Chapter 399: Buns are hard to make

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Cai Minde remains neutral, Li Qi is very useful and understanding, he knows that Cai Minde is actually very arrogant, if Jade Xuan, Zui Xianju, and Fan Lou cooperate, it must be centered on Zui Xianju, and even if he wins, Fan Lou is the biggest winner, which Cai Minde can't accept, and the two of them are facing each other across the river, and they have always been in a competitive relationship, so the two of them can go to Jiangnan to cooperate to open a store, but it is impossible to cooperate in Tokyo.

Cai Minde was originally the key to the outcome of this business battle, but now because he chose to remain neutral, even he himself could not estimate who would win in the final between Zuixianju and Jinlou

But no matter where he wins, he can get a lot of benefits, if the drunken immortal residence wins, Fan Lou is the biggest beneficiary, and it does not have much impact on Jade Xuan, after all, Fan Lou has always been very strong, he can still fall into the well and make a profit, on the contrary, he can also rely on his geographical advantages in Nancheng to snatch the interests of the drunken immortal residence in Nancheng, so it is undoubtedly his best choice to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

Li Qi naturally didn't want Cai Minde's opportunity, and that night, he began to prepare for the food competition with Jinlou.

As soon as the fourth watch arrived, he got up from the bed, and when he came to the kitchen, Wu Xiaoliu, Lu Meimei and Zhang Run'er had already lit the fire.

"Brother Li (Brother Li)." When the three of them saw Li Qi coming, they hurriedly saluted.

Li Qi was very satisfied with their work attitude, and snorted, and said: "Lu Meimei, Run'er, the soup dumplings I am going to make today are very complicated, and the requirements are very detailed, which is a big test for you, so you must take it seriously, let me see the results of your RI exercises." ”

The two women said in unison: "Yes." ”

Li Qi nodded, walked to the table, opened the burlap bag on the table, and saw that it was made of wheat flour, and nodded with satisfaction. I walked to the basket in the corner and looked at it, only to see that there were fresh, hard and solid river crabs inside.

After checking all the ingredients, Li Qi said: "Liuzi, you and I are responsible for boiling the filling, Lu Meimei and Run'er, and the two of you are responsible for the bun skin." ”

The four of them said in unison, "Yes." Then they went their separate ways. The first thing to do is naturally to boil the soup, fill the soup dumplings, the soup filling is the key, and it takes at least two or three hours to boil this broth.

Li Qi first blanched the old hen and pig's shoulder bones, and then added water, ginger, green onions, and wine to the pot to boil the soup together. Then he said to Wu Xiaoliu: "What about the pigskin?" ”

Wu Xiaoliu took more than a dozen pieces of pigskin. Curious: "Brother Li, this pork skin is not delicious, what are you doing with it?" ”

Li Qi asked rhetorically, "Have you ever tasted this pigskin?" ”

Wu Xiaoliu said hehehe: "Yesterday, you asked me to prepare pork skin, and I made a little taste with Brother Dazhu, in addition to being chewy, it is really not good." ”

Li Qi smiled: "That's what you won't do, sue you, this pigskin is a good thing, you can eat it to nourish your face." The taste is especially delicious, too. ”

Wu Xiaoliu's eyes widened and said, "Brother Li, you won't blind me, right?" ”

"I'm not so bored anymore because of you. You'll find out later, okay. Let's get to work first, you follow me. ”

"Oh."

Li Qi first scraped off the pig skin and fat, blanched the water, and then scraped and washed. As he did it, he said: "You remember, a piece of processed pork skin must not feel greasy to the touch." That's what it's all about. ”

"Hmm. I know. Wu Xiaoliu read it once, and then learned to do it.

Soon, the two of them had finished processing more than a dozen pieces of pigskin. Li Qi soaked the pigskin in clean water, boiled a large pot of water, poured all the crabs into it, and saw that the soup was not yet boiled, so he walked to Lu Meimei's side, looked at it for a while, and saw that they were very skillful, and he was very relieved, the woman's hands were more delicate in the end. "Remember, the dough must be kneaded until it is smooth and firm. ”

"Oh."

Li Qi instructed them for a while, and when the chicken was boiled, he took out the chicken and put the washed pork skin into the chicken soup pot. It was the first time Wu Xiaoliu saw Li Qi add pork skin to the broth, and he was puzzled.

As soon as it was ready, Richie fished out all the crabs from the hot water, put them in a basin, and took out a pair of scissors, a rolling pin, and a sharpened bamboo stick. Wu Xiaoliu knew that Li Qi was going to deal with crabs, but he had never seen a rolling pin and bamboo sticks to handle crabs, so he was curious: "Brother Li, what is this bamboo stick for?" ”

Li Qi said: "This is not called a bamboo stick, it is called a crab stick, you will watch me do it later, and I will teach you how to take out the crab meat and crab paste as quickly as possible." ”

Wu Xiaoliu nodded vigorously, crabs are also his favorite.

Li Qi quickly cut off the crab's feet with scissors, then used a rolling pin to roll out the crab legs, and then used the crab stick to quickly hollow out the paste and meat in the crab's body, which was so fast that it was jaw-dropping. Wu Xiaoliu, who watched it, was even more dazzled, and exclaimed: "Brother Li, Brother Li, can you slow down, I can't remember." ”

ri。 Forget about this kid. Li Qi smiled apologetically, took out another crab, and demonstrated it to Wu Xiaoliu in slow motion, telling him some things to pay attention to.

This craft looks simple, but it's not so easy to do. Wu Xiaoliu had just finished processing a crab according to the method taught by Li Qi, but Li Qi had already hollowed out four crabs over there, which not only made him a little discouraged, but said, "Brother Li, when will we be like you?" ”

Li Qi smiled: "I guess it will be a few years." This is not an exaggeration at all, because his crab handling skills are among the best in later generations, and his fastest record for handling crabs is only one minute and forty seconds.

Years? Wu Xiaoliu was depressed.

After a while, I saw a small pot of freshly peeled crab roe, crab paste and crab meat on the table, shiny and golden, exuding a rich fragrance. After Li Qi finished processing the crabs, he scooped up the eight-ripe pork skin and minced it, then put it in chicken soup to boil, then added cooking wine, ginger slices, and other ingredients, and finally threw a handful of washed shallots into it.

Wu Xiaoliu said curiously: "Brother Li, don't you chop this green onion?" ”

Li Qi smiled: "I put these in to eliminate the miscellaneous smell of chicken soup and pork skin, and this green onion is used to absorb the impurities floating up, so when boiling this soup, you have to constantly scoop the soup with a spoon, so that the miscellaneous smell of pork skin and chicken soup can be fully distributed, understand?" "Between words. He was already scooping up the soup with a big spoon.

Wu Xiaoliu nodded and said, "I understand." ”

"It's good to understand, you can scoop it."

"Huh?"

"Ahh Li Qi said with a straight face, but said in his heart, this kind of coolie and unskilled work, there is no reason for me to do it as a master.

Wu Xiaoliu finally succumbed to Li Qi's authority, honestly picked up the big spoon and scooped it up, and said secretly, I'm afraid even Brother Ma can do this job.

Richie let out a sigh of relief. Seeing that Lu Meimei and Zhang Run'er were already rolling the bun skin, she hurriedly walked over, picked up a piece of bun skin and looked at it, shook her head and said, "No, everything has to be redone." ”

The second daughter was shocked and looked at Li Qi blankly. What they are best at is making pastries, but they didn't expect Li Qi to deny it all in one sentence.

Li Qi sighed: "I can't blame you, the soup dumplings are not the same as other steamed buns, and they are very particular about the skin of the buns." The thickness is required to be very uniform, the wetness, dryness, softness and hardness are just right, and the middle is slightly thicker, and the edges are thin. So you usually have to use two rolling pins, so I'll show you first. ”

After that, Li Qi took two rolling pins and skillfully rolled out a piece of bun skin. He handed it to them and said, "It must be rolled out like this." ”

The second daughter took the bun skin and looked at it, and sure enough, it was thicker in the middle and thinner on the edges. They practiced according to Richie's rolling method again. However, they had never used double-rolled noodles, and they were very rusty to use.

Li Qi patiently guided on the side, and sighed secretly in his heart, how could I ignore this, this soup dumpling has such high requirements for rolling skin and filling, ordinary people don't have a few years of hard work, and they can't do it well at all, although Run'er They have a foundation and can learn quickly, but how can the two of them be busy and win, but where to find so many skilled hands this time?

Just when he was frowning, a person suddenly appeared in his mind, and this person was Cai Jing. Before Li Qi took care of Cai Jing's diet, Cai Jing had to eat the crab roe bun every day, which can be said to be his favorite, and making this crab roe bun in the Taishi Mansion can also be described as painstaking, which can be called a professional assembly line project. There are those that specialize in cutting shredded green onions, wrapping stuffing, rolling bun skins, and so on. A bun has to go through the hands of more than a dozen people to complete, these people usually don't do other things, they specialize in making buns for Cai Jing, and they are all good hands.

However, after Li Qi went and strictly controlled Cai Jing's intake of cholesterol, the steamed bun group of Taishi Mansion was basically abolished, and now it is just borrowed for use.

Li Qi immediately summoned Aunt Chen and said, "Auntie, you immediately send someone to the Taishi Mansion, just say that I invited the Taishi to come to the Qin Mansion to drink steamed buns, remember to drink steamed buns." ”

Drinking buns? Although Aunt Chen was full of confusion, she didn't say much, and nodded: "Hey, I'll go now." ”

Li Qi nodded, and suddenly thought that since it was a tasting, it would be better to call some people to come, and said, "Wait a minute, auntie, you can send some more people to invite the fourth little prince and Feng Niangzi to come." ”

Aunt Chen naturally heard the prestige of the four little boys, answered the call, and went out.

After Li Qi finished instructing, he returned to the board and instructed Lu Meimei and Zhang Run'er how to roll the bun skin. Before you know it, it's already dawning. The pot of pork skin chicken soup was also boiled into a half-pot, and it looked very sticky. The impurities in the soup have already been fished out, but Wu Xiaoliu is tired and panting like a dog.

It was the first time in his life that he had seen such a difficult bun.

Li Qi not only did not praise him, but teased: "Sixth son, Brother Li sees that you usually have to practice more physically, you look at you, you only did it for a while, and then you gasped like this, about this, you have to learn from Lu Meimei and Run'er." ”

When the two daughters heard this, they all bowed their heads and snickered.

Is this still called for a while? Wu Xiaoliu's eyes were filled with tears, and he was extremely aggrieved.

Li Qi saw that he was about to cry, and he didn't tease him anymore, scooped the sticky chicken soup into a clean basin with his own hands, and then walked outside with it.

Wu Xiaoliu said curiously: "Brother Li, where are you going?" ”

"Ice cellar." (To be continued.) )

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