In these days, it is better to make people eat a full meal than to say big things, and if there is anything more satiety, it is to make them eat with oil on their mouths.

Li Xiao decided to cook this first meal in the open space of the compound, which could be regarded as a housewarming banquet for returning to Li's house. However, when the cook Lao He brought his proud three-mouth iron pot, Li Xiao found that he still miscalculated the situation.

The first iron pot, Lao He personally carried it. This pot······ It's very good-looking, why do you say that, because this pot is copper, a pot made of copper, which is very valuable. Datang's money is copper, not pure copper, so Datang copper is equal to money, and Lao He actually carried a copper pot.

The main body of the pot resembles a large copper basin with a handle on it. If it weren't for the pot at the bottom, like a basin, made deeper, it would be a bucket.

"Lang Jun, this is the best pot in our family, the copper pot with a beam, it is worth a lot, a treasure in the kitchen. Every time a distinguished guest came, the head of the house ordered to cook in this pot. ”

Li Xiao was helpless, the copper pot was quite valuable, but this pot was too small. Li Xiao thought that the three iron pots at home were very big, but now that this Tiliang copper pot is at most about the size of an induction cooker, how much meat can be stewed, make do with it, and it is suitable to use it as a hot pot.

Lao He is still there, "The aristocratic families in Chang'an use a silver pot with a beam, and the whole pot is made of silver. ”

Xue Wu laughed on the side, his family really has a silver pot with a beam, and there is more than one mouthful, if you want to say, in the aristocratic family of Chang'an City, who doesn't have a few silver pots, not to mention the silver pot, what kind of silver tableware every family has. Only ordinary people use copper pots, and only iron ones use when they order again.

Li Xiao pinned his hopes on the second iron pot.

Zhuangzi came over more than 40 people, plus 11 people left in this house, as well as Xue Wu, Zhao Lushi and other guests, what about 60 people today, what is enough to rely on that small copper pot.

However, the second iron pot is also disappointing, because it is still small.

The shape of this iron pot is different, with three legs and two ears, which is like a small tripod. It's made of iron, but it really looks like a small incense burner, and it doesn't look as big as the trash can used by the family.

This pot is also called a three-legged iron pot by the Tang people, and there are also iron bells. It's no problem to cook a family of six or seven people, and it's okay to cook a few bowls of noodles, but it's really not good to cook a big pot of dishes.

The last pot is quite large.

"San Lang, this pot used to be the biggest iron pot in our Lanxi." Lao He said proudly.

This pot looks quite similar to the three-legged iron pot, but it has a round bottom and no feet, and has two ears.

Xue Wu said with a smile, "Your family's iron kettle is really quite big, not to mention anything else, just with your family's big iron kettle, your old Li family was indeed quite rich before." ”

The cauldron was called an iron kettle, and it was like a jar that had to be placed on top of the stove or supported by something else. The mouth of the kettle is also round, and it can be used directly for boiling, stewing, frying, etc., which can be regarded as the predecessor of the modern pot.

The kettle is a cooking utensil that has been used since the Qin period, and there used to be pottery kettles, and later copper and iron kettles.

Up to now, many large landlords have iron kettles.

It's just that in Li Xiao's opinion, this kind of iron kettle is really not suitable for cooking, this is more like a stew pot, suitable for stewing, but if it is used for frying and stir-frying, it is extremely inappropriate.

Speaking of which, Li Xiao has never seen a saucer-shaped woks in the Tang Dynasty, let alone anyone who cooks in a stir-fried way.

These days, it is difficult to fry a green vegetable to eat, the pot is not suitable, and the vegetable oil is not available.

"Take this kettle and boil water and stew a pot of meat."

Only this iron kettle is the largest, and the other pots of stew meat can't stew much, so Li Xiao finally changed his mind. Iron kettle stew, let Biaozi chop the pork chops and then stew the soup, there are still some radishes at home, just the ribs stewed radish, no matter how big or small he is, even the bones and meat are directly chopped into the water.

As for the Tiliang copper pot and the three-legged iron bell, the three-legged iron bell is directly used to cook noodles and eat, and Li Xiao plans to make a mutton hot pot.

There are no noodles, which is difficult for Li Xiao, knead the flour sent by the Xue family directly with water to make noodles, and then don't have to roll it by hand, cut it with a knife.

"One pound of noodles, three taels of water, pay attention to beat the dough into ears according to this ratio, and then knead it into dough." Li Xiao instructed Aunt Cuihua and several other women to knead the dough.

Watching the flour of the white flowers kneaded into a ball, everyone was full of spring breeze. Most of the people here have never eaten white noodles in their lives. Usually, the most common thing everyone eats is millet porridge and wild vegetable paste, or yellow rice flour steamed cakes.

Whoever eats white noodles and rice, and many people have never even seen what rice looks like.

Li Xiao is generous, stewed meat in a big pot, steamed rice cakes, this kind of boldness and generosity can be compared with a few masters. Everyone is at ease when they follow such people.

Guanzhong people love to eat noodles, and at this time, Tang people like to call noodles cakes.

Noodles are called soup cakes, steamed buns are called steamed cakes, and noodle soup is called Butuo, etc., but no one has ever done knife-cut noodles, and Li Xiao is teaching everyone a new way to eat today.

Knead the dough and knead the dough before kneading, and when the dough is kneaded evenly and softly, the water has already boiled.

Take a wooden board and put the dough away, support the board with one hand, and hold a knife in the other, Li Xiao stood by the pot and took the knife to cut the noodles, the knife was slashed, and a piece of dough flew up and jumped into the pot.

One piece, two pieces, three or five pieces, and the pieces flew down into the iron pot.

Xue Wu looked at it interestingly from the side, "I can't imagine that there is such a practice on this side?" ”

"It's called knife cutting noodles, and you don't have to work hard to roll out the noodles."

"Your soup cake method is much easier than usual, let me try it." Xue Wu's hands itched, and he couldn't wait to grab it and cut it himself, but it was easy to do and difficult to do, and the strength was not easy to master.

Here the knife cut noodles are put into the pot, and the pork ribs in the big iron kettle over there have been soaked in water, and they are simmering on the fire.

"San Lang, how do you get this mutton hot pot, we don't know it?" Biaozi asked.

"Pick the good lamb and slice it first. The thinner the cut, the better, and when the water boils, it will be cooked directly in the hot soup, and it will be eaten as soon as it is soaked. ”

"Hey, this way of eating sounds fresh, it should feel good." Biao Zi was very happy to hear this way of eating, "Isn't it just to cut the mutton slices, leave it to me, no matter how thin it is." ”

"The thinner the better, as thin as you can, and the thinner as paper is the best."

In the courtyard, there are three pots on the shelf, and a group of people are making fires, cutting meat, and it is not lively.

Zhao Lushi stood under the corridor on the side, looking at the account book handed over by Zhang Fu, and glancing at everyone in the courtyard from time to time, this Li family is really smoking from the ancestral tomb, and they are lucky to go shit, and they can actually make them turn over!

But this Li Xiao looks like a loser.

As soon as you take back the house, you will be such a loser, a loser!

Such a big pot of stewed meat can be tossed for a few days, see how many days he can toss!