Chapter 70: Forbidden Food
Lao Zhang's physical strength is much stronger than ordinary people, which stems from the physical training of Lao Zhang's master when he was young. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoAs a cook, you need to have excellent stamina, because in this way you can get better ingredients.
Take the most common type of pork as an example, the pig that has just died is inferior meat, and the pork of the pig that has been killed with a knife is inferior meat, regardless of whether it is a young pig or an old pig. The method of obtaining the best pork is much more complicated, driving the pig into a circular circle, and people constantly disturb the pig around, so that it keeps running around the circle until it is exhausted, so that the meat removed is very good, and the fat is less.
Many of the dishes recorded in the Manchu and Han Dynasty banquets have many different cooking methods from the usual ones, such as the eleven forbidden dishes, the content of which opened Lao Zhang's eyes, only to realize that the high-quality pork he originally knew was only the tip of the iceberg in the best ingredients.
Eleventh forbidden dishes, the eleventh dish is charcoal-roasted suckling sheep: the ewe that is about to be put into the charcoal fire barbecue, when the charcoal fire will roast the ewes all over the body after the disembowelment and belly to take out the suckling sheep, the skin is crispy and the meat is tender, and the taste is delicious.
The tenth forbidden dish is the goose intestine, select the fat live goose, take a knife and draw a circle along the **** of the goose, and then insert the index finger into the **** of the goose, then rotate, and then pull it out hard. This way you can get the freshest goose intestines.
The ninth forbidden dish is drunken shrimp, drunken shrimp: hence the name suggests, put live shrimp into wine, and after a while the shrimp will get drunk to death.
The eighth forbidden dish is air-dried chicken, air-dried chicken: when making this kind of thing, you need a certain amount of technique, and the speed must be very fast. This is a Tibetan dish, and the master plucks the feathers, takes the organs, fills the chicken belly, sews it, and hangs it in a ventilated place (it is not bloody). At this time, the chicken must still be alive, and then "coo" in the wind and snow like a wind chime, and its scenery is spectacular.
Lao Zhang sighed very much when he saw the dish of air-dried chicken, he remembered the novel of Gu Long he had read, in the novel, the person who faced off with Ximen Blowing Snow, often after a move, looked down and saw that a blood hole in his chest was bleeding, and then he reacted to the trick. I think this chicken is about the same, after the master's toss, I looked down and saw that the hair was gone, and the internal organs were changed, so I would understand: it's over, it's tricked, and the terrible thing is that it's not dead.
The seventh forbidden dish is the dragon's whisker and phoenix's claw, the dragon's whisker and phoenix's claw: a very elaborate dish, the dragon's whisker is the whiskers of a live carp, and the phoenix claw is a piece of fine meat in the middle of the live chicken's palm. Lao Zhang once tried to make this dish, but the taste is not to mention, but it is too troublesome. To make this dish, there must be a group of lame chickens in the backyard, and there must be a group of carp in the pond that don't know how to eat.
The sixth forbidden vegetable is called a donkey, which reminds Lao Zhang of a thing called polyps in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, eat its meat, and it will be reborn. There is also the legendary Chinese resting cow, which can also be cut, and it recovers naturally after a few days. But donkeys don't have that ability, do they? And this dish is equivalent to Ling Chi of a donkey.
Live Donkey: Have you ever eaten fresh donkey meat? No matter how fresh donkey meat is, it's just a freshly killed donkey, right? It is different for a donkey called alive, which does not need to be killed at all, but directly strips the flesh from the live donkey. Listening to the screams of the donkey in the back hall, the front hall was eating a certain part of the donkey's body as if nothing had happened, and it was really full of color, flavor, and sound.
The fifth forbidden dish is roast duck paw, roast duck paw: live duck is placed on a slightly heated iron plate, and the iron plate coated with seasoning is heated. Live ducks will walk around on the iron plate because of the heat, and then they will start jumping. In the end, the duck's paws were cooked, but the duck was still alive, so the feet were cut off and served on a plate, and the duck was used for other purposes.
The fourth forbidden dish is the iron plate soft-shelled turtle, the iron plate soft-shelled turtle: the fresh soft-shelled turtle is placed in a seasoned cold soup and simmered over slow heat. The soft-shelled turtle is alive, and when the water gradually warms up, the soft-shelled turtle will drink the soup because of the heat, and the seasoning will naturally enter the soft-shelled turtle's body. Gradually, the fire became hotter and hotter, and watching the painful rolling of the soft-shelled turtle in the pot, the people who lifted the chopsticks were all excited. Finally, when the soft-shelled turtle is cooked, the soup outside and the soup that the soft-shelled turtle drinks make the soft-shelled turtle meat taste like soup, and it is extremely delicious.
Lao Zhang once made soft-shelled turtle soup in a restaurant, and he found that in addition to the taste, the psychology of diners is also a very important part. This dish must be simmered over a slow fire, and when killed, it must not be killed at once, but the viewer can enjoy the pleasure of slowly torturing it.
The third place is poured donkey meat, the taste of donkey meat is stronger than pork and chicken, etc., pouring donkey meat: , the live donkey is fixed, and there is boiling old soup next to it. The eater specifies that he wants to eat a certain part, and the chef peels off that piece of donkey skin, revealing the fresh meat. Scoop the boiling soup with a wooden spoon and pour the meat, and when the meat is cooked, cut it off and serve it on a plate.
The second forbidden dish is called Sanqier, which is the most interesting dish in Lao Zhang's opinion of the eleven forbidden dishes, this to the dish, the eating process, expressively summarized together, the raw materials of this dish are very common, it is a mouse.
Three squeaks: a plate of newborn mice (live) and a plate of seasonings. The eater uses chopsticks to hold the live mouse, the mouse will "squeak" (this is the first squeak), when receiving the seasoning, the mouse will "squeak" again, (this is the second squeak), when put into the eater's mouth, the mouse will make the last "squeak" (a total of three squeaks).
The first forbidden dish is called monkey head, this dish is really not easy, Lao Zhang is a little embarrassed, in order to make this dish, he was almost caught in the police station, and he has something to do with it. I didn't go in.
Monkey head: The monkey head mentioned here is by no means an edible mushroom monkey head, but a real monkey brain. A square table with a hole dug in the middle, several people sit around the table, the hole in the middle is not as big as a hot pot or a spicy hotpot, just enough for a monkey's head to stick out. A very cute monkey pulled out, and it is said that it is a specially eaten monkey with a relatively large head. The top of the monkey's head sticks out of the small hole, and it is clamped with a metal hoop, and the hoop is very tight, and the skull falls with a small hammer. The monkey's brain is completely exposed in front of the diners. At this time, some people who were more greedy had already stretched out the red and white monkey brains with spoons, and with the screams of the dying monkeys under the table, they opened the prelude to the tragic situation of raw monkey brains.
Monkey head is hard to come by, and Lao Zhang hasn't made this dish a few times. But this dish left a very deep impression on Lao Zhang, but these are not important, all the dishes in front of gluttonous meat are not worth mentioning, Lao Zhang is in a state of extreme excitement, he looked at the iron door, this basement was built by him according to the ancient law, and it will soon be used.
"Master, I'll see you soon, make gluttonous meat, you'll definitely see me," Lao Zhang said with a smile, and as he wished, he was about to see his master. (To be continued.) )