The experienced Bai Ko naturally would not be disturbed by this urging, but she still quickly swept the entire shelf at a glance, unfortunately the ingredients in the first choice recipe in her heart were insufficient, since she had no choice, she did not choose, and decisively took the dustpan handed by the girl, and took the ingredients needed for the second recipe.

The table of each apprentice fell into the eyes of the masters in the spectator seat, and it could be seen by looking at the back and movements who was confident and who was hesitating.

Within two quarters, everyone's selection of ingredients was over, and in front of the spectator seat, a piece of table was laid out, only an incense burner was placed on it, and Pang's mother lit a special incense stick with her own hands and inserted it on the incense burner.

Half an hour, the clock begins.

Bai Ko's second choice recipe is called poached tofu, which is simple to use and easy to cook, which is not only a home-cooked dish, but also can be used at banquets.

The starting point for setting this recipe is that Bai Ko is eyeing the filial piety banquet on the day of the three-year filial piety, which is a banquet that only clan relatives attend, and this is the most urgent banquet in the house.

There is a lot of excitement among the people in the house, saying how the eldest lord will develop in the future, but after all, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials have not yet officially issued an order and issued a document, so the attack on the lord and the promotion are unknown, so only this family banquet is serious.

From this point of view, tofu is often a must-have ingredient for this kind of banquet, so making a new tofu dish may be able to win favor and give extra points.

Poached tofu is a quick dish that can be completed in two moments from the processing of ingredients to the finished product.

Bai Ko concentrated on cooking without distractions, pounding tofu puree, cutting diced ham, lighting a fire to boil water and blanching vegetables, and each step was unhurried, and the other twenty-three people had their own performances at this moment.

is an excellent apprentice of various culinary workshops, and should have some experience in cooking competitions, but today this time the specifications are too advanced, all the masters are all here, how can people not be nervous, Bai Ko's composure is the most outlier, and the masters and girls in the spectator table are not less looking at her.

Since you are nervous, you will panic, and naturally there will be mistakes in your busyness, so from time to time I will see someone either being splashed with boiling oil and screaming in pain, or unable to hold a frying spoon steadily, and even a poor egg who spilled half a pot of vegetables by mistake.

These big or small misses and accidents are naturally minus.

The garbled voices did not affect Bai Ko, who was already engrossed, and when she brought the steamed poached tofu from the pot, dripped sesame oil, and finished finishing the final dishes, she looked up and looked around with some surprise to find that she was the first to finish.

The girl in charge of serving the dishes came over at the right time, Bai Ko picked up the plate and gently put it into the tray in the other party's hand, watched her go up to the spectator and show the dishes to the masters, and then returned to the front of the stage, put the tray on another table with tableware, and divided it into seven plates, and then the old lady and the big girl next to the old lady came over and sent the dishes to her master to start tasting.

At this time, Bai Ko was finally really nervous, the previous work was under her control, but the final tasting and scoring were all in the hands of others, and she was the first to complete it, and whether she could be selected to become an official chef could only rely on prayer.

The seven judges on the stage began to score one after another after tasting, and then handed the scoring paper to Pang's mother to calculate the total.

The third young master, who had been sitting quietly behind the eldest lady, waved his hand lightly to his maidservant at this time, so a big girl who looked like she was twenty years old walked up to Mother Pang, saw the total score that had just been calculated, and then returned to her young master and whispered a few words.

The third young master immediately stretched out his head to chat with the eldest lady and the eldest master, and said a few words to the old lady.

Bai Ko withdrew his gaze, and instead of staring at the spectator seat, he began to clean the stove, going to a drain bucket prepared by the wall to get water and wash the pot, and restore the stove to its original state.

There are too many people in the spectator seat, she stares at the third young master, she will always be discovered, if she leaves a bad impression on the masters, it will not be conducive to her staying in the house, it is better to find something to do for herself, so as not to stand bored.

In the aftermath of her time, someone finished the dishes one after another, the girl who passed the dishes went back and forth, and the spectators slowly became lively.

Everyone completed their dishes within the time limit, and the score ranking was also

Bai Ko's purse tofu ranked fourth, and when she breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the results, Pang's mother immediately announced that this dish had been selected as a dish on the menu of the filial piety banquet.

Pang's mother took the note and read it in a flat tone, but as soon as she finished reading it, it caused an uproar among the apprentices, looking at Bai Ko's eyes with complicated feelings, envy, jealousy and hatred, and there was not much sound in the spectators, which was obviously the result of the unanimous agreement of the seven masters.

Bai Ko hurriedly walked to the bystander seat and thanked the masters, and the excitement and joy made her whole face red.

She just wanted to be opportunistic and earn a little extra points for herself, but she didn't expect to be selected for the menu, which was really a surprise.

Further back, Lu Doudou's crispy meat rolls ranked sixth, she clutched her chest and looked almost overnervous, with tears shining in the corners of her eyes.

If you still follow the old rules, if you only take the top six in this competition, it will be over when you go to Lu Doudou, but think about the value of an excellent cooking apprentice is more than fifty taels of silver, and the mansion alone will spend at least 1,200 taels just to buy people, and the eldest lady in charge will naturally see if the money is worth it anyway.

The list of 12 people selected was quickly read, and most of the eliminated people had various mistakes and accidents, and only two or three people were squeezed down by one or two points, crying into a tearful person.

Mengmei led the other eleven people to stand in front of the spectator seat and saluted the masters to thank them.

After the ceremony, the masters began to get up and leave, and the newlyweds stood aside and bowed their heads to see them off.

When the masters were all gone, Wen Gushan beckoned and took his novice subordinates back to the kitchen to cook lunch.

The twelve who failed were not wasted, and before the order of the eldest lady came down, they had to work as handymen to earn food for themselves, and the kitchen had nothing to do with them.

In the kitchen compound, Wen Gushan left Mengmei and them behind, announced to the other cooks that they were the winners, and then called the third-class old chefs over to stand with the newcomers.

"At the same time tomorrow morning, your batch of third-class chefs will compete again, and the first sixteen people who win are the official third-class chefs, and the losers will be sent out of the house."

Wen Gushan announced a new message with a stern face.