Fujin's small kitchen has finally been completed first! The pale yellow ceiling is the masterpiece of the carpenters in the house, and the tiles on the wall, pot and floor are completed by Tian Liang and Nalan two people. Not all walls in the kitchen are tiled, but the surface of the pot and the wall next to the pot are tiled. There is also the floor, although it is not tiles, but it is also a red mosaic with a lattice similar to that of tiles. It turned out that I wanted to lay terrazzo, but when I thought that Fujin was in her forties, her actions were not as flexible as those of young people, and I was afraid that she would fall, so I changed it to a mosaic; The style of the pot table and what pot to install are decided by the prince. Even the big kitchen has been switched to coal. Also try straw gas stoves, install ovens; All the cabinets, dining tables, dining chairs and kitchen furnishings are designed by Yun'er, and the dining tables, dining chairs and cabinets are all uniform light red colors with dark red edges, which feels simple and somewhat antique. The reason why sandalwood is not used for carving is because the kitchen has a lot of oil smoke and is not easy to wipe.

On the whole, it is simple, bright, clean and frugal, although there is no luxury, but it also looks noble and elegant. The tiles are pure white, making the whole kitchen both bright and welcoming; The dining table and dining chairs are all made of solid wood, sprayed with pale yellow paint, and the same color as the cabinets, bringing a soft and clean feeling to the kitchen. Because it is spray painted, the paint on the surface of the furniture is very uniform, and because it is matte, it looks very soft and delicate; There are a lot of cupboards, pots and pans, you can put whatever you want. The ceiling is also pale yellow, and a glass-covered candle lamp hangs down. You can light four large waxes at a time, and it is a thick glass lampshade with four cylindrical ice lamps glued together. This lamp can also be pulled down and raised; A large dining table is a large cabinet, except that the table top is large and covers the cabinet underneath, so that the legs are comfortable inside. The top was thick, with a white lace and lattice pattern on top of it, and a thick tempered glass brick on top of the tablecloth pressed the tablecloth flat. On top of the glass brick is a black pot-bellied vase, which is filled with various flowers from the house. Each chair has thick, beautiful cushions on it;

The whole kitchen gives people an elegant, warm and clean feeling. Fu Jin gently touched the smooth cabinet, sighing Yun'er's heart.

All the cabinets, just the smell of paint has been put in Nanwaifu for a month, which is still environmentally friendly paint. There are many types of pots and stoves, including large pots, small pots, steamers, casseroles, pans for pancakes, woks driven by straw gas stoves, and ovens. There are also pressure cookers and soup pots, rice pots.

On the day of the ignition, Wang Ye, Fu Jin, Yun'er, and Mr. Chen all came. A firecracker was set off outside the door, and when the explosion sounded, the prince took the lead into the kitchen, and Fu Jin, who followed into the kitchen, was immediately stunned: Is this the kitchen? This is the palace! Her first impression was clean! And then there's the refinement.

This level of decoration can only be regarded as low-end in foreign countries. But the prince chose this grade, no matter how luxurious it is, it is not the prince's style, and it is easy to cause criticism. It's such a grade that is already eye-catching, and all the people who come to visit are sighing. Especially Fu Jin, his mouth opened wide in surprise when he saw the tiles on the wall. The heart said how clean this is, the dust can be wiped off, and there are oil stains without fear, it is too clean!

Ma Ping's eyes have been wandering around the stove of the straw gas stove, and Rao is scientific and technological personnel in the Qing Dynasty have never seen such a pot stove. Horsemen who love to study never miss the opportunity to learn. So he came to the prince's side and whispered to the prince: "Prince, Chitose, can you tell me what this is?" ”

"Hey, you, a university scholar, actually asked about the martial artist of this king? I'll tell you that this is called a straw gas stove, and it uses biomass gasification technology. For details, please consult Mr. Tian. ”

"Just your sentence, the biomass gasification technology is advanced enough. What about the Steward? By the way, you should be called junior brother, you are a noble person who is late to speak, and you are actually so profound. I said, Mr. Tian, can you explain a thing or two to the old man? ”

"The subordinates' mouths are stupid, they may not understand well, you understand."

"It's hard, it's hard! You please! ”

"As the name suggests, this straw gas stove burns all kinds of crop stalks, such as wheat stalks, corn stalks, sorghum stalks, etc. However, shavings, bamboo chips, wood chips, straw, rice husks, bean straw, wild grasses, firewood, etc. can all be used as fuel for straw gas stoves. Among them, firewood, soybean straw, rice husk, corn cob, and corn stalk are preferred. ”

"Straw gas stove refers to a stove that puts the straw of various crops into the furnace body, produces flammable gas through high-temperature cracking reaction, separates and purifies the combustible gas, and burns it on the infrared stove. Straw gas is very economical, convenient, energy-saving, applicable, not only safe to use, but also clean and hygienic, each family only needs six catties to ten catties of plant raw materials every day to solve the whole day's living energy. Including cooking, heating, and showering, it can completely change the smoky lifestyle. The stove is installed through a pipeline, which can be installed arbitrarily within eight meters, which can completely isolate straw dust pollution. All of them are made of iron castings, assembly types and assembled parts, all made by machinery, and the products have high precision. Each furnace weighs about 90 pounds, has a service life of 10 to 15 years, and can be disassembled and repaired within 60 minutes. ”

"It has three major functions, one is cooking, stir-frying, and boiling water; The second is heating, the third is showering, and you can bathe in all seasons. Features: Easy to install, safe to use, no pressure on the furnace body, non-toxic gas. Every time you cook, you can continue to burn for nearly an hour by putting two to four catties of material into the stove. If the straw of the plant is burned directly, the gas produced is extremely harmful to the atmosphere. ”

Ma Ping felt that it was too profound, although he didn't fully understand it, he probably understood the meaning.

"You can do it, Lord Steward, when you go out, your knowledge will rise greatly."

"You praise it falsely, this is what your subordinates see from books."

Then the prince ignited the test furnace, the prince used a lighter to ignite, approached the stove of the gas stove, turned on the switch, and immediately, a bunch of blue flames appeared in each fire hole of the stove, sat on the small iron pot, poured cold water, and the cold water "snorted", indicating that the bottom of the pot was very hot.

All the people were in a bit of a daze, they had never seen a stove like this. Fu Jin asked the prince: "Lord, what kind of food can this stove make?" ”

"You can do anything, fry, fry, cook, fry, stew, steam, boil, you like, if you connect to the oven, you can bake roast chicken, roast sweet potatoes, toast bread, bake snacks. This thing is a new product in recent years, and I didn't dare to buy more if I could use it. Among them, there are yours, Yun'er Yun'er's, Mrs. Chen Chen's three small kitchens and the big kitchen in the house, and the others are reserved for cold drinks in the future, bathing in the house, restaurants and so on. Try to use it, no, there is a different kind of stove, and it will be too wasteful to use firewood to burn coal in the future. ”

Ma Ping had a strong interest in the prince's lighter, and he had to see and use it.

Fujin's small kitchen was the first to be delivered, and the tasting officially began. There are not many people in this small kitchen, and Master Xu and his family also have four girls who help the kitchen and a housekeeper Mama Dong.

Here is the roast duck equipment that Tian Liang bought: the charcoal grill, not the electricity, the vacuum packaging machine of the auxiliary equipment was not bought, but the marinating machine and the holding cabinet were bought, these two equipment were not installed here, for fear of trouble, they were all in the underground secret room. There are generators there.

Tian Liang explained the role and use of each stove to these people one by one, but not everyone can accept or remember all of them. Master Xu can accept it all. He is in a state of hyperactive learning every day, and in his opinion, whether it is the prince, Fujin, Master Yun or the new Tian manager, the words he says are all a thousand words. At that time, people were less literate and less informative, and the recipe for a new dish when a cook was a very precious property, such a kitchen, such equipment, and even the imperial dining room in the palace was not available, how could it not be well studied? How did he know how many recipes the three of them brought back. Even the following Kangxi period, to the Qianlong period, the sound Manchu and Han full banquet recipes and their practices were brought back. This is what Xiaoli thinks may be useful, although she doesn't know that her Sister Yunyun is from the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and the Manchu and Han Dynasty banquets have not yet appeared, so they can be used. I downloaded it on the Baidu website by feeling, and advanced the appearance of the Manchu and Han Dynasty by seventy or eighty years. Of course, with the wisdom of Fujin, it is impossible to hand over these formulas to the Queen Mother at once, almost all people take the white things seriously, especially people like the emperor and the queen mother, what you give him, he takes it for granted. Not only do you take it for granted, but you also wonder about your motives and where things came from.

According to the region, the emperor should belong to the Northeasterners, and the Northeast cuisine should be in line with his taste. Fujin decided to start with Northeast cuisine. Every day, she has to copy down the recipes of four to eight dishes in traditional Chinese characters and give them to Chef Xu. These dishes are not limited to vegetarian dishes, because the emperor is not a vegetarian, and the dishes he comes to cook for him must not be vegetarian or meat.

The characteristics of Northeast cuisine are: one dish has many flavors, salty and sweet, crispy and crispy, strong color and umami, bright oil and bright thickness, and pays attention to shape. The cooking method is long in grilling, frying, burning, steaming, stewing, with stewing, sauce and roasting as the main characteristics, with rough shape, heavy color and strong taste. The rough lines of Northeast cuisine, quite like the rough lines of the Northeast people, do not stick to the details, the practice of the fusion of Manchu, Chao, Mongolian, court dishes of the director, the use of the raw materials of Northeast specialties, to boil, burst, burn, grill, roast, sauce, stew, silk drawing as the main cooking technology, many dishes are tender but not raw, through but not old, rotten but not melt or the outside is crispy and tender, the outside is crispy and rotten inside, the taste is mellow and fragrant, rich and affordable.

The small kitchen of Fujin has two sets of pot stoves: vegetable pot and meat vegetable pot. The vegetarian pot is naturally prepared for the prince, specializing in vegetarian dishes, and it can't be touched by any meat. The meat pot is made with meat dishes, and the two sets of pot stoves should not be confused at all. Chef Xu and his wife tried to make vegetarian dishes at the same time as meat dishes, which was ordered by Fu Jin. Because Fujin knows that if a restaurant or restaurant is opened in the future, it will definitely attract the attention of the royal family, including the emperor and the queen mother. These people are rich and sweet all year round, and the taste is quite high, but it is not excluded that they want to have something special and fresh. These people are almost all carnivores, how can they be vegetarians? I tried some preparations for the Northeast dishes that were more suitable for their tastes. For example, after Master Xu's dish is ready, he tastes it first, and if he feels that the taste is acceptable, he will give it to Fujin to taste. Fu Jin felt that it was right, and the meat dishes were sent to Yun'er and Mr. for them to taste, and the vegetarian dishes were tasted by the prince, and they were all set when they were said to be good, as a dish for opening a restaurant to entertain guests in the future.

Northeast cuisine has a heavy taste, strong and mellow, with obvious Kanto characteristics, such as: full of fragrant button meat, sauerkraut stew, vinegar cabbage fish, salted fish paste cakes, steamed meat, pot wrapped meat, sauerkraut and white meat, meat shredded skin, sauce meat rolls, sauce bones, ground three fresh, smoked sauce elbow, sauerkraut powder, chicken stewed mushrooms, pork stewed vermicelli, sauce mixed side dishes, chili dried tofu, mushroom chicken slices, old vinegar pine eggs, pork ribs stewed beans, farmhouse stewed dried vegetables, crystal duck square, big bone sticks, blood sausage, secret fish head, silk sweet potato, farmhouse pig killing vegetables, butter catfish, Shredded apples, Shredded potatoes, Shredded bananas, Oxknee tendons, Fat sausages, Coral venison...... There are hundreds of them. It's only a small part of Northeast cuisine. Among them, stews account for a certain proportion, and Lapi and Di Sanxian and silk vegetables are not available in the Qing Dynasty.

The "Northeast Specialties" that Yun'er bought for Fujin had hundreds of recipes, which was enough for her to try it out for a while. There are many more, and there are all kinds of cuisines. The dishes are divided into several categories: local cuisine, court cuisine, government cuisine, and vegetarian cuisine. Fu Jin is ready to try it out one by one.

Fujin follows the prince's habit of not eating meat, and tasting meat dishes has nothing to do with breaking the vows. The successful dishes were tasted by the guards, eunuchs, maids and girls who ate in the big restaurant, and they could also give their opinions and tell the chef in person. One of everyone's favorite dishes is coleslaw. There are not many cold dishes in Daqing, the reason is that there are large grains of salt here, and there is no exotic powdered iodized salt that is convenient to use. Fujin specially asked Yun'er to teach Master Xu to make noodles for two bites, flour skin, bean sprouts, cucumber shreds, fried shredded pork, shredded cabbage, shredded carrots, shredded kelp, plus refined salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, rice vinegar, sesame oil and mixed well, it is really appetizing and delicious! This light dish is best eaten in the summer. Fujin sent the mixed cold vegetables to Yun'er's small kitchen and let Yun'er taste them, and Yun'er remembered to promise Master Xu to make dried tofu. The most authentic dried tofu is the best quality in Heilongjiang in Northeast China, because the quality of soybeans in Heilongjiang is good. Yun'er had eaten the dried tofu sent by Xiaoli's younger brother to school in Beijing, which was thin and thin, and put it on the top of the newspaper, and the words on the newspaper could be clearly penetrated. Fine shredded dried tofu that can be cut out is another flavor. Dried tofu can also be served with many vegetables and meat such as chili, potatoes, pork, etc., and you can also take a piece of dried tofu and roll it with rice, cucumber shreds, etc. to become a Northeast specialty rice bag.

Yun'er also asked Xiaoli how to make dried tofu. In the early stage, it is the same as making soybean curd, that is, when it is time to make dry tofu, the roving white cloth that has been rolled up dozens of meters long and half a meter wide is spread in a wooden frame about one meter long and half a meter high, and the tofu flowers are evenly crushed with a tofu scoop, scooped up some of the tofu flowers, and gently and evenly splashed on the tofu buns, which must be even, thinner, and of course not too thin. Then continue the tofu bun with another layer to cover the tofu flower just splashed, and then repeat the procedure just now, splash the second layer of tofu flower and then use the tofu bun to cover the third layer. And so on until the wooden frame of the dried tofu is filled.

Next is to press the dried tofu. It was covered with thick wooden planks and pressed with some large stones. Then use a very thick wooden beam to press horizontally on the wooden board, one end is fixed, the other end is stirred on the beam below the other side, and a small wooden stick is stirred in the middle of the rope, constantly stirring, so that the upper wooden beam is constantly pressed down. As long as the water is dripping under the wooden frame, the tofu flowers will be under heavy pressure in the tofu bag, and the water will gradually become dry tofu as the water becomes less and less. It takes two or three hours to open the tofu packets, and each layer contains a sheet of dried tofu. Take it out one by one, fold it neatly, and the dried tofu is ready.

Fu Jin said that Master Feng, the head of the tofu workshop in Fushang, was an expert in making tofu and had a very good character, so Yun'er taught him how to make dried tofu. Master Feng swore and promised Yun'er that he would not reveal the method of making dried tofu to anyone, and the people of that era were still more trustworthy, so Yun'er asked him to make a bag of dried tofu with bean curd according to the method he said. It was a success, it tasted good, and you can continue to do it later. The couple surnamed Feng are the parents of the Yue'er girl.

With dried tofu, it can not only be served cold, but also used as an ingredient for stir-frying. Use it to fry, stir-fry, cook, and fry to make a wide variety of dishes. It can also be eaten with other food items. For example, there is a dish called "shredded pork in Kyoto sauce" in an exotic land, which is eaten with dried tofu wrapped in shredded meat, noodle sauce, and bean sprouts. In addition, dried tofu can also be made into smoked spiced tofu rolls and smoked vegetarian chicken, which tastes very good.