I saw a fat figure, nimbly squeezing all the cooks away, and nimbly squeezing to Xiaocao's side. He wiped the sweat from his head with his fat palm, panting and saying: "Girl Xiaocao, you have already taught a dish? It's too rude, why don't you wait for me, Fatty Wang!! "
It was difficult for him, and when he got the news, he drove over from the Zhenxiu Restaurant in Dongcheng in a carriage. He was so anxious that his face was sweating in the winter, and he kept urging the driver along the way, but he still missed one in a hurry. Chef Wang had an expression of wanting to cry but not tears.
The chef who was pushed aside by him dared not speak out. Chef Wang is a veteran of Zhenxiu Restaurant, with superb craftsmanship, he is a model among the chefs. Many of the cooks present have been instructed by him, and he has occupied the best position, and he can only accept his fate.
Yu Xiaocao looked at the old acquaintance in front of her with a smile and said, "Chef Wang, it's lunch time, is it really okay for you to leave the whole kitchen and come here by yourself?"
"I ran here alone, it's better than a group of people leaving the customers behind! Every cook in the shop in Dongcheng can be alone, one more than me is not too much, and one less than me is a lot! Where is the progress now? Don't stop Come on, my old Wang is still waiting to learn how to go back and show off to the guests there!" Chef Wang's temper is still so bright.
Yu Xiaocao pointed to the cut ingredients on the cutting board, and said, "This dish is called Maoxuewang. Its soup is bright red, spicy and delicious, and rich in flavor. It is very suitable for launching years ago."
Chef Wang looked at the cutting board, Huo! Good guy, there are a lot of ingredients! He counted: duck blood, eel, tripe, fine pork belly, ham, squid, sea cucumber... Wait, what kind of food is this, why hasn't he seen it before
Yu Xiaocao glanced at Chef Wang's questionable ingredients, and said with a smile: "This is called yellow throat, which is a large blood vessel in the heart of pigs, cows and other livestock. It tastes crisp and is quite nutritious."
This time, Yu Xiaocao made the best Maoxuewang, and the ingredients were quite demanding. However, in a big hotel like Zhenxiu Restaurant, the back kitchen is relatively rich.
She put chili, Chinese prickly ash, ginger, garlic, and Zhouji’s own bean paste into peanut oil, and stir-fried it until fragrant. . Slice the prepared main and auxiliary materials, change the knife, and fly water, add to the boiled red soup, boil it, put it into a container, and sprinkle with chopped green onion. Then heat the oil, add Chinese prickly ash and chili, let the aroma come out, and quickly pour it on top.
The process looks simple, but in practice, it is not so easy. Fortunately, the chefs have at least ten years of cooking experience. Under Xiaocao's guidance, they quickly mastered the heat and successfully made a pot of Maoxuewang. Yu Xiaocao tried the taste. After all, it is Chef Wang, and the ginger is still old and spicy, so it is his cooking that is the most authentic. The other chefs have also reached the level of masters.
On Wednesday, I brought up the slobbering chicken. After the dish was highly praised by the emperor, I hurried down and waited in the back kitchen. Seeing another dish coming out, he immediately said: "Let the girls recommend our new dish Maoxuewang to the private room today, the price is eighty-eight taels, and the limit is ten servings!"
In addition to the one he took away, there were exactly ten servings of Maoxuewang from the back chef's practice. Xiaocao looked at him contemptuously—profiteer, profiteer, profiteer without profiteer!
The ingredients of Husband and wife lung slices are a bit troublesome. It is made of beef scalp, beef heart, beef tongue, tripe, and beef as the main ingredients, and is marinated. In this era, cattle are the main labor force for farming in the fields. If a peasant family can raise a cow, it is like buying a tractor in a family in later generations. Who would be willing to kill a cow and eat it! The beef on the market is all old and wounded cattle that have been retired from work, killed and sold. It is really hard to come by. Fortunately, Zhenxiu Restaurant's purchases are pretty good, so he really ran into it.
It takes longer to make husband and wife lung slices, after all, it needs a marinating process. Yu Xiaocao asked Young Master Wednesday to go up and tell him that he should not eat at noon. If the emperor really wants to eat, come again at night!
Cooks don't care whether it takes effort or not, as long as they learn how to do it, they are their own. They have already heard from Chef Wang that this teenage girl in front of them is amazing, and many of the popular dishes at Zhenxiu Restaurant are all recipes provided by her. Tut tut! Sure enough, cooking requires talent. If you look at them, even if they started learning from the womb, it may not be as long as their learning process, but the taste of every dish they handle is not ordinary!
The cooks cheered up and watched Xiaocao cut the beef into pieces, washed them with beef offal (beef tongue, beef heart, beef scalp, tripe), marinated them with various seasonings such as spices, salt, and pepper noodles. Bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat, marinate until the meat is raked and not rotten, then pick it up to dry, cut into large slices, and set aside. Add chili oil, pepper noodles, cooked sesame seeds, cooked peanuts and other auxiliary materials to make red oil and pour it on top. The finished product is beautiful in color, tender in quality, fresh in taste, spicy and fragrant, and very palatable.
By the time all the cooks had learned these three dishes, it was already mid-afternoon. All the diners in the Zhenxiu Restaurant had already left. Although the emperor didn't eat the couple's lung slices that he wanted so much, he was satisfied with the other two dishes, leaving behind the Yu family who had been trembling and dared not move their chopsticks, and left with the owner of the house town. The dishes on the table were already cold. On Wednesday, Shao arranged for the back kitchen to rearrange a table of new dishes, and only one table could barely fill their stomachs.
The most pitiful thing was Yu Xiaocao, who didn't eat much in the morning, and taught on-site at noon, and was so hungry that he almost collapsed in the afternoon. Chef Wang looked at her pitifully, and ordered her a bowl of golden silk noodles in chicken soup, paired with sliced couple's lungs just out of the pot, and finally filled her stomach.
When she returned to the private room on the second floor, everyone was drinking tea and eating snacks, waiting for her to come back. Zhu Junyang saw her coming in, and hurriedly said, "Are you too busy? Have you had lunch yet?"
"Is there anything to eat in the back kitchen? But when I got busy, I really forgot everything. I just ate a bowl of noodles..." Yu Xiaocao slumped on the chair in a disfigured manner, exhausted!
"What... what is this?" Fang Fangzhen felt sorry for his daughter, but dared not say anything to complain about the emperor, sighed, and said, "Everyone didn't enjoy eating at noon, why don't we continue at night and have a good time eating it?" !"
Seeing that his daughter had been busy all afternoon, Yu Hai felt uncomfortable. He shook his head and said, "Let's do it some other day! We're still on the road, and I haven't rested from last night. Cao'er has been busy for a long time today. Another day Let's meet again."
"Brother Haihai said that I didn't think carefully! By the way, I heard that Zhenxiu Restaurant has an event to book a New Year's Eve dinner. How about we two make a New Year's Eve dinner together and have a lively time together?" Fang Fangzhen suggested.
"Success!" Yu Hai thought about the fact that there were only three people in the Fang family. If his daughter came to their house for the New Year, he would really be reluctant to part with it. If he stayed at his house, the population of Fang's family would become deserted. It's better, the two families live together, it's lively, everyone is happy!
Back home, Yu Xiaocao fell asleep and got up early the next morning. Under the escort of Zhu Junyang, she inspected Huangzhuang. The winter wheat is growing well, and the greenhouses are well taken care of. The newly added green leafy vegetables in the greenhouses have begun to be sold, and other green vegetables are expected to be on the market almost a year ago. Yu Xiaocao was completely relieved.
She came to Zhuangzi next door with Zhu Junyang, pointed to the small hill behind the manor, and said, "How are you preparing the flower seeds I asked you to prepare? In addition, we need to find more experienced flower farmers. acres of sloping land, I plan to plant all kinds of flowers and plants."
Zhu Junyang quietly held her cold and soft little hand, took a deep breath, and said, "Don't worry! I promise to handle it properly for you! It's the rose seeds. You need them in a hurry, and the quantity may be limited." Not a lot, at most three or four mu can be planted, right?"
"Three or four acres is three or four acres. It's better than nothing. Where are the forget-me-not seeds? It is said that there are seeds in Persia. Your ocean-going fleet should pass there." Yu Xiaocao looked at him with trusting eyes. .
With such clear and expectant eyes, Zhu Junyang naturally wouldn't be willing to let her down: "Flying pigeons have already passed on the letter, and when we return in the spring, we should be able to bring back a lot! You little girl, you never go out since childhood, How do you know what's going on in the world?"
He knew that Xiaocao had secrets, and he didn't intend to explore her secrets, he just asked casually. But Yu Xiaocao was startled, and secretly blamed herself for being careless. She giggled a few times, and said: "I read it in a book of anecdotes that I got by chance. I'm not sure if it's true or not, so let's try it out. Anyway, your fleet is just on the way!"
Zhu Junyang looked at the little girl's nervous expression, and smiled: "Don't say that, the fleet belongs to the imperial court, and I just help take care of it. However, there are many machines in the West, and I think it's very interesting. Wait for the fleet to come back this time." , Lord will take you to choose the one you are interested in. There is a kind of standing clock. When the hour arrives, a bird will come out to tell the time. I believe you will like it. When the time comes, Lord will give you one."
"You man, how can you give someone a clock as a gift!" Seeing that he was no longer entangled in the last topic, Yu Xiaocao regained a lively expression, and her white eyes kept flying over.
Zhu Junyang raised his pretty eyebrows, and asked in surprise, "Why can't you give it away? What else is there to pay attention to?"
"Send the bell, send the end! How unlucky?" Yu Xiaocao's expression of "you are such an elm bump" made Zhu Junyang couldn't help but want to pinch her tender little face.
"Okay, let's not talk about giving it away! The master's is yours, so go and get it yourself, isn't it okay?" Zhu Junyang didn't know where he learned it, and his mouth became more and more articulate.
Yu Xiaocao nodded as a matter of course, suddenly a sly look flashed in her eyes, and said with a sneer, "Have you ever heard of three obediences and four successes?"
"Three obediences and four virtues? Of course! However, the master doesn't have such high requirements for his wife, um...just like you!" Zhu Junyang seemed to have honey on his mouth today.