Discover new spices
The restaurant was almost decorated, and Su Weiyun decided to go to the restaurant after lunch. When Su Weiyun was eating, he suddenly heard a faint scream, but after that, he was silent, and Su Weiyun, who frowned, ate seriously without asking too much. After the two of them turned into a beautiful boy, they went to the restaurant.
Su and Yun entered the restaurant through the back door, and at this time, Fu Bo was making the kitchen utensils as the cook, and several small servants in the hall were cleaning.
The restaurants of this era were frequented by the rich and powerful. However, due to the status of the businessman underground, even if he has a lot of money, he generally sits on the first floor of the restaurant, and the second floor is usually planned as an independent room, which is the first choice of the magnates, and the restaurant is only a place to eat, and there is a special place to play. People want to listen to small songs, listening to the wind building is the first choice, if they want to watch the dance, they will go to the cloud dance pavilion, if they want to cultivate their sentiments to watch the big play, the Yingxi building gathers the major famous actors.
Su Weiyun renamed Xiangyun Building as Yunchu Building, and opened up a stage in the center of the hall on the first floor, surrounded by cloud curtains and tassels. The rooms on the second floor have been split in half, and the front part has been grouped into a private seating area, separated by greenery or bookcases, ensuring the distance between the tables and ensuring maximum privacy. The price of the private seat is more expensive than that of the downstairs, because the private seat on the second floor can look down the floor, and the stage performance is also in front of you. The other suites have also been renovated by Su Weiyun, in addition to the traditional layout, a small room has been added to the suite, which has a bed and a dressing closet. Because the restaurant is facing the river, the window of the suite is beautiful as soon as it is opened, so a desk pen and ink are also added next to it.
In addition to the decoration characteristics of the restaurant, the dishes are the most important. After listening to Fu Bo's introduction, Su Yiyun came to the kitchen. Take out the spices that you had told Fauber to buy.
"Miss, according to your description, my subordinates ran all over the major grocery stores in the city, and I couldn't find a few of them, and then Miss asked me to go to the pharmacy to find them, and finally found some, Miss, do you want to see if you are looking for them?"
Su Yiyun took a look, and found all the basic spices, including cinnamon, cinnamon, grass fruit, cloves, etc., which are ordinary seasonings in modern times, but in ancient times, which were mainly salt, soy sauce, ginger, garlic and other ordinary spices, Fu Bo really tried his best to find these things.
"Miss, what's the use of these? Some of them are usually medicated. Miss, can you explain it to us and let us have a long insight? A chubby chef asked. This person is Fubo's eldest son, Fuyong, who is the head of the kitchen. Fubo's two sons, Fukunaga Fuyi, are both cooks. Both of them are chubby, Fuyong usually smiles, but Fuyi has a serious face. In the past two years, Fauber has gradually let the brothers take over the affairs of the kitchen. It's Fauber's right and left hand. In the past, I heard my father mention the matter of the eldest lady and the young lady, but now the young lady suddenly appeared, opened a restaurant, and asked my father to buy some medicinal herbs, saying that he would cook food. The brothers were skeptical.
"Cinnamon, also known as cinnamon, has the effect of stopping diarrhea and warming the kidneys; star anise, dissipates cold and regulates qi and relieves pain; cloves, choleretic and diuretic. Sichuan pepper is good for the stomach. After Su Yiyun explained them one by one. So I took a pen and paper, wrote down a few recipes, and then carefully explained the precautions to Fuyong Fuyi. The two of them were born to be good cooks, and now they have been in charge of cooking for many years, and they can understand everything about what Miss said. After the practical operation, I went from being skeptical at the beginning to admiring the young lady.
"I'm just a layman, and it's up to you to come up with the best formula. ”
"Miss, I dare to say that the entire capital can't make such a taste, if you want to say that you are a layman, then we chefs who have been working for ten years should die of shame!"
"You will study it well in the past few days, and it will officially open on the fifth day of the next month. After Su Yiyun explained some things, he left the restaurant with Qingyun.
"Miss, can we go to Dongcheng?" Qingyu looked at Qingyun expectantly.
"Why?"
"That, there is a fried cake in Dongcheng that is delicious, and the slaves and maids haven't eaten it for almost two years. ”
"Lead the way. Hearing that she could go and eat the baked cakes she had always dreamed of, Qingyu jumped up for joy.
The two of them gradually drifted apart, and the more they walked, the more remote they became, until they came to the mountain path, if it weren't for Qingyu's familiarity all the way, Su Yiyun really thought that they were lost.
There was a farmer on the slope on the side of the road who was sweating and hoeing the ground, and Su Yiyun saw that the plants that had been hoeed by the farmer were very cute.
"Uncle, how beautiful this plant is red, green, and green, why did you hoe it off?" Qingyu asked curiously.
When the farmer heard the voice, he turned around, put down his hoe, wiped his sweat, and said with a smile: "The two sons don't know anything, I want to cultivate some land to grow grain." This land is overgrown with these plants, although no one has mentioned whether it is edible before, but I see that this red, red, green and green is so beautiful. I was sure I could eat it, so I took some home and fed the sheep, but my sheep kept crying and kicked me hard when I took a bite of it. Animals don't dare to eat it! It must be a bad thing. ”
"Uncle, can you pick me all these red and green fruits, some people in my family like this thing, but they haven't been able to find it before. ”
"Childe, this thing is not good, what do you want it for?" Qingyu was frightened when she heard that Su Weiyun wanted these things.
"What is the use of this childe? There are a lot of this thing on the mountain to the west. Take them all if you want. Be careful, though, this thing will rot your tongue when imported. ”
Although the kind farmer didn't understand what Su Weiyun was going to do, he still collected these things for Su Weiyun. He also brought a small basket for Su Weiyun to load the fruit.
"Thank you, uncle. Su Weiyun took out 10 yuan and gave it to the old man, "Uncle, just buy this basket for me." ”
"No, no, no, even if it's a new basket, it's not worth 10 yuan, not to mention that we are a farmer's family, and it's normal to make a small basket. Childe doesn't have to be polite. The simple old farmer refused to accept Su Yiyun's money. "Childe, where are you going? ”
"Uncle, we're going to buy that Chen Ji baked cake, it's delicious!" mentioning the purpose of this trip, Qingyu became excited.
Hearing Qingyu's words, the old man's face flashed with a trace of heartache. Seeing the old man's expression, Su Yiyun asked quietly: "Uncle, but what happened to this Chen Ji baked cake?"
The old man was silent, "Don't hide it from the two sons, the old man is the third generation of Chen Ji baked cakes." I'm about sixty years old, and I'll be able to cook this pancake for another five years at most. But my son dislikes the hard and tiring work of making baked cakes, and he can't make a lot of money. I had another fight with my son today, and I didn't make the pancakes today. I see that my craft is so bad that I am gone. Those of you who want to eat will never be able to eat again. ”
"Uncle, you can take in apprentices!" Qingyu asked with a puzzled expression.
"This is my family's ancestral craft, how can it be passed on to outsiders. The old man said stubbornly.
"Uncle, you will take your son to the restaurant in the city tomorrow, which is the original Xiangyun Building. You said that it was introduced by Su Gongzi. I guarantee that your son will not only inherit this art of baking cakes, but you will also earn a lot of money. Su Yiyun looked at the basket full of chili peppers and said.
I didn't expect to find the chili pepper by mistake today. People in this era don't understand chili peppers, and when they eat them raw, they will naturally be frightened by its pungency. But when the chili pepper is done, the flavor will be irresistible. Su Weiyun couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he thought of the boiled fish, boiled meat, kung pao chicken, spicy chicken, etc. he had eaten in his previous life.
"Miss, do you want Uncle Chen to come to our restaurant to sell baked cakes? ”
"You'll know when the time comes. "Although I didn't eat it today. But looking at Qingyu's obsession, I think this baked cake is also good. Although the price of baked cakes is low, it is not difficult for Su Yiyun to be accepted by the upper class.