Although Master Jiang was born strong and cold, but his heart was hot, Ren Yan and the side of the case to distinguish the strength of different types of noodles, he stood on the side and taught little by little.

There were three large wooden spoons on the table, which were full of noodles, and Ren Yan picked a handful of them in his palm and clenched them into a ball, and then opened them, and the dough collapsed in an instant.

Master Jiang said: "This kind of strength is the best, so that the chewiness of making fritters is the best, and after rolling in the oil pan, take it out, and bite into the mouth that fragrant!" ”

Of course, you can also make some shortbread or hollow cakes, but they are all foreign dim sum, Ren Yan has never seen it, I don't know what it looks like, and it is estimated to be greasy and sweet.

She took the noodles from the other two spoons in turn.

The second strong flour dough is not easy to disperse, so it can be used to make some dumplings, steamed buns, or bread; Again, it is like an ordinary big money can buy a big bag, and can make muffins or biscuits and other pastries.

She pondered for a long time, then raised her face and asked, "Look at the whiter the face, the lower the strength, is that reasonable?" ”

Master Jiang nodded happily: "This apprentice has a good harvest and has understanding, come, go up here and look at the rice and grains." ”

The appearance of waxy white and short, fat and round is japonica rice, produced from outside the Guan, the fat grains can be boiled out of sticky and soft porridge, the taste is sweet and light, and the lid is not in the mouth is refreshing and fragrant.

The thin strips are indica rice, produced in two and one area, and you can pinch a powder in your hand, but you can swell it when you soak it in water and simmer it in the pot, and grind the powder to make some pastries or mix it into a dough to make a tune.

Then there is soft and collapsed Jiang rice, which is very sticky when it is boiled in water, and it is used to wrap zongzi or beat rice cakes, and it can also be mixed with other rice noodles to make some soft glutinous cakes, which are so sweet that they stick to their teeth.

The innermost wooden bowl was filled with corn, and only then did my uncle come to fetch it to make sour tea; The porcelain pot on the side is filled with bud rice stubble, and when the flour is ground and mixed with corn, it can be mixed to make pancakes, or set up its own door to make a dumpling.

In a pair of wide belly jars, one is filled with qu wheat and the other is filled with flour, and the taste is very rough, so you have to mix it with noodles to make grilled cakes or dumplings.

Ren Yanda Baoding escaped and never tasted the dumplings again.

At that time, my mother built a wooden bed on the stove by herself, stuffed the reconciled noodles into the hole of the wooden bed, and she riveted the wooden handle of the bed on the side, squeezed out the noodles-like dumplings into the soup pot.

After boiling water twice, put it out and add two spoonfuls of noodle sauce, tender mushroom tofu and goldenrod, and minced meat mixed with spicy sauce, which is oily and ruddy.

That will be young, ignorant of the world, eat two bowls as if it was the New Year, holding chopsticks and eager to go to the house. Now that I think about it, it's extra warm.

She stood there, her eyes looking directly at the jar, and Master Jiang's voice was still in her ears: "...... There are all kinds of beans on the plate, and you don't need to recognize your cleverness, so you turn around and polish the powder to make the filling for me to see. ”

Ren Yan nodded.

"Don't be in a hurry, your master hasn't come back, let's take a hand with me first and steam the orchid dumplings!"

"Okay."

She consciously held the large white porcelain basin and scooped the wooden spoon to scoop the noodles.

picked up the strong one, smelled it, passed it through the sieve, and brought it to Master Jiang; The master nodded, and then spread it on the cutting board, adding warm water and kneading the dough.

Japanese noodles are also particular.

Dig a pit in the middle, first add a wave of water to call the noodles to eat the water thoroughly and then reconcile, and sprinkle the second wave of water like snowflakes, kneaded into hard pimples; Dip the gnocchi into water and knead the lump into a smooth and pleasant dough.

Master Jiang's work is done by his apprentices and nephews, and he is happy to stand on the dry shore to watch the excitement, while chattering idly: "...... The age of the small vegetable seedlings is put aside in Xuzhou to the old man to farm, and when the ground is just thawed, he wears a single coat and carries the small scratch to hoe the wheat......"

Senior Brother Yang went to the treasury master to receive lotus leaves, and walked here.

Master Jiang's book is talking about his newly married first wife, and he refused to go down to the ground to bring him food during the wheat grabbing season, and looked at the bean soup buns in other people's baskets, and he came up with the idea of being a cook.

"It's just the hot summer, before planting, I pushed a wheelbarrow all over the mountains to deliver dung, squatting on the slope hungry, I knew that this woman couldn't have it, and it was not as good as a donkey in a basket."

Ren Yan and a few senior brothers were bored, and kneaded the noodles in their hands into strips.

When picking up the medicine, the senior brother said disgusted: "Uncle, we don't shy away from the back kitchen, it's all about the entrance, look at what you said, I can't complain that my former master is not happy to ask for you!" ”

Master Jiang was annoyed and took the board to beat him.

The senior brother was nimble with his hands and feet, and he rushed out of the distance with a glance, and called Ren Yan with two rows of wooden shelves: "Little junior sister, the bean halva has been cut back, come back and get some for the senior uncle and brothers to try." ”

The first bean halva is full of starch sugar, withered and yellow, sweet and sweet, but the appearance is not good-looking.

Xiao Tong has been pondering this kind of starch syrup, and recently boiled it into water syrup, which is soft and light in color, and it looks better than starch sugar when mixed into soybean noodles.

Ren Yan swallowed his saliva, and slapped Master Jiang on the head: "The round skin is rolled out, and you always think about sugar, orchid dumplings are better than caramel when they come out of the pot!" ”

She nodded sincerely.

The orchid dumpling filling is minced meat, cooked egg yolk and egg white, shiitake mushrooms and minced ham, and then divided into two parts with minced vegetables, one is mixed well and beaten into the embryo skin.

Master Jiang took the embryo skin and put the stuffing, and then kneaded the dough tightly in five parts, and put it on the board like a cut sheep's peach; Then use scissors to cut out two thin beards on each of the five sides, and glue one piece of the strip to each other.

The beard is glued into the shape of an orchid, and the five holes vacated in the middle are added with the remaining five kinds of fillings, and the corners of the bottom are cut into fine side whiskers, and the fingers are twisted into a bend to form the final orchid dumpling embryo.

Ren Yan carefully held the six-layer small bamboo cage over, which was filled with delicious dumplings, and the boiling water from Master Zhu had already been stewed, glanced at her, and took it expressionlessly.

She waited for the hour, and when it was time to take the dishes, let the man come and bring them to the hall.

Bai was busy studying and busy, and when it was time to rest, she was worried about the sugar from her senior brother, took a bag of lotus leaves to share with everyone, and then went to the backyard to touch a place to eat cats.

In the second half of the day, Xiao Tong came back and taught her the basic skills of dough kneading and strip pulling, and let her roll out all kinds of dumpling bun embryo skins, and then showed a smile: "There are still a few days of the Seventh Master's engagement banquet, so you just go with you, you have a foundation, and it is good to study more." ”

"Yes."

Her excited heart didn't know what it was like for a moment.

Before the master came, she helped people with the medicine and set up a board.

Senior Brother Yang took the time to raise his head and carefully distinguish for a long time: "You have a gossip array here, what are you putting here...... Ancient, one, door, rope, which view of the mantra? ”

How can there be any spell, just a word, Gu Ting is missing his heart!

Of course, he can't know this.

Ren Yan kneaded the dough array and sneered: "It's okay, I'll mess around." ”

Probably thinking that she was hysterical, Senior Brother Yang took out a piece of candy and slapped it in front of her.

Ren Yan lowered his head, and his heart was on fire.

The words are spoken, but the heart doesn't follow me!

Look at this resentment rushing straight to the brain, a flash, I don't know where to fly, this is going to enter the Gu Mansion to participate in the engagement banquet, and I can't rob my relatives?

She is the temper of a female king, and she is very self-aware of this, so Cheng Huiyu has been looking for her twice recently, and she has shirked it hesitantly, for fear that she will see something wrong.

That girl is a sincere person, and her mind is very careful, if you think of this, what do you think of her?

Cheng Huiyu is her first friend in Beijing, to be honest, she still gets along with sisters, she doesn't want to lose her, but she doesn't want to lose Gu Tingwen, both of them are contradictory.

Now that it's a certainty, there's no need to be embarrassed.

People will be other girls' husbands in the future, don't allow her to think crankily, bury yourself in your heart, and be close friends with Miss Cheng in the future, don't see that master if you can.

She was afraid that she would not be able to control her own heart.

So the engagement banquet, she actually didn't want to go.

But I thought about it again anyway, I was in the kitchen, and when the wedding banquet was over, I followed the masters back to Honghentang, I couldn't see anyone left and right, and I could learn some skills, and finally I gave it to Ying.

Xiao Tong was thoughtful, only smiled, and did not say anything more.

On the day of the engagement feast, it was a sunny day early in the morning, cloudless, and not very hot, which was a good sign.

Ren Yan was so busy in the back kitchen that his feet didn't touch the ground, so he freed up his hands to copy the bucket and go to the well to draw water, and added the empty water tank.

At the head of the tree by the well stood a man, dressed in a velvet suit and a beautiful bow tie, but smoking a cigarette and smiling or not.

She shook her head and greeted her: "Mr. Cheng, why did you come here, do you have something to explain?" ”

Cheng Shi'an smiled, and the smoke dispersed, revealing his meaningful eyes: "Xiao Yan-"

"Huh?"

"Shall I take you to Tingwen?"

She was distracted, her strength was scattered, and the bucket tied to the hemp rope slammed into the well, and the water splashed out, splashing a place where the boss was.

Ren Yan hurriedly fixed the wheel, fished up the bucket, and calmed down: "I see what the Seventh Master does, on the day of great joy, he will give people a tongue for nothing, don't tease me." ”

"No jokes." He was more serious than ever, "Tingwen is so scheming that I am afraid of you for you, you know?" ”

Well?

Ren Yan carried two buckets and looked at him strangely: "What's wrong with you today, why don't you come forward and rest, I don't blame you." ”

Cheng Shi'an extinguished his cigarette: "Don't be busy, today's marriage can't be engaged." ”

Why can't it be booked, the third housekeeper of the Gu family sent red envelopes here, beaming with joy, flowing like the ocean flowing.

Ren Yan's heart jumped, and he didn't understand: "I have to go back, the back kitchen is busy, I'll come back and talk to you." ”

She ran so fast that she didn't notice when the water wet her pants.

Cheng Shi'an looked at her back and smiled, and the irrepressible anger came up again.

Last night, he went here to see Gu Tingwen.

I haven't seen him for half a month, and he has lost a whole circle, but his eyes are dark and bright, like a sharp blade, and he is shocked to see people.

"Shi'an—"

He opened his mouth and beckoned him to sit down: "You see, after so many days, they haven't been able to smash my backbone, and it's time to come back!" ”

Cheng Shi's peace of mind sank to the bottom, and he was creepy.