One after another, the masters recommended by the prefectures arrived in the capital within the prescribed time and went to the Women's Culinary Institute to participate in the final assessment.

The honorary mountain chief queen also left the palace that day and came to join in the fun.

More than 80 people actually came to participate in this assessment, and Cuihua was worried about recruiting unqualified members at first. After all, in this dynasty, it is not common for women who are literate and hyphenated and can cook good dishes.

Moreover, most of them are already mothers at this age, and even those who have passed the age of forty are grandmothers, and there are very few who can leave their in-laws' house to work.

Hearing that the examiner was the queen's mother this time, a group of women were excited, gearing up, and they all wanted to show their skills for a while.

Empress Gao nodded to Cuihua and motioned for her to speak, but Cuihua had to step forward:

"Thank you ladies for coming thousands of miles to participate in the selection and assessment of the master of the Daxia Women's Culinary Academy. The assessment is divided into three rounds, each round will be scored by the queen mother and me, as well as the female officials of the Shangshi Bureau, and after three rounds, the admission will be from high to low.

These three rounds of evaluation are divided into two days, and today is the first round.

In the first round, please find your favorite ingredients in the big kitchen within two hours, and serve us a good dish or pastry, I hope you all show your real skills, and I wish you all good luck! ”

The students enrolled in school early, and now they are acting as the fire girls of the future masters, and they can master the heat according to the requirements of the masters.

More than eighty women, after Cuihua spoke, rushed into the big kitchen, two hours is enough.

Mi is also in this group of people, from the moment she went to the capital, she had no other way out, and she was really honored to have the queen mother and the female official of the Shangshi Bureau as judges.

Yao was excited, she didn't expect that the prefect would be exempted from the test for her steamed buns, so she was recommended to the capital, so smooth that she still can't believe it.

When they entered the big kitchen, everyone's eyes lit up, and the tiles were pasted from the stove to the ground, and they looked clean and tidy, and they were happy to cook in this kitchen every day.

Baskets of ingredients, everyone stepped forward quickly, wanting to find the one that best suited them, and Mi's was young and strong in this group of people. She actually saw it in the ingredients, the whole duck with hair removed and offal, and a basket full of old ginger in the seasoning, and suddenly had a recipe.

I saw her pick up the duck, find a casserole, and gently instructed the girl who burned the fire to light a fire to boil the water on the stove, and quickly cut the duck meat into pieces and blanched the water.

Yao is also very satisfied with the gray noodles in the big kitchen, in order to make it easier for the master to make noodles, the old dough is also provided in the big kitchen, and the introduction of using old dough to make noodles is the common way of making noodles in Daxia without yeast powder.

Yao found in the big kitchen: pork fat, white sugar, walnut kernels, sesame seeds, and she planned to make her family's specialty bag: crystal oil packet.

Empress Gao drank tea and chatted with Aunt Qiu with a smile: "Auntie, you have only been in Zhongqinbo Mansion for a few years, but you have gained a lot of weight!" ”

Aunt Qiu narrowed her eyes: "Thanks to your blessing, who said it wasn't!" A few of our old sisters, in the past few years in Bofu, eat well, live at ease, I wanted to retire for the elderly, but this is still a time to exert residual heat, thanks to the master does not dislike us old. ”

"Aunt Qiu, how much have you helped me with a few aunts in the past few years, a few little nieces in my family, now when you go out, they are proper little ladies.

And those girls in our house, who doesn't say that the rules in our house are good, I have entrusted the blessing of my mother, and I have the help of your aunts! ”

"Look at the affection of your master and servant, it's all the credit of this palace anyway!"

"Hehe, let's all enjoy the shade under your big tree!"

The three of them drank tea, chatted, it was so lively, and in less than two hours, someone came out one after another, and each plate was numbered, and the dishes did not enter.

As soon as the connoisseur makes a move, he will know if there is any, these dishes, from knife work to plating, dishes to aroma, all show that this is a delicacy, those dim sum pasta, there are so many patterns that even the queen is surprised.

The trio scored a perfect score of 10 for each dish they tasted.

As soon as Mi's ginger duck came out, the caramel-colored color and thick and rich fragrance made several people's eyes shine.

The duck meat is charred and fragrant in the mouth, warm and delicious:

It is mixed with the fragrance of duck fat and sesame oil, and the fishy smell of duck meat is swept away by the ginger mother, leaving only mellow and fragrant; The pungency of the ginger mother has also disappeared completely, and it is soaked in the mellow taste of the duck meat, leaving only the chewy texture and slight sweetness.

The three of them couldn't help but eat several pieces, and they all scored 10 perfect points.

Yao's crystal oil pack was the last to come out.

The crystal oil packet must be eaten while it is steaming, and when you bite into it, you can see the transparent oil splashed out of it, and eat it in your mouth and burn your tongue.

When I took a look at it, the melted white sugar was faintly mixed with red, red, green and green colors, and if I tasted it carefully, it was the smell of orange peel and green radish peel. At this time, the mouth is full of oil, and the lips and teeth are fragrant.

With another bite, the excess oil juice in the filling will slowly penetrate into the sandwich of the dough during the steaming process, which will make it even more irresistible. The taste is greasy but not greasy, the sweetness is just right, and the aftertaste is endless.

Queen Gao, who hadn't eaten such greasy food for a long time, couldn't help but finish a whole crystal oil packet.

That night, these ladies who participated in the assessment were arranged to live in the master's dormitory of the college, one room for one person, although the area was not spacious, but it was better than all the organs.

Mi Shi was lying on the kang, still reviewing the experience of the day in her mind, she was very confident in her craft, and only waited for the last two rounds of tomorrow.

Yao's family lives next door to Mi's, and she is also tossing and turning, and there are more than 30 pastry masters today, and she also saw a lot of outstanding ones when she steamed buns.

When she came, she was full of confidence, but after experiencing the first scene, she found that there were many people, and a famous bun in the small Ningjiang Mansion is really not enough to see now.

On the second day of the assessment, Queen Gao not only came by herself, but also brought Princess Jingyao and the five princes out.

Princess Jingyao still pouted and said to Cuihua: "Mrs. Bo, yesterday the queen mother said that she ate a lot of delicious dishes, and I will be a judge today!" ”

Cuihua smiled: "Of course it's okay, it's hard for the princess to help us taste the food!" ”

The sister and brother were very happy, touching their little stomachs, which was obviously not full for breakfast.

After resting for the night, some people were refreshed, some people had dark eyes, and finally they all appeared at the meeting place on time.

Cuihua bowed to the ladies: "Hard work, today's second round, I have eighty-five sticks in this bucket, thirty-five are prepared for the pastry master, and the rest are local cuisines. ”

This second round made everyone a little apprehensive, and the unknown represents a lot of uncertainty.

Mi nervously smoked a stick that looked pleasing to her eyes, took a skewer and went to the big kitchen to get the ingredients, she was lucky today, and she drew a piece of tofu, half a catty of pork and fish.

There are a lot of shrimp skins and shiitake mushrooms in the condiment area, and she plans to make a dish of stuffed tofu. Stir-fry the shrimp skin over low heat until crispy, and use a stone pestle to pestle in the stone mortar to form shrimp powder.

Pork and fish are minced and mixed with egg whites, then chopped shiitake mushrooms and shrimp powder are added, seasoned with salt, oil and pepper.

Dig out the holes in the tofu, stuff the flavored minced meat into it, and fry it in oil over low heat until golden brown on both sides.

Start another casserole, add oil and stir-fry ginger slices and garlic sprouts, add stuffed tofu, add chicken juice and boil, after boiling thoroughly, add the sauce (put some soy sauce in the sauce), sprinkle with chopped green onions and simmer for a while.

Even if the stuffed tofu absorbs the soup of the chicken broth, the skin is still firm and golden in color, and the inside is tender like clotted fat.

The five princes, who ate the stuffed tofu, were so happy that their eyes narrowed, and they pointed to the casserole, indicating that they wanted another piece!

More than 50 dishes and more than 30 pastries, even if they only ate one bite of each, they also overwhelmed the jury.

"Queen Mother, this review is suitable for Yaoyao, let's come to the assessment once a month is better!"

The fifth prince nodded again and again, his little belly was bulging, and the dishes in the palace were not as fragrant as they were today.

These words made the Gao Palace laugh, I don't know, I thought that the family couldn't eat, these two children, typical of the pot, like other people's food.

After a lunch break, the final round of written exams.

There are two questions in the written test: one is self-introduction, which requires a detailed description of the dishes you are good at; Question 2: If you were hired as a master at a culinary college, how would you carry out your work?

Everyone didn't expect that there are also written test questions, since they all require literacy and hyphenation, let's take the exam on the spot.

Mi's words are very ordinary, after all, she only started to learn after marriage, but she writes very carefully with each stroke, and the stricter the requirements, the more rare the errand is.

Yao's one-stroke writing has its own style and bones, and when the Daxia women first learned words, most of them practiced hairpins. But Yao's father, the block script is well-known in the local area. Her brothers and sisters were the father's handwriting when they were young.

Unexpectedly, one day, she can stand out among the competitors with a good word, Queen Gao praised Yao's answer again and again, good word!

As expected, both Mi and Yao went to the end and were successfully admitted to the Women's Culinary Academy, and the results of the assessment were announced on the same day.

The thirty or so who were not selected, Cuihua also comforted them: "The ranks are all selected from all over the country by the prefect to come to Beijing, and the two-day assessment also shows that you are excellent." It's a pity that we have limited enrollment places this year, but I can make a promise here that the college will give priority to everyone when recruiting new students. ”

Unsuccessful: Let's go back and practice more, there is hope!