Chapter 34: The Simpler, the Harder

Cabbage in soup?

He nagged a few words to the uncle, and he looked dazed.

I've never heard of the name of this thing!

Li Qingming smiled.

"Uncle, this is a very ordinary dish in my hometown, but although it is ordinary, it is not easy to make it delicious!" Li Qingming said.

When Uncle Xiang heard this, his face was even more strange. This cooking is cooking, how can there be a reason why it is simple and difficult to do.

Seeing Uncle Xiang's expression, Li Qingming smiled and didn't explain. After all, the food culture in this world is too scarce, how to understand that the simpler the dishes in Chinese cuisine, the more the chef's skills are tested.

Everyone eats this ordinary dish often, and they are all too familiar with its taste. So, if you want to taste a little worse, you can't fool it. Then, this simple dish, because of the few ingredients and condiments required, when cooking, you have to succeed the first time, otherwise the taste will be poor. This is not like a large dish, which can be modulated with other ingredients to reverse the flavor in the later stage. That's why it's said.

This is the original world, Li Qingming will never dare to make this dish. But this world is different. No matter how bad it is, it is delicious for them.

"Then what kind of cabbage in soup is made of eggs?" guessed Uncle Xiang.

Li Qingming shook his head.

"No, if you want to make cabbage in soup, the most important ingredient is not available on the market at present. So, I have to make it myself!" Li Qingming said.

There is no one on the market who can make it yourself? Uncle Xiang was so stunned that he couldn't do it. Well, isn't this bragging?

"Uncle, is there really no such thing as this noodle alkali?" Li Qingming didn't answer, and asked again.

The key ingredient of cabbage in this soup is preserved eggs.

There are no preserved eggs in this world, so Li Qingming wants to pickle them. In this way, it can be regarded as his unique secret, which is different from chicken soup, which cannot be replicated. In preserved eggs, soda is a very critical factor. Preserved eggs are made use of the characteristics of eggs in alkaline solution to denature the protein gel, making it an elastic solid and making it more smooth and delicious.

If you don't have soda, it's a lot of trouble! And the taste will be much worse.

"Uh, alkali, this, is industrial alkali okay? I really haven't heard of soda!" asked Uncle Xiang.

I really haven't heard of this alkali, industrial alkali, he knows. It's just that without Li Qingming's consent, he didn't dare to buy it, it was said that he would die. Highly toxic!

Industrial alkali, Li Qingming thought about it carefully, and seemed to think that he had read a report, saying that there are many industrial elements in preserved eggs, and eating them causes cancer or something, saying that people should eat less, and it is better not to eat it. This article has not been sprayed less. In the words of those experts, don't eat anything. Anything you eat will cause cancer, so it's good to drink water. But some experts also say that drinking ordinary water has this and that kind of problem, and so on.

So, to sum up, the words of experts are like bullshit, don't believe it.

"Okay, industrial alkali, help get some too. But it doesn't take too much, and that uncle, secretly, buy it from a distance!" Li Qingming said in a low voice.

Food control in this world is quite strict, and Li Qingming doesn't want to get into trouble because of this.

"Is this really a problem?" the uncle was puzzled, but he turned around and went out again, returning with a bag of industrial soda.

After waiting for Uncle Xiang's industrial alkali, Li Qingming began to pickle.

I have eaten a lot of this preserved egg since I was a child, and I have seen my family pickle it, but it is the first time for Li Qingming to pickle it himself. So, this time, he bought 1,000 eggs in one go, just for all kinds of attempts.

Of course, preserved eggs are made from duck eggs. But there are no duck eggs, only eggs, so I can only give it a try.

During the time when the uncle went out, Li Qingming had washed all the eggs and put them into various jars. At this moment, the industrial alkali that the uncle just bought is divided into different proportions, and then put it into each jar full of eggs, then put in salt, and boiling water, and finally add ash, mixed with some rice husks and the like, and finally seal it, and the production process of this preserved egg is completed!

Uncle Xiang was stunned as he watched from the sidelines. This whole process, he found it completely incredible.

"Xiao Ming, this, if you put the egg like this, it will be bad! It will be bad in two or three days!" The uncle looked distressed.

In the past, he usually ate by himself, but he was reluctant to add eggs. It's good now, a thousand eggs, just like that, just like this, this old heart is distressed. And he felt that something was cut in his heart.

Li Qingming smiled.

"Uncle, don't worry, only in this way can you marinate the preserved eggs!But due to the lack of raw materials, I don't know what the final result will be!" Li Qingming explained while noting down the matching of various materials in each jar.

In this way, when the time is right, you will be able to know which jar has the best combination of raw materials. In this way, it will be marinated according to this ratio in the future.

Uncle Xiang was still sluggish. This was completely unexpected. This is not Li Qingming said, he will definitely think that Li Qingming is a nerve. Who would have thought that this was what kind of ingredients they were making.

It's incredible!

"Xiao Ming, this is definitely an exclusive secret recipe!" Uncle Xiang suddenly became elated, "This is definitely not afraid of anyone stealing this secret recipe!" But I don't know how it tastes, but the chicken soup is so delicious, this should be even better!"

Li Qingming smiled. How to say this, cabbage in soup is indeed very good. But compared to chicken soup, this one is not easy to compare. If you drink chicken soup in winter, it's a great treat. However, the chicken soup is also relatively simple because the flavor is too rich and mellow. So if you drink too much, it tastes like that. You won't drink every meal.

It's just that putting it in this world makes it seem extraordinarily evocative and crazy.

As for the cabbage in soup, it is one of the famous dishes of Cantonese cuisine, and you can eat it at every meal. Not to mention that it is a dish, not just a pot of soup.

"Uncle, it's almost time, it's time to go!" Li Qingming stretched his waist to relieve fatigue, and carefully moved the chicken soup to the car with the uncle, and then pushed the cart all the way forward.

Soon, the two arrived at the night market stall.

In the distance, I saw a long dragon. Before Li Qingming and the others arrived, the long dragon let out a huge cheer.

"Look, little master, they're coming!" someone shouted, and then there was a boil, and everyone cheered.

This scene is no less than the appearance of a star.