Xia Ji came to Zhuye these days, and gradually made the housekeeping management of Xia Mansion improve, and Uncle Xia Yu saw the changes in Xia Mansion after returning home, and admired the new lady's bold innovation ability, and was very happy.

But Xiang Xia Ji is not very accustomed to eating, many cooking methods and seasonings in modern society were not available in ancient times, and this time was too busy, plus the kitchen of Xia Mansion is far from the modern kitchen, and the oil smoke when cooking is too thick, which is not suitable for her, a pregnant woman, to enter and observe, so she did not pay attention to this matter during this time.

The head of the chef is a Jiang Lu who has been working in the Xia Mansion for decades, and Xia Ji learned from the servants around him that Jiang Lu is the only person Kong Mao who does not dare to offend except for Uncle Xia's family, and he has been following his master for a long time and has developed a stubborn and stubborn character.

Xia Ji still can't bear the dishes given to her, and her food has increased greatly in the past few days, and the dishes she eats have changed too little and the taste is not good. So she called Jiang Lu over for questioning.

"Jiang Lu, I heard that you have been following Master Sima for decades, and you have worked hard all these years." Xia Ji was very respectful of the old man, and Jiang Lu looked like a fifty-year-old person although he was only about forty years old.

"Back to Mrs. Niang's life, the old man came to Chen's Mansion at the age of seventeen, and he has been in the kitchen, and he should work hard, and he can only do his own things." Jiang Lu didn't know what Mrs. was going to say, and he didn't know what Mrs. New was going to be, so he couldn't help but be a little nervous.

"I asked you to come today mainly to learn about some cooking in the kitchen."

"Oh. It's my fault, I should take the initiative to ask you for advice on the dish, because we don't know anything about your taste. ”

"I didn't mean to complain about you, I just wanted to know about the situation, because Chen Guo is still different from my hometown after all."

"Oh. Now the situation is like this, in winter because of the season, there are not many varieties of vegetables, now only a limited number of vegetables can be supplied, meat and fish are purchased outside, chickens are raised by ourselves, pigs are also killed regularly, and one more pig is killed when the year is approaching. ”

"I know, I want to know how the kitchen works."

"The food in the kitchen is usually served by a special person, and after being delivered to the kitchen, it is cleaned and processed separately, and the best ingredients and fish are supplied to the Sima family, and the other ingredients are supplied to us. The ingredients supplied to Master Sima's family are prepared and cooked by a special person, and arrangements are usually made in advance. ”

"Did you make the dish I ate or did someone else make it?" Natsuhime knew that the dishes at that time were basically only steamed and boiled, so poor taste was unavoidable. He was aware of this when he was in Jeong, but he was powerless to change the situation.

"I make meat and fish, and other foods such as vegetables are made by others."

"Oh. Would you like to take me to see the stove that cooks for me? ”

"Good. Madame, please. ”

Jiang Lu took Mrs. to the kitchen, only to see that it was messy and the smell was very strong, which was really unbearable.

The copper kitchenware used to cook for the Xia family is basically a combination of cooking and stove, and the design is too complicated and ineffective. The stove for the servants was too large, and they used large pans to cook vegetables and porridge.

After Xia Ji made a survey of the kitchen, she had a bottom in her mind and instructed Jiang Lu to immediately start doing a few things: first, set up a separate small kitchen, build a small wood-burning earthen stove in it, install a cutting board, and arrange a young chef to be responsible for sanitation and cooking; The second is to find a round thick copper plate in the coppersmith shop to make a stir-fry pot and make two copper spatulas, both of which Xia Ji has drawn the drawings and marked the size; The third is to make a copper grill and a copper hot pot that burns charcoal, which is also a good drawing.

Three days later, Jiang Lu made the small kitchen, copper wok, copper hot pot, and copper grill according to Xia Ji's requirements.

In charge of the small kitchen is Jiang Lu's son Jiang Wei, the young man has been an apprentice with his father for several years, and the white case and cooking knife skills are good.

Xia Ji asked Jiang Wei to prepare all the supplies in the kitchen, and asked him to prepare some meat, fish and vegetables, and prepare the ingredients and other things as much as possible, and then come to the small kitchen in person, she wants to show her own stir-fry skills, so that Jiang Wei can learn modern cooking methods.

First of all, she made the simplest scrambled eggs. Since there were no tomatoes at that time, and there were no seasonal vegetables in winter, she could only make pure scrambled eggs, so that Jiang Wei could understand how to stir-fry vegetables first.

Although Xia Ji didn't do housework when she was studying before, she has always been interested in cooking, and she also watched the show "A Bite of China" very seriously, and often cooked at home to show her parents, but she didn't expect to become a unique expert in this field here.

Jiang Wei saw Xia Ji put oil and salt in the hot pot, and then put the beaten eggs in and stir-fried left and right, and it didn't take long for him to serve it, and a plate of delicacies he had never seen before came out of the pot, and after tasting it, he exclaimed, because the eggs he ate before were all boiled, and the eggs did not taste like oil and salt, how could he have thought that he could do this?

After teaching scrambled eggs, Xia Ji also taught him how to cook dishes such as stir-fried vegetables and fried shredded pork, and asked him to make a few things with a spatula. Jiang Wei learned things very carefully and had a strong ability to accept, and it didn't take long to master the essentials: how to master the heat, when to put oil and salt, what to fry and so on.

Xia Ji was worried that Jiang Wei would not be able to remember everything by teaching too much, so she only taught the preparation of a few home-cooked dishes first.

The next day, Jiang Wei made these home-cooked dishes in style, Lord Sima felt very incredible after eating these dishes, and immediately shouted to reward the chef, and the servant next to him immediately told him that he was made by the person who taught the kitchen by the new lady, and Lord Sima was amazed, how could he never have thought that a dignified princess would be so smart and let him eat the best delicacy in the world that he had never eaten before.

Xia Ji smiled, thinking that this small dish made by an apprentice who had not been taught could be called the best delicacy in the world? How to describe eating better in the future?