up: "Excellent students, you don't look like newbies."

Cai Yunyun said proudly: "My mom is amazing. My oven has always been working with her. I have small cakes to eat every day."

Master Wu nodded with satisfaction.

"The next step is the mixing phase. Add the powdered sugar to the butter and mix until smooth."

"Follow my pace. I'll see which older babies haven't caught up yet."

"Uncle Wang, please don't steal the cranberries. We'll add them to the cookies later."

"Uncle Qian and Xiao Qian, put your phones aside for now. At least use one hand to stir the butter. Don't let Dabao do it alone. If others see you, they will think you are bullying a child."

"Principal Lin did a great job. He has a talent for baking."

"We added the flour and cranberries in turn, stirred them, and put on gloves to knead the dough."

Xiao Wang was busy following Master Wu's instructions and was sweating profusely, while Uncle Wang was helping him beside him.

"Dad, give me the cranberries."

Uncle Wang looked at the empty bowl and felt a little embarrassed: "I accidentally finished it. I'll go to your Uncle Qian next door to borrow some for you."

Facing Xiao Wang's resentful look, Uncle Wang hurriedly changed his words: "Or don't have cranberry, I'll just eat the original flavor."

"Son, let me help you knead the dough, you take a break."

After the dough was finally formed, rolled into long strips and frozen, everyone faced the second challenge - caramel pudding.