Chapter 160: Chicken Cake and Fear of Wife
Zhao Xu and Zhao Hao came all the way to Yang Huairen's Zhuangzi, and the purpose was obvious, just one word, eat. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"I heard that Brother Yang has a hot spring fish pond in Zhuangzi, and there are a lot of puffer fish in the fish pond, why don't you eat puffer fish fish tonight?"
Zhao Xu tilted his head and said lightly, full of emperor style.
But Yang Huairen was busy all afternoon, mixing noodles and burning the stove, just suppressing this kind of work was very physically exhausting, and his arm was already sore.
"Brother Xu, you see my arms trembling and my hands trembling now, do you dare to eat the puffer fish I slaughtered?
Don't say you dare, I don't dare to make it for you if you dare to eat! My buddy just got married, and a lot of good days are waiting for me! ”
Zhao Xu thought about what Yang Huairen said made sense, after all, his identity was too special, even if he was out of the palace, there was a team of big internal guards secretly following, and the personal inner servant Su Gui was even more inseparable, and if he wanted to eat something, it was also necessary for Su Gui to personally try it and be fine, so that he could eat it as an official.
However, Zhao Xu finally didn't have to go to the morning court tomorrow, so he secretly ran out under the pretext of going to the emperor's uncle's house, and traveled thirty or forty miles to Yang Huairen's Zhuangzi, if he couldn't eat something novel and delicious, it would be too much of a loss.
Yang Huairen also thought of this, picked his brain, and had a new idea.
"Since Brother Xu and Brother Zhao have come to my Zhuangzi, as the master, I can't let you go home on an empty stomach, I must let you feast on your food, so as to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, and save you from saying that I Yang Huairen slammed the door.
You won't be able to eat the puffer fish belly, so why don't I get two new things out and let you change the taste. ”
You can't have both fish and bear's paws, Zhao Xu and Zhao Hao feel that since there are no fish, it's not bad to have bear's paws.
Yang Huairen will naturally make this famous dish of honey bear's paw, but unfortunately there is no most important material bear's paw, there is flour in front of him, there are cows in the Zhuangzi who are milking, and the oven is also lit, so it is better to make some chicken cakes.
There are many ways to make chicken cakes, because there is no modern and convenient equipment, you can only use the existing utensils to make a home-cooked one, and no matter which method is used, the most important thing is that the whole process can not be wet.
Four or five eggs, beat them out, separate the yolks and good egg whites, and put them in two large dry bowls.
Beat the egg whites with three chopsticks apart and side by side. Without a whisk, the process of manual whipping is very tiring, but fortunately, Yang Huairen has a good helper called Brother Hei Niu.
In the process of beating egg whites, add a spoonful of caster sugar when the egg whites are beaten evenly, and then stir quickly with force, beat the egg whites until they are foamy, then add a second caster sugar, and then whip until the whole egg whites are all white foamy, and then it is completed when the chopsticks can be erected without external force.
The egg yolk is first added with a spoonful of caster sugar, then slowly beaten well, then a spoonful of butter is added to the egg yolk liquid, lightly beaten as usual, then two to three spoons of fresh milk are added, and stir well.
Using a flour sieve, sift about one-third of the total weight of the eggs used into the egg yolk mixture, add one-third of the egg whites until they are foamy, and stir well.
Finally, pour all the stirred batter into the remaining foaming egg whites, stir until even, Yang Huairen took out his special flat cylindrical soup pot that was originally used to make soup, first smeared a layer of butter on the bottom of the soup pot, preheated the pot first, and then poured the batter into the pot.
Before going to the stove, he gently threw the pot on the ground a few times, the purpose was to shake out the bubbles in the paste, then cover and seal it, put it in the stove in the same position as the unbaked biscuits just now, and fix it.
After about a quarter of an hour of baking, Yang Huairen took out the pot, opened the lid, and an enticing aroma wafted out, so that everyone who smelled the smell couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.
Pour out the baked chicken cake over the pan, cool it for a while, and it's ready to eat.
Seeing Yang Huairen take out his willow leaf knife to cut the chicken cake, Zhao Xu, Zhao Hao and You Shixiong consciously lined up to stand behind Yang Huairen and wait, although Li Heiniu was a martial artist, but his status in this courtyard was humble, so he had to stand at the end of the line.
An emperor, a prince, plus a general and a martial artist, as if they were lined up according to their height, drooling and waiting to eat the chicken cake, the scene can be described as both strange and funny.
But the person who divided the cake was unfair, and a large piece of chicken cake, which was almost more than a foot square, was divided into three parts by Yang Huairen.
He summoned two maids outside the courtyard gate, and ordered them to send one to the back house, for the ladies of the family to taste first, and the second to send it to the stewards in the Zhuangzi, which was counted as a reward, and finally cut the remaining part into five parts, five big men, exactly one for each person.
You Shixiong was hungry for a long time, and when he heard that Yang Huairen sent the first one to the back house first, he blew his beard and laughed at him.
"Oh, I said boy, the old man did a lot of calculations, but he didn't count that your kid turned out to be a person who is afraid of guilt, haha, who do you say you are not good at, but you went to learn Chen Jichang under the skirt of the Hedong lion?"
In ancient China, there were really many celebrities with the disease of "strict wife control", from the famous warrior Zhuan Zhu in the Spring and Autumn Period, to the prime minister Fang Xuanling of the Tang Dynasty, from Gaozu of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Wen of Sui, all of whom were celebrities who were afraid of the inside.
And the most famous wife in the Northern Song Dynasty is strict, none other than Chen Jichang, everyone knows the allusion of the roar of the lion in Hedong, but there is actually a big truth in this story, that is, making friends accidentally ruins a life.
Chen Jichang, a big friend, is the contemporary literary leader Su Dongpo.
In fact, I am afraid of this kind of thing as my wife, so I close the door and play a kneeling washboard game in my own home, which makes my wife smile, which not only cultivates sentiment, but also adds interest to life, as long as outsiders don't know, as a big man, there is nothing to be ashamed of.
But Su Dongpo happened to meet, and also made a poem to describe the scene where Chen Jichang was afraid of his wife, with Su Dongpo's popularity and influence, this poem was recited by his students, and it didn't take long for everyone in the world to know that Chen Jichang was a master who was afraid of his wife.
Even the word fear of guilt has its own noun in this era, called "Ji Chang Fetish".
Yang Huairen is not Chen Jichang, You Shixiong is not Su Dongpo, Yang Huairen definitely has no intention of replacing Chen Jichang's position as the first wife of the Song Dynasty.
"Lao You, Lao You, what do you mean by this?"
Yang Huairen said with a straight face while sharing the cake: "You don't have Mr. Dongpo's ink, you are a rough person, do you still want to write a poem for me?"
Loving his wife is a man's best virtue, do you understand? If you don't understand, you can ask King Jia for advice. ”
Prince Jia is afraid of the princess, and the official and aristocratic circles also know it, but his status is special, and no one dares to laugh at him.
Yang Huairen didn't care, he easily shifted the target, and secretly said in his heart: Brother can easily find a backstabber man with a word, although it is not very authentic to say this, but brother is principled, and he would rather be harmful than damaged!