Chapter 230: Learning the Art of the Imperial Dining Room

It's almost noon, and the imperial dining room is busy, on a row of stoves, several chefs are diligently turning the big stir-fry spoon, and the big steamer next to it is steaming. The little eunuch who had left his hands ran around in a hurry.

Seeing that Qingwan brought people in, and the little eunuch with the organic spirit greeted her, Qingwan smiled and nodded to people, and her popularity looked good.

Let the little eunuch find the steward of the imperial dining room and tell him the purpose of bringing Lin Xiaoman here, the steward eunuch was a little embarrassed, "Now that the lunch time is coming, can you please wait for a while?" ”

Lin Xiaoman nodded, "It's okay, everyone is busy, I'll take a look around first." ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for the steward to stop him, and walked towards the stove with his little hands. Avoiding the busy little eunuchs all the way, they seem quite comfortable.

Knowing that it was the queen who asked him to come, it was not easy for the eunuch in charge to stop him when he saw it.

Lin Xiaoman has gone all the way and has to admit that although the seasonings at this time are not as complete as those in later generations, the cooking skills of the imperial chefs are really strong, and the dishes they make are very different from the imperial meals reproduced on the Internet, and even the preparation methods of many sauces are completely different.

She really learned a lot from walking around the room, and if she could stay in the dining room for a few more days, she would learn even more.

So, Lin Xiaoman happily stole in the imperial dining room, and the chefs heard that the queen asked him, and none of them dared to say nothing.

Fortunately, although there are many people in the palace, the meals eaten by the palace people are all made by the little eunuchs, and these imperial chefs only take care of the meals of the emperor and the favored concubines in the palace, and they are all idle after a while.

Lin Xiaoman took the birthday banquet menu given by the queen and asked the imperial chefs what kind of food they were behind these beautiful names.

Seeing that Lin Xiaoman asked politely, these dishes are all commonly used in the usual birthday banquets, and the imperial chefs did not hide them, anyway, everyone can see what is in these dishes, the difference is in how to make them, as long as the production method is not said, others can't steal it if they want to steal it.

Fortunately, Lin Xiaoman's cooking skills have also worked hard in Aunt Qi's villa, and he often learns some online, and he understands when he listens to them.

In addition to the precious ingredients used, there is really nothing too difficult, and after looking at the lunch presentation just now, it is not as roll as in later generations.

It's just that some cooking techniques really can't be seen just by looking, so Lin Xiaoman decided not to say that he had already understood the general idea, and came to the imperial dining room more in the future, maybe he could make a few imperial meals in Aunt Qi's villa in the future.

The imperial chefs knew that this was the county lord, but they didn't think that she was here to steal the master, Ren Lin Xiaoman watched from the side, and when he was asked from time to time, he would pick everything he could say.

And some didn't say it, they thought that others couldn't see through it, in fact, Lin Xiaoman had seen a lot of videos of ancient court meals on the Internet, and there was really nothing that she couldn't guess, and even she knew more than them.

There are so many dishes that I have never heard of, which makes Lin Xiaoman very interested.

After the imperial chefs finished cooking today's dishes, Lin Xiaoman invited the imperial chefs over separately and began to discuss a few dishes of interest.

At first, the imperial chef didn't want to say much, after all, it was their ability to eat, who knew that Lin Xiaoman solved the problem that had plagued them for a long time with a few casual words, and in exchange, they were willing to teach one by one.

When she came out of the imperial dining room, it was already dark, and Aunt Qingwan had already gone back to the queen to return to her life, and before leaving, she left a token for Lin Xiaoman, so that she could enter and leave the palace at will.

Lin Xiaoman was not polite, left the palace in the evening, and came to the palace dining room again the next day.

Unlike yesterday, when the imperial chefs were secretive when they asked for cooking techniques, today happened to be the time to finish lunch, and the imperial chef greeted Lin Xiaoman warmly when he saw him.

"County Lord, the innocent and white immortal you said yesterday pointed the way, I went back and pondered it all night, how smart does it have to be for a smart person to think of stuffing cloud legs into the bean sprouts?"

"Hehe, that person is also a little more delicate."

"County Lord, who would have thought that the baked dim sum you taught me yesterday would be so delicious after the eggs were beaten and the noodles were beaten without adding water? The county lord will teach me a few more dim sum recipes today, right? ”

"Chef Wei, you can add different ingredients to the baked dim sum, such as dicing peaches in sugar water, dicing dates, or adding some nuts, and you can bake different dim sum with different ingredients."

"Oh, it's still the county lord who is smart, what do you do with sugar water peaches? The county lord will tell Lao Wei about it? ”

"No, no, the county lord said that he would teach me to make spicy fish, don't fight with me."

Listening to the chefs with different accents competing for his teaching rights, Lin Xiaoman couldn't cry or laugh, and finally decided to hand over what he promised to a few chefs yesterday first, and the rest will talk about it next time.

Of course, in exchange, after teaching Lin Xiaoman, they also had to teach Lin Xiaoman a dish of their own.

When she was sent home in the evening, Lin Xiaoman learned more than a dozen dishes, many of which she had learned online before, but she always felt that something didn't seem right.

After entering the palace for a few days in a row, Lin Xiaoman felt that she had benefited a lot, but she had learned too much, and she was afraid that if she forgot to return to the county lord's mansion, she would record it immediately.

Among them, which are similar to several dishes in the villa, Lin Xiaoman will also consult with the chefs of the villa to correct the deficiencies in their cooking techniques, as well as the dishes that have changed their taste due to their loss.

In the past few days, Aunt Qi has seen that the chefs in the villa are all concentrating on research, and the frequency of several dishes in the villa that are originally very delicious but too high-end have appeared much more frequently.

Tasted it, huh? It's really different from what I used to eat, and even a few of the dishes have completely changed the taste, but they are even more delicious.

When I asked, I found out that it was Lin Xiaoman's improved recipe for them, and they did it according to it, and found that these dishes should have tasted like this in ancient times.

Aunt Qi asked people to put these dishes into the menu promoted by the villa recently, although because of the main palace meal, the ingredients are expensive and the price is high, but it still attracts a lot of expensive dishes. Unexpectedly, after tasting it, it received rave reviews, and it made the villa a little more popular.

Aunt Qi sent a message to Lin Xiaoman about this, and it was difficult to hide her joy in her voice, after Lin Xiaoman heard it, she wanted to learn a few dishes with the chefs more and more, and from time to time she would launch one or two dishes in the villa, and she would focus on the imperial food of the palace.

Well, there is also an imperial chef who has done well in medicinal food, but it's a pity that Lin Xiaoman has never studied medical skills, so he really doesn't dare to think about it.

However, he gave Lin Xiaoman a few recipes that could be passed on, saying that the nobles in the capital all drink this health, and as long as they give it to Lang Zhong in the house after returning home, they will know which dishes they can eat and which ones they can't eat.

Lin Xiaoman decided to keep these medicinal foods for his own use, anyway, as long as his body and bones were not too bad, he kept eating them, and he didn't care if he made a mistake once or twice.

When she goes back, she will find someone to learn medicine, or will she wait there to learn Chinese and Western medicine again? At that time, you don't have to bother others with which medicinal food to eat.