Chapter 5 Tasting
When Gao Chi, who went to the Dragon King Temple to worship in the evening, came back, he smelled a sweet and greasy smell as soon as he entered the house, and he couldn't help but move his nose and smell it several times, and wondered: "This is like the smell of the sweet room in the palace." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
There is an institution in Nanjing Palace, called the Sweet Room, which specializes in making all kinds of snacks, as well as all kinds of candy, such as tiger's eye candy and nest candy, the production method is secret, and the outer court regards it as a treasure.
Zhang Zhaohua greeted him and said, "I have a new dim sum here, come and try it and give me a review." ”
Gao Chi walked over in surprise and found that Zhang Zhaohua was writing something on the desk, and when he went around behind her, he was writing a meal list, or it was not a meal list, it was a method of making dim sum.
"Taste it," Zhang Zhaohua pointed to him with his left hand, and there were three plates of dim sum on the corner of the table.
Gao Chi opened the lid and looked at it, and couldn't help but say "Huh", he really hadn't seen these three kinds of dim sum: "This is the result of you tossing the meal on your back today?"
"How can I call a tossing and turning on a horse?" Zhang Zhaohua wrote as he said: Four eggs are enough, one more, the color of the sugar dip is browned, and two more will turn black when the pot is put into the pot, and the oil temperature should be hot, not too hot, otherwise the amount of four eggs can also be black. It's best to put it in the pot when it's just bubbling.
She wrote here, listening to Gao Chi's side and saying: "You are tossing people in the institute, Fu Yuan accidentally wanted to eat a gourd duck made in the institute, and I asked for it three times today, but no one made it for her, and everyone ran to you——"
Zhang Zhaohua raised his head and said, "Yongping sent someone?" There are a lot of people in the institute, so there won't be no one to do it for her." ”
"It's Liu Gong who can make gourd ducks," Gao Chi said: "I can't do anything else." ”
"That's offended, I was asking their kitchen helper," Zhang Zhaohua said: "I'll hurry up to the door tomorrow to make amends." ”
"It's not enough to make amends-hmm, hmm," Gao Chi took a bite of **** and said in surprise: "You made this?"
Seeing Zhang Zhaohua nodding, Gao Chi was surprised: "I can't see it, you still do this! I heard you say in the morning that you know what the milk flower is used for, I still don't believe it, how do you do it?"
"The main thing is that the milk flower is good, the essence of the refined things in it," Zhang Zhaohua said proudly: "For example, the same food made with ** one or two and one or two with milk flowers, the taste of milk flowers is definitely several times thicker than **! ”
"I can't see it, you still have experience," Gao Chi nodded: "The taste is really good, crispy and fragrant, this kind of crisp doesn't seem to be like a southern pastry, not only the taste is soft, but also crispy to eat." ”
"Those rice cakes in the south turn into slag as soon as you eat them," Zhang Zhaohua said: "After all, this thing is noodles, and it is still baked." As soon as you say this, I also found that most of the dim sum in the north is made of oil, and most of the pastries in the south are fluffed by foam and steamed soft. ”
Gao Chi ate two **** in a row without hesitation to praise them, and then picked up another Saqima, and then embarrassed to find that his two fingers were stuck with frosting.
Which one is delicious when Saqima is eaten hot or cold, Zhang Zhaohua is writing a comparative study, and generally thinks that it is still cold and delicious, although it is said that cold is not good for the stomach, this thing is not easy to digest, but after it is hot, it can't maintain a crispy taste, the thin strips are all melted into a ball, and as soon as the frosting is hot, the viscosity is big, and you can easily stick your fingers.
Zhang Zhaohua watched Gao Chi exert his strength slightly, rescued two chubby fingers from the thick frosting, and then-- changed two fingers and clamped them, then loosened, and glued them again, and finally ten fingers were stained with frosting, and then he was able to use one index finger to stick it, turning Saqima over and keeping it from falling.
Seeing Zhang Zhaohua's gaze, Gao Chi coughed slightly, and stuffed Saqima, who had been playing for a long time, into his mouth.
"Well, it's okay," Gao Chi said, "You have boiled too much frosting and too thick, it's a little greasy, and it's sticky to your teeth." ”
Zhang Zhaohua recorded it on paper: greasy, sticky teeth, frosting can be appropriately diluted.
"I've eaten something similar to this in Suzhou before, they are made of rice cakes, called Baiguo Honey Cake. Gao Chi said: "There is no frosting like you, it is a mixture of jujube nuts or something, and it is steamed together in rice noodles." You are fried in oil, it tastes chewy, and you can hold it for a while, and the fruit honey cake will break in your mouth. ”
Gao Chi said very pertinently, and Zhang Zhaohua quickly recorded it on the paper.
Gao Chi ate a piece of Saqima, and then took a handkerchief and was about to wipe his hands, Zhang Zhaohua said: "There is also a bowl of sugar steamed cheese, simmering on the edge of the stove." ”
Gao Chi heard the words and went to get it, opened the lid and raised his eyebrows, and said, "Isn't this steamed cheese?"
"It's different, people who have eaten it today say that this thing is more mellow than steamed cheese," Zhang Zhaohua said: "And this is solidified, I think it would be better to change the name to 'custard'." ”
Steamed cheese is steamed yogurt, yogurt is semi-coagulated, and it is easy to stratify if it is not steamed well, and water is precipitated from the upper layer. But Zhang Zhaohua's sugar steamed cheese made with cream is solid, but it is not completely solid, because after all, there is rice wine in it, just like the old yogurt in later generations, it looks like tender tofu and needs to be scooped and eaten with a spoon.
"It's really mellow," Gao Chi took two bites, nodded and said, "Tender as tofu, this dim sum should be the deepest." ”
Zhang Zhaohua was a little embarrassed, the imitation ghee snail was unsuccessful, and it was almost the same as an ordinary soufflé, Saqima polysaccharides and oil, and things that could not be beneficial to the body could not be called top-grade. Only this one of the steamed cheese with sugar is indeed steamed according to the ancient method.
"You have a light mouth, and you don't like to eat more sugars and oils," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Do you think your father likes to eat this?"
Gao Chi took the spoon's hand and said, "Don't say it, my father may really like this thing, he likes to eat heavy bites." ”
Zhang Zhaohua waved his hand with satisfaction, and bent down again to write hard. In fact, she knows how to make a lot of dishes, but it is a trouble to have no spicy food, otherwise according to Yanwang's taste of oil and salt, she can make a table of spicy dishes.
Zhang Zhaohua felt that she was a little carried away in the pawn restaurant today, why did she forget that she could have asked for cream to come back and experiment in her small kitchen, and occupied the big stove of the pawn restaurant on the spot, causing Zhu Fuyuan, the county lord of Yongping, not to eat a dish she wanted to eat.
can't eat what you want to eat, the resentment is very big, in order to prevent the resentment from turning into resentment and then into resentment, Zhang Zhaohua has to quickly find a way to eliminate it.
"I remember you said that the county lord of Yongping likes rabbits," Zhang Zhaohua said, "It's a pity that I haven't had one." ”
"Gao Xu loves to eat rabbit meat," Gao Chi said with a smile: "Every time the rabbit that comes from hunting is called to be slaughtered and eaten, and he doesn't leave one for Yongping, but Yongping is still stupid, believing his nonsense that the three holes of the cunning rabbit are not easy to catch." ”
"There are rabbits sold in the Beiping market," Zhang Zhaohua said disbelievingly, "why didn't you buy them?"
"It's a long story," Gao Chi said: "Yongping likes rabbits, everyone in the palace knows, and it has also spread to the outside, Hongwu twenty-two years ago, that is, six years ago, someone sent a litter of long-haired rabbits, Yongping was very happy, and then a few days later, this person gave his mother a complete set of tortoiseshell jewelry, three hundred years of tortoiseshell scales. ”
"What happened later?" Zhang Zhaohua asked.
"Later, his father asked him what he wanted," Gao Chi said, "He said he only needed more salt, and he was a salt merchant from the newspaper." ”
The dynasty encouraged merchants to transport grain to the border in exchange for salt, and the system of giving patents to salt sellers was called Kaizhong. The system of Kaizhong followed the Song and Yuan systems, but there were more dynasties than border areas to open Zhong, in order to attract merchants to transport grain to the border and enrich the border grain reserves. Hongwu formulated the salt regulations in the fourth year, according to the mileage, one to five stone grain can be exchanged for a small (200 catties) of salt from the government.
The opening method is roughly divided into three steps: reporting, guarding and supporting, and changing the market. In the newspaper, the salt merchants transported the grain to the granaries of the designated border areas in accordance with the requirements of the government's investment promotion list, and exchanged them for salt quotations from the government.
"What happened later?" Zhang Zhaohua wanted to hear the ending.
Then his father killed him. Gao Chi Dao.
Poor Yongping, I guess I don't dare to ask for that litter of rabbits.