"In ancient times, there were several kinds of tribute rice, such as the royal rice used in the palace, the kitchen rice used in the palace, the palace rice used in the harem, and so on.

The silk miao rice of Huadu is the palace rice specially used to pay tribute to the harem. ”

While washing the oil sticky rice in Maba, Li Yi patiently explained: "During the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court collected rice in Guangdong Province, mainly in Panyu County, Hua County, and Yangchun County.

Panyu County and Hua County are now Panyu District and Huadu District of Yangcheng, and Yangchun County is now Yangchun City north of Yangjiang.

Every year, the imperial court will collect more than 12,000 stones, that is, 14.4 million catties of rice, in these three places.

However, most of the kitchen rice, such as Maba oil sticky rice, was given to the local feudal kings' palaces to eat.

For example, the king of Pingnan is still happy, and the king of Jingnan is Geng Jingzhong, and they eat this kind of tribute rice.

In addition, these rice were also distributed to the officers of the Eight Banners as battalion military rice for the Eight Banners Garrison Banner.

But the palace rice is different, the palace rice is to be sent to the capital and paid tribute to the harem concubines.

However, this kind of silk miao rice in Huadu was regarded as tribute rice, which was a matter of the Qianlong period.

Qianlong was forty-one years old, Qianlong was 66 years old, and held the last draft in his life.

Among the show girls of that year, only one was favored by Qianlong, and that was Concubine Xun.

She is from the Ilgen Jueluo clan, and is the granddaughter of the Jinshi in the first year of Qianlong and the governor of Liangguang, Ilgen Jueluo Henian.

After she entered the palace, she was named a concubine, and later successfully promoted to a concubine.

She is Qianlong's last concubine, Qianlong is very favored by her, and it is because of her that Huaxian Silk Miao Rice was listed as tribute rice, because Qianlong was afraid that she would not be used to eating rice in the north. ”

Listening to Li Yi's explanation, the audience in the live broadcast room was also checking the information.

After Li Yi finished speaking, many viewers were amazed in the barrage.

"I checked, there really is a concubine!"

"At that time, the Liangguang Governor's Mansion was indeed in Yangcheng."

"! Is it so cool to be a woman for the emperor? Even rice can be eaten from home. ”

"It's really fucking going to enjoy it, it's all people's fat and people's ointment!"

"Is the silk miao rice really that delicious?"

"I'm from Zengcheng, and most of the current silk miao rice is produced by us, which is really delicious."

"Silk Miao rice is known as the king of rice, making claypot rice is a must, it's enjoyable, but I haven't tried it to make pho."

While speaking, Li Yi had already washed the two pots of rice.

Then, he boiled water, took a large pot of water, and the fire boiled.

"The rice to make pho is to be soaked, but it's definitely too late to soak now, so we can use hot water to soak it, which can reduce the time it takes to soak the rice."

As he spoke, Li Yi stirred the water in the pot with a soup spoon.

Soon, a trace of water vapor began to float from the edge of the cauldron, and the water temperature began to rise rapidly.

Seeing the appearance of water vapor, Li Yi turned off the heat and stirred the water in the pot with a soup spoon to make the upper and lower water temperatures consistent.

"The water temperature is about 60 °C, don't be too hot, if it's too hot, the rice will be cooked."

Li Yi picked up the pot and poured the hot water in the pot into the two basins.

Cover the pot and let them soak, Li Yi added most of the pot of water to the pot again, and then turned on the fire again.

Then, he took out two round tray molds from the pantry and went to the sink to wash them.

Zhao Jinmai saw these two molds and said with a smile: "Brother Yi, do you want to make cool skin?" ”

These two molds are the ones Li Yi used last time to make cool skin.

"Pho is the cool skin of the south, and the cold skin is the pho of the north."

Li Yi said with a smile: "The ingredients they use are different, but the methods are basically the same, they are all steamed in a pot of boiling water, and the principles are the same." ”

"Then I can help too."

Zhao Jinmai smiled: "I learned Liangpi last time, I know how to do it." ”

"Then you and Yifei will do it together, and I'll grind the rice milk."

Li Yi moved the stone mill out of the storage room, put it in place, found a clean basin, and put it under the exit, waiting to receive the rice milk.

By the time he had cleaned it up, the rice was almost soaked.

After washing his hands, he returned to the desk and lifted the lid of the pot above the Simiao rice basin to take a look.

The rice in the basin has expanded a lot, and most of the hot water that had not been used for rice has been absorbed, and the hot water can only be seen after digging up the rice.

grabbed a handful and rubbed it, and the hard core inside was already slightly soft.

After feeling this feedback of the feel, he nodded and brought the basin to the stone mill.

Then, he took another basin of warm water and set it aside.

Then he scooped the rice in the basin with a soup spoon and poured it into the feed hole while turning the stone mill.

Grinding rice milk is also a technical task, because the ratio of rice milk to water must be controlled.

Although the recipes for pho, kuay teow, and cheong fun are all similar, there are still subtle differences in details.

For example, the ratio of raw materials, the content of moisture and so on.

Generally, kway teow is made with pure rice milk, while pho is mostly made with about 10% tapioca flour or starch to increase gluten.

Cheong fun will also be filled with tapioca flour or starch, but the proportion of water will be higher, so the taste will be softer and glutinous.

Li Yi's rice noodles will also be 10% rice powder to increase the flavor of rice, and it can also increase a certain gluten.

But it was too late to make rice noodles freshly, so he made them with pure rice milk.

This method is more like kway teow, but because he uses silk miao rice, the gluten is relatively high, and the elasticity is still no problem.

Turning the stone mill slowly, Li Yi scooped up the rice from time to time and sent it to the feed hole.

He observed the thickness of the rice milk at the outlet, and while scooping up warm water at the right time, it was sent to the feed hole to adjust the consistency.

In the rice milk used for pho, the ratio of flour to water is 1:2, one part of flour, two parts of water.

But because the rice is soaked, and when scooping, a certain amount of water will also be scooped.

So when adding water, it depends on the master's experience.

Only Li Yi can do this work, and no one else can help.

However, this time, he only needed to make enough food for a few people present, so it didn't take long for Li Yi to grind enough rice milk.

brought the rice milk basin to Liu Yifei and Zhao Jinmai, and Li Yi advised: "Don't move yet, it's not good yet." ”

Zhao Jinmai was already holding the mold and was about to do it, and he was a little puzzled when he heard this: "What else do you want to do?" ”

"Filter, come on."

Li Yi took a fine sieve, took a clean new basin and put it next to it, let Liu Yifei hold the sieve, he picked up the rice milk basin, poured it on the sieve, and passed the rice milk through the sieve.

Then he took another bottle of peanut oil, poured some into the rice milk, and then quickly stirred it with a whisk.

"Why do you want to do it?"

Zhao Jinmai looked puzzled: "I didn't add fuel to the cold skin last time?" ”

"Add a little peanut oil, the taste of rice milk is fragrant, and it is not easy to stick to the plate."

As he spoke, the batter had already been stirred, Li Yi put down the whisk, handed the peanut oil to Liu Yifei, and signaled: "When you do it later, brush a layer of peanut oil under the plate first, and it will be easy to peel off later." ”

"Got it!"

Zhao Jinmai answered for Liu Yifei, and then scooped up a spoonful of flour slurry with great interest, and muttered in his mouth: "Hurry up and make two and I'll taste it first, how delicious this top pho is." ”

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