Chapter 264: The Tweezer
"Make a specialty dish with shepherd's cabbage." The etiquette officer, who has always been very verbose, succinctly pointed out the theme of this competition.
"What about the rules?" Chen Sheng was not quite accustomed to the sudden change of the ceremonial officer, frowned, and asked.
"Rules are ......" The ceremonial officer scanned the two groups of players with a smile in an attempt to make them nervous, then waved his hand and announced loudly, "There are no rules!" Rules are no rules! You can choose any ingredients, trimmings, and recipes you want, as long as you use the shepherd's cabbage in your dish, and the one with the most points wins. Now you have half an hour to think, and you can think slowly. As he spoke, he hooked his hands and motioned for the two groups of contestants to come to the table.
Su Miao was led by the aftertaste, yawning and lazily walking towards the table.
"The chef isn't in a good shape today." Chen Sheng was a little worried, and whispered to Zhao Daodao.
"Who asked her to burn knives with the eldest lady last night, maybe it will be on top." Zhao He clasped his arms in his hands and snorted.
Under the stage, on the VIP seat.
"It's all my fault for the eldest sister, I kept pouring the second sister to drink last night, and the second sister was so crooked that she couldn't even walk!" Su Yan puffed out his cheeks and said a little angrily.
Su Xian rubbed her throbbing temples and glanced at him fiercely: "I'm helping her relax, what do you know about a little brat, get out of the way!" He closed his eyes and continued to rub his throbbing temples.
Chunniang glanced at her speechlessly, looked at Su Chan, who was always calm like a wooden board, and said worriedly:
"Sister Miao, it doesn't matter, right? With a hangover and her most annoying cloudy day, I saw that she was almost asleep. There is also a small forest. I don't know what happened, I only drank a pot and then collapsed, her alcohol consumption is really bad! ”
"Didn't Ning Le stay?" Su Chan said lightly. Begin to eat the sweet potato slices in the oiled paper bag in your hand one by one.
On the stage, Su Miao yawned and came to the long table where the ingredients were placed, and looked at the green shepherd's cabbage in the big box without being stunned.
The corners of the aftertaste of the eyebrows twitched fiercely. grabbed her shoulders and shook it:
"Spit it out for me! How do you eat everything! That hasn't been washed yet! ”
"Hui Gongzi, it doesn't matter. That has already been washed. The ceremonial officer smiled and played the round.
"It's quite fresh, it's just a little astringent...... Su Miaoba clicked her mouth twice, said slowly, and tilted her head again. Why is it still a little bitter? ”
"Shepherd's cabbage is a wild vegetable. Wild vegetables have a bitter taste of grass. Changsheng picked up a cluster of shepherd's cabbage, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and said with a smile.
Su Miao glanced at him, tilted her head, and leaned on her aftertaste's arm.
Aftertaste touched the corner of her forehead helplessly, a little annoyed, but more concerned:
"Still have a headache?"
"It doesn't hurt. I drank a little too much yesterday and my head was dizzy. She chirped with her eyes closed.
"I'm talking about something. You ......" reminiscing about the dissatisfaction that existed last night and just wanted to flare up.
"You're so long-winded." Su Miao frowned impatiently and straightened up from his arm. Brushed his hair.
"Is Miss Su hungover? I also thought you would be able to get drunk the day before the big game. Changsheng slurped, shook his head and sighed softly.
Su Miao glanced at him, yawned lazily again, ignored him, reached into the box, grabbed a handful of shepherd's cabbage and put it in his mouth, tasted it for a long time, and sighed faintly:
"It's really bitter!"
"Big brother," Yuan Hong and the others had now paid attention to Su Miao's reaction, and their hearts were also uneasy at the moment, and they whispered to Changsheng, "We haven't done this thing in our restaurant, not only shepherd's cabbage, but also any wild vegetables that our restaurant has never made." ”
"That's right, big brother, I've heard my grandmother talk about this thing, and my grandmother's generation used this thing as a dish, and this thing is unpalatable." Cai Qing echoed.
"Wild vegetable dumplings, wild vegetable soup, wild vegetable soup, and even higher ones are fried meat and steamed eggs with wild vegetables, and the competition has reached this point, no matter what, these dishes will not be on the table." Xia Weng, who has always been taciturn, opened his mouth and reminded in a low voice.
Changsheng just smiled in the face of their concerns, lowered his head and stared at the shepherd's cabbage in his hand, without saying a word.
After half an hour of reflection, the gong strikes again and the race begins!
The two groups of contestants began to return to each other, and before Su Miao left the food table, she suddenly heard Changsheng ask her with a smile:
"What kind of novelty does Miss Su want to win this time?"
Su Miao glanced at him, thought for a while, and replied, "I just want to make something delicious." With that, he walked away.
Changsheng looked at her and raised an eyebrow high. Nodding.
Su Miao walked straight to the ceremonial officer and said to him, "I want a tweezer." ”
The ceremonial officer was stunned for a moment and replied: "Yes, yes, but the tweezer has to be prepared now, and the girl is afraid that she will have to wait for a while, and this time will be ......."
"It's okay, I can wait, you try to be as fast as you can."
The ceremonial officer agreed, and ordered the men to prepare.
Aftertaste frowned, and said to Su Miao, who walked back: "The game has a time limit, so they are afraid that there will not be enough time to prepare now." ”
"It's okay, don't do anything complicated, it's still too late." Su Miao said, grabbed a small handful of camellia and put it in her mouth, when I first ate this thing, I didn't think it was delicious because of my unaccustomed taste, but after eating it, my taste buds gradually tasted the sweet taste that only wild vegetables have.
"Chef, what's the tweezer?" Chen Sheng couldn't help but ask the question in his heart, he had been in the restaurant since he was an apprentice, and he had never heard of such a thing as a tweezer for many years.
At the same time, Cai Qing on Changsheng's side also heard that Su Miaoguan was asking for a tweezer, and asked Changsheng suspiciously:
"Big brother, what's the tweezer?"
Changsheng looked at Su Miao with a strange look, and this time he didn't smile. Faintly replied:
"It is a tool for making pancakes in the countryside of Linyi area, which is not common in other places."
"Linyi?" Cai Qing thought for a long time, and then looked at Su Miao with a very surprised expression. "I can't see it, Miss Su is not very old, but she has a lot of knowledge."
"That's true." Changsheng said slowly, turned around, walked to the stove and stood up, paused, and laughed. "Is this time going to go in the rustic but elegant style?" As he spoke, he picked up the whetstone and slowly sharpened the kitchen knife.
A tweezer is a type of kitchen utensil that has been handed down from time immemorial. It is mainly used to cook all kinds of pancakes, such as pancakes and the like, and is a very common pancake tool in the mountainous countryside, but it is not commonly used in other places. This pancake tool is made of cast iron. Flat round. The center is slightly convex, supported by three legs, and can be used to burn firewood underneath. When panning cakes, put the wet dough in the center of the pan, scrape a circle clockwise with a T-shaped stick, spread the batter on the pan thinly, wait for the temperature of the pan to dry the wet noodles, gently shovel the pancake with a small spatula, and a pancake is ready.
There is such a thing as a tweezer in the Linyi area, and Su Miao still listened to Cheng Tie in a casual conversation. Cheng Tie went to Linyi when he was fighting, and said that the countrymen there were very funny. actually used a round thing like a stone mill, Su Miao listened to his description and knew that Linyi already had a tweezer.
This competition is very professional and complete from the utensils to the ingredients, Su Miao has seen in the warehouse that it is not a cooking tool from Suzhou, today just with the attitude of trying to ask for a tweezer, I didn't expect it to be there, this time it can be a good ingredient she wants to eat.
The guy who went to get the tweezers has been gone for ten minutes, don't look at the aftertaste is a silent person, but he can't tolerate a little imperfect in cooking, seeing that the smoke has risen on Changsheng's side, he frowned, and asked Su Miao, who was sitting on the small bench yawning:
"What the hell do you want to do, I told you before, now it's four into two, you can't do a little bit of effort?" He always believes that in such a competition, the complexity of the process is the key to victory. In addition, to compare the strength of a chef, it is originally to see how he copes with complex processes and how to make them perfect. Although simple craftsmanship is also a kind of examination, it is too thin compared to complicated craftsmanship, how can you indulge this thinness in a national competition?
Su Miao yawned lazily, looked at him with a pair of lazy cat-like eyes, and said slowly:
"But I want to eat."
"......" aftertaste was speechless, she said she wanted to eat, that is, her purpose in making the next dish was not to win, just because she wanted to eat, he stared at her for a long time, "You ......"
Su Miao held her cheek with one hand and looked at him lazily.
"You ......" wanted to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he found that he couldn't say a word.
Su Miao blinked twice.
"You ......" Even though Chen Sheng and Zhao He both silently supported and encouraged him with the eyes of "hurry up and teach her a good lesson", he still couldn't say anything in the aftertaste, he was speechless, looking at her lazy cat and greedy cat, after a while, he flicked his sleeves and sharpened his knife angrily.
Su Miao sat in the corner and yawned heavily.
"What are they doing?" Under the stage, Liang Chang supported his cheek with one hand, and was affected by the atmosphere on the stage, he actually became lazy, strange, he actually had a feeling of being so calm that he wanted to sleep.
"Who knows." Hui Ganyi held his cheek with one hand, yawned lazily, and wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
The guy who went to fetch the tweezer finally came, passed in front of Hui Gan and the others, Hui Gan's eyes lit up, stared at the round thing, and asked with an interested smile:
"What's that?"
"You don't even recognize you?" Liang Chang thinks that as a professional judge, it is a shame for Hui Gan to be openly curious about the kitchenware in the competition table.
"Your Highness, why do I have to recognize, although I can cook country food, but I can't make weeds." Hui Gan shrugged his shoulders disappreciatively.
The tweezer was brought to the stage and placed in front of Su Miao, man, came down, Su Miao bent down and stared at the tweezer closely, very carefully.
"What are you doing?" After waiting for a while, I couldn't help it and asked.
"Observe." Su Miao replied matter-of-factly.
"No, why are you observing? No, isn't this something you want? What the hell are you going to do, it's been two quarters of an hour? "The aftertaste is almost incoherent.
"I've got to study it, it's the first time I've used this thing, and it's a little different from the one I know, so I'll have to get familiar with each other before I can continue." Su Miao said seriously.
“…… You say this is your first time using it? Aftertaste asked.
"yes." Su Miao didn't think there was anything wrong with the answer, paused, looked at his "worried" face, and smiled, "Don't worry, I've seen it many times, I've also studied, and I've tried it once, and I understand the principle very well." ”
"......" Chen Sheng and Zhao He looked at the aftertaste worriedly, this expression, the two of them were really worried that the aftertaste would be angry and vomit blood, "Can't you be sure?" ”
Su Miao frowned in embarrassment: "Even if I am not very familiar with the production method of wild vegetables, what I want to make now is the dish that I think is the most delicious, and it is also very suitable for others to eat, and it is also the dish I want to eat the most now." ”
The last one is the main reason.
Aftertaste sighed speechlessly, forced to swallow the mouthful of old blood that he wanted to spit out, he glanced back, and commanded his assistant in a deep voice:
"Let's get started."
"Yes." Chen Sheng and Zhao He responded, each performing their duties.
Su Miao began to happily mix the dough, mixed the washed flour with ordinary flour, put in salt, added cold water in batches and stirred it into a flocculent shape, and then kneaded it into a smooth dough, the dough must be softer. At this time, dip your fingers in water, start pressing the dough, then dip your fingers in the water to press the dough, and so on, using the "dipping and pressing" method until the dough becomes thinner and more chewy, then pour cold water into the basin, cover the dough completely, and let it rise in cold water for half an hour.
By the time she got to this point, she was already by the aftertaste, because there was less than half an hour left before the end of the race.
He swallowed his anger and squeezed the blanched shepherd's cabbage and chopped it, cut the lean pork into small cubes and stir-fried it, boiled it in cold water over a strong fire, thickened it with wet starch, and when it was burned to a paste, it was put out to cool, and then added the shepherd's cabbage, fresh soy sauce, sesame oil and eggs and whipped into a filling.
On the other side, Su Miao poured the water from the dough with a smile, grabbed the wet and sticky dough in her hand and began to beat the dough. It's just that she is very gentle when she beats the dough, which is very different from ordinary dough wrestling, and her unhurried appearance makes the aftertaste extremely anxious.
The dough was finally broken, and she used a low heat under the pan to heat it with a layer of clear oil, but when she saw that she was grasping the wet dough with her hands, she gently wiped it on the pan with great dexterity, and then pulled it upward, leaving a thin layer of dough on the pan. At this time, dip the excess batter on the surface of the dough, because the dough is very thin, and the dough on the tweezer can be said to dry in seconds. When the dough is just dry but has not lost the last bit of moisture, it is quickly revealed, and the dough that is peeled off is "cake can reflect the word" and "thin as cicada wings".
It is a very rare pancake performance, and the baked dough is even thinner than paper, which is really amazing.
The audience in the audience was surprised, and even Changsheng on the other side was surprised, but halfway through the rice, her smiling face was frozen, until Yuan Hong reminded:
"Big brother!"
Changsheng woke up, but a face that had always been smiling deepened. (To be continued.) )