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Lu Cai took a closer look and said, "Sure enough, the dish is shaped like a flower, and it is layered, and it is extremely rich, this name is good!"
Zhang Yun is very happy, her family likes to eat her cooking, what could be more comforting than this?
Zhang Yun plans to go to the town tomorrow to sell the wolf meat he hunted today and sell it in a restaurant or elsewhere, this is a national protected animal in the 21st century, and Zhang Yun can't eat it. Wolf skin is a warm thing, and it is best to use it to make mattresses, but Zhang Yun doesn't know how to clean it up, and such a thing looks really scary, so he thought about selling it. Later, I had other ideas, and I didn't press the table.
Zhang Yun got up very early in the morning, and it took a lot of effort to cook, and if it was late, he wouldn't be able to catch up with the noon banquet. Hongmei also came to Zhang Yun's house early.
When she arrived in the town, she first went to Xiangmanlou, there are always guests in the restaurant who like game, and Zhao's shopkeeper bought all the wolf meat. Seeing that Zhang Yun was still carrying a burden, Zhao Sheng asked, "Miss Zhang is holding a wolf skin in her hand?"
Zhang Yun nodded: "Exactly." I want to make a wolfskin jacket. β
Shopkeeper Zhao wanted to buy this wolf skin, but Zhang Yun still had to use it, so he had to give up. Tell her where the leather goods are made, and send a young man with her.
Zhang Yun arrived at the small shop where he made leathers, and the owner of the shop was an old man in his fifties and sixties. Zhang Yun showed the boss, and the boss said that he could make a leather jacket, and the remaining scraps could be sewn into two pairs of gloves. Zhang Yun immediately told the boss about the approximate size, negotiated the price, and then went to Wang's house.
There were already servants waiting for the corner gate, and when they saw Zhang Yun, they hurriedly smiled and came up to lead the horse, leading Zhang Yun and Hongmei inside. Hongmei watched non-stop along the way, looking at the exquisite carved beams and paintings of the Wang family, and was amazed. After a few hanging flower doors, they arrived at a living room, where Wang Ziming and his wife were waiting.
Zhang Yun and Hongmei stepped forward and greeted the two.
The second young lady smiled: "Miss Yun is here, please take a seat." β
Everyone sat down, and Zhang Yun asked, "I don't know what kind of dishes Zhang Yun wants to cook?"
Wang Ziming thought for a while and said, "Miss Zhang just makes her own specialty dishes." There are no taboos for this guest, he just likes all kinds of food. Miss Zhang Yun rest assured, this distinguished guest is extremely gentle. β
"Hmm. Zhang Yun nodded, "I don't know how many people are at the banquet, but how many dishes can be cooked?"
Wang Ziming turned his head and looked at the second young lady. The second young lady said, "There are seven or eight in total. β
Wang Ziming said: "The cook at home can use it, but Miss Zhang can use it." β
Even so, Zhang Yun didn't say much, and asked Wang Ziming to find someone to take her to the kitchen. Zhang Yun was originally a partner of the Wang family, but he had to go to the kitchen to do things, and Wang Ziming and his wife were a little embarrassed. The second young lady sent the silver girl beside her to go to the kitchen with Zhang Yunhongmei, so as not to snub her from the people in the kitchen!
This distinguished guest belonged to the Wang family, so Zhang Yun was taken to the big kitchen in the mansion. The kitchen was very big, Zhang Yun looked around, and all the ingredients she needed were there, so she was relieved.
Seven people, considering that some dishes are not large, there are a few more dishes. Then six cold dishes, six hot dishes, two soups, and two staple dishes are enough.
There are a lot of dishes, except for a few dishes that Zhang Yun has prepared, the rest is best to win by skill, otherwise he will be tired to death, and the dishes will not be able to do well.
Cold dishes are the faΓ§ade of the whole banquet! Cold dishes require dryness, fragrant, crispness, and refreshment in taste, and neatness, freshness, and beauty in color and form.
The chef of the Wang family is not covered, there is a master who is very good at carving, Zhang Yun asked him to carve a few delicate flowers with red and white radish. Then I took a variety of fruits and made a fruit platter. Since it is an appetizer, a refreshing and sour taste is indispensable, and the two classic cold dishes of cold fungus and cold lotus root are quickly ready.
People here generally don't eat pork ear offal, and cold pork ears can't be done, so Zhang Yun had to make a plate of shallots mixed with tofu. The next two cold dishes should be meat dishes, Zhang Yun made sashimi and boiled shrimp, which are dried in autumn, these dishes are all nourishing yin and nourishing lungs, which is very suitable. Cold dishes are required to be dry and fragrant, crisp and tender and refreshing in taste, and neat, fresh and beautiful in color and form.
Although stir-fried dishes are popular, there are no special regulations on the specifications of banquets, and cold dishes are not common. Zhang Yun made sixteen dishes according to high specifications, and later became the leader of the banquet held by Daqi, and later developed a variety of banquets according to this, which Zhang Yun did not expect.
Fortunately, there is a group of people who work together, chopping vegetables, burning fires, pouring oil, and mixing materials, Zhang Yun spent most of his time on the side telling everyone how to do it, which saved a lot of time.
Hot dish Zhang Yun made kung pao chicken, braised pork, peony fish fillet, gold and silver run, eggplant turtle, sweet and sour fish. Hongmei often sees Zhang Yun cooking, so she knows many procedures, and Zhang Yun has saved a lot of effort.
Just say this eggplant turtle, the skin of the eggplant is planed, as long as the meat is cleaned, cut into dices, fried with chicken oil, and then cut into dices with chicken preserved chicken and shiitake mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, grinding mushrooms, five-spiced tofu, etc., simmer dry with chicken soup, take sesame oil and mix with oil. Everyone looked at it strangely, there were too many things used here, and so many good things were all for the sake of giving the eggplant flavor, and they didn't want it when they were used up, it was too extravagant.
Someone asked, Zhang Yun smiled: "This is quite ordinary, I have heard people say before that someone needs to use 200 chickens to make a dish, and the tip of the chicken tongue is cut to make the dish, and the rest is not wanted." The Wang family is also a rich and noble family, and the cooks are also smacking their tongues when they hear such words. Zhang Yun laughed secretly in her heart, she just talked casually, just joking, although she had heard such a story, there were still many elements in her heart who didn't believe it. But these cooks are different, they stay in rich and noble homes, and they are used to all kinds of extravagance and waste, so Zhang Yun said that they immediately believe that although the Wang family does not have that style, other people's families are not without it.
Jin Yinrun is the bean sprouts stuffed meat that Zhang Yun has made, this dish is not easy to make, and it is not easy to put it, so I prepared the ingredients and put it at the end.
The staple food is put on the stove early in the morning: this is a big bowl of eight-treasure rice, Zhang Yun used red beans, mung beans, peanuts, red rice, millet, pearl rice, raisins, dates, a total of eight kinds, stuffy on the stove for a whole hour and a half, the color of the eight-treasure rice made is bright, the aroma is attacking. Another plate of layer cakes. Although the cake has been sold in many places, this is Zhang Yun's fortune and a classic dim sum, which must be done at the banquet.
Today's hot dishes are too delicate to cater to the tastes of this nobleman, so there are a few dishes that are difficult to make enough, such as Jinyinrun and Peony Fish Fillet. The next soup is made into meatball soup, which actually serves as a half-course meal. Zhang Yun asked the chef to prepare grass carp, take the fish meat alone, chop and mash it into meat puree, add various ingredients, squeeze it into a circle, put it in boiling water to cook, and then take it out and use cold water to cool it, repeat it several times, put various ingredients in the pot, add coriander and shallots, and pour in fish balls.
The chefs saw it clearly, they had never seen this fish ball, and they couldn't take their eyes off it when they saw the fish made into such food.
The last dessert should be the usual "egg soup", but the egg soup is too ordinary, and the sweet soup at this time is not very popular, so Zhang Yun made a sweet soup of Sydney white fungus lily, although the method of this soup is not troublesome, it is better in a novel and ingenious.
There is still half an hour before noon, and the rest of the gold and silver run is a delicate job. Zhang Yun picked up the thick and straight mung bean sprouts, pinched off both ends, cast the middle empty with a silver needle, and slowly stuffed the prepared meat puree into the bean sprouts. When have you ever seen such delicate work, not like cooking, but like embroidery? Zhang Yun made more than 20 in a row, and then stopped, there were not many things, she was tired and sweaty, Hongmei hurriedly took a handkerchief and wiped her sweat.
Asking the steward for a fine soup bowl, Zhang Yun poured the bean sprouts with boiling water, then served them with top-quality shark fin and drizzled with pumpkin and chicken puree, and carefully covered the lid. This dish is the smallest in portion and takes the longest time. To be honest, Zhang Yun thinks that the taste of this bean sprouts stuffed meat is average, and any thing plus a bunch of precious ingredients must be delicious, right?
As soon as it was done, the second young lady came over to urge the food to be served. Zhang Yun asked people to serve the cold dishes first, personally checked the rest of the dishes, and after a few minutes, the remaining dishes were served one after another.
While she was serving the dishes, the second young lady walked quickly and said that the distinguished guests in front of her wanted to see Zhang Yun. Zhang Yun had no choice but to go over.