Chapter 6 The debut of the post-generations of gourmet Zhenguan
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Nowadays, without chili peppers, many classic dishes, such as boiled pork slices, sauerkraut fish, shredded pork, etc., cannot make the taste they should have. However, the sweet and sour series is still okay. Sweet and sour tenderloin, sweet and sour pork ribs, sweet and sour meatballs, etc. are also Wu Yuanqing's favorite dishes.
Wu Yuanqing's first dish is sweet and sour tenderloin, which is his favorite, so he naturally has to be ranked first.
Choose the best tenderloin, cut it diagonally into thick strips, put it in a bowl, add egg whites, salt, pepper, and then put a little bit of syrup to grasp it and set it aside to marinate. Originally, it was supposed to put cooking wine, but at this time, there was no cooking wine, not even a high degree of whiteness, but Wu Yuanqing could only use the three pulp that the nobles often drank at this time instead. It is said that these three berries are fermented and brewed with three kinds of berries, and the degree is not very high, about 30 degrees.
Mix vinegar, sugar, syrup, salt, a little water and starch into a sauce. Mix the flour and cornstarch, pour in an appropriate amount of water to make a batter, pour it into the marinated meat, and grasp well.
Pour oil into the pan, boil until it is 60% hot, put the meat strips in, fry on low heat for about a minute, remove and drain the oil. Continue to heat the oil, when it is 80% hot, pour in the meat strips and fry for a while until golden brown and crispy, then remove and drain the oil.
Leave a little base oil in the pot to heat, fry the minced chives and garlic, add the adjusted sweet and sour sauce and cook until thick, add the fried tenderloin strips and stir-fry quickly, quickly pour in the white sesame seeds and stir evenly, pour out and put on the plate, and a sweet and sour loin with full color and flavor will be freshly out of the pot.
As the sweet and sour tenderloin came out of the pot, the aroma of sesame seeds mixed with the sweet and sour taste of the tenderloin began to spread in the kitchen, and the people who stayed in the kitchen began to swallow their saliva.
The loudest swallowing sound is the two little Lori, the eldest girl and the second girl, the eldest of the two little guys' eyes open, round and shining, staring at the food on the plate without blinking. This stuff is so fragrant.
"Big girl and second girl, come and try my brother's craftsmanship" Wu Yuanqing picked up a large loin with chopsticks, smiled and shook it at the two dumbfounded little loli, "Er Ya is the youngest, Er Ya comes first."
Wu Erya little Lori opened her mouth and was about to bite, but the eldest girl grabbed her sister and said, "My mother hasn't eaten it yet, I should give it to my mother first."
Although Wu Erya was very reluctant to see the delicious food in front of her, after listening to her sister's words, she still said in a milky voice: "Yes, I want my mother to eat it first." said with his mouth, but his eyes stared directly at the meat on the eldest brother's chopsticks.
Wu Yuanqing felt so embarrassed that he was compared to his two younger sisters. Yang's two younger sisters are really polite. It's not a loss to be the daughter of Hongnong Yang.
"In this case, you can quickly bring it to your mother, let your mother taste it first, and you can also taste it together, see if your brother makes it delicious, if it is delicious, my brother will teach it to the cook, and let her make it for you often in the future" Wu Yuanqing said with a smile to the two little girls who kept swallowing saliva.
Watching the maid take her two younger sisters to find her mother, Wu Yuanqing also led the cook who admired him and started the production of other delicacies.
Sweet and sour pork ribs, sweet and sour meatballs, sweet and sour carp, and three sweet and sour dishes are delicious. The cook said that carp cannot be eaten, because now Li in the Tang Dynasty is the national surname, and carp is the same as Li. Listening to what the chef said, Wu Yuanqing remembered that he had seen some stories about the surname Li on the Internet in his previous life.
Because the surname Li has established the most political power in Chinese history, and more than 60 people have been called emperors and kings, so the surname Li has a prominent reputation. But because of this, it also brings a lot of trouble to the common people. According to the record of "Youyang Miscellaneous", because the surname Li is the surname of the country, it is forbidden to eat carp in the Tang Dynasty, and after catching carp, it must be released, and if you dare to sell carp, you will be hit with 60 big plates. This taboo is quite elegant, and there is one more thing that may not be very elegant.
What is the name of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan's father? Li Hu. So, of course, tigers are not allowed to eat, and of course they are generally not allowed to eat. That's not all, no one is allowed to say the word "tiger", and it has to be replaced by another word. Which word? Horse. The word "horse" is not the point, the focus is on an object that we all used to use in the past - the toilet. In fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, the toilet has appeared, but it has not been called "toilet", but "Huzi". In the Tang Dynasty, due to the need to avoid Li Hu's name, Huzi changed his name to Ma Zi. Later, the object was renamed the toilet. At that time, seeing these two stories, Wu Yuanqing almost burst out laughing. Let's not talk about the carp, about the tiger to become a horse, it is particularly ridiculous, at that time the pickled girl was also called the pickled horse, if everyone knew that the horse used to refer to the toilet, those men and women are not crazy. Men definitely don't want to make a toilet by themselves, and women don't want to become a toilet and become a tool for others to relieve themselves.
The surname Li is really too domineering, and it has changed people's customs and habits.
Although the chef's words reminded Wu Yuanqing of this story, Wu Yuanqing did not intend to abide by it. He didn't want to lose himself a delicacy because of this inexplicable avoidance. Besides, this is in your own home, and if you don't say it, people won't talk nonsense. Even if people talk nonsense, or there is the emperor's eyeliner in the house, it is difficult for the emperor to do anything to his own family because of a sweet and sour carp. At this time, those who were not allowed to slaughter the cattle were still allowed to eat beef at home.
Li Shimin is a man who wants to become the first emperor of the ages, how can he be so idle, even if he is so idle, he now has corn, potatoes, pumpkins and other high-yield crops as a big killer, and he doesn't have to worry about these trivial things and taboos.
Therefore, the sweet and sour carp Wu Yuanqing did without any psychological burden. In other words, if carp is not allowed to be eaten, why are there several carps in the kitchen? In the face of Wu Yuanqing's incomprehension, the cook sighed for a long time before she blushed and said that the housekeeper likes to eat carp, and these carps were secretly bought by the housekeeper for him to cook.
After speaking, the cook looked at Wu Yuanqing with a worried pleading face, for fear that Wu Yuanqing would punish her, and also afraid that Wu Yuanqing would tell the housekeeper that the housekeeper would trouble her.
Wu Yuanqing didn't expect that the housekeeper liked to eat carp, and he made carp to eat it himself, so naturally he wouldn't blame the housekeeper, not to mention that the housekeeper had followed his father Wushi Yan for decades, and he was also loyal to the martial family. Speaking of which, I still have carp to eat because of the housekeeper's light. Well, I will ask the cook to make a sweet and sour carp for the housekeeper in a while, which can be regarded as a reward for him.
After three sweet and sour series of delicacies, Wu Yuanqing made another dish of fried shredded pork with garlic, a dried vegetable button meat, a pot meat, a braised pork, and a Dongpo elbow, and then made a mash egg soup, plus the previous sweet and sour loin, nine dishes and one soup, a total of ten.
In the previous life, Wu Yuanqing's family, when reuniting during the New Year's holidays, his parents would always cook ten dishes to achieve perfection. The habits of his previous life, Wu Yuanqing, were naturally brought to the Tang Dynasty. What's more, now there is no need to live with a noose in his own family background. It's good to take a good idea of ten dishes. Even if you can't eat it all by yourself, you can share it with other people such as maids.
This is not to say that Wu Yuanqing felt that the maid and others could only eat what they had left, and he did not mean to look down on the maid and other people. Wu Yuanqing, who has the soul of his previous life, doesn't think there is anything to eat leftovers, at that time, eating a banquet, going late, eating leftovers is a normal thing, and he has no cleanliness fetish, and there is no psychological shadow for eating food on the same plate with others, this is a habit that cannot be said to be good or bad.
In his previous life, he lived with his grandmother since he was a child, because of the birth of his sister. His grandmother is from Sichuan, likes to eat rice, he also likes to eat rice, his mother is from Shanxi, likes to eat noodles, when he was a child, he didn't want to eat noodles, so when he was young, he ate with his grandmother. The old people are not so particular, and they think something delicious, so they put it from their own bowl to the bowl of their beloved grandson. As for him, sometimes he simply eats directly on his grandmother's bowl, and this habit has been retained. Even if grandma was old and sick, his aunt, father and others didn't let him enter grandma's house, saying that he was afraid of infection, he didn't care, he said this to his father and aunts, since the doctor didn't say it was an infectious disease, just said tracheitis, grandma tracheitis has been there since I was not born, and it's been fine for so many years, how can there be anything now.
So at that time, although his father and aunts didn't let him eat with his grandmother, he still went his own way, and when he saw what he liked to eat in his grandmother's bowl, he would eat it with chopsticks. And every time he eats something from his grandmother's bowl, although grandma says not to eat her, for fear that it will not be clean, there will always be a lot more smile on grandma's face. This is the unique warmth between him and his grandmother, who is always his eldest grandson and his closest to him.
At this time, people eat separately, one person has a small low table, Wu Yuanqing is not used to this way, and always feels that there is no atmosphere for eating. Let the maid put together several low tables, and put the ten dishes on the table one by one. Please Yang sit down first, then the two younger sisters, and the younger brother Wu Yuanshuang, who played all morning before coming back from outside, and then Wu Yuanqing himself.
There is only a little bit of sweet and sour tenderloin, which is the result of Yang's successive blocking, if it wasn't for Yang's blocking, the two little girls would have eaten up this sweet and sour delicacy a long time ago.
Looking at the ten dishes on the table, Yang felt that he was dreaming. This dream is still so unreal, the sweet and sour tenderloin before has already made her feel incredible, and now she has added nine new dishes that she doesn't know or heard of, which completely subverts her understanding of Wu Yuanqing, her stepson.
If it weren't for the person in front of her or that person, she would see it every day, and she would think that someone else was pretending.