Aunt Weng followed Zhu Yuan out, and sighed very much: "If Miss Zhu has any good skills, please don't hide your secrets, even if you can make the Queen Mother have some appetite and use some things, not only our subordinates are grateful to you, but even the Holy Lord will be rewarded, and the Queen Mother has not eaten much for a long time." ”

In fact, in the final analysis, it is not food that can change.

How could the things made by the imperial chef in the palace not be delicious enough? It's just that the person who eats has no appetite.

Zhu Yuan asked himself that he was not much better than other cooks in terms of real food handling and attainments, but in the final analysis, it was just that little ingenuity.

This is the secret of her standing out in the Empress Dowager's palace in her last life.

She looked through the ingredients in the small kitchen in the Queen Mother's palace, and finally steamed a pot of rice for the Queen Mother seriously according to her understanding of the Queen Mother's taste in the previous life.

.....

And Aunt Weng, who was waiting outside, was a little incredulous when she heard what the imperial chef inside said.

Steamed rice?!

Is that all?

It's really a shame that Zhu Yuan came up with it!

She thought that it had to be a top-secret and lost thing like the scarlet sheep's head to be worth Zhu Yuan to take out, who knew that Zhu Yuan didn't have any new ideas, and he just steamed a pot of rice.

She couldn't help frowning, sighed in her heart, and felt that Zhu Yuan was really a little stupid this time----- even if it was a specialty dish of scarlet sheep's head, it was also a thought, isn't it, what is steaming a pot of rice?

The imperial chef also wondered, rice is rice, even if it is green stem rice or purple rice and black rice, can it still make flowers? It's not a day or two that the Queen Mother has no appetite, so she should be used as something strange to attract her.

This is too nonsense to make rice, right?

But after a while, a little eunuch ran out of it, saying that Miss Zhu asked if there were tomatoes---- this thing is a foreign product, but something that was brought from Fanguo before, and no one likes to eat it, and it tastes strange, and now Zhu Yuan wants this, the imperial chef frowned, and he was a little confused.

But when he entered the kitchen, he suddenly smelled a fragrant smell coming to his face, and he couldn't help but be a little stunned, only to see Zhu Yuan stewed beef brisket in the pot, and he had already added the tomatoes that he had asked for from the little eunuch before, and the combination of the two flavors actually had a strange aroma.

The chef liked to see new dishes the most, and he immediately stepped forward to ask Zhu Yuan what it was.

This was not invented by Zhu Yuan, it was a dish taught by a grandmother when she was in the palace in the previous life, and she tinkered for a while before answering the imperial chef: "I tried it by chance when I was at home in the past, and I thought it tasted good, and the master could taste it." ”

The imperial chef nodded when he heard this, and after tasting it, he felt that although the taste was a little strange, it was rare to be sour and spicy and appetizing, and it didn't look choking at all, the combination of the two things was extremely harmonious, and the tomato was not noisy, taking away the fragrance of the brisket, he glanced at Zhu Yuan with a complicated expression, and was a little happy: "Yes, although the girl's craftsmanship is not top-notch, this novelty is rare..... If the girl were a little eunuch, I wouldn't help but take in the apprentice. ”

Zhu Yuan smiled, she knew this master from Jiangnan in her last life, and knew that he was such a character, so she didn't say anything, walked to the side to see the rice that had already ripened, reached out and lifted the lid to take the chopsticks, took out a small jade bottle from the bag on her waist, and poured out a few drops of things into it.

Imperial Chef Jiang was a little strange: "Miss Zhu, what do you add to it?" ”

"Oh, a little bit of dew." Zhu Yuan handed the bottle in his hand to Chef Lin: "I heard that some of you people in Jiangnan have used this method to mix flower dew into rice." ”

Yes, there is, but in fact, the effect is not very good, the taste of the flower dew is too strong, and the sweetness is too sweet in the rice, except for some vassal and elegant people, in fact, most people don't like it very much.

He wanted to remind Zhu Yuan, but the smell of the flower dew in the jade bottle was not that pungent fragrance, he poured out a little bit and tasted it on his fingertips, but he couldn't taste what kind of flower dew it was for a while, and asked her with some curiosity: "What kind of flower dew is this?"

This is also Zhu Yuan's coincidence, it was learned from a subordinate official under King Xiang when Zhu Yuan was the princess of Xiang in the previous life, that subordinate official went to the Western Regions in the past, and later followed people to the sea, there are a lot of fresh things, including this kind of flower dew practice.

In the Great Zhou Dynasty, people made flower dew, all of which were called the dew on the flowers, but in fact, the flower dew that returned to China was made of platinum, and the steam of the flowers was turned into water, and it was repeatedly steamed and steamed, and it was accumulated as fragrant, and the steamed flower dew remained fragrant for a long time, and the fragrance was undefeated.

It's been a common thing for more than ten or twenty years, but it's a rarity now.

She explained to Master Jiang for a while, and when she saw that the rice was cooked, she took it out and mixed it into a jasper bowl, gently put it in the food box, and then packed the dishes she had made before, took them out together, and carried them by the little eunuch to the Queen Mother's Palace.

The Queen Mother didn't actually let Zhu Yuan enter the palace for a bite of food, but when Aunt Weng said that, she did have a little intention of helping Zhu Yuan, but she didn't have any hope in her heart----- no matter how good the craftsmanship was, it was also a dominance outside, and the imperial chef in the palace couldn't make any delicacies from the mountains and seas?

She didn't care much about appetite for a long time.

But having said that, when the food box was opened, a slight but non-negligible fragrance wafted in, she was really a little interested, and when Weng Gu Bucai tasted it, she frowned for a while, and only after a while did she stretch her eyebrows again, and asked her with a smile: "What is put here?" ”

Zhu Yuan knew that she was asking about rice, and said softly: "It's rose dew, it's actually just a trick, but it's better to eat it fresh." ”

A good one is better than freshness, it is indeed fresh, it is fragrant in the mouth, it is obviously not a blue stem rice, nor is it a rouge rice, but when you eat it, it is especially better than those precious rice, as if you are eating some rare food.

The Queen Mother looked at Zhu Yuan carefully for a while, and knew that she really did it as a big deal to open the restaurant this time, so she frowned and thought for a moment before saying: "It's a pity, you are bent on running to open a restaurant, otherwise, the mourning family intends to keep you in the palace for a while." ”

Zhu Yuan was a little surprised.

Everything is clearly different in this life, but at this juncture, the Queen Mother wanted to keep her in the palace for the same period of time as the previous life.

And she will encounter a lot of things in the palace.

Among them is the farce of Princess Jing'an's choice of son-in-law, but in the previous life, she was just a step-princess who relied on King Xiang's breath, Princess Jing'an and the four princes didn't take her seriously at all, so she was not implicated.

But what about this life?