Yun Yanhui couldn't help laughing when he got the title of the new wine master. In his opinion, this was just a hype of the foot shop. No, it has spread all over the city. Everyone wants to go there to meet the "brewer" or taste the "brewer". over the wine.
All day long marketing hype, this time it has also become someone else's advertisement, Yun Yan Hui was quite amused, and pressed it not to mention it.
With wine, Yun Yanhui experimented with dishes in the canteen of Kaifeng Mansion, preparing to make wine duck and wine chicken wings, and chose it in the afternoon, when everyone was resting and no one was in the kitchen.
In fact, cooking in the cafeteria is also for convenience. Not only are there always prepared chickens and ducks here, but also a new batch of casserole has been recently purchased, and the quality is particularly good.
It was also bought from a certain county outside Bianjing. The local people made the casserole with kaolin clay, and the production process was extremely cumbersome. All the pharmacies in Bianjing love to boil medicines because they can preserve the medicinal properties to the greatest extent.
In the same way, the deliciousness of the food can also be preserved to the greatest extent. Since a restaurant first used it, it has gradually become popular in the large and small restaurants in Bianjing.
And this casserole has a very good fresh-keeping ability. It is said that the soup boiled on the 30th of New Year's Eve in winter can be drunk on the 15th. Compared with other containers, the soup boiled is more fragrant.
Yunyan took back a casserole for later use. This casserole has been maintained several times and is already very suitable for stewing.
Pour the washed duck meat with wine, add light soy sauce and dark soy sauce to pickle, marinate for a longer time, about half an hour, then heat the wok, add onion and ginger and fry until fragrant. Then add the duck meat.
Stir-fry until the duck changes color, pour it into a casserole, pour half a pot of wine again, sprinkle with salt, and add dried tangerine peel, star anise, cinnamon, basil, etc.
In this way, simmer slowly over low heat until half of the wine is left, then put some rock sugar, collect the juice and put it out of the pot. The color of the duck meat is red, and it fully absorbs the wine. It mixes the aroma of the duck meat itself, and the taste of spices, which is fragrant.
Yunyan tasted a piece and almost burst into tears. It was so delicious. Mom, why is my cooking so delicious!
The duck meat has a strong flavor, the meat is fat and the bones are soft, and it is very tempting even before the entrance. Once you take a bite, it is extremely fat and tender, fresh and delicate, with the aroma of wine and condiments.
As for the wine chicken wings, it is much simpler. Yun Yanhui likes to eat the root of the wing. The meat is more lively than the drumstick, and has more meat than the tip of the wing. Blanch the wing roots and drain, fry on low heat until browned, add salt and soy sauce and stir-fry, then pour in wine to simmer and simmer to taste, then collect the juice on high heat and sprinkle some pepper powder.
Both dishes were salty and fragrant, and it was easy to crave rice after eating. Yun Yan returned to make a bowl of rice, poured a pot of wine, and ate them. Both experiments were very successful.
After eating a few bites, a young man suddenly came in from the outside, dressed in Yanjue clothes, with a handsome face, about twenty years old.
After the man came in, he looked around with his hands behind his back, as if he was looking for something.
Yun Yan looked back at him a little familiar, and his clothes were relatively high-end. He wanted to be either an official from the government, or someone from another yamen who had been here, but since there was no one in the kitchen, he greeted him: "At noon, people will come to discuss matters. , there are no leftovers, but I just fried two dishes here, Langjun, come and eat some."
Although the cafeteria is only open in the morning and during the lunch break, if someone delays the meal time, they can come to eat, as long as there is a meal, it will be served. If it is an official, you have to open a small stove for others.
The young man seemed to be stunned for a moment, then walked over and looked down at the dishes in front of Yun Yanhui.
"I just ate a few bites. I was experimenting with new dishes. You were the first to eat them." Bought on. He looked at the man and didn't know where the rice was, but he kindly helped him with a bowl of rice and handed it over.
The young man pondered for a while, and reached out to take the rice bowl.
Yun Yan looked back at him and stretched out his hands. His hands were as white as jade, and his ten fingers were slender and delicate. There were only some thin calluses between his fingers, as if they were made by holding a pen, so he was a scholar.
The young man grabbed the cutlery very politely, took a few pieces of duck meat to eat, and ate a piece of wing root, then smiled slightly, "It's delicious."
"Of course, wine is added to this dish." Yun Yanhui was quite contented, "And my cooking is so delicious, I'm like a magic chef of ice and fire."
The young man was stunned for a moment. Although he didn't understand, he still smiled politely, and then poured himself a bowl of wine to drink.
Yun Yan whispered back in her heart, although I am generous, buddy, do you want to be so natural when you pour someone else's wine
The young man tasted the wine, his eyes lit up, "Good wine."
Since he came in until now, he has said four words and two words, namely delicious food and good wine.
Yun Yan smiled back, "Be careful, the stamina is a little big."
"The fragrance is mellow and thick, where is this wine?" The young man ate half a bowl and asked.
Yun Yan replied casually: "A Hu businessman who walks the streets and alleys."
"Impossible," the young man said flatly, "although the taste is similar to the commercial wine sold by Hushang—I don't know why I have never been able to brew it—but Hushang's wine is all old wine, and this pot is clearly old and new. , the altar will not be out for more than a month. Hu Shang will use local grapes to make wine, and in January, he will not be able to reach Bianjing.”
Yunyan replied: "..."
Yun Yanhui was also a little stunned. He didn't expect anyone to take this seriously. He scratched his head, looking innocent and dazed. His acting skills were superb, "I don't know either, does that mean I'm lucky?"
The young man looked at the wine and vegetables, then looked at him, and said meaningfully: "This wine is your own brew."
Yun Yanhui was so surprised that she refused to admit it, "No!"
But the young man looked confident, "It was you who brewed it privately."
Yun Yanhui was even more shocked, and she didn't know where she was going. Seeing that there is no grievance between the young man and himself, it doesn't seem like he wants to file a lawsuit. Anyway, everyone is his own, so he admits it semi-thumbly: "How do you decide?"
Youth: "Intuition. When I entered the Kaifeng Mansion, I saw that the grapes were ripe and someone was picking them. In addition, this dish is a new dish, and the wine is a new wine."
"..." Yun Yan was speechless and choked back, people rely on intuition, what else can you say
Yun Yanhui had no choice but to pour another bowl of wine and put his hand on the young man's shoulder, "Brother, Ming people don't speak secretly, this is what I brewed privately, it's just for cooking and seasoning, and it's not for sale, you look If you are such a nice person, you definitely won't sue me, right?" He added in the bottom of his heart, you won't admit it if you sue Lao Tzu.
The young man was hugged by him, with a somewhat unnatural look. He probably never hooked his shoulders with anyone, but he did not break away, "Um..."
"That's great, come, let's go." Yun Yanhui touched the bowls with him and finished the drink in one gulp.
The young man also took two sips. At this time, his face was a little red. When he looked back at Yun Yan, his face remained unchanged, "Your alcohol intake is good, how old are you?"
"Seventeen years old." Yun Yan replied, "By the way, just now you said that the grapes were ripe when you came in. Are you not from the manor?"
"No, I'll take a look." The young man said, and asked another question, "With the strictness of the imperial court, how did you buy the liquor?" He said, and added, "Don't worry, I don't. will hurt you."
"I didn't buy koji, I'm not qualified to buy koji," Yun Yan returned to the booth, not caring to reveal the method at all, "I don't use koji when I make wine, Hushang's wine is different from ours, also because No koji. The reason why wine is wine is that it is made from grapes, and the wine is made with koji.”
"It's actually like this?" The young man pondered, "It makes sense..."
"Ah, buddy," Yun Yan had silently changed his title from Langjun to Xiongtai to buddy, "You're not from the manor, which yamen are you from? Dali Temple? Punishment Department? "These are the departments that deal with the Kaifeng government the most.
Youth: "Hanging Palace."
Yun Yan replied: "The place where you look at the court, are you a guard and an army?"
The young man hadn't spoken yet, when another middle-aged man came in from outside, with a white face and a beardless, tender and tender body. He bowed his body and said in a male duck voice: "The official family, the Kaifeng mansion is asking for an opinion."
Yunyan replied: "..."
… Oh shit! !
Why do you think this person is familiar? Because every year on Lantern Festival, people come out to have fun with the people and they can take a look from afar!
Why do you claim to work in the Dangongdian? Because I handle government affairs there every day!
Why, why didn't I recognize it sooner...
Yun Yanhui had a little person in her heart, and she was already crying in the kitchen.
"Well, go to the hall." Renzong put down the wine bowl, walked out with his hands behind his back, walked to the door, turned his head and smiled, "Child, I won't remember your name this time, the merits and demerits are equal."
No name, no reward and no penalty.
Probably because he was good at offering food, but he broke the law in winemaking, and he was called a buddy by the official, so he had a balance between his merits and demerits... This is too exciting!
Yun Yan returned to the quail-like way: "Xie Guan's house."
…
After Renzong left, there were still half a pot of leftover wine and two dishes of leftovers. Yun Yanhui was not in the mood to eat it. He walked out of the back kitchen and saw the cooks and chores kneeling all over the ground, and their legs were too weak to get up.
When the dishes were brought in, everyone was so excited that they didn't sleep well for several nights, not to mention that Renzong suddenly found Kaifeng Mansion, which almost scared them to the point of spitting out their hearts.
Yun Yanhui suddenly felt that her psychological quality was okay, and muttered: "No wonder people just entered the back kitchen like this, and there was no one to say hello..."
Everyone got up one after another, "Brother Yan, how is it? The official's family has been looking at it for so long, isn't it cleaned up somewhere?"
"I don't know, I've been kneeling for a long time, and I don't dare to look at it." In such a situation, how could Yun Yanhui dare to tell the truth and let people know that he is still a brother and a brother to the official family
"I said, why did the official family suddenly come to Kaifeng Mansion? It's not normal!" Or Yun Yanhui didn't think that this person was Renzong, so he didn't have to sit in the palace and come down when Bao Zheng wasn't there. Kaifeng Mansion, it is not only abnormal, it is too abnormal!
Everyone looked at each other in dismay, and after a long while, someone hurriedly said what everyone had in common: "Difficult, could it be... something happened to Bao Shaoyin..."