Hearing Li You's shout, Zhou Gan, the chief of the palace catering office, who had been waiting outside for a long time, hurriedly beckoned the eunuchs who were passing the meal to breakfast.

Breakfast consists of six courses, four pastries, a soup and a jug of wine.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the social customs were luxurious, and a prince's breakfast served at least 64 dishes or more. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was not long after the founding of the country, and the social atmosphere still advocated frugality.

Li You looked at the breakfast on the table in front of him, and his brows furrowed tightly.

The six dishes in front of him include tempeh and sour celery, salted okra, sesame pineapple, donkey meat with acacia flower sauce, salted phoenix feet, and lotus root slices. The noodles include steamed cakes, sesame cakes, chicken cakes, and osmanthus cakes. The soup is mutton soup, and the wine is green ant wine.

The food is very delicately made, and the style is also generous and beautiful. The tableware is very exquisite, three-color carved three-legged plate, Arabian gilt silver plate, fish tail handle bronze carved spoon chopsticks, rhyme white agate cup and so on.

When the average person sees these exquisite dishes, they must have a big appetite.

However, Li You is exquisite!

Seeing that the prince was with this expression, Zhou Gan's heart fluttered. These dishes were carefully selected by them, and the prince had just recovered from a serious illness, and his appetite must be worse. These dishes are appetizers, should suit his taste? However, the prince doesn't look satisfied?

Zhou Qian cautiously asked, "Lord Wang, are you dissatisfied?" Or the slave told them to redo it? ”

Li You sighed and said, "Alas, it turns out that all I used to eat was pig food." ”

Zhou Qian was taken aback, the people in their catering department were also sent by the catering bureau, and their level was the same as those imperial chefs in the palace, and the menu was the same as that in the palace. If the words of the prince are spread out, doesn't it mean that His Majesty and the ladies eat pig food every day?

He hurriedly knelt down and said, "Lord Wang, the slave and maid should be damned, I didn't serve you well, please punish you." ”

"Get up, I don't blame you for this. Go and call the staple food, the main meal, and the healer. Li You said.

Zhou Qian hurriedly went out to call people, and after a while, he and the main people in the dining room arrived. ”

These people in front of Li You, Zhichang Zhou Qian is the head chef, responsible for management and procurement; The staple food Wang Liao is in charge of the pastry; The main meal, Gao Zhiming, is in charge of the dishes; Medical officer Niu Mangui is responsible for food safety and nutrition.

The three people who came behind listened to Zhou Qian on the way to say that the prince was not satisfied with today's breakfast, and they were all very nervous, looking at Li You and not daring to say anything.

Li You frowned and said, "These dishes, this soup, and this wine, alas, how can people eat them?" ”

Zhou Qian cautiously asked: "Lord Wang, please give me some advice, if something is not good, the slaves and maids will immediately improve." ”

In this era, there are too many things missing, there is no soy sauce, chili, soda ash, cumin, monosodium glutamate, ......, it is difficult for these chefs. Li You sighed again, stretched his brows and said, "Hey, you are also dedicated, it is not difficult for you, I will guide you." ”

When they heard him say this, they breathed a sigh of relief. However, they were a little unimpressed with the fact that the prince wanted to instruct them.

Li You said: "This egg custard is dark yellow in color, wrinkled on the surface, hard and bitter. Do you know why? ”

Everyone looked at each other and thought it was a little interesting.

Li You said: "This is mainly because your method of concocting is wrong. Eggs should be prepared with 30 degrees of cooked warm water, add three times the amount of warm water, stir must be light, try not to foam, before basketing, the water must be boiled, the top of the bowl should be lid, the lid can not be tightly covered, to leave a finger wide gap. In this way, there are no honeycomb-like folds after steaming, and it is soft and tender. ”

The ancients really didn't know that after boiling the water, it was placed at 30 degrees before use, and they didn't know that there was so much attention to it.

The people will be skeptical. The staple food Wang Liao said: "Thank you for your guidance, and the villain will follow your instructions as soon as he goes back." But what is this temperature of 30 degrees? ”

The ancients didn't have thermometers, which is hard to explain. Li You thought for a while and said, "It's just a little lower than your body temperature." ”

"Oh, my lord, the slave and maid understand." Wang Liao said.

"Also, these pastries are very well made, but the taste is slightly sour, which is a natural phenomenon of pasta fermentation. You've spiced it up, but you still can't hide the sourness. In fact, as long as you add a little halogen alkali to it, you can naturally eliminate this sour taste. Hi, it's a pity that there is no soda ash, that one works better. ”

"Really?" Wang Liao became excited. He couldn't wait to go back and give it a try.

The people of the Tang Dynasty basically did not eat beef, not because they didn't like it, but because public opinion opposed it. Cattle are a means of transportation, the main force of ploughing the fields, and a friend of mankind. The Tang Dynasty ordered that the slaughter of ploughing cattle was prohibited, and if they were slaughtered, they had to be approved by the government at or above the state level. It can only be eaten by top elites like the royal family.

Li You pointed to the sauce beef and said, "This sauce beef is doing this, it's bad." Forget it, I won't say how you did, I'll give you a prescription.

2 catties of beef tendon, appropriate amount of green onion and ginger, appropriate amount of various spices, 5 yuan of purple sugar, 5 yuan of dry yellow sauce, 3 yuan of sweet noodle sauce, old braised soup, cooking wine, and appropriate amount of salt.

Wash the beef shankin meat, fry the hot salt without oil in the pot, add 3 money pepper and fry the fragrance, let it cool and set aside, and massage the beef shank meat with your hands......

Turn off the heat and simmer for half an hour. After boiling again, the heat is low for two quarters, and it can be easily pierced with chopsticks to mature. Soak the beef in the braised soup overnight to taste.

Hearing Li You say so professionally, several people were convinced. The main chef Gao Zhiming asked, "Lord Wang, your recipe sounds very good." Just, what is this dark soy sauce and light soy sauce? ”

Li You was even more depressed when he heard this, there is really no old soy sauce and light soy sauce. He said: "Forget about the dark soy sauce and light soy sauce. ”

Then, he pointed to the mutton soup and said, "This soup contains red dates, longan and wolfberries." These things are tonics, but they don't go together. Goji berries can be paired with sea ginseng to tonify the kidneys. ”

The medical officer Niu Mangui was very surprised and said: "Lord Wang, there are so many exquisiteness here, and the minister has learned it." However, can you explain this to the minister in detail? ”

Li You said: "The knowledge here is deep, and it is not clear in a few words, in a few days, I will give you a health sutra, you can study hard." ”

After saying this, Li You said: "Okay, at noon today, I will cook you a dish and let you see what is what people eat." ”

"This ......" Zhou Qian was so frightened that he knelt on the ground all of a sudden, and the other three also knelt down.