Chapter 3 Kitchen errands are heavy and tiring
The apprentices had to get up before dawn every day to make preparations for breakfast under the orders of the third-class cooks and cooks.
The Guogong Mansion bought twenty-four excellent apprentices who had been trained for many years from different chef workshops, saying that it was to replenish the kitchen manpower, but the apprentices had been here for two months, but they did not have a chance to cook.
These two assessments are more boring basic skills, and they have never even done such a job as taking care of the stove fire and kneading the dough and mixing the stuffing, and Ping Suli is washing and slaughtering with the handyman.
When the day is bright, the girls in each room and courtyard come to get breakfast, although there are many people, but there is no chaos at all, each girl represents the masters of different statuses, and it is good to receive the food box in order.
Seeing the girls go smoothly with their breakfast, everyone in the kitchen had time to hurry to eat their breakfast.
Later, the warehouse sent today's ingredients, Wen Gushan arranged the dishes, picked out the ingredients needed for lunch, the apprentices and handymen began to be busy processing, the cooks and the cooks had some rest time at this time, went out in twos and threes, and waited until the time to cook the dishes before coming back to wash their hands and put on the stove.
After a war-like lunchtime, everyone had a short respite from the day, but at most they had less than an hour of rest, and the kitchen began to make afternoon snacks, followed by dinner, followed by supper.
The apprentices all hurried to go back to take a nap, and Bai Ko did not go to the lunch break, but after cleaning the kitchen, she faced the shelves and spice cabinets full of ingredients, and recited in her mind the Chinese and foreign recipes she had accumulated in her previous life.
In her previous life, she was a celebrity chef who won numerous awards, she was good at banquet dishes and home-cooked dishes, and when she had time, she would make time-consuming and labor-intensive state banquet dishes for her family and friends to eat, but she didn't expect that once she opened her eyes, she woke up on a cooking apprentice, and this poor deity, but because of an accident when carving, the carving knife cut through the tiger's mouth, and died of wound infection.
In the memory fragments of the deity, it is an obsession to become the official chef of the Yeguo Mansion, for a set of Bai recipes in the Guogong Mansion, when Emperor Taizu of this dynasty was still a small person who led the troops to fight, the ancestors of the Bai family were the cooks of the army, because of this merit, and the cooking skills are indeed exquisite, after Taizu ascended the throne, the Bai family has always been a hereditary imperial chef, known as "Imperial Chef Bai".
The Bai Recipe is the family wealth passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors of the Bai family, which embodies the highest culinary wisdom of each generation's ancestors, and records the most proud self-created dishes of the ancestors.
And why this set of recipes went from the Bai family to the Yeguo Mansion, and why Bai Ko, who was supposed to be a lady of the official eunuch, was sold to the school, that is another story.
If she wanted to see that set of books again, Bai Ko had to become a full-fledged chef at any cost, and then climb up step by step to the position where she had the right to borrow recipes from her masters.
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An hour later, the quiet east kitchen courtyard was lively, and when the cooks and cooks came to prepare the afternoon snacks for the masters, Bai Ko was sweeping the yard, sweeping the leaves and feathers scattered by the well into a pile, and shoveling them into the garbage basket so that the wind would not blow everywhere.
After a while, an old servant who specializes in collecting garbage came in, put down a few empty baskets, and carried the full garbage baskets away.
There are many masters in the house, and the daily labor in the kitchen is not easy at all.
You must know that under the knees of the old man, there are three sons-in-law, two daughters-in-law, and three sisters-in-law.
The parents are here, and they are not separated, so the three lords and their families are still living in the Guogong Mansion, and they have given birth to a total of 16 grandchildren over the years.
After the eldest lady and the second lady got married one after another, the old prince fell ill, and the happy events in the follow-up plan were put on hold, so there are now fourteen young masters and young ladies in the house, and counting the number of concubines, there are as many as twenty or thirty masters.
So many masters are now in a big house, three meals a day plus snacks and supper, and additional temporary meals, there is basically no enough rest time in the kitchen, even the stewards and first-class cooks who are only in charge of the masters, are quite tired at the end of the day.
There is soup on the stove in the red kitchen, and the white kitchen is busy making snacks, and there are third-class cooks and cooks to take care of it, and it is not the turn of the apprentices to do it, they can only sit by the well and peel the melons and peel the nut shells.
Half an hour later, the ladies of the courtyards who were waiting for their masters took time to get refreshments from the kitchen, and then the handymen began to clean the kitchen and prepare for dinner, and the others had a little time to rest and take a breath.
Bai Ko sat on the door pier outside the corner door of the kitchen, and the sandwich road that came out of the corner door led to the various courtyards where everyone lived and the back door of the Guogong Mansion, and the other end led to the direction of the kitchen gate, which was connected with the main road in the house, and was a necessary way for people to go out.
"Bai Ko, do you eat walnuts?"
Bai Ko was looking at the high wall in a daze, Lu Doudou jumped out from behind her, holding a handful of crushed shelled walnuts in his hand, which was thrown aside after the small copper hammer broke the shell, which happened to feed the mouths of everyone in the kitchen.
"You eat it, I don't want it, it hurts to peel your hands."
Lu Doudou was not polite, put down the walnuts in his apron, put down the walnuts, and grabbed half of the door pier with a white coat on his buttocks, and sat next to her.
"What are you doing here?" Lu Doudou has a good tooth, and he bites open the walnut shell directly with his upper teeth.
"Think about where we'll all be in a month."
"Ahem!" Lu Doudou choked on the walnut shell fragments, "I'm so happy, don't remind me of this!" ”
"Are you happy to eat a little walnut? Look at your point. ”
"What else would you do? Crying for a month? Lu Doudou rolled his eyes.
Bai Qiao was silent, thinking that Lu Doudou's words actually made some sense, so she also reached out and took a piece of walnut from Lu Doudou's apron to lick the taste.
Lu Doudou, who was concentrating on using his teeth and walnut shells to get through, suddenly stiffened, his elbow slammed against Bai Ko, and he shouted nervously.
"Look, someone's coming! It's a man! ”
"How rare, when will there be no one on this road?"
Bai Ko was startled, and when he looked up, he saw that there was a young man in cloth clothes walking along the mezzanine road from the direction of the house, and it didn't look like he was going to the back door, because his eyes were rolling over them.
"Who is he!? What are you looking at us for!? ”
Lu Doudou was so nervous that he couldn't even bite the walnut shell, and he grabbed Bai Ko's sleeve tightly and tried to shrink behind her.
"Doudou, don't move, you will be seen by the people in the courtyard."
Bai Ko hurriedly stabilized Lu Doudou first, and the two of them sat on the door pier, but Lu Doudou was close to the door frame, and half of her body was in the sight of the people in the courtyard.
Lu Doudou hurriedly took a deep breath and remained seated, but still nervously grabbed Bai Ko's sleeve.
The cloth-clothed young man obviously didn't expect two girls sitting outside the kitchen corner door, he hesitated, turned his toes slightly, as if he wanted to turn around, but after thinking about it, he still walked straight to Bai Ko and Lu Doudou.