Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 838 Eye-opening (seeking a monthly ticket)

Looking at the various tableware in the kitchen, Chen Nian couldn't help but say, it's still poverty that limits his imagination.

Each one is extremely precious if it can be brought out in modern times, even if it is not handed down from ancient times, it is made in modern times, and it is not affordable for ordinary people.

All gold-encrusted jade objects are the most basic.

Among those dishes, Chen Nian even felt that there were some materials that he had never seen before.

After asking, I realized that those were made of ivory and rhino horn.

After hearing this, Chen Nian couldn't help calling out in his heart.

"This is too much punishment."

Putting these two things into the present, if you dare to use these materials to make tableware, if someone reports or finds out something, you are afraid that you will go to prison on the spot.

But the biggest one here is the emperor, so others can use it.

After finishing his busy work at noon, Song Qingzhou was very satisfied with Chen Nian's performance, so he took Chen Nian to see the ingredients warehouse in the palace.

Some of the ingredients cooked in the palace are seasonal ingredients grown in the palace itself, and some are brought in as tributes from various places.

There are even a lot of extremely rare ingredients inside, such as bear paws, deer tails, pheasants, humps, etc. Although it is the first time to see these parts separated from their owners in old age, these things can be seen with your toes. Knowing that it could never be domesticated.

And even if he didn't study law, he knew that if these things appeared in a person's home at the same time in later generations, he would definitely not be able to escape for ten years.

But if I stay here, I will definitely have the opportunity to touch these ingredients in the future, and even as a chef, I will definitely have the opportunity to eat these ingredients.

"Could it be that these recipes are mainly for me to learn this time?" Chen Nian guessed in his heart.

Even if you learn these dishes by yourself, you can't make them when you go back.

I am only in my 20s now, and I still have a lot of time to squander and pretend.

"Forget it, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. If you have the opportunity to learn these things and experience them, it will be fine. The recipes should not dig such a hole for me. There should be other things to learn."

After reading the ingredients library, Chen Nian instantly had a better understanding of the luxury of the palace.

As expected of such a group of people standing at the top of the pyramid, everything has to enjoy the best.

"Chen Nian, there are many things you don't understand in the palace, and I have to tell you some things, whether it's what you saw in it just now, or everything you can touch, it's all about the royal family. of.

Not to mention stretching the hand that shouldn't be stretched, even if you don't even have this kind of thought, I think you are a malleable talent, that's why I said these things to you, and you must pay attention to every word and deed in the palace. Even if you are asleep, you can't take it lightly. If you say something in your dream and people listen to it, you will inevitably be decapitated.

It is your blessing to be able to enter the palace as the imperial cook, so you should be grateful. "

"Lord Song, the grass people know." Chen Nian said respectfully.

Seeing Chen Nian's appearance, Song Qingzhou couldn't help but nodded: "It's good to know, but after such a noon today, I found that your cooking skills are really good, so you can follow me from now on.

And after a few days, your arrangement should be settled down. Usually, there are only three ways for the imperial chef in the palace. One is to choose from the descendants of the existing imperial chef.

The second is to recruit folk kitchens from all over the country, and even some powerful chefs from a palace or various court officials will be sent to the palace to serve His Majesty.

But the latter two usually have a skill, or they are good at making soup or cooking meat, or they are good at making instant food.

But such people are usually older. The old Zhang Laoma you met in the kitchen just now actually came in through the second way, so they came in from Qipin, they can directly be the chef, and assist me on weekdays Do some other work, but if His Majesty and Empress want to eat the dishes they cook one day, they will be promoted to imperial chefs.

After staying here for a long time in the future, the grade will gradually go up. "

Chen Nian nodded, thinking that those who came in with skills were different. Others basically started as nine-rank cooks when they first came in. If they were descendants of imperial cooks, they would not even have a grade when they first came in. .

"Then Master Song, did you come here as well?"

Song Qingzhou shook his head: "I'm not, I was sent in by Mr. Tan, and I was a fifth-rank imperial chef when I first came in."

Chen Nian immediately understood that the person in front of him was probably in the third situation. He not only had the skills, but also had the background, so the starting point would naturally be higher.

After all, the other party has been verified.

Although he doesn't know who the other party is talking about, Mr. Tan, but since he can send the chef from the family to the palace, he must not be a simple person.

And Song Qingzhou continued: "But your situation is actually a bit special. You can be regarded as recruiting from the people, but it happened that His Majesty personally ordered you to come, saying that you are a master of the people, and you You are so young, in short, I guess you should have at least one from the seventh rank by then, but I just want to tell you this in private, don’t spread it outside, otherwise I won’t admit it when the time comes This."

"Also, don't call me Mr. Song in the future. There's no need to call me Mr. Song just like outside. I'm not used to listening to you all day long."

"Okay Master Song, then I will call you that from now on, but in front of outsiders, I will probably still call you an adult."

"Well, be more formal in front of outsiders."

Seeing that after chatting for a few words, the relationship between the two has become a little closer. The seniors and juniors are naturally closer than the titles of adults and junior officials.

"By the way, what did you do before? Or have you always been in Jiangyuelou?"

"No, earlier in the Yangzhou area the juniors first made tofu, but then they delivered tofu to Tianning Temple all day long, and then learned the method of Wensi tofu from an old monk there, that is, shredded tofu It is finely ground and then made into soup.

At that time, the owner of Rijiangyuelou also wanted to learn the recipe of Wensi tofu from the old monk, and then he found that I had learned it all and invited me to cook there.

So while I was running the tofu business, I went there to work part-time. It was also there that I learned a lot of Huaiyang cuisine, but I was arrested because the boss there colluded with corrupt officials. , but before that I had already left from Jiangyue Tower.

Later, I came to the capital to look for my cousin, and learned a lot of dim sum recipes here. After that, I went to Ludi Yunyou to study, learned some of the recipes there, and finally returned to the capital. I just opened a restaurant a month ago. Restaurant, but the prince found me today, so he went directly to the palace. "

(End of this chapter)