After another twenty minutes, the elbow meat in the pot was already stewed, and Xu Zhuo turned off the heat.

Let the pork soak in the soup for about ten minutes, then remove the meat and place it on a plate to cool.

Although the crystal elbow needs to be rolled up, it can't be done immediately, because at this time, the meat skin is very soft and glutinous, and the meat inside is also very loose, and the meat will crack with a little force.

So wait for the temperature of the meat to cool down a little before rolling it up and setting it.

"What is this?

Xu Zhuo and Cao Kun were staring at the elbow meat on the tray when the old man suddenly walked in.

Xu Zhuo was supposed to accompany Sun Lisong this week, but he was busy with the affairs of the store, and by the way, he also wanted the old man to rest, so he asked the old man to go for him.

The old man looked at the elbow meat hanging on the tray, and said with a smile: "Well done, the crystal elbow has to be like this, do not put any colored condiments, otherwise it will affect the color of the finished product." ”

Xu Zhuo asked the old man curiously: "Grandpa, you can also make crystal elbows?"

"Yes?"

The old man was not happy when he heard this: "Didn't you see the photo of me with a foreign woman hanging in your grandmother's house?"

Xu Zhuo recalled, nodded and said, "I've seen it." ”

There is indeed a yellowed black-and-white photograph in the old lady's room, which is a photo of the old man with a middle-aged foreign woman when he was young.

At that time, the old man was in his thirties.

Handsome.

The foreign woman was in her fifties, very tall, and looked quite stylish.

But......

Does this have anything to do with the Crystal Elbow?

The old man said lightly: "That woman is Margaret Thatcher, she came to the capital for the first time in 82, and she ate crystal elbows made by me, and she also wrote this thing into her memoirs." ”

Well?

Is it so awesome?

Not only Xu Zhuo was surprised, but several chefs next to him were also shocked and speechless.

Damn, that's awesome, isn't it?

Xu Zhuo looked at the old man with a surprised face.

The Iron Lady had ever eaten the crystal elbow made by the old man? Why hadn't he ever said this?

That's the most bullish politician of the 80s.

But...... In '82, didn't the old man come back from the capital? How could he still run over to take a picture with Margaret Thatcher?

Did the old man go back in the middle?

"Mrs. Thatcher asked me to eat crystal elbow, and the Diaoyutai asked me to go back and make it. However, the people I knew at that time had left the capital, and I stayed for a few days and got bored, so I came back. ”

After the old man said this, he diverted the topic and talked about the crystal elbow.

Xu Zhuo felt that when he returned to the capital, he should have looked for Yu Peiyong, but Yu Peiyong had already left the capital and returned to Yangzhou to operate the first floor, so he pounced.

As for making crystal elbows, it should just be a coincidence.

But the most commendable thing about the old man is that he never took Mrs. Thatcher to prop up his façade.

If that group photo is hung in Xujia Restaurant, I am afraid that it will immediately become an Internet celebrity restaurant that has to queue up every day, and then make up some stories of food diplomacy casually, the status of the old man will definitely rise.

In fact, those celebrity chefs all over the country like to do this thing the most.

Do everything possible to find a celebrity to take a group photo and make up a touching food story, which not only hypes yourself, but also brings fire to the food.

Cheng Kuan Yew used to like to do this.

However, the old man did not do this, and he did not even mention this stubble.

Although the photo is displayed at home, no one has ever told Xu Zhuo that the foreign woman is the famous Margaret Thatcher.

When Xu Zhuo sighed, the old man was talking about the key points of making crystal elbows.

"You can also make this dish by steaming, and the meat skin is more beautiful. You can also put more cleaned pork rind in it, which is not only more beautiful, but also reduces costs. ”

This is indeed a trick to be tricky.

The steamed meat is not boiled, and the skin is not contaminated with impurities, so it will look more crystal clear, and if you add some pork skin, it will look like a work of art.

However, Xu Zhuo always felt that the act of adding pigskin was a bit tricky for customers.

Because people want to eat elbows, most of them are meat skin and skin jelly, and there is very little meat that really belongs to elbows.

But that's the way the market is right now.

All restaurants that make crystal elbows will add a lot of pork skin to them to increase the weight of crystal elbows.

What's more, even pig skin is not used, but edible glue or similar things are used to directly condense the water into a colloidal state to be shoddy.

Thinking about it this way, Xu Zhuo really felt that he was too honest.

But be honest, be honest.

Doing catering is the money that earns this conscience.

Now there is a group of customers who like to come to eat, a group of employees who are willing to work hard here, and even a group of elders who help themselves.

Xu Zhuo felt that this was what he really wanted.

It is also the direction that the system has been guiding its own efforts.

"Back then, in the capital, Jinan three elbows was very famous, now that you have learned the crystal elbow, I will teach you to cook the other two when you have time, both of which are first-class dishes. ”

Three cubits in Jinan?

That sounds like a bluff.

There are indeed a lot of dishes for elbows in Lu cuisine, but in addition to crystal elbows, Xu Zhuo really doesn't know what the other two dishes of Jinan Three Elbows are.

The old man didn't tell him this, just took a few ingredients casually, and walked to Sun Lisong's house.

"Grandpa Feng, do you know the three cubits in Jinan?"

Feng Weiguo smiled, he really knew.

Not only does he know, but the older generation of chefs seem to know the fame of Jinan Sanyu in the capital.

Jinan three cubits, refers to crystal elbows, pot roasted elbows and rock sugar elbows.

Among the three kinds of elbows, only the crystal elbow is a cold dish, while the pot roasted elbow and rock sugar elbow are, as the old man said, both first-class dishes.

This kind of dish is not many people in the current Sifang Restaurant, even if it is estimated to be ordered.

Because this dish is a banquet dish, it is eaten by a large group of people with other dishes, and each person eats a few bites, and a dish will be bottomed out.

If two or three people order an elbow to eat, they won't be able to eat a few bites.

This thing is really not suitable for eating alone.

It is also not suitable for eating when there are few people.

So Xu Zhuo is not in a hurry to learn.

When you move to the provincial capital in the future, you can go to the new store, and at that time, the main focus of the Sifang Pavilion is not fast food, but it should develop in terms of banquets.

After drying for almost an hour, when the elbow meat was still a little hot, Xu Zhuo carefully rolled up the elbow on the tray and wrapped it into a cylinder with plastic wrap.

Placed in cold storage.

While the elbow cools, the shape is fixed.

Just slice it when you eat it.

"When will I be able to eat? I can't wait. ”

Cao Kun rubbed his hands excitedly, and couldn't wait for the crystal elbow that the two of them worked together......

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Thatcher is really not nonsense, she really ate crystal elbows, and it was written in her memoirs, but I don't know who did it.