Chapter 29 The Elegance of Chinese Food

Walking into the basement, the temperature dropped sharply. The dim kerosene lamp casts Rogo's shadow on the wall, as if it joins in the strange mural painted on the wall, which looks very eerie.

Pushing open the door of the storage room, the rusty iron door made a screeching sound, raising the eerie atmosphere to another level.

In a trance, Rogo seemed to hear someone crying in his ear, and a bad feeling rose in his heart.

He quickly found rice and soybeans, carried them on his shoulders, and immediately rushed forward.

At this moment, Rogo made a decision in his heart.

No matter how difficult it is, you have to install a lighting magic array in the basement.

It's scary!

Back on the ground, Rogo's heart was a little more steady. He looked at the ingredients he had brought up, hesitated, and finally reached for the rice.

Let's get rice vinegar first!

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Chinese vinegar can be divided into four categories: aged vinegar, balsamic vinegar, white vinegar, and rice vinegar.

The raw materials for these four types of vinegar brewing are different, for example, aged vinegar is based on sorghum, grain bran, and bran, while balsamic vinegar is made of glutinous rice, white vinegar is fermented from distilled spirits, which has a strong and stimulating taste, and rice vinegar is naturally made of rice.

Regarding the corresponding usage of the four types of vinegar, Mr. Mi Wuwei once taught Luo Ge a simple and easy-to-remember formula-

"Aged vinegar is the most sour and juicy, balsamic vinegar is fragrant and cold, white vinegar simmered soup is more fresh, and rice vinegar is the most widely used"!

The rice vinegar that Rogo chose to brew this time is naturally the most versatile rice vinegar.

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To make rice vinegar, wash the rice first, then drain it.

Next, it's time to fry the rice.

Rogo hasn't done a good job in a custom woks at Nelson, but fortunately, fried rice is not too complicated, and rice is only the basic ingredient, so he directly used Norma's pan.

Pour the rice into a pan and sauté over low heat. It is estimated that the rice did not expect that they could actually do this, so the energy was a little confused for a while, and they didn't know whether to riot or not, but fortunately, Luo Ge released the soul power in time and quickly suppressed the energy inside the rice.

With the stir-frying, the rice slowly turned brown, and at this time, Luo Ge hurriedly poured out the fried rice, and then concocted it in the same way, and continued to fry it for a few pots.

Waiting for the fried rice to cool, Rogo instructed Norma to boil a large pot of boiling water and let it cool as well, which is a crucial step.

When the boiling water is cold, and the fried rice is almost cool, at this time, Luo Ge finds a large clay pot, pours the fried rice into it, and then pours in the boiling water to cool.

If it was in the previous life, there were things like plastic wrap, then the water surface should leave a little gap between the mouth of the altar, because fermentation will produce bubbles, and now, Rogo can only fill the water, cover the lid, and use the overflowing water to form an isolation zone between the altar and the water.

In this process, the already calm energy in the rice began to be active again, but it did not burst, but it was a faint movement, but if this activity was not suppressed, it would become more and more intense.

Therefore, for this fermentation method, Luo Ge needs to sort out the internal energy every once in a while.

But for now, the vinegar brewing work is completed, and the next thing is to hand it over to time.

After about 10 to 15 days, the fresh rice vinegar is ready.

In the previous life, in the plan of brewing rice vinegar, salt, sugar, or diced apples and the like would be added, mainly to enrich the taste of rice vinegar, but for Rogo, this would increase the difficulty of combing the energy, anyway, it was just a vinegar taste, so those things were not added.

After brewing the rice vinegar, Luo Ge stretched his waist, and next, it was the main event - soy sauce!

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Soy sauce, as a traditional seasoning of Chinese food, has an irreplaceable role in Chinese food, but unfortunately, at the point in time that Rogo crossed over, the high-end soy sauce market on Blue Star has almost been monopolized by Japan and South Korea. And many of their high-end soy sauce factories only improve or even directly follow the soy sauce brewing process of the Southern Song Dynasty in China.

Thinking of this, Rogo couldn't help but sigh.

He can't go on the road of maintaining Chinese food in that world, and now he wants to make Chinese food shine again in this world.

Reject technology and hard work!

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Soy sauce is much more complicated than rice vinegar.

First of all, soak all the soybeans in a tank of water for at least one night!

Then, there is nothing you can do for the time being, just wait.

After dinner, Rogo used the same white bread with sauce, but in the evening it was black pepper sauce, after eating, he meditated again, and when he finished absorbing the energy, it was late at night, so he climbed straight to bed.

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Early the next morning, Rogo wakes up from his nightmare again, but this time he dreams that he has been killed by Michelle.

Nightmares actually have a serial.

Rogo didn't care, got up and washed, and then ran to look at the soaked soybeans. At this time, the soybeans have swelled one by one, and their volume has doubled.

It's just that the next procedure gave Rogo a bit of a headache.

Because it needs to be steamed.

But the custom steamer has not yet been made.

But that didn't bother Rogo.

After all, this is an otherworldly world.

The essence of steaming is to use high-temperature gas to cook the ingredients.

So, Rogo went to Donna again and asked if there was a suitable magician. Under Donna's guidance, Rogo found a level 5 mage through the Alliance's Guild Collaboration Mission.

The magician's name is Abraham, he is a very easy-going person, he is a water-based magician, and his main job is to adjust the growth environment of the magic plant, so he can release moist hot air, and the task reward is only 100 Bella.

Listen, just 100 Bella.

After listening to Rogo's request, Abraham was also very interested, and couldn't wait to pull Rogo to cooperate in steaming soybeans, he was responsible for steaming with high-temperature water, and Rogo was responsible for dealing with the energy riot in the soybeans in the process.

However, because of the problem of cooperation, the final success rate will be only fifty percent, and Abraham is also embarrassed about this, but he did not accept Rogo one less Bella.

Seeing Abraham off, Rogo looked at the successfully steamed soybeans and breathed a sigh of relief.

He doesn't need to make soy sauce on a large scale at the moment, as long as he meets his personal needs, so the soybeans are enough for now.

Steamed soybeans are so soft that they turn into a powder when pinched. Roll them out to cool, then sprinkle some flour on top and mix well, trying to coat each soybean as much as possible.

Next, it's time for fermentation.

The special house has not yet been built, so Rogo unceremoniously requisitioned the mantai's dormitory, anyway, there are no manservants now, and Joseph has a special housekeeper's room.

Because the current purpose of Rogo is to make soy sauce that can be used as soon as possible, and the real natural brewing can be slowly made later, Rogo unceremoniously took out the "Tranquility Chief" that he got in the alliance.

Next, Luo Ge stayed in the manservant's dormitory, cultivated here, slept here, and of course, to master the temperature here.

I have to say that the head of tranquility still has an effect, and early the next morning, Rogo found that the surface of the soybeans had appeared with white Aspergillus flavus, which would have taken four or five days to appear.

At this point, the brewing of soy sauce can be said to be half done.

Next, Rogo washed the soybeans that had aspergillus flavus, poured water into the vat, threw the washed soybeans into it, sealed the mouth of the altar with a linen cloth, and placed it in the open space behind the castle.

Then, it is the sun and night dew, the cold comes and the summer comes, and waits for half a year.

A dish of soy sauce takes such time, and the exquisiteness of Chinese food can be seen.

Of course, Rogo didn't have that much time!

When the steamer is ready, he will re-brew a new soy sauce, but for now, if nothing else, the Pearl Banquet in a month and a half may be used, so-

Please, Head of Tranquility!