Chapter 513: How to Eat a Snail (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
"Wow, it smells so good! How delicious is Eun Gong's cooking today? ”
Yu Wuya shouted loudly and walked in from the outside, looking at the people crowded in the kitchen, Chen Jiang's was also there, and suddenly his expression became much calmer, and after bowing to Chen Jiang's, he couldn't wait to walk to the side of the pot, and opened the lid of the pot as soon as he stretched out his hand, and then looked at a pot of long-shelled snails, and couldn't help twitching a few times, but he still couldn't resist the rich and tempting fragrance, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Engong, can you eat it?" ”
"Cover and cover and wait for the soup to drain and eat!" Chen Xu pressed the lid of the pot with a dark face.
"It smells so strange, I think it's cooked!" The moment the lid of the pot was closed, Yu Wuya's hand was quick to grab it inside, and he pinched out a snail, and then threw it into his mouth regardless of whether it was hot or not, and then opened his teeth and prepared to bite down.
"Don't bite~" Chen Xu hurriedly stopped him with black lines on his head.
"Click~" Yu Wuya's mouth let out a clear breaking sound, and then his mouth was half open and his face was depressed, looking at Chen Xu and said vaguely: "Why didn't Engong say it earlier, I have already bitten it!" ”
"You can't bite a snail when you eat it!" Chen Xu said with a dark face.
"How can you eat without biting? Is it a bit difficult to swallow it whole...... But...... Hiss ~ The taste is really good, but the shell is too hard......" Yu Wuya kept nodding while sucking saliva, obviously satisfied with the taste of this spicy snail, and after finishing speaking, he was ready to swallow the snail as soon as he choked his neck.
"Don't swallow~" Chen Xu's face was already black, and ink was about to drip out.
Yu Wuya: ......
"Poof~" Yu Wuya opened his mouth and spit out the bitten snail in the palm of his hand, and said confusedly: "Engong, this snail is not allowed to be bitten or swallowed, how should I eat it?" ”
"Go get me a toothpick!" Chen Xu said to a little maid.
"Yes, Master Hou!" The little maid hurriedly ran out of the kitchen, and after two or three minutes of speaking, Chen Xu opened the lid of the pot again, and found that the soup had almost completely dried up, so he ordered annealing, and put all the snails in a clay pot.
As the snails come out of the pot, a rich aroma with green onions, ginger, garlic, mustard peppercorns, and sauce and lo-mei spreads in the kitchen.
"Goodong~~"
There was a sound of swallowing saliva almost simultaneously inside and outside the kitchen.
Although this dish looks very terrifying, the taste of it is indeed fascinating, and even some timid little maids can't help but swallow their saliva along with it.
"Master Hou, the toothpick you want!" The little maid went and returned, and quickly handed a small bamboo tube to Chen Xu, Chen Xu twisted the bamboo tube cover and turned it half a circle and shook it gently, and a bamboo toothpick fell on his hand.
In front of everyone's eyes, I saw Chen Xu's toothpick poke it, so he picked up a snail and put it in his mouth and sucked it vigorously, and suddenly a rich sauce was sucked into his mouth.
"Well, it tastes good!" Chen Xu felt the taste of the sauce, and felt that although it was not as spicy as the snails that he had eaten in later generations, it was much more delicious, Chen Xu thought about it for a while, and estimated that there were many reasons, such as water quality, as well as the freshness of the ingredients, and the snails were all fresh snails that had been raised for a day, and the ones eaten in later generations were estimated to be not very fresh.
Seeing that Chen Xu was intoxicated after taking a sip of the soup and couldn't open his eyes, the two little girls couldn't help it, and jumped up and shouted like crazy while holding his arm.
"Brother, I want to eat, I want to eat!"
"Brother Xu, Yu Ji also wants to eat snails!"
"Wait, don't worry, I'll show you how to eat delicious snails!" Chen Xu hurriedly took the snail that had absorbed the soup in his hand, stretched it into the shell with a toothpick, and the snail meat was picked out of the spiral-shaped shell, and then was sent into Chen Xu's mouth.
"See, snails are eaten like this!" Chen Xu's empty shell was thrown to the ground, and then he added a finger to look at Yu Wuya and said.
Yu Wuya's handsome face shook slightly, and then he quickly picked up a toothpick and poked a snail.
Chen Xu gave Yu Ji and Xing'er a toothpick each, and the two little girls also poked one by one, following Chen Xu's example, they first took a sip of the soup, and then picked out the meat inside and put it in their mouths.
"Wow, it's delicious, it's delicious!" Apricot jumped and threw the shell and poked one again, only to hear a snort, and Apricot quickly ate another one.
"Sister Xing'er, slow down, leave me a few more!" Yu Ji eats slowly, far less than the apricots, the apricots have eaten three, Yu Ji is still picking the first one, and suddenly her little face is deflated.
Chen Xu took out two pottery bowls and filled them with a bowl for Xing'er and Yu Ji, and let the two little maids lead them to the restaurant to eat.
"Have you seen the method I did just now?"
"See!" Several of the cooks and cooks nodded vigorously.
"You carefully prepare the rest and distribute it to everyone, remember to cook it, by the way, remember to leave some for me!" After Chen Xu finished instructing, he held the clay pot containing the snails and said to Chen Jiang: "Mother, let's go to the restaurant to eat too!" ”
Seeing Yu Wuya and Chen Xu accompany Chen Jiang's family to leave the kitchen with a few maids and walk away, there was a burst of enthusiastic cheers in the kitchen, and all kinds of urging voices continued to sound, several helpers all helped to pick snails, some helped to brush the pots and dishes, and some helped to clean the onions, ginger and garlic, and the whole kitchen was soon lively.
In the restaurant, there is a bowl of snails in front of two little girls, and the toothpicks in their hands dance fast, especially the apricots, one by one, the food is simply not too fast, the speed makes Chen Xu breathtaking, Yu Wuya, Chen Xu two with toothpicks, eating can be much more elegant, provoke a slow sucking taste, and then pick out the meat to eat, after eating the meat to suck the empty shell, and strive to eat the delicious snail completely into a white taste, without leaving a trace of regret.
Chen Jiang and Shui Qingrou refused to eat this spicy snail at first, but they couldn't help but see the two little girls and Yu Wuya and Chen Xu eating so highly, so they couldn't help but be tempted to taste one, and then ...... There was no more, and the whole family gathered around a table to happily eat this delicious delicacy with shells, and the room kept ringing sounds, and soon there were many empty shells on the table.
Chen Xu ate more than ten of them, and then felt that his beautiful yearning for spicy snails had been slightly satisfied, so he said to a few little maids who kept swallowing saliva: "You all come and eat a few first, and the kitchen will send them over later!" ”
"Thank you, Master Hou!" Several little maids immediately smiled, and one of them picked up a toothpick and picked a snail to the side to savor it.
"Actually, this snail needs to be cool to be delicious!" Chen Xu said while eating slowly.
"There's a difference?" Yu Wuya asked a little puzzled.
"Well, after it is cold, the soup is more delicious, the meat is more firm and elastic, if you can still drink some cold beer, it is so comfortable that you can't extricate yourself!" Chen Xu shook his head and said in a panic.
"Eungong, what kind of beer are you talking about? I'm itching to say it, when will I be able to make it? Yu Wuya also drooled with yearning on his face.
"It's not too difficult to make it, but it needs something called hops, which seems to be not available in our Central Plains!" Chen Xu was a little regretful.
"Why don't we have many delicious things in the Central Plains? We don't have the crayfish you said last time! Yu Wuya regretted it even more.
"In fact, our Central Plains is very small, except for the Central Plains, the world is bigger than you can imagine, the mountains and seas have been seen by you, there are many places and strange animals depicted on it are not in our Central Plains, hops are said to be in the Western Regions, but the road is far away and there are deserts everywhere, even caravans rarely go!" Chen Xu shook his head and said.
"By the way, Engong, when will the second pot of immortal brewing you originally said be made, it's been almost two years!" Speaking of beer, Yu Wuya instantly thought of another drink that Chen Xu had told him at the beginning.
"Now that there is an iron pot, you can try to brew the second pot head, and wait until the autumn grain is harvested, and the second pot head will be brewed with Shu millet ......."
Eating and chatting, soon a few catties of snails also ate seventy-seven eighty-eight, Chen Xu's mood was also much better, so he returned to the study and picked up the compass ruler and graphite strip again and began to draw the style of the coin, half an hour later, looking at the painted patterns of one coin, five coins, ten coins, fifty coins on the front and back of the four different coins, Chen Xu collected the drawings and took the car to the Academy of Sciences.
Although the sketch was designed, in order to put it into practice and make it a real model, it also required repeated experiments by craftsmen who were proficient in engraving and casting, after all, the weight of the copper used in each copper coin had strict requirements, and the pattern should be as clear and beautiful as possible.
Chen Xu was busy at the Academy of Sciences all morning, and finally completed the design of the new coin with a few craftsmen, and then arranged for the craftsmen to take the drawings and samples to the factory outside the city to let Gong Win and Ma Gen arrange for someone to pour Qian Fan out of steel as soon as possible, and also drew a simple manual stamping equipment, so that Gong Lose Sheng could make it together to see the effect.
In the past, Qian Fan Chen Xu has seen, it is a mold made of clay, divided into two halves, a pottery plate carved out of the front of several copper coins, a pottery plate engraved with the back of the coin, first put the two pieces of pottery together, and then pour the melted copper juice into the small hole, and after the copper juice solidifies, open the pottery fan and pour out a few new copper coins connected together, and then the workers manually separate several copper coins, and simply polish the burrs on the edge after cooling.
This method is extremely primitive, not only slow but also very dangerous, hot copper juice and copper coins often burn foundry workers, and make a simple manual stamping equipment is very simple, both sides of the money fan are poured with steel, and then fixed on the stamping equipment, put on a very thin piece of soft copper, press the pusher, a coin is minted under the impact of the money fan, if you want to design more delicately, you can also set up a horizontal conveyor, Each time the coin under is stamped, it moves one square forward, and the minted copper coin automatically falls off and falls into the water to cool down.
Of course, these are Chen Xu's ideas, and they have also told several craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences, as for what they can do, they can only look at the level of Gong Win and hemp pole and factory craftsmen.
However, it will not be too difficult to make a simple machine such as a threshing machine, a blank drawing machine, a mixer, etc., and it will not be too difficult for such a simple equipment, just to see the effect after the final production is successful, but it should be much faster and safer than using the original pouring method.
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