Chapter 346: Free Labor

She first soaked the razor clams dry, soaked them in boiling water, washed the sediment inside, and chopped them into minced meat. Then I asked one of the chefs to bring fresh shrimp, peel off the shell, remove the shrimp line, and cut it into small cubes for later use.

Wash the rice, put it in a casserole with water and cook it into a white porridge, then put in the clams, minced meat, diced shrimp and some diced ham in the pot, and simmer over low heat. Because this afternoon, I let the little mending stone treat the little prince, knowing that his stomach can withstand these ingredients, so he put in such rich ingredients. After cooking, in order to make the taste of the porridge richer, when the pot is raised, some fried peanuts pressed into powder are sprinkled on top and drizzled with sesame oil to spice up.

During the whole process, Yu Xiaocao did not avoid the imperial chefs, and when they had questions, he would patiently solve their doubts. The imperial chefs have a better impression of this little girl who can make strange dishes. On weekdays, except for the masters in the palace, the old imperial chef who is not in anyone's eyes has a little more eagerness and respect for Yu Xiaocao in his demeanor and demeanor.

That night, the three giants of the palace had a good meal. It is said that the queen mother has a soft spot for braised pig's trotters; The emperor likes braised elbows and is also very interested in braised pig's heads, but unfortunately the emperor eats alone, and only tastes a few pieces for him stingyly; The Emperor Taishang ate most of the braised pig's head, and the red oil ear silk was almost eaten up, and the rest was reluctant to be rewarded to the eunuch palace maid to eat, so he was carefully packed and put into the ice cellar to freeze, saying that he would eat it next time.

The little master was also quite satisfied, the seafood porridge was not enjoyable after drinking two small bowls, and the razor clams and stewed eggs were also eaten, so that the palace maid walked around the room several times before daring to sleep. The doctors were amazed at the little prince's ability to recover, the lightest dysentery on weekdays would take several days to heal, but it was only less than two days, and it was almost so good that even the medicine was cut off. Could it be that the little girl of the Yu family has such a good curative effect? Doctor Wang, who was dissatisfied with Yu Xiaocao, also had to admire her partial room and dietary therapy.

In the past few days in the palace, Yu Xiaocao has to go to the imperial dining room almost every day to make two dishes ordered by the emperor, like what kind of pot wrapped meat, fried meat, sauerkraut white meat and blood sausage...... He was often satisfied with the food and said that it was more authentic and delicious than all the Northeast dishes he had eaten. In order to find the taste of his hometown, the Emperor Taishang once served the white dragon fish to the northeast, but the taste in the memory of his previous life was not satisfied, and he has always regretted it.

There's a reason why Yu Xiaocao knows how to cook Northeast food. In her previous life, her mother was from the Northeast, and when her mother did not pass away, the family conditions were not bad, and she often cooked some authentic home-cooked food from the Northeast for her to eat, and she learned the essence of Northeast cuisine when she helped in the kitchen. It's been many years, and I feel a lot of deep feelings when I pick up these dishes from the depths of my memory, which are the taste of my mother and the memories of my heart......

She sorted out the Northeast dishes she knew and taught the cooks in the imperial dining room one by one. The master led the door and practiced personally, and whoever made the Northeast cuisine was more in line with the emperor's taste, it depended on their respective talents.

The little prince has purslane candy cubes, coupled with Yu Xiaocao's changing diet therapy, and his body gradually recovered. Yu Xiaocao was in the imperial dining room, making some fresh snacks, such as animal-shaped biscuits, small cakes with jam fillings, goat milk pudding, and small egg tarts. Almost one day at a time, without repetition.

After the little prince was able to go to the ground, he followed Yu Xiaocao with his tail wagging his tail almost every day, and he was happier and more eager to see her than his father and mother. The queen mother looked sour in her heart, and the emperor laughed and scolded him for being a foodie and a little white-eyed wolf......

On the sixth day of entering the palace, the little prince's illness was announced to have been cured in the follow-up examination of the imperial doctors. Yu Xiaocao also successfully retired, and left the palace with the valuable things rewarded by the emperor and the queen. The little prince reluctantly sent out of Jingyang Palace, waving his little paws looking forward to her next arrival.

Before entering the palace, Yu Xiaocao was thinking about the house with a good location in Fucheng, and it was a pity that it was empty. Now, she finally thought about opening a braised vegetable shop in Fucheng, taking the civilian route, leaving only one shop to sell roast chicken and roast duck and the like.

However, the biggest headache for her at the moment is the ingredients. In last year's locust plague, although Fucheng was not a hard-hit area, the damage was quite serious, and there was not one in ten crops, and the yield was seriously reduced. There was no food, and those who raised pigs and chickens disposed of their livestock and poultry early when winter came.

Although the wind and rain are smooth in the beginning of spring, and the water and grass are abundant, how can livestock and poultry grow meat with wild grass alone? Spring is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and many people have a problem eating, how can there be surplus grain to raise pigs and chickens. There is a fault line in livestock and poultry, and if she wants to open a braised vegetable shop, she must start raising chickens and pigs from now on. But there are more than 100 acres of land to take care of at home, as well as a stall of vegetables, and if you raise pigs and chickens in a large area, I am afraid that people will not be able to do it......

After thinking about it, she finally made a decision. Write a letter back and ask her father, who will send her to the capital, to find the village chief to buy a sloping land at the foot of the mountain and build a pig farm. She also drew the drawings of the pig farm and sent them back together.

Now that the spring ploughing has just ended, the three uncles are not too busy, so they ask them to help go to the village and town markets that have not been affected by the disaster to catch piglets, buy as much as they can, and scatter them in the homes of acquaintances first, and the rest of the family provides food. When the pig farm is built, there will be no piglets to raise.

As for the manpower for pig raising, she also thought about it. Now that the business on the dock is not good, Xiaolian can take her aunt and her little daughter to give the stall of the pig farm to the next. As for the remuneration, if the eldest aunt is embarrassed to ask for money for the sake of her relatives, when the pigs are slaughtered, she can divide her two big fat pigs. Now that there is a shortage of food and few pigs, the price of pork will definitely remain high until next year. Two big fat pigs can be sold for at least a few dozen taels of silver!!

A thick letter was delivered to Yu Hai in Dongshan Village. For the daughter's plan, the Yu family almost unconditionally supported. The land for the pig farm was quickly approved, and Yu Hai, with the village's elite laborers, enclosed the land with a high stone wall. The structure of the pigsty is simple, that is, a low stone low wall, on which is built a wooden shed of wood to protect from rain and snow, and the middle is separated into small rooms, and there are forty such pigsties. Inside the wall, there were also two houses where the pig watchers lived at night, which were made of stone and had kang inside, which was very strong and durable.

Yu Xiaocao is like an arrow, but she can't leave the capital for the time being. Because the younger brother's first birthday is approaching, the godfather and godmother treat her like a daughter. In the days when she entered the palace, her godmother was so worried that she couldn't eat well and couldn't sleep, her mouth was blistered, and she lost a lot of weight. She missed Xiao Linlin's 100 days, and if he didn't participate in the big event of the week, he couldn't talk about it.

Soon arrived at Fang Haolin's little pot friend's weekly event. Because the house town has been favored and reused by the emperor this year, in addition to familiar relatives and friends, there are also many uninvited colleagues.

Zhu Junyang came early in the morning, he was now in the kitchen, and he was very hard to be caught by Yu Xiaocao. He, Manager Liu, and the two guards he brought over, one of them holding a large porcelain basin, desperately beating the cream!

Yes, the birthday gift that Yu Xiaocao prepared for Xiao Linlin was a super huge three-tier birthday cake. How can you make a birthday cake without cream? In the Ming Dynasty, if you could buy cream, it would be fantastic. If you can't buy it, we can make it yourself!!

When he was in the imperial dining room, Yu Xiaocao found that there was milk. It is said that the cows were brought back from abroad when the emperor did not ascend the throne, and they were raised on Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing to supply dairy products for the masters of the palace.

Yu Xiaocao begged the queen mother and got a lot of milk from the imperial dining room. Milk is indispensable as an ingredient for making cream, as well as eggs, cooking oil, and sugar. Except for milk, everything else is easy to make.

To make the cream, you need to keep stirring at high speed, and Yu Xiaocao originally planned to borrow a few guards from her godfather. Who would have thought that Zhu Junyang would automatically send it to the door, free labor, no need for nothing.

Yu Xiaocao took a few large porcelain pots with explanations, put egg whites in each one first, and asked Zhu Junyang and them to keep stirring in the same direction. Several masters with strong martial arts and few opponents in the capital, with a wooden face, under the command of Yu Xiaocao, kept stirring the bamboo mixer in their hands.

When the egg whites were foaming a lot, Yu Xiaocao shouted to stop, added a certain proportion of milk, oil and sugar to the basin, and continued to let them stir. Zhu Junyang glared at her fiercely, if he hadn't been looking forward to the fresh food she had made, he would have stopped doing it a long time ago. Dare to instruct the prince of the county to help with the work, the guts are quite fat!! Zhu Junyang was angry, and desperately stirred the whisk in his hand.

Yu Xiaocao saw that he was doing a "hard job", and focused on praise, and others learned from him, carrying forward the glorious tradition of not being afraid of hardship and tiredness. Manager Liu Fusheng smiled bitterly, and said in his heart: My little ancestor, don't you add fuel to the fire anymore, don't you see that the prince of the county is so black that he is about to drip ink? The master's temper is coming, but it is even more terrible than the flood beast!

Yu Xiaocao saw that the porcelain basin in Zhu Junyang's hand was already relatively viscous, so he hurriedly shouted to stop, added a certain proportion of milk, oil and sugar, encouraged him with a smile, and signaled to continue stirring.

In the time when the four of them were making the cream, Yu Xiaocao had already made the cake and put it in a simple oven in three layers, so that the cherries could watch the heat. She continued to direct the king of Yangjun and them to beat the cream.

After putting milk, oil and sugar twice, Yu Xiaocao saw that it was very sticky. She took the whisk from Zhu Junyang's hand, gently picked up the cream, and when she saw that it was no longer lowering, she announced that the cream was finished.

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