Qiao Su is a very persistent and serious person about cooking, so after they left the Four Seasons Noodle Restaurant, they didn't go to enjoy the scenery of Cloud City first, but went directly to the spice shop.

In Yuzhou, there is no such condiment as cardamom.

Of course, it was Qiao Su's habitual thinking that was at fault, and she didn't think to go to the pharmacy to see if there was such an ingredient.

Anyway, cardamom and other spices are the best, but if they don't, in fact, there will be no big difference in the taste of food.

But when he was in Yuzhou, Qiao Su had chili peppers in his hands! Chili pepper itself is a seasoning with a particularly domineering taste, there are chili peppers, in addition to salt and sugar can share the world with chili peppers, other seasonings are naturally dispensable.

Grass cardamom, white cardamom and meat-cardamom, Qiao Su bought some, anyway, they won't leave Cloud City in the near future, so they won't have to buy a lot! After all, it's good to know where to sell it, if there is no place to open a restaurant, they can take a boat to Cloud City!

"Master, it's all cardamom?" Wang Baiyu asked curiously.

"Yes! For example, this chubby oval ball with a gray surface or a hint of yellow in the gray is buckled, and its shell is very hard, and it feels like a stone. Qiao Su took a piece of meat-cardamom and showed it to Wang Baiyu and Hou Chen.

Qin Shen has been guarding Qiao Su's side, so he was worried that she would concentrate on talking to her apprentices and not look at the road.

"What about this one? It is much smaller than meat-cardamom, and the color is lighter than meat-cardamom. See! Its shell is like a tiny pumpkin, and its shell is so soft that it can be broken open. Josu said softly.

Sure enough, Hou Chen's hand was slightly forced, and the white cardamom shattered.

"This kind of round ball, the pimple on the outside is the grass cardamom, which is very easy to identify." Qiao Su looked at Hou Chen to ask about the taste of white cardamom, and hurriedly said, "You can't eat it!" This is not delicious! ”

Wang Baiyu and Hou Chen both looked at Qiao Su a little inexplicably, "Master, this thing is used for cooking, why can't you eat it?" Wang Baiyu frowned and said.

Qiao Su sighed helplessly, "Star anise is used for stew!" Do you eat star anise? ”

Wang Baiyu laughed twice, "It's the same." ”

Qin Shen took the grass cardamom in Hou Chen's hand, put it to his nose and smelled it, "There is a smell of pine branches, no wonder it is said to be Chinese medicinal materials, if you smell it carefully, it seems that there is indeed a smell of Chinese medicine!" ”

Qin Shen looked at Qiao Su, "Is there any difference in how this thing is used?" ”

"Absolutely! We went to the market to buy some ingredients, and when we got back, we borrowed a couple of small stoves from the inn's kitchen. Josu said with a smile.

"Master! Are we going to buy a few casseroles? Wang Baiyu asked.

"Hmm!" Qiao Su nodded, "If you want to buy it, you have to buy some more dishes and chopsticks!" It's not good to use the inn all the time. ”

They stopped and stopped along the way, and there really wasn't anything of value to discover other than cardamom.

So they took their things back to the inn,

Although you can borrow a stove from the inn, you still have to go to the kitchen to wash vegetables or clean up the ingredients, after all, it is good to have a room in the ancient inn, and it is unrealistic to have a place to wash, because in ancient times there were wells, and there was no pipe to lead the water upstairs.

Qin Shen was left to rest in the house and guard their things by the way, while Qiao Su took Wang Baiyu and Hou Chen to the kitchen to deal with the ingredients.

Since it was a place to borrow an inn, it was natural to avoid the busy time of the inn, so Qiao Su chose to come back early and process the ingredients before the evening, and then they could go back to their rooms to cook!

However, for the sake of convenience, stir-frying is not possible, so she prepares to make soup.

Although Hou Chen started late, it is not a problem to wash vegetables, and children who have suffered hardships will always become industrious and smart.

After getting it done, they went upstairs together.

Qiao Su would stand aside and guide Hou Chen and Wang Baiyu.

"When cooking chicken, the cardamom has the effect of deboning, but the flavor of the cardamom comes out very slowly, so we have to put the cardamom in the casserole first, wait for the water in the pot to boil, and then add other spices and ingredients." Qiao Su said patiently, "We're going to try to make these three cardamom ingredients today, this is chicken soup, we've made it, and then it's ......."

"Do you want to use this pork?" Hou Chen had already brought the pork.

"That's right! It's not good to eat too greasy at night, but I like to see the hunt, and I want to use the ingredients when I have them, so we made braised pork. Meat-cardamom is just thrown in it, in fact, it is the same as the use of star anise, and it is good to stew or boil red meat! One is Titian, and the other is that it can be fishy. ”

"Master, Master! So this white cardamom is used to make mutton, right? Is this going to be made of braised sheep's trotters? Wang Baiyu said in surprise, she likes to eat sheep's hoof tendons the most!

"Yes! If it's all meat and vegetables, what's there to eat? Qiao Su smiled and stepped aside, and said to Hou Chen: "Your senior sister's handling of sheep's hoof tendons is very good, you can just learn from her." This white cardamom is actually not only made into beef and mutton, but also made into duck meat, which is also very good! However, the white cardamom should be peeled, washed and broken, and it is best to remove the smell. ”

"Master! Isn't the total use of cardamom similar to rice wine? Hou Chen asked on the side, "I remember what Master said, when cooking fish, smear the fish with rice wine, and the fish meat will not be so fishy!" ”

"Very good memory! That's why I've said that the ingredients used to make food are inherently interchangeable, but if you use cardamom to make fish...... You have to put chili peppers. At the mention of chili peppers, Qiao Su was a little depressed, hey...... There was no trace of chili peppers found in Cloud City, at least not in the ingredient shops and restaurants.

As if he knew what she was thinking, Qin Shen persuaded softly, "Didn't Steward Lin already give us news?" Niu Ruoshui's cargo was from the boat on the dock of Shunzhou. ”

"But Bai Yu said that there are no chili peppers in Shunzhou! So I thought, maybe Wang Baiyu got the chili peppers in some place near Shunzhou, and then passed through the boat on the dock of Shunzhou. Qiao Su said with a frown.

Wang Baiyu was originally talking to Hou Chen about the key to making sheep's hoof tendons, but when she heard Qiao Su mention her name, she quickly turned around, "Master! I haven't seen anyone eat chili peppers in Shunzhou, but that doesn't mean there isn't! I thought about it later, maybe this chili pepper may be in a relatively remote corner of Shunzhou, so I didn't see it! ”