Chapter 3 New Dishes
Chen Wenhui's body has been fully healed, and she has finally started to eat normal food. This made Chen Wenhui, who faded out of her mouth, look forward to it. After the meal came up, Chen Wenhui ate very happily. But after a few days, Chen Wenhui began to get impatient. The meals are mainly vegetarian, there is not much meat, and most of them are boiled, even if there is oil, it is also greasy oil. When I asked, I found out that it was mutton fat, and a small amount of lard. This made Chen Wenhui speechless. After thinking about it carefully, Chen Wenhui decided to go to the kitchen to investigate. This was naturally hindered by Flying Light and Groaning Red. After a period of negotiation, he was accompanied by Feiguang and Yinhong.
Feiguang was wearing a green satin armor, a pair of silver leaf earrings, Yin Hong was wearing a pink silk jacket, a pair of jade stoppers on her ears, and a palace flower made of light yarn on her head. Chen Wenhui wore an apricot red moire brocade shirt, because of her young age, she did not have a head, but tied a ribbon of the same color on her braid. He wears a jade gourd pendant on his ears, and on his hands is a pair of gold bracelets with shrimp whiskers and beads. A small face is full of childishness, but it is also white and cute. The group came to the kitchen. Chen Wenhui sighed again that the living environment of the ancients was good. The kitchens are more than 30 square meters. The cook is a local, and she was newly bought by the Bai family after coming to Anseong. When I bought it, I bought it with my whole family, so I was very relieved. The chef's husband's name is Chen Qing, of course, he was later changed, so the chef is from Chen Qing's family. Chen Qing's family is about 30 years old, and the maintenance is not good, too, the poor family naturally looks older. She wore a round bun, wrapped in an indigo cocoon silk veil, and wore the homely coarse cloth clothes of her master's family, but she was very clean. At first glance, he is a neat person.
When Chen Qing's family heard that the girl came to the kitchen in person, they naturally attached great importance to it, but this was the point of preparing the meal, and the kitchen was very busy. Chen Wenhui kindly instructed Chen Qing's family not to panic. After speaking, he went straight to the stove and asked about every qiē in the kitchen. Chen Qing's family was only a young girl, and she was curious, so she answered with a smile. After asking, Chen Wenhui returned to her room. As if just curious. Feiguang and Yinhong breathed a sigh of relief. Chen Wenhui has been meditating at her desk since she returned from the kitchen. She suspects that the people in this place must not be as good as modern cooking, because the kitchen utensils are okay, but the seasonings are too monotonous, and there is no vegetable oil. Also, the level of the cook is too limited. However, maybe it's because Chen Qingjia's skills are limited, maybe there are good cooking skills in this world. Chen Wenhui decided to take advantage of dinner time to take a look.
The Chen family ate at the same table, and the place of eating was in the Bai family's dining room. During the meal, Bai had already heard a report from his subordinates about the girl's inspection of the kitchen today. So while eating, she told her husband about it. At the same time, he smiled and asked, "Hui'er, your curiosity is even heavier than your second brother, and you even have to look at the kitchen." That's right, my daughter's family, presiding over the feed, and cooking skills are also required. People like us don't cook for meals, but good cooking skills do have to be. If you like, Mother will teach you another day. After hearing this, Chen Yuanheng also laughed: "That's good, I haven't eaten the dishes made by my wife for a long time, and this time I can get rid of it." When Chen Wenhui heard this, she was very happy, and hurriedly finalized the daily study time with her mother. But Bai Shi made another request, because Chen Wenhui is still too young to cut vegetables and put them on the stove, so he can only watch. Wait until it's a little bigger. Chen Wenhui naturally agreed.
Although the Bai family is a concubine, after all, it comes from everyone, and she has her own set of methods for her daughter's education. For example, literacy, simple female red. Now that her daughter has recovered, she naturally has to keep up, compared to the girls who got up in Beijing, Chen Wenhui has already pulled down a lot although she is only six years old, and now although she is in a small Ancheng, far away from the capital, Bai is confident that she will teach her daughter well.
So, in the next few days, Bai had to let Chen Wenhui follow him when dealing with affairs every day, and after dealing with it, he would take his daughter to his room and teach him carefully. After a period of time, Chen Wenhui did not dare to underestimate the ancients. It turns out that there are many things to pay attention to just drinking water: rainwater, plum blossom snow water, snow water, ice water, river water, spring water, well water, and river water. Tea brewing is even more particular: green tea, black tea, white tea, etc., many tea varieties that should not have appeared so early in ancient times have appeared. According to the Bai family, the tea was handed down by Emperor Guanglie of the previous dynasty. After Chen Wenhui checked and found that Emperor Guanglie was Fusu's nickname after his death. There are also various fabrics. Silk and satin, various names, Chen Wenhui is dizzy. I also sighed that the old lady was very powerful, and she actually hid all kinds of fabrics, which was really eye-opening. The Bai family is very proud of this, because he was born in a big family, although he is a concubine, but all kinds of rewards throughout the year are mainly based on various precious fabrics, so the Bai family's collection is very complete. There are also regrettable places, that is, many good colors and precious materials such as cicada wing yarn, soft smoke and so on are only left in the footage, only enough to make a handkerchief. It turned out that in order to get Chen Yuanheng to be released from this county, the Bai family had already given away the few precious fabrics he had obtained. Even so, it was an eye-opener for Chen Wenhui. A few days later, Chen Wenhui discovered a problem, there was no cotton cloth in these fabrics. Recalling the clothes he wore every day after he arrived, he found that the precious clothes here were naturally all kinds of silk fabrics, and the servants wore mostly linen. Why is there no cotton? Chen Wenhui asked Bai, Bai's didn't know how her daughter described it as softer than linen, harder than leno, and what kind of fabric was used to keep warm. Chen Wenhui couldn't help but be overjoyed, feeling that Fusu, a senior, had not found cotton. Also, in the previous life, cotton did not become popular until the Song and Yuan dynasties. It seems that this is a key project, to find a way to find cotton, although now Wen Hui's quilt is wrapped in brocade silk quilt, which is also very good, but the warmth is still good quilt. And now although it is spring, Ancheng is located in the south of the Yangtze River, it is not cold, and there is no need to wear a padded jacket, but it is also necessary to wait until winter, there is only less than a year, Wen Hui wants to wear a padded jacket in winter, not like the brocade jacket that I saw in the suitcase a few days ago. Although the brocade jacket is good, but the warmth is poor, and it is necessary to pass a lot of pieces at the same time, wouldn't it be like a ball, where is the cotton jacket good. Moreover, if there is cotton to do well, it is a good source of money. Of course, it's too early to say this, Wen Hui still has to learn embroidery from her mother. This Wen Hui does not contradict, even in modern times, Wen Hui is also very fond of her own DIY embroidery. It's just that there was no teacher to teach me at that time, so I could only learn some simple cross-stitch and the like. Now that there is such a superb embroidery master, Wen Hui is very happy and learns with her heart. In addition, Wen Hui has to learn calligraphy from her father every day and practice calligraphy. Chen Yuanheng is a dignified person, and it is naturally very easy to teach his daughter to read and practice. Wen Hui also likes calligraphy, and also likes painting, but in her previous life, she learned Western painting, watercolor, oil painting, etc., and she really hadn't been exposed to Chinese painting, so she remembered the paintings in her room, and begged her father to teach him to paint. Chen Yuanheng is actually familiar with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so he simply takes a period of time every night to teach his daughter these. Father and daughter have fun.
In these educations, kitchen work is naturally the focus. Pak demonstrated the preparation of many dishes. Chen Wenhui also ate a lot of things. Bai's cooking skills are very good, to be exact, the pasta is very good, and the dim sum is very good. But what about the others? Haha, Chen Wenhui smiled very darkly again. God treated her well, and gave her a way to make money so quickly. The dishes in this era are too simple, and there is nothing to cook, stir-fry and fry. The dish is mainly boiled, and although it is healthy to eat like this, it is not delicious. Also, there is too little vegetable oil, no soybean oil, which is definitely a source of income. In addition, there is another heavy discovery, that is, the maids brought by the Bai family from the capital have actually been trained by the Chen Mansion, so ah, everyone has a stunt. For example, the cooking skills of the eldest girl Yin Hong, who gave Chen Wenhui, are very good, although they are not as good as Bai's, but they are a little higher than ordinary people or restaurant masters. It is estimated that in order to let her daughter eat better, she deliberately gave Wen Hui the best cooking skills, after all, Wen Hui's previous body was not ordinarily bad.
Next, Chen Wenhui showed great interest in cooking, and gave full play to the whimsical characteristics of children, and instructed Yin Hong to make some dishes that Yin Hong had never heard of. The first dish to cook is fried chicken fillet. Yin Hong obeyed her girl's instructions, and did it step by step, every step felt incredible, especially with so much oil, she didn't dare to say it even if she was really ready. However, Chen Wenhui is the daughter of the Chen Mansion, the daughter of the boss of Ancheng County, isn't it just a waste of chicken and oil, what a big deal. As long as the girl is happy, it doesn't matter if it's all wasted. But after making it, it actually looked good, and the girl was very happy to eat it, and let herself eat it too. Yin Hong actually didn't want to eat it, and when she thought about so much oil, she was very tired. However, what the girl gives is a reward, and if it is not delicious, it must be eaten. They have been trained for this since childhood. Therefore, Yin Hong did not hesitate to eat the chicken fillet that she didn't want to eat. When I ate it, I was surprised. Oh my God, it's so delicious. The outside is charred and the inside is tender, not as greasy as imagined, just crispy and refreshing. The girl is so talented that she would think of such a good way to make such a delicious thing. Yin Hong was subdued by Chen Wenhui because of a chicken fillet. In later life, Yin Hong carried forward Chen Wenhui's food concept. Really became a chef.