Chapter Seventy-One: Sauce
Lilian opened the lid of the small box. www.biquge.info What is kept inside is a semi-fluid gray-brown sauce with uniform internal particles and a smooth surface.
"Sauce?" Leah stared as Lili opened the box, the only food with sauce that was separated. There's no need for two people to eat together, right? Since the meal is divided into two portions, why not divide this into two portions?
Lili saw the puzzled expression of the girl in front of her. hurriedly explained: "It's not that I'm reluctant to score, it's just that the materials are too late to prepare, and this allocation is the amount of one person, so it doesn't matter if I don't eat it." With that, she shoved the open box of sauce to Leah's side.
"Can one portion be eaten separately and become a serving for two?" Leah was a little confused. In her words, this sauce should be a product made by Lili herself using materials. Of course, the surface and color of the sauce are very ordinary, and there is nothing special to see, and the smell is also bland. When I opened the lid, there was no mouth-watering aroma.
"No, no. It's just one person's serving, and two people can't eat enough. Lili said quietly. She made this sauce for Aiwei, but the other party has now changed to Leah.
Seeing such a tangled expression, Leah picked out a little bit of the sauce and covered it with rice, and then handed the rest of the sauce back to Lili.
"Hey, isn't it delicious?" Lili glanced at Leah hesitantly, and then said, "Don't you like to eat sauce?"
"No, I'm used to eating like this. Leah took a few sips of food and replied. In the past, for convenience, it was not necessary to make the sauce separately and buy the ingredients for the sauce. However, some of the soup will come out when the dish is cooked.
That viscous liquid becomes a substitute. Of course, Leah likes to add the remaining gravy to the rice, watching the sauce continue to seep into the rice. The rice with sauce on one side is very good. Of course, those are just accompaniments to the dish, not real sauces.
She glanced at Leah suspiciously, and when she wanted to stop, she lowered her head and began to eat lunch.
The flavor of the sauce is very unique. Half is sweet, while half is salty. Sauces that mix these two flavors are common, but the objects brought by this ladle are very unique. The sticky appearance makes people feel that the taste will be stronger or sticky when eaten.
The feeling that fills your mouth with the aftertaste of sauce. Once you eat too much of this type of sauce, the desire to eat it will decrease.
The sauce brought by this, when you actually eat it, does not have this thick and greasy feeling. It's very smooth, and the initial taste is just a flash of saltiness. People barely notice that it's a taste and it's gone. What then precipitates is a faint sweetness that remains in the back cavity.
It's not greasy, but it stays for a long time. Along with the saltiness of the front, this sweetness becomes exceptionally refreshing. It does not lose the viscosity of the sauce and the coolness of liquid food.
Leah praises the flavor of the sauce to Lili, "This sauce tastes great!
Hearing the other party's words of admiration, Lili couldn't help but smile shyly. She tried to push the sauce in front of Leah again and let her continue to taste it. However, she was surprised to see the girl in front of her. The girl of her age ate surprisingly fast, and she ate most of the work in just a moment.
This speed is the same as what she had before, and even surpasses.
In her previous life, she couldn't eat enough. If there are some good ingredients, I don't dare to gobble them up, but eat them with sauces, water, and other cheaper foods. Saving is the main thing.
If there is one or two times when the food is particularly hearty, tell her that she has to throw it away if she can't finish it, and then let her throat go. Of course, this behavior has also decreased by the Mivi family. I gradually got used to the rules of eating here.
Seeing that the current girl is not shy to sandwich her portion of the dish on the rice, eat it all in two or three bites, and then repeat the previous action.
Seeing this scene, Lili couldn't help but be like those in the family, and told Leah: "Eat slowly...... No one is robbing you. The girl in front of her may be the same as when she first entered the family, when there are no outsiders around, she will eat the leftover food that others don't want.
As Leah progressed, Lili began to eat lunch at noon.
The end result was that Leah ate first, and then stared at Lili's basket to eat. When she was eating, she did use the small box of sauce she had brought with her. Every time I eat some dishes that have no soup and are drained, I will peck a little in the small box with the sauce. Then eat it in your mouth.
As for the soups, they were not dripping the juice dry and then applying some sauce. This seems to be a time-saver, or an additional change in flavor to prevent the juice from dripping into the sauce.
Lili was a little embarrassed to be stared at by Leah watching her eat. Her face flushed slightly. But he continued to eat the rest of the food. Soon, she swallowed the rest of the food into her stomach.
Compared with the amount of food, Lili specially prepared some food portions for Avido, and she served as much as she should eat. Unexpectedly, in the end, both of them actually ate it all. It can be seen that Leah's meal is much bigger than her.
I have a habit of not eating a small box of sauce at once. Although it is verbally about the amount of a person, it will leave a lot of fruit when you eat it yourself.
"Lililuo, did you make it yourself? Leah saw that she had finished eating, and spoke up approvingly.
After hearing this, she smiled and said modestly: "Thank you, but this is still a lot worse than the real taste, and it still needs to be improved and exercised." ”
She continued: "This is actually a traditional sauce from our hometown, and everyone in the village knows how to mix and prepare this seasoning. However, I found that in the big cities outside, I don't eat this seasoning much. ”
She said with a look of regret: "Although there are not many ingredients for this sauce, and the cost is very cheap, the main ingredients cannot be picked from the market. ”
"A lot of the ingredients in my hometown can only be regarded as wild vegetables. Perhaps the lack of materials is the reason why there are fewer people in the city to eat. She glanced at her sauce box and wrapped them carefully. Pack up the lunch box for two.
"Wild vegetables, you can make out a lot of materials, you're much better than me. "Leah doesn't know anything about vegetables, so she can only praise others, and if you dig deeper, it's a bit unbearable.
"Speaking of which, there is a wild vegetable among them, and I have been telling the story of this wild vegetable since my father taught me how to make it. She tilted her neck as if she were reminiscing, and looked at the window on the left.
"Ever since I was a teacher, my father kept repeating a story about who made me remember who made the recipe. Whenever you are blending, you should make this material carefully. She said very cautiously.
"Hmm. Although Leah doesn't know the process of making the ingredients, the thickness of the sauce and the thickness of the particles in it can feel how much effort has been spent and how much time it has taken to grind it.
Lili's words did not end, and she began to slowly explain the origin of this recipe.
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More than ten years ago,
In a small village where Lili Luo lives.
The development of the village is not very good, and it is full of mud, sand, stone, wood, barely built houses. It was covered with hay that had been beaten off the grain, and the product was left behind as a roof to protect from the wind and rain, and even in the past, it was impossible to build a grass roof.
Of course, the craftsmen in the village are now very good at their work, and they can be used for months at a time.
Although the village is backward, it also has some negotiations with the outside world. For example, a merchant who walks through a village, or a practitioner who wanders on the four floors to improve himself. Or a guest who has been staying in the village for a night in the middle of the night.
They don't know much about the outside world. But it's not that they don't know everything.
In the village, some products with good craftsmanship will also be produced by experienced masters, and those who have passed by will also feel like it and take it out to the outside world. From these gadgets, they also learned a lot of knowledge from the outside world, or in other words, their knowledge actually relies on outsiders to be able to transmit it.
One day, a villager was doing farm work in a field next to his house. While wiping the handle of the hoe wet with sweat with his rough sleeve, he was surprised to find a young woman on the edge of his field.
Women are not pretty, nor are they ugly. Her clothes are strangely handmade, but unlike them, the materials she uses are more rudimentary and unpolished. Unpolished branches, unwoven bark, large leaves without pulling stems. Behind him is a rain shield made of soft white feathers, and underneath the feather feather flap is a backpack with small holes.
The material of the backpack looks quite sturdy.
The clothes made the man very strange, and they should be the only poor village on this side.
Surrounded by the Valley of the Peaks, a powerful king who occupies the entire forest, where there are armies clad in gold armor and steel armor, and on the other side is a wide flat land, where it is said that there is a highly knowledgeable and prosperous civilized world.
They are in the middle of nowhere, and they don't know each other well. In addition, no one who went out has ever heard of coming back, and there is no message left by the predecessors in the village. So that they are a little resistant to the outside world and have been staying in this village. Of course, such a barren little village, there are only a few passers-by and no outsiders who have stayed here for a long time.
In addition, the village is small, and outsiders are extremely rare. Usually when they come, they are able to be entertained and welcomed by the whole village, after all, outsiders always bring something interesting and unseen.
The woman seemed to understand the etiquette very well. At this point, she really needs to come up with something that interests them, so that the people in the village can negotiate with her more smoothly.
She took out a small jar from her backpack and told the male farmer in front of her that it was a jar of sauce.
Men are clearly dismissive of what women are saying. He thinks that the sauce is a side dish at best. It's not even a side dish, it's just a garnish at best. So take it out?
They also make sauces. There will be several more.
The sauce could not be put on the countertop, but the jar was handmade, and the appearance was more delicate, but it still did not make the male farmer look down, although this jar was better than the village clay craftsmen, but it was still a clay product, not very novel.
They spend their days making clay embryos and firing finished products, and they really don't have much interest. And now the woman in front of her took out a jar of sauce and a jar that was still eye-catching, as an outsider's negotiation, isn't this funny?
The farmer saw the woman open her gray jar. Inside is a thick, brown liquid.
Drink, it's nothing to look at. He's still a little looking forward to it.
The man remembered the sauce he made at home, all of which were golden and bright colors. When added to the dish, it will whet your appetite. And this color is exactly the same as the color of their sauce burnt and fried, at most it is the level of mixing some water and re-steaming. I don't eat the sauce at home often, what can I do with the sauce brought by this woman?
He randomly picked a wheat stalk from the side. Sip a little sauce out. Put it in your mouth and taste it. Since everyone else has opened the jar, you have to give a face and taste a little. Wait for the good taste of failure, give a step down.
After all, the visitor is the guest. Regardless of whether the things taken out are good or not, they still have to go to the reception, so as not to lose the face of the village.
"Huh?" a faint faint bounce in his mouth. Tolerant but not congregated. The male farmer didn't even notice anything at once.
The farmer smiled awkwardly, and at the woman's smiling motion, he took another piece of sauce and put it on his tongue to taste it.
It's an indescribable taste. It seems salty and sweet. I don't feel any taste, but I have a lot of aftertaste. The peculiar senses made the male farmer appetite, and he couldn't help but taste it again. This time, he carefully picked out a small piece of wheat straw and put it in his mouth.
The farmer agreed with the sauce brought by the woman, and he realized that the sauce brought by the woman in front of him was indeed much better than the one they had made. He asked the women to sit in their homes and let the people of the village come and taste the delicious food.
The woman was not stingy, she did not put the jar away, and put the lid aside, waiting for the villagers to come and taste them one by one.
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