Chapter 14: The Scourge of Barley
In order to maintain hygiene and other indicators, guests are generally not allowed to enter the kitchen of modern hotels, but the guests staying in this dynasty inn are more particular about the large families or eunuchs who have the conditions, and they go out to stay in the inn with servants and cooks, and their food and drink during the inn are also cooked by their own cooks.
Therefore, the inn here will generally build a few cross-courtyards for such guests who are similar to the VIP level, and the cross-courtyard is specially equipped with a small kitchen, for example, Xia Wan lives in this cross-courtyard with a maid and servant.
Lan Yi naturally has no conditions to live in a cross-hospital, but if a guest staying in a guest room wants to borrow a stove in the back kitchen when the back kitchen is not busy, he will not be refused. At this time, the time was still appropriate, Lan Yi took the child to the kitchen of the Four Seas Inn, and asked the fat chef in charge of the kitchen to borrow a small pot stove and explain that he wanted to cook milk for the child.
It took her some effort to light the firewood with flint and steel, brush the small iron pot with hot water, and put goat's milk and a few jasmine flowers in it. After a while, the smell of milk was permeating, Lan Yi left half a bowl for the fat chef, borrowed a porcelain bowl from him, filled two bowls of milk and went to Xia Wan.
Lan Yi carried the baby with fresh milk to Xia Wan's cross-courtyard, there was a young maid guarding the gate of the cross-courtyard, Lan Yi saw that Xia Wan was walking in the small courtyard with the maid's help.
"Sister, how are you today?" Lan Yi nodded at the young guy and asked.
"Is my sister here? Come on in. Xia Wan looked at Lan Yi and greeted happily, her gentle and slightly hoarse voice made people listen very comfortably, she saw Lan Yi coming in with a tray, so she reached out and asked her maid to step forward and take it, "Is the baby okay?" ”
"Hehe, look how happy he is on my back." Lan Yi untied the carrier and carried the baby to her, "I just cooked two bowls of goat's milk, and I came to try it for my sister." ”
"Goat's milk?" Xia Wan leaned on her waist and slowly sat down on the soft chair in front of the table.
"Yes," Lan Yi knew that she was cautious in eating, so she picked up the wooden bowl, tested the temperature, and slowly fed the baby to drink, "This goat's milk is the most mild, suitable for children, the elderly and pregnant women to drink, and it is not easy to get angry when it tonifies the body." If my sister can stand the taste, she can drink some of it, and it's good for the child in her belly. ”
The middle-aged servant woman beside Xia Wan walked in at this time and said with a smile: "Girl, Mrs. Wang is right, this goat's milk can still be drunk." ”
"Where did my sister find goat's milk?" Xia Wan heard her nurse say the same, so she picked up the bowl and took a sip, feeling that it tasted good.
"My baby and I just went out for a stroll and bought it." Lan Yi drank half a bowl of goat's milk from the baby, remembered the ugly face of the little second brother in the inn, and continued with some depression, "We came back with the sheep, and the little second brother was like seeing a ghost,......
After hearing this, Xia Wan couldn't help laughing, and the maid behind her also laughed. Lan Yi saw that the atmosphere was just right, so she continued, "Speaking of which, when I just went to buy sheep, I also met the little sister who hugged the cat yesterday, and the kitten is better today?" ”
The middle-aged servant woman answered: "I drank some water today, this little beast is expensive, and Green Leaf said that it doesn't eat anything except the newly bought live fish, so I asked Green Leaf to go out and buy some small fish and come back to cook it for it, but I ate a few bites." ”
"This little thing is really going to toss people." The maid beside Xia Wan muttered, "Green Leaf has become a special service for it!" ”
"It's good to grow up, I didn't meet the small fish that Green Leaf bought for him, but I met her at the rice store and bought some barley noodles." Lan Yi smiled and answered.
"Chuncao, can you see that Green Leaf came back with barley noodles?" The servant woman listened to Lan Yi's words, and the smile on her face suddenly froze.
The maid behind Xia Wan shook her head, "No, she went out with Liuzi, and I saw Liuzi come back with a few small fish." ”
"This! Girl, I'll go out. The servant saluted Lan Yi again, "Thank you, Madame. ”
Lan Yi saw that their atmosphere was solemn, and knew that her reminder was still useful, so she stood up and said goodbye with a bowl, and went to the back kitchen to buy four eggs and returned to her and the baby's guest room.
After coaxing the baby to sleep, Lan Yi took out the eggs, flour, cane sugar, goat's milk, and salt, separated the yolk and egg white of the egg, skillfully beat the egg white, added seasoning in turn, and worked for half an hour to make the cake noodles.
She used to make a lot of this kind of simple cake in the dormitory, all of which were steamed directly in an electric pressure cooker, and the taste was still good, and it was not much worse if she wanted to come to this wood pot to steam it.
After the baby woke up, Lan Yi took Da Muwan to the back kitchen, it was already noon, and the kitchen of the inn was not busy. Lan Yi entered the kitchen and borrowed a pot and copper basin from the fat money to steam the cake.
After a few minutes, the kitchen was filled with the smell of cake, and Lan Yi knew that it was done. She pretended not to see the fat chef's inquiring look, but just held the child to watch the fire together, and the flames on the way made the baby like it very much.
After the cake was steamed, Lan Yi took it out and put it in a wooden bowl, and left a piece for the chef before holding the cake to the dining room in front of him with one hand.
"The cake is quite successful, but the sweetness is almost there, and this cane sugar needs to be put more." Tasting a bite of the cake, Lan Yi felt that the taste of this sugar was not as good as modern sugar, and it was better to increase the amount of sugar, and the other flavors were okay, "Come, baby taste." ”
At the next table is a pair of young parents with a five or six-year-old child, seeing Lan Yi and the baby eating pastries, they shouted for their parents to buy them. The father called Xiao Er to know that there was no such pastry in the store, so he had to order pea cake and bring it up, the child saw that it was not a fragrant cake like the next table, and he didn't do it, Lan Yi didn't like this kind of spoiled child the most, but at this time, this child was very troublesome.
Lan Yi took the initiative to cut a piece for him, the child buried his head in eating sweetly, the child's mother thanked and asked which dim sum shop bought it, Lan Yi only told him that it was his own family handicraft, and he made it for the child to eat, and then he also gave a piece to the shopkeeper to taste, thinking that if they thought it was good, they would naturally buy the cake from themselves.
Selling cakes instead of other dishes, Lan Yi also has her own considerations. The seasoning here is very rich, the food in the inn is also rich and delicious, and it is difficult to make eye-catching meals with your ordinary skills, so I don't think about it, only this cake is still novel, she didn't see anything similar in the dim sum shop, and it should be worth a little silver.
Lan Yi took the child to finish the meal, and asked Xiao Er to send hot water to the guest room when it was dark, so she borrowed a wooden bowl and returned to her guest room, waiting for it to go to the stable to get goat's milk and heat it for the baby to drink.
On the morning of the third day of staying at the inn, Lan Yi woke up and took the baby to the stable to get goat's milk, and when she opened the door of the guest room, she found that Xia Wan's maid Chuncao was waiting at the door of the room.
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