Chapter 29: Ancient Pen Pals (I)
No need to ask for peace, you can't go to where the Wu clan is, Gu Min felt that he had nothing to do in the afternoon.
It's not a solution, you have to find a way to do something.
Go to the kitchen, no, it's too hot.
Although the current kitchen is under Gu Min's strong request, a panel room and tasting room have been illegally built.
However, it was also very hot somewhere, and she was not happy to go.
I've lived in my house for two years, and I've looked at it all over the place.
As for some delicacies, even if she thinks of it, she still can't eat it, and what good things come out, isn't it cheap for others?
So I have to think of a way to pass the time and eat by myself.
Gu Min thought about the things in the small kitchen for a long time, and finally came up with it, she could make zongzi by herself!!
It was already after the Dragon Boat Festival, and there were no zongzi in the kitchen, but Gu Min really didn't love the zongzi in the big kitchen at that time.
She's the kind of snack that separates from staple food.
Snacks are only sweet, staples are salty.
The zongzi in the big kitchen package look beautiful, but they are all bean paste, red beans, red date dumplings, and the kind with preserved fruits in them.
And the zongzi she loves is a meat zongzi, and it has to be a zongzi with a large piece of pork belly, and it would be even better if she could put an egg yolk.
No way, she was a southerner in her previous life, and she is not far from Jiaxing, she has long been used to the taste of Jiaxing's zongzi, and it is difficult for you to let her change again.
The big kitchen didn't like it, at that time, Gu Min let the gourd wrap it, but the gourd wrapped out was still sweet, and in the end, those zongzi all went into the stomachs of several girls.
This time, Gu Min planned to pack it by himself, firstly, to pass the time, and secondly, to comfort his stomach.
"Gege, why do you want so much pork belly and egg yolk?" Hulu was curious when he saw that Gu Min had opened a list.
Glutinous rice is available in the small kitchen anyway, but ten catties of pork belly and twenty egg yolks, what does this mean?
Why just egg yolks, but what about egg whites? What are you doing with it?
"Make zongzi, I'll wrap it myself, my craftsmanship is good.
When the time comes, I will give you a taste of your family's craftsmanship and ensure that you eat croaking. ”
"The slave is not a frog, where can she croak."
Hulu muttered, to be honest, she couldn't trust her own craftsmanship.
Her family is invincible in the world, and it is up to her to see what she does.
Occasionally, something will surprise her.
But most of them still fail.
"Go quickly, ask for twenty pounds of belly from the big kitchen, and remember to ask for duck eggs, the yolk of the egg is too small."
In fact, Gu Min originally wanted salted duck eggs, and she wanted salted duck eggs long before Qingming.
There are many things that are better before Qingming, for example, duck eggs, which can be said to be whole, and in summer, duck eggs are half of them.
Therefore, it is generally necessary to pickle salted eggs, and it is best to pickle them before Qingming, or the eggs at the beginning of the month will be better than the eggs at the end of the month.
Gu Min is still quite interested in doing this, and the jar of salted eggs in the past is still there.
But Su Lan objected, she felt that the reason why Gu Min was pickled in the past was because the big kitchen would shorten her food.
But now, no, why do you have to pickle it yourself?
You do what a cook does, and you will lose the price!
There is no big kitchen, if you like it, you can get it from the big kitchen
You don't want to think about how scary it is to have a row of salted egg jars in the backyard.
Su Lan strongly objected, and Gu Min couldn't do anything, but this time, Su Lan didn't object to making zongzi.
As for the gourd, do you think that if you practice your own style well, maybe the master will like it?
Of course, the premise is that the owner's bag looks good and tastes good.
With the cooperation of the gourd, Gu Min quickly prepared the materials.
The pork belly is to be pickled, and now that the weather is hot, after one night, I am afraid that the meat will spoil, so the gourd is to get the pork belly in the morning, and cut them into small pieces to pickle.
Gu Min confessed that you can use a toothpick to poke some small holes in the pork belly to help them absorb the flavor.
As for the egg yolk, it is much more difficult, and it is still relatively difficult to take twenty salted duck eggs at once, especially raw, so I took five gourds, and I also took some preserved dates, chestnuts, and two pork ribs.
Gu Min also came up with it later, if there are no egg yolk dumplings, or if the amount is small, you can make plum vegetables and pork ribs dumplings.
Anyway, as long as you touch the meat, the taste will become beautiful.
Gu Min eats less sweets these days, and suddenly becomes fond of meat, she always feels that there is no oil and water in her stomach, and she has to add some to it.
She actually knew that sweets and meat were really two different things, but since her stomach had this desire, she had to satisfy it.
After all, eating meat and gourd is not a stop!!
Gu Min is the best at wrapping triangular zongzi, which is easier than the four-cornered one, but the triangular zongzi is not very easy to put meat and pork ribs, which is particularly inconvenient.
Her idea was to put a piece of meat in her head, a piece in her tail, and an egg yolk in the middle, which would be perfect, to ensure that there was either meat or egg yolk in her mouth.
But the operation of the triangle dumplings is not good, her hands are relatively small, and the larger ones can't be done, and the smaller ones can't meet her requirements.
In the end, it was the gourd that made a move, wrapping five double-meat egg yolk dumplings, ten double-meat pork rib dumplings, ten plum vegetable rib dumplings, and ten plum vegetable double-meat dumplings.
In addition, I wrapped the sweet dumplings that the gourd is best at.
When the zongzi were cooked, they were almost asleep, Gu Min wanted to taste them, but unfortunately they were stopped by Su Lan and the gourd.
Glutinous rice is inherently less digestible.
Generally speaking, breakfast and dinner are not eaten by the master, and they will only be eaten at noon.
You said you were going to sleep now, how could they taste it?
To put it mildly, Hulu and Su Lan promised to let her eat a double-meat egg yolk dumpling for breakfast early tomorrow morning.
After breakfast the next day, Gu Min began to write letters to Wu.
Ever since she was ordered by Fu Jin not to go to Wu's place, she has been a pen pal with Wu's......
She has to practice calligraphy every day, anyway, she has to write, it is better to write a letter to Wu, Wu is trapped in the yard all day long, how boring, without her company, even more boring.
Of course, given that Wu is now pregnant, he can't use his eyes much.
Therefore, when she asked Su Lan to deliver the letter, she especially said that it didn't matter if the Wu family didn't reply to the letter, she could understand.
But how could the Wu clan not reply to the letter, on the one hand, she also had to pay attention to the impact.
On the other hand, she is really boring, so the two exchange letters very frequently.
On the other hand, Wu's style is very neat, and a hundred or so words is about the same.
As for Gu Min, there are a lot of them, a bit like a running account, and a bit like writing a diary.
It is usually to record the events of yesterday in the morning and report it to the Wu family.
Of course, what she didn't know was that her letters would be sent to the fourth master's desk as soon as possible every time.