Chapter 668 [Three Immortal Candied Fruits]
Time is pressing, tomorrow I will take catkins to Xiangjiang to return to the door, it makes no sense to bring any gold, jewelry and jade, and there is no shortage of good wine and meat in the Li family, so this candied fruit has become a trick, and Zhou Yi can't be lazy if he wants to.
In the middle of the night, the cook was not alarmed, and the two of them took Jin Yangyang and Xiao Yezi to the back kitchen and started to make candied fruit. Jin Daguan is tired, the fruit and honey bought from Anma Village, all rely on it to play four little hooves, little by little into the cellar of the kitchen of the courtyard; the kitchen is located near the hanging thirty-six rooms, the so-called cellar, in fact, is the lower cave connected by the passage in the belly of the mountain, leading to the water of Jiuyang Pond, the water quality is countless times better than that of the head of the central ~ central government, Zhou Yi is also ready to bring some of the cold pool water in the Liuyin Cold Valley after a while, at that time, there is both water and fire, Yin and yang are harmonious, even the special kitchen of Nanshui Palace has to stand aside, envying the dead wind.
Everything in the kitchen is available, Zhou Yi didn't turn on the lights, and directly opened the lighting outlet designed by Miaoyin's ingenuity, and suddenly the silver frost was everywhere, shining inside and out. After taking Sydney pears and dates, I picked out some of the best quality apples, pears, oranges and other things from the fruits bought in Anma Village, peeled and took the pulp, and cut them with a knife, which was as fast as lightning.
The first process is the 'juice' that is ignored by the world's candied fruit masters!
People who make candied fruit all over the world know that they need to be steamed and dried several times, so that the fruit loses some water, so that it can have a new taste and be easy to preserve; but they don't know that after this, not only will the candied fruit lose its nutrition, but also the so-called new taste will not be mastered well, it will make the eater chew wood, very tasteless.
People who eat a lot of candied fruit should have this experience, when they first enter the mouth, they feel good, chewy and sweet, and so on the initial sweet taste is over, the more they eat, the more tasteless, and finally it is like eating sawdust rags, Zhou Yi wants to use the ancient method to retain juice, is to eliminate this disadvantage.
Lift a kitchen knife. Heated to about 80 degrees in the furnace fire, without waiting for the blade to turn red, Zhou Yi took up and dropped the knife in his hand, turned into pieces of snow, and almost in a second, he divided the pear in front of him into leaves the size of rose leaves. In this way, relying on the speed of the knife technique and the heat of the knife blade, it not only allows the fruit slice to retain the juice, but also completely blocks the profile, forcing the juice into the inside of the pulp, which will not only make the internal flesh more juicy and delicious. It can also receive the effect of long-term storage, which is called 'juice retention'.
To achieve this step, you need extremely clever knife skills, ordinary special knife skills may not be able to cope with it, but also to know the fiber veins of the fruit, subtle grasp of the temperature of the knife body, the temperature is too low to retain the juice, too high the fruit is burnt, what kind of taste? Even the first Chinese candied fruit master, Ming Lu Xu in order to improve the juice retention process, it is said that the knife is like iridescent. One around ten, two around a hundred', that has surpassed the chef's level, faintly become a knife master, but can only successfully retain juice for apples, southern coconut, papaya, winter peaches and other fruits with relatively little water and thick flesh. When encountering watermelon, pears and even oranges, which are thin and juicy, they can only sigh and sigh, and they cannot be perfect.
Those who can do this perfectly must be at least Dan Jin or above, and must also be masters with a deep understanding of food. But with a master of this kind of strength, how many of them will go to the kitchen? Not to mention that Tang Boguang Su Dingfang is this kind of level, it is the foodie Miss Gu. The real interest is also in eating, not doing.
Zhou Yi is the outlier, and he is also an outlier who has mastered the essence of the kitchen.
The kitchen knife flew like snowflakes in his hand, and suddenly in the heating oven, and then returned to the cutting board, and the pieces of pulp were evenly divided and classified, whether they were juicy or juicy, they were as obedient as kneaded dough under Zhou Yi's hands, and no juice and residue fell. Zhou Yi has already entered the realm of 'unity of man and fruit', wherever his spiritual power goes, the flesh of each fruit is as hard as the blood vessels under a magnifying glass, and with a kitchen knife heated to the right temperature, even when slicing oranges, it is also lightweight.
The kitchen was quiet, like a night outside Moscow. Liu Wu, Jin Yangyang, and Xiao Yezi are all stupid and stunned, it turns out that the knife skills can still reach this level? Liu Wu blusheed, as a wife, she should have cooked for her husband to eat, but it turned out to be the other way around?
Xiao Yezi was a little in a trance, and in a trance he remembered the sentence that 'Grandpa Wu' said: "All chess people, those who are close to the Tao, those who live, and those who are hidden in the Tao are all in a variety of forms, all of them are hidden chess principles, and the noble couch and abalone are all as good as them."
Chess is the way, the way is in life, the way is in everything, and it is also in Uncle Zhou, it is the uncle's knife skills, the vegetable case, and the comprehension of children in candied fruits always make adults ashamed, not to mention Xiao Yezi, a genius chess player? In a trance, she seemed to suddenly understand a lot of truths, and she couldn't grasp it in her hand for a while, and she didn't feel stupid. I just think my uncle and uncle are so handsome, so charming, and so reasonable
Jin Yangyang didn't have an idea, so he just waited to eat it, because Zhou Yi had already started sealing the can.
The most difficult thing is to leave the juice in the first step, and then there is the 'Lu Xu's candied fruit jar', which can save the trouble of drying it after nine steaming, and even if there is a small error in the ratio of honey and vanilla, this green equipment from the system store can be fine-tuned to a certain extent.
Zhou Yi's jar is made for catkins and Mrs. Liu, naturally there is no room for error, and there is jade bee syrup, and there is no need for any additional spices, only put the successful juice of Sydney jujube and a small part of selected green fruits into the jar, and break off a piece of solidified jade bee pulp, which is the most appropriate ratio. After putting the jade bee syrup into the 'Lu Xu's candied fruit jar', it was sealed with the lid that came with the jar, and then the jar was sealed with Jiuyang Lake water and some red mud, but it was not steamed in the pot like an ordinary candied fruit master, but held on the right palm, and gently flicked it with his left hand to make the jar spin drippingly, as if he was playing acrobatics.
"Be careful" Liu Fu looked at it in his throat, the jar turned too fast, and he couldn't see the original shape, but reflected the moonlight, and turned into a silver ball of light in Zhou Yi's hand, which was good-looking, but it was quite worrying.
"Almost. ”
Lu Xu's candied fruit jar has this characteristic, when it rotates rapidly, the tank will produce uniform heat, which is better than the effect of steaming and drying, and it will not destroy the original taste of the fruit. Three immortal candied fruit, knife skills such as immortals, materials such as immortals, utensils such as immortals, the world is the only one, there is no semicolon.
"Can you eat it?"
Before Liu Wu's words fell, Jin Daguan Huo Ran stood up, staring at the jar in Zhou Yi's hand with dead eyes.
"Don't worry, you have to take it to the cold valley and bury it in the ground for one night, and you can eat it tomorrow morning, so that it tastes better. Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Xiao Yezi hasn't been to the Cold Valley yet, let's go and see it with my uncle." Don't worry, I won't let her freeze. It's time for her to cut the hair and wash the marrow again, and completely open up the serious veins, my little leaf will not only be a genius in the chess world in the future, but also have a good kung fu body?"
There are more and more strange people who have seen it, especially after listening to the conversation between Mingwei and Tang Boguang, although there is no sense of crisis, Zhou Yi secretly made a decision to improve the ability of the people around him as much as possible;
"Okay, okay, the leaves are going!"
When he went to the Six Yin Cold Valley, Zhou Yi brought a jade bee with him. The jade beehive is only an expedient measure to be placed in the flying firefly forest, if this little thing can tolerate the temperature of the cold valley, you can put the hive in the outer valley where the cold pool is located, which is not only more hidden, but also can improve the physique of the jade bee;
ps: Thanks to the two brothers of "Heartbroken Fox" and "Glass Lights" for their monthly pass support :) (To be continued......)