Chapter 16: Born to be a Chef
(I was squeezed out of the list again, and the comrades voted for the recommendation to go back!! )-
"The time has come, and the morning light is faint. It was cloudy, and I ...... to bring an umbrella when I went out."
Early the next morning, a wake-up call with a weather forecast arrived as scheduled, and it was said that it was a cloudy day and there was a possibility of rain. But after Chen Xiliang simply ate some porridge, he went out with an umbrella.
Before leaving, he left Chen Chen a hundred wen as food money for the four brothers...... The money was obviously a bit much, but he was more worried about the children not having enough to eat.
Naturally, he didn't forget to tell Chen Chen to watch his younger brothers study, and he would come back at night to check.
As soon as he left, Chen Ke asked Erlang: "Look, how much can you come back?" "I don't know...... Chen Chen is used to his younger brother talking to adults: "What do you think?" "I guess I don't want to go back to the two dates." Chen Ke flipped through the book boringly. "Two jujubes?" Chen Chen was a little stunned, and it took a while to understand and say, "No." "How can it be, with the behavior of the uncle, how can we give us the account that can be returned?" Chen Ke pouted and said, "They must all be bad debts and bad debts...... Oh, it's just the account that doesn't come back. "Not necessarily." Chen Chen patted him on the head and said, "I don't know how much Daddy can come back." I know that if you can't recite the Book of Filial Piety, you will definitely be beaten! ”
"Don't make a head...... "At noon, it was more cloudy outside, but the rain still didn't fall.
Chen Ke, who had memorized a book all morning, stood up and stretched his waist and said, "It's almost eleven o'clock...... Uh, noon, huh? ”
"Almost," Chen Chen was also reading, looked up at Chen Ke and said, "Go out to eat?" ”
"It's better to save it." Chen Ke rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll do it." ”
"You know how to cook?" If it weren't for the fact that it looked exactly the same, Chen Ke would have wondered if this was his younger brother.
"Nonsense." Chen Ke gave him a roll of his eyes and said, "Do you want to learn two hands?" ”
"Uh...... Want. Chen Chen got up, and the two younger brothers were about to follow, but the two brothers shouted: "Read the book obediently!" ”
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After lunch, it finally rained, although it was not big, but it was drizzling and very annoying. When it was almost dark, Chen Xiliang dragged his tired body back, Chen Chen greeted him, and when he saw his father's gloomy face, he didn't even dare to ask, but took the umbrella and said, "Dad, let's eat." ”
"Oh......" Chen Xiliang first responded casually, then looked up and said in surprise: "What did you cook?" ”
"Me and Saburo." Chen Ke said honestly: "I'll do it, and San Lang will take the spoon." ”
"You can also cook?" Chen Xiliang looked at San Lang in surprise.
"The third brother cooks at noon." Before Chen Ke could answer, Xiao Liulang hurriedly said, "You also roasted chicken for us." ”
"Alas, it's hard for you, Saburo." Chen Xiliang couldn't help but feel guilty, he remembered that behind the shack, there was a stove and a stove, and he thought that his son, who was not yet ten years old, had learned to cook in those forty days: "But it's okay, the children of the poor have already been in charge of the house......" Seeing that he was in and out wrong, Chen Ke was too happy not to explain.
Chen Xiliang thought that even if San Lang could cook, his level must be below him, and he was ready to run to the toilet.
Saburo is a foodie who never gets tired of eating, and he also has good cooking skills, but in the kitchen of this thousand years ago...... And it may be the most humble kitchen in the county, but it can only be simple because of the ugliness, using the ingredients bought yesterday, coarsely fried four green vegetables, and made a bowl of fish soup.
In his thinking, green vegetables are naturally stir-fried, because they are the simplest ingredients, only oil and salt. Chen Ke found a small can of vegetable oil and a small packet of salt from the things he bought yesterday...... I stir-fried four side dishes, cucumbers, callus white, lettuce and celery. The two small fish were fried finely, boiled into fish soup with water, and finally salted and sprinkled with chopped green onions and garlic, and a simple but fragrant Saburo fish soup came out of the pot.
Erlang's so-called hands-on, in fact, has been burning the fire, seeing San Lang's smooth cooking skills, I feel extremely surprised, seeing that he squandered a lot of oil and salt, and felt unbearable pain in the flesh, several times I wanted to stop talking. It's just that Saburo has been busy and hasn't seen it.
Under the gaze of his sons, he took a slice of cucumber with chopsticks and put it in his mouth to taste...... This reminded him of the stir-fried dishes he was invited to eat in a big restaurant by a wealthy classmate when he was in the capital, although it was inferior in all aspects, but considering that it came from the hands of a ten-year-old child, it was obviously a miracle.
"Daddy, why are you crying?" Korokuro asked curiously, "Isn't it delicious?" ”
"It's delicious, it's delicious, it's delicious." Chen Xiliang wiped the corners of his eyes and smiled embarrassedly at his sons: "I didn't expect to taste the taste of Bianliang...... The father was a little emotional. ”
"Uh......" San Lang was a little confused, didn't he just fry a few plates of broken vegetables...... And the oil temperature can't reach it, the color, taste, and texture are extremely average, how can the cheap dad be like eating 'gloomy ** rice'?
Could it be that this is the legendary 'children cook, parents are so happy'? It's not like ah, Chen Xiliang seems to just feel the dishes...... Thinking of noon, the three brothers were also full of praise, saying that they had never eaten such a delicious thing, and he felt that there must be a reason for this.
Mobilizing his deep memories, he was surprised to find that in the ten years of Saburo's life, he had never eaten a stir-fry once. In Saburo's impression, cooking is cooking because only boiled and stewed dishes are used......
He guessed that it was not far from ten. Stir-frying is not something that has existed since ancient times, and the basic cooking methods before the Six Dynasties were similar to those in later Europe, and it was not until the Song Dynasty that stir-fried dishes were felt, but in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was regarded as a unique skill and was limited to the mastery of top chefs. In other words, whoever knows how to stir-fry is the top chef, and they are all held by the big restaurants and dignitaries in Bianliang...... After the southern crossing, it slowly spread among the people.
Because the highest level of food in the Song Dynasty is about 'color, fragrance, taste, shape, and name', but anything that can be related to these five items can be called a famous dish.
Among all the cooking methods, there is no doubt that only the stir-fry method can easily achieve the first four, and with the first four, there are naturally countless people vying for the fifth item.
Therefore, the technology of stir-frying, like all the top skills, strictly adheres to the creed of passing on men not women, and is limited to the mastery of chefs in the capital.
Therefore, when modern people arrived in the Song Dynasty, in fact, the most ideal occupation was to be a cook......
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After being moved for a long time, Chen Xiliang wiped his tears and asked San Lang: "How can you stir-fry?" ”
"Uh......" Saburo said in his heart, 'Why wouldn't I?' Of course, I had to say with a blank face: "I don't know how, it's going to be." ”
"It seems that there is really a legendary self-taught ......" Chen Xiliang couldn't help but sigh, but the second half of the sentence was not spoken: 'Could it be that my son is destined to be a cook?'
For dinner, it was also dark. Chen Xiliang couldn't find objects everywhere, so he said casually: "Who saw the oil can?" ”
"In the kitchen." Chen Chen said, running to get a clay pot. Chen Xiliang opened his mouth and looked: "Why is there a piece missing?" ”
"I used it for stir-frying, ......" Chen Ke didn't expect that the vegetable oil of the Song Dynasty was also lamp oil, and he said a little worriedly: "Is it very expensive?" ”
"One hundred wen a catty, seventy wen a can, can be used for five days, which is very cheap." In fact, it could have been used for eight days, but Chen Sanlang fried it in oil, and used up the amount of three days at once. Although it was very painful to eat so much oil in one meal, Chen Xiliang didn't show it at all. In his opinion, the child's ability to take the initiative to take on housework is a manifestation of responsibility. To say that if you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world? Therefore, it should only be encouraged, not discouraged.
Chen Xiliang poured the lamp oil into the oil lamp, and then used the embers from the stove to light the wick, and an orange light was generated in the room. He sat under the lamp and began to check the children's homework.
Starting from a small age, Liulang's textbook is "Miscellaneous Words", which is a literacy book for children's enlightenment, and the later Song and Ming dynasties, with "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", these textbooks that inculcate the idea of etiquette and religion as soon as they come up, are different from the enlightenment of children, the Song people use "Hundred Family Names" and "Miscellaneous Words", because reading and literacy, although the imperial examination is the highest purpose, but the vast majority of children, after all, there is no possibility of high school. Therefore, learning some practical knowledge while being literate is the way to organize.
"Miscellaneous Words" is such a book, which begins with the name: "In the world of life, the farmer is the first, and he must keep a daily account and look at the miscellaneous words first." Later, he talked about food and daily life, marriage between men and women, and business calculations, so as to include some commonly used words. While children are literate, they also complete the most basic quality education.
Chen Xiliang wrote out the words that he wanted Liulang to know, and Liulang was very smart, and he recognized them all without much effort, so he was naturally praised by his father, but at the same time announced that his literacy would be doubled tomorrow...... The flowers that Rokuro had just bloomed withered again.
Then came Goro's homework, and the bitterness and hatred on this child's face began with reading. He seems to have a grudge against books, he has been memorizing "Thousand Character Text" since a year ago, and now he is still "Thousand Character Text", and he can't memorize it upside down.
Fortunately, Chen Xiliang knew his situation very well, and only begged him to be more literate and reasonable, but he was worried that excessive persecution would make him tired of studying, so he was not impatient, but just gently encouraged him to continue to work hard and come back tomorrow.
In the end, it was Chen Ke's turn, and his textbook was ...... "The Book of Filial Piety".
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Repeated verification of what was said.,Confirm that it's not nonsense.,It's turned out to be now.,I'm sorry.,It's not too late for the evening update......
was squeezed out of the list again, and the comrades voted to kill it back!!!!