Chapter Forty-Six: The Secret Art of King Huainan?

In an era where eating wild vegetables has become a daily routine, eating a plate of domesticated cabbage is a treat.

In fact, ginger spinach is Yunlang's favorite green leafy vegetable, as for ginger cabbage, it is a little bit less meaningful, mainly because the cabbage is sweet, and there is no refreshing taste of spinach.

Yun Lang very much hoped that Zhang Qian, who had already been sent to the Western Regions, would be able to bring back his beloved spinach, and not let this dish appear until the Tang Dynasty.

As far as he could imagine, in the Western Regions, spinach must have grown all over the mountains......

Changping is coming, the family always has to prepare a little food to entertain, Huo Qubing said very clearly, when Changping came over, he didn't need a guard of honor, he didn't bring extra entourage, so he took Huo Qubing and the two palace maids over.

That's when the family is good to socialize.

Liang Weng's frail and sickly wife is very careful, and a jar of soybean sprouts is taken care of for white and chubby...... It's just a pity that there is no spinach......

Neither did the vermicelli...... In order to add a little nice color, I had to use camelina cabbage.

A spoonful of hot oil is poured down, and the smell of onion and garlic fills the room.

The tofu was accidentally thinned and ended up turning into bean curd...... No matter what, Huo Quzhi has already drunk two bowls, and it is estimated that Changping likes it too.

The most indispensable thing is the braised hoof, simmering in the clay pot for a day, the chopsticks poke lightly, there is a crystal grease flowing out of the red bright skin gap, the fragrance is crispy, and the flesh and bone will be automatically separated with a slight shake.

The large grass carp without pollution was originally very suitable for braised grass, but unfortunately there was too little soybean oil in Yunlang's house, so he had to add ginger and shallots to steam, and under the fumigation of the fire, the outer fish skin burst open, revealing the white meat like garlic cloves inside, and dipped in vinegared water marinated in green onion and ginger, which should taste more delicious than any mutton.

Yun Lang had never seen how the cooks of big families cooked, but with the constant drooling of the two maids who took the lead in Changping, Yun Lang no longer had any hope for the food of the Hou family of Changping.

Chicken is naturally suitable for stewed soup, a casserole with a faint oil flower, but clear and transparent soup, and a whole yellow and clear fat chicken, as long as sprinkled with green shallots, is a great appetizer soup.

"My aunt likes to be a vegetarian!"

Huo Quai, who had already begun to eat the fourth pig's trotter, was full of oily flowers, and vaguely instructed Yun Lang.

Yun Lang pointed at Huo Quzhi with a spoon expressionlessly: "Didn't you say that you never eat pig meat?" ”

Huo Quzhi smiled: "How did I know that pig meat was so delicious before." ”

Because it was a separate meal, Yun Lang made two portions of each dish, one was specially prepared for Changping, and the other was for him and Huo Quai.

Huo Quzhi, who has a habit of cleanliness, now has no resistance to the two of them eating a meal.

Before the Han Dynasty, cooking has always been a very high-level profession, and there was even a legend that he became a powerful person because of his good cooking.

It's just that the atmosphere has been bad in recent years, and people gradually don't look down on cooking, thinking that this is a cheap job.

However, the host makes soup with his own hands, which is the greatest respect for the guests, and Yun Lang can be regarded as doing everything in order to shoot Changping's sycophants.

Changping didn't use the guard of honor, but her carriage itself was a guard of honor, plus a groom who liked to show off his might, and after only walking one street, all the eunuchs in Dahuai knew one thing - the newly moved family had a good relationship with Changping......

When standing at the door to greet Changping, Yun Lang had a feeling that someone had a seal on his buttocks, and the chapter was still engraved with the words "princess".

When she saw Changping, she looked like a mother, even if it was a trivial matter like getting off the carriage, she could do it without the right body, the golden step on her head was only slightly shaking, and the person had already gotten out of the carriage.

After getting out of the carriage, he didn't hurry into the courtyard, but saluted around, and then harvested a lot of nonsense that "Weichen didn't dare".

finally entered the courtyard, and there were always charming-looking male and female servants who didn't ask Yun Lang, the master, and kept stuffing things into the Yun family.

From the gold bowls and silver chopsticks for eating, to the fine white jade mats, wine, and even the gold and jade inlaid screens, toilets, and red felt on the floor.

Changping sat on the top with a smile, looking at the delicacies in front of him with satisfaction, and seemed to be very satisfied.

Then she ordered the palace people who served her, and rewarded the delicacies of Yun Lang and Huo Qu in front of her illness to the official eunuchs who sent things.

In the end, Yun Lang and Huo Qubing were left with only one plate of cold bean sprouts in front of them......

"It's kind of hearted!"

Changping dug up the bean curd with the Yun family's unique copper spoon and ate it, closed his eyes and tasted it carefully, and then ordered the palace people to go to the cook to ask for the secret recipe......

After eating five dishes once, I asked for five secret recipes......

Huo Quzhi squatted in front of his aunt like a dog's legs, explaining one by one, anyway, he stood aside and watched when Yunlang was cooking, and he was already full.

Yun Lang didn't have time to eat the only bean sprouts, and just writing recipes used time for a pillar of incense.

When he put down the brush, Changping had finished eating, was wiping his mouth, and said a little embarrassed: "I don't have much appetite at noon today, but I didn't expect to eat too much for dinner." ”

Yun Lang wanted to answer her, yes, it is really rare for a woman to be able to eat almost all five dishes.

Changping has never had leftovers, she had just finished eating, holding the tea offered by Huo Qubing in her hand, and instructed the palace people to eat up the leftovers, and not to leave a grain of rice......

The two palace people seemed to be very happy, filled two large plates of rice, and then snickered in all kinds of joy, it seemed that there was no food left.

"Tea?

It's fresh, it tastes good, and it's comfortable to drink all the internal organs, so take a little when you go. ”

As soon as the words fell, seeing Yun Lang looking at her with blank eyes, Wan Er smiled and pointed to the rattan box brought by the palace people and said: "Inside, look at your monkey anxious appearance, a little Yu Linlang has grown your neck long, poor ......."

Yun Lang wanted to scold very much, but he didn't dare, so he had to open the box with a smirk, look at the armor and seal inside, and smirk.

"Ten days later, I will go to Langzhong Linggongsun Ao with the sick child to become a naturalized official, if you want a bigger official, it depends on yourself.

The Hou Mansion can only help you open the door, and it depends on your own ability to get there.

There will be no owner, men should be self-reliant, what I can do, what I can help is limited to this, the men's family is not good to support too much, if you can't stand the suffering in the army, come back, Shaofu can still enter. ”

Yun Lang held the seal letter and said: "The elders reward, Yun Lang has nothing to say, and the great favor is not grateful." ”

Changping smiled and said, "Xiao Lang has stayed in Huainan?" ”

Yun Lang shook his head in confusion and said: "Cai Di is in the west, Huainan is in the east, Yun Lang has never been there." ”

Changping sighed and said, "I want to come too, but where did you learn this bean soup technique?" ”

"Bean soup?"

Changping saw that Yun Lang was confused, so he pointed to the tofu brain bowl that had been eaten clean by the palace people.

Yun Lang frowned and said: "This is bean curd, also called tofu brain, if it is wrapped in linen, placed in a wooden box, and pressed with a heavy object, it will become tofu, and if it is placed in a shallow dish and continued to press, it will become dried tofu."

The kid has never heard of any bean custard! ”

Changping sighed and said, "Cai Diyun's surname can't find any trace of you......"

Yun Lang took out the declared household registration record from his arms with a gloomy face, handed it to Changping and said, "I am now a member of the Jingzhaoyang Lingyi clan. ”

"The turmoil in Zhongshan has spread to Caidi, and there are countless escapes, and the Yun family is no longer testable.

Yun Lang, tell me, why do you know the secret art of King Huainan? ”

Yun Lang heard Changping say that Cai Diyun's clan was no longer testable, and his tense scalp immediately relaxed.

It's just, what is the secret technique of King Huainan?

Changping continued to sigh and said: "Last year, the king of Huainan entered Beijing, and presented a thing called bean soup to His Majesty, I heard that it was made of black beans, I happened to be here, and I was fortunate to get a bowl, which is very similar to the bean curd you made today, just a dry, a thin, more similar to the tofu you said, but the bean curd you made does not smell the slightest smell of beans, and it is much whiter than the bean soup presented by the king of Huainan, do you do reconciliation?" ”

As long as Changping didn't pursue Cai Diyun's family, Yun Lang was fearless, frowning and whispering: "King Huainan grinds tofu?" ”

"Grind?"

"Yes, soak the beans in water to swell, then put them on the stone mill to grind into a pulp, filter out the dregs with a linen cloth, and then put them into a large pot to boil, if you don't point the marinade at this time, it is soy milk, and it tastes similar to milk, and drinking a bowl every day has the effect of prolonging life.

If a small amount of salt brine is poured into the soy milk, the soy milk will become a tofu brain, which is a bean curd, as long as the bean curd is dug out again, wrapped in a linen cloth, and pressed with a heavy tofu. ”

Changping was stunned, and said after a while: "It's so simple? ”

Yun Lang frowned and said: "This should be a craft that everyone knows, I am still strange, the old servant of the family went out to buy tofu, but he didn't buy it back, so he had to make it himself, can it be ...... There is no tofu to eat in Yangling-eup, Nuoda?

Wait a minute...... What you said about the secret technique of King Huainan is how to make tofu? ”