Gu Qi, she just wants to farm

Chapter 297 Spicy Soup Base
Cutting meat is just a common technique, and Mrs. Lu chose a sliced ​​knife.

A piece of knife was passed by hand, and in the process of starting and turning, he cut a small piece of bacon from one side, and soon the blade's edge passed by, and the one-inch wide and three-inch long strip of meat was melted into a sheet in Mrs. Lu's hands.

It's just that Gu Qi noticed that Mrs. Lu had paused twice during the process of slicing the meat, and she was surprised to think that it was Mrs. Lu who gave birth by hand and made a mistake;
Taking a closer look, I saw that Mrs. Lu had divided the three-inch piece of meat into three parts and cut it up.

Among them, the meat slices in the first part can only be regarded as thin and thick, and the meat slices in the middle part are only half the thickness of the previous ones. In the third part, the place where Mrs. Lu's blade falls is more dense than before. The method is almost invisible.

After a while, Mrs. Lu took three slices of bacon and handed them to Gu Qi: "Master, let's see, which one should be used?"

I saw slices of bacon with the same length and width. The thickness of the first slice was about three copper coins, and the second slice was about the thickness of one copper coin. As for the third slice, the texture could still be seen faintly, It is not much different from paper.

Looking at the chopping board again, the Wei and Jin bacon slices in the three areas are distinct; the only similarity is that the thickness and size of the bacon slices in each area are exactly the same.

Miss Lu's knife skills are better than Gu Qi originally expected.

It's a pity that the Four Seas Market is a convenience store model. The cooked food in the cooked food area is mainly fresh, convenient, and affordable. It's somewhat overkill to use Mrs. Lu's knife skills here.

However, the future is long, and now Lushan County is waiting for prosperity, and everything is possible. If the two parties cooperate happily, there will naturally be a time when Mrs. Lu can play.

In the end, Gu Qi chose the second piece, which was about the thickness of a copper coin, and asked Mrs. Lu, "How is the knife skill of the little apprentice you brought?"

"The master is talking about Qing Yi? Qing Yi is a young apprentice brought by my husband in the past. He is not very old, but he is diligent in his hands and feet. He can do ordinary cooking and preparation, and his knife skills are only ordinary.

However, if the master needs him to help with the cooking, the servant will teach him tomorrow, so it won't waste much time. "

Gu Qi nodded and said: "Then cut according to this thickness, except for your little apprentice, tomorrow you have time to choose another person from the backyard helpers to learn with you."

Mrs. Lu couldn't figure out what Gu Qi meant, so she hesitated and asked, "Do you just need to learn a piece of meat?"

"I don't need to teach the others, just learn a piece of bacon first." Thinking of Gu Qi, he asked again: "Are you good at cooking Sichuan cuisine?"

"Shu cuisine?" Mrs. Lu was taken aback, apparently she had never heard of it.

Gu Qi thought for a while about the landforms in Dakang, but couldn't figure out whether the concept of Shu still exists, so he asked again: "Heavy ingredients, maybe spicy dishes?"

"I know a little bit, but I'm not good at it. In Yuzhou Mansion, people don't like spicy food." Lady Lu said truthfully.

Mrs. Lu's words are true. To be precise, the people in the entire Dakang territory are not considered spicy food addicts.

It’s not that there are no peppers in Dakang. In fact, as early as the former dynasty, the planting, processing and processing of various condiments such as peppers, peppers, Chinese prickly ash, ginger, dogwood, vines, osmanthus, pepper, and mustard were mature. .

Of course, there are some, and not many people really use them. Most of the food cooked by ordinary people at home is less oil and less salt. It can be stewed and stewed. Mouth seasoning.

As for the restaurant recipes that open the door to do business, the cooking skills of ordinary people are more exquisite, and more seasonings are used.However, because the tastes of different places are different, and the craftsmen in this period are master-apprentice succession system, there is no New Oriental and no Du Niang, and the master can learn what the master teaches.

Some partial cuisine recipes do not even have a master-apprentice system, only the same surname and the same clan, father to son, son to grandson; more stringent, only the direct line, no offspring, or only male but not female , There are also those who only pass on the eldest son but not the second son.

After such tossing, there are only a handful of complete recipes and skills that can be preserved intact.

After all, if there is a little bit of trouble in the middle, such as an heir in a certain world is suddenly infertile, or there is an accident when he has an heir before he has taught, or the heirs become more and more dull from generation to generation, and they can be passed down in the end, they are considered God favored.

That's it, most chefs only know one or two dishes they are good at, and most of these special dishes are close to the taste preferences of the people around their birthplace.

With Mrs. Lu's modest and cautious taste when speaking, it is already very rare to be able to say "know a little".
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After that, Gu Qi asked Mrs. Lu to make a spicy soup base according to her own habits.

In the Kang Dynasty, wealthy people in some state capitals also had the habit of eating pot.

There is still a big gap between the pot and the hot pot in this period, and it is somewhat similar to the maocai malatang of later generations, but the soup base is mostly light, and there are few heavy oil and spicy ones, and there are not many ways to boil the bone broth.

After a cup of tea, the spicy soup prepared by Mrs. Lu came out of the pot.I don't know if it's because there is not enough time to cook the soup base and spicy oil. The soup base made by Mrs. Lu is generally light.

This kind of lightness is not that after the soup is boiled, the waste residue is filtered out and the essence is concentrated. It is fresh but not greasy, but it is really like taking the ingredients into the hot water and boiling them without losing much taste. light.

The hot peppers are ordinary sun-dried red peppers, which are not very spicy. The advantage is that the peppers are rich in flavor. Can't find the rattan pepper.

In addition, star anise, fennel, tangerine peel, ginger, garlic, etc. were also added, but Mrs. Lu did not stir-fry these seasonings before putting them into the pot, so the fragrance was missing by several percent after being put into the pot, not strong, and the taste was not good. Not tasty.

Gu Qi shook his head, the taste was really too bad.

It seems that although Mrs. Lu's knife skills are amazing, there is nothing special about her cooking techniques.

This is not to blame Mrs. Lu. In fact, most of the restaurant recipes in Dakang are very ordinary. Except for one or two special dishes that are famous all over the world, most ordinary restaurants only It will be a simple stew.

Moreover, if Mrs. Lu really has a special background, the generation with amazing cooking skills probably won't waste time in Lushan County.

After all, famous chefs are worth as much as famous chefs, and the Four Seas Merchant Market only opened for a monthly fee of [-] cents a month. It was due to the bad luck of the Yuzhou Prefecture to attract a chef with knife skills like Mrs. Lu.

As the saying goes, "Three years of drought, the cook will not die of starvation." This statement is not [-]% correct, at least [-]% to [-]% is not false.Under normal circumstances, no matter what the situation is, cooks rarely go hungry, and even if they are hungry, they feel better than others.

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