Chapter 240: Tea Soup and Beef
Tea art is very popular in the aristocratic circle of Yueliang country, since it is very popular, such an elegant occasion as today is naturally indispensable for good tea, to drink good tea naturally to have good water, and all of you here are romantic gentlemen or self-proclaimed to be merry gentlemen, and they are naturally very particular about the water used to make tea, since they are very particular, they can't let the maid carry a large pot of boiled water from table to table to pour water to make tea, so almost every small table has a small red clay stove next to it to boil water, waiting for a group of merry gentlemen to make tea by themselves.
There are many small tandoors, Su Miao picked up a small tandoor from his seat and put it on the table, sat on a celadon teapot, cleaned his hands first, and then poured the boiling spring water into the dragon well in front of the Ming Dynasty to soak for five minutes, and then filtered off the tea leaves, leaving a green tea soup.
Shuangxing Pavilion is full of snacks, the best beef tenderloin is marinated and cooked, cut into square pieces and placed on the plate, for people to eat as snacks, Su Miao instructed Su Chan to bring it, took a piece of beef the size of a palm, felt out a sharp knife, without a cutting board, and cut the beef pieces into evenly sized beef pieces in the palm of his hand.
The meat cleaver was extremely sharp, and it could be seen from the thin blade with a cold light, and her cutting method really made people sweat, for fear that the sharp blade would accidentally cut her delicate palm. Of course, this is the opinion of outsiders, they just think that this knife is too sharp and too dangerous, but insiders know that this cutting method can be cut so smoothly, not only because the knife is rare and sharp, but also because the chef's knife work, the strength of each knife is solid and even, and there is no wavering because the force area is too small. From beginning to end, she was conscientious and determined, fully focused, and not affected by any external factors. devoting herself to the work that is not difficult in the eyes of outsiders, this focus is in the eyes of industry insiders, and everyone can't help but squint.
Thinking about it was another thing, I leaned into the ear of the aftertaste, and said with a smile:
"You actually made Quling Tie into a kitchen knife for her." Quling Iron is a piece of treasure iron excavated from the iron ore in Quling County, which is most suitable for making sharp weapons, although they have a lot of such treasure iron. But he didn't expect that his junior would quietly take a piece of "offering".
"She said she wanted a good set of knives." Aftertaste said disapprerovingly.
"Does she know it's Quling Tie?"
"Even if she knows, she doesn't know what Quling Iron is." Aftertaste replied nonchalantly, paused, and looked at Su Miao. said lightly, "Her craftsmanship is still a bit bad with Quling Tielai." ”
Hui Gan twitched the corners of his eyebrows speechlessly, and said seriously: "Qu Lingtie will cry when he hears your words." ”
Aftertaste ignored him.
The cut beef cubes have been fed into the tea soup. Stir slowly and gently with a silver spoon. After boiling for a while, skim in the snow-white tofu flowers, stir gently, and then pour a large spoonful of amber maltose syrup, watch the syrup slowly melt and penetrate in the tea soup, and finally form a thin layer of icing on the surface of the tea soup, and then sprinkle crushed peanuts on top.
As she stirred evenly, a strange fragrance slowly rose. Quietly and with a strong sense of presence, it permeated the sky above the Double Star Pavilion. It is a fresh and elegant but very attention-grabbing aroma, with a hint of tea. The aroma of the tea is not like the fragrance of the familiar Longjing tea. However, the unique clear, light and quiet taste of Longjing tea has been retained without deviation, soothing irritability, soothing intensity, and soothing all turbulent emotions. In this unusual aroma of tea, only calm, unprecedented calm, and fascinated. So much so that many of the people who were talking stopped talking and all looked at it involuntarily.
Su Miao withdrew the fire, picked up the porcelain spoon and scooped a spoonful to blow it cold, and brought it to Ding Ying, who had been looking at the small tandoor since he smelled the fragrance.
Ding Ying looked at the spoon, suddenly opened his mouth, took a bite of the soup spoon, swallowed it in a big gulp, smacked his mouth twice, and looked straight at Su Miao with a pair of big eyes that suddenly lit up, paused, and showed a big smile like a sunflower, which looked like a clean and harmless rabbit.
Su Miao couldn't help laughing when she looked at him looking at her big eyes, and couldn't help but touch his fluffy head.
Su Chan sat in the corner, staring at Su Miao's hand touching Ding Ying's head with a disgruntled face, and after a while, she muttered angrily:
"I knew it!"
"Know what?" Hui Gan sat beside her, heard the words, and asked with a smile.
Su Chan glared at Ding Ying fiercely and said indignantly:
"Second sister, she has always liked her younger brother the most!"
Hui Gan glanced at her, smiled and reached out and touched her head:
"San'er is so pitiful, what the second brother wants most is actually his sister, come and be our child, the second brother loves you!"
Aftertaste glanced at him.
Su Chan turned her head away from Hui Gan's hand and continued to stare at Ding Ying.
Ding Ying was comfortably touched by Su Miao's eyes narrowed, revealing a kitten-like happy expression, and after a while, he suddenly showed a big smile at Su Miao, pounced on him, threw himself into Su Miao's arms, and arched in Su Miao's arms with a beautiful little head, wanting her to like him for a while longer. Although this is a stupid child, he instinctively knows who really likes him and who hates him, it is difficult for a child like him to meet someone who really likes him, Su Miao really likes him, and the simple-minded Ding Ying naturally began to like her sincerely.
He was coquettish in Su Miao's arms like a kitten, but his face darkened this time, although the other party was just an eleven-year-old child and a stupid child, but this was definitely not a reason!
Aftertaste grabbed Ding Ying's collar from behind and lifted him from Su Miao's arms.
Ding Ying was annoyed, and he screamed and struggled desperately.
"Why are you bullying children?" Su Miao said speechlessly, and had already scooped up a small half bowl of tea soup and handed it over.
When Ding Ying saw that the tea custard was ready, he struggled even more happily. Aftertaste snorted from his nose and let go of his hand. Ding Ying immediately ran over, snatched the bowl in Su Miao's hand, and ate it like a treasure, but because the tea soup was too hot, he grinned because it was hot. Ding Yun was amused, stepped forward to pick it up, first thanked Su Miao, and then blew the tea soup to cool and fed it to his younger brother one bite after another.
Ding Ying stood upright and asked his sister to feed, and every time he made his mouth big, people couldn't help but laugh.
"Little brother and sister, come, give the second brother a bowl too." Hui Gan didn't treat himself as an outsider at all, and turned his head and asked with a smile, "His Royal Highness King Wen also has a bowl?" ”
Liang Chang was obviously very interested in the fresh and leisurely taste of the tea soup made by Su Miao, and had been staring at the teapot in Su Miao's hand from a distance.
"Then there's Miss Rausu." When he said this, he was full of official style, and he had the feeling of "I just want to inspect", but in fact, the more he said "I just want to inspect", the more Su Miao could feel that he wanted to eat very much.
The teapot was not big, and the last bowl was served and handed to Liang Chang's guard, who in turn gave it to Liang Chang.
Su Miao raised her eyes, but saw Tong Ran, who was sitting opposite, staring at her for a moment.
"It's not your share." She said bluntly.
"I didn't want to eat it." Tong Ran said, as he spoke, but he was still looking at her, as if he was studying her, which made Su Miao's heart a hundred unhappy.
Hui Gan saw that Huiwei sat down again, handed over the bowl with a smile, and asked enthusiastically: "There are only two bowls, do you want the second brother to give you a bite?" ”
Aftertaste glanced at the bowl and said lightly: "Tea soup beef, I've eaten it." ”
"It turned out to be called 'tea soup beef'." Hui Gan raised his eyebrows, didn't care about the aftertaste to "show off" to him, restrained his smile, and lowered his head to look at the white jade porcelain bowl in his hand.
The chef's five senses are the most keen, this bowl in his hand, he has already faintly smelled a strange sweetness, not ordinary tea fragrance, this tea fragrance is much lighter than the tea soup brewed by the plain, but also a lot softer, less the unique astringency of tea, with a trace of sweetness that seems to knock on the door of the heart.
This dish is called "tea soup beef", which should actually be counted as a soup, scoop up a spoonful and put it in your mouth, the taste is very strange and special. The smoothness of the bean curd, the purity of the beef, the faintness of the tea, and the sweetness of the wheat sugar, each taste is independent, distinctive, and full of characteristics, but when these flavors are blended together by the aroma of tea cooked by the spring water, it is a wonderful harmony. Bean curd and beef are just right to soak in the tea aroma, although the tea soup itself has been skillfully filtered out of the astringency, but also retains a trace of bitterness of the tea itself, the bitterness is not strong, not heavy, pure slightly bitter, it is this touch of slight bitterness sublimation has melted in the soup of the sweetness of the malt, this sweetness with the tea soup penetrated into the taste buds, bringing people a fingertip trembling invigorating feeling.
No one could have imagined that this bean curd could be boiled with Longjing tea, and no one could have thought that the taste of cooking with beef grains in Longjing tea would be so harmonious and pleasant, tender bean curd mixed with mellow beef smoothly slid across the tip of the tongue, and the delicious meat flavor blended with the pure bean curd blended together, and it was a very moving taste. The fragrance is clear, the clarity is hidden in the deliciousness, the freshness contains a slight bitterness, the slight bitterness ripples with sweetness, layer upon layer, harmoniously and softly ripples between the taste buds, as if in a piece of emerald green, whether it is sight, smell or taste is a pure emerald green that can comfort people's hearts. Alone surrounded by pure verdant on all sides, enjoying a moment of tranquility, a moment of seclusion, a moment of peace. That peaceful time is obviously short-lived, but that moment is enough to become eternal in the heart of man.
It's not a powerful delicacy, but it's one that leaves a light but lasting mark on diners.
Hui Gan smiled, stared at the porcelain bowl in his hand for a while, and suddenly hooked the corners of his lips shallowly, and said:
"This is a little brother and sister's own dish?" (To be continued......)