Legend has it that there is an ingredient that can make people feel the taste of first love, and the sour and sweet fragrance always makes people obsessed with it unconsciously. And this legendary ingredient has become a magician's weapon in Yao Feng's hands, and the pure round red magic bead will deduce the perfect fusion of sourness and sweetness, creating a dessert that only belongs to the hawthorn magician.

This kind of ingredient, the bright red color hidden under the green leaves, outlines its graceful posture, and the existence that can make people feel sweet is hawthorn.

Gently sniffing the sour smell reveals a faint sweet smell, although it seems a little bitter, but it makes people reverie even more. The taste of love, in the sweetness, if there is no faint sorrow as a foil, it will also seem monotonous and ordinary.

Yao Feng gently picked up a hawthorn, and said: "In the late autumn of the harvest, the red agate-like hawthorn fruit is mouth-watering, and it is very gratifying, and the hawthorn is the most intuitive impression in my eyes." I still remember my favorite when I was a child, that is the sweet honey sour ===3.== slippery rock sugar gourd, bought just out of the pot, still steaming, first lick the white glutinous rice film with the tip of the tongue, and then take a bite of a fruit, the wrapped caramel is soft, can pull out a very long and long transparent silk, sweet caramel sour fresh fruit, original sour hawthorn, mouthwatering. That's the origin of my cooking, simple and delicious. ”

Seeing Yao Feng's intoxicated appearance, Sikong Yao seemed to also feel the sweetness and sourness, revealing a trace of memories of the past that could not be returned. Nowadays, there are not many food stores that make rock sugar gourds, and they are replaced by an endless stream of assembly line products. There are more varieties and flavors, among them, the original rock sugar gourd belonging to the Imperial Food Garden is the best, and you can feel the full taste and sourness of hawthorn in every bite. But I still lost a feeling, tasting the sweet and sour original flavor in my memory

Sikong Yao gently closed his eyes, this treasure ingredient with magical power can waft out more aroma than ordinary ingredients, and it can also evoke Sikong Yao's childhood memories. In addition to rock sugar gourds, dim sum with hawthorn as the origin is ever-changing.

Sikong Yao said with a smile: "There are also slender fruit dan peels wrapped in cellophane and a small roll of thin and crunchy hawthorn slices. It was a satisfying snack that only cost a few cents in those days. But there is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and what I am fortunate to find is no longer the same smell. ”

Yao Feng glanced at Sikong Yao with interest, as if he was looking for a confidant. said lightly: "It seems that you also understand the beauty of this hawthorn." These ingredients. I found it by accident and bought it at all costs, although it has been carefully stored to this day. But it is not the freshest hawthorn, and when eaten, it is inevitably less elegant. But even so, I didn't hesitate to buy it all at that time, this kind of persistence, can you understand? ”。

Sikong Yao resolutely nodded, this is the relationship exclusive to the chef, the feeling of almost obsession with the ingredients, as if he is his most sincere lover, no matter how long they are separated, what binds the two together is this kind of feeling! It is a great blessing for a chef to have an ingredient that he is most proud of.

Sikong Yao said with a smile: "Of course I know that although I haven't found my own apex ingredients, what I can feel is the most sincere and pure feeling, just like I like desserts." It doesn't matter anything, it's just because I like it! ”

The joy on Yao Feng's face suddenly flourished, and then his left hand turned over, and his right hand had already boiled a frying pan, and then he was busy boiling a pot of fried red fruits that quenched his thirst, and boiled a large bottle of sweet and sour appetizing hawthorn jam. …

Yao Feng raised his eyebrows, laughed, and said, "You let me go back, you are most greedy for this moment in front of the cooking table in late autumn every year." I can feel that my passion for cooking is already burning! ”

In an instant, Sikong Yao seemed to see that in Yao Feng's body, there was the most sincere passion for cooking, which was as hot as hawthorn, which was exciting.

"Ah, I also feel it, the enthusiasm of my predecessors for desserts, I am also excited, and I will never lose when it comes to cooking!"

Just like Yao Feng, when facing dessert dishes, Sikong Yao's resolute intention will not flinch at all, if you want to talk about enthusiasm, I am afraid that even Yao Feng is a little inferior.

Because Yao Feng clearly felt that in Sikong Yao's body, the power called creation emerged. It is the seed that can embellish the soul of traditional gastronomy and then bloom into even more beautiful flowers. This seed, in the near future, will bloom in the entire dessert industry and become a bud praised by future generations.

In the hot atmosphere, this dessert showdown finally opened, Yao Feng, as a hawthorn magician, really preferred hawthorn.

The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Red claw, tang, hawthorn, one thing." Ancient recipes are rarely used, so although "Tang Materia Medica" has red claws, future generations do not know that this is it. Since Danxi Zhu's began to work on hawthorn, and then became a medicine. There are two kinds of its kind, all of which are born in the mountains: a kind of small, the mountain people call it Tang Tree, Hawthorn, Monkey Hawthorn, which can be used for medicinal purposes. The tree is several feet high, with five-pointed leaves and thorns between the trees. In March, there are five small white flowers, there are two colors of red and yellow, the fat ones are like small woods, the small ones are like fingers, and they are ripe in September. Its nucleus is like a morning glory, black, and very strong; A kind of big one, the mountain people call it a sheep. The tree is tall and tall, the flowers and leaves are the same, but it is slightly larger and yellow-green, and the skin and flesh are different. At the beginning, it is very sour and astringent, and the frost is edible, and the function should be the same and the medicine collector will not accept it." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn tastes sweet and sour, slightly warm, since ancient times it has become a good medicine for strengthening the spleen and appetizing, eliminating food and stagnation, invigorating blood and dissolving phlegm, and is an ideal health food for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Because hawthorn is rich in a variety of organic acids, it can maintain the vitamin C in hawthorn, even when heated, it will not be destroyed, so hawthorn cake, hawthorn slices, hawthorn jam is still rich in vitamin C. Therefore, desserts made of hawthorn can also retain the aroma and color for a long time.

Hawthorn is divided into sweet and sour according to its taste, of which sour hawthorn is the most popular. But Yao Feng did the opposite, judging from the color of the sauce boiled in the pot, it was clearly a sweet hawthorn represented by sweetness.

The appearance is pink, the size is small, the surface is smooth, and the food is slightly sweet, as if it was born for dessert cooking, but there are no two people who can really apply it perfectly to dessert cuisine except Yao Feng, who has a history of desserts.

Sikong Yao frowned slightly, but she didn't expect to kick an iron plate this time, maybe others didn't recognize this hawthorn magician who was famous in the dessert world at the beginning, but she did hear a little. When Yao Feng was young, he once made a sensation with a hawthorn ball, and showed his edge in the national dessert cherry cup that year. The freelance chefs who do not belong to any one cooking organization have achieved the strength to surpass traditional chefs through their own efforts and talents.

Such an opponent is the most formidable enemy Sikong Yao has seen so far, and he can no longer fight with his passion for cooking as before. The most wonderful thing about the hawthorn magician is that he skillfully integrates the sourness of hawthorn into the dessert, and the slight sourness can make people's taste buds sensitive, so as to make the perception of sweetness more acute, so as to enhance the flavor of the dessert itself. …

Sikong Yao set his eyes on Yao Feng and thought carefully about countermeasures.

"The easiest way to process the jam is to make a hawthorn cake, boil it to a denser concentration than the jam, and let it cool naturally. If you don't have enough time, you can add a small amount of coagulant such as gelatin powder to mold it, but this is far from enough to be called a magician's dish. ”

It seemed that he felt Sikong Yao's focused gaze, and then Yao Feng smiled: "What? Do you want to know what kind of dessert dishes I make? ”。

was pierced by Yao Feng's thoughts, and Sikong Yao did not shy away from saying directly: "I am indeed very curious. ”

Yao Feng snorted lightly, as if an experienced senior cared for a junior, and said lightly: "Then let you see, ten years of retreat, that time I failed to succeed in cooking......"

Yao Feng suddenly vacated his left hand, and then added clear spring water to the pot, then turned the fire and changed it to a high boil, and then when his left hand fell, the hawthorn crushed skin foam floating on the surface of the jam was picked out.

The pale red color of the sweet hawthorn is more inclined to a feeling like pink rose petals, and after diluting with water, it is like a thin pink gauze, which makes people feel a sense of innocence and romantic beauty.

The aroma flows with the trend of the flame, and the taste of the jam is so pure that it is impossible to imagine that the hawthorn sauce seasoned with sugar will taste so good that it melts.

Sikong Yao smelled the fragrance in the air, and his heart also beat with it, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This ...... Is it the taste of the treasure ingredients...... It's past the prime time of the freshest ingredients, but the smell is still very fresh......"

Since the sugar fell into the pot, the sweet and sour taste of the hawthorn sauce suddenly fluffed up at this moment, as if it was as hot as a pale pink flame, and Yao Feng's momentum also rose with it, and he said proudly: "Let you see the culmination of the recipe that I have poured into my twenty years of hard work, hawthorn and fruit!" (To be continued......)

Chapter 355: The Taste of Late Autumn.

Chapter 355: The Taste of Late Autumn: