Chapter 21: Roasting Whole Sheep in the Palace

Chen Fang was naturally overjoyed, and only hoped that Li Zhi would get better soon and be able to love the queen. In this way, I don't have to play the role of a scary third party anymore.

The Chongyang Festival is getting closer and closer, and the chrysanthemum wine brewed last year in the Yeting Palace has been sent to the Shangshi Bureau, and the Shangshi Bureau has also begun to reserve the Chongyang Banquet.

In the past few days, there have been many more miscellaneous palace maids coming and going from the Shangshi Bureau, and dozens of healthy women have been transferred to the Shangshi Bureau to do some work of washing vegetables and cutting meat.

Some cooks have also been transferred from other kitchens to assist the Shang Food Bureau in stocking up on the Chung Yeung Feast, and even some unimportant dishes have been prepared by other kitchens.

There are obviously many more ingredients prepared by the Shangshi Bureau than usual, and many rare beasts, melons, fruits and vegetables are piled up in the storage room of the Shangshi Bureau.

And the chrysanthemum wine was piled up in the wine cellar, and I don't know if the seal of the jar was loose, and there was a smell of wine in the wine cellar, which made people intoxicated.

On this day, finally September 9, the chrysanthemums in the palace are blooming, and the garden is full of chrysanthemum fragrance.

From the early morning in the Shang Food Bureau, it was very busy, the Chongyang banquet, the emperor feasted in this palace to the princes and nobles of the Manchu Dynasty, civil and military officials, all the princes of the opposite sex surnamed Li in the Tang Dynasty will also go to the banquet, and even some princes and nobles who are usually away also return to Chang'an at this time.

The Chung Yeung Banquet is set in the evening, but the Shang Food Bureau has been busy since the early morning. Ping-pong was already in the kitchen when the rooster crowed.

Since it was a banquet, and it was different from the emperor's meal on weekdays, Shangshi Dingyu asked Chen Fang, and the two discussed, and they had already prepared the ingredients that Chen Fang needed.

Early in the morning, a group of palace maids were transferred from the Yeting Palace, and the food bureau was in serious shortage today. Fortunately, this is the palace, there are not many in the palace, and there are definitely many palace maids and eunuchs.

What Shangshi Dingyu didn't expect was that Chen Fang actually asked people to set up some fires in the wide area outside Shangshi, of course, he had reported to the harem before doing this. There is no doubt that the palace has allowed it.

Otherwise, it is taboo to burn a fire in this palace. The weather is dry and the candles are careful, and the palace is burned, which is a big crime, and a head is definitely not enough to cut off.

For this reason, the palace also specially sent a bunch of palace maids and eunuchs, for fear of any accidents.

At this time, several healthy women transferred from the Yeting Palace were being directed by Chen Fang to process some mutton.

These muttons were specially requested by Chen Fang, and they were all some fat cake sheep that were urgently transferred from the north.

Raised in pure natural grassland pastures, the sheep have never eaten any drugs and taken any hormones. Of course, this is true of the sheep of this era.

At this time, they had all been slaughtered and skinned, and they were salted whole by Chen Fang's command.

The spices used are all specially blended by Chen Fang, and they are definitely not blended by anyone before this era.

Chen Fang planned to roast the whole sheep naturally, and the Chongyang Festival had arrived, and the weather was getting colder and colder.

Especially in this era, the temperature of the Double Ninth Festival is already very low, and Chen Fang feels that it may snow and freeze after October, so he also asked Dingyu specifically to make sure that the winter in this era does come early and long.

It's very different from the modern era where the greenhouse effect is severe.

Lamb warms the stomach and is naturally an excellent ingredient at this time.

And the chrysanthemum banquet in Chongyang is a rare banquet held by the royal family several times a year, since it is a royal banquet, the pomp must be enough.

Roasting whole lamb is undoubtedly a great option.

In fact, there were many options, but considering the traffic in this era, there is absolutely no need to think about seafood, Chang'an is inland, and that thing is transported from the seaside, and it has long been stinky.

Some other things are also not very easy to solve because of the transportation problem.

What is used at the banquet is given priority to the principle of proximity.

At this time, it was already noon, and Shangshi Dingyu saw that the fire outside Shangshi was already lit, and the eunuchs and palace maids guarding around were waiting for it, as if it only needed a gust of wind to burn this Taiji Palace.

At this time, the mutton had already been marinated, and Chen Fang was just making roasted whole sheep, and he didn't want to stuff the belly of the sheep with chicken, duck, fish, and apples.

One by one, the whole pickled fat sheep set up the grill on the charcoal fire in the hands of the healthy woman, which made Shangshi Dingyu a little dumbfounded.

Especially such a carbon fire, such a grill has nearly 100 at once, the form and scale of this cooking is simply amazing.

Chen Fang felt that he could apply for the Dinis World Records. Of course, there is no such thing in this era.

Chen Fang's operation naturally shocked the group of cooks and palace maids and eunuchs who were dumbfounded.

After roasting for a while, the mutton sizzled in the charcoal fire, and the golden fat seeped out from between the fat meats and fell into the fire, stirring up strings of flames.

The aroma of meat is pervasive, gently fluttering with the wind in the Tai Chi Palace.

Chen Fang was there commanding the healthy women, and Shangshi Dingyu was there looking at Chen Fang quietly.

"Master is Master, what I see today, Dingyu will never forget it in his life."

Shangshi Dingyu took a deep breath of fragrance, and this Shangshi Bureau was about to be surrounded by the aroma of meat.

There, a string of light footsteps pierced the aroma of meat, and greeted Chen Fang from a long distance.

It is pink.

"Lord Chen, it's so fragrant here!"

"Well, isn't there any will for the mother?"

At this time, Peach Red came, it must be Wu Meiniang's will.

It is said that in the past few days, in addition to seeing the peach in the distance in the Ganlu Palace, there is also a beaded curtain. It's the first time I've been so close to this girl.

I miss a little bit when this girl served her, although Dingyu has been serving herself for the past few days, and Xiao Dingzi was completely ignored by Chen Fang, but Dingyu is still not as comfortable as Pink after all.

When I saw it at this time, I really missed it, but there were many people here, so Chen Fang was naturally talking about business.

"The mother just asked me to come over and see how the preparations were, and there was no will. The emperor's mother is relieved of Lord Chen! ”

Peach said, looking at the roast whole sheep next to her, and couldn't help swallowing her saliva.

Looking at Chen Fang's eyes, a faint grievance appeared in his eyes, as if to say that he hadn't eaten Chen Fang's dishes in the past few days, and it was really uncomfortable.

"Then just take a look! Peach, you lead Peach for a spin. You two can't say that you used to be one! ”

A little bit of the cook hurriedly jogged over, now who doesn't know the Shang Shi Bureau, this is Chen Fang in charge, although Shang Shi is not him, but Shang Shi is his apprentice.

Chen Fang's words can definitely work at this time in the Shangshi Bureau.

Besides, Chen Fang doesn't have any fights on weekdays, and he doesn't drink and scold them, let alone beat them, so the cook here is obedient to Chen Fang.

"My lord said that I laughed, the two of us are not surnamed Peach!"

There Peach giggles and follows Peaches away.

In fact, most of the palace maids in this palace have no surnames and no names, and the nobles point to something casually, which is their name.

So what colorful clouds, willow green flowers and red names are very common. If the nobles point to it well, there is also a good name, such as peach Dingyu, which is not bad.