Chapter Ninety-Eight: Dim Sum Turmoil (2)
There are seven kinds written on the list: tiger skin and phoenix feet, pork ribs with soy sauce, lo-mei platter, vegetarian rice noodles, french fries, sponge cake, and crème brûlée.
The mother pointed to the first few things and said: "These phoenix feet, pork ribs and lo-mei can be cooked, and the rice rolls are also simple, but I haven't even heard of the last three!" ”
"I will eat these three kinds, and the cake has already been baked, and the pudding is almost steamed, so I will let them cool before eating, so I will make them in advance. French fries are fried potato fries, which, like cheong fun, are eaten and cooked freshly. ”
There is a large kitchen in the backyard of the tea house, which was originally intended to make refreshments. If he prepared a day in advance, Xia Qingyun was sure to make more tricky dim sum.
Because Daoxiangchun is a well-known time-honored brand in Beijing, and Hejian has a tradition of opening and eating Daoxiangcun dim sum, she wants to follow the local customs, so she asked Yao Xili to order.
I didn't expect that people were not as good as heaven, so I still did it myself.
As the two were talking, the aroma of the cake wafted out, and Xue'er sniffed and exclaimed, "It's so fragrant!" The air is fragrant and sweet! ”
After another cup of tea, Xia Qingyun opened the baking cage and took out plates of golden cakes.
Remembering that she made some jam in Yuzhou in the summer, she asked Qingmei to take it and spread a thin layer on the cake.
She nodded, and with a slurp, Blackstar neatly cut the jam cake into small pieces one inch square, just one bite at a time.
"Come on, try it!"
She first pinched a piece and put it in her mother's mouth, and beckoned Xue'er and the others to try it together.
"Hmm, it's delicious!"
"It's fragrant, sweet and soft. With sweet and sour jam, it's almost like swallowing your tongue together! ”
At this time, the pudding is also steamed, but the pudding must be cooled to eat. Xia Qingyun asked Heixing to make a few large basins of water, put the white porcelain cup containing the pudding in a bamboo basket, and then soaked it in cold water, so that the water was just a little more than halfway there.
Then, as soon as her mind moved, the water in the basin froze.
"Alright, go get them into the house and build them. Ice will be ready to eat tomorrow morning! ”
Qingmei and the others looked at the pudding with egg yolk like clotted fat. It smelled like a cake, and he giggled and talked about it as he moved the pudding into the house.
"Mother, the chef here doesn't know how to cook our Lingnan dim sum. I'm afraid you'll have to work hard tomorrow to take care of it in the kitchen. Why don't you rest in the Treasure Pavilion tonight? Soak in the hot springs and nourish your spirits. ”
"I want to accompany my aunt!" Xue'er coquettishly grabbed her mother's arm, "Uncle." I'll take you to the hot springs, a few days ago, Sister Qingyun asked Heixing to dig out a few hot spring pools under the Daqing Mountain, and I'll pick some petals and sprinkle them in later."
The next day, before dawn, Xia Qingyun transferred the finished cake and pudding to the kitchen.
Dad and Tian Zhenyu stayed up all night and made a total of more than 300 small steamers. Fortunately, Tian Zhenyu didn't have to talk during the day, so he and his father hurried to rest.
When the eldest aunt and aunt heard the movement, they also quickly got up and gathered in the kitchen to help.
He instructed his subordinates to take out the marinated beef tongue and beef heart and put them into a bucket, bring the fried chicken feet, boiled fries, marinated pork ribs, and the finished cakes and puddings, load them into a carriage, and pull them to the kitchen in the backyard of the teahouse.
Each small steamer is padded with a cut lotus leaf, five or six small ribs are placed in one basket, and four or five phoenix feet are placed in one basket, which are stacked in the pot and steamed.
When the day was about to dawn, Yao Xili also arrived with finely ground rice noodles.
Steamed rice rolls are my mother's specialty. She quickly reconciled a pot of thin rice milk, took a few dishes, scooped a spoonful of rice milk into the plate, evenly spread the bottom of the plate, put it in the pot and steam it for two minutes before it was cooked.
Roll up the steamed rice noodle skin from one side, pour the pre-prepared sauce, and add a small blanched green cabbage, and a dish of vegetarian rice noodles with good color and flavor is ready.
The mother was here to teach the eldest aunt and others to make rice rolls, and Xia Qingyun set up another oil pot and tried to throw in two handfuls of boiled fries.
The fries quickly floated out of the pan and turned golden brown.
Scoop it up with a fence and put it on a plate, sprinkle it with some fine salt, she pinched one and blew it, and bit it gently, well, the outside is charred and the inside is tender, salty and crispy!
It may be because the potatoes here are pure green and organic without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides at all, so the fried fries are even more delicious than those in the previous life!
Xia Qingyun asked people to set up a table in the kitchen, and put the prepared jam cake, French fries, vegetarian rice rolls, tiger skin phoenix feet and pork ribs with soy sauce on two cages, and the lo-mei was also cut into paper-thin slices and put on a plate.
I brewed a large pot of white peonies and beckoned everyone to sit down and taste them.
"Come and try it, are you used to eating our Lingnan dim sum?"
The work of tea, the table is light and clean, and everyone is still satisfied.
"Qingyun, your mother's craftsmanship is really not enough! This lo-mei is better than the beef in the capital Yueshengzhai! ”
"And this rice rolls, it's the first time I've eaten it, it's smooth and springy, I can't imagine that rice can be made like this!"
"Well, I like cake and fries the most, one sweet and one salty, I can't get tired of eating anything!"
Everyone stretched out their thumbs to praise, and Xia Qingyun's mother nodded again and again, as long as she likes to eat, she is afraid that northerners will not be used to eating snacks in the south.
After cleaning up the broken table, Xia Qingyun asked someone to bring a few cups of pudding, took a saucer, shook the pudding cup upside down on it a few times, and slowly lifted the cup.
The round, yellowish pudding stands tremblingly in the middle of the plate, with a layer of caramel attached to it, and the dark brown juice flows down the smooth pudding into the plate, which is particularly tempting to the appetite.
A small spoon per person, gently scooping is a large piece, cold and sweet, melts in the mouth!
"Oh my God, Qingyun girl, this thing is so delicious!" The sister-in-law exclaimed exaggeratedly, if it wasn't for the opening preparations, she really wanted to eat five or six in one go!
Xia Qingyun slapped his face, "Now I'm relieved!" Today, the kitchen is up to the elders to take care of it! ”
As the sun rose, the number of pedestrians on the street gradually increased.
Yao Xili, Hua Jingtian, and Xia Qingyun stood at the door of the teahouse, waiting for the upcoming guests.
In the restaurant opposite, the shopkeeper and the guys were also busy, and the two guys used bamboo poles to pick up two long firecrackers and set off them with a thunderbolt.
The smoke dissipated, and a blue sedan chair carried by eight people stopped at the door of the restaurant, and the sedan curtain was lifted, and a bright woman came down from inside.
A maid walked quickly next to her, helping the woman to walk towards the restaurant, and after walking a few steps, the woman stopped and turned to look at the teahouse opposite.
I saw that she had a delicate figure, her skin was like congealed fat, her goose egg face had willow eyebrows and sideburns, her eyes were like autumn water, and she had a naturally smiling pink lip under the high bridge of her nose.
"Yu Yao, the teahouse opposite is the teahouse that Mrs. Huangfu talked about? She is really worried, the huge place neither stir-fry nor sell alcohol, how can it be compared to us! (To be continued......)