Chapter 18
After Xiangru finished eating, she took the rice bowl outside to clean the lilacs, and she returned to the kitchen and got busy by herself.
I took a bench and sat down in front of the dry container, opened the cabinet, dragged out a bag of new peanuts at the bottom of the cabinet, and put a bamboo dustpan on my lap, and quickly peeled the peanuts.
Peel off about three or four taels, clean up, re-light the fire in the stove, pour some oil in the pot, put in the peanuts and stir-fry, fry the yellow ones and replace them with another dry dustpan to cool, and then Xiangru took out a white porcelain jar from the cupboard, took it to the well and washed it, came back and scalded it with boiling water, carefully dried it with a clean dishcloth, and set it aside for later use.
After doing these things, Xiangru didn't want to make fried peanuts, she went to the corner and brought the main event - a small stone mill. This stone mill is usually used to grind some glutinous rice flour, corn flour, sesame flour, etc., and the big grinder for grinding soy milk is in the next room.
The frequency of use of small stone mills is not high, because it will grind enough once to grind enough, cover it with a cloth when not in use, and clean the surface with a wet rag when you want to use it. At this time, the peanuts hanging next to it were almost cold, so Xiangru took the sugar jar and peanuts to the stone mill and sat down, and began to grind peanut butter with a small handful of peanuts to a small spoonful of sugar.
Peanuts are originally oil crops, rich in oil, so there is no need to add water to add oil, just dry grinding. The finely chopped peanuts mixed with the pressed peanut oil slowly overflowed from the middle of the grinding disc, and flowed down the diversion groove into the white porcelain jar underneath, with a thick and thick fragrance.
While grinding peanut butter, the three of them also washed the kitchen utensils, and after they cleaned up, Jin Honggen went back to the house to rest, and Lilac and Yinhua stayed to help, and changed Xiangru to rest for a while.
Xiangru dug a little peanut butter from the jar into a small bowl, added a small amount of cold boiled water and a little soy sauce to it, stirred it into a thinner paste, and licked the sauce on the chopsticks, the taste was okay, the sugar and soy sauce neutralized, not too sweet and salty.
"Xiangru, what are you doing? How can you eat peanut butter like this? "Honeysuckle and Clove find it strange that in the past, grinding peanut butter was directly used to mix noodles, and there was no way to eat it with soy sauce.
"It's okay, I'll try if it's good." Peanut butter mixed with soy sauce is Xiangru's own way of eating in her previous life, she likes to mix it into such a thin sauce and use it to smear steamed buns, which is more fragrant, and there will be no choking feeling of dry swallowing steamed buns, she can swallow the small sweet steamed buns with peanut butter in three bites, and the dry chewing steamed buns often have to be divided into five or six bites to eat the belly.
"Have you eaten all the steamed buns in the morning?" Thinking of peanut butter smearing steamed buns, Xiangru's saliva flowed, and she couldn't wait until tomorrow, she was going to eat it now.
"I don't know, throw away all the leftovers, who will stay until now, and there is no shortage of food in the kitchen."
Xiangru searched for it without giving up, but sure enough, she couldn't find a piece of steamed bread, so she had to give up and wait for the afternoon snack to see if she could leave a piece of dough to make a few steamed buns for her to satisfy her hunger.
After grinding the last bit of peanut butter, Yinhua and Clove carefully scraped the sauce on the grinding disc and handed it to Xiangru, and then they cleaned the grinding disc and put it back in its place.
After the peanut butter in the jar rests for a while, a layer of peanut oil naturally emerges on the surface, isolating the air and preventing spoilage, and the fragrance is rich.
The three of them cleaned up the kitchen, and when they saw that there was still some time, they went back to the residence to rest, and came back half an hour later, and it was time for the afternoon snack.
Xiangru is not responsible for making dim sum, and she is not good at making dim sum, but she is worried about the prepared peanut butter, so she still follows the three cooks to the kitchen to help them in exchange for a few steamed buns to satisfy their hunger, and by the way, she reminds Chef Li not to make broth anymore, but to make another bowl of sweet soup with lotus seeds and red dates. Lotus seeds were originally a slightly cold yin nourishing food in Ganping, but they were neutralized by warm red dates, so Aunt Xiao still ate them, and it just benefited her spleen and stomach.
The so-called eating people has a soft mouth, and the plates of chicken at noon have shortened the distance between Xiangru and the three old chefs, and they don't get along with each other as coldly as a few days ago, and they are willing to listen to what Xiangru says.
So Chef Li made sweet soup next to the stove according to what Xiangru said, and the other two cooks kneaded the dough in front of the table, they were a little puzzled why Xiangru suddenly became hungry for steamed buns like this, but still at her request, she left a small ball of dough to make five steamed buns for her, and steamed them in the drawer with other snacks.
When Aunt Rong came to get the dim sum, the first basket of dim sum came out of the pot, Xiangru eagerly took out her steamed buns, took out her prepared peanut butter from the food cabinet, and beckoned the cook to come over with Aunt Rong to taste it.
The hot and soft white steamed bun was broken from the middle, and a sweet and fragrant heat immediately came to the face, and the chopsticks picked up a little peanut butter and smeared it on the white noodles, and then took a big bite.
Peanut butter is sweet and salty, steamed bun is lightly sweet, two seemingly unrelated foods, but when you bite into it, it is surprising. After the delicate and soft peanut butter slides from the tip of the tongue, the strong aroma of peanuts is still filled in the nasal cavity, and the steamed buns that follow burst out with a wonderful sweet taste.
A little peanut butter let people know that ordinary white-flour steamed buns can be so delicious, Aunt Rong and they couldn't resist the temptation, they swallowed the steamed buns in their hands in two bites, and wanted to have another one, but found that there was only one person, so they had to lick the peanut butter on their fingers unsatisfied.
"It turns out that peanut butter can still be eaten like this, in the past, we used to get some to mix noodles in the summer, and no one ate it, and I haven't ground peanut butter for a long time." Chef Li's words were agreed by the other two chefs.
"Peanut butter is mixed with soy sauce, it is not so greasy, and it is a perfect match for steamed buns. Or Xiangru has a flexible brain, I want to know this, why haven't I heard your advice before? Aunt Rong said it.
Xiangru smiled slightly, "In the past, Xiangru people were soft-spoken. ”
I used to be a sala, how could I come up with a way to eat steamed buns dipped in peanut butter.
"Okay, don't mention it before, get one for Aunt Xiao to try tomorrow. Peanuts are good. ”
"Yes, Auntie."
The cooks should go here, and the kitchen workers installed the snack box for Aunt Xiao, Xiangru explained to Aunt Rong the reason for changing the sweet soup, Aunt Rong listened to it, did not blame, picked up the food box and left, she had a difficult task in the afternoon, whether she could persuade Aunt Xiao to suspend the tonic was up to her.
Aunt Rong came to Aunt Xiao's room, and Aunt Fang had already come and was talking to Aunt Xiao. Aunt Xiao was still sitting on the bed, covered with a quilt.
"Aunt Xiao, how do you feel at this time? Still have a dry mouth? ”
"It's always been like this, no matter how much water you drink, you can't quench your thirst, but you always have to relieve your hands, I don't know if it's because it's cold and old, and the kidneys of elderly people are always not good in winter."
"How can it, in my opinion, you are a little on fire, come, the kitchen specially made lotus seed and red date soup for you to nourish yin and reduce fire, nourish the spleen and nourish qi, knowing that you like sweetness when you eat sweet soup, you deliberately put an extra piece of rock sugar." Aunt Rong said as she poured the sweet soup from the soup cup into a bowl, stirred it with a spoon, and brought it to Aunt Xiao's bed.
"I had sweet soup today, and I thought it was some kind of broth." Aunt Xiao really likes sweet soup, and Aunt Rong just bent over in front of the bed, so she couldn't wait to reach out and take the bowl to eat herself.
"Aren't you on fire, those soups are a little dry, reduce the heat first, and then eat the soup in a few days." Aunt Rong naturally sat down on the edge of the bed close to Aunt Xiao's side, and immediately blocked Aunt Fang behind her.
Aunt Fang quietly got up and changed another stool to sit next to Aunt Rong, but when she heard Aunt Rong say that Aunt Xiao was on fire, there was still a trace of waves in her heart.
I didn't expect to be recognized by this woman so quickly about Aunt Xiao's physical condition! Although Aunt Fang didn't understand how Aunt Rong, who didn't understand medical science and medical skills, could figure it out, she didn't have the time to think about this at the moment, and her mind quickly raced to think about the corresponding rut next.
"Aunt Rong, you don't know how to heal, how do you know that I'm on fire? That's not what Fang Gu said in the morning. Aunt Xiao said while smiling and drinking the soup.
As soon as Aunt Fang heard her name at first glance, she hurriedly agreed, "That is, it seems that you know medicine very well, and if you get angry, you just eat something bad." ”
Aunt Rong tugged the corners of her mouth and sneered, "What do you eat bad things, I have been eating too much dry food in other daily meals except for a bowl of broth skimmed off the oil slick in the afternoon?" Aunt Xiao's overwork has caused the spleen and stomach to be weak, and the so-called deficiency is not replenished, the kitchen has long understood this, and it has always been based on flat compensation, and Aunt Xiao is also recovering smoothly. In the past few days, Aunt Xiao's eyes and cheeks suddenly flushed, her mouth was dry, and her nose was hot, all of which were typical symptoms of fire. ”
The surprise in Aunt Fang's heart was really indescribable at the moment, and she was a little annoyed and angry at the moment, "Aunt Rong, what do you mean by this?" ”
"It's literal, everyone in the women's medical hall knows that in addition to the kitchen diet, Aunt Xiao also has to drink tonic medicine every day. Since there is no problem with the food, then your tonic is very suspicious, do you dare to take the package of medicine to the medical officer of the Tai Hospital for identification? ”
"You! Rong Qiushi, are you saying that I gave Aunt Xiao something that shouldn't be eaten? Because the secret was revealed, Aunt Fang was completely annoyed, but her sharp voice showed that she was fierce and inward-looking, and her confidence was insufficient.
"Do you know in your own heart, do you want me to confront the menu of these days? I'm really glad that the palace stipulates that the kitchen should keep the daily menu for future reference, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to clear my grievances. ”
"Rong Qiushi, don't go too far!" Aunt Fang looked sad and indignant.
"Okay, what's the noise, why don't you come and taste such a delicious sweet soup? Aunt Rong, is there any sweet soup? Give Fang Gu a little sheng, she has been working hard these days. Aunt Xiao, who was concentrating on eating sweet soup, suddenly broke the dispute between the two subordinates, and also made Aunt Fang wake up and remind herself not to mess with herself.
"Yes, follow Aunt Xiao's orders."
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