Chapter 41: Open Minds
Just when Heng Zhi was thinking about it, the subordinate who was sent to the vegetable market to buy chili peppers came back.
"Back to the master, listen to your orders, we bought ten catties of chili peppers, what do you think should be done with this chili now?"
The steward didn't say anything and gave his second son a chance, so Wang Dafu stood up very gratefully and saluted Heng Zhifu.
The master also said just now that according to his instructions, these chili peppers may taste very delicious, so he didn't dare to make a decision, so he could only ask Heng Zhi very cautiously.
"These peppers look a little different from ordinary ingredients, but when you wash them, they treat them like ordinary vegetables.
But I don't see if you're buying red peppers or green peppers, and I'll have to see what they look like before I can tell you how he cooks?"
This Wang Dafu picked up the vegetable basket very cleverly and put it between the two of them.
"Back to Mrs., you see that the chili peppers are here at this time, this kid is very clever, he bought five catties of green chili peppers, and bought five catties of red chili peppers.
Do you see what's different? You can name it, and the boys will do it for you!"
After gently opening the hundred steps on the top of the basket, Heng Zhi saw a basket full of chili peppers.
After seeing this chili pepper, Heng Zhi was a little excited, thinking that he had come to this era, and thought that this chili pepper was spread from abroad.
Heng Zhi also thought about whether to build a ship afterwards and go overseas to find all kinds of rare ingredients and guide the country in advance.
didn't expect that this chili pepper was originally outside the gate, and it spread quickly.
However, because people eat very little, and they can't touch the stinging food of chili pepper at once, in the eyes of northerners like Beijing, this kind of chili pepper is a kind of ingredient to find guilt for themselves.
Except for the special tastes of a few people, the vegetable market is really a jar where there are very few chili peppers.
And Heng Zhi has been in the back house since she came, and the women in the back house, in order to please men, so heavy things like chili, green onions, and garlic are not touched.
So poor Heng Zhi, now I know that chili peppers are something that exists in this era!
"This green chili is a fresh ingredient, you can fry it with pork, or you can fry it with eggplant, beans, loofah, and other vegetables.
And this red pepper is especially important, he is this green pepper, put in the sun to dry the vegetables of the city.
Red chili peppers can be ground into noodles to make a variety of chili sauce, and then this chili sauce is mixed with several spices to make a spicy fried rice cake dish.
And it is chili peppers that can be fried peanuts, made into the kind of appetizer, which can be fried edamame, fried soybeans, fried broad beans, which can be used as a snack or as a dried fruit dish when drinking tea.
And dried chili peppers can also be put into the casserole when stewing meat, which can remove the fishy smell and the smell, all in all, this chili pepper can be versatile, but the specific way to eat it depends on you to figure it out for yourself. ”
Heng Zhi just said his own thoughts, the specific way, it still depends on the chef to take the measure, after all, he has never been a diner, but he has not started, he has done it himself, so he is a theoretical school!
But this woman has been in charge for fifty or sixty years, so after hearing Heng Zhi's words, she also understood these cooking methods, and said to Heng Zhi with a hint of inquiry and curiosity in her eyes.
"Listening to Madame's words, it's really better than reading for ten years, what I didn't expect is that a scholar like you, people can understand all kinds of food practices so well.
My wife has also been taught this year, and I will definitely try them one by one according to the method you said afterwards. ”
"Mother-in-law is really polite, this rice cake has been cooled, do you think I can grow it now?
I think you can try it with sugar or salt according to your preferences......"
Heng Zhi looked at the small rice cakes in the delicate plate, and her heart was very excited, although she couldn't make spicy rice cakes, but ordinary rice cakes also had a different taste.
After all, it takes a lot of effort to grind this chili pepper into powder and fry it into chili sauce after buying it, Heng Zhi doesn't always have time to keep an eye on this process, so it depends on how this woman thinks about it?
The most important thing is to taste these rice cakes first, whether they are delicious or not? Are they the rice cakes you imagined? Although they look very similar on the outside, I don't know what the real taste is.
"Alas, back to the master's words, look at the memory of this old woman, I almost forgot just now, this rice cake is still lit here, listening to your reminder, I also found that this rice cake is just ready to eat. ”
The mother-in-law seemed to have regained her previous temperament, not so heavy and numb, and there was a relaxed expression on her face, which made Heng Zhi feel very relieved in her heart.
"It's okay, wait a little longer, wait a little longer, a good meal is not afraid of being late~"
Yunlu has been acting as a very quiet backdrop since the beginning.
On the surface, the atmosphere is very calm, as if it is commonplace for Heng Zhi to talk about the height just now.
In fact, there are turbulent waves in my heart......
When did his master become so knowledgeable?
I really know about eating, and the head is very detailed!
Isn't the book I usually read not all kinds of travelogues or all kinds of recipes?
Lord Heng Zhi, I didn't know that this little girl was brushing a crazy barrage in her heart, but she was very looking forward to stretching out this special chopsticks and slowly putting the rice cake in her mouth.
At the entrance of this rice cake, Heng Zhi was stunned!
The mother-in-law on the opposite side looked at Heng Zhi's expression very cautiously, and after seeing the other party's stunned appearance, her heart tightened, is there any kind of problem with this rice cake?
Is the rice cake in the mouth that this lady just ate too old, or too soft, not strong enough, or does it taste wrong?
Why is it such an expression?
This rice cake is their Jiangnan daughter-in-law's best dim sum technique, why does it leak such an expression?
Could it be that he has already lost his sense of taste after escaping the famine for several months?
So too much salt just added?
And Wang Dafu and the steward were also looking at Heng Zhi, watching Heng Zhi pinching a piece of rice cake very elegantly, putting it in her mouth, stirring slightly, revealing such an appearance, and her heart was very nervous.
Wang Dafu was very nervous, thinking about such a bold and promising master, was she dissatisfied with this errand?
Just when everyone was nervous, the heroine suddenly said a word, which eased this very tense atmosphere at once, and made everyone's hearts settle down immediately.