Chapter Twenty-Three: The Conquest of the Imperial Dining Room
Seeing Luo Tian skillfully fiddling with the iron pot, two dishes were made in a moment's effort, and these two dishes also exuded a unique fragrance, and everyone in the imperial dining room was stunned.
Luo Tian ignored everyone's surprise, picked up the chopsticks and began to taste the two dishes he made.
Although Luo Tian was not a chef in his previous life, he didn't have much good cooking skills. But for him who has a low salary, and he is a single dog, he has to cook and eat by himself every day, so he is still very familiar with the general home-cooked food.
After tasting the two dishes he made separately, Luo Tian was slightly disappointed.
Because there are many seasonings in this era, there are not many kinds of seasonings compared to Luo Tian's previous life, so their taste is not delicious at all.
However, being able to eat stir-fried food in this era, Luo Tian was already very satisfied, and Luo Tian didn't think about it: "After I take power, I will inevitably send people everywhere to find all kinds of spices." I will inevitably overturn the perception of food in this era, and bring all the delicacies of the earth to this era.
Luo Tian was in the imperial dining room and ate two bowls of small rice with these two stir-fried vegetables.
Millet and the rice we eat now are not the same variety at all, millet is also called millet, called millet in the north, millet shelled into millet, its grain is small, about 1 mm in diameter. Millet is one of the oldest cultivated crops in the world, originating in the Yellow River Valley of China and being the main food crop in ancient China. Millet grows drought-tolerant, with a wide variety of varieties, commonly known as "millet has five colors", there are various colors of millet such as white, red, yellow, black, orange, purple, etc., and there are also sticky millet. The earliest liquor in China was also made from millet.
After Luo Tian finished his dinner in the imperial dining room, he asked Xiao Shunzi to take some materials for making refined salt and chicken essence in the imperial dining room, and then went back to his Weiyang Palace.
After going back, Luo Tian started to make refined salt and chicken essence again, and this time Luo Tian called Xiao Shunzi, Xiao Dezi and several other eunuchs who he thought were smarter, and he handed over the production method to a few of them while making refined salt and chicken essence.
After a few of them learned, Luo Tian didn't have to do it himself. Of course, these eunuchs can be said to be trusted by Luo Tian, and it should not be a problem for them to keep secrets. Of course, Luo Tian also has his own means, if anyone leaks the production method without his permission, Luo Tian will also let him know how many paintings there are in the dead word.
And just after Luo Tian left the imperial dining room, several top chefs in the imperial dining room saw His Majesty leave, and they gathered around the place where Luo Tian had dinner before, and several top chefs stared hard at the leftovers left on the plate, trying to see the way out from this bit of residue.
I don't know how long the chefs stared at these two empty plates, but suddenly the oldest old chef walked up and came to the edge of the plate, and after a little hesitation, he stretched out his left hand and carefully twisted a relatively large leftover from the empty plate, sniffed it with his nose first, and then put the leftovers into his mouth and chewed it.
And while the old chef was chewing the leftovers, the attention of the other chefs was also focused on the old chef, to be precise, they should all be staring at the old chef's chewing mouth.
The old chef chewed for a moment before swallowing the leftovers with a revervading face, and with a "grunting" sound, the leftovers slid down the old chef's throat and into his stomach.
With the old chef's "grunt", several cooks next to him also made the sound of swallowing saliva.
A chef couldn't help but ask, "How is Old Wei?" ”
"It's delicious! It turns out that you can still do this! The old man has been cooking for most of his life, and he didn't expect to be able to do this! ”
Hearing this, the rest of the chefs did not hesitate, and stretched out their hands to grab the two plates, and each of them grabbed a large or small leftover, and immediately put it in his mouth and tasted it.
While a few chefs were tasting the two leftovers, the old chef surnamed Wei began to taste the soup again.
"Suck ......"
As Chef Wei took a mouthful of the soup and made a sound, the rest of the chefs came back to their senses from the two dishes, and when they saw Wei Lao's movements, several chefs took out their spoons out of nowhere and launched an attack on the leftover soup.
Suddenly, there was a burst of "sucking and slipping" in the imperial dining room...... Sucking ...... sound, if an outsider sees the appearance of several imperial chefs here, they will definitely not think that they are imperial chefs, because they look like refugees fleeing from the famine.
After tasting this soup, an imperial chef couldn't help but ask: "Why can a simple green vegetable soup taste so delicious?" ”
Hearing this imperial chef's question, the rest of the imperial chefs also asked the same question.
At this time, the old imperial chef surnamed Wei saw what he thought, so he said: "It must be the contents of those two small bottles in His Majesty's hands that make this dish so delicious!" ”
After hearing Wei Lao's words, the rest of the imperial chefs all entered the memories, and in the memories, His Majesty made these two dishes, including the soup, and there were the contents of the two small bottles.
One bottle was white like grains of sand, and the other was yellow and grainy, and I don't know what the two bottles contained.
"I hope your majesty will be able to do it tomorrow! If Your Majesty comes, I will have to ask Your Majesty for clarification. ”
The old imperial chef surnamed Wei suddenly said expectantly.
Weiyang Palace, side hall.
Luo Tian remade the refined salt and chicken essence once, because the method was really simple, Luo Tian only gave some explanations slightly, and several little eunuchs also learned quickly.
After Luo Tian finished doing it once, he asked a few little eunuchs to try it, and he guided the little eunuchs on the side.
Fortunately, a few little eunuchs did not disappoint Luo Tian, Luo Tian just pointed a little, and several little eunuchs made refined salt and chicken essence.
On the second day, Luo Tian got up to practice when he was as ugly as usual, and only stopped for breakfast when he was old, took a moment to finish breakfast, and began to practice after a short rest.
Because Luo Tian wanted to make a few dishes for the Queen Mother today, he ended the study in advance and came to the imperial dining room with refined salt and chicken essence.
Of course, before coming, Luo Tian had already sent Xiao Dezi to Wanfu Palace to report the matter, and asked the Queen Mother to wait for His Majesty to send lunch after a while.
After hearing Xiao Dezi's words, the Queen Mother was a little stunned, how old is the emperor! Do you want to cook for yourself?
The Queen Mother was surprised for a while and was relieved, but she was a little expectant, what kind of dishes would the emperor cook for herself?
After Luo Tian came to the imperial dining room, several imperial chefs had been waiting for a long time, and they had heard the eunuch announce that His Majesty would come, so they were waiting here, trying to find out what His Majesty's two bottles of things were.