There are some palace maids who do chores in the imperial dining room, and the people in the dining room are mainly responsible for side dishes, cutting vegetables, .

This is the place where my father has worked all his life, Mu Jiaren stopped and sighed with some emotion.

Her father didn't pass on his cooking skills to her, because he felt that the errand was too tiring, and the reason why she was good at making dim sum, carving and knife skills was because her mother loved to eat, and her father taught her these things since she was a child.

In fact, if you think about it, the relationship between father and mother may be very deep, but she was too young at the time to understand the reason.

Beichen Ye is the son of the world, she is still ordered to enter the palace, and the two will be separated for a few months, not to mention that her father was just a royal chef and her mother was also an ordinary person, they lived separately, so they should also have their helplessness.

When she was a child, she complained about her father, feeling that he only had the righteousness of a monarch in his heart.

Now standing in the place where he has been for decades, I don't know why he feels so emotional.

"Xia Zhu, Xia Zhu?"

Tao Ran shouted on the side, Mu Jiaren didn't respond for a long time, she stepped forward and pulled her clothes.

"What are you standing for? Don't hurry up and prepare lunch yet. ”

"Oh!" Mu Jiaren remembered that her name was Xia Zhu, and she was really not used to this name.

Zhong Sishan came to the imperial dining room to overseer it, and when he saw Mu Jiaren, he beckoned her to come over.

"You're new?"

"Slave Xia Zhu, I've seen Zhong Sishan."

"Qin Shanggong has already told me, you go over there to help, today's dim sum has been prepared, you can see if you can do it."

"Yes."

Tao Ran doesn't know how to cook, is mainly responsible for stewing, side dishes and arranging utensils, and Mu Jiaren is in charge of dim sum, so she went to the south room.

The life of the white case is naturally different from the red case, but there is no excitement here, the imperial chef saw the newcomer, so he pointed to the booklet at the door: "You look at the dim sum of Yongning Palace, if you don't understand, ask quickly, write down what you will do, and we will try the dishes in the afternoon." ”

The palace maid in the dining room is wearing a jujube red palace robe, which is very recognizable, there are two palace maids in the dining room, and when they saw the newcomer, they stepped forward and introduced: "This is the Hong Imperial Kitchen, and the one over there is the Kong Imperial Kitchen, my name is Bai Shao, and she is Perilla." ”

The palace maid in the dining room, the name is really simple and direct, so thinking about it, the queen mother is already a reward if she doesn't have a dish name, speaking of which, if she really has to name the dish, she thinks she can call it roast goose, fat and juicy, but a hard dish.

Mu Jiaren saluted one by one: "The slave maid Xia Zhu is the new palace maid in the dining room, and I hope that the two imperial chefs will give more guidance in the future." ”

Mu Jiaren also saluted the two palace maids: "Xia Zhu has seen two sisters. ”

"Come and help, finally we have one more person here." A palace maid standing in the distance complained while arranging the dishes, "Everyone thinks that making dim sum is very simple and does not require human hands, and only those who have actually done it know how difficult it is." ”

Bai Shao looked at her for a moment, and then saw the beads in her hand.

"You bought these from outside the palace?"

"Hmm." Mu Jiaren nodded.

"It's so pretty." Bai Shao glanced at it twice before turning around and going to do something.

These beads are the reserve silver that Beichen Ye prepared for her, so she can't give them away casually.

Mu Jiaren flipped through the books at the door, and the dim sum sent by the Queen Mother today was jujube flower cake, ink crisp and marigold balls, and the soup was lotus leaf soup and osmanthus sour plum soup.

It's summer now, and there isn't much ice in the Queen Mother's Palace, presumably because she is too old to stand too cold, but the diet is still light and light.

The booklet marks the ingredients and methods of each dish, as well as the points to be noted, and it is generally the palace maid who prepares the things and finally makes them by the imperial chef.

"How? Will these be? "Hong Yuchu is not tall, thirty-six or seven, with a beard, his appearance is very ordinary, listening to his tone, his temperament seems to be more anxious.

Kong Yuchu has been doing things silently, saying a few words from time to time, except for a glance when she entered the door, and then he didn't care about her.

"I've seen it, but I don't do it much, maybe I don't have a good grasp of the taste."

"Then you have to try more, the tastes of the masters of each palace are different, although you are mainly responsible for the queen mother's palace, but you are also the person in the dining room, and the masters of other palaces are also going to serve."

"Yes, the slave maid understands, I want to ask the Imperial Chef Hong, what is the taste of the Queen Mother?"

"The Queen Mother prefers light, in fact, Yongning Palace has a small kitchen, and the things we make are just for the Queen Mother to change the taste."

After Hong Yuchu finished speaking, he began to make marigold balls, and Mu Jiaren worked on the side.

After a dish, she tried to get started, and Chef Hong guided her, and the marigoldballs she made were as crispy as Chef Hong's, but the taste was sweeter.

"You have a bit of talent, pay attention to the taste, the marigold balls from the Queen Mother generally only put two spoons of sugar, and the spoon only holds eight points, if it is sent to the queen, you need three spoons of sugar, and the queen's taste is sweet."

"Yes, the slave has written it down."

Mu Jiaren took out the booklet she had prepared before and wrote it down.

Dim sum is generally served after lunch, and some masters have different habits, and they will be delivered according to different times.

After lunch was busy and the refreshments were delivered, they had a little rest.

The imperial chef rests in his own room, and they usually leave the palace after dinner, and enter the palace early tomorrow morning to prepare breakfast.

Mu Jiaren is new here, and she wants to make tomorrow's dim sum for the imperial chef to taste, so she has been busy.

Just as he was about to start preparing the ingredients, he heard a palace maid come to the door, leading the food box and coming over menacingly.

"What do you do in the dining room? Can this kind of thing also be given to Concubine Chen? ”

A few people came out of the kitchen, Mu Jiaren didn't know this palace maid, but Bai Shao took a step forward: "This snack is made according to the requirements of the palace, and the white jade cake is not the first time it has been sent to Jinxia Palace, what's the problem?" ”

The palace maid stuffed the dim sum into Bai Shao's hand: "Niang Niang said it was very delicious, it must be you who were lazy to bring yesterday's and send it today!" ”

"How dare we." Zi Su said with some grievances.

"Don't dare? Then taste it for yourselves. As she spoke, she pulled the snacks on her plate and dropped them all on the ground.

No one expected her to be so unreasonable.

"Behold, you will not eat yourselves."

Mu Jiaren squatted down, picked up a piece, blew it, and took a bite.

The booklet says that the white jade cake is soft and glutinous and sweet, and it is made with winter melon rock sugar lily, which is suitable for summer consumption.

"I don't know what kind of food does my mother want to eat? Or will the white jade cake not be sent to Jinxia Palace in the future? Mu Jiaren asked.

The palace maid didn't seem to expect her to be so calm and able to eat things on the ground, she was a little flustered for a while, and then said: "You are just neglecting Jinxia Palace, this time Niangniang will not pursue it, just let me give you a reminder, don't think about stammering other masters, the master of Jinxia Palace is not something you can offend." ”