A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

When they saw the fondant that Li Yi took out, some viewers questioned it in the live broadcast room.

"Is this for fondant cake?"

"Isn't it Chinese pastry? Why do you make Western-style fondant?"

"This is the category of Western-style pastries, right? Is it not good to make Chinese-style pastries?"

"Brother Yi, don't be a Han countryman? If this is seen by the Han country people on the Internet, we will have to slander us as stealing the country."

Liu Yifei noticed the audience's barrage in the live broadcast room, and helped Li Yi explain: "No, Brother Yi is making dough sculptures, and this fondant is actually sugar noodles, not Western-style fondant. There is a difference between the two."

After hearing Liu Yifei's explanation, many viewers were still confused.

"Dough figurines? The kind you use noodles to make longevity peaches?"

"Since it's a dough model, use noodles to make it? Why use fondant?"

"Haha! Seeing someone talking about Brother Yi, Yifei became anxious."

"The materials are different, so is that still the same thing?"

"Fondant is not delicious, it is better to make it with noodles, but it is indeed more plastic."

"When my family eats cold food, I will make cold swallows. Is that also a dough figurine?"

Looking at the barrage in the live broadcast room, Liu Yifei spotted the barrage teasing her anxiously from the barrage at a glance, and couldn't help but glance at Li Yi.

Seeing that she was a little embarrassed, Li Yi glanced at the barrage, then took up the conversation with a smile, and explained: "This kind of fondant was indeed invented by an Australian in the 1970s, called sugar paste, Sugar Paste.

Later, after being introduced by the Eagle Kingdom, it became exclusive to the royal family, so it became popular.

But we have been using sugar and flour to shape sugar dough thousands of years ago.

In the "Tokyo Menghualu" of the Southern Song Dynasty, there is a record of the dough kneader, and the hawker who describes the dough kneader made it like a smile with oily flour and molasses.

According to folklore, the origin of dough figurines can even be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period, which was created by Kong Ming.

The kind of fondant I used, in fact, strictly speaking, should be regarded as sugar noodles.

Western-style fondant is made from whipped protein and powdered sugar, plus hydroxyethyl cellulose, which is Taylor powder, as a thickener.

But the fondant I made uses fried starch as a thickener.

So, you said this thing, should it be regarded as Western-style fondant or Chinese-style sugar noodles? "

As Li Yi said, he patted Fondant and said with a smile, "We never do such immoral things as taking other people's culture and keeping it as our own.

Since I borrowed the practice of fondant, I will call it fondant.

But even if it's fondant, I can't do worse than anyone else. "

When the audience heard the words, they sent barrage praises one after another.

"Well said! We are not stealing the country, and we never steal other people's culture!"

"Haha! Brother Yi is so scolding!"

"Niubi! Even if you make fondant, you are better than anyone else! This is my brother Yi's confidence!"

"If you look at it this way, this piece should be called sugar noodles! Why is it called fondant? What's ours is ours. There's no need to worry about what outsiders say?"

"The only difference is the addition of whipped egg whites, right? It's really not sugar noodles, but it's okay. Brother Yi's craftsmanship, who are you afraid of?"

Seeing that Li Yi had resolved the question, Liu Yifei also heaved a sigh of relief.

At this time, she asked curiously: "What element, thickener, is it necessary to make fondant?"

"right."

While kneading the fondant noodles, Li Yi explained: "The reason why the fondant has good plasticity is because the addition of this thickener makes the fondant more malleable and easier to shape.

However, this is extracted from natural plant raw materials and is an edible additive, so don't worry too much.

It's just that I do dough modeling and I prefer the texture of the dough, so I matched the dough with fondant. "

While speaking, Li Yi had already kneaded several pieces of fondant noodles into the desired shape, and then started to make them.

He baked a batch of human-shaped dried noodle skeletons in advance.

The skeleton of these dry noodles has not been fermented, it is purely dead noodles, and it has been baked until it is dry and hard.

When making the skeleton, Li Yi also referred to the structure of the human body and made many different shapes.

Some raised a hand, some walked, and some sat.

When he was kneading fondant, he also made different shapes for the fondant dolls according to the skeleton movements.

Watching Li Yi dexterously flip the fingers of his hands, and the mask gradually changed from rough to fine, and soon appeared a human shape.

After the doll appeared, Li Yi took a slender spatula and began to process the doll's face.

The spatula is about the thickness of a toothpick, with a flat, curved tip that looks like a miniature carving knife.

Under his handling, the doll's face soon took on a specific shape.

Eyebrows, nose, mouth, very clear.

"Wow…"

Liu Yifei watched from the side, and couldn't help but marvel softly.

Li Yi just told her how to make this doll, but he didn't tell her how delicate it is.

Master Cai is also shooting close-ups.

The audience in the live broadcast room were also amazed when they saw Li Yi's exquisite puppets.

"It's so exquisite! Why is this different from the dough figurines I know?"

"So strong! Brother Yi knows how to do this?"

"This should belong to the category of sculpture, right? No wonder it's called dough figurine! It's sculpture made of face!"

"Eh? The face shape of this puppet looks so familiar!"

"Isn't this Yifei?"

Some viewers recognized the face of the puppet in Li Yi's hands, and it was clearly Liu Yifei's eyebrows and eyes!

Soon, Li Yi had already sculpted the doll's face.

At this time, the puppet can already be seen to be three points similar to Liu Yifei.

But it is all white, there is no color distinction, and it is still canned, so it looks very different from the real person.

Li Yi had already prepared the fondant noodles for hair, cut them into strips, and pressed them into flakes.

After sticking the black fondant on the doll's head and using a spatula to shape the hair, the doll became much more vivid in an instant.

Some viewers exclaimed in the barrage.

"Isn't this the shape of the little dragon girl?"

Soon, more audiences recognized this long-haired hairstyle as the Little Dragon Girl played by Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei herself recognized it, and looked at Li Yi with a smile, looking curiously at the side.

After making the hair thick, Li Yi took out a small brush, and he was going to put makeup on the doll.

The rouge made before still has some foundation, and he dipped a small brush in the rouge to color the doll.

First the skin, then the lips, then the cheeks.

And finally the eyes.

In traditional Chinese painting, the eyes are often drawn last when painting living objects.

Because the ancients believed that the eyes are the charm of a person, and they should be painted at the end to make the eyes vivid.

The allusion of the finishing touch of the idiom comes from this.

The fact is indeed the case, after Li Yi painted the eyes on the little dragon woman idol.

The whole puppet seemed to have a charm at once, as if it had come to life.

"Wow!"

Seeing the formed doll's head, even Liu Yifei couldn't help admiring: "This looks like me!"

3