Chapter 25: Gastronomy
Xue Jiao was thinking about where Jing Hao's beauty came from, even if she was dressed in coarse cloth, it was difficult to hide her beauty.
Jing Hao looked up and found Xue Jiao staring at her, and smiled shyly, her smile made the rose in the corner of the wall also lose color.
"Sister Jinghao is so beautiful." Xue Jiao couldn't help but say.
"As long as you praise me, Xuejiao will be more beautiful when she grows up." Jing smiled and continued to bow her head to grind, the gentleness of the bow was as moving as the flowers shining on the water.
Since the Sun family left that day, Jing Hao lived in Xuejiao's house, came to grind for Master Qin every day, and occasionally helped Sister-in-law Jia to wash and clean Master Qin. In addition, Jing Hao followed her mother to read and write when she was a child, and she liked calligraphy, Master Qin, who was happy, would give her some pointers every day, and Xue Jiao took the opportunity to learn to write big characters.
"Miss Chen, I don't know how you make that dish, the master seems to have eaten something happy, it's hard for you to make the dish so exquisite." Sister-in-law Jia sat under the shade of the flower and said while taking the soles of her shoes.
The dish that Jia's sister-in-law said refers to "the moonlit night of the twenty-four bridges".
"I read it from my father's book, but I don't know which book it is." Xue Jiao prevaricated.
"You teach me too." Sister-in-law Jia rubbed the needle on the sole of her shoe against her hair, raised her head and said.
"The ingredients of this dish are actually very simple, but it is more complicated to make, and it is the first time I have made it, so Master Qin likes it." Xue Jiao smiled at Sister-in-law Jia.
I was ashamed to get up, and the dish "Twenty-four Bridges Bright Moon Night" that made Master Qin applaud was the recipe of Huang Rong in Xuejiao's pirated version.
"First cut a ham, dig twenty-four round holes in the middle, cut the tofu into twenty-four small balls and put them in the ham holes, tie the ham and steam, and wait until it is steamed, the umami of the ham has all reached the tofu, but the ham is discarded and not eaten, only the tofu is eaten." Chen Xuejiao said with a smile.
Tofu is soft and tender and easy to rot, if you want to cut it into twenty-four round balls, this kung fu is delicate and difficult, it is no less than rice grain lettering, carving the core for the boat. Master Miao's knife case in Qingfeng Building is very delicate, and Xue Jiao asked him to cut the tofu into balls.
"I can't learn such a complicated method, so I don't have to waste the material." Sister-in-law Jia listened to Chen Xuejiao finish talking about the process of this dish, and waved her hand again and again.
"The simpler the ingredients, the more difficult it is to make, the best ingredients to test the chef are cabbage, tofu and radish daily ingredients, abalone and bird's nest, anyone can make it, the taste is not much better, if you can make the simplest tofu cabbage delicious, it is not easy. It's hard for you. Master Qin was reading a book in the room, and when he heard Xue Jiao say this, he said through the window.
"Master Qin likes it, I still have a few recipes, wait for me to make them one by one and give them to you."
"You came up with the name for this dish?" Master Qin asked.
"I listened to my brother read that day, read the poems of Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty, I like that sentence on the moonlit night of the twenty-four bridges, where did the jade people teach, so I have the name of this dish." Xue Jiao said with a weak heart.
"This poem is beautiful, beautiful and handsome, full of interest, naturally it is a superior work, you can come up with such a meaningful dish name, it can be seen that it is a heart." Master Qin looked confused, his hometown is Yangzhou, he has not been back for a long time, and those beautiful scenery and those people are only presented in dreams.
Master Qin looked at Jing Hao's face that looked like the person in his dream, and his heart was in a trance.
Xue Jiao listened and smiled brightly.
"Quiet, you've been grinding ink for a long time, take a break." Sister-in-law Jia said distressed when she saw fine beads of sweat on Jing Hao's head.
"I'm not tired." Jing Hao bloomed with a bright smile.
Sister-in-law Jia put down the work in her hand and went to the kitchen to bring out autumn pears, rose cakes, and milk cakes and placed them in front of Xue Jiao and Jinghao. Jing Hao and Xue Jiao stopped grinding ink, cleaned their hands, and chatted with Sister-in-law Jia while eating.
Sister-in-law Jia and Jia Dashan are both from Shandong, Jia Dashan followed Master Qin when he was a child, and Sister-in-law Jia came to Qin's house when she became a relative to Jia Dashan. After coming to Maoshan for so many years, she has been following Jia Dashan to take care of Master Qin's diet and daily life, and rarely goes out to walk around, except for the students of the private school, almost no one in the village knows her. Now that Xue Jiao and Jing are good, they can still talk to her, and she can't stop talking happily. After eating snacks, Xue Jiao practiced calligraphy, and Jing Hao helped Jia's sister-in-law embroider.
At dusk, Xue Jiao and Jing Hao walked out of the confusion. The osmanthus flowers in the confused house bloomed just right, and Chen Xuejiao picked a basket of osmanthus flowers, planning to make osmanthus candy.
When I got home, I saw Han Zijian leading Master Miao over.
"Where did you run away, little girl, I've been waiting for you for a long time." Master Miao asked with a smile.
Xue Jiao said, "I just came out of Master Qin." ”
"You can actually enter and exit Master Qin's foolish house, it can be seen that the dish you made today is liked by him." Master Miao said.
"That dish is called Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night." Xue Jiao replied with a grin.
"That's what we're here for." Han Xingjian said with a smile, "I just came home from school, and my father asked me to bring Master Miao to ask for your recipe." ”
Menu. Xue Jiao groaned.
"What kind of recipe, Xuejiao, which book did you read from your father, hurry up and give it to you Brother Xingjian, what's the use of you keeping it." Li Shi changed the tea in front of Han Xingjian and Master Miao and said.
"It's not for nothing, ten taels of silver to buy your recipe." Han Xingjian took out the silver.
"Xue Jiao, it's amazing that you can come up with this dish at such a young age. Just next month, there is a noble lady in Xuzhou Mansion on her birthday, and she ordered special dishes from major restaurants, and Qingfengzhuang also received the news. Master Miao said.
"My father said, in addition to these ten taels of silver, every twenty-four bridge of bright moon night sold, you will be given three points, what do you think?"
Xue Jiao finally smiled, ran into the house and picked up Chen Xiucai's pen and ink, dictated it herself, and Han Zijian wrote the recipe.
To say that this dish can be made thanks to the support of Qingfengzhuang, although she knows the recipe but has not made it herself, yesterday she went to Qingfengzhuang to dictate that Master Han was in charge of the kitchen. Anyway, it's useless to take this dish yourself, it's better to sell it, ten taels of silver can sell a good field.
Xue Jiao was an out-and-out foodie in her previous life, she liked to study food by herself, and her good cooking skills were obvious to all in the circle of friends. It is said that Xue Jiao's ancestors in her previous life had two imperial chefs, and the Lin family roast chicken restaurant in the Jianghuai area was founded by Xue Jiao's great-grandfather and carried forward by Xue Jiao's grandfather. Xue Jiao has the secret recipe of the Lin family's roast chicken, and she wants to make her own zuò roast chicken at a suitable time, and it is best to open a roast chicken shop.
When Han Xingjian left, Li took him a few pairs of shoes and said, "...... Shopkeeper Han often helps us, these shoes are made by Xueru herself, Shopkeeper Han, your mother and your sister each have a pair. A few days ago, I heard that your mother took Bi Tao to your grandmother's house, did you come back? ”
Han Xingjian saw the fine stitches on his shoes, looked at Xue Ru and blushed and said, "Thank you, my mother and sister helped my grandmother harvest in the autumn, come back tomorrow, and take my sister to see my mother in a few days." ”
As soon as Han Xingjian and Master Miao left, Li saw the silver in Xue Jiao's hand. Her thoughts were still that Old Man Chen and Old Lady Chen were the patriarchs of the family and should hand over the money, so she thought about it and said to Xue Jiao: "If this money is known by your grandfather and grandmother, there will be another trouble." ”
Xue Jiao saw Li's thoughts, and said lightly: "Mother, the previous eight taels of silver were earned by me and Ping'er, and this silver was obtained by me selling recipes, and it should belong to us." ”
"Mother, my sister is right, she earned this money and shouldn't hand it over." Qi An came back from school, touched Xue Jiao's head and said, "Sister is really amazing, I heard that your new dish has impressed Master Qin, today Gu Gongzi asked me to ask you for a recipe, but I didn't expect you to sell this dish." ”
Li Shijiao said angrily: "That's what I said, Xue Jiao is really, how much did the shopkeeper Han help us, and you still earn other people's money." ”
Ping'er happily surrounded Xue Jiao laughing and making trouble. Xue Jiao said happily: "Sister rarely goes to the town to catch the market, and Sister Jinghao, tomorrow we will go to the town to catch the market, we have silver, I invite everyone to go to the restaurant." ”
Li looked at the children kindly, thinking that they could go, the silver was earned by Xue Jiao, and it was up to her to spend it.