Chapter 23 Cooking according to the recipe
They didn't communicate for long, and Xiaocui soon came back with the book. That's the recipe that Chen's mother mentioned yesterday.
After Li Yi read the recipe, it was even more strange. She thought that everything in the recipe was wrong, or that the recipe taught simple food, such as noodles and steamed buns.
But what she saw in front of her was a normal recipe: blanch the pork first, and then boil the pork in soy sauce until soft. Finally, it is minced and sandwiched into the bun, and it becomes a meat sandwich bun.
Of course, she doesn't know every word, but with a lot of cooking experience, she can guess many words without knowing them. Follow these steps and it won't be hard to eat. Could it be that the Chen Mansion can't invite a cook?
There's no answer to that question for the time being – until she actually cooks a dish. This morning's milk porridge is indeed her test of the waters. She couldn't find the right excuse to invent new practices without arousing suspicion from others. With this cookbook, all difficulties are solved.
Li Yi watched the recipe gradually become sleepy, and Xiaocui came over and asked her softly if she wanted to take a lunch break. Li Yi, who hadn't slept all night, couldn't support it at the moment.
Serving Li Yi to lie down, Xiaocui sat intimately on the side and fanned her to drive away the summer heat. After making sure that she was really asleep, Xiao Cui came out of Chen Xiaoyun's bedroom.
"Miss is asleep, you can take care of it for me. I went back to my room to pick up my stuff and came back soon. ”
Xiaoqing at the door got her entrustment and helped to watch it for a while. Xiao Cui did not break her promise, and soon returned, and brought her a silk flower, which was exactly the style she liked. No wonder they are Miss's personal maids, and even I remember my preferences. This meticulousness is not something that anyone has.
Xiaocui's meticulousness is reflected not only in her attitude towards the people around her, but also in the paper balls she has just thrown out of the fence — the paper balls she wrote during the time that Chen Xiaoyun arranged for her to go to the study.
The person who received the paper ball frowned deeply when he saw it.
thought that he had the first opportunity, but he never thought that Chen Xiaoyun would be unexpected everywhere. How could Lin Zehai leave this morning? Shouldn't he have been hidden for seven days? How could Chen Xiaoyun agree to learn to cook? Isn't she the most impatient with these things?
Everything was wrong, he had to find a way to meet Chen Xiaoyun and make sure.
While the man made up his mind, Li Yi also made an important decision - to move to the old lady today.
Hongcui and the others were surprised to learn of her decision: they hadn't been notified by the old lady yet, and they were too eager to move now. Li Yi smiled awkwardly. It seems that this is indeed the case, she is too anxious.
She had no choice but to sit down and continue to flip through the recipe. There are ten pages in total, namely: meat sandwich buns, fried noodles, burnt noodles, minced meat porridge, braised fish, braised pork, green vegetable tofu soup, mutton soup, crucian carp tofu soup, dumpling wonton wrappers.
The food she eats these days is supposed to be a simplified version of what is recorded in this cookbook. But dumplings and wontons are also very simple, why haven't I seen anyone eat them here?
She couldn't get an answer if she wanted to break her head, and she couldn't find a chance to ask the system.
Chen's mother sent someone to spread the word at this time, and asked Li Yi to cook tonight, and she called Chen Xiaodong to have dinner together.
Chen's mother's original intention was to let her make the milk porridge she made this morning. She didn't know that Li Yi knew everything about the recipe. After all, these are all home-cooked dishes in modern society. Any family would do it.
Li Yi took the Hongcui duo to Chen's mother's small kitchen again. The kitchen still has milk and soaked rice ready. She sighed, she can't just eat something because it's delicious, right? Anyone will get tired of eating it like this.
She had already figured out what she was going to do.
Ask the cook to go to the big kitchen to buy pork, eggs, and leeks. The cook said that in addition to pork, there are all in the kitchen. Asked Mrs. Wang to help her prepare, and she went to the big kitchen to buy pork.
Mrs. Wang brought the eggs, went to the field to cut a handful of leeks, and looked at Chen Xiaoyun curiously. The latter looked at the handful of leeks in front of him with black lines on his face: "It's because she's not good, she didn't explain the quantity clearly." ”
She compared the amount needed to Mrs. Wang, and Mrs. Wang was also in trouble. Tell Li Yi that there are not so many in the entire Chen Mansion. It turns out that leeks are not popular in this world, and they are not as sweet as green cabbage when boiled.
Li Yi had to let her find as much as she could and get it back. Mrs. Wang also followed the footsteps of the cook to the big kitchen.
Li Yi had no choice but to go to the field at the door of the kitchen to pull some vegetables. Explain that Xiaohong blanched the vegetables in boiling water, and he took Xiaocui and noodles.
Take two basins, put flour and salt in them, add water and stir to form a dough flocculent. She and Xiaocui are meeting one by one. She had more water in this dough and it became a soft dough. Cui's pot of dough is slightly harder.
The cook quickly took the meat back, Li Yi cut a piece of lard and let her chop the rest into minced meat. As soon as Xiaohong processed the green vegetables, Li Yi told her to cut the lard into pieces and boil it into deep frying.
After Xiaocui finished the noodles, there was a job of chopping vegetables waiting for her. A few people were busy in the kitchen. When the princess came back, she was arranged to wash the leeks and chop them.
Cover the two doughs with lids and set them aside, Li Yi squeezes out the water from the chopped vegetables, chops the fried oil residue, and puts a little meat foam in a large bowl. Add a little freshly boiled oil, salt, and a little soy sauce. Give it to Xiaohong to stir.
Stir oil in the chopped leek, then add minced meat, beat two eggs, salt, and soy sauce to Wang Pozi and stir.
The two doughs had woken up at this time, and she taught Mrs. Chen and Xiaocui how to make dumpling wrappers and wonton wrappers.
She's going to make dumplings and ravioli tonight. Although these two foods are time-consuming, they are simple to make and will never be unpalatable when cooked. The most important thing is that the recipe for the two fillings is documented in the recipe.
Many people think that dumplings and wontons are different in addition to the wrapping method, and the filling inside can be universal. This is not the case.
The dumpling skin is thick, and its salty aroma should be highlighted when making the filling, and its filling can be chopped without being very chopped so that when eating, there will be a chewy feeling, so that the aroma of meat and flour will explode in the mouth.
The wonton skin is thin, and its filling mainly highlights the "freshness", because the skin is thin, the filling inside must be cut very small, otherwise it is easy to crack the wonton skin.
Compared to the strong taste impact of dumplings, the taste of wontons is much more modest. But once you like its softness, you'll always think of it.
The dough was rolled out very smoothly, and it was very tortuous when wrapping. Li Yi finally gave up and told them that they didn't care what they were like, as long as they didn't break the skin.
Several people were sweating profusely. They didn't have time to wonder why their young lady had come up with such a strange idea to eat. Everyone was concentrating on the dough in their hands.
Seeing that Mrs. Wang really couldn't do it, Li Yi arranged for her to boil water, and she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing the other three people casting envious eyes at her, Li Yi couldn't cry or laugh.
The fastest among the three to master the dumpling wrapping method is Xiaocui, who has wrapped about 5 of them, and she already has a good look. also taught Xiaohong and the cook her experience. Soon, Xiaohong and the cook mastered how to wrap dumplings. Li Yi couldn't help but wonder if she didn't teach well and they couldn't learn. Otherwise, why would Xiao Cui say that they would?
She was lonely and wrapped in wontons on the side. Thinking about how much progress the wontons and dumplings can add to her.
The water boiled, and they boiled the irregular "dumplings" that they had wrapped at the beginning. Several people tasted it, and they were full of praise.