Chapter 95: Mystic Stock

Lao Duan's kitchen is very clean, spotless, neat and orderly, and every tableware is where it should be, even if Li Xiaoyu has never been to this kitchen before, but in this kitchen, she can see any tableware and any ingredients she wants to see. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info looked at the old man Duan who was staring at him on the side, Li Xiaoyu didn't expect that he was still such a careful little old man, it was not easy to do one thing well, and he could see that this old man was clearly a person who pursued perfection.

Li Xiaoyu looked at the ingredients at hand, and couldn't help frowning, the kind of ingredients she wanted to make soup was really not available, so she had to go and find it, "I'll go out first, and I'll be back later." ”

Old man Duan thought that Li Xiaoyu was scared and wanted to take the opportunity to escape, so he asked with a smile: "Where are you going, you want to run?" ”

"You don't have all the stuff here, I'll go out and still have the ingredients?"

Duan Hong looked at him with disdain, "Huh? I don't have all this stuff, I'm afraid that the imperial dining room of the palace is not as complete as my stuff, as long as I can eat, I have almost everything. ”

"The kind of thing I want, you just don't have it, and the imperial dining room doesn't have it, I estimate that the palace doctor should be able to have it!"

"The yellow-haired girl who has not dried up, Jin Shuoda, it's okay, then I'll let you lose today, and I'll take you to the imperial pharmacy." Saying that, the old man Duan picked up Li Xiaoyu, and rushed out of the room with a jump, Li Xiaoyu felt that the wind had already been in his ears, and the scenery on both sides was changing at a very fast speed, and Duan Hong could take a leap five feet away.

"My mother? Are you a monkey? In Li Xiaoyu's eyes, Duan Hong was almost flying.

"Hmph, mouthy girl, I didn't want your hand if I knew it, I had to pull out your tongue!" Duan Hong glanced at Li Xiaoyu, he was a little dizzy by this girl today, he hadn't performed martial arts for three or four years, and he couldn't help but be a little annoyed when he broke his vows today.

"It's here, you go and find it!" Duan Hong threw Li Xiaoyu aside like garbage, Li Xiaoyu fell so hard that his buttocks hurt, patted his skirt, and slowly walked into the imperial pharmacy.

A young man under the age of twenty walked out, holding a medicine box and preparing to go out, "May I ask what are you doing here?" ”

"I'm here to find a medicinal herb, little brother, where did you put the kelp here?" Li Xiaoyu patted the young man on the shoulder, the young man hurriedly avoided it, the young man had a square face, a high nose bridge, and a long neck, looking like a goose.

"This medicinal herb is not something that can be taken if you can, my grandfather is not here, I can agree casually." Seeing Li Xiaoyu deflated, Duan Hong's heart was quite happy.

Li Xiaoyu shrugged his shoulders, nodded at the young man's chest and said, "Okay, you don't let me take the medicinal herbs, and when the time comes, the palace imperial doctor will blame him, and you can tell him yourself." After saying that, she turned around and walked out directly, without stopping at all.

"Uh... You... Wait, if you're in a hurry, go over and get it first, and leave a note for my grandfather. The stupid goose young man said slowly, he is the grandson of Gong Changming, named Gong Xun, he has been familiar with medical works since he was a child, but his grandfather is very dissatisfied with his lack of attention to his dead study, and often scolds himself in front of those doctors in the imperial pharmacy, he is afraid and respectful of his grandfather.

"What herbs do you want, I'll find them for you?"

"Oh, Khumbu! The best Liaodong kombu or Dongying kombu. Li Xiaoyu said.

"Boy, what's that kelp?" Duan Hong followed the stunned man into the pharmacy.

Although the young man looked dumbfounded, when talking about medicinal materials, he said that "kombu is a kind of medicinal material, and in the "Treatise on Medicinal Properties", it is said that the kombli waterway can remove facial swelling and sore and rat fistula. The "Materia Medica" is written more completely, kelp, eliminating phlegm and soft firmness; Dilute water and reduce swelling. main scrofula; galls; choking; Hernia, beriberi, edema. It is used for galls, scrofula, swelling and pain, phlegm and water emema. And...."

"Okay, don't say it, I know, you can find her quickly." Seeing that he still wanted to speak, Duan Hong hurriedly interrupted him.

Li Xiaoyu looked at the kelp that the young man found for her, and her heart was suddenly overjoyed, in Japanese cuisine, Japanese dashi is the essence of Japanese cuisine, mainly including three types: kombu bonito stock, dried fish stock, and kombu stock. Unlike Chinese dashi and Western dashi, Japanese dashi is characterized by the ability to bring out the flavor of the ingredients in a short period of time. The kombu (kelp) used in the soup is best used with the best real kombu or Rausu kombu, which is thick and fragrant, or Rishiri kombu from Hokkaido. And Li Xiaoyu now sees the kelp that the "stupid goose" took out for her, and can't help but be a little amazed, each kelp is covered with a layer of white powdery kelp sugar, and looking at the origin of Li Xiaoyu, you can deduce that this is definitely Rishiri kelp from Hokkaido.

"Goose! Put my things down, don't wipe them off! ”

"Huh? Are you calling me again? There's ash on it, it's so dirty. The young man looked sluggish, but his hand did not stop.

"That's not ash!" Li Xiaoyu didn't know how to explain the existence of kombu candy to him, and snatched the ingredients, Li Xiaoyu stared at him even more viciously, Gong Xun hurriedly picked up the medicine box and flashed to the back.

Looking at the Dongying kombu in his hand, Li Xiaoyu's face smiled even more, since there is such an authentic kombu, then there should be dried bonito. After the bonito is cooked using a special process, the bones are removed, and then smoked many times. The smoked bonito is as hard as a piece of wood, so it is also called "wooden fish", and it is said that it is also called bonito, which is another important ingredient for stewing broth.

"Hey, boy, this is a tribute from the Dongying people, right? There should also be a kind of shriveled dried fish, where did you hide it? ”

"Dried fish? Is that the thing? The goose pointed to the black wood that was drying outside.

"I'll you, what are you doing here?" Li Xiaoyu grabbed the man's collar, these things were just sunburning, and the smell would volatilize.

"I just took it out, and I haven't dried it yet." Li Xiaoyu ran over and picked up the pair of dried small fish, and finally picked out some very good ones and put them in the bag.

"I've found all the ingredients I'm looking for, let's go back." Li Xiaoyu hugged his ingredients tightly and shouted with joy.

"All you're looking for is this pile of broken wood and those dried kelp? Your broth isn't up to that level, and you don't want to see shark fin. Duan Hong hugged Li Xiaoyu, jumped up, stepped on the eaves and flew away, but Gong Xun was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground.

The back kitchen was steaming at the moment, Li Xiaoyu put a few sheets of kelp with the best texture into the water and slowly boiled them, while Duan Hong stood aside and watched Li Xiaoyu's every move seriously. Li Xiaoyu's cooking movements were beautiful and coherent, but Duan Hong didn't think she could cook a delicious pot of broth with some wood and a few pieces of kelp.

Li Xiaoyu didn't have a professional planer for dried fish, so she could only use a cooking knife to scrape down from the top, she scooped out the kelp that had been almost cooked, and then slowly put the sawdust-like fish meat into the pot to stew. Tiny fillets tumble up and down in the pan, full of rhythm and rhythm.

"Almost."

"That's it?" Duan Hong looked at the golden broth in the pot, smelling the smell of seawater in the air, and gradually began to be a little intoxicated.