Originating from Xiaolin Chapter 254 Cooking {II}
After a period of busy work, he was tired, and Brother Bao, who was naked, was covered in sweat. In addition, there are many stoves in front of him, and they are already under the help of the helpers, and the fires are pressing. Suddenly, there was a wave of heat in the entire spacious dining room.
Those palace people wearing blue-faced palace clothes were also sweating hotly. But at this time, they were all looking forward to it, looking at Brother Bao who was swaying in front of a large and a small steamer. After all, at this time, they can only rely on the person in front of them, Brother Bao, to solve the predicament in front of them. Those who came from the inside, accompanied by their attendants, were waiting in front of the Zhu Gate!
Among these palace people, the one who sweated the most was the leading palace person standing in front of him. At this time, he was sweating, but it was not all because of this, the heat and temperature of cooking in the dining room. The most important thing is that at this time, he is nervous... I don't know what the situation is on the side of the waiter? He went back and forth, and successively looked for Brother Bao's master "Mao Dahuo". Then I found Chef Li and Chef Peng... Just walking around the dining room takes a lot of time! And when Brother Bao was in the dining room, he delayed a lot of time because he asked Brother Bao to go out of the palace and come back from his master "Mao Dahuo"! If you had found "Mao Dahuo" in the dining room earlier, or if you hadn't drunk into mud, Chef Li and Chef Peng... Now, this dish is long overdue! I don't know... This little brother Bao made the dishes for his master "Mao Dahuo", can you satisfy Your Majesty... Also, if you take the dishes made by Brother Bao and hand them inside... How to say that this cooker is also a trouble!
Could it be that in the name of Brother Bao's master "Mao Dahuo", this dish will be handed to the inside? But this dish is all made by Brother Bao, for his master! If something really goes wrong with this dish, let's find out... That's a deception! But if you don't say it's the dishes made by Brother Bao's master "Mao Dahuo"... So, let's just say... Did it be made by the apprentice of "Mao Dahuo"? But the person in charge of the stove in this dining room is Brother Bao's master "Mao Dahuo", not Brother Bao... Alas! Even if you make this dish and hand it over, it's a trouble! It seems that this thing needs to be thought about before it can be done! In the name of Brother Bao's master "Mao Dahuo", that will definitely not work! This matter has to be thought from now, from Brother Bao, who is cooking...
The people in the leading palace were in a dilemma, so they also looked at the big and small steamers again, and looked at Brother Bao, who was sweating profusely because of cooking. Although the heart of the leading palace person at this time was very uneasy. But I am still very grateful to Brother Bao who helped them in times of crisis. Although Brother Bao is cooking for his master "Mao Dahuo", on the one hand, it is also out of consideration for his own master and the dining room. But if it were to be replaced by other cooks in the dining room, I was afraid that no one would dare to be like Brother Bao, so he would be alone without saying a word, and he stopped the dish with a spoon.
Brother Bao, who was bare-chested, looked at the steamers for a while, one large and one small, and then set them off once. Only then did he return to the drunken finger shrimp soaked in the best wine. After washing his hands, he stretched out his two fingers and clamped it, and put a shrimp soaked in wine under his nose and smelled it. Then, with a slight shake of his head, he put the shrimp back into the drink. But it seems that he is not satisfied with the degree of invasion of this shrimp.
"Brother Bao? Shrimp aren't all right? ”
The most unseen thing for the people of the leading palace now is what accident happened. Seeing Brother Bao just now, he shook his head when he smelled the shrimp. But I couldn't help but feel a tight heart, and I was really scared by this always unpleasant thing, one after another. Dang even hurriedly asked Brother Bao.
Brother Bao is still the same indifferent. Although at this time, he was busy sweating because of the fire in several places at the same time. But he is still in control and unhurried. It doesn't seem to be at all, at this time he is nervous about cooking for the Son of Heaven. Seeing that the leader of the palace asked himself, he nodded slightly and said, "Hmm! The shrimp hasn't soaked yet. Even though they were all drunk, they still couldn't. I guess I'll have to soak in it a little longer! As he spoke, Brother Bao started again, picked up a small kitchen knife, and chopped up some vegetables prepared in the dining room on a clean cutting board. As the green vegetables were chopped into minced pieces, Brother Bao shoveled the minced vegetables on this board with the back of a knife and came to the small steamer where the blue crabs were steamed.
When he watched the small steamer help on the stove and helped him lift the bamboo lid of the steamer, he quickly threw the chopped green vegetables on the back of the knife into the blue crabs that were already steamed in the steamer and gradually came out of the red shell. Then he took the bamboo cover of the steamer, and after scanning his eyes, he quickly put the bamboo cover on the steamer.
As Brother Bao sprinkled the chopped green vegetables just now, they were all sprinkled into the small steamer with the blue crabs. With the opening of the steamer just now, the aroma of crab meat that came out was also accompanied by the boiling hot stream. But it inevitably made those palace people who were still gathered in the dining room swallow their saliva...
Although this crab roe is not absent in the restaurant. But the crab roe in the small steamer in front of me is not comparable to ordinary crab roe. This crab roe and the fish stewed by Brother Bao at this time, and the finger shrimp soaked in the wine, are all specially traveled by fast horses, and the official road horse post in Zhongzhou and Zhengzhou is the lake fresh fish salvaged from Yuanyi Lake in Yuanzhou, thousands of miles away.
The most famous dishes in this state, the most famous are those in Yuanyi Lake, these three things. The blue-shell crab in Yuanyi Lake is also fattened by crabs from other places, and has the reputation of being the first crab. The matter is already in the imperial capital of Zhongzhou, and those who can eat this Yuanyi Lake blue crab are also the mouths of those who are noble. Not to mention the white-scaled tail fish that was boiling in the pot at this time, and the Mocui shrimp soaked in the best imperial wine. But they are not ordinary people, and what they can enjoy are the delicacies of the imperial court.
The steaming soup appeared in front of Bao Xiaoge when he lifted it up, and the pot with the tail fish was boiling. The hot white soup also tumbled some green onion and ginger fresh ingredients between the white and tender fish from time to time. Brother Bao looked at the color of the soup in the pot, and then sprinkled some light white salt into the pot. Immediately, a sealed earth-colored clay pot was opened. With a small spoonful, I dug some black sticky things and stirred them into the white soup of the tail fish in this pot.
As the viscous substance was stirred into the soup, after a while, the pot of soup, which was still white just now, turned into a slightly brown color. The more intense aroma of the fish also comes with the change of color of the soup. Brother Bao used a clean spoon to order some discolored soup in the pot, and after tasting it, he covered the pot again with the soup for cooking fish.
Then he picked up the remaining white bamboo shoots for a moment, carried a very sharp small kitchen knife, and after a while, he flew up and down, carving a very good-looking bamboo shoot. And when he carved the white bamboo shoots, the bamboo shoots that fell were not wasted, but were chopped into pieces, mixed with some red and green fresh vegetables, and placed on the cutting board. Then I came to the big steamer with the bamboo shoots steaming, and lifted the bamboo lid of the big steamer.
I saw a white hot mist, which gradually dissipated with the lifting of the large steamer. The white bamboo shoots were also there, and they reappeared when the hot mist cleared. At this time, the bamboo shoots are all steaming hot, and they are already steamed. Brother Bao saw that the bamboo shoots were almost steamed, so he personally used a silver clip to take out the bamboo shoots in the big steamer one by one from the steamer. It is placed in a very exquisitely placed, celadon bamboo pattern flower plate, surrounded by a small circle. Immediately, the bamboo shoot carving that had just been carved was placed in the center of Xiao Yuan'er. Then there are the green and white vegetables and bamboo shoots that are placed on the cutting board, scattered on the large plate.
Still in the big plate, the tips of the hot bamboo shoots are also accompanied by a unique vegetable aroma of bamboo shoots, which permeates the large plate and wafts around. Brother Bao saw that this plate of bamboo shoots had been completed, so after placing the bamboo shoots, he put a set of celadon covers on the bamboo shoots that looked like this large plate.
With the completion of this plate of bamboo shoots, the helper who watched the steamed bamboo shoots just now immediately brought a vermilion lacquer food box with gold moire patterns, and carefully sent this bamboo shoot into the vermilion lacquer food box. Seeing the bamboo shoots that had already been packed into the food box, the leading palace people also hurriedly asked the people who came to the palace to take the food box from the hands of the workers.
At this time, Brother Bao returned to the wine with the finger shrimp. After picking up a shrimp and sniffing it, this time he nodded slightly, no longer like just now. Then he ordered the famous helper to go to the ice cellar used in the dining room and fetch some thick ice. Only then did I come to a pile of bottles and cans, which were mixed with vinegar and oil in an orderly manner, accompanied by minced ginger and other materials, and mixed with several small plates of dipping materials.
Soon after he mixed the small dish and dipped the material. The man, who had been instructed by him, also carried a small wooden bucket and fetched ice from the ice cellar of the dining room.
When Brother Bao saw that the gang had returned from taking ice alive, he ordered someone to stand beside him with a large white porcelain plate. After washing his hands, he picked up the ice from the small bucket. After a while, the picked ice was placed irregularly on the white porcelain plate. Immediately, the shrimp soaked in the wine was picked up selectively and placed on the ice in a white porcelain plate. Then they were put on the plates, and the small plates that had been prepared in advance were put down. Only then did a white porcelain cover be placed on a large white porcelain plate made of shrimp.
This time, I didn't wait for Brother Bao, and asked my subordinates to help him. A palace man who watched the cooking had already carried the vermilion lacquer food box, and consciously put the finished shrimp into the food box carefully.
"Ahh
Just as Brother Bao went to see the stove where the tail fish was boiling again, before he could lift the lid on the pot, he heard a delicate exclamation, which suddenly came from the door of the dining room.