61. Staggered (2)
Today's banquet was originally intended for the Guerjia clan to give the Empress Dowager Cixi vegetables, but the Empress Dowager Cixi refused to let it, "Today is a family banquet, how to work to Fujin your driver?" Your body is much better, but don't get tired. www.biquge.info"Princess Rongshou is almost the No. 1 master in Prince Gong's mansion, and she is raised under the knees of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and in Prince Gong, she is also a guest, so naturally she can't let her do it, so both parties are prevaricating, and finally let Zaicheng's Fujin Fei Mo come to the throne before the cloth vegetables, Li Lianying holds the pot, the Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Fei Mo, nodded with satisfaction, and smiled at the Guerjia family, "Fujin's daughter-in-law is very sensible, I like it very much." ”
"It is her blessing to be blue-eyed by the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother will train people, when the concubine will take her into the palace together," Guarjia said with a smile, "Let the Queen Mother give her a lecture, and she will be able to help the concubine take care of housework in the future." ”
"This is excellent, you will bring her in tomorrow," Empress Dowager Cixi looked at Fei Moshi happily, at this time, she behaved very kindly, "Sixth Master," Empress Dowager Cixi suddenly talked to Prince Gong about the topic, "I look at this daughter-in-law very well, but Zaicheng is a little presumptuous, and he is still doing those things that he has and don't have outside, and he wronged his daughter-in-law in vain, so let him be locked up in the Zongren Mansion and calm down, I have forgotten what morality I see, and I don't cherish the great blessings in my own hands, what else can such a person use." But it's okay, he still knows a truth, he has lost his way, and he has knelt down in Chuxiu Palace to apologize, Fujin is not allowed to blame me," Empress Dowager Cixi smiled at Guerjia, Guarjia hurriedly said that he didn't dare, "This master has to teach a good lesson to be successful, but," Empress Dowager Cixi's eyes rolled, "But you must not be kind to a woman." ”
Princess Rongshou's chopsticks that were originally stretched out towards the fairy peach glutinous stopped in mid-air, she hurriedly put down the chopsticks, and wanted to say something, but the Empress Dowager Cixi changed the topic again, and did not want Prince Gong to answer, Prince Gong's face was a little unpleasant, "Fujin, I'll give you a cup, what other good dishes, take it quickly?" ”
The feast naturally has to continue, and then there are three hot dishes, which are Fu Lu Shou three dishes, Fu word goat fine meat wolfberry Codonopsis, Lu word oyster stewed sea urchin seeds, Shou word melon strip roasted beef tenderloin, three kinds of dishes twisted into "Fu, Lu, Shou" three words in the plate, colorful, fragrant, these three dishes are ordinary, because they are often eaten in the palace, but although these three dishes are ordinary, but the materials are exquisite, the goat is the rock sheep living on the rock outside the mouth, the wolfberry is naturally the best wolfberry in Ningxia, oysters and sea urchins come from Jinzhou, where the sea water is cold, the sea grows very slowly, but the meat is fatty and tender, non-other places can be compared, beef is just one year old veal, although not as good as Japan's Kobe cattle are raised by grains, but also very delicious, with beef strips of melon is gourd, this season of gourd in the previous winter is very rare, but now the use of glass is very much, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has built a lot of glass and steel shelves on the Huangzhuang vegetable greenhouse, so that people can also enjoy fresh vegetables and fruits in the middle of winter, although the price is extremely expensive, But in winter, people who pray for a little green vegetables are nothing, and the money committee is really nothing, not to mention that now, the green leafy vegetables produced in the greenhouses, and the green leafy vegetables that are continuously transported to Beijing by sea in the south, are not expensive, and the homes of civilians, during the New Year, buy a handful of vegetables, it only costs dozens of yuan.
The back is the most important main dish of the day, Li Lianying clapped her hands, several eunuchs came up with a steaming bowl, the azure painted fish dragon auspicious cloud pattern of the bowl is small, not with a tea bowl, this dining bowl has a big belly, covered with a lid, Li Lianying personally put the bowl in front of the Empress Dowager Cixi, Fei Mo's sleeve with a white sleeve, slightly mentioned, opened the bowl, the heat dissipated, only to see the pale yellow soup inside, Lying down is a small piece of pale white object carved into a hibiscus out of the water, which is the swim bladder of the yellow-lipped fish.
Yellow-lipped fish with fish bones and fish head plus ham, bamboo sun, conpoy, wild duck, old hen to boil the soup for three days, and so the soup becomes light yellow is the time, at this time the soup is still turbid, can not be served, so with chicken breast minced into minced meat, put in the soup, impurities attached to the chicken breast meat, so repeatedly, so that the soup color is clear and transparent, so that the time comes, the fish maw is carefully washed with rice water, the master with excellent knife work cut the fish drift into an octagonal shape, first with Shaoxing rice wine, Zhenjiang vinegar one drop, Shanxi sesame oil three drops, Then wipe the whole body of the fish maw with fine salt, marinate for an hour, then put on the steamer, put it in the yellow lip fish minced meat and steam for half an hour, at this time there are already eight mature, then take it out, wash it with ice water, and then use a carving knife to gently scratch a few times on the swim bladder, the octagonal fish bladder is suddenly bent into the appearance of a lotus bloom, and then put in the soup stock that has been simmered before, and boil it up.
The Empress Dowager Cixi first drank a sip of soup with a small silver spoon, the soup was on the tip of the tongue, it seemed to be light and tasteless, and it was between the Nahan, and suddenly the indescribable umami suddenly burst out in the mouth, she hurriedly praised, "good soup" But the taste of this soup is still extremely light and elegant, at this time it is natural to prevent the noise from dominating, and there is no need to cover up the taste of the fish bladder.
The fish maw shaped like white lotus petals bloomed in the bowl, and the Empress Dowager Cixi did not want to use Mo's hands, she personally picked up the ebony silver-covered chopsticks and picked up the fish maw, put it in her mouth, and the people in the hall looked at the expression of the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Empress Dowager Cixi closed her eyes slightly, and nodded approvingly, "Soft and fragrant, smooth but not rotten, crisp but not tough, this fish maw is really the best." ”
The ancients have a treasure in the sea of clouds, the cover belongs to the abalone wing ginseng belly, this belly refers to the fish belly of the yellow-lipped fish, the Empress Dowager Cixi does not like to eat shark fin, the shark fin itself has no taste, his taste depends on the taste of the broth, when it comes to nutritional value, it is not as good as pig's feet, but the palace diet can not be from their own minds, so the pig's feet This kind of scraps is naturally impossible to appear on the imperial dining table of the body and hall, which has to say that it is a pity.
Yellow-lipped fish is hard to come by, and if it's not the freshest, it won't taste any better. When Guerjia saw that the Empress Dowager Cixi liked it, he not only smiled, "If I can get a praise from the Empress Dowager, it can be seen that this yellow-lipped fish tastes very good." ”
Prince Gong, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke: "This yellow-lipped fish swim bladder is very beneficial for women, it can be called a holy product for women's recuperation, you have been weak in the old years, and you also use some," he said to the Guerjia clan, and then raised his face to the Empress Dowager Cixi and said, "Please use more of it." (To be continued.) )