Chapter 47 The First Cooking Exchange Competition
Originally, Cuihua thought it was a simple gathering of peers exchanging skills, but she was turned into a dock by Gu Dashao, and gave each of these cooks a tent, in which a temporary kitchen was set up for them.
The rules of the competition are as follows: for 2 hours, the chef can cook according to his own specialty, and the dishes will be served by the diners and the chefs. In the end, diners can vote for the top three dishes, and the prizes are: 100 taels of champion dishes, 80 taels of Bangyan dishes, and 50 taels of tanhua vegetables. Chefs can choose which dishes they want to exchange, as long as both parties agree.
As long as the craftsmanship is excellent, one dish can be exchanged for multiple dishes!
In just half a day, the docks were almost crowded. This ancient young man is really, and he loves to join in the fun, and he is greedy!
Idler Cuihua has no objection, there are too many channels for modern people to learn, especially in the era of self-media, any secret system can be cracked for you, she has to think about what to cook.
The people of this dynasty regarded mutton as beautiful, and she preferred to work on common ingredients, and finally drew up the following menu:
The taste is mild, sweet and sour appetizing sugar garlic: peel and wash the new garlic, marinate in salted water for a day to kill the spicy taste, boil the appropriate proportion of vinegar sugar pepper fennel (star anise) seasoning water and cool, pour it into the jar and seal.
Crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, salty, fragrant and delicious braised fish: carp or grass carp remove the fishy line, change the flower knife, marinate for a quarter of an hour, fry thoroughly in the oil pan, stir-fry the green onion, ginger and garlic, sweet and sour sauce, add water to boil and then the fish is stewed in the pot.
Steamed elbows that are soft and glutinous, and the soup is fresh and sweet: after the whole elbow is marinated, boil for half an hour and take it out, prick the hole, color the soy sauce, fry it on both sides and golden brown, put the dried vegetables and kelp on it, season a salty soup, put the salty soup into the pot, add the old ginger slices, steam it over high heat for 2-3 hours, and sprinkle the green onion in.
The staple food is mustard glutinous rice balls: the fresh and tender shepherd's cabbage is mixed into a filling, wrapped in rice balls, as big as a child's fist, one bowl at a time. After eating the big meat, each person comes to a stuffed rice ball, which has a delicate taste, full of fragrance, and helps digestion and greasy.
The sugar and garlic are ready-made, soaked in a 2-pound small wine jar, and the most laborious thing is the elbow, she can take the fried elbow to the scene to steam it directly.
The fish is made very quickly on the spot, and the rice balls can also be mixed with noodles in advance, anyway, the ingredients are brought by themselves, and there is no requirement that all of them must be made on site, right? The point is that the final product is recognized!
The cost of all the ingredients is only two taels of silver, and they are purchased by Boss Li.
On the day of the competition, none of the people who were lucky enough to be judges had breakfast.
The main judge is the owner or director of several merchant ships who sponsor the prize.
At the opening of the competition, Gu Dashao also made a few opening remarks in a fake manner, and then quickly announced the opening of the whole game!
Cuihua was in the makeshift kitchen, smiling half to death, this grass platform team was set up to satisfy the appetite.
How could she have thought that after this competition, it was out of control and became an annual prosperous era for merchant ships on the Great Yellow River, with different locations every year, and a group of supporters who came to join in the excitement every year, which led to the rapid development of the catering industry on the riverbank.
The number of diners who came this time was strictly controlled, except for the judges, there were 100 diners, mainly because they were afraid that the ingredients would not be enough, and one person and one chopstick, and they would not be able to taste it. There are thousands of onlookers, and this is what they are here to smell the smell.
In less than 2 hours, Cuihua's dishes were already on the table. 2 catties of sugar garlic are broken into a clove, which is also a large plate, ten braised carp, ten steamed elbows, fist-sized rice balls, wrapped in more than 100, one bowl of one.
Sure enough, there is no shortage of sheep scorpions, steamed lambs, as well as crab roe lion head, bad fish, salted duck, crystal meat, etc., most of the chefs are one meat and one vegetable, but I didn't expect this foreign woman to make 4, don't underestimate other people's sugar and garlic, the taste is a must.
Gu Dashao first ate Cuihua's vegetables, starting from the sugar and garlic, he didn't say anything, grabbed a bowl for himself for each dish, asked for a fish, and also asked for an elbow, and didn't want to share it with others, which made everyone angry! There are so many people watching! It's too ugly to eat! After the swearer eats a bite himself, I, I want a bowl too!
The chefs saw that the judges were all messed up, and they were also busy coming over to serve the dishes of Cuihua, a few people shared a portion, and the diners were going to scold their mothers, so many dishes, when they came to us, could they still have one chopstick per person?
It's a contest of victories, a contest of chaos, a contest of diner strife!
Cuihua's braised fish and steamed elbow won the champion and Bangyan awards, and the sheep scorpion chef won Tanhua. In the exchange of cooking skills, everyone didn't even let go of the sugar and garlic, and was willing to exchange the crab roe lion's head for it, and the appetizers were domineering!
Anyway, if you have enough time, you can change it if you want to, these chefs also privately report the name of the dish to Cuihua, you can take any of them, as long as you are willing to exchange your dish with us.
Gu Dashao was very patient, and waited for Cuihua to learn for seven days before sailing. The only requirement is to let Cuihua practice the newly learned dishes every day, and order dishes at every turn, or let Cuihua make more than one dish.
Ertou finally found a person who is as greedy as him, and this is still an adult, and he is still so popular with his mother's dishes, which can be used as a pot friend. Actively and enthusiastically dealt with others, and also gave a lot of their own lap-mei to others.
"Brother Gu, let me tell you, my mother doesn't have too many dishes to cook, and the craftsmanship of sausage and bacon can be sold for money!" The little people are dancing and dancing to others.
"When I was in my hometown, the most delicious dish my mother ever made was bamboo shoots and roasted bamboo rats, this is not an ordinary mouse, eating bamboo shoots grew up a kind, but it is clean, its meat is more fragrant than chicken, especially thigh meat!" Sucking while reminiscing.
"When she was on the road, she also learned a time-honored roast chicken, although my mother just made it, we ate it every day, and we were greasy, and we would eat it again once in a while, and I had to get it, the chicken was soft and rotten and the bones were fragrant when chewing..."
I've never seen such a showy child! Gu Dashao is very willing to be an audience, look at people:
"Wow, it tastes good when you hear it, is there anything else? Ertou, you are so happy, Brother Gu has never eaten what you said! ”
In order to eat these specialty dishes, Gu Dashao waved his hand, and the travel expenses were waived for this pedestrian, and the ingredients were provided every day, just to eat mixed food.
Hearing Ertou talk in detail about how they teach people to make lap-mei in Nanzhou, they are very sincere and want to learn!
The rest of the dishes that Cuihua will make, the same price as those who are willing to teach, one hundred taels a piece! That's how rich people do whatever they want!
The chef is also quite willing to learn, the master pays for it, and he learns the craft!
In this way, a Buddhist teaching, a hard study, when she arrived in Ningjiang Mansion, not only did she not pay a tael of travel expenses and food, but also earned a thousand taels of silver from Gu Dashao.
There is no harm if there is no comparison, her sister easily earns money and takes the servant to the capital, her dear eldest brother will be miserable.
Hu Daniu, his daughter-in-law Sanniang and his daughter-in-law Xiaohua were taken by the bath bucket and floated to a mountain col on the north bank, between the capital and Hejian Mansion. The couple decided to go to the capital first, and they also encountered a kidnapper halfway through.
almost kidnapped Xiaohua away, scared Zhao Sanniang's face pale, and in a blink of an eye, she ate noodles in a noodle restaurant in a town. The kidnapper who deceived the child with a sugar gourd was almost beaten into a concussion by Hu Daniu.
Afraid of retaliation, he didn't dare to stay, and ran away with his children and daughter-in-law on his back.
Hu Daniu: Without my sister-in-law, not only did I not make any money, but I almost lost my child, why is it so difficult these days? Cry chirp!