Chapter 176: The Old Lady's Birthday Banquet
Xue Wu, to be precise, one of her vests-Zhao Xiaoxian received an invitation from the Ye family. Mrs. Ye's 60th birthday will be held in three days, and it is estimated that the entire upper circle of Fengchi County will be invited to participate.
When the time comes, isn't it a good opportunity for her to promote?
The invitation was personally delivered to the Zhao Mansion by Ye Diao, but Xue Wu was not in the Zhao Mansion at that time, so the post was handed over to her by the housekeeper.
The housekeeper also said: "Ye Gongzi wants to order a unique big cake for the old lady, and I want you to do it yourself." ”
Xue Wan looked at the invitation, "Okay, I know." Subsequently, she went to Zhao Ji and listened to Zhenniang's report on what happened in the shop recently.
The next day, it was the turn of the month to give the dishes. Ye Diao came with Ding Er, who was going to learn to cook, and Master Xiao.
Xue Wu first taught Ding Er and the two of them how to make a boneless chicken foot.
Previously, she had taught them the representative dishes of Sichuan cuisine: spicy chicken, boiled fish, husband and wife lung slices, mapo tofu, fish-flavored shredded pork and other dishes that require chili peppers.
Yingxian Mansion is also able to introduce new dishes every month.
For food-loving gourmets, the day of tasting something new every month is tantamount to a taste carnival. Now, Yingxian Tower has undisputed the position of the first restaurant in Fengchi County.
After all, with the fall of the predecessor county order, the imperial restaurant he opened as the boss behind the scenes could not be opened even more, and was sealed and liquidated by the government, and finally re-auctioned.
At this time, Ye Diao made a very sassy operation, he asked people to secretly buy the Imperial Dining Building, and re-hung a signboard - Drunken Phoenix Building!
When the phoenix comes, you have to get drunk! The tone is not ordinarily large.
Then Ye Diao spent a lot of money to buy a secret recipe for winemaking from Xue Wu (Zhao Xiaoxian), secretly brewed a batch of wine, and then opened it with great fanfare, putting on a posture of openly shouting at Yingxian Tower!
In fact, he originally wanted to buy a recipe, but Xue Wu didn't plan to sell the recipe in his hand, like now, every once in a while to teach the chef of Yingxian Lou a dish, a long stream of water is the right way.
Otherwise, the recipes are all sold out, how can she be the culinary consultant of Yingxian Building?
But there is no recipe, and she still has a "secret recipe" for winemaking.
Nowadays, the concentration of wine is generally not high, otherwise there would not be so many people who drink wine as water, otherwise they would have died of alcohol poisoning.
What Xue Wu taught Ye Diao was actually not a secret recipe, but just taught him how to purify the wine.
She drew him a set of distillation tools, and asked him to make a set of them, and then poured the ready-made liquor into it and distilled it again and again, so that the alcohol content was higher and the liquor became much clearer.
The liquor in our impression (here specifically refers to liquor) is colorless and transparent, just like a clear spring, but the wine of this era is far from reaching that level.
The turbid wine in the "poured new turbid wine glass" and the green ant wine in the "green ant new brewed wine, red clay small stove" all show that the wine in ancient times was quite turbid and could not be as clear as water as modern liquor.
And after trying the recipe provided by Xue Wu, the wine cellar of the Ye Diao family got a wine that was far clearer and mellower than all the current wines!
Restaurants, mainly selling wine, at this time the restaurant also plays the role of a wholesaler of wine, and many of the small restaurants and taverns at the bottom need to enter the wine from the big restaurant to sell. They themselves don't have the ability or qualification to make wine.
After Ye Diao tasted a sip of distilled liquor, he was blushed on the spot, and he felt that this wine was really fucking exciting!
After the other brewers tasted it, they were also amazed at the wine, and praised that this was simply the elixir and jade liquid that the legendary gods drank.
"At the Queen Mother's peach party, the wine that those immortals drank was nothing more than that, right?"
A bowl of wine was passed down from Ye Diao's hand one by one, and when it came to the last person, the wine in the bowl was empty, and finally the person simply licked the bottom of the bowl.
"This wine is called drunken phoenix wine!" Ye Diao said excitedly.
A few days later, Zuifeng Lou launched Zuifeng Liquor, which was very popular and attracted many people who were good at drinking. The business of Yingxian Tower has been somewhat affected.
After that, Fengchi County once again ushered in the pattern of confrontation between the two major restaurants, Yingxian Lou has endless delicacies, and Zuifenglou has a good wine that makes people drunk and dream!
The two families are opposite each other, and the daily battle takes place, which makes the guests see a lot of excitement. However, what no one knows is that the owners of these two houses are actually the same person.
As the person who provided the wine recipe, Xue Wu naturally made a lot of money, and the money she earned was basically used to buy jade.
Let's talk back to the present, after Xue Wu taught Ding Er and the two boneless chicken feet, she went to the living room with Ye Diao to listen to his request for the cake ordered for the old lady.
Xue Wu said that there was no problem, and she would definitely do it for him in advance when the time came.
In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the old lady's birthday banquet, and Xue Wu came to the door with a birthday gift at a time that was neither early nor late.
As for the cake, she sent someone to Ye Mansion early in the morning. In fact, the cake was made yesterday, but in order to prevent the cake from being placed outside to affect the taste, she put it in the warehouse of the space and waited until the morning to take it out.
When she arrived at Ye's Mansion, Xue Wu went to the old lady's courtyard.
She has been to Yefu many times, so she doesn't need a maid to lead the way.
In Chunxuan Hall, the old lady who is the birthday star, wearing a black silk yarn pearl embroidered peony forehead bandana, wearing a dark red moire coat, dignified and rich, smiling, is surrounded by everyone in the middle of talking.
The hall was very lively, and everyone came out with auspicious and festive words one by one.
When Xue Wu entered, the old lady saw her at a glance and hurriedly beckoned to her: "Xiaoxian is here, come to me." ”
As the in-depth cooperation object of the Ye family, and the owner of Zhao Ji, a snack shop that is making money every day, in the current rich circle of Fengchi County, I am afraid that few people do not know Zhao Xiaoxian. However, seeing the old lady's attitude towards her so kindly still surprised many people present.
The young women present still focused more on Xue Wu's dress today.
She wore a cross-collared wide-sleeved fairy dress, the style of the skirt was not peculiar, but the color was eye-catching, because this was a gradient skirt, from moon white to smoke blue, the skirt draped very well, but at the same time it gave people a feeling of lightness like snowflakes.
The blue skirt swayed like flowing water as she walked, and the person wearing the skirt looked like a fairy coming from the waves.
Secondly, the texture of the skirt is very rare, and at different angles, the skirt will naturally show different hidden lines, with a sense of low-key luxury.
As for jewelry, she only has a white magnolia hairpin on her head and jasper gourd earrings in her ears, which can be said to be extremely simple. But simplicity does not mean simplicity, and anyone who sees her has to praise her for being elegant and decent.
Although she looks ordinary, her skin is snowy and moisturized, coupled with her clear eyes and clear temperament, it is really difficult for people to feel bad.
The girls were all wondering in their hearts, I don't know where she made this dress?
It is said that this Zhao girl is not married yet, if she can marry her home, it is not equivalent to carrying a cornucopia home?