"There is a saying in our winemaking business, qu is the mother of wine, koji is the bone of wine, and koji is the soul of wine. The importance of koji is self-evident when it comes to making good sake. The koji in your hand may seem inconspicuous, but it is the soul of the wine you drank last night. ”

Thinking of the kind of bamboo wine he drank last night, Xiao Cai's eyes couldn't help but light up.

She wondered what kind of effect it would have if she used that kind of bamboo wine in the cooking of dishes.

Therefore, she is also very curious about the process of making sake.

"Old man, how did you make this kind of koji?"

"There are different types of koji. This kind of koji in your hand is an important raw material for making distilled spirits, and it is also the kind of koji that I am best at making. This koji is made mainly from peas, barley and wheat, with some herbs. As for which herbs they are, as well as the ratio of various raw materials for making koji, hehe, the old man can't tell you. This is also an exclusive secret recipe in our family, and it can only be passed on to the descendants of the family. ”

Seeing that a look of loss obviously flashed in Xiao Cai's eyes, the wine man smiled and told her with some meaning that his grandson Zhuqing had been learning to make wine with him since he was a child, and the implication was that Zhuqing could also make koji.

Although the wine man did not tell Cai Youyou about the proportion of raw materials used to make koji, he said the corresponding process without reservation.

The raw materials prepared according to the proportion must go through the steps of moistening, stacking, and grinding before adding water to mix, and then loading into the koji mold, and then going through the treading and entering the koji room to cultivate, turning, stacking, and exiting the koji, and storing it for a period of time before it can become the finished koji.

"I can't tell you how to make koji, but I can teach you how to make koji from the finished koji."

The wine man asked Cai Youyou to help and moved twenty catties of high-quality glutinous rice to the kitchen.

In order to facilitate the operation, they divide the glutinous rice into quarters, add an appropriate amount of water to each washed glutinous rice, and soak the glutinous rice for eight to ten hours, which is the first step in making sake.

"It will take a long time for the glutinous rice to be soaked, let's prepare breakfast first, and when we finish breakfast, I will take you to see the finished bamboo wine, and by the way, I will find some ingredients for lunch."

They were preparing breakfast in the kitchen, and they saw Mo Xun and Wang Fatzi walking into the kitchen together.

"Yoyo sister paper, wine man, you guys are early. I didn't expect you to get up so early and start making breakfast. Wang Fatzi said.

"We're going to make a meatball soup with some fresh bamboo shoots leftover from yesterday. Also, the winemaker said, "I'm going to make pancakes for us to eat." Cai Youyou said while preparing the meat filling.

At this time, Zhuqing also came back from outside.

It turned out that the teenager also got up early. It's just that he took a shotgun to the river and retrieved two buckets of water.

Cai Youyou quickly made the soup of bamboo shoots and meatballs, and the wine man also cooked the brown and crispy pancakes.

After a few people had a brief breakfast, the wine man led them to the west and came to a large bamboo forest.

The wine man pointed out some bamboo poles marked on them to Cai Youyou, and said to them, "Look, the bamboo wine is in these bamboos." The latest chapter of "One Hundred Plating" Otherworldly Restaurant: Xueba's Private Caipaw Book House" is free to read for the first time.