Chapter 151: The Golden Jade of the Year
Nie Yingying came with a sad face.
"Here's a bowl of ravioli, Big Mouth. Nie Yingying sat on the couch and held a few hands.
Lei Changye's heart sank, this was preparing to sit for a long time. He hurriedly went to the kitchen and brought out a bowl of freshly made wontons.
"Brother Big Mouth, have you ever heard of a famous fish dish in Chang'an back then?" Nie Yingying held the small wontons, and she didn't have the heart to eat them, but just stirred the wonton soup with chopsticks.
"Well, I've never been to Chang'an...... Lei Changye looked embarrassed. As soon as he heard it, he understood that the fish tin made by Bai Rong last night tasted wrong, and the next thing about this matter was coming.
"At that time, there were a lot of restaurants selling fish tartley in Chang'an, and my aunt and grandfather once borrowed one of the restaurants to make fish tart. Grandpa because of his superb knife skills, the fish is delicious and different. I also once won the ......heart of A-Niang because of the deliciousness of the fish," Nie Yingying said.
Lei Changye pursed his lips and listened patiently, vaguely guessing in his heart what she was going to ask for.
“...... However, my aunt likes grandpa's fish belly, not the delicacy of the sashimi, but the uniqueness of the dipping sauce. What my grandfather used at the beginning was not a dipping sauce made by himself, but a unique dipping sauce provided by the restaurant. Now Grandpa is so anxious that he is burning inside, for fear that Grandma will think that what he entrusted was not human. ”
"Miss Nie is here, don't you want to ask how to make the dipping sauce of the Chang'an restaurant back then?" asked Lei Changye.
"Exactly. Nie Yingying was overjoyed and nodded hurriedly.
"This ......" Lei Changye was also very difficult, it was not easy to find the prototype of the dipping sauce twenty years ago.
"Brother Big Mouth, we also have a deep friendship, Grandpa and Auntie are not in harmony, Yingying is sitting on pins and needles every day, why don't you find a way to help me find the recipe for the dipping sauce in Chang'an Restaurant?" Nie Yingying asked with a red face.
"......" Lei Changye wanted to refuse. However, as Shi Dazui, Nie Yingying has indeed helped her many times. Although he also saved her life, it was in the name of Yongqiang, not Shi Dazui.
However, thinking that Bai Rong had the reputation of a number of treasure refiners in the world, Lei Changye felt that there might be unexpected gains in forming a good fate.
According to Bi Santai's description of Chang'an to Lei Changye in the past 20 years, the fish in Chang'an restaurants at that time took the path of golden jade, that is, white fish sheng, golden dipping sauce.
As early as in the "Qi Min Yaoshu", there is a detailed record of this dish. There are many types of dipping ingredients, and there are mainly eight kinds of dipping ingredients, collectively known as eight kinds of rice: vinegar, garlic, ginger, salt, white plum, orange peel, cooked chestnut meat and stem rice. Among them, white plum refers to salt plum.
After the vinegar was introduced, the salt plum was gradually replaced by vinegar as an ingredient, but the process was very long, and for a long time it was mixed with plum vinegar. The era of Qi Min's writing is an era of mixed plum vinegar.
"Could it be that the owner of the restaurant used vinegar when he seasoned the season, and removed the white plum?" Lei Changye remembered that there was indeed a golden dipping sauce next to the fish troll he ate last night. This should be Bai Rong's own blend of gold.
At that time, he ate in a hurry and did not taste it carefully, but in retrospect, it must have been a seasoning made of mashed white plums, and there was vinegar in it. Compared with vinegar, white plum sheng has a strong sour taste, mixed with salty fragrance, and will be addictive after eating for a long time, but the taste of vinegar is more mellow and rich, and compared with the taste of white plum, it is more royal and authentic.
White plums are more suitable for making rice, drinks or snacks. Vinegar is the authentic way to cook.
The original version of the white plum and vinegar in the golden sauce at the same time into the golden fish, the taste is too sour, later generations are only selected to enter the taste, to the later decline of the fish belly, people generally choose vinegar and abandon the white plum.
"Miss Nie, the dipping sauce used by Ling Zun is gold?" Of course, Lei Changye couldn't say that he was Yongqiang, so he could only ask from the beginning.
"Exactly! golden!" Nie Yingying was overjoyed when she heard this, and jumped up directly from the couch.
"It should be, I didn't expect that the famous chef of Chang'an also knew this recipe back then. Lei Changye touched his chin and said.
"Oh!?Big Mouth, can you make that kind of dipping sauce?" Nie Yingying asked in surprise.
"Actually, it's very simple, I need to get some goods, you help me look at the store, and I'll be back soon." Lei Changye thought as he walked out of the counter.
"Okay, big mouth!" Nie Yingying nodded vigorously, pushed with both hands, and pushed Lei Changye out of the house, eager to kick him to the Changmen Wharf to handle the goods. Lei Changye glanced back at her, this girl really doesn't treat herself as an outsider.
The eight spices of Jinyan can be done on Shantang Street and Changmen Wharf. However, Lei Changye still had a trace of doubt. If the fish dipping sauce was just discarded back then, the taste should not be so different.
He remembered that at the small banquet in the Shushan Guild Hall, the disappointment of Nie Yinniang and Xue Qingyi was overflowing, as if there was still an unknown method of Titian hidden in the dipping sauce back then.
He bought the goods he needed and was about to go back to his snack shop when he suddenly found a flower seller selling all kinds of dried flowers on the street. These flowers are excellent for spices and flavors.
Lei Changye subconsciously came to these flowers and browsed them, and suddenly found the famous flower he had been desperately trying to remember-purple flower fragrant herb.
He remembered that in the "Great Cause Collection", it was recorded that Wu County's tribute to Emperor Yang of Sui had a taste of dried sea bass, which was mixed with a soft fragrance after soaking in water, which made the fish fresh and fragrant, and became a good product in the southeast.
Later research shows that this "Great Cause Collection" was actually written by the Song people in the name of Yan Shigu. This fragrant flower is the purple flower fragrant herb.
Perhaps the famous chef of Chang'an back then used fragrant flowers and fragrances in the dipping sauce after abandoning the white plum? Lei Changye immediately bought a purple flower herb and went back to trial produce Bahe.
When he returned to the store, he found that there was another person in the store, but it was Bai Rong who came in person. At this moment, he was holding his daughter's hand, asking what repeatedly, with a panicked face.
When Nie Yingying saw Lei Changye coming back, she was so frightened that she hurriedly pressed Bai Rong's hand: "Grandpa, don't talk nonsense, I have nothing to do with Brother Big Mouth." ”
"Dare to say it's okay? You've helped people look at the store!" Bai Rong said.
"Uncle, are you here?" Lei Changye calmly entered the door with the goods he had done today.
"Big Mouth, you're finally back. Grandpa, I'm here to ask Brother Big Mouth to help you come up with the method of Jin Yu Yu, Brother Big Mouth will go to do the goods, and I will help him look at the store for a while. Nie Yingying said quickly.
"Yes, uncle, I'm going to do the Eight Brothers. Lei Changye said.
"Alas, girl, you can't publicize the ugliness of the family, you still talk about it everywhere. Bai Rong lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Lei Changye.
"Grandpa, seeing that you are so anxious to lose your hair, don't I feel distressed?" Nie Yingying said with a pout.
Lei Changye squinted at Bai Rong, he was indeed at his age.
"I'm in a hurry, it's not that I can't make a fish tray, it's that I can't get married. Bai Rong said with a glare.
"Grandpa-" Nie Yingying glanced at Lei Changye. Lei Changye was silent and had already entered the house.
Although it is an ancient dish, the production process is extremely delicate, and the ingredients are strictly adhered to. Among the eight ingredients, it is necessary to mash the shredded ginger, purple flower herb and orange peel into a puree, take it out and set aside, then mash the stem rice and cooked chestnut noodles, and then mash the raw garlic.
After the raw garlic is mashed, then the cooked garlic copied in boiling water, then salted, pounded out of the white foam, and then mixed with the puree of ginger, flowers, and oranges, and then pounded evenly with a stone mortar, and finally mixed with vinegar.
In this order, the sweetness is not killed by the salt, the fragrance is not killed by the garlic, and the flowers are not killed by the vinegar.
Wait until Lei Changye makes the finished product of Baheji, the color is light yellow, the fragrance is pleasant, salty, sweet and sour, and delicious. He tasted it slightly and nodded in satisfaction. Remove the white plum and add fragrant flowers, without the strange sourness of white plum, replaced by vinegar, and accompanied by the aroma of fragrant flowers, the taste has indeed been fully improved.
When he brought out the golden fish, Bai Rong and Nie Yingying all came over. The father and daughter looked at the golden Jin sauce and kept swallowing.
"Uncle, I wonder if this is the golden sauce you tasted back then?" asked Lei Changye as he crouched on the counter.
"I can't really remember, I'll try it first. Bai Rong pounced on it and took a bite, and he didn't even have time to take the spoon.
Nie Yingying rolled her eyes, but she couldn't help but stretch out a finger and dip it into it.
"Hmm......" Bai Rong and Nie Yingying glanced at each other, both showing a look of surprise. Although they didn't know the taste of Chang'an's dipping sauce back then, when they tasted the golden sauce made by Lei Changye, they all had a feeling that the fish should have been dipped in this sauce back then.
"Big mouth, this sauce is amazing, I ...... That one...... I'll use it first, and I'll talk to you later. Bai Rong smiled, unceremoniously took the bowl of golden sauce away, and rushed out of the store at a trot.
Nie Yingying grabbed Lei Changye's hand hard and shook it tightly: "Brother Big Mouth, I owe you a great favor, and he will repay it one day." ”
"Miss Nie doesn't need to be polite. Lei Changye hurriedly said, "Speaking of which, I owe the girl more." ”
"That'...... We're clear. Nie Yingying waved her hand in a dashing manner, jumped out of the door excitedly, and chased her grandfather.
"Whew!" Lei Changye let out a sigh of relief, being able to settle grievances with Nie Yingying really made him breathe a sigh of relief. If Nie Yingying grasps the old love and always comes to him to do things, it will be really a headache.
Sending Bai Rong's father and daughter away, Lei Changye finally stole half a day's leisure, hid in the kitchen, secretly opened the alliance treasure he carried, and quietly unfolded the treasure he snatched with his life in the bag - the hidden picture of mountains and rivers immortals, greedily watched the fairyland on the picture scroll, and began to think about how to transform and sublimate it again.
Because he used the alliance treasure to cover the hidden map of the mountains and rivers immortals, the treasure qi on the treasure scroll was contained in the bag and did not overflow. But when he looked at it this way, he could only see a tenth of the scroll.
Just when he gradually had a little idea of his next plan, he suddenly rolled up the treasure scroll and sealed the mouth of the alliance treasure bag. Because he sensed someone coming in.
He came out of the kitchen and saw Bai Rong and Nie Yingying entering the door happily.
"Big mouth, he really deserves to be a famous chef in Jiangling, and he can copy the unique golden style of Chang'an famous chef in one day. As soon as Bai Rong saw Lei Changye, he immediately raised his big finger.
"Brother Big Mouth, my aunt ate Grandpa's newly made golden jade chest, and finally she was satisfied, and she no longer suspected that she was not a person. Grandpa and I were so relieved. Nie Yingying held her cheeks in her hands and sat in the store with a satisfied face.
"Uh...... Big mouth, I have something to ask you for. Bai Rong said embarrassedly.
"Uncle, don't worry, I should keep my mouth shut about this matter. "Lei Changye heard the strings and sang elegantly.
"Big Mouth, you're good. It's a pity that it looks ...... , I don't know what you want, just tell me, there is nothing to do!" Bai Rong patted his chest gratefully.