Chapter 257: Preparations
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Five days later, the Zhou family put up lanterns, just like the Chinese New Year, and hung flaming red lanterns under the eaves everywhere. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The four grandmothers went out together, leading the girls in each pavilion and room to clean around, in and out, busy.
When Shen Shi, Mama Chen came to Jinxuju and said that she was ordered by the eldest lady to take away the two ladies.
Shen Yueran took a package that had already been prepared, walked out of the wing, and saw Mei Caiyu also carrying a prepared package.
Neither of them was powdered, and their hair was tied back in a forged strip.
The two pretended not to care about anyone, did not squint, and followed Mama Chen to the Golden Crown Pavilion, and the two girls came over.
"Who's going to the piano room?"
A girl in a red cotton skirt asked.
Mama Chen pushed Mei Caiyu out and smiled all over her face.
"Oh, it's this third young lady, pomegranate girl."
Pomegranate raised her chin and said to Mei Caiyu, "Follow me." ”
The two left in front of each other.
"Who's in the back kitchen?"
The rest of the girls in the stone blue cotton skirts looked Shen Yueran up and down, and asked knowingly.
"Oh, it's this third young lady, Miss Jianlan."
Mama Chen was still smiling.
Shen Yueran took the initiative to meet Jianlan's gaze, Jianlan was slightly stunned and retracted her gaze.
"Come with me."
As she spoke, she raised her feet and started, and Shen Yueran quickly followed.
It seems that the girls of the Zhou family are all flowers and plants, and they should be given by Jiang Yanxue.
She thought to herself.
The back kitchen of the Golden Crown Pavilion is quite spacious, atmospheric, bright, and so clean that there is hardly a trace of oil smoke.
This is very rare in ancient times when there were no range hoods and only ventilation.
Shen Yueran looked around and remembered Cuiliu's reply.
"Where is the back kitchen, it's not surprising that it's a small villa."
"Porcelain bowls, flat plates, soup cans, each one is like a boutique. On the stove, on the edge of the wall, on the window sill, there are all kinds of beautiful flower pots. Smell it carefully, and there is a faint aroma. Where is it like walking into the Jinzun Pavilion, there is only a large pungent smell of oil smoke! ”
"The strange thing is that there are two pineapple wooden cabinets standing side by side at the foot of the wall, and when you open it, you can see that it is full of ingredients. Using a precious pineapple wooden cabinet to hold ingredients, the little maid is really unheard of. ”
Sure enough, this back kitchen is a bit extravagant.
Jianlan glanced at Shen Yueran with slanted eyes and raised the corners of her lips.
"Each pavilion and room of the Zhou family has a back kitchen, and each back kitchen has a different chef in charge. The chef in charge of the back kitchen of the Golden Crown Pavilion is the famous chef Hou Bai Yin specially invited by the eldest lady from Changyuan. ”
"Master Bai has always liked to be neat and clean, and outsiders are generally never allowed to set foot here. This is a special situation, in order to welcome the old man and the eldest young master, he reluctantly agreed to outsiders to come in. ”
"Every item here is carefully selected by Master Bai, and it is extremely valuable. When you use it, you must be careful, if it is bad or destroyed, and it annoys Master Bai, don't blame me for not reminding you. ”
Outsiders, outsiders, one outsider.
The girl of the fox and the fake tiger.
Shen Yueran didn't get angry with her, and bowed slightly.
Jianlan didn't leave after speaking, clasped her hands on her chest, leaned against the cabinet, yawned, and glanced at the sky outside the window.
"It's a moment after the Shen hour, Youzheng is starting on time, and you have an hour and a half to prepare."
"I'll just wait here, and if anything, say a word."
Shen Yueran should be again, took a deep breath, and opened the carry-on package.
Inside was a white kitchen hat, sleeves and apron that she had sewn herself.
She put them on one by one and began to follow the recipe she had already made in mind.
She asked Cuiliu to inquire in advance, and the Zhou family banquet would generally be held in the front hall of Jingui Pavilion, with one person and one table, and it would be placed in turn.
Since it is one person and one table, then there is a limit to the amount of dishes, and each table can put up to eight dishes and two soup bowls, which is already a full table.
The so-called difficult to reconcile, if you want to make a banquet that satisfies everyone in the Zhou family, it is too difficult, not to mention just giving her the opportunity to have eight dishes and two soups, it is even more difficult.
She thought that since it was better to set up four main dishes, one main soup, and then four side dishes and one soup according to each person's taste.
In this way, it is equivalent to breaking it into parts, and everyone's taste can be taken care of.
But in doing so, her tasks have increased several times over.
There are a total of nine members of the Zhou family attending the banquet today, and she originally only needed to make eight dishes and two soups, but now she has to make forty dishes and eighteen soups.
Time is running out, so hurry up.
For the four main dishes, she chose steamed pork ribs, kung pao chicken, Bazhen tofu and Di San Xian, and the main soup chose Buddha jumping over the wall.
The main dish is the foundation, which is equivalent to 60 points of the guarantee, she does not allow mistakes, does not seek merit, only seeks no fault.
The taste of these dishes is relatively salty, fragrant and fresh, and they are all relatively homely, but they are all widely popular with the people. Generally speaking, the more common it is, the more acceptable it tends to be for most people.
The main dish is stable, and the outstanding dish is the side dish.
Wu Yuanying has good teeth, good stomach, bad legs and feet, according to Cuiliu's report, the salt shaker of Jinguige is at the bottom, half a bottle of soy sauce, but there is no chili, it can be seen that Wu Yuanying's taste is salty.
If Wu Yuanying doesn't like spicy and salty, then the freshness and fragrance must be what she loves.
The side dishes she prepares for Jin Guige are called Hua Duck, Steamed Pork Slices, Bamboo Sun and Bamboo Grilled Pot and Stir-fried Pork Liver, while the soup is stewed pork trotter tendon with soybeans to strengthen the muscles and bones.
Cuiliu went to Jinding Pavilion and Jinzun Pavilion, and the biggest feeling was the choking smell on the face, and the other was the smell of oil.
According to Cuiliu Dao, the kitchen waste of Jinding Pavilion is all a piece of red oil, boiled chili shells, pepper shells, and pepper shells, just smelling the smell is enough for her to choke and shed tears.
And the Golden Pavilion is dirty.
There was oil stains everywhere. There was oil on the salt shaker, oil on the soup bowl, and oil on the stove.
In this way, Zhou Zhong and Jiang Peiwen usually like spicy, while Zhou Xiao and Du Lingchu usually like oil.
She remembered the situation of eating with Jiang Peiwen that day.
On that day, she didn't notice anything unusual in her diet, such as anything particularly spicy or numb, and the food in her mouth was neither salty nor bland.
So, where did the chili kitchen waste found by Cuiliu come from?
She suddenly thought of a bowl of white water placed in front of Bai Qingruo when she went to Murong Jin's house with Wei Yi as a guest.
That was Bai Qingruo's reluctance to accommodate Murong Jin's spicy taste.
Therefore, Jiang Peiwen has always been accommodating Zhou Zhongze, and it is Zhou Zhongze who likes spicy, not Jiang Peiwen!
Thinking of this, Shen Yueran prepared additional dishes for Zhou Zhongze were boiled beef slices, pickled pepper phoenix feet, spicy duck head and Mao Xuewang, and the soup was sour soup fish.
After eating spicy food, eat some acid to help relieve stomach discomfort. (To be continued.) )