Chapter 103: Buying Charcoal
"Boss, it should be here, right?" asked Five-Eyed with a big puff hat, panting. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"I guess that's right. Liu Mang looked at the note in his hand: "This is this place." ”
Ding Yi's fiasco last night woke Liu Mang up. Only then did he realize that in order to make a good dish, he must not only have fresh ingredients, but also good tools.
And this tool is not only a cooking utensil, but also unpopular things such as charcoal.
For example, rosin charcoal is made from pine branches, and if you use it to smoke and roast food, it will naturally have a fragrance of pine nuts.
There is also silver frost charcoal, which is like hoarfrost. It is smokeless, flame-retardant and not easy to extinguish, and is an essential material for making osmanthus smoked duck.
So, Liu Mang wrote down a list overnight, with all kinds of things that could be used, and handed it to Li Ruonan for her to prepare.
As a result, everything else is good, and most of them can be purchased now, but this special charcoal fired by the ancient method is really nowhere to buy.
Without these special charcoals, there are a few dishes recorded in the "Jinling Recipes" and "Tiaoding Collection" that will lose a lot of color.
Fortunately, after careful inquiry among the locals, Liu Mang knew that in a remote mountain village not far from Fengcheng, there were still people who used the ancient method to burn charcoal.
So early in the morning, he came to try his luck with five eyes.
In front of Liu Mang's eyes, there is a small farmhouse courtyard surrounded by green bricks, and the courtyard wall is crawling with lush creepers, probably slightly dilapidated because of its age.
"Is Master Song Yong here?" Liu Mang knocked lightly on the courtyard door.
After a while, a small crack opened in the courtyard door with a 'creak', and a small head poked out.
"What are you looking for my father?" spoke a little girl of seven or eight years old, with two pigtails and two missing front teeth in her mouth.
"Oh, we're from Fengcheng and want to buy some charcoal from Master Song. ”
"My father and my mother went up the mountain to chop wood today. The little girl replied, holding a large notched porcelain bowl in her hand, as she put rice in her mouth.
"Well, little girl, can I wait here for your father?"
It's not easy to get here, it's four or five hours by car. After thinking about it for a while, Liu Mang decided to wait for the little girl's father to come back.
"Come in. The little girl nodded and opened the gate of the courtyard.
Wuyan and Liu Mang walked into the courtyard, and a big yellow dog came over from the corner of the courtyard coldly, so frightened that Wuyan was like a toad, and jumped backwards.
"Don't be afraid, Ah Huang doesn't bite. The little girl was amused by the five-eyed movement, and she giggled.
Sure enough, the huge yellow dog just sniffed at the five eyes, and then wagged its tail.
The small courtyard is very clean, the ground in the courtyard is paved with pebbles, and there is a grape trellis in the corner of the courtyard, and a small square table and a few small stools are placed underneath.
"Hello!" Liu Mang nodded when he noticed that there was still a young man sitting on the stool.
This young man was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a white face, a small flat haircut, a navy blue tunic, and a smile on his face.
"Hello, you're here to buy charcoal, right?"
"Yes, you too?"
"That's right, I've just arrived, let's sit down together. The young man nodded.
The little girl was very diligent, and when she saw Liu Mang and Wuyan coming, she put the big bowl in her hand on the steps.
Then he struggled to bring a kettle from the kitchen, trying to make tea for the two of them.
"We'll do it ourselves. Five Eyes hurriedly took it.
"Girl, when will your father and your mother come back? ”
"I don't know, it's probably afternoon. The little girl replied. Then he picked up his bowl, sniffed his nose, and ate again.
"Gollum ......"
I set off early in the morning, it was already past noon, and I still haven't eaten a bit. Now seeing that the little girl is eating well, her five-eyed fat belly can't help but make a muffled sound.
"Uh, Uncle Fatty, do you want to eat?" the little girl handed over the bowl with a hesitant expression on her face.
"Don't eat! Don't eat!" Wuyan waved his hand again and again, his old face turned red, and he quickly changed the topic to alleviate the embarrassment.
"Boss, did we bring food in the car?"
"Probably not, we are driving a business car in the hotel, how can there be food in the car?"
"Okay, I'll bear with it. Five-eyed looked disappointed and said stupidly.
"Little girl, what's your name?" asked Liu Mang.
"My name is Ting'er. ”
"Ting'er, you can eat this at noon. ”
Liu Mang glanced into the little girl's bowl and found that it was a bowl of boiling water soaked in rice.
On top of the rice lay a few pieces of salted radish and a little bit of lard residue.
"I don't know how to cook, and my father and mother don't let me get angry, for fear that I will be hot. The little girl replied timidly.
"That's it, Little Five. There is a small store at the entrance of the village, I saw that there was pork and vegetables sold there, you go and buy some back, we didn't eat, so we borrowed the kitchen of Ting'er's house to turn on the fire. Liu Mang thought for a moment and said.
"Okay! I'll go right away. Five-Eyes stood up.
"Are you cooks?" the young man asked.
"That's right. ”
"It just so happens that I am. The young man laughed, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth.
"That's it, don't go grocery shopping, I just happened to buy a lot of ingredients, right in my car, let's cook together, everyone eats, do you see it?"
"That's for the best. Liu Mang nodded.
The young man walked out.
Soon, he walked in with a chicken, two fish, and a bundle of greens.
"Hey, he's still an expert. Liu Mang glanced at the ingredients carried by the young man, and thought to himself.
The chicken is a Luhua chicken, with an oval and large body, black and white feathers, and clear eyes.
The individual of the fish is not large, one is about a catty, the head is large and wide and flat, the snout is short and round and blunt, and the dorsal fin and anal fin have a row of pearl-colored highlights, like dotted with a few stars.
This fish is called the Seven Star Fish, and the scientific name is the moon snakehead, and it only grows in the creeks and crevices of the rocks in the mountains.
Because it is extremely difficult to catch and difficult to raise in captivity, it is a rare delicacy.
And the bundle of greens in his hand is also very special, the rhizome is burgundy, and the leaves are like shrunken lotus leaves.
This vegetable is called Ulva and is also a wild vegetable that is difficult to find. The Ulva in the so-called 'Ulva perch flavor' of the ancients refers to this dish.
"Friend, you're also here to participate in the Chef God Competition, right?, why haven't I seen you?" asked Liu Mang curiously.
"Hey, I'm not good at it, I just know how to eat, so I won't join in the fun. The young man snorted.
"Then you or me?" Liu Mang asked as he walked into the kitchen.
"That's it, I'm better at river fresh, then I'll cook the fish, you cook this hen, and finally fry a green vegetable, and you can eat." ”
"Okay!" Liu Mang responded, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to start work.
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