Chapter 17: Very good at eating
As soon as the sky was bright, the roosters in Zhaojia Village had already begun to pull their loud voices, showing their singing voices one after another. At the first rooster crow, Li Anran woke up again from the mysterious practice state of forgetting things and me, and not only did he not sleep all night, but he was more energetic.
After getting up from the collapse, he moved his body that was not sore from sitting cross-legged for a night, but Li Anran was not in a hurry to go to the river to practice swords.
"On the runes that resurfaced during the practice last night, how could those nodes that seemed to be acupuncture points light up three-tenths of the way?"
Thinking back to the strangeness he found when he practiced before, Li Anran thought for a while and couldn't come up with any reasonable explanation, so he could only keep it in his heart for the time being. After washing, Li Anran changed back into his Taoist robe, took the whisk and carried the long sword to the riverside clearing not far from Zhao Er's house, and began to practice the sword.
After finishing a set of pure yang swords, Li Anran immediately felt that his strength, speed, bounce, and nerve reaction had improved a little. In particular, the senses are more acute, no, when I was practicing the sword, I noticed that something was wrong in the grass on the other side of the river, but I didn't show it.
After beating the Pure Yang Sword back and forth a few times, Li Anran, who had finished the morning class, was not in a hurry to go back, but walked around the river with the "magic weapon" mobile phone.
I have to admit that this ancient environment is indeed very good. Don't look at Zhaojia Village is not a scenic spot, but it can be regarded as a place of beautiful scenery in future generations. After turning on the forced flash, Li Anran clicked and took pictures, and then nodded with satisfaction, stuffed the phone into the treasure bag, and turned to leave.
When they returned to Zhao Er's house, Zhao Er and his wife were already busy. Feed the chickens, feed the cows, and the pigs that Li Anran specially asked Zhao Da to go to the county seat to buy yesterday.
During this period of the Tang Dynasty, ordinary people basically only ate two meals a day. But at Li Anran's request, Zhao Er's family changed to three meals a day.
After putting away all the robes and swords, Li Anran, who changed back into a coarse cloth Tang costume, took advantage of the fact that Zhao Er's family was busy, and made some white noodles and kneaded them on the kitchen case. With the previous experience of snow sugar and processed meat products, Zhao Er and Zhao Er's mother-in-law are not surprised that this unique real person at home is very good at eating this.
But for this kneading method that I have never seen before, I am quite curious. There's no way, who made authentic Lanzhou ramen, it hasn't appeared in this era yet.
In order to have noodles to eat the next morning, Li Anran not only asked Zhao Da to buy back white noodles, but also deliberately went to the field to get some fluffy grass back, dried it and burned it to ashes. Then put it in a basin of water to make a puffy grass ash solution, and after standing overnight, it becomes a key thing necessary to make authentic Lanzhou ramen, puffy ash water.
The traditional Lanzhou ramen pays attention to "three times of water, three times of ash, and nine hundred and eighty-one times of kneading", and after improvement, the water and ash are directly mixed and dissolved, and the effect is better.
If you want to say that this Lanzhou ramen method, Li Anran learned it from his Lanzhou roommates in the same dormitory when he was in college, and even secretly learned some beef soup recipes. In addition to the gluten of the noodles, the most important thing for Lanzhou ramen is the soup base and side dishes. Unfortunately, in ancient times, cattle were all ploughing cattle, and it was strictly forbidden to kill them to eat.
Especially during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, because of the impact of the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, it did great harm to agriculture, and all parts of the country were recuperating, and whoever dared to kill cattle was a serious crime. Fortunately, although there is no beef on hand, the soup made on the first day is also suitable for ramen, especially the soup that has been simmered overnight with spices, and it is even more fragrant.
Taking advantage of the convenience of summer, Li Anran, who soon woke up and had a good face, used the dazzling technique of Zhao Er and his wife to pull out a handful of noodles as thin as a hair.
In normal Lanzhou ramen, noodles are also very particular. Not only the flour and grass ash used, but also the size of the noodles is varied.
Capillary, as the name suggests, is like hair, in fact, it is a bit as thin as a vermicelli, which is the kind of noodles that Li Anran pulled out right now.
Fine, this one is slightly thicker than the capillary, about the thickness of the incense head.
Two thin, this kind is a bit like the thickness of ordinary fried noodles.
Three thin, slightly thicker than two thin, tastes like eating coarse vermicelli, but if the noodles are pulled more strongly, this chew is the most feeling.
Leek leaves, as the name suggests, are as wide as leek leaves.
Dakuan, this kind of noodles is like the wide noodles that eat Malatang, very wide.
The advantage of thin noodles is not only that they have a smoother taste and almost no need to chew after eating, but the biggest advantage for merchants is that this kind of noodles is very easy to cook. You only need to simmer it in a pot of boiling water a few times to get out of the pot, which can save a lot of firepower. But if the dough is not drawn well, this capillary will melt away as soon as it is put into the pot.
In other words, Li Anran couldn't make the noodles as good as they are now. After the strength and body coordination have improved a lot, it is a matter of course.
Zhilu said that Zhao Er and his wife would be very busy today, and Li Anran first gave each of them a bowl of capillaries. Then the soup is made with a large bone soup, and some bacon is chopped with chopped green onions, coriander, and diced side dishes as toppings. Is this noodle delicious, Zhao Er and his wife didn't talk too much before tasting it, but just from the point of view of appearance, this noodle can definitely arouse people's appetite.
"Eat slowly, it's not enough. Tell me, how does this noodle taste? Seeing Zhao Er gobbling up a bowl with a big face, Li Anran smiled.
Feeling the delicate noodles melting together with the fragrant soup in his mouth, coupled with the elasticity of the bacon and the freshness of the side dishes, Zhao Er, who really didn't know what words to use to describe Lu Dao, only held back one word.
"Good!"
Although the praise of this word is far less beautiful than the gorgeous rhetoric, for Li Anran, this kind of heartfelt praise is what he likes the most.
After feeling the big flickering eyes of the dog, Li Anran didn't waste any more time, he smiled and started to get busy again.
"I'll go! This noodle is so delicious!! ”
After Li Anran himself squatted outside the kitchen with his noodles and took a big sip, he was also calmed by the delicious, fragrant and smooth taste.
As soon as he ate it, he didn't stop his mouth, and when Li Anran still wanted to bring himself a bowl of noodles, he found that the big ball of noodles he kneaded before had already been eaten.
"I don't know if my appetite has improved, or if the ancient ingredients and spices are all pure natural varieties, and the taste of this noodles is better than what I used to make."
"The taste of the bacon is still a little worse, if it can be paired with my best grilled barbecued pork, and then make chili oil, the taste will definitely be even better."
"If you take this side out, it may not be possible to make a lot of money in a short period of time, but it is absolutely no problem to make a long-term livelihood in the long run."
"Unfortunately, there are still too few people who can use it at the moment. If you want to make snow sugar, barbecue, and then make this Lanzhou ramen, you can't be busy at all. ”
"And at the moment, chili peppers have not yet come in from abroad. If you want to eat spicy, you can only use peppercorns and dogwood instead, and the taste will be much worse. ”
Thinking of this, Li Anran could only put the idea of Lanzhou ramen coming out in advance for the time being. At this time, Zhao Da and his wife also rushed over.
Seeing that everyone had arrived, Li Anran was not polite, and first asked Zhao Da to pull open the pit that had been simmered all night yesterday, and pick up the charcoal that had been burned.
There are two kinds of charcoal, one is pine charcoal and the other is bamboo charcoal. It is said that the best way to use barbecue is fruit charcoal, but unfortunately where does the fruit wood come from now, it can only be used immediately. After the charcoal fire was lit and put into the oven, Li Anran took out the meat that had been marinated overnight and put it on the iron hook he bought the day before.
A circle of meat was soon hung in the boxy oven, and Li Anran did not forget to mention some precautions during the demonstration, while Zhao Er and the others studied very seriously. Grilling char siu over a charcoal fire is a trick that Li Anran inadvertently learned from a chef. Different from ordinary barbecued pork, this grilled barbecued pork not only lasts longer, but also tastes very good.
Not to mention that it tastes great when it is hot, even if it is cool, it only needs to be grilled on a charcoal fire for a while, and the texture and taste will be completely "resurrected".