Chapter 93
"What Her Royal Highness the princess said is that it is just a fruit from overseas tribute, which is rare to see on weekdays, and it is only eaten once during the New Year. Xiangru smiled and continued to add fuel to the fire of the five princesses' out-of-control emotions, and by the way, she also waved the 'milk' mother and other subordinates who rushed in to check the situation, so as not to let them add to the 'chaos'.
"He Xiangru, you are so bold, I didn't see that this has become a 'mess', and you are still talking like this." Qing'er scolded sharply.
Xiangru smiled slightly, and Qing'er made a look, while Qing'er was stunned, Xiangru 'touched' an orange from the fruit bowl, and came to the princess again, stepped on the couch with one foot, bent down, put the orange down to her nose and sniffed the orange fragrance with an intoxicated face.
"Your Highness, the maid thinks that the overseas fruits transported from thousands of miles away may not have the best quality of origin after a long journey here, and they are kept in a closed warehouse without seeing the sun and breeze for a long time, who knows whether those fruits will rot after going ashore. If you want the maid to say, or the fruits that are abundant in the country can be eaten, Your Highness said that it is not this reason? ”
"That's right, the fruit still needs to be heated and eaten, there must be a problem. Wu'er, we can't be angry about this. Concubine De took Xiangru's words and coaxed the 'girl' softly.
"Anyone who says that fruit is bad is jealous, and the sixth princess says you are all jealous!" The fifth princess not only did not stop, but cried even louder.
The face of the concubine became extremely ugly, and Xiangru and Qing'er also did not have a good face, they all knew very well that with the little child of the sixth princess, she couldn't say such a thing herself, she must have learned it from the adult, and the fifth princess suffered.
"I just said that it was not delicious, and she said that I was jealous, I was not jealous at all, I was not jealous, I didn't like the taste of the sugar water, she didn't allow me to say that it was not delicious, and she 'forced' me to eat it. Woo woo woo ~ "The fifth princess cried while emotionally 'excitedly' spitting out 'revealing' the truth.
Concubine De heard that the 'daughter' had suffered such a great grievance that day, and her heart was distressed, and she held the 'daughter' in her arms and screamed with her heart, liver and 'flesh', so she almost cried together.
"Your Highness, let's not be angry with them, we can't do it, isn't it just that rare thing, what kind of ability can it be." Xiangru is still adding vinegar.
"What is not the ability to 'get' it? If you have the ability, you can 'get' a better one to show me! The princess yelled at Xiangru.
"Okay, the maid is not talented, she just knows a few fruits to make sweets, there is nothing difficult. If His Royal Highness is willing to taste it, the servant can write down the recipe on the spot and teach the kitchen to make it. Xiangru said as she threw the oranges in her hand up and down, behaving very rudely, as if she was deliberately provocative.
"What fruit are you going to use?"
"There are a lot of fruits that can be used, such as oranges, apples, and bananas, and they can all be used to make delicious fruit snacks. But His Royal Highness's identity, he must have eaten a lot, right? ”
"Needless to say, the dim sum made of apples and bananas has been eaten a lot, not rare, and the orange juice is sour after heating, and the palace never eats orange juice mixed with water, so don't fool the palace." The tears on the little princess's face were not dry, and she re-set up the princess's shelf, and when Concubine De saw that she didn't cry, her heart finally settled down, and she wiped her tears with her own handkerchief, and Qing'er instructed the girl at the entrance of the 'door' to fetch warm water to wash the princess's face.
"What Your Highness said is that these three kinds of fruits are the most common, and the chefs can come up with no less than a hundred kinds of 'flowers', and Your Highness has tasted them?"
"Tell me, what snacks do you make? Have you ever eaten at Hongu? ”
"Yes, Your Highness. First of all, orange juice is indeed sour and astringent after heating, but the orange juice fruit 'flesh' is mixed with 'chicken' egg liquid and steamed 'chicken' egg custard, but it is sweet and sour and tender, and people who like to eat it are reluctant to stop. Have Your Highness Eaten Orange Steamed Eggs? Xiangru retracted her posture and replied respectfully with a smile on her face.
"This one doesn't. Is it really that delicious? ”
"Your Highness, whether it tastes good or not is a matter of opinion, if Your Highness is interested, you might as well let the cook make it and taste it."
"Well, go on, what else are you going to do."
"Apple bananas are best used to make snacks, apples can be made into apple pies, honey osmanthus 'flower' apples, apple crisp, apple syrup, etc., bananas can be made into banana muffins, puff pastry banana cakes, banana pancakes, banana sweet potato cakes, banana 'chicken', etc., hawthorn to make glutinous rice cheese, glutinous rice hawthorn cake, malt hawthorn egg custard, hawthorn black plum jelly and hawthorn 'milk' and 'dew'. Also, with almond sago 'dew' as the base material, you can 'make' a lot of 'flower'-like sweet soup, and there are other bits and pieces like osmanthus 'flower' chestnut soup and longan cake are very delicious. If you eat so much, you will be full by tomorrow morning. ”
"It's a pig that can eat so much at once." The little princess threw Xiangru a roll of her eyes with disdain, turned her head and instructed Qing'er, "Aunt Qing, give her fruit, send someone to take her to the kitchen, and make everything you just said for the palace to taste." ”
Ahh The little princess said this to imply that she was a pig? It's such a cute little friend, but it's a pity that I can't pinch it. Xiangru instantly blamed her aunt for possession, and shook her shoulders a few times before forcibly enduring.
"Your Highness, do you want them all? It's late today, can we do it in parts? Qing'er persuaded that if all the food was made, it would probably take a day to prepare.
"Huh~?" The corners of Princess Xing's mouth twitched, and she was about to turn her face again.
"Wu'er good boy, Qing'er is right, it's late today, and there are so many things to eat, you must always allow time for the kitchen to prepare materials, let's make a few simple things to taste today, okay?"
The little princess was full of displeasure, but she still listened to her mother's persuasion, and nodded very unwillingly, "Okay, Aunt Qing will take her down to pick up a few simple things to make first, and write down the rest of the list and 'hand' it over to the kitchen tomorrow." ”
"Yes, Your Highness."
"Niangniang, Your Highness, the servant is temporarily retiring."
Xiangru pursed the corners of her mouth and saluted slowly, carried her 'medicine' box and followed Qing'er out of the warm pavilion, and at the same time, the 'milk' mother and the girl with the water basin came in to help the princess freshen up***.
"Doctor He, thank you so much, the princess finally wants to eat again." Qing'er said as she walked, her eyes gradually turned red, and of course she had been worried about it for the past few days.
"It will be easy to find the root of the little princess's illness, give her something delicious to eat, make her happy, and she will soon forget the unpleasant things. By the way, Miss Qing, just now in order to coax the princess, I was in a hurry, I did a lot of rude things, said a lot of inappropriate things, I haven't had time to ask the mother for the guilt, come back later, and ask the aunt to say a few good words in front of the mother and the princess to excuse me. ”
"It's okay, Niangniang is reasonable, knowing that you are good for the princess, she won't blame you, you have actually made a meritorious service, if the princess likes the food you make, Niangniang may have a reward."
"I don't dare to be greedy, this is just my duty, I am very fortunate to be able to find the root of the princess's illness as soon as possible, otherwise if the princess's illness reaches the ears of the emperor and the queen mother, it will not be good to alarm them, and De Niangniang will have to be scolded."
"Yes, we have been worrying about this for the past few days, and the imperial doctors also suspect that it is a heart disease, but they can't ask anything useful from the princess's mouth, or do you have a way, the princess finally told the truth."
"Miss Qing has won the prize, and the princess is fine."
Xiangru and Qing'er were talking, and after a while, they came to the front hall, Qing'er beckoned a girl to bring all the fruits, let Xiangru choose the right ones at will, and then took her 'medicine' box for her to keep, and sent two other girls to help Xiangru take the fruits and lead her to the kitchen.
The kitchen of the West Sixth Palace is a large kitchen shared by the Six Palaces, and in a courtyard on the northernmost side of the entire West Sixth Palace, the entire courtyard is the site of the kitchen, with three large bungalows, the main room is a large kitchen for hot and cold dishes and staple food, the North Wing is a small kitchen for making snacks and soups, the South Wing is a warehouse, and the inverted seat room is a tea room for the cooks to rest.
De Concubine's girl led Xiangru to say hello to the eunuch on duty in the 'door' room, and went straight to the small kitchen, this time was when the small kitchen was busy preparing snacks, and the father-in-law of the kitchen manager saw that a stranger came to use the kitchen, and he was not too happy, but for the sake of De Concubine's face, he still reluctantly allocated a corner for Xiangru, and sent a little eunuch to help her get some things to use.
Everyone in the kitchen knew that the fifth princess had anorexia, and they had heard of Xiangru's name, but they had never 'dealed' with Xiangru before, and they didn't believe in Xiangru's ability, so they all watched Xiangru busy with a bit of a good show.
Xiangru didn't rush to do anything, but first stood in front of the cabinet where the accessories were placed in the kitchen and looked at it carefully, and asked the little eunuch to help take the appropriate amount and put it on the table for later use, and she also took all the remaining half jars of cow's milk in the kitchen.
The ingredients available in the concubines' kitchen are more abundant than those in the 'female' medical hall, and even the cow's 'milk' is available. Of course, cow's milk is only an adjunct to cooking, not a staple food.
In addition to cow's milk, Xiangru also found butter, which she had seen in the food list given to her by Imperial Physician Shao, so she knew that as an adjunct for dim sum, there must be this thing in the harem kitchen. But with the current status, it is inconvenient to make dim sum directly from butter, so I just smell it and put it back in its place.
She's just a freshly graduated food doctor, what's butter? I've never heard of it.
Seeing that the accessories were almost the same, Xiangru finally started to make dim sum, the first one was fresh orange steamed eggs, the simplest materials and the most convenient to make.
After the steamed eggs enter the steamer, Xiangru will seize the time to mix flour, use cow's milk', 'chicken' eggs, 'jade' rice grains and chopped raisins, longan, dried pine nuts and other dried fruit candied fruit together to stir into a batter, and fry into a sweet and delicious cow's milk' 'jade' rice crackers, this snack can be used for breakfast or as a baby meal, those candied dried fruits can be added and changed at will with personal taste, and the sweetness of the candied fruit is enough to replace white sugar honey.
When Xiangru was preparing the orange steamed eggs, she instructed the cooks to boil the sago. At first, sago was also an overseas tribute, but later it took root and became a common ingredient. This is the advantage of a large land area, the climate is diverse, so that the products are abundant enough, and the country of food must first be a big country of products.
The pancakes were half fried, the steamed eggs came out of the drawer, and the cooks who were watching the excitement came forward to watch, this kind of eating method has never been seen in the palace.
Xiangru didn't mix too much batter, and the cow's milk' and 'jade' rice cakes were only fried in two pieces, and they were cut into small pieces that were convenient for the children to eat, and they were neatly stacked on the plate
Entering the 'Door'