Chapter 417: Promoting New Vegetables (Part I)
Yang Huairen was stealing fun for making a windfall, and the will of the palace came. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This time it was the Empress Dowager Gao who summoned him to the palace, and the will was straightforward, let him enter the palace to make a dinner for the Empress Dowager and the official family with new vegetables.
Yang Huairen had to admire the old woman in the palace who was well-informed, as long as it was a hot event happening in Tokyo, she basically couldn't escape her eyes.
Before Yang Huairen's new vegetables went on the market, he naturally paid some tribute to the two bigwigs in the palace, but when these tomatoes and potatoes arrived in the imperial dining room, a group of imperial chefs were dumbfounded.
These imperial chefs have never seen this thing, so they naturally don't know how to make delicious dishes, and they can only look at the "dishes" and sigh, so they have to report to the Empress Dowager Gao, these novel vegetables, you need to ask Yang Hou Ye to enter the palace to show them how to make them.
Every time Yang Huairen went to the imperial dining room, he had a feeling of being overwhelmed by the stars, if he was just a cook in the past, he would be easy to be looked down upon by others, but since he became the Hou Ye, he can only be envied.
For these imperial chefs, Yang Huairen actually has nothing to avoid, he is not afraid that the imperial chefs will learn his skills, and second, he is not afraid that the imperial chefs can surpass his skills.
Because these imperial chefs cook in the palace, they will not spread what they have learned outside the palace to form a threat of competition with Suiyuan; Although their level is high enough, their understanding of the taste and production ability of these new dishes is definitely not something that can be comprehended in a while.
In the relationship of time, Yang Huairen can only make one finished dish for each dish, and the production method of these finished dishes is also very simple, which is nothing more than the styles that will be provided to customers next month on the Suiyuan menu.
Tomatoes made a tomato stewed brisket, potatoes made a potato roast beef, sweet potatoes originally he also wanted to roast on the fire casually, but when he thought of a queen mother and an emperor sitting in the palatial palace holding a roasted sweet potato to gnaw there, the picture was too beautiful, so he made a more delicate sweet potato puree sweet soup as a dessert after dinner.
In fact, in the 21st century, Chinese food has gradually begun to integrate the culture of Western food and began a process of self-optimization.
Chinese food In formal occasions, the order of eating dishes at a table of banquets is particular and meaningful, such as serving cold dishes first, and then hot dishes, which means that it is becoming more and more popular; The big dish also pays attention to the meat dish first, then the vegetarian dish, and finally the fish, which means that there is more than enough every year.
Western food, on the other hand, cares more about people's stomach and stomach feelings and the mood of the meal when eating, such as appetizers first, then large dishes, and finally desserts, so that the digestion process of diners is more reasonable, and at the same time, the dining process is maintained from beginning to end, maintaining a happy mood.
Later, Chinese food gradually incorporated this concept of health. Yang Huairen's three dishes also try to maintain this point of view.
Tomato beef stew is similar to the effect of appetizers, while potato roast beef is a big meal, and the sweet potato soup is served at the end, so that diners finally feel sweet and happy.
The imperial kitchen was influenced by the scientific trend of the bigwigs in the court, and it was not possible to make pork for the official family and the empress dowager, so the usual meat was mutton and venison.
Yang Huairen's dish, if the beef is replaced with pork, it is okay, and the impact is not great, but if it is replaced with mutton, the difference in taste is too bad.
Fortunately, when he entered the palace, he brought a lot of high-quality yak meat, which can make up for this realistic restriction of the imperial kitchen.
In the Shou'an Hall of Qingshou Palace, in addition to the Empress Dowager and Zhao Xu, there is another foodie, that is, Yang Huairen's "brother-in-law" Jiawang Zhao Hao, this kid is now a dog, where is there delicious food, he can smell it eight hundred miles away, Yang Huairen was called into the palace by the Empress Dowager Gao for dinner, and he arrived at the Shou'an Palace early.
The family enjoyed the meal very much, especially Zhao Hao and Zhao Xu's uncle and nephew, who were full of praise for Yang Huairen's craftsmanship.
Zhao Xu had earlier instructed Father-in-law Su to pre-order two vegetable gift boxes in advance, and today he sneaked out of the palace to get them back in person, when he first saw the three things in the gift box, although he felt fresh, but he didn't feel so unexpected, and he was once annoyed that he spent thirty yuan in vain.
But now that he has eaten these dishes, his thinking has changed seven hundred and twenty degrees. As an emperor, his ideas were different from ordinary diners, and the first thing he thought of was that since these new vegetables were so delicious, I heard that they could be cultivated and bred in winter, and they should not be kept in Yang Huairen's personal hands, but should be promoted in the Great Song Dynasty.
Zhao Xu brought it up like this, and Empress Dowager Gao also realized the problem, in addition to what Zhao Xu thought of, she also thought that Yang Huairen should have made a lot of money selling vegetables this time, since these new vegetables are so profitable, they should not be controlled in his personal hands.
Yang Huairen was asked by the two bigwigs, and suddenly realized that the attention of the two top leaders of the Great Song Dynasty was a shortcut for him to quickly realize his dream of popularizing these vegetables.
In the past, he only felt that vegetables were not food after all, and it was unlikely to be officially promoted by the imperial court, and if he wanted to realize his dream, he had to contribute his own money and efforts, relying on the influence of people like Zhao Hao and Zhao Ji, and gradually promote it to the people.
But if Empress Dowager Gao and Zhao Xu can see the benefits of promoting these vegetables, can they be promoted through the imperial court?
Zhao Hao understood what her mother meant, and was afraid that Empress Dowager Gao would misunderstand that Yang Huairen was a profiteer, so she hurriedly said to Empress Dowager Gao, "Behind the scenes, before these vegetables went on the market, Yang Zhiyi had already handed over the cultivation technology of these vegetables to his son and Ji'er for free, so that the two of us could plant them on our own imperial farm."
The son decided to spend 10,000 acres of land on the Huangzhuang for the cultivation and breeding of these novel vegetables, and by the summer, there would be a large number of seeds for further popularization and cultivation.
Although the Marquis of Huanxian recently made a lot of money selling vegetables, he once told the emperor that he would use the money to promote these novel vegetables in the Great Song Dynasty in the future, so that the idea of selflessness for the country and the people is worthy of emulation by our courtiers. ”
Oh my brother, why are you so good at talking, it's so interesting, wait for a big health care supper, buddy has to be packed, haha.
Seeing that Yang Huairen's face was full of colorful and colorful flowers, Zhao Hao smiled at him, but what he thought in his heart was, I am so interesting, I will go to your house tomorrow to pull a few carts of potatoes and sweet potatoes to eat at home, you should not be reluctant, right?
"Oh?"
Zhao Xu listened to Zhao Hao's words and looked at Yang Huairen differently, and then he asked, "Yang Zhiyi, how are you going to promote these vegetables?" ”