Chapter 221: Bai Ko's Dim Sum
The third lady Pei Shi saw that neither the eldest concubine nor Gu Yun proposed to call Bai Ko over, and she was a little relieved, she knew that this was a long house to take care of everyone's face, and she naturally knew how the recipe for this chicken cake came from.
But a certain mad lady ignored this and looked at Gu Yun lovingly.
"Brother Yun, Brother Jing'er's cooks have prepared snacks for the elders, what did your cooks prepare?"
Gu Jing became the focus of attention of the ladies in the audience, in order not to steal the limelight, Gu Yun deliberately ran to the side of Lu Shi, the wife of the prince of Yi Guogong, to speak, in terms of seniority, Gu Yun had to call Yi Guogong his uncle and grandfather, and called Lu his cousin, that is, Huang Bin's mother.
The second lady Tong suddenly said this, and immediately pulled the focus of the audience to Gu Yun, and the eldest lady and the third lady couldn't help but secretly scold this concubine in their hearts for having nothing to do.
Looking at the gazes of the elders, Gu Yun smiled a little embarrassedly.
"I'm really sorry, I didn't prepare any snacks in advance to make refreshments for the elders, only some small snacks for hospitality, which were all eaten by Huang Bin."
"Hahahaha, I said why did Huang Bin's kid come here after breakfast, it turned out that Brother Yun's children's hospital prepared delicious food." The matter of the quicksand bag Lu has always remembered vividly, and she immediately played a round.
"Cousin-in-law, Brother Bin is only one and a half years younger than my Gu Yun, is he also starting to get taller?" The eldest lady picked it up and wanted to divert the topic further.
"Yes, the amount of food began to grow a little, greedy, especially greedy, obviously burped at the dinner table, put down the dishes and chopsticks, turned around and saw him eat two pastries."
"It's a good thing to be able to eat, Brother Bin himself is also an active person, let him eat if he can eat, he is so old and measured, I am not afraid that he will spoil himself."
Among the ladies present there are Gu Yun's two sisters, they are sitting on the embroidery pier next to the old lady on the left and right, the eldest sister Gu Xian smiled and accepted Lu's words, and the second sister Gu Jie also nodded in agreement.
Other wives also agree that it is a good thing that children can eat, and besides, it is not that a family like theirs cannot afford to raise it.
The second lady Tong saw that the topic was diverging, and she became resentful in her heart, opened her mouth, and pulled the topic back.
"What did Brother Yun'er's cook make so delicious that Brother Bin couldn't stop eating?"
"It's not a rare thing, it's just a little dried meat with tea, I didn't make much in the first place, and before I knew it, there was nothing left." Gu Yun explained with a smile.
"It's true, your cook is still today's master chef, and her energy is on the banquet, so it's inevitable that she won't be very thoughtful on your side."
As soon as the second lady Tong said this, the ladies and ladies were immediately full of interest, and the dishes on the banquet were still in their mouths, and they laughed and asked Gu Yun to call his cook to meet him and ask for private skills.
Gu Yun nodded helplessly to her mother, and the eldest lady immediately sent second-class girls to look for someone.
The girls first went to Zhongmingyuan through the small kitchen, and asked if Bai Ko had not returned, so they hurriedly left the hospital door and went around the east kitchen along Babu Alley, and happened to meet Bai Ko who was returning to Zhongming Courtyard on the way.
After listening to the girls' gossip, Bai Ko slandered the second lady for deliberately causing trouble, and at the same time took them around and went to the ice cellar, where there were small desserts that needed to be condensed at low temperature, but they were not used to entertain guests, but they were just daily snacks for the old lady and the eldest lady, as well as the sixth young master Gu Chen and Gu Hui, and now they had to be taken out for a scene.
Several heavy food boxes were lifted out of the ice cellar, and everyone hurried to the small kitchen, Bai Ko immediately washed his hands, lit a fire on the stove to cook milk tea, and beckoned people to put the dim sum off the die-cut shape and put it on the platter, while the girls from Jichengtang went back to talk to the lady first, and then cleaned up the coffee table and made room for new snacks.
In order to avoid a long wait for the guests, Bai Ko asked people to prepare dried fruits, and put them in a special double-layer four-compartment dried fruit plate, that is, the kind of thing that the upper layer contains the dried fruits and the lower layer contains the husks.
This dried fruit plate was sent to Jichengtang with the new tea, and the unique shape of the dried fruit plate immediately aroused the interest of the ladies and ladies.
Now that we know that the dim sum in the small kitchen is being plated, this dried fruit is naturally reduced to a plate, and everyone only cares about discussing this new thing and no one eats it.
After a while, the girls came in with a platter of red bean cakes, pea yellow and nine-layer kueh, and replaced the dried fruit plates.
The number of such small cold snacks is not much, and they can only be cut into diamond-shaped pieces that are convenient for a bite, and three pieces of each piece are put in each piece, and there are only three kinds of nine pieces on one plate.
This time, the ladies and ladies were no longer polite, they tasted it one after another, and then they were endlessly praised, it was really delicious, the taste was extremely delicate, and the entrance melted with a light sip, without a little residue.
"It's delicious! Very finely done! ”
"It melts in the mouth, it has the taste of imperial food, this chef is capable, she has real kung fu!"
"Yes, melting in the mouth without leaving residue is the basic requirement of imperial dim sum, and you can't scratch the throat of the nobles."
The people who are most familiar with the imperial diet are the people of Uncle Ye's family, not only Gu Xian and her husband went home for dinner, but Ye Junting also came with her parents, and Uncle Guo's wife has the most right to speak.
Even the ladies behind the screen couldn't wait.
"I really want to see the capable cook soon, can't she come over yet?"
"Sisters, be more patient, the cook cooks the feast and prepares these foods, and she always has to give people a little time to wash their hands and clean their faces and change their clothes." Second Miss Gu Jie smiled softly at the screen.
There were a few laughs from behind the screen, and no one urged them.
At this time, the girl at the bottom of the kumquat had to report, and walked up to his wife and whispered a few words.
"The cook didn't come over so quickly, the kitchen is boiling milk tea, and there is a baked snack that is not served, why don't you help, clear the plate so that the girls can take it down." The eldest lady smiled.
Everyone was happy to do this, and after a while, there was only one light of tea on the coffee table in everyone's hand.
The focus of everyone's chatter was all on Gu Yun at this time, the chicken cake was left behind, and the third lady was annoyed that the second lady had nothing to do, but she had to smile happily on her face, pretending not to care, and the hand hidden in her sleeve was clenched into a fist.
The second-class girls at the door began to gather, and the cart with tea sets and food appeared outside the door, and the two of them lifted the cart over the threshold, and at the hands of each guest, put down a saucer, a cup with a handle, and a teaspoon, and then poured milk tea from the pot, put down a small sugar jar, and finally four bamboo tubes with lids.
The guests removed the lid of the pen holder one after another, and inside were small snacks that were slender and long like fingers, some sprinkled with sesame seeds, some sprinkled with crushed nuts, and some sprinkled with green onions.
(Author's note: Sorry, sorry, I was late for today's update, and something was delayed in the morning.) )