Chapter Seventy-Five: The Secret Sour Plum Soup (Part II)
After hurriedly washing up, Bai Xiaobai changed into a clean light blue short-sleeved shirt, went downstairs step by step, brushed his face and entered the glass kitchen.
Syllable......
As the kitchen lights come on, the ingredients and new equipment in the kitchen come into view.
The first thing that attracted Bai Xiaobai was the two large blue and white porcelain pieces on the ground.
The one on the left is an extremely exquisite blue and white porcelain jar, nearly one meter high, the diameter of the porcelain jar is about half a meter, and the top of the jar is covered with a porcelain lid.
Bai Xiaobai opened the top cover of the blue and white porcelain jar, which contained a jar of water, the water quality was clear, and even the patterns at the bottom of the jar could be seen clearly.
"System, what kind of water is this?" Because Bai Xiaobai used tap water to cook food before, there was no system that directly provided water like this time.
System words: The water in the water tank comes from the Kunlun Snow Mountain at an altitude of 6,500 meters above sea level on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
The snow in the mountains slowly melts and seeps into the underground rock formations, where it is filtered and mineralized for more than 100 years to form the precious mineral water of the snow-capped mountains.
Kunlun Snow Mountain mineral water can be directly drunk after being sterilized by high-tech physical means.
This kind of water quality is naturally pure and pollution-free, the water quality is sweet, rich in a variety of mineral elements, beneficial to human health, the pH value is also naturally weakly alkaline, consistent with the attributes of human body fluids, it is easy to be absorbed by the human body, can promote the metabolism of waste and toxins in the body, and is one of the best spring water for making tea and making drinks.
Looking at the current words of the system, Bai Xiaobai sighed in his heart, 'I'll go'.
The water is so particular, Bai Xiaobai usually drinks boiled water at home to quench his thirst, and occasionally when he goes out, he is thirsty, at most, he spends two yuan to buy a bottle of farmer's spring water.
I didn't expect that the water used to make sour plum soup now actually uses Kunlun Mountain Snow Mountain mineral water, and the system is really high-end and high-grade.
Bai Xiaobaizui was thirsty, and originally wanted to scoop up the mineral water and take a sip, but thinking that his level was Xiaotong, he couldn't taste the semi-finished products and ingredients, so he had to give up.
After looking at the blue and white porcelain water tank, Bai Xiaobai shifted his gaze to another large blue and white porcelain.
This large porcelain is different from the blue and white porcelain water tank, it is unique in shape, a bit like a porcelain pouf, but not exactly the same, this blue and white porcelain round has a fist-sized opening at the top, which is plugged with a large cork.
It's not so much like a porcelain pier as it is more like a fully enclosed beer keg.
"System, why does this thing look like a beer keg, what does it do?" Bai Xiaobai asked a little confused.
System words: blue and white porcelain ice bucket equipment, the latest high-tech achievements, the inner wall is attached to a thick layer of Antarctic deep ice, used to ice the secret sour plum soup, the effect is excellent.
It turned out to be chilled equipment.
After the system said this, Bai Xiaobai noticed that the blue and white porcelain actually had wires, which happened to be plugged into the row in the corner of the wall, and it was obviously already energized.
Bai Xiaobai was a little confused, it stands to reason that it is okay to put it in the refrigerator directly after it is chilled, why do you want to make a special refrigerator like a beer barrel?
After looking at the two large blue and white porcelain objects, Bai Xiaobai shifted his attention to the ingredients of the secret sour plum soup.
On the countertop of the cabinet are several delicate dustpans made of thin bamboo strips.
Each dustpan is about the size of a sea bowl, with three dustpans containing black plum, hawthorn, licorice, and a sealed glass jar containing a few slices of tangerine peel.
These ingredients are considered to be superb, based on their appearance and aroma.
Each black plum is as big as a ping pong ball, dark and dark, and I don't know how the system picks it, and when you get closer, you can smell the unique smoky smell of black plum, but this smoke smell is not like most smoked ingredients, with a choking mushy smell, on the contrary, there is a very light woodwood fragrance.
Tangerine peel, on the other hand, is dark orange in color and soft, and when you open the glass lid, you can feel that the nose is full of unique, rich and mellow aroma of volatile oil unique to orange peel.
The pitted dried hawthorn slices in the dustpan are also very unique, the skin is red and bright, the texture is hard and the flesh is thin, and the size of each cross-cut slice is close to the nutrient express bottle cap, which is surprisingly large, and I don't know what kind of variety.
Licorice slices are also different from those sold in local supermarkets and pharmacies, not only with fine red skin, heavy bones, straight strips, and fresh mouth, but also without the slightest crack, which is obviously the best of the best in the system and carefully selected.
In addition to the four old ingredients that are indispensable for boiling sour plum soup.
There are also four important ingredients on the board. They are roselle, a lotus leaf with a stem, a plate of small cubes of pale yellow rock sugar, and a jar of light amber crystalline honey.
A piece of ice-hearted lotus leaf Bai Xiaobai used to make glutinous rice chicken before, but now the ice-hearted lotus leaf shown in front of his eyes is slightly different from before, not only rolled up like a cup, more tender, but also a lotus leaf with stems, with a thin and long stem.
The ingredients were all ready, nothing was missing, and Bai Xiaobai began to show his skills.
This time, there are eight key ingredients in the secret sour plum soup, which surpasses any previous system cuisine, and the preparation method is relatively cumbersome, and it is not allowed to be sloppy.
The system provides a clay urn on the gas cooktop, which is a bit like a large crocker pot.
Bai Xiaobai poured an appropriate amount of Kunlun Mountain Snow Mountain mineral water into the pot.
The first point in making sour plum soup is the amount of water. This is very important, one more point is not good, the sour plum soup will be washed too light, one less point is not good, once the sour plum soup is too thick, there will be a slight stickiness in the mouth, and the taste will be greatly reduced.
And once the ingredients are added to the boil, not a single drop of water can be added in between, so the amount of water must be measured in advance.
Syllable......
After Bai Xiaobai weighed the appropriate amount of water, he turned on a high fire and began to boil the water.
This stew pot is also a black technology equipment, and it heats up very quickly, and as soon as Bai Xiaobai finished washing the ingredients, the water in the pot was boiling.
The next few steps are no different from boiling ordinary sour plum soup, which is nothing more than pouring the drained black plum, dried hawthorn slices, licorice diagonal slices, and dried roselle into a boiling saucepan in turn.
The second point of boiling sour plum soup is the amount of tangerine peel. Tangerine peel is very special, it is the last to add, and it does not need to be washed, and it does not need to be added too much, otherwise it is easy to produce bitter and astringent oil burn smell at high temperatures.
It takes less than a minute to add tangerine peel.
Grunt......
The boiling steam constantly pushes against the lid of the stew pot, giving off the unique aroma of sour plum soup.
The third point of boiling sour plum soup is the control of heat.
It is not possible to simmer carefully and slowly, but must be boiled continuously throughout the whole process to keep the soup tumbling until the nutrients of the ingredients are forced out and the soup color presents a perfect Pu'er brown color.
After two minutes,
After the sour plum is boiled, Bai Xiaobai pours a pot of sour plum soup into the filtration equipment provided by the system while it is hot.
This microporous filtration device can filter out microscopic impurities and residues that are invisible to the naked eye.
After removing the sour plum dregs, a pot of semi-finished secret sour plum soup is good.
At this time, the pot is still very hot, take advantage of the residual temperature, add light yellow rock sugar to the sour plum soup little by little, and constantly stir the pot with a spoon during the period to fully dissolve the rock sugar and let the sour plum soup cool down to room temperature.
Bai Xiaobai concentrated, stirring the sour plum soup in the pot, and finally dropped to room temperature, he wanted to carry out the most critical step of the secret sour plum soup.
At this time, someone outside the store was patting the roller shutter.
The knocking on the door was not loud, but it could be heard that the person who was knocking on the door was very urgent.